It’s now Thursday and he basically had only 3 days left to spend with his younger brother and his parents. This past week in Lima has become a blur for Cooper. He had planned to spend as much time as possible with Blaine or his mom and dad, since he didn’t get to see them often. But he had to run some errands for the hospital he works for in Boston and couldn’t manage to see much of his favorite person in the world because, when he got home at the end of the day, Blaine was either sleeping, studying or making out with Kurt in his room.
He woke up early this morning and decided to go for a jog, also hoping to run into Blaine before he went to school. After getting ready Cooper went down to the kitchen and found his mother talking to Blaine, who was having breakfast on the counter. She saw Cooper standing in the doorway of the kitchen and greeted him “Good morning sweetie pie. There is some of your favorite cereal in the counter if you’re hungry” she took a sip of her coffee and asked her eldest son “So, what are your plans for the day Coop?” Coop walked up to her and hugged her gently, while letting her go he said “I wanted all four of us to go to dinner tonight. My treat. How about it?” and looked at both Blaine and his mother. “Ah, honey, I’m sorry but your father and I have to go to Indiana for a convention. Probably be out all weekend.” Blaine sighed and Cooper understood his little brother’s frustration since this type of law-related conventions his parents went to were a life longing issue, since Cooper was a toddler, to be exact. “How about taking Blainey out for dinner with his…” she hesitated, not used to saying the following words, “boyfriend?” Blaine looked up at his mother, half surprised, half amused and choked out an “Uh. Yeah, sure. We can go to that new Italian place in Cider Falls street. I’ll tell Kurt when I get to school.” Cooper nodded at his brother’s response and said “I’ll meet you there at 7.” He kissed his mother goodbye and punched his brother’s arm playfully and left for his usual mile run.
“Blaaaaaineeeee. But we already had plans today, remember?” Kurt whined to his boyfriend, tugging on his sleeve like a spoiled 7 year old boy, he just told him about dinner plans while eating lunch in the school cafeteria. Blaine couldn’t say no to being with Cooper, he had not seen him since he surprised him at practice and he was leaving on Sunday morning. “Come on baby. You’ll get to know him better” Blaine said to him. Kurt huffed in disappointment “You know, it’s a bad thing to judge a book by his cover. Who knows, you may even be fond of him” Blaine explained, now looking straight into Kurt’s eyes, trying to use the usual puppy eyes he knew Kurt couldn’t resist. The taller boy rolled his eyes when Blaine tried to persuade him and sighed “Sure sure. But on one condition,” Kurt replied to Blaine, who was jumping on his spot in excitement “I get to bring my support group. And if he tries to use any sleazy innuendo I’ll leave early” he pointed at Blaine, giving him a stern look. “No problem babe. Anything you want.” Blaine said and kissed him. “Besides, you have to get used to him. He’s gonna be your future brother-in-law, you know?” Blaine said, winking his eye at Kurt. He took him by the hand and headed out the room and on to the next class.
Blaine was waiting for Kurt to pick him up at home for dinner. Kurt texted him half an hour ago telling him he was going to pick up Rachel and then he was going to pick him up, since Mercedes cancelled on them, something related to Sam “Well, that’s not normal at all” Blaine thought to himself, while he paced, waiting for his boyfriend. A couple of minutes passed and he heard Kurt’s car on his driveway. He took one last look in the mirror and ran out the door. He sat next on the passenger’s seat and greeted his boyfriend with a soft kiss. He looked back at Rachel, who was sitting in the back seat, looking incredibly uncomfortable. “Um, Rachel, are you feeling ok?” Blaine asked his friend. “I am. I just” she looked out the window and back at Blaine “I shouldn’t have come. I don’t think Finn will be comfortable with me going out with you guys.” Blaine looked back at her again and placed a hand on her knee, trying to comfort her. Kurt looked at Rachel from the rear-view mirror and sighed “Seriously. You have been out with us multiple times. He doesn’t need to worry about anything, you need to stop thinking about Finn and just have fun by yourself, it’s not like we’re throwing a guy at you.” Blaine took a deep breath when Kurt mentioned this, because he had noticed Cooper took an interest in Rachel when he picked him up at school the other day.
They got to the restaurant and Kurt parked on a spot close to the front entrance. It was 7:10pm and Blaine couldn’t see Cooper’s Mustang parked in the lot. He decided to text him, see where he was. Besides, he needed to warn Cooper again about his manners around Kurt, and now, Rachel. He reached for the inside pocket of his jacket and didn’t find his phone there. He padded the back pocket of his jeans but didn’t feel anything. “Kurt. Mind calling me? I can’t find my phone” Blaine told his boyfriend, while he searched on the seat and under it. “Ok, dialing,” Kurt said. All three of them were as quiet as they could be but Blaine wasn’t able to hear his phone inside the car. “Shit” he muttered “I think I left it in my desk.” Kurt looked at Blaine and said “That’s fine; we can go back quickly and pick it up. Rachel can get the table for 4 and we’ll be back in a jiffy. Ok?” Blaine looked back at Rachel with his puppy eyes, trying to get her to stay. He knew her too well to know she wouldn’t be ok with this. But, as what usually happens when he does this, Rachel reluctantly said “Oh, Blaine. Sure. I’ll wait. Just, call me when you are coming back, ok?” Both Blaine and Kurt nodded and Rachel got down from the car and into the restaurant. She waved goodbye as Kurt started driving towards Westerville. A couple of minutes into the drive Kurt heard Blaine mutter “shit” and Kurt looked at him with the corner of his eye and asked “Baby, what’s wrong?” Blaine closed his eyes and pressed his hand against his forehead and said “I left her alone with Cooper.”