Well, not entirely.

A few weeks had passed, and they were technically in a clothing store, just not the type of clothes you'd expect.

They were shopping for Halloween costumes so they had something to wear to Brittany's costume party.

Blaine still didn't totally understand the holiday, even though both Kurt and Finn had tried on more than one occasion to explain it to him.

But he got the basic idea. People dressed up in funny clothes and ate something called candy.

He just didn't understand why.

"Do you see anything you like?" Kurt asked, Blaine scribbling on his notepad before handing it over.

"Why aren't you looking?" Kurt read out loud. "I don't buy costumes, I make my own." he replied as he handed the pad back to Blaine.

Blaine scribbled something else, holding the pad out to Kurt again.

"Why can't I make my costume?" Kurt read before shrugging. "I don't know, I didn't really think about that... you can if you want to, but first you have to decide what you want to be. Try to think of something that no one else would think of. Nothing more embarrassing then showing up to a costume party wearing the same costume as someone else."

Blaine scrunched his face up, something he always did when he was thinking (Kurt found it to be quite adorable), before glancing around as if he hoped something he saw at the costume shop would give him an idea.

His face lit up when he finally spotted something, grabbing it and putting it on his face, smiling at Kurt.

"You're... going to be an elephant?" Kurt said, obviously confused as he looked at the trunk on Blaine's face.

Blaine bit his lip, looking around before grabbing something else and placing it on his head.

"A crown... I still don't get it, Blaine."

Blaine rolled his eyes, scribbling quickly on the pad.

"A picture of a TV?" Kurt questioned as he looked at the paper before realizing what Blaine was trying to say with the elephant trunk, crown, and drawing of a TV. "You're going to be Babar! That elephant you saw on TV last week! I'm impressed... well done, very creative." Kurt said with a smile.

Kurt certainly never would've thought of that. But Blaine had become quite the channel surfer, so he probably should've expected him to think of something that he'd seen on TV.

He liked the idea. It was unique, he knew nobody else would be in the same costume, and it wouldn't be that difficult to put together, so Kurt could help him without taking away too much time from making his own costume.

"Alright, let's see if there's anything else around here we could use for our costumes."

Blaine scribbled on the pad again, furrowing his brow a bit as he handed it to Kurt.

"What are you dressing up as?" Kurt read before smiling. "A sea monkey."

Blaine tilted his head a bit and smiled, Kurt was sure that he'd be laughing if he could manage making any sound.

"Hey, you love the idea." He said, Blaine smiling more and making a heart with his hands, scrunching his nose up playfully as Kurt laughed.

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Kurt had to say, he was quite impressed with everyone's costumes. Some of the gang from New Directions got together and dressed as characters from the Rugrats, Rachel had showed up as the swan queen from Black Swan, and Brittany was dressed as a mermaid.

"Blaine, do you like my costume?" Brittany asked with a hopeful smile.

Blaine smiled back, giving her a thumbs up.

"Thanks, I worked really hard on it, I wanted to make you feel at home, since you probably miss all your mermaid friends in the ocean."

"For the last time, Brittany, he's not a mermaid." Puck shouted over the music as he made his way across the dance floor and over to the food.

"Don't worry, Blaine. Everyone else might not believe in you, but I do. You're magical, like a unicorn." She stated. "Tell you what, to show you how nice us humans are, I'll help you do whatever you have to do to get your voice back and stay on land, okay?"

Blaine blinked a few times, obviously caught off guard as he looked her over.

"It's like the Little Mermaid, you have to kiss somebody, right? I still think you should kiss Kurt because he obviously has the hots for you, it was confirmed on my last episode of Fondue For Two."

Blaine was basically starring at Brittany like she had three heads by this point.

What the hell was she talking about? What was Fondue For Two, and what did it mean to have the hots for somebody?

"It's simple. Just get him under some mistletoe. If you're both standing under the mistletoe it's like a law that you have to kiss, so we just have to find some mistletoe, put you and Kurt under it, and then he'll kiss you, it's simple."

"Brittany, what are you telling him? He looks terrified." Mike said with a small laugh as he walked by.

"That information is classified, I can't tell you that." She said before winking at Blaine and leaving.

