At first Blaine didn't remember why he woke up in his brother's bed with a splitting headache and a dry mouth like he'd been without water for days, that was until unfortunately it all came flooding back. The conversation with Kurt at work, the texting between him and Cooper and then him making Cooper take him to a bar and the embarrassing things that happened shortly after arriving.

"Oh finally, sleeping beauty has risen from her slumber," Cooper walked over to his curtains, quickly opening them; sunlight filling the room much to Blaine's dismay.

"Ugh, Coop don't be such a douche," Blaine grumbled pulling one pillow over his eyes to block out the intruding light while he blindly grabbed for another one to throw at his brother, effectively missing him since he was without sight, therefore his co-ordination was a little off.

"Douche huh?" Cooper raised his eyebrows, "I'm such a douche that you're now waking up safe in my bed -while by the way I slept on the couch-instead of waking up on the street with an 'I heart Kurt' tattoo on your left butt cheek."

"Shut up it wasn't that bad," Blaine mumbled into the pillow.

Cooper snorted and sat near Blaine on the edge of the bed. "Kurt…" Cooper imitated Blaine with the same love struck voice and heart eyes- which Blaine couldn't see of course but Cooper still wanted to go all out to mock his brother.

"I hate you."

"Yeah well, who knows what you would have done to that poor elfin looking boy if I hadn't dragged you out of there," Cooper pulled the pillow off of Blaine's head and raised his voice by his younger brother's ear. "OR YOU KNOW HELD YOUR HAIR WHEN YOU WERE VOMITING."

Blaine pushed Cooper; well tried to at least, with the added effect of the hangover and the obvious size advantage on Cooper's end he could barely move him an inch. "Come on, let's go get you some breakfast," Cooper said standing up, pulling the covers off Blaine in the process, gaining a non-committal grunt from the shorter man. "I said come on, don't make you drag you by your legs."

Blaine grunted again and waved his hand; like he was dismissing Cooper.

"…Or your penis…" Cooper whispered as he started climbing on the bed, it must have worked because Blaine was shooting out of the bed and shouting curses at his brother.

"You have some serious issues!" Blaine shouted to his brother as he all but ran out of the room.

"Okay gay bar superstar," Cooper laughed following his scrabbling brother. "Go take a shower and I'll cook you up some lovely greasy food served on a even greasier unwashed dish how's that?"

Cooper watched as Blaine's face pale and laughed as his brother scampered to the bathroom, probably to throw up the rest of the vodka he had drank by the gallon last night.

Kurt wasn't at all in the state Blaine was; probably because he didn't drink that much but he had never had an issue with hangovers, well if the few times he had drunk were anything to go by. If he was honest he didn't normally go to gay bars or anything like that- he'd rather sit at home watching musicals or re-runs of Project Runway than go out and get drunk, ending up in some stranger's bed and having to do the walk of shame the day after. Yesterday was an exception though (minus the stranger part; he still wasn't willing to do that even though that guy Brandon and about 10 others if he counted correctly seemed to have the opposite ideas) he went to Scandals to unwind and maybe try to forget the events of that day as they hadn't been exactly good for him.

Kurt wouldn't say he was falling for Blaine, or well admit it. Blaine was something else that's for sure; Kurt had never met anyone like him ever. He still stuck to what he said though, he wasn't intending on being anyone's dirty secret including a incredibly gorgeous, smart and funny successful lawyer who may or may not be the main star in all of his latest dirty dreams.

Kurt shook the thoughts out of his head, he really did not need to be thinking about that right now, especially as he was sitting across from three of his closest friends, Sam, Mercedes and his closest college friend Cecilia, in his kitchen.

"You okay there Kurt? You look like you've just had some pretty nice thoughts if I do say so myself." Cecilia waggled her eyebrows and Kurt blushed. (Even more than he was doing while thinking about Blaine)

"Ooh boy, let me guess, you met some hot guy at the bar last night?" Mercedes prodded for information.

Kurt panicked, should he tell them? They are his friends after all. "Uh- no… well not quite there was one guy-"

"I knew it!" Cecilia said, flicking her dark hair over her shoulder and smiling triumphantly.

"It's not like that!" Kurt groaned, running a hand through his hair.

"Well what is it like then?" Sam asked confused.

"I did meet a guy at the bar but he wasn't who I was thinking about, well I wasn't thinking about anyone to begin with but-"

"Kurt calm down, just start from the beginning." Sam offered and the girls leant forward as if they were going to be hearing the meaning of life or something.

"Ugh fine," Kurt grumbled. "But do not interrupt me until I'm finished okay?" The girls and Sam nodded enthusiastically and Kurt began his 'story'.

"Well, let's start of with the guy I met at the bar, his name is Brandon, he's gorgeous and a total flirt I gave him my number but that's as far as I'm going to take it."

