Puck sat across from Blaine. They had been staring at each other for half an hour now.

Blaine played with his hands, as If he was trying to get the right words to come out. Puck trying to do the same thing. He knew he had to be careful as Blaine could shut down even more than he was. This had reminded him of the time where he nearly lost Quinn. He had been so close to losing her. But he had pulled himself together just before Quinn had said goodbye forever. Puck knew he had to get Blaine to understand this or he would too lose Kurt and Puck knew Kurt, once he got burned Kurt would be too stubborn to forgive Blaine. Puck was so deep in his thoughts that he nearly missed Blaine's look for confusion when he started to talk.

"Look Puck, Kurt and I are over. It was gonna happen sooner or later!" Blaine said as he stood suddenly and walked towards the window. "It just happened sooner than later," He added quietly.

"And yet here you are just standing around, your apartment is a mess, yet you act like nothing's wrong. I have seen this before, hell, I have done it. You pretend like nothing can hurt you but yet everything cuts you like a knife!" Puck yelled as he stood up. Puck was angry he could see Blaine trying to cover up his emotions.

"I don't understand, Puck. You have no idea what I've been through," Blaine said looking at Puck

"What have you been through? Tell me I'm all ears. I believe you and Kurt are a perfect match for each other but your too stubborn to see that!" Puck said as he watched

"Urgghh Puck why are you even here!" Blaine said as he walked towards Puck.

"Because I nearly lost what I had, and you're in the same situation as I was!" Puck yelled back.

Back at the Hudmels residence, a knock was heard at Kurt's door. "Go away!" Kurt yelled from under his covers.

"Well isn't that nice of you Mr Hummel," said a familiar voice, Kurt's head shot up and out of the covers. Looking at the younger Anderson who was leaning up against his door.

"You shouldn't be here, if Blaine finds out he will..."

"He'll thank me later," Shane answered as he walked towards Kurt. "Look I know how uptight you get about your appearance but I brought some friends over. So I'm being a really kind brother-in-law by giving you 10 minutes to either fix yourself up or I'll tell them to come up," Shane said smiling.

"Brother-in-law? Shane, Blaine broke up with me so that is never happening so we're just friends!" Kurt said staring at Shane.

"Please, once this is over, you'll be all over each other again!" Shane said laughing. "8 minutes to go!" Shane called as he walked out of the room. Kurt jumped over the bed and quickly tried to get rid of the red rimmed eyes he was currently had. He tried his best, but gave up after awhile and run back to his bed. Shane joined him a couple minutes later followed by the strawberry blonde boy from yesterday.

"Kurt this is Reed, Reed this is the famous Kurt," Shane said pointing to Reed.

"Nice to finally meet you," Kurt said holding out his hand.

"Yes I know, the same goes for yourself. Shane had mentioned you a lot," Reed said as he sat down on the edge of the bed. Shane softly pushed Reed further onto the bed, he caught Kurt's confused look.

"He can trip over a clear floor," Shane said laughing as he walked back to the door, and motioned to someone. "When I said I was coming over, they all said they wanted to meet you, " Shane said as a bunch of boys. "The blondes are Evan and Ethan, the Asian is Wes and the guy next to him is David," As Shane said their names, he pointed to it one of them. "Dwight's the one trying to put salt in front of your room and Charlie is one, trying to stop him. And the Tweedles," Shane started

"Evan and Ethan," Reed whispered when he saw Kurt's face.

"Are setting up a computer so Han, can be here too," Shane said with a smile. All the boys gather around Kurt's bed. Kurt took in all the boys features, and then it clicked, "I saw you guys perform with Blaine!" Kurt said as he looked at everyone one of them.

"Yeah, we're all in the warblers," Reed said with a laugh

" except me!" a voice called from the computer. Kurt glanced over to the computer. A boy sat behind the screen, smiling.

"And me, but I'm only here to keep an eye on those two," the boy called Charlie said pointing to the twins. The twins had an identical smirk on their faces.

"So why are you all here?" Kurt asked slightly confused.

"Blaine won't tell you this but I thought you had a right to know," Shane said from his spot next to Reed on the bed.

"When Blaine was at Dalton. He had a close friend," Reed started.

"Well he was a friend to us all, the craziest one. Worst than the Tweedles," Han chimed in

"And that's saying something!" Charlie said for his seat on the couch.

"And he was the one that help Blaine through coming out to our father, he was Blaine's best friend." Shane added. "His name was Alex, he was the same year as Blaine, and they met the first day at Dalton. Blaine had gotten lost in the halls of Dalton, and Alex spotted him. Alex helped him to his face class." Shane stopped for a breath. "He helped Blaine get used to Dalton, and Windsor house too,"

"Which you need help to understand, Windsor is crazy!" Charlie added.

"Shut up Charlie!" Han said from the computer, "Shane's telling a story!" he added. A small laugh came from Shane.