"Don't worry, nobody ever knows what Brittany's talking about, but she's harmless." Mike said, smiling.

Blaine bit his lip before smiling back.

"I love your costume by the way, really creative."

He smiled more. Mike was really nice... why didn't he hang with Mike more often? He'd have to make a mental note of that.

"Hey, Tina's looking for you." Artie said before glancing at Blaine. "And I'm pretty sure that Kurt's looking for you."

"Thanks, man." Mike said to Artie before smiling at Blaine again. "It was nice talking to you."

Blaine gave Artie a bit of a confused look as Mike left.

"He's over there." Artie said as he pointed in the opposite direction.

Blaine mouthed a thank you before heading over, smiling at Kurt.

"There you are, where have you been all night?" Kurt said, but before Blaine could respond he continued. "Explaining what I'm suppose to be is getting really old and... is that mistletoe above our heads?"

Blaine looked at Kurt curiously before looking up. So that's what mistletoe is...

He shrugged and looked back at Kurt, a small smile on his face as he raised his shoulders slightly and bit down on his lip again.

"Brittany, why did you hang mistletoe at a Halloween party?"

"Who says mistletoe is only for Christmas?"

"Um... everyone?"

"I just wanted to help you."

"Help me?"

"Yeah, and Blaine."

"I'm lost."

"I put it up so that you could kiss Blaine."

"What?"

"Don't you want to?"

"Brittany... can I talk to you in the other room?" He glanced back and Blaine and sighed. "Sorry about that, I hope she didn't make you feel awkward with that whole mistletoe thing. Brittany's a little... she can sometimes... she kind of... Brittany's an airhead." he said before walking away.

Blaine sighed and pulled the elephant trunk off his face, stomping his foot lightly as he crossed his arms over his chest and frowned.

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"What are you doing?"

"I told you, I put up mistletoe so that you could kiss Blaine."

"But why?"

"Because you want to."

"Stop saying that so loudly, what if people hear you?"

"Well, you do, don't you?"

"Britt-"

"Because I know he wants to kiss you."

"Excuse me?"

"It's kind of obvious."

"Not this again. Look, Brittany. I know you think that Blaine's something out of the Little Mermaid, but this isn't a Disney cartoon. I'm not Blaine's Prince Eric."

"So, he's your Prince Eric?"

Kurt sighed.

"Look, I know you're uncomfortable talking about Blaine being a mermaid but I know for a fact that he wants to kiss you, so even if I'm wrong about your magical unicorn kisses turning Blaine human forever and giving him his voice back, it'll still be worth it... it's a win win situation."

Kurt's eyes got wide. "I'm sorry... what?"

"He wants to kiss you. He's totally crushing on you."

"You... you don't know that for sure."

"I think you should stop worry so much and just plant one on his face before someone else snatches up that fine piece of mermaid tail." Brittany said before shrugging and walking off.

Kurt blinked a few times before leaning against the wall.

This didn't mean anything, did it?

It was just Brittany being Brittany again... right?

There was no real proof that Blaine liked him.

Brittany said crazy things all the time. Didn't make them true.

Well, there was no use worrying about it now.

No, no, now was not the time to stress about it.

Right now, he had to focus on this Halloween party.

He had to pretend that he was having fun, not mentally freaking out about something Brittany said.

He couldn't risk people asking him what was wrong if he focused on this now.

If they asked, he wouldn't know what to say.

What if they figured it out?

The last thing he wanted was for everyone to find out that he liked Blaine.

Because what if Brittany was wrong?

What if Blaine didn't like him back?

What if Blaine found out Kurt liked him and things got awkward?

Then Blaine would be screwed.

Because he'd feel too awkward around Kurt to stay human, but he couldn't go back to the ocean with that sea witch waiting to turn him into her slave... or worse.

He couldn't put Blaine through that.

Dang it, he promised himself he wouldn't think about this now.

No more worrying, save that for when the party is over.

Right now, he just had to play it cool and pretend like nothing happened.

When he felt someone tap his shoulder, he turned, shifting his weight from one foot to the other nervously when he saw who was standing there.

"Blaine, hey... did you need something?"

Blaine handed him the notepad, and Kurt almost fell over when he read what Blaine had written.

What does it mean when someone "has the hots for you"?