When the time finally came, Finn and Rachel had decided to go back to the hotel room, watch a movie and order room service, he assumed cuddling would be involved, and Mercedes had met an extremely cute guy who invited her on his boat with his friends.

He was glad Mercedes had plans for the night, he would've felt guilty leaving her alone for the rest of the day.

He made his way back to the spot where he first met Blaine, climbing over the rocks just like he had the day before, only this time no one was there.

He sat down, drawing pictures in the sand with a stick he managed to find while he waited.

He wasn't too concerned. Blaine said he was coming, so he'd be here. Kurt knew it.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, he heard a splash, and when he looked up, he saw Blaine poking his head out of the water from the nose up, just as he had yesterday.

"Hi." Kurt said a bit breathlessly.

It wasn't until Kurt spoke that Blaine made his way onto the shore. He scooted a bit closer and examined Kurt carefully. "Your upper body changed."

Kurt looked at him, confused, but then realized what he meant. "I changed my shirt."

"Shirt?"

"This." Kurt said grabbing at his shirt. "I would've changed my pants too but I only bought one pair of bathing suit trunks so..."

"Bathing suit?"

"Yeah... those are different names for clothes. Humans wear clothes to cover their bodies. I guess that's not something you're familiar with..."

"But you said you'd be the same, you wouldn't change today..."

"I said I'd still be a good human, I still am, just because I changed my shirt that doesn't mean I'm evil now."

"So good humans change their clothes?"

"All humans change their clothes, but that doesn't change whether or not they're good, or bad, people."

"Oh. I like clothes. They look like fun."

"They are fun." Kurt said smiling. "So, I told you about something human, why don't you tell me about something merman?"

"Like what?" Blaine asked.

"I don't know, whatever you want to tell me."

"Merpeople are always told humans are mean, that we're not suppose to trust them."

"Not all humans are mean, though I have met my fair share of mean humans."

"Humans are mean to you?"

"Sometimes."

"Why?"

"Well, I'm gay... and a lot of humans think that's wrong."

"What's gay?" Blaine asked, tilting his head again.

"Gay means, that if you're a boy, you like other boys, and if you're a girl, you like other girls. So... instead of marrying a girl when I get older like everyone expects me to, I want to marry a boy."

"That's not wrong." Blaine said, Kurt smiled. "I guess that means I'm gay too."

Kurt looked at him, a bit surprised. "You are?"

"Yeah, because I want to marry a boy."

"I guess we've got a lot in common. You like clothes, I like clothes."

"You like boys, I like boys." Blaine said smiling.

"Do you like music?" Kurt asked curiously.

"I love music! I sing all the time!"

"Me too! I'm even in my schools Glee Club! I want to be on Broadway someday."

"What's Broadway?"

"It's a place where people perform, do shows, and sing for an audience."

"We have that!"

"You do?"

"Yeah, I want to perform, do shows, and sing for an audience... but my dad won't let me." He looked down.

"Why not?"

"He doesn't let me go out much."

"He let you come here to see me."

"He doesn't know I'm here... he doesn't even know I'm not home right now."

"No offense, but he must not pay much attention to you if he thinks you're home."

"He doesn't. He's very busy, he has a lot of other important things to worry about."

"You're his son, you should be important too."

"It's complicated." He said before biting his lip. "Does your dad know you're here with me?"

"Well, he knows I'm here, but he doesn't know I'm hanging out with a merman."

"Is he near by?"

"No, he's back home. I'm here with my brother, his girlfriend, and my best friend."

"Do they know you're here with me?"

"I didn't tell anyone about you, if that's what you're hinting at. You made it very clear that you wanted me to come alone, I assumed that meant not to tell anyone about you."

"What's it like?"

"What's what like?" Kurt asked, slightly confused by the random question.

"Having legs, what's it like?"

"Oh, it's... it's alright I guess." Kurt said with a bit of a shrug.

"What's it like to walk?"

"I'm not really sure how to answer that..."

"Yeah, I wouldn't know what to say if you asked me what it was like to have a fin, or to swim, maybe I should've asked a different question..."

"Well, I know what it's like to swim... I just don't know what it's like to swim with a fin."

"You mean humans get to walk and swim but merpeople don't get to do both? How is that fair?"

"Well, we can't breathe under water like you can."

"Why not?"