"Well the two became so close, and well back at Dalton we have a zero-bullying zone, but it still happened. It doesn't now thanks to the prefects, but back then the seniors used the rules as guide lines rather than actual rules. Anyway Alex was out and proud about his sexuality, he was fine that everybody knew. That was something Blaine admired in Alex. Blaine knew some people would kind of trade remarks about Alex but Alex would always just shake them off. However in Blaine's sophomore year, the bullying on Alex got worse. Of course, no one knew. Alex kept it to himself. We never knew he was being bullied as bad as it was. One day, Blaine went to Alex's room, he knocked and he did not know why Alex had missed first period. Blaine just thought he was sleeping in. So when Alex didn't answer Blaine opened the door. He found Alex, he had committed suicide, the night before. I don't know how and I prefer not to know, as I wanted to remember Alex the way he was. However, he left some letters, for Blaine to deliver to certain people. One of course to Blaine, one to his parents and one to his tormenters. When the funeral came around Blaine didn't go, couldn't stand to go." Shane said nodding. Kurt had cover his mouth with his hands. He couldn't image how Blaine had taken it, but he suddenly understood why Blaine wanted to go back to Dalton alone. He didn't want to seem weak to Kurt.

"One thing that hurt Blaine the most was that his boyfriend of the time was one of the bully's." Shane said shaking his head. "He was taking out his stress of being gay himself out on Alex. Everything his father told him, he would say to Alex about being gay," Kurt gasped as he couldn't image how Blaine would have felt. "Blaine just shut down after that, one of the most important people that he loved dearly had been taken away from him, by his own boyfriend. Months after Alex's funeral, Blaine barely spoke. He would just wonder around. All the life was gone from him".

"Why did Blaine leave?" Kurt asked looking at Shane.

"He got kicked out for fighting, he king hit, the guys who had bullied Alex." Shane said with a half a laugh. "He wanted someone to pay for bullying Alex," Shane nodded. Kurt was shaking as he thought about Blaine. "He snapped one day and starting throwing punches, and one of the teachers saw him. He was expelled from Dalton."

All Kurt could do was nod, "Blaine has been really quiet ever since, never truly himself after what happened. However, you walked into the picture, and he was smiling, and he wanted to come and visit us at Dalton. Everything was looking back to normal," Shane started.

"And then I suddenly turned up at Dalton and ruined it," Kurt whispered.

"No you didn't," Evan started

" Blaine just shut down again," Ethan finished. Kurt just nodded, he really didn't know Blaine that well and it was all starting to sink in. He pulled the covers close to him.

"Look, you don't have to tell me anything but how about you come to dinner with my family. You need to stop eating this junk food!" Puck said as he stood up and looked around the apartment. "How about you go and get changed and maybe a shower and shave. I'll clean the apartment" Puck said as he slowly pushed Blaine into the bedroom.

"Are you sure, I don't want to impose," Blaine said looking back at Puck.

"Oh come on, you'll have fun and enjoy your night. Now go, we'll be just about to make it if you get in the shower now," Puck said as he closed the bedroom door, and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He dialled a number and started to pick up the rubbish around the apartment as he talked to the person on the other end of the phone.

Blaine took his time in the shower, he closed his eyes and let the water wash away the night of no sleep and the horrible nightmares he had the night before. After getting out of the shower he shaved, letting his fingers run over the now smooth skin. Just for a second the fingers that ran over his face weren't his, but Kurt's. He shook his head and walked into the bedroom. Looked into his closet and saw that he was supposed to do washing yesterday. So he didn't have much to wear. He grabbed his jeans and a t-shirt throwing them on. He thought if Puck was tidying up out there, he might as well tidy up in here. He pulled all his dirty closes into the basket and put most of the rubbish in the bin. The final thing he did before leaving the room, was to make his bed.

He walked out of his bedroom to see Puck sitting on the couch and the whole apartment looking spotless. "Wow," Blaine said looking around.

"You get used to cleaning very quickly when your girlfriend decides to come over without telling you," Puck said laughing.

"Okay well don't we have to go?" Blaine asked.

"Yep now come on, You're gonna have the time of your life!" Puck said with a small smirk as he walked out of the apartment and down to his car. He opened it and climbed in waiting for Blaine to catch up. Blaine climbed into the track after a couple of minutes. He put his seat belt on, waiting for Puck to start the engine.

"Okay you have to promise me one thing," Puck said as he turned to Blaine.

"Okay what?" Blaine said looking at Puck.

"No matter what happens you have to be open minded," Puck said with a smirk as he started the car. It only took them about 20minutes to pull up in front of a house.

"You live in the same street as Kurt?" Blaine as confused.

"Yeah, kind of," Puck said as he hopped out of the car and started to walk down the street a bit. He turned up a familiar path. Blaine stopped at the start of the path.
"No!" Blaine said as he went to walk away.

