“You’re really out here advertising that you can speak every language in the world? No wonder that Kurt’s friend is concerned. Why did you do that?”

Blaine frowns. What does Wes mean?

“Isn’t it important to be honest and upfront when offering your services?” he asks.

“I admire your integrity, but we’ve talked about this, Blaine. Humans don’t do this.”

“Being honest and upfront?”

Wes thinks about that for a second, before nodding.

“… That too, occasionally, but I referred to speaking every language.”

Honestly, Blaine had forgotten about that. He’s so used to having this skill, it’s hard to imagine learning a language the old-fashioned way.

“Well, maybe it did lead to something… interesting,” Blaine starts, “I am invited to their place. Rachel insists on getting to know me better.”

Wes takes a sip of his drink.

“And the invitation is extended to you,” Blaine adds and Wes nearly chokes.

“What? Why?” he asks, aghast. To be fair, Blaine had a similar reaction. Blaine mentioned Wes once and now Rachel also wants a full background check on him. He’s not sure if he finds Rachel’s concern endearing or worrisome.

Blaine tells Wes everything.

“But it will take some time, I think,” he says with a shrug, “Rachel is going on a long work trip for some weeks. We have time to refresh our cover story.”

Kurt and Blaine fall into an easy routine. Once a week they meet up somewhere in the city to talk Dutch. Kurt is an eager student, which is something Blaine appreciates. Most of his past students were eager too, but he also had kids whose parents put them on lessons and that wasn’t always fun.

Blaine also likes that Kurt is curious. He doesn’t just listen to Blaine’s ramblings about the language, he also asks questions that no other beginning student often asks.

For example,

“Why does the word gewoonte have two plural forms?” “Words that end with a toneless e do so.”

Or,

“When you combine two words, why do some plural forms lose a letter, like zonnen with straal becomes zonnestraal?” “Quite frankly, this makes no sense. Why is it Koninginnedag, but also koninginnensoep? There are a lot of exceptions to rules on plural forms. It causes understandable anger and annoyance.”

Or,

“Why do you put the diaeresis on the last e in ideeën, but on the second one in creëren?” “Because it notes a new syllable.”

And Kurt always writes the answers down, even when Blaine feels like his answer is unsatisfactory, but with a lot of grammar and spelling rules, the answer boils down to “it’s just like that”. Kurt gets that, and he still finds it interesting.

Although he said he feels some anger towards Dutch language for having so many exceptions to grammar rules, and even though Blaine never had to learn the language the ‘manual way’, he is inclined to agree.

Right now, Kurt’s on another small rant about a weird Dutch thing (havoër vs. vwo’er) and Blaine watches him with a look of pure adoration on his face. He’s being obvious. Trent actually has the power to see emotions through colour and according to him, Blaine’s been giving off a pink hue ever since he met Kurt.

But even though Kurt presumably does not have such powers, Blaine is still obviously staring. He might as well hang a flashing sign that says “THIS BOY IS IN LOVE” above his head with an arrow pointed towards him, but it’s… it’s Kurt. Blaine loves how passionate he is.

He needs to do something about it.

He wants to do something about it.

No more sitting around.

Blaine wants to be with Kurt.