I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
because you’re mine, I walk the line

I walk the line by Johnny Cash

I just like this song. It was fun to sing and it reminds me of you and I like Johnny Cash. He’s awesome.

Stop making fun of me in your head.

~~~~~

April 21st
@ 2:08pm

Blaine: hey!
I wasn’t sure if you got my email

Kurt: yep! I’m glad I saw it
I was going out with Julia

Blaine: oh, you could go
I just missed you, so I figured if you were around we could im
but if you’re busy, we’ll Skype tomorrow as usual instead

Kurt: No, no, she understands
we’ll go out in an hour or two
I’d much rather talk to you for a bit
she can entertain herself

Blaine: as long as you’re sure
the schools are closed this week for April vacation so I have a lot more free time
without work

Kurt: Ah, that makes sense
How is everything?

Blaine: good. Really good.
how about you?

Kurt: Good. Though it sucks that I finally like it here and I’m coming home in a little over a month.

Blaine: But you’re coming home *in a little over a month*

Kurt: I know :)

Blaine: And then you can shave my face

Kurt: I’m glad you’re looking forward to it

Blaine: I need a haircut too
probably a manicure

Kurt: I’ll see what appointments I have available
is that a cut and color?

Blaine: nah
I like my hair color

Kurt: I do too

Blaine: But in any event
I’m in serious need of some grooming

Kurt: I can only imagine.
I feel like you’ve been hiding from me lately
because you don’t want me to see how “rugged” you look

Blaine: Perhaps... :D
(why isn’t there a beard emoticon?)
I feel bad, you should go hang out with Julia

Kurt: nah, it’s really ok, she decided to go work on a paper that she’s been putting off

Blaine: how she’s doing?

Kurt: she’s been better
it just sucks what that douche bag did to her
and even worse because she lost her best friend in the process

Blaine: seriously
we’re lucky Kurt
that we got through this unscathed

Kurt: BLAINE

Blaine: WHAT??

Kurt: You can’t talk like that
you’ll jinx us!

Blaine: since when are you so superstitious?

Kurt: I don’t know!
but we can’t talk like that
we’re asking for trouble

Blaine: you’re awfully cute when you’re superstitious

Kurt: thank you
now change the subject, quickly

Blaine: TOO
MUCH
PRESSURE

Kurt: Julia and I are going to Versailles!

Blaine: Oh. Delightful.

Kurt: Yes I agree
we’re gonna stay at a hostel
which sounds awful to me
but we’re pretty much out of money

Blaine: SugarDaddy!Blaine engage

Kurt: That’s not weird at all Blaine

Blaine: I’ve been saving up
You can have all my gambling winnings
or I’ll take you to Atlantic City and teach you how to win at blackjack

Kurt: We could go to AC for your birthday
that could be fun

Blaine: THAT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN

Kurt: I’m glad you like that idea
we might have to hold off for a month or so
but I’m going back to Teen Vogue for the summer
so let me get a paycheck or two in
and then I’ll take you for the best freaking seafood buffet you have ever seen

Blaine: can I have lobster Kurt?

Kurt: whoa, whoa
you’re still the sugar daddy
I’m just accompanying you

Blaine: I’m just glad you’ve accepted your lot in life
as my trophy husband.

Kurt: What do you want to do for your actual birthday?

Blaine: drink?
is that too obvious?
is that going against my hipster roots?
what do hipsters do for their 21st birthdays?

Kurt: Chuck E. Cheese

Blaine: That makes sense
I don’t want to do that
for starters, ball pits terrify me

Kurt: of course they do (fond exasperation font)

Blaine: I know all too well how fond children are of urinating in weird places
those ball pits are CESS POOLS

Kurt: Ok, no Chuck E. Cheese

Blaine: Thank you Kurt
for not forcing me to go to Chuck E. Cheese for my 21st birthday

Kurt: the hipsters are going to take back your open invitation
and you’ll have to get your tattoo removed

Blaine: that’s ok
But what about my ironic facial hair?
will they let me keep it long enough for you to shave me?

Kurt: LIKE A SHEEP
I AM GOING TO SHAVE YOU LIKE A SHEEP
you will be shorn

Blaine: are you going to make a sweater out of my facial hair
(getting a little creeped out font)

Kurt: YES
I SHALL WEAVE YOUR FACIAL HAIR INTO A GLORIOUS SWEATER

Blaine: A GLORIOUS SWEATER FOR THE GLORIOUS BEARD OF MY BARREN SOLITUDE

Kurt: It’s all so glorious

Blaine: it really is
hey kurt

Kurt: yeah Blaine?

