In the early nineties scientists announced that they discovered that soul mates do in fact exist. They found scientific proof that there are people who are biologically destined to be together. Of course the scientists didn’t refer to these couplings as soul mates, rather they called them ideal genetic pairings but society as a whole found their terminology to be too cold and too unromantic and instead referred to these couples as soul mates. Not everyone had a soul mate or maybe they did and they just never found them  but the consensus was that not everyone had one and that was ok because the human race had gone this long without soul mates so it certainly could continue. Those who do have soul mates and have found them said they had no way of knowing beforehand that they had a soul mate but when they found them they just knew. Some of these couples were in fact same sex couples and you’d think that since they were biologically destined to be together that it would put an end to homophobia but unfortunately it did not as the hate groups argued that the reason people were paired was to have the ‘perfect’ children and therefore same sex couples could not be matched as they could not reproduce, they accused those who claimed to be matched were lying, scientists who proved same sex couples to be matched were and are accused of faking the results. Not everyone felt this way of course, many people believed it was possible to have a same sex soul mate.

                Blaine Anderson grew up feeling absolutely certain he had a soul mate.

                Kurt Hummel, whose parents had been part of the study that proved the existence of soul mates, was certain when he was a child he had a soul mate. But as he got older he was less certain, in high school he alternated between clinging to the hope he had one and that one day he’d find him probably in New York and being absolutely certain he not only didn’t have a soul mate but that he’d never find love.  After he graduated high school and moved to New York he allowed himself to hope, that maybe the cute guy in his dance class was his soul mate, or maybe that hot barista, or the new guy in the mail room with the gorgeous smile but none of them were. And after a while he resigned himself to the fact he didn’t have a soul mate and he’d have to settle for finding himself a nice boyfriend, which was easier said than done.

                Blaine, however, never wavered from his belief that he had a soul mate and was positive he would find him any day now. He wasn’t shocked he didn’t find him in Ohio, but New York, yes he would find him in New York.  This didn’t mean he didn’t date in Ohio, he did because although he had watched every interview ever done with soul mates who had found each other and even spoken to a few he didn’t quite get what they meant when they said they just knew.  He didn’t know it was a different feeling from having a crush on a boy or finding him attractive, he didn’t know that thinking that maybe this guy could be the one wasn’t what they were talking about when they said they just knew. So he went out with those boys but at some point during the date he realised that the boy is question wasn’t his soul mate, sometimes it was between the dinner and desert courses, sometimes it wasn’t until the boy dropped Blaine off at Blaine’s house (because for some reason all his dates insisted on picking him up, just once Blaine would like to be the one to pick his date up and bring him flowers, not that any of his dates ever brought him flowers and he’d quite like to receive a nice bouquet) but sometimes Blaine knew before they even ordered.

                These two were supposed to meet in Ohio, they were supposed to meet on a staircase at Blaine’s school but Kurt decided not to spy. They were supposed to meet at their show choir sectionals but the show choir board drew another school instead of Dalton Academy and Kurt’s school competed against them instead.  They were supposed to meet at regionals but Blaine ended up coming down with appendicitis and missing the competition. They should have met at the mall or the coffee shop they both frequented countless times but they never did. Then Kurt moved to New York and it seemed like they would never meet, a year later Blaine moved to New York too and fate breathed a sigh of relief, surely they would meet now.

                Blaine was excited to start at NYADA, although he would’ve been a bit more excited if he had an actual place to live instead of continuing to live out of the hotel room his parents had rented for him. He was looking for a place but despite what his parents thought it really isn’t all that easy to find a place that doesn’t cost a small fortune each month or wasn’t a shit hole. He applied to live in the dorms but apparently there had been a mix up and they lost the paperwork and by the time he figured that out all the dorms were full and he was homeless. Of course his parents had money so he wasn’t like sleeping on the street homeless or anything and his hotel room was quite nice but still he wished he had an actual apartment to go home to. Fortunately, on his first day of classes he saw a flyer advertising a room for rent in a loft in Bushwick, he took one of the tags with the number written on it and decided to call as soon as he got back to the hotel.