Blaine knows it’s time to tell Kurt that he’s made his decision about college. And it’s time to deal with the repercussions of not joining Kurt in New York in the fall.

Kurt means pretty much everything to Blaine. But there was a different Blaine before Kurt and it’s time that he gets what he wants. And what “old Blaine” wanted more than anything in the world was to go to Stanford.

What’s weird, and what he worries that Kurt isn’t going to understand, is that he isn’t doing this for his parents. They might have planted the idea in his head, but his heart just ran with it. There were really terrible, lonely times in Blaine’s life, before Kurt, and he would always hold onto this idea of California. Of sun and warmth and learning and just being his own person someday, in the bright far off future of college.

He calls Kurt that night and tells him everything he’s been thinking and everything he knows to be true. He talks about how he wants to be with Kurt for the rest of his life and because of that, he’s decided to go to Stanford.

There are several seconds before Kurt responds. But they’re long and agonizing for Blaine as he steels himself for the worst.

“I’m so proud of you, Blaine. I’m so very proud.”

Turns out Kurt knew what the right and real and best decision was long before Blaine ever wrapped his head around it.