Blaine: I miss you like the deserts miss the rain

Kurt: I miss you like cupcakes miss frosting
(I read deserts as desserts and now I’m thinking about cupcakes.)
also, I’m not eating anymore pastries
so cupcakes have an extra special temptation about them these days
and I actually did start doing sit-ups

Blaine: Poophead is not pleased

Kurt: aw poophead
why aren’t you pleased?

Blaine: Because your rockhard abs aren’t going to be fun to rest my weary head on

Kurt: Oh, like *your* rockhard abs are going to be a treat for *my* weary head???

Blaine: I’m just trying to look sexy for my man

Kurt: I suppose I accept that

Blaine: We’ll just get an extra pillow
or I’ll wear more layers when you rest your weary head

Kurt: bahahaha
now I’m picturing you with a pillow up your shirt

Blaine: or perhaps one of those sumo suits?

Kurt: perhaps
would you rent?

Blaine: no, no
I would invest in one, if it suits my trophy husband

Kurt: I’ll think about it
you’re a very good fella

Blaine: Don’t I know it.

Kurt: so, Johnny Cash, really?

Blaine: I knew it!
I knew you would judge my love for The Man in Black!

Kurt: I just... I’m surprised
it’s so... country

Blaine: But it’s good!
it’s salt of the earth music
if you ever need an “I’m hungover” song, just listen to Sunday Morning Coming Down
and try not to feel Cash’s pain
for real

Kurt: You pretty much listen to anything don’t you

Blaine: well, my mom is really into Johnny Cash
and for a long time, he just reminded me of my childhood
which I didn’t like
but now, it reminds me of my mom
dancing with the vacuum cleaner

Kurt: I can’t picture your mom dancing with the vacuum cleaner

Blaine: she is a MEAN vacuum cleaner dancer
I’m sorry if it makes you sad when I talk about my mom
I thought of that the other day

Kurt: no, not really
everyone has a mom
so if I got sad every time someone mentioned their mom
or I saw a mom
I’d pretty much be crying all the time

Blaine: I get that

Kurt: thanks for asking though

Blaine: not a problem
so, how are you?
honestly?

Kurt: I’m good :)
I wasn’t lying when I said I’m actually feeling sad about leaving here
I mean, I still really want to come home
I miss you so much just thinking about SEEING you in real life makes me feel like crying

Blaine: I can’t wait to see you Kurt
so much
I’ve been trying so hard to be ok
and I have been
but it’s because I can’t think too much about it
it’s like … I side-eye how much I miss you
but I try never to look it full in the face

Kurt: like it’s a missing me monster?

Blaine: YES
My feelings are like a monster

Kurt: have I told you lately how cute and dumb and endearing you are?

Blaine: Not nearly enough

Kurt: well you are

Blaine: so are you
but you’re also pulchritudinous
and brilliant
and vibrant
and mine

Kurt: I feel like you’re just trying to be like me, with your list of words
it’s not even alphabetical

Blaine: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
it doesn’t have to be a *good* imitation

Kurt: so what else have you been up to lately?

Blaine: ummmmm
Tina and Rachel took me shopping the other day
we went to outlets somewhere in New Jersey
that was an interesting experience
and then we got Slurpees
which made it all worthwhile

Kurt: sounds fun

Blaine: I bought shoes
I think you’ll like them

Kurt: I’m a fan of shoes in general

Blaine: precisely
I went out for lunch with DiDi
which was an experience

Kurt: oh yeah?

Blaine: well for starters
she wanted to go to the diner of our first date

Kurt: OMG
did you say anything?

Blaine: well, yeah
that it was the first place I went on a date with you
and then she freaked the fuck out

Kurt: AHAHAHAH

Blaine: she was like “Omigah! I knew you looked familiar! I thought I just knew you from around!”

Kurt: I had a feeling she was the kind of person who says “omigah”

Blaine: LOL she totally is
she said she never put me together as one of the “boys from the diner”
and then we talked about that night a little
and she said she wasn’t giving us dirty looks
but that she thought we were really “super cute”

Kurt: oh man
that’s too funny
cause we both totally thought she was judging us

Blaine: we did!
and she totally wasn’t

Kurt: that’s awesome
how about other friends?