"You agreed to dinner with my family, the Hudmels are my family. My real family don't care , so that's why we are here," Puck said to Blaine as he pulled him into the house, and shoving him down on the couch. Finn looked up from his video game with a smirk.

"Nice of you to join us Mr Anderson," Finn said with a British accent.

"Care for some sherry," Puck continued with his British accent.

"Oh I think we might have some fresh scones in the kitchen with some strawberry jam!" Shane said as he came down the stairs.

"Shane?" Blaine stood up looking at his brother.

"Blaine!" Shane said with fake excitement as he ran over to his brother and hugged him tightly.

"What are you doing here?" Blaine asked his brother.

"Well I was in the neighbour and got a call to come over," Shane said smoothly too smoothly for Blaine's liking. Blaine raised an eyebrow.

Just as Blaine was about to yell at his brother, Burt walked in the door, from work and saw Puck and Finn on the couch watching Blaine and another boy stand in the middle of the lounge room. If Burt had to guess, he would say Blaine and this other boy were about to have a fight in his house. He really was not in the mood for this as he was worried sick about Kurt.

"Um, good evening all," Burt said looking between the boys, in the room.

"Hello Mr H," Puck called from the couch. "This is Shane, Blaine's younger brother!" Puck said with a smirk.

"Hello Mr Hummel," Shane said holding out his hand for Burt to shake.

"Are you sure, his your brother?" Burt said taken back by Shane's manners.

"That's what I ask myself every day," Blaine muttered under his breath,

"Yes, his my older brother!" Shane said hugging Blaine again.

"Well where is Carole?" Burt asked.

"In the kitchen love, Oh Blaine you made it dear," Carole said pulling Blaine close for a hug.

"Hi Mrs Hummel," Blaine said as he let her hug him.

"Oh it's so good to finally have a face to the name," Carole said as she pulled back. "Okay dinner will be ready in about 10 minutes, Shane go get the others dear, Puck and Finn can set the table and Blaine just sit down and watch some TV with Burt," Carole said as she kissed Burt on the cheek.

Carole dragged Finn into the kitchen by his ear, as he did not move straight away while Puck laughed and followed them both. Shane climbed two stairs at a time as he run upstairs, and disappeared at the top of the stairs. It was very awkward for Blaine as he sat down and watched the TV, football was on.

"Do you mind or would you like to watch something else?" Burt asked Blaine.

"No football is fine," Blaine said as he turned back to the TV.

Suddenly Shane was bouncing down the stairs with Reed and Kurt following behind. Reed and Kurt were talking about something to do with fashion. When Kurt looked up it was the same time as Blaine. Kurt stopped in his tracks and looked at Blaine. Blaine could read that look in his eyes. Blaine's heart stopped when he saw that emotion in his eyes. It was something that Blaine thought he would ever see in Kurt's eyes. It was regret, did Kurt regret meeting Blaine, and did he regret ever being with Blaine. All these questions were circling in Blaine's mind. Burt notice the two didn't look at anyone but each other. Burt noticed the way, Kurt stopped everything when he saw Blaine. Burt remembers when he used to do that for Kurt's mum. He remembered the way he could be in the middle of a conversation and everything would just go away as soon as he saw Kurt's mum. He remembered his own dad telling him he was in love. He had and he had fallen pretty deep, and he saw the exact same thing in his son. Reed tugged at Kurt and They both continued down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, Reed and Shane walked straight into the Kitchen, minutes later Carole called for Burt. Burt grumbled and walked into the kitchen to find everyone was behind the shutters that looked in on the lounge. "What are you...?" Burt tried to asked but was stopped by everybody shh-ing him.

"Hi," Blaine said as he stood up.

"Hi," Kurt said with a small smile.

"Puck invited me over for dinner; he said he was having dinner with his family. I didn't know he meant yours," Blaine said quietly

"Well Noah is normally over here every night, his part of the furniture," Kurt said with a small laugh, which did not quite reach his eyes. Kurt played with his hands not sure what to say, it shouldn't be this awkward with Blaine, but since he found out Blaine's history all he can think about was hugging Blaine and wishing sweet nothing in his ear. Telling him that he will never have to see anything like that again if he only just stayed with him.

"So..." Blaine said looking at Kurt.

"Look Blaine,"

"This is really awkward," Blaine interrupted Kurt.

"Why can't we just be friends," Kurt said with a half smile

"No," Blaine said, he couldn't just be friends with Kurt. That would hurt too much, being able to see him but not kiss him and hold him tight, like they did before. He had blown this right out of water. Kurt looked shocked, just standing there.

"Okay, sure." Kurt said nodding, his heart was breaking all over again.

"I can't just be friends with you Kurt, you mean too much too me. And I shouldn't have yelled at you. That's was stupid of me. I guess I was just full of nervous and all memories at Dalton," Blaine said all with one breath.

