Kurt stared in disbelief, here he was in the boys bathroom at McKinley high, and he was standing a few feet away from Blaine Anderson, his childhood best friend, his first love, I mean crush. The boy who promised to marry him, yes it was just silly child-minded thinking, but it meant something to him.

Blaine Anderson.

And he has no idea who Kurt is.

Heartbroken would be an understatement.

“It’s nice to meet you too,” Kurt smiled in return.

What are you doing Kurt Hummel? Kurt thought to himself Just say to him ‘Oh wait we know each other remember? You said you’ll marry me one day? Courage? Anything?

“Well, as lovely as it is chatting to you in a bathroom, we’re both going to be late for class, so I’ll see you around, Kurt.” Blaine walked out the door. Just like that time 10 years ago, except so much had changed.

What was Kurt to do? Blaine obviously didn’t recognise him, or maybe he did he was just too embarrassed about those promises made many years ago. Either way Kurt wasn’t about to say anything, he lived 10 years without Blaine Anderson, he was pretty sure he could last another few.

I’ll never say goodbye to you

It looks like he never even had to; because Blaine had already did that for him.

*****

‘Luckily’ for Kurt, Blaine was in almost all of his classes. Okay so much for living without him.

It didn’t help that Blaine was kind of a stuck up asshole either, or that he was assigned to sit next to him in quite a few of his classes, no luck was not on Kurt Hummel’s side.

“I’m surprised anyone in this school knows how to read,” Blaine sighed as the teacher finished her lecture.

“Excuse me?” Kurt shot at Blaine “I am amongst the students at this school and while most of them wouldn’t know their right from left I am offended by the insinuation that I Kurt Hummel am one of them.”

“I-I’m sorry, I’ll correct myself, I’m surprised most people in this school know how to read,” Blaine laughed “Better?”

“Much,” Kurt saw a glimpse of a younger Blaine, with his stuttering, but that soon was taken over by Blaine’s new (well probably not so new) egotistical personality.

“So Kurt, you lived in Ohio your whole life?” Blaine absentmindedly asked while doodling a spaceship on his notebook corner, something Kurt found to be very cute, the question however just hurt Kurt, further proving Blaine had no recognition at all of him, yes he may have grew up a lot since then and his looks have changed drastically but he recognised Blaine, so why didn’t Blaine recognise him?

“Yes, I was born here and I grew up here, how about you?” If Blaine didn’t know or pretended to not know who Kurt is, so Kurt could act the same way.

“Well I was born here that’s for sure, then when I was about six I moved to New York, and now I’m back,” Blaine sighed.

Kurt already knew this, he remembers the day he left like it was yesterday.

“So why did you come back?” This was something Kurt didn’t know and maybe he could pretend, pretend he was just meeting Blaine, pretend his heart wasn’t ripping apart every time Blaine asked him things he already should know.

“Parents, dad had a business transfer to Ohio and of course me and mom had to follow,” Kurt wondered briefly how Blaine’s parents were, but he didn’t dare ask, besides how could he? For all Blaine knew Kurt was a complete stranger.

“I see. How was it in New York? I’ve always wanted to go ever since I was a little kid...” It might be wishful thinking but Kurt was sure he could see a flicker of recognition in Blaine’s eyes, but it was quickly overrun by an excited flow of words, telling him all about his time in New York. At this point Kurt could just pretend Blaine did remember, and this is him just telling an old friend about all the stuff he missed, they were walking to their lockers at this point, time in class went by really quickly while he was talking to Blaine.

“...and then I met Sebastian and I didn’t think I would ever find a guy I was interested in until he came along,” Just when Kurt thought he could deal with this whole situation, Blaine dropped that bomb. A huge bomb labelled Sebastian, Kurt didn’t know the guy but he instantly hated him. Blaine stopped talking as he noticed Kurt’s face with his mouth grimacing in disgust.

“Wait, you’re not homophobic are you? Ugh I forgot this isn’t New York,” Blaine went to walk away but Kurt stopped him.

“N-No unless you know many homophobic gay people,” Kurt tried to laugh it off but really he was panicking, he needs to be more careful, not let his emotions show. Which he found harder to do in front of Blaine than anyone else he ever knew.

 “Oh, sorry for assuming you just looked so disgusted at what I was saying for some reason,” Blaine said, obviously confused.

“No, not at all I think it was just because I remembered seeing Finn and Rachel making out earlier, not a pretty sight at all!” Kurt nervously laughed.

“Oh okay, well as I was saying... yeah Sebastian is my boyfriend and we’re trying this long distance thing and I’m not really sure why I’m telling you all this I mean I hardly know you and here I am throwing my life story at you,” Blaine leant with his back against the locker and sighed.

“I don’t mind, really it’s nice... talking to someone new I mean,” as long as you don’t ever mention Sebastian stupid-face ever again. Kurt thought.

Kurt didn’t have time to get an answer before the bell rung.

“Well guess I better get going to class, I’ll see ya later right Kurt? Out of everyone here you seem to be the one I’d get on with the most so I hope you don’t mind me tagging along,” and with that Blaine smiled and turned to walk off.

Kurt sighed and opened his locked to retrieve his text book when he saw the picture of Blaine.

“Crap I gotta hide that, wouldn’t want anyone to see and think I’m some creepy stalker,” Kurt whispered even though the hallway was empty.

Kurt hid the picture and closed his locker. With thoughts of Blaine still running through his mind.

This was going to be a hard year for Kurt Hummel.