Blaine almost punched his alarm clock when it began beeping at him. "Ugh" he moaned as he rolled out of bed. He glanced at the mirror and grimaced. His hair was sleep-tousled and unruly and his beard was beginning to grow again. He rubbed the scratchy fluff and rolled his eyes. Luckily, he didn't have any classes until after lunch but he did have to work on a new song.

He slowly wandered into the little kitchen, briefly looking in on the living room. Melody was curled up asleep on one of the cushions and Blaine clicked his tongue at her. She opened an eye and stared at Blaine before standing up and stretching. She hopped off the sofa and followed Blaine into the kitchen.

Blaine poured a bowlful of rather unappetising looking cat biscuits and placed it front of the cat who mewed happily in thanks. Blaine gave her a little pat on the head before switching on the coffee machine. He leant on the counter and yawned.

Last night him and Kurt ate their Chinese and watched Tangled together, Kurt's head never left Blaine's shoulder. At some point they had both fallen asleep but Blaine woke up about two, a crick in his neck from where Kurt had been resting. Gently, he had picked Kurt up in his arms and carried him to his bed, tucking him in.

It wasn't the first time they had carried to each other to bed when they fallen asleep on each other. Kurt had done it plenty of times for Blaine and Blaine for Kurt. It was just a part of their relationship now.

The coffee machine finished its whirring and Blaine picked out Kurt's favourite mug from the cupboard – a mug used so often it's picture was now faded but Kurt refused to throw it out. He shuffled back to Kurt's shut bedroom door and knocked on it a couple of times. "Kurt, you awake?" he asked through the wood.

He heard a soft groan in reply and grinned to himself. "I brought you coffee" Blaine said.

"Come in" Kurt's voice was muffled with sleep. Blaine walked in and sat on the end of Kurt's bed, handing over the coffee mug.

"Thank you, sorry I fell asleep on you last night" Kurt said, moving forward to sit cross-legged, his knees touching Blaine's as almost a mirror image.

"It's alright" Blaine shrugged, sipping his coffee.

"What time is it?" Kurt asked, stretching his arms upwards revealing a slither of taught skin under his t-shirt. Blaine struggled to tear his eyes away and he could feel his cheeks turning red. Internally he was telling himself off for staring but he couldn't help it. He'd seen Kurt without clothes before (by accident!) but every time all he wanted to do was pounce on him and kiss Kurt forever.

"Um, about half seven I think" Blaine mumbled, looking down at his mug with great interest.

"Do I have to go to work?" Kurt grumbled. "Can't I just stay here with you and Melody and watch TV all day?"

"As lovely as that sounds, you have work in an hour and as much as Isobel loves you, she won't like you being late. I have to go to college at lunch as well, I'm meeting Wes."

Kurt sighed. "There should be a law saying you can't go to work after finding out you were cheated on" he said quietly. Blaine smiled sadly at him and patted his knee comfortingly.

"I'm really sorry he turned out to be a jerk Kurt. You deserve so much more" Blaine said softly.

"It's not your fault but thank you. You're a keeper you are Anderson" Kurt said playfully patting Blaine's face. Blaine grinned at him.

"So are you. Dinner tonight?" Blaine asked standing up and heading for the door.

"Of course. Say Hi to Wes for me" Kurt said giving a tiny wave as Blaine left.

As Blaine disappeared behind the door, Kurt hid his face in his hands. 'Why can't you just tell him you like him Kurt?' he asked himself.

Kurt was only half concentrating at work, he was still full of hate for Nathan, the stupid idiot. He was meant to be designing some kind of jeans but he hadn't drawn anything in five minutes. Tapping his pencil against the paper, he tried to get back to work but nothing was working.

Glancing to the side, he noticed the small picture frame sitting on his desk, him and Blaine's smiling faces staring at him. He turned the frame away from him slightly so he didn't have to look.

Something was changing between him and Blaine recently. Kurt's feelings for Blaine were stronger than ever and for once in his life, there was a glimmer of hope that Blaine would like him back. Kurt didn't really know what to do – if he went for it, he could lose his best friend but on the other hand, it could be the greatest thing that would ever happen to him.

Kurt rubbed his eyes to try and forget about Blaine for the moment.

