"Blaine!" Angela shouted, startled. "I wasn't expecting you to be home so early…" she trailed off, looking guilty.

"Oh so you thought you'd make your grand escape while I was at school?" Blaine spat staring wildly at her, he didn't know how longer he could keep his cool; his mother was running away again and he had far too much to lose this time.

"It's not like that!" Angela defended, dropping her suitcase and walking towards her son, trying to place her hands on his shoulder for comfort. "Me and Burt just aren't working out very well right now, so I'm going to stay at a hotel till things either calm down or…"

"No just don't, don't baby me I'm not the doting son that will follow you wherever you or stick by you however much you fuck up. It isn't going to work this time, I'm sick of it." Blaine shoved past her and walked into the kitchen, Angela followed.

"Sick of what Blaine? You have obviously never been okay with who I date or where we live so what difference does it make?" She shouted, angry now. "If anything I thought you'd be happy to get away from here."

"I'm sick of you running away!" Blaine shouted back, turning to face his mother. "and I'm so fucking sick of being dragged along with you!" He ran his hand through his hair, "I've gave up so damn much for you, so YOU can find happiness so YOU can find 'the one'. When do I get to be happy? When do I get to have friends for more than a few months? I can't keep living like this, constantly moving, not being able to settle down or make any friends or have a boyfriend or be normal! I want a normal teenage life but I can't because you can't make up your mind which guy you want to be constantly fucking!" Blaine was livid now; all the pent up emotions he had been feeling his whole life finally coming out. Out of all the times she had run away, this would be the worst. He gave up love for her, he gave up Kurt and who knew where her next boyfriend would be? Maybe he'd have to move far away from Kurt and he just wasn't going to accept that; not this time. "I've had to grow up too fast because I never had time to be a kid and I am so fucking sick of it."

"Don't you dare speak to me like that!" Angela pointed at her son. "I'm doing this for you; all of this is for you so you can have a father figure in your life! So we can have a family, so we can be happy! It's not my fault that sometimes these things don't work out, relationships are hard Blaine." Angela couldn't see why Blaine was being so difficult.

Blaine couldn't believe what he was hearing; did she honestly think this is what he wanted? Blaine didn't need a father he didn't need any of this. "All I ever needed was you mom." Blaine fought back tears, he couldn't cry in front of his mother, not now. "But you were to busy trying to replace dad to notice."

Angela looked like she had been slapped, Blaine had never spoken to her like that before; never told her how he felt. Or maybe she just didn't listen. "Blaine…"

"No forget it mom, go, go run away again, I'll get over it like always. We'll move away when you find the next person and I'll have to leave all this behind. I guess I just hoped if this didn't work out you'd see you didn't need any of this that you can function properly on your own and with me that you don't need a relationship, that you can live for you and not some man." Blaine sighed, "you do need to realise that you don't need a relationship to survive, I know it's been hard since dad died, but no one is going to be him, no one can replace him." Blaine's whole body felt defeated after he finally told her all that he had been feeling, he wanted to shout at her that he finally found love but he couldn't have it because of her and now she was giving him an option to maybe have it again and she was ripping it away from him.

"Blaine I'm so sorry, for everything. I didn't know you felt like this." Angela was crying now and Blaine walked up to her and wrapped his arms around his mother, he was still a bit wary but he did think he had got through to her even just a little bit.

"I should have told you before, but I never wanted to make you unhappy; but I know now that all this running around is probably just making everything worse for you." Angela nodded into Blaine's shoulder. "So I'm going to go pack my stuff and we'll go to the hotel and figure out what to do next, together." He didn't like the idea of moving away from Kurt but maybe it was necessary for now till he could convince his mother to stay in Ohio and even let him still go to McKinley.

Angela shook her head and Blaine knotted his brows in confusion, "No, I'm not going anywhere, well not yet anyway. I'll have a long talk with Burt when he comes home and we'll go from there, I promise I wont be making you go anywhere else Blaine, you'll still be able to go McKinley and whatever happens we wont move too far okay? I wont drag you along anymore Blaine it isn't far on you and I can see that now," Angela kissed her son on the head. "We're going to be fine, okay?" Blaine nodded hugging his mother tighter, relief flooding through him. He didn't have to leave Kurt; maybe things would work out after all.

888

Kurt was extremely tired when he came home that night after a two hour cheerio practise that coach Sue took no excuses to get out of, plus the emotional tiredness from everything that happened with Blaine the past few days he really just wanted to get home, shower and go to sleep.

Lately nothing was going to way Kurt wanted though, instead he came home to Burt and Angela sitting on the couch with unreadable expressions.