"I don't know... man, you sure do ask a lot of questions."

"You don't answer very many."

"Well, you're asking me questions I don't know the answers to." Kurt said, laughing.

"Have I been asking too many questions?"

"No, you're fine, you can ask me all the questions you want."

"But I feel like I'm not being fair... I'm asking everything, you ask me something this time."

"Okay... um..." Kurt thought a moment. "So, can you talk to fish and crabs and stuff?"

"No, what would make you think that?"

"Well, in the story of the Little Mermaid, Ariel can do that, so I figured you could too."

"The story of the Little Mermaid? Never heard of it."

"Well, how about I tell it to you, and you can tell me how accurate it is."

"Okay!"

"Well, it's about this mermaid named Ariel, and her and her best friend Flounder the fish find human stuff in sunken ships. Then they bring it to Scuttle the seagull and he tells them what it's used for in the human world."

"She can talk to the fish and birds? That's not accurate."

"She also talks to a crab."

"So far this story isn't based off any facts at all."

"Well, she falls in love with this human she sees on a boat named Eric, he's a prince, and since she wants to be with him, she trades her voice to the sea witch so that she can get legs and be human."

"Now that, we have."

"A sea witch?"

"More like sea witches. But they don't live anywhere near us. They look like us, except... well... they look sort of, not dead exactly, but..."

"Like zombies?"

"What's a zombie?"

"The living dead."

"Yeah! They look like zombies, like merzombies."

"Sounds creepy."

"Yeah, that's why we usually avoid them. But they try to get us to come to them. You see... if a sea witch uses her powers to help a merperson, it makes them look more life like, more young and beautiful and normal... so they all try to help as many merpeople as they can so that they'll look more like us."

"So... I guess that means they're good?"

"I guess. But I was always told to stay away from them, so maybe not... I don't really know."

"Do you have to give them something, like how Ariel gave up her voice?"

"You have to give them two things. The way it works, or so I've been told, is that if a merperson wants something, they must trade and loan. So, for example, we'll use the character in your story, Ariel. She wants to be loved by this Eric guy, right?"

"Right."

"So she needs legs from the sea witch... to get them, she'd need to trade something. Like... a necklace, or something like that, and that turns into the legs she needs to meet Eric so he can love her back."

"And she doesn't get the necklace back, because it's been turned into something else..."

"Exactly! Then she would loan her favorite thing, the one thing that's most important to her."

"Her voice."

"Yeah, so the sea witch would keep her voice while she was off being human and trying to win over Eric. If she succeeds, her voice comes back to her automatically."

"But if she fails, then she has to go back to the sea witch in order to get her voice..."

"Which means she can't skip out on her fee."

"So the sea witch knows she'll come back, because she wouldn't just leave her voice behind forever."

"You got it."

"So what is this fee?"

"I don't know. All I know, is that you're only required to pay a sea witch if you fail to get what you want."

"So if Ariel wins Prince Eric's heart, she's not required to pay the sea witch."

"But if she fails, the witch used all that magic for nothing, and so she wants something in return."

"The whole thing sounds sketchy to me, Blaine. I mean, not knowing what the fee is. What if it's like... your soul, or something? What if you're doomed to spend the rest of your life as her slave? Plus, I thought you said that using magic makes them young and beautiful, so even if you fail, the magic wasn't really all for nothing..."

"Hey, I've never actually spoken to a sea witch, Kurt. I'm just repeating rumors I've heard from other merfolk. I don't have all the facts."

"So... what would you loan?"

"You mean what's most important to me?" Kurt nodded. "Probably... my voice, just like Ariel. Like I said, I love to sing, so if I didn't have my voice..."

"Understood." Kurt said softly.

"So, does the prince fall in love with Ariel?"

"Yeah, he and his dog find her and take her back to the castle, and then-"

"What's a dog?"

"It's an animal, a lot of humans keep them as pets."

"Can you talk to dogs?"

"No."

"Well, if you can't talk to the animals that live in your world, why would you assume I could talk to fish?"

Kurt laughed. "I didn't think of it like that."

"I better head back home... it's getting late and I have a long swim ahead of me."

"Will you be here tomorrow?"

"Only if you promise to tell me more about the Little Mermaid and how her and the prince fell in love." He said before winking.

Kurt smiled. "Deal."