"Let's head inside this pet store, just until the rain slows down."

Walking through the door, Blaine messed with his hair a bit to make sure the rain hadn't ruined it, Kurt doing the same before smiling as a thought came to him.

"While we're trapped here, we might as well look at all the pets for sale."

Blaine's face lit up and he instantly raced over to where all the puppies were, petting them and waving at them.

Kurt laughed to himself, walking over to Blaine. "Yes, Blaine... go... be with your people."

"Ha ha, you're hilarious."

"You know you're a puppy, Blaine."

"Well, if I'm a puppy, you're a kitten."

"Being a kitten is cool."

"So is being a puppy."

"Yeah, you keep telling yourself that." He said with a playful wink, glancing at the kittens before looking back at Blaine. "The cats are really cute."

Blaine walked over and smiled at a purring kitten who was pawing at his hand through the cage.

"Yeah, I wonder what other animals they have here..."

Blaine wandered over, looking at hamsters, ferrets, bunnies, while Kurt wandered over to the birds.

"I wonder if Blaine's afraid of birds..." He thought out loud, a parrot squawking in response.

"Afraid of birds, birds!" The parrot shouted.

"Nah, probably not."

"Probably not!" The bird repeated.

"If he's not afraid of them, I'm sure he's annoyed by them."

"Probably not!"

Kurt sighed. "Why am I even having this conversation with you, bird?"

"Not afraid! Probably not!"

"Ugh!" Kurt groaned loudly before smiling as a thought came to him.

"Hey Blaine! Check this out!" Blaine stopped making faces at the fish and made his way to where his boyfriend was, tilting his head slightly.

"Look, they have frogs, snakes, lizards-"

"Kurt! Look at the turtle! I love turtles! They're so cute!"

Kurt laughed a bit. "You are a puppy."

"Cause I like turtles?"

"Cause you got so excited. Puppies get ridiculously excited, like you."

"You love me and my puppy ways..."

"I do not deny this."

"Hey, cool lizard." Blaine pressed his face to the glass and Kurt glanced behind him at a cage with a rather large snake in it. "Hey Blaine, look over here!"

Blaine turned his head and smiled. "Woah, that things huge!"

"Pretty scary, huh?"

"No, not really."

Kurt blinked in surprise. He was sure he'd thought of something that Blaine would be afraid of.

"Snakes don't scare you?"

"Nope."

"So, you'd hold one, like... willingly?"

Blaine's face lit up. "Can I?"

"Absolutely not, those things are dirty."

"They are not."

"You're not holding the snake, Blaine."

"Then why'd you offer?"

"I didn't offer, I just asked if you would touch one."

"Sure I would."

Kurt sighed in defeat. "Well, the rain stopped, I guess we can leave."

"Okay! Hey, look at that cool parrot!" Blaine raced over to the parrot Kurt had been talking to earlier.

"Hi there, you're a pretty bird."

"Pretty bird!" The bird squawked back.

"Hey, you talk! Can you say other stuff too?"

"Probably not!" Blaine laughed.

"He's awesome, we should totally get a parrot one day, Kurt."

"We will never get a parrot, especially not that parrot."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not listening to that for the rest of my life. I heard those things can live to be a hundred and I don't need to hear "probably not" every two minutes for the rest of my life."

"Wait, do parrots really live to be a hundred years old?"

"I don't know, but I'm not buying one to find out."

Blaine sighed. "Bye, parrot!"

"Bye, Blaine!"

"Woah, how'd the bird know my name?"

Kurt groaned... must've remembered it from when he'd been mumbling about Blaine's fears earlier.

"Let it go, Blaine. Let's head out before the rain starts up again."

"Blaine's not afraid! Not afraid!" The bird squawked loudly, Kurt rolled his eyes.

"So I've noticed, thanks for rubbing it in..." He mumbled under his breath before following his boyfriend out of the store. Looks like Blaine's fear wouldn't be found in the animal kingdom, well, Kurt was just going to have to look somewhere else.