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A Week at the Lake: Departure


K - Words: 1,997 - Last Updated: Nov 26, 2012
Story: Complete - Chapters: 6/6 - Created: Sep 26, 2012 - Updated: Nov 26, 2012
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Author's Notes: Final chapter. Enjoy!

 

Monday

Monday came too quickly for Blaine’s liking. Sure he was still going to get to see Kurt. Hell, he was even getting to spend two hours in the car with Kurt that day, but after that they would be at least an hour drive away from each other. But as life goes, Monday came fast. Also, due to Wes’s organization, all of the boys were packed and in the car ready to go promptly at 10am. All they had to do was wait for Kurt to show up.

Their plan was that Blaine would drive back to Lima with Kurt. Wes would follow in Blaine’s car, and all of them would go out to lunch before the boys left Kurt in Lima. This way Blaine got some extra time with Kurt before they returned to Westerville, and as Nick pointed out, they’d get to officially meet Kurt.

Kurt showed up promptly at 10:30. When he got to the house he slipped out of the car and snuck up behind Blaine, who was talking to David. As Kurt crept closer David noticed him and tried not to laugh. Kurt hugged Blaine around the waist from behind and whispered “boo!” in Blaine’s ear.

Blaine jumped and squeaked loudly in surprise while Kurt doubled over laughing along with the other boys.

“Hey!” Blaine said trying to sound indignant. “That wasn’t nice” he pouted. Kurt tried to apologize but couldn’t stop giggling enough to make it believable. He instead settled for kissing Blaine lightly and then threading their fingers together.

Wes was the first one to pull himself together as Blaine continued to glare at them all. “Ok, are we all ready to hit the road now?” They all nodded and headed to the cars. Jeff tried to sneak into Kurt’s car but had the sense to stop when Blaine sent him a death glare and Nick pulled him away from the car. Blaine climbed into Kurts’ navigator with a shout over his shoulder at Wes to not crash his car.


On the drive to Lima, Kurt and Blaine didn’t talk much. They spent most of the ride singing along to whatever came on the radio pausing only when Kurt insisted that they plug in his ipod after ‘I Gotta Feeling’ started up for the third time. Occasionally, between lyrics, one of them would comment on the scenery, or something funny that a driver was doing, but mostly they just blasted the music and danced as best they could while buckled into Kurt’s navigator.

All too soon, Kurt was pulling into his driveway. Kurt and Blaine got out of the car, the other boys pulling up on the street in front of the house. Blaine wandered over to the others as Kurt grabbed his bags to put in his room.

“Kurt’s dropping his things off and saying hi to his dad before we head to lunch.”

“You should go meet his family!” Jeff squealed from the backseat.

“I, what? No.”

Wes gave Blaine a look. “You should at least go help the guy with his bags. He seems to have three of them.”

At Wes’s words, Blaine looked back over at the car to see Kurt struggling to balance his bags on his shoulders. Seeing this, Blaine immediately forgot about the potential of meeting scary parents and ran over to help Kurt.

Kurt however refused to accept help. He claimed that he had been able to carry all of his bags to the car so he should be able to carry them into the house.

“Seriously Kurt, just let me take one for you, it’s no problem at all!” Blaine insisted as they reached the door.

“No, no I got it” Kurt said through gritted teeth as he attempted to fish his key out of his pocket.

They’ll finally got in the house and trekked up the stairs to Kurt’s room, Blaine finally having wrested a suitcase from Kurt’s grasp. “Dad? Carol? Finn?”

Kurt paused a moment at the top of the stairs waiting for some kind of response. After a moment of not hearing anything Kurt shrugged and continued walking. “I guess they’re not home, dad probably went to the store or something.”

Entering Kurt’s room, Blaine placed the suitcase he was in charge of next to the ones that Kurt had just put down. Turning around he took in the room as Kurt changed into his boots. Finished pulling them on, Kurt looked up at Blaine. “You ready to go?”

“Yeah, I- I really love your room. It’s so… you.” Blaine said with a smile.

Kurt grinned back and then beckoned him out of the room. “I’m hungry! Not to mention we should probably go before your friends decide to take off without us.”

“Oh, don’t worry” Blaine said, following Kurt down the stairs. “Based on how excited Jeff is to meet you, I don’t think he would let them leave.”

As they walked out the door, Blaine grabbed Kurt’s hand and tangled their fingers together.

Half way to the car Kurt looked up from his conversation with Blaine and to see a man standing by Blaine’s car, looking through the window and talking to Wes.

“So you’re taking my boy out to lunch?”

“DAD!” The look on Kurt’s face is a cross between fond and angry.

Burt looked up at the sound of Kurt’s voice. “Just trying to get to know the boy that’s taking you out.”

From inside the car, Kurt heard a voice stutter “I’m not- Blaine- not me” before he felt Blaine’s hand tighten around his, and saw his dad looking Blaine up and down.

“Dad,” Kurt began, reaching the car. “This is Blaine, he’s the one taking me out to lunch. They” Kurt gestured to the car load of boys “are some of his friends from school who are coming with us.”

“It’s nice to meet you sir” Blaine stammered out, stumbling forward to hold out his hand for Burt to (hopefully) shake.

Burt grasped Blaine’s hand “It’s nice to meet you Blaine, and you can call me Burt.”

“I- ok.”