Blaine: I went for paninis with Kerry
that was fun

Kurt: on your Tuesday night Kerry date?

Blaine: yeah
we have fun

Kurt: have you seen Puck lately?

Blaine: yeah, here and there
he got a job doing landscaping
with one of the guys he lives with
so he’s busier these days
and has to get up earlier

Kurt: ah, that sucks

Blaine: I guess that’s it
I haven’t really been doing much
missing you
hanging out
playing open mic night with Matt

Kurt: oh, that’s nice
anything interesting happen there
talk to any open mic night strangers?

Blaine: holy shit Kurt
if you want to ask if I’ve seen Justin you can just ask

Kurt: (eye rolling font)
have you seen Justin?

Blaine: no! I mean, we’re not actually friends
we’re … friendly
I mean, if I ran into him, we would talk
and honestly, I think you’d like him

Kurt: I like anyone who’s nice to you

Blaine: exactly!
but nothing is actually happening there

Kurt: alright, alright

Blaine: it’s hard to make friends
I’m not very good at it
if I knew what I was doing
I would have gotten Justin’s number

Kurt: Oh, so you want to be friends with him?

Blaine: I want to have friends
I don’t know
it’s not a big deal
it’s sort of embarrassing

Kurt: what is?

Blaine: I guess
how I want to make friends
but like
I don’t really know how

Kurt: you have friends!

Blaine: I have your friends

Kurt: You have Matt

Blaine: Matt was a stroke of luck

Kurt: Kerry?

Blaine: I like Kerry
but I don’t think we would have ever been friends if it wasn’t for Matt
I would have never talked to her

Kurt: What about DiDi?

Blaine: I guess?
I don’t know how to explain it
but we’re only friends because of class

Kurt: but you feel like you would be friends with Justin on your own merit?

Blaine: kinda

Kurt: what about me?

Blaine: what about you?

Kurt: Don’t you think you became friends with me on your own merit?

Blaine: Did I?

Kurt: I think so

Blaine: I don’t think we were ever really friends

Kurt: Of course we were!
for about a month
we were just friends
at least on my end
then I finally admitted to myself that I had a crush on a faceless boy

Blaine: blushing font
I think I had a crush on you from the start

Kurt: that’s cute

Blaine: I’m dumb and cute and endearing

Kurt: you are

Blaine: you should go hang out with Julia now

Kurt: you’re right
she’s getting antsy
I can tell because she keeps turning the volume up on her computer speakers

Blaine: ha!

Kurt: skype date tomorrow?

Blaine: for sure!

Kurt: what are you doing this weekend?

Blaine: Actually
my parents are visiting

Kurt: BLAINE!
that’s great

Blaine: It kind of is
things are good

Kurt: we didn’t talk even about your parents
Jules can wait a few more minutes
tell me

Blaine: I don’t know what to say
um, I called home (*CALLED* HOME)
and I asked my dad if he wanted to come here
and he said yes
so they’re coming on Thursday night and staying til Sunday

Kurt: you asked your dad yourself?
like you didn’t even present it to your mom first?

Blaine: nope :)

Kurt: You are a ballsy little devil

Blaine: really Kurt? really?

Kurt: That’s actually the first thought I ever had about you
after I read what you wrote in the online discussion
wait, that’s not accurate
the first thought I ever had about you was “Nice ass”

Blaine: LOL
that’s hilarious

Kurt: so things are good with your parents
I’m happy for you Blaine

Blaine: I’m happy for me too
I’m happy for my mom
because I think she’s wanted this for a long time
you know, he didn’t even come with us when I moved out here for school?

Kurt: BLAINE (I didn’t know that)
stop fixating.

Blaine: fine, fine, fine
he’s coming now
that counts for something

Kurt: it totally does
he’s meeting you halfway

Blaine: it’s on my terms
it’s really sort of amazing

Kurt: it is, it’s good Blaine
good for you

Blaine: Alright
go hang out with Julia

Kurt: yes, I’m going
we have some drinking to do
wine to taste
cheeses to eat
then when I get home later, I’ll do 20000 sit-ups

Blaine: and I’ll break my face trying to nuzzle your stomach

Kurt: that’s the plan

Blaine: I love you fella

Kurt: love you too, poop

Blaine: talk to you tomorrow!!!!

Kurt: bye Blaine

Blaine: Bye Kurt