Kurt felt like time had stood still, a million things were racing through his mind and he ran and retrieved the picture ironically telling him to have 'courage' off the floor.

He quickly put the picture back in his locker and closed it he stood there for what seemed like seconds but was actually much longer as he came to notice as the bell signalling the end of class rang through the school.

Kurt quickly ran back to class to retrieve his bag and apologised to the teacher blaming his absence from the rest of the class on illness and walked out the room trying to call Blaine and sort all this mess out.

Blaine probably thought he was a stalker, or maybe even remembered the whole thing, Kurt could deal with the stalker thing because he could explain why. He couldn't really explain why he kept it from him for so long however.

Calling Blaine Anderson

No answer.

Calling Blaine Anderson

Still no answer.

Calling Blaine Anderson

Kurt gave up calling after a few more times and decided to text instead.

To Blaine Anderson

Hey, Blaine please answer the phone or call me back? I desperately need to explain.

No reply.

If Blaine thought Kurt was a stalker or some creepy person who stole his picture from his house or something he would have contacted him by now telling him to leave him alone or something.

Which meant only one thing, Blaine remembered.

Kurt had a strong feeling he knew where he was, so he left school early claiming to be sick (which wasn't that hard because once he saw the picture on the floor his complexion went even more pale than it already was) and got in his car, heading for the destination he knew Blaine was.

Blaine was happy, he really was. He had a possible future with Kurt and he was actually beginning to really love Ohio and because of that he wasn't so distant from his family.

That's why Blaine was whistling happy while he walked down the hall to Kurt's locker. Kurt had said he trusted him and that meant the world to Blaine, yeah it was just for him to go into his locker but Blaine felt it meant much more than that.

Blaine arrived at Kurt's locker and quickly opened it with Kurt's combination. Blaine admired Kurt's locker for a minute, he hadn't really seen it that much since Kurt always quickly closed it when he was around for some reason. The locker had pictures of Kurt and his family and friends on the side and even a picture of him and Blaine which Blaine smiled at the memory. It was taken one of the first times when they had became friends, they were sitting at the lunch table and Blaine had said something and made Kurt laugh and that's when Mercedes had taken the picture, Kurt looked so beautiful and carefree and Blaine smiled even more, thinking if things carried on this way his mouth would hurt from all the smiling he had been doing.

Blaine started looking for Kurt's book when he spotted something further back, out of curiosity because Blaine would refuse to believe he was snooping he picked it up and studied it. He saw the words 'courage' written in red ink and he felt a weird clenching in his stomach at the familiarity of the word. He then slowly turned it around and drew a sharp breath. It was him. Staring back at him was a 7 or 8 year old Blaine smiling into the camera.

Everything happened so fast one minute Blaine was standing there shocked, holding tightly onto the picture and then next he was dropping it to the floor and running out of the school to his car.

Kurt was panicking the whole way, questions attacking his mind. What if Blaine wasn't here and it was just wishful thinking? What if he really didn't remember and thought he was crazy and was begging his parents to move back to New York or something?

Kurt arrived about 30 minutes later, since he wasn't really sure how to get there from school and got a little lost but as soon as he saw it from his window he knew he was at the right place.

Kurt parked the car and got out scanning the place, he saw the old abandoned swing set, the graffiti ridden climbing frame and all the rest of the forsaken park equipment.

Then he saw Blaine, staring out into the giant field that surrounded the lonely park.

Kurt slowly walked up to him, Blaine was facing the opposite direction so Kurt was sure he didn't see him arrive and if he heard he made no effort to turn around.

"Blaine?" Kurt softly called.

Blaine still didn't turn around.

Kurt walked closer till he was right next to Blaine's left side and turned to face him.

"Blaine?" Kurt asked again, wary.

Kurt could see that Blaine had been crying, fresh tears still glistened on his cheeks and his eyes were still watery and red.

"How could you not tell me?" Blaine whispered, so quiet Kurt wasn't sure if he really said it.

"I guess you remembered then." Kurt leaned against the rust coloured fence and stared out just like Blaine.

"You didn't answer my question." Blaine said calmly, a little louder now.

"I-I don't know Blaine, I didn't want you to think I was some crazy person. I didn't want to spoil what you had, you seemed happier." Kurt turned his head to look at Blaine who still didn't look at Kurt. "How much do you remember?"

"Everything. Well at least I think everything. That we were best friends, that I promised to marry you." Blaine smiled at that then went serious again. "That I kissed you." Blaine finally looked over at Kurt. "That I loved you."

Kurt felt like the air was being sucked out of his lungs, the intensity that Blaine was looking at him was overwhelming.

Blaine suddenly turned around and started walking, Kurt closely followed till Blaine came to a stop next to 'Their box' near the slide and turned around coming face to face with Kurt.

Kurt noticed how close they were and moved back slightly before Blaine grabbed his shoulder and kissed him abruptly. It was slow at first but then grew more needy before Blaine pulled away and just stood there silently.

Kurt stood there speechless, not knowing what to say or what he even should say.

"Blaine… I know this is all a shock to you but doesn't it just make us stronger? I mean we were happy this morning because we found each other. I was going to tell you tonight at your place actually, I'm sorry you had to find out this way." Kurt sighed and placed his hand on Blaine's shoulder.

Blaine flinched at the contact and Kurt removed his hand quickly.

"I've spent most of my life looking for something, someone to get rid of this empty feeling, this loneliness. I thought I had it with Sebastian but then I met you." Blaine looked up at Kurt and met his eyes. "But then it turns out I already knew you didn't I," Blaine laughed in disbelief and looked away.

Kurt stood there awkwardly not knowing where Blaine was going with this until Blaine looked back into Kurt's eyes with a fierce intensity.

"And it also turns out that you're the reason why I felt so damn empty." Blaine spat and Kurt was taken aback by Blaine's tone.

"You didn't have to stop talking to me did you?" Blaine asked, darkly.

"I- you know that my mom died and I couldn't handle everything and I just shut myself off from the world Blaine, it wasn't because I didn't want to talk to you or anything." Kurt argued, defensive.

"You know I would have been there for you Kurt, yeah we couldn't see each other as much but we would have came to visit. But you stopped calling and you stopped writing and then I stopped talking to you all together. I know your mom died and you were going through a tough time but I was there for you Kurt!" at this point Blaine was shouting. "You shut me off! I forgot but I didn't wanna hurt anymore! I made myself not think about you and repressed all thoughts of you because I was hurt that you didn't care anymore!"

"I did care how could you know you wasn't even there! Don't you think it killed me too? Not only losing my mother but losing you as well? I couldn't deal with the pain of you not being here to hold me and tell me it's all going to be okay! You wasn't here when I was being bullied at school for being different! You wasn't here Blaine and I know it wasn't your fault but don't even try and blame me for letting go of something I thought I would never even have." Kurt shouted back, annoyed at how Blaine was blaming him for this.

"But I did come back Kurt, and you shut me off yet again! Only this time I wasn't even aware till now. I can't be so sure you wont hurt me again. I think it was best that I didn't remember." and with that Blaine turned around and walked to his car while Kurt called after him.

"Where are you going? You're going to let this come between what we could have? We were happy then we were happy this morning we could be happy again! I'm sorry I didn't tell you Blaine. I wont hurt you again! I promise! Blaine! Where are you even going?"

Blaine abruptly turned around with tears threatening to spill out and said back, "You promised you'd never say goodbye to me Kurt and you've already done that. So goodbye."