"Um, excuse me?" a timid voice came from somewhere.

"Hello" Kurt said looking up to be faced with a rather cute blonde guy, a black folder in his arms and a small woollen hat on his head.

"I'm meant to be here for a meeting with Isabelle Wright?" the guy asked, smiling at Kurt.

"Oh yeah, she's just through there, let me just call her" Kurt said, picking up the phone and calling her office.

"Kurt?" she answered brightly.

"Your 11am meeting is here"

"Okay, send him through, thank you"

Kurt put the phone down and gestured to the guy to go through the door behind him.

"Thanks. I'm Daniel by the way" he said stopping shortly before he reached the door.

"I'm Kurt. Nice to meet you" Kurt said with a quick smile.

'That was weird' Kurt thought to himself as Daniel shut the door behind him.

"Blaine! Long-time no see dude!" Wes said happily pulling Blaine in for a hug.

"Hey Wes, how are you?" Blaine said grinning at his friend, before settling down at the table. Wes had already ordered their food, knowing full well what Blaine would have.

"I'm great man, I got promoted at work, better pay, higher position" he said grinning. Wes worked at lawyer's firm and he had been trying to be promoted for almost a year and a half now.

"That's awesome, well done!" Blaine said.

"So what's new in your life?" Wes asked, nodding his thanks to the waiter who had just brought them their drinks.

"Nothing really, I've played a couple of shows, been to school, oh Kurt said hi by the way"

Wes had begun to take a sip of his soda but he paused halfway to his mouth and then set it down again.

"What?" Blaine asked anxiously.

"Do you still like him?" Wes asked bluntly.

Blaine's eyes widened. He tried to speak a couple of times but no sound came out. He had never told anyone of his feelings for Kurt, how could Wes have known?

"I… I don't know what you are talking about" Blaine said quickly, looking at the table.

Wes raised an eyebrow. "Blaine I have been your friend for nearly nine years now. I have seen how you look at him. You look at him like he is the only thing that matters to you, you smile when he smiles, when you hug each other, you look like an old married couple not just friends"

Blaine breathed in deeply a couple of times. "You caught me" he said quietly.

"I'd secretly always hoped you two would get together" Wes said smugly, leaning back in his chair.

"But we aren't. He caught his boyfriend cheating on him yesterday Wes!" Blaine said, spitting out the last words.

"Really? Poor Kurt, send him my love" Wes mused. "Anyway, you like him and if I'm honest, he likes you too"

"I don't think so" Blaine said sadly, shaking his head.

"Look you are the hardest person in the world to convince of anything so I'm not going to try but if you want my advice, go for it instead of going through life never telling him how you feel"

"What if it goes wrong? What if I lose him Wes? I can't do that"

"I understand why you don't want to. What I can't understand is why you won't"

Kurt jumped when Isabelle's office door opened. Daniel walked out, and Kurt heard a few mumbled words between the two of them.

Daniel said bye and then he began to walk away when he turned round and came back to Kurt's desk.

"So the meeting went well?" Kurt asked grinning.

"It did. So we may be seeing a lot more of each other" Daniel said, his eyes raking over Kurt's body. Kurt knew that look.

"Um, I suppose so" Kurt said, looking back to his computer to avoid eye contact with the man.

"Any chance I could get your number then?" Daniel said flirtily. "I'm new in the city and you seem like a friendly face"

"Look, I just got of a relationship; I'm really not looking for anything new at the moment. I'm sorry" Kurt smiled apologetically. "But I can always help you round the city or anything if you need it. Don't let me said I'm not a nice person"

"Okay, well until the next time Kurt" Daniel said reaching out his hand to shake Kurt's.

Daniel walked away and Kurt began to chuckle, in his hand was a small piece of paper with a phone number written on it. He wasn't sure what lead him to do it but he put it in his pocket anyway. He glanced at the photo on his desk. Reaching out a hand, he gently stroked photograph Blaine with his fingertips and bit his lip. "Sorry B" he whispered.

Blaine didn't have anything else to do so he went to the NYU library to read for a while, to take his mind off Wes's words. He sat down at a table alone and started rifling through his bag to find his book when he noticed a guy a few tables away staring at him with some recognition.