“So you’re taking my boy out to lunch then? Where’d you two meet anyways?”

“Dad!” Kurt glared at his father. “Can we go now? I’ll be back by two.”

“Yeah, ok, fine” Burt chuckled. “I’ll see you kiddo.” Burt hugged Kurt quickly, Blaine dropping Kurt’s hand as he did so. Pulling back, Burt looked at Blaine and said “you treat him right.”

“DAD.”

Burt merely smiled “have fun!”

Blaine opened the passenger door for Kurt, kicking David out of the car. He closed the car door after Kurt got in and failed to notice Burt watching him with a soft smile from the doorway.


It only takes thirty seconds for someone in the backseat to start giggling. Blaine glanced warily at Jeff in the rearview mirror. “…What?”

“Your face when Kurt’s dad saw you” Jeff started laughing again.

“I honestly thought that you were going to jump into the car and speed off, man” Nick added.

Sebastian shook his head in disbelief. “I just can’t believe that you called him ‘sir’ and then initiated a handshake. I knew you strived to be old school, but really Blaine?”

Blaine was about to retort when he felt Kurt lay his hand on his. Glancing over he saw that Kurt was smiling at him softly. “I thought it was sweet. And you seemed to impress my dad –not that I’m surprised- so that’s a bonus.”

Blaine squeezed Kurt’s hand lightly and then turned around in his seat while he was stopped at a stop sign. He stuck his tongue out “HA. Mr. Hummel likes me.”

“Now there’s the ridiculous Blaine we know and love” David chimed in, patting Blaine’s shoulder as he began driving again. “Of course he liked you, who wouldn’t?”

Blaine smiled at this and turned the radio, singing along to it softly but mostly listening to Kurt and Jeff who were talking animatedly.


Once they were seated in the restaurant, Blaine sitting between Kurt and David, with Wes, Nick, and Jeff across from them, and Sebastian seated at the end of the table, it became clear to Blaine that Jeff intended on monopolizing his boyfriends attention for the entire meal.

They were all staring at their menus trying to decide what to order, when Blaine finally cut in on the conversation. “Jeff!” he burst out “stop trying to steal my boyfriend.”

“I’m not trying to steal your boyfriend” Jeff glared at Blaine. “I am merely trying to get to know him because you’ve been keeping him away from us all week. Besides,” he smirked smugly, folding his arms over his chest “you should keep in mind that I’m the one that got you two together.”

Kurt giggled as Blaine mumbled “I was going to ask him.”

“What was that?” Jeff practically sang. “Was that? No I don’t think it was a thank you actually.”

Blaine glared. “Faking an injury so does not count as an acceptable way to claim you played Cupid.”

Nick nudged Jeff with his elbow when he opened his mouth to respond angrily. Jeff glanced at him and then sighed looking back at Blaine. “Yeah, ok, fine. It may not have been the smartest plan. I actually, umm, my original plan was to fake drown, but I realized that would be going too far.” Jeff mumbled, staring down at his plate.

“Well thank you anyway” Kurt said looking at Jeff. “Meeting Blaine” Kurt blushed before he continued “and all of you has been the best part of my summer so far.”

Blaine beamed and was about to kiss Kurt softly when the waitress approached the table and began asking for their orders.

From there the meal flowed smoothly. By the time they were piling back in the car, Blaine was very glad that they had all decided to go out. He’d enjoyed watching his friends get to know Kurt, and he’d also gotten to know Kurt better. Before he knew it they were, unfortunately, in front of Kurt’s house.

Blaine and Kurt stood in front of door holding hands, neither wanting to say goodbye to the other.

“Ok, so I’ll call you when I get home and we’ll plan something?” Blaine asked Kurt with a squeeze of his hand.

“Sounds good. And some of our plans have to include you coming to Lima again. My friends are going to think I made you up. In fact I’m pretty sure Santana thinks the picture of us I put on facebook is me and a random guy I found on the beach and forced to pose with me.”

Blaine chuckled. “Ok, we’re definitely going to have to set them straight on that.”

“BLAINE. WE HAVE TO GO.” Wes yelled. “Warbler reunion is in two hours!”

Jeff leaned across Nick in the back of the car and snaked his hand to the horn and then promptly leaned on it, causing everyone to jump, and yell at him. A moment later he removed his hand. Looking around at all of the glares being sent his way he shrugged, leaning back in his seat. “What? Wes said it was time to go and I figured I’d help out because he forgot his gavel. So sue me.”

Blaine glared at the carful of warblers and then kissed Kurt softly on the lips. Ignoring the cat calls and whistles coming from his friends He hugged Kurt tightly. “I’ll miss you.”

“I’ll miss you too. Call me when you get back?”

“Of course.” Blaine squeezed Kurt’s hand one least time and then walked to the car, turning to wave to Kurt as he left. When he turned, Kurt blew him a kiss and waved. Blaine caught the kiss and then sent one back before hopping into the car. It was going to be a long drive home. Hopefully he’d be able to crank up the Katy Perry music in order to avoid most of the teasing. 

 

End Notes: I hope you all enjoyed reading this! I had a fun time writing itI might write some additional scenes that happen later on, such as Blaine meeting New Directions, but that's no guarentee that I will write it. It'll end up depending on my schedule and such over the next two or three months, but I thought I would mention it. If you have any other scenes you'd like to see, let me know and we'll see if inspiration strikes!

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