"No." Kurt said shaking his head. "I don't have ice skates."

"Actually you do. Wes leant you a pair, well he leant them to me for you."

Kurt stared at Blaine for a moment.

"Perfect." He said with false enthusiasm.

"What its fun." Blaine said questioning the unspoken disapproval in Kurt's statement.

Kurt shrugged.

"I tried once when I was a child but falling over and having a lot of people laugh at you never really counted as fun in my books."

"Kurt, nobody here is going to laugh at you. The only people for miles around are you're family and those three fishermen we saw this morning and to be fair they probably already think we're either complete idiots who were trying to use mud camouflage in the middle of a white frozen lake or that we're all slightly weird."

"Since when was a young man caring about his complexion weird?"

"That's not the point." Blaine said unwrapping his arms from around Kurt and standing up. Kurt looked up at him with slightly confused eyes. Blaine took his hands. "Nobody's going to laugh at you Kurt and I'm not going to let you fall. Finn's going to fall and we're going to laugh at him."

Blaine turned to smile at Finn who opened his mouth as if to argue but then just shrugged.

"Yeah that's probably true. And I guess Kurt still owes me a few licks from when I used to let the Football team throw him in the dumpster."

"Wait, What?" Burt asked. Looking at Finn, he seemed more puzzled than angry. "You joined in with that?"

Finn shrugged and looked a bit depressed.

"I'm not proud of it. It was before I joined Glee club. It always felt wrong but I didn't have the confidence to stand up and say it was wrong until I joined Glee."

"It's okay Dad, I completely forgave him for that long ago. He never actually threw me in himself and he always let me take my designer jackets off first."

"Okay." Burt said nodding slightly. "I just didn't know about that. I knew about the crush thing but…"

"Wait? What crush?" Blaine asked looking around confused. Kurt took a deep breath and leaned back on the bed supporting himself on his palms.

He looked nervously past Blaine at Finn.

"I uh… before I met you I kind of had a crush on Finn."

Blaine's thick triangular eyebrows headed for his curly hairline. He pursed his lips and struggled for words for a full minute.

"What?"

Kurt took another deep breath… this one was going to take some explaining.

"I had a crush, I was young and stupid."

"Wait ." Finn said looking puzzled. "Are you saying that fancying me is stupid?"

"Please Finn I'm trying to explain this to Blaine without it coming out as creepily incestuous."

"You're not really managing." Blaine said.

"Blaine…I.. okay, yes it's weird. But honestly it was like a small crush, I made a fool out of myself."

"You can say that again." Burt chuckled.

"And it was over long before me and Finn became brothers. "

"Can we not talk about this anymore it's kind of creepy, I mean I love you man and I'd rather not think of the fact that you once wanted to make out with me."

Kurt raised his hands in the air and raised his voice.

"Oh my god that's just disgusting now. I want to yank my brain out and clean it with bleach."

"Okay..I .. you're.." Blaine shook his head still trying to figure out what to say.

"Yeah our family had a few teething problems but all families like ours, families who are coming together after losing people and spending years broken have those problems. Okay not exactly like ours but hey we sorted it all out in the end, right boys." Burt explained.

"Right." Finn and Kurt said.

"The past is the past Blaine." Kurt said with a light shrug. "And it's regrettable but we can't change it."

Blaine shook his head slightly and reached out for Kurt's hand grasping it tightly in his own.

"Okay, I'll try and put it out of my mind. It's a little disturbing but then again I made out with Rachel so we've both done disturbing things in the past."

"Wait, are you saying that making out with my girlfriend is disturbing?"

"I'm just saying at least Kurt was always true to who he was."

"Yeah apart from the time he made out with Brittany."

"What?"

"Okay time for skating."Kurt said desperately.

"Yeah." Burt backed him up standing up.

Blaine looked confused. Around the same level of confused as if he had suddenly came to the realization that he was not actually on a fishing (without the fishing) trip with his boyfriend but was in actual fact in the midst of a reality TV. show where his friends had all been swapped with chimpanzees in suites.

"Dude, that's probably a conversation to save for later." Finn said then lowered his voice to a whisper. "Later tonight perhaps we can sneak some more of that whiskey and I'll tell you all about it."

Blaine slowly nodded.

"Are you skating with us Dad?"

Burt laughed. "No I uh think I'll just let you young kids do the skating. I'm going to move one of the chairs and sit out there with some coffee."

"Okay. Blaine?"

Blaine looked at his boyfriends, mouth still open in dazed shock.

"Yeah babe."

Finn hid a small chuckle behind his hand at the endearment.

"Where are the skates?"

"Oh." Blaine turned around and grabbed the giant duffle bag from below the bunk. He searched through it and pulled out two sets of ice skates. As Blaine was doing this Finn was searching for his own skates and Burt was moving one of the rubber mats and chairs outside.