He gave the guy a small smile and looked back to his bag. He could feel this guy's eyes on him and it was creeping him out a little. He pretended to ignore it but he couldn't help glancing up every now and again. Each time he did so Blaine noted that the guy wasn't ugly, if anything he was rather handsome, he was well dressed, Blaine noticed a copy of Harry Potter in his hand and he tried not to smile a little when he saw it.

After a minute, the guy stood up and walked over to Blaine's table, sitting opposite him.

"Hi, I'm really sorry if I freaked you out just then" he said smiling. This guy was actually quite cute Blaine thought. Not Kurt cute but still, he was good-looking. And he was rocking the geek chic thing.

"It's okay. Do I know you from somewhere?" Blaine said, he didn't actually have a clue who the guy was.

"You're Blaine Anderson right?"

"Correct" Blaine answered a little warily.

"I was at your show a couple of weeks ago, the one at Vibe?" the guy said gesturing with his hands. Vibe was a bar in central New York that happened to be owned by Noah Puckerman, a friend from his and Kurt's high school years.

"Oh right, well thanks for coming I suppose?" Blaine laughed a little awkwardly.

"You are an incredible musician Blaine and your voice blew me away, seriously"

"I do my best. Thank you though, that is very sweet of you" Blaine said quite sincerely, he had never had someone at one of his shows come to talk to him before.

"I'm Nate by the way"

"Nice to meet you Nate, so do you go here? NYU I mean?"

"Freshman, studying literature, not much else to say really"

"Oh right, well I'm on my last year here now so if you need anything feel free to ask" Blaine smiled, this guy was nice.

"At your show? I saw you leave with another guy, that your boyfriend or someone?" Nate asked, not as subtly as he would have liked.

"If that was your way of asking if I'm gay and or single, yes I am and no he's not, he's my er, my best friend and roommate. He's gay too but you know no romantic relationship there" Blaine said trying not to let his voice waver. Inside his head, his inner monologue was telling him off for being a very bad liar, you want a romantic relationship there Blaine and you know it.

"So any chance of a drink?" Nate asked hopefully.

"Um, sure" Blaine said, trying to smile. Why did he feel so guilty and like he was betraying Kurt, it wasn't like they were dating and Nate was nice, what harm could it do? Blaine hadn't dated anyone in a while.

Nate passed Blaine his phone and Blaine tapped his number in.

"Nice speaking to you Blaine, I'll call you"

"Yeah"

What are you doing Blaine he asked himself.

Kurt opened the door to the apartment, Melody rushing to greet him. "Hello sweetie" he said, tickling the cat's chin.

"Hello to you too" Blaine called jokingly from the living room. Kurt rolled his eyes but laughed all the same – one day he would come home and call out a pet name and it would just be for Blaine. He hoped anyway.

"Good day?" Kurt asked, sticking his head round the door, Blaine was sitting on the couch, a bowl of popcorn in his lap.

"Wasn't bad, yours?" Blaine decided he would leave out the part about possibly going on a date.

"Same really" Kurt said, gesturing to Blaine to pass him the popcorn bowl. "Have you eaten anything other than this?" he said, his voice muffled by the food inside it.

"No, I was waiting for you to get in but I got hungry. Wes sends his love by the way. He got promoted finally" Blaine said, turning his attention back to the TV and not at all thinking about how nice Kurt's legs looked in his jeans.

"Really? Aw, that's great, good for him. Anyway, do you want me to cook? I feel bad since you paid for the Chinese last night"

"Kurt, don't worry about the money seriously, but I won't say no to your cooking" Blaine said winking at Kurt cheekily.

"Okay, spaghetti it is. Let me shower first" Kurt said, handing over the popcorn bowl. Their hands brushed together lightly and they both felt the sudden spark inside coming from the other. Their eyes met for a moment and for the first time in a long time, they saw each other properly.

Kurt shook himself out of the mini-trance first. "Right, er, shower and dinner, see you in a bit" he mumbled as he left. The minute he was behind his shut bedroom door, he leant against and slumped to the floor, his hands covering his face. "Why is everything so difficult with you Blaine?" he whispered to himself.