Kurt took a couple of steps forward and held Blaine's face in his hands. Blaine leaned in to the touch. "Don't be mad but your friends from Dalton, they came over." Kurt said as he leaned his forehead up against Blaine's. "They told me about Alex," Kurt whispered. A small tear ran down Blaine's cheek. "I am so sorry, Blaine. I would do anything for you not too see what you saw, to feel what you felt. I do not want anybody to hurt you again." Kurt whispered just for the two of them to hear. Kurt brushed his lips over Blaine's. A small sigh escaped out of Blaine's mouth as he pulled Kurt close and kissed Kurt back.

"I love you," Blaine whispered as he pulled back.

"I love you too, will you forgive me?" Kurt said

"Of course, if only you forgive me too," Blaine said with a small smirk

"Are we back together?" Kurt asked, trying to push back the feeling that Blaine would say no.

"Try to stop me," Blaine said as he kissed Kurt again, deepening the kiss.

A throat was cleared from behind them, and Kurt pulled back to see his dad standing there. "We need to stop doing this," Kurt said laughing.

"Yes, I don't need to see this stuff, everybody is waiting for you two so come on then," Burt said with a small smile. As Kurt walked ahead, Burt tapped on Blaine's shoulder.

"I'm not going to threaten you but just take care of him. He needs you as much as you need him," Burt said with a soft tone, "Welcome to the family," Burt said as he clapped his hand on Blaine's back.

The dinner went well as all. Blaine and Kurt sat next to each other and held hands under the table. They did not let go at all, even when eating. They glanced at each other before squeezing making sure they weren't dreaming and that they were in fact sitting with each other and their families. Little did they know Burt watched the two all threw dinner and was overjoyed to see his son was back to his usual self and if this Blaine kid made that happen. Burt would not get in the way of their happiness at all.

After dinner, Kurt was nervous he didn't want to let go of Blaine just incase this was all a dream. Burt could see it on Kurt's face and knew they was only one solution. "Kurt can I talk to you please?" Burt said as he walked into the kitchen. Kurt followed him, and waited for his dad to say what he needed to say. "Kurt I know you haven't been yourself so I'm gonna say this once and this is gonna happen maybe once." Burt said as he smiled.

"You can stay the night with Blaine, but I am trusting you to be responsible!" Burt said as Kurt started to jump up and down.

"Thank you dad, Thank you so much. You don't know how much this means to me," He said as he pulled his dad into a hug. "I love you so much!" Kurt said as he hugged him tightly.

Kurt ran upstairs, as Blaine watched with a confused look. Reed and Shane laughed, "We'll meet you out in the car," Shane said with a smile.

Blaine stood in the lounge room, waiting for Kurt. Kurt ran back downstairs with a bag in his hands. "Dad said I could stay the night," Kurt said as Blaine pulled him close and kissed him.

"Reallly?"

"Yes, so just us and Shane and Reed," Kurt said nodding. Blaine laughed.

"Bye see you," Kurt yelled as he ran out the door with Blaine, just in case his dad changed his mind.

As they got to the car Kurt saw that Reed and Shane were joking around in the front of the car. Kurt and Blaine climbed in the back and started to kiss. "I hope you brought ear muffs Reed," Shane said laughing.

"Why would I...Oh," Reed said turning around to see Kurt pulling back, his face a bright red colour. As he kind of pushed Blaine off him and buckled in. Shane drove them back to Blaine's apartment and all the boys got out of the car. Shane and Reed walked up the stairs slowly. Shane worrying about Reed falling, so he remained a couple steps behind Reed.

All the boys ended up on the couch watching a movie, Reed and Shane sat at opposite sides of the couch, while Blaine and Kurt cuddled each other on the other couch. At the end of the movie, Reed had leaned over and head his head resting on Shane's shoulder. He was deep asleep. While Shane, Kurt and Blaine were wide, awake. Shane glanced down at Reed and saw him asleep. He quietly picked Reed up and carried him into the spare bedroom. He returned a couple minutes later with pillows and blankets. Blaine had wonder off into the bedroom, and Kurt stopped to look at Shane. "I think you're a gentleman, Shane," Kurt said as he said goodnight and followed Blaine into the bedroom, shutting the door after him.

"So your brother is sleeping on the couch as the guys he likes sleeps in his bed," Kurt said as he walked into the bathroom to brush his teeth.

"Yeah, he still doesn't know if Reed likes him," Blaine said as he climbed into bed.

"Aww poor thing," Kurt said as he switched off the light in the bathroom and walked over to the bed, climbing in and holding Blaine close.

"Yeah, poor him," Blaine murmured, as sleep came quickly.

"Goodnight love," Kurt whispered as he fell asleep in the arms of the boy he loved, and everything was right again.