Blaine held the newer pair out to Kurt. Kurt looked at them.

"They don't go with my outfit."

"Kurt."

"But then again apart from you know the blades.." Kurt said shrugging. "They could be quite in season."

"It's winter, they're ice skates, they are definitely in season."

Kurt tilted his head and gave him a slightly reproachful look.

"Now, put these on and then we can pretend to be like those couple in the nineteen forties movies that hold hands and sing as they spin around on the ice. "

Kurt considered this.

What songs?"

"Uh.. white Christmas."

Kurt smiled.

"Okay."

They sat down and tied the skates on. Kurt swapped a small smile with Finn who was struggling with his (also borrowed) ice-skates.

"You know I tried out for the hockey team once, I junior school, before I realized that football is cooler."

"How interesting." Kurt stated, obviously not finding it interesting in the least.

"I used to go skating every winter. My Mum used to take me and occasionally my Dad would even come along."

"Sounds like a wonderful tradition, did you just grow out of it?"

Blaine looked down at his hands his eyes went distant for a moment.

"Something like that."

Kurt knowing something was wrong squeezed his hand.

Blaine sighed.

"They haven't really tried to do anything with me for the last few years. The summer I came out my Mom and Dad were all over me they thought I was going through some kind of.." Blaine moved his hands around trying to come up with a way of putting his thought into words. "Needy attention grabbing phase. When they kind of realized I wasn't pretending to be gay for attention they just … Mom didn't give up on me she just doesn't seem to want to deal with me or spend any time with me these days. I mean it's not like I really need her anymore not for most things but it would be nice."

"That sucks man." Finn said.

Kurt knocked his shoulders against Blaine.

"She doesn't know what she's missing."

Blaine smiled.

"This is cool though, that you guys hang out like this. I miss it with my own parents but I really appreciate being here with you. With all of you."

"No probs man. It's kind of cool you're here. Kurt doesn't whine nearly as much when you're around."

Kurt shot his brother a filthy look then tried to stand up and tottered uneasily so that he had to grab hold of the top bunk.

"Hey." Blaine said standing up and leaning his hand on Kurt's shoulder. "I got you. Let's do this."

"Totally." Finn said standing up and then after waving his hands around in mid air for a moment righting himself. "Hey, not as hard as it looks."

"Okay. Just try walking for now. I've got you." Blaine said walking to the doorway leaning on each other till they reached the wall and were able to half support themselves on the wall.

"Guess I'm on my own. " Finn muttered taking a full experimental steps forwards and then losing his balance and falling on his ass. Kurt turned around and smiled.

"Hey I didn't laugh when you fell over the other night."

"Blaine." Kurt said.

"Yeah."

"We're going back, New Directions never leaves a man behind. And neither do the Hummels." Kurt said heroically.

Blaine rolled his eyes. The turned around and made their way back to Finn with careful and slow steps. Kurt reached his hand out and pulled Finn up then wrapped his arm around his waist.

"Okay. Everybody right foot forwards." Blaine said.

"I think we should start with the left." Finn said.

"Oh come on." Blaine said frustrated.

"Finn, Blaine just come on." Kurt said.

What happened next was that Finn put his left leg forwards just as Kurt put his right foot forwards then slipped slightly so that the blades of their skates snagged on one another. When Finn put his foot down Kurt fell side ways into him. Blaine who had his arm around Kurt's waist half turned to try and steady his boyfriend getting his own skates caught on one of the rubber mats and also falling. All this took about three point nine seconds but the result was that Finn was laid out with his back flat on the floor and his knees bent upwards. Kurt was sprawled in a rather undignified fashion in-between those spread knees and Blaine was on all fours hovering over the two of them. There was an awkward stunned silence for a moment as each of the boys tried to figure out where they were how they got there and whether they had managed to injure themselves on the trip.

"Dude, you're squashing my balls." Finn stated matter of fact.

"OH sorry I.." Kurt tried to raise himself up on his hands and knees but as Blaine had not yet moved out of the way his ass came into contact with Blaine's crotch.

"Ah, just let me.." Blaine muttered managing to regain his balance just enough to take his hands from the icy floor and place them on Kurt's back.

"Hey Guys this is Al.."

Three pairs of eyes snapped upwards (though due to Finn's position he still couldn't see) as Burt appeared in the doorway with one of the fishermen from the morning hovering behind him. Finn broke the second of stunned silence.

"We are not having a threesome."

"So the one on the bottom is my Step-son Finn, the one straddling him is my boy Kurt and the guy on top who's got hold of his ass is his boyfriend Blaine."

"Nice to meet you." Blaine said.

The man, Alan looked at the three boys his expression unreadable.

"Afternoon." He muttered gruffly.