Blaine and Kurt fell into a routine since that first science class together. Once they took their seats, Blaine would take out one earphone and silently hand it to Kurt. They would spend the class working in silence on their project unless there was a silence related question to discuss. Sharing that time with Blaine made Kurt feel giddy, excited and special. Sadly Blaine seemed to feel unfazed by this routine, according to Kurt anyway. But apart from this hour three times a week, Blaine and Kurt did not communicate. The may have been in the same classes but did not run in the same circles. Blaine had his friends and Kurt had, well, his book. He sat with Rachel and her friends at lunch but was still yet to hold anything but polite conversation with any of them. They were nice people, Kurt thought, but he just did not connect with them. He felt like he was on another planet or something. Like he was a puzzle piece that had somehow got into the wrong box. Nevertheless, he sat with them anyway to feel less alone.

The next Monday, three weeks from the first lesson, Kurt was determined to hold a conversation with Blaine. For some unknown reason Kurt felt this magnetism towards him, like he couldn’t help it. It was his fate to befriend Blaine. It wasn’t that he was the only other out of the closet male at the school that made Kurt feel attracted to him but maybe it was the depth in his liquid eyes, a small tug of sadness if you pushed beyond the boredom: Blaine’s default expression. So Kurt made his way into class, trying to keep a very casual exterior but inside, his mind was running havoc with a ridiculous amount of thoughts rushing around his brain at the same time.

“Hi.” Kurt started with. It took him all night to work on that opening line.

“Hey.” Blaine smiled but didn’t look up from his textbook. He offered Kurt the earphone and went back to reading whatever he was reading.

“So um, how was your weekend?” Small talk, not Kurt’s finest attempt at conversation, but it will do, he decided.

“Really well, I went to a friend’s party which went all night and just bummed around with friends. It was cool.”

“Cool.” Kurt said lamely unable to think of another response. Blaine turned his head then and looked at Kurt for the first time that day. It felt like his beautiful eyes were burning a hole in Kurt’s face. He could feel the blood rising to his cheeks at the attention.

“Would you like to pick something?” Blaine held out his iPod to Kurt. Kurt blinked for a second, unsure of what to do before he managed to tell his arm to pick up the device. He took it from Blaine, his fingers sliding accidentally over Blaine’s as he did so.

“Er, sorry.” Kurt muttered. Pulling his hand back quickly. He focused his attention intensely on the iPod as if it had the secrets of the world that Kurt had to memorise. He scrolled through the music until he found something other than Punk Rock. Kurt pressed play and a Ramones song blasted through the earphones. He smiled to himself, proud of the choice. It would show Blaine that not only did he have a good taste in music, but that he knew his old school stadium rock. He mentally patted himself on the back. Blaine seemed pleased at the selection too as he raised his eyebrows and nodded his head as soon as he recognised the song.

Once the period was over Blaine and Kurt made their way out of the room and onto the next class of the day: PE. Kurt hated it but he was walking beside Blaine so he couldn’t help but smile.

“So, what did you do this weekend?” Blaine asked

Taken aback, Kurt paused for a second to let the butterflies in his stomach settle before answering.

“Oh, um I just stayed home. I was reading a really good book actually…”

“Hey guys!” And in comes Rachel, jumping between Kurt and Blaine. “Ready for PE?”

Blaine rolled his eyes. “No, thank you for reminding me.” The look of interest Blaine had before had disappeared and Kurt's mood dropped at the sight of it. Rachel nudged Blaine playfully and suddenly Kurt felt extremely jealous. He wished he could feel comfortable enough to do that.

“Since it’s raining we can’t play tennis so I heard they are just going to put us into the hall and make us play games.” Rachel announced. Kurt and Blaine just nodded.

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Fifteen minutes later Kurt somehow managed to be in a group with Blaine, Rachel and some other guy he didn’t know the name of.

“Okay class, relay races. The First race is piggyback so pair up!” The PE teacher demanded. Kurt looked at his group; Rachel had already paired up and was flirting with the other guy, which left Blaine and Kurt. They turned to each other startled with this turn of events but Blaine collected himself and started walking to the other end of the gym. He turned back after a few steps and looked at Kurt, who was so unsure and out of his comfort zone he was just shifting back and forth on his feet.

“You coming?” Asked Blaine before he turned around and started walking again. Kurt followed, running after him. After reaching the other side, facing Rachel, Blaine stopped and turned around so his back was to Kurt. He bent his knees and Kurt took that as his cue to jump on. After a deep breath he put his hands on Blaine’s shoulders.

“You ready?” Kurt asked nervously not wanting to break Blaine.

“Yeah, come on.” Kurt jumped up, wrapping his legs around Blaine's waist and his arms around his neck. Wow, Kurt could not believe this was happening.

“You okay up there?” Asked Blaine as he straightened up. Kurt replied that he was fine and they went over to the start line to take their place.

“Ready, Steady, Go.” Said the teacher once everyone was ready. And Blaine took off, his strong legs holding Kurt's weight easily. Feeling the wind race through his hair, Kurt was sure Blaine was going to trip and they were going to fall into a heap, Kurt help on a little tighter and pressed himself closer to Blaine. He put his chin on Blaine’s shoulder so he could see and without realising it, his face was pressed to Blaine’s. He was sure that the other boy could feel his blush but silently prayed that he couldn’t feel the beginning of the erection in Kurt’s pants. God that would be embarrassing. Too soon for Kurt's liking, they were at the point where they switched with Rachel and her partner. Kurt had no excuse to be on Blaine’s back anymore so he hopped off once they had stopped. Kurt missed the feel of Blaine and being near him so much it made his chest hurt. But his heart was also thumping with adrenaline. He couldn’t believe that just happened. Once the race was over Blaine walked back to his friends without a backwards glance in Kurt's direction.

Rachel wandered over to Kurt and turned to him with a beaming, sneaky smile. “You like him,” she said teasingly before sauntering off to go annoy someone else.

Sadness overwhelmed Kurt suddenly as he watched Blaine ignore him as if those last few minutes never happened. This boy is going to be the end of me Kurt predicted as he walked out of the gym and slid down the wall outside it staring into space and recapping those amazing few moments of Blaine's arms wrapped around Kurt's legs to hold him in place as they were pressed together. Kurt was sure that he had never felt happier.