Blaine’s mouth drops when he sees Kurt on the spiral staircase. He can’t help it. There’s something about the boy who stands before him that awes him. After being momentarily struck dumb, Blaine feels the desperate need to touch this boy.

He offers his hand to shake, because that seems better than nuzzling a stranger’s face. Which is the weirdest reaction Blaine has ever had to anything and is fully aware that it would not be socially acceptable.

Blaine hears some of the things he’s saying to Kurt and his brain is contradicting almost every word.

“Rock stars, Blaine? We’re not actually rock stars, we’re a bunch of teenagers with a weird hard-on for Robert’s Rules of Order.”

He makes it through this encounter and it seems like the other boy, Kurt, is completely unfazed by Blaine’s over the top word choices.

And suddenly Blaine has Kurt’s hand. They’re running down an empty hallway together and this feeling is rising in Blaine’s chest. This feeling like this moment should be so awkward and yet it feels so right, in every conceivable way.

He knows who Kurt is of course and he knows he’s here to spy. But there’s something else that brought Kurt here today, Blaine can sense this.

Blaine wants to make Kurt’s day a little better. But he also finds that he wants to make Kurt’s whole life better. Blaine thinks that the indefinable something he’s been looking for just arrived on his doorstep wearing a red tie and a shy smile.