"But why!" Cecilia blurted out before she covered her mouth with her hands after getting a stern look from Kurt.

"Because, I like someone else…" Kurt then went on to tell the story of Blaine, from the beginning to the conversation at the office (he left out the part at the bar because that was just weird and embarrassing for everyone involved.)

"Wow…" Mercedes was the first to speak. "Boy have you got it bad."

"What? That's what you gathered from that? That Kurt has it bad?" Sam asked in disbelief and Kurt looked between the bickering couple with amusement.

"Well, obviously Blaine had it bad too, but obviously Blaine isn't here for me to tell him that," Mercedes shot back with her scariest bitch face and Sam quietened down. "What I'm trying to say is Kurt before Sam rudely interrupted was you may like this boy way more than you're willing to admit to yourself."

Cecilia nodded, "yeah Kurt and do you really think if you became his boyfriend it would be a dirty little secret situation? Because I don't."

Kurt titled his head in confusion, "what do you mean?"

"I think what she means, well what they both mean is" Sam added trying to get back on Mercedes good side. "That maybe you should just give it a go, I mean secret relationships aren't necessarily a bad thing I mean look at me and Mercedes, we were a secret at first and it wasn't for any bad reason and look at us now." Sam put his arm around Mercedes who happily melted into his embrace. "All I'm saying it Kurt, maybe you should just take a risk for once; you did with this job and look how things turned out. Maybe you should just go with it." Sam ended with a shrug.

Kurt sipped his coffee and shrugged back. "I don't know guys, I mean… what if I get hurt?"

"But what if you don't?" Cecilia said folding her arms and leaning back in the chair.

Sam and Mercedes hummed in agreement and Kurt just sat there; they made some good points and he definitely had a lot to think about before he next saw Blaine because as of right now he was planning on giving him the cold shoulder, well, he was until he thought it over some more and planned on being friendly but not over friendly, now however he might have to think of a new approach.

Blaine sat at the dining table in Cooper's house, prodding at a fried egg on his plate with his fork.

"Are you going to eat that or just torture it?" Cooper asked sipping his coffee.

Blaine's head shot up as if he forgot Cooper was even there, in a way he did. His mind was too far away at this point to notice anything. "Uh yeah sorry, my head isn't all there today."

"I kind of gathered that, you've had a rough week." Cooper said with genuine sympathy.

"I mean just what am I supposed to do Coop? How can I carry on letting Kurt work for me? I've gotten to attached to him and not in a businesslike professional way… and ugh what if he gets a boyfriend? What if he comes to visit with flowers and cookies?"

"…And a dick in a box?" Cooper added and laughed.

Blaine bit back a smile. "This is serious Cooper!"

"So is your face."

"Oh wow, so mature."

"No I mean it, your face is too serious you're going to get premature wrinkles." Cooper said poking at his brother's forehead. "But Blaine, honestly? This boy has more or less told you he'll wait for you, so all you have to do now is get over your issues and make love to Kurt on the roof- or something."

"I'm going to ignore that last comment," Blaine said frowning at his breakfast. "You saw him at the bar with that guy though Coop, he's wanted, well of course he is… he's gorgeous, witty, smart… I'm getting off tangent here all I'm trying to say it I don't expect for him to wait for something that might not even happen. That doesn't mean I'll be willing to see him with some other guy."

"You can't have it both ways bro," Cooper said seriously. "You want Kurt to be happy right?"

Blaine nodded, of course he did.

"Well then, you've either got to let him be happy with you or let him go and be happy with someone else, there is no middle ground Blaine."

Blaine nodded again, he knew this all along of course. He so desperately wanted to be with Kurt, but at what cost? He could lose his job and his family. Well other than Cooper, he'd always be around. Kurt was worth it though, in the little time they had spent together Blaine had felt more happy than he'd ever been, he'd felt like himself again, like when he was younger and he used to write music and play guitar. He felt like he could dream again.

"Yeah you're right Cooper," Blaine said standing up. "I'm going to talk to dad."

"Wait right now?" Cooper asked, bewildered. "You're in your boxers and a tank top, you smell like vomit and you haven't had a shave in a few days."

"Well obviously not now I'm just making a point by standing up-" Blaine looked around. "-You know like saying, I'm finally standing up?" Blaine looked at Cooper, who was trying not to laugh. "Oh shut up."

"I wasn't going to say anything," Cooper brightly smiled, "Captain Metaphor."

"Have I told you I hated you lately?"

"Only once today."

"World record." Blaine couldn't help the smile that broke out on his face, he was going to do it; he was actually going to tell his dad. Maybe he would accept him? Maybe he wouldn't care? It was a long shot and he wasn't expecting his dad to hold him and tell him he loved him no matter what and then Blaine would run up to Kurt and kiss him in front of everyone and it would be perfect, but he would make a start.

And that start would begin on Monday.

Blaine smiled, everything always happens on a Monday.