"Kurt, could you go get Blaine and both of you sit with us for a bit? We all need to talk." Burt said and Kurt nodded, confused. He knocked apprehensively on Blaine's door till he heard the other boy say 'come in'.

"Blaine… uh my dad said for us to go downstairs… apparently we need to talk." Blaine nodded and stood up and Kurt was surprised by his reaction, why wasn't he worried like Kurt? "Do you know what's going on?" Kurt whispered as Blaine walked past him to go downstairs.

Blaine stopped and Kurt saw his shoulders tense up for a second before relaxing, he turned around to face Kurt and smiled, taking Kurt's hand into his; Kurt gasped at the sudden contact and his heart warmed at the familiar sensation, "Look Kurt, whatever happens it's going to be okay."

Kurt nodded but felt suddenly panicky, did Blaine tell his dad about them? He couldn't have could he? What did Blaine mean by 'it's going to be okay'; that speech was meant to comfort Kurt but it just made him all the more nervous.

Both boys sat down on the couch and waited for Burt or Angela to speak up.

"Boys," Burt started. "I know this may seem out of the blue to you but me and Ange haven't exactly been… uh…"

"Getting along," Angela said for Burt and Burt smiled appreciatively.

"Yeah that and well we've had a long discussion about it and we decided it'd be best if we'd go our separate ways." Kurt gasped; he was totally not expecting that.

"Dad…" Kurt began but Burt quickly shushed him.

"No Kurt it's fine, I'm fine honestly it's for the best, for all of us." He looked at Blaine then and Kurt wondered if his dad really did know something.

"So you and Blaine are… moving away then," Kurt asked and tried to keep the look of utter heartbreak off his face.

"No, well obviously we'll be moving out of here but Blaine will still be finishing school at McKinley," Angela answered.

"They'll be staying here until they find something more suitable living arrangements of course, I'm not exactly going to see them out on the streets until they find a house." Burt said gruffly, "I hope that's okay with you Kurt." He looked at his son.

"Yeah, no that's fine of course that's fine," Kurt babbled and tried to keep the happiness out of his voice, he was devastated for his dad because he thought he had finally found someone to spend the rest of his life with, but of course part of him was flooded with hope for him and Blaine.

"Blaine?" Angela looked over at the curly haired boy, he hadn't said anything for the whole conversation, just sat there looking at the floor. "Are you okay with all of this?"

Blaine nodded and smiled, "I just hope this decision makes you both happy; for what it's worth Burt, you're a great man and a great father." and maybe one day if I marry Kurt you can really be a 'dad' to me, he wanted to add but didn't.

Burt smile, tears prickling his eyes. He really did like that kid, at first he was a bit weary because of the whole 'bad boy' thing but he knew deep down Blaine was a great kid and he didn't want to assume anything but if the way he looked at Kurt was anything to go by, he didn't think he'd stop hearing from him anytime soon.

Kurt and Blaine retired back to their rooms after the conversation and it wasn't long before Blaine was knocking on Kurt's door, just like old times.

"Blaine?" Kurt asked as he saw the figure standing in his doorway. "Come in."

Blaine did as Kurt said and was soon sitting next to Kurt on his bed, unable to keep a giant smile off his face.

"What has gotten you so happy?" Kurt teased.

"Oh nothing just like in a few months we wont be step brothers anymore and you know," Blaine waggled his eyebrows and Kurt was happy that Blaine was back.

"You do know we wont be able to be together for a while though right?" Blaine looked like a kicked puppy and Kurt quickly reassured him. "That doesn't mean that we wont ever be together, I'm just saying it will be a bit weird if we suddenly start dating after my dad's divorce is finalised."

"Yeah you're right, sorry I guess I'm just really happy. I mean I'm sad for my mom and Burt but I'm also happy that my mom will finally be able to live for herself and not have to get married every few months," Blaine laughed. "I mean I finally spoke to her, about how I feel."

"Really?" Kurt asked surprised.

Blaine began explaining everything from walking in on Angela about to leave till hugging her and her telling him everything was going to be okay, by the end of it Blaine was finally letting himself cry. "I really think things are going to be okay now Kurt."

Kurt hugged Blaine then and Blaine sighed into his shoulder, he pulled back and looked into Kurt's eyes. "Are we going to be okay?"

"Blaine," Kurt began. "We're going to be better than okay because once the dust has settled I'm going to announce to everyone that you're my boyfriend and we're going to go on dates and hold hands in public and I don't care what anyone thinks because I'll have you, I love you Blaine."

Blaine sat there shocked, it was the first time Kurt had properly said it and looking into his eyes he knew he meant every word. Blaine leant forward and pecked Kurt on the lips, "I love you too Kurt and I'm so damn happy that you're mine."