Blaine was never so exhausted and yet simultaneously grateful for the short recovery time that came with youth. Kurts apartment may have been small, but there wasnt a place in it that they hadnt marked now with their sweat and much more. Even the shower, a place meant for cleaning, was filthy by the time they were through with it.

It was easily the best twenty four hours of his life.

Now he laid, snuggled in close aside a napping Kurt, on Kurts child sized bed in the closet. It would have been weird to go into some other guys bed to do this, and it meant he had an excuse to hold Kurt closely as he slept. Every bit of Kurt that was exposed had been committed to memory by Blaines eyes. Each freckle, each dip in the skin, even the veins that showed through his pale skin had been mapped. He had told Kurt he would nap with him, and while he probably should have since they would both be up late tonight, Blaine much preferred what he had been spending the last couple hours doing. It certainly made a lot more sense to him than wasting his mind on sleep.

Tonight he would see Kurt in action in the play. Several times over Kurt had warned him his part was small and arbitrary, but Blaine also knew that he would be in the background of most of the scenes, so Blaine would have something beautiful to look at for the majority of the evening. Between "romantic interludes", Kurt had tailored Blaines suit, deciding to improve upon what he called "a classic if dated design".

Blaine never ceased to be amazed by Kurts talents.

"Mmmm….? Blaine?"

He had been looking at Kurts hair, trying to count out each one when Kurt mumbled to indicate his rising consciousness. Blaine looked down and smiled at the blue eyes that were turned up at his, quickly pressing a kiss to Kurts forehead before returning the greeting. "Hey."

"Hey yourself…." Kurt grunted as he propped himself up on his side and looked at Blaine. "... how long have you been awake for?"

"Not long." Blaine lied, reaching over to brush a stray hair away from Kurts face which was threatening to fall into his eye, "You can sleep for awhile longer if you want. You said you dont have to be at the theater for a couple more hours anyhow."

Kurt shook his head, sitting up and making a small grimace which Blaine took of indication that, yes, Kurt could still feel him. In his defense though, Kurt had begged him to make him feel it for days during the heat of the moment and Blaine was always one to try and please. "I want to take you out to dinner before we go. Cant hide away in here the whole time you visit. It would be a waste of New York and the travel fare."

Blaine shook his head. "No. It has already more than surpassed any and all expectations I could ever have of it."

He got a playful jab in the bicep for his words from Kurt, who crept down the length of the bed and then stood up, as there was no room on either side of the bed to get out that way. "God, youre such a sap."

Blaine brushed over his arm, watching Kurt in all his gorgeous, naked glory, and none too ashamed about how much he was staring. "I like romance."

"I do too."

There was a silent moment as they looked at one another, gold locked onto blue, understanding completely. Kurts walls were falling, and had fallen, so rapidly. It would be a difficult feat to build them back up now.

"Im buying dinner."

"I thought I said I was."

"But you saved me the cost of a hotel."

"But you paid train fare to get out here."

"God…" Blaine chuckled as he shuffled down the bed to follow after Kurt who was heading into the sex scented bathroom. "Why cant you just let me treat you?"

Kurt sighed, hand reaching into the shower to check the temperature. "Is this how it always is between two guys? Always arguing who pays?"

Blaine shook his head, "No… not always… and in all fairness, It happens in a lot of relationships nowadays anyhow… save for the ones where people are happy to be "traditional"... whatever that is."

"I guess Im going to figure that out huh?"

Blaine followed Kurt into the shower, cramping their bodies together as they worked to grab shampoo and soap and get themselves clean. "You really havent ever been a relationship huh?"

Kurt shook his head, tipped back into the spray of the shower to rinse it out. "No…"

"Ive been in a couple… neither were particularly great… but it gave me food for thought."

"Like what?"

Blaine shrugged, doing a little shuffle dance in a circle with Kurt so he could get a turn under the showerhead. "Like I dont want to be in a relationship where one person has more power than the other. I want to be an equal. I want someone who wants to be wanted and doesnt see it as an annoyance…. I want to be with someone who has the same long term ideas as me too… Im a commitment kind of guy. I want a future with one person and them alone."

Kurt was silent, and Blaine immediately thought through what he had just revealed. Was it too much? Would it scare Kurt off? God…. what if those things werent what Kurt wanted at all?

"Are we… are we in a relationship Blaine?"

Blaine blinked and looked back to Kurt, having been soaping up his lower half. "I.. what?"

Real smooth Blaine.

"I mean… I dont know… Am I just something casual or…"

Blaine dropped the soap and quickly grabbed Kurts randomly gesturing hands to hold them still. "Yes."

"Yes?"

"Yes… I mean…"

Blaine knelt down - easily one of the more awkward positions he had put himself in over the past day given how cramped the shower was, and looked up at Kurt while keeping his hands trapped inside of his own. "Kurt, would you be my boyfriend?"

That got him a laugh and a tug up by the hands. "Yeah. God… get up unless you plan to make my dick more chapped than it already is."

Blaine laughed in turn and stood back up, wrapping his arms around Kurt who froze for a split second and then hugged him back. "Thank you… thank you…. well make it work. I promise."

"Does this mean I can change my facebook status?"

Blaine giggled into Kurts shoulder. "Yeah. I think so."

AuntieSnix
OMG!

FondueForMew
What?

Quintessential
Facebook! Look at it now!

KittysKorner
What? All the candy crush requests from you? Honestly. You have an addiction.

AuntieSnix
No! Not that!

FondueForMew
Kurt and Blaine being in a relationship? Yeah. Lord Tubbington already called that one.