Blaine was in class, a distressed Kurt was sitting next to him. Blaine was rather worried about his best friend, Kurt looked awful. Blaine wrote a note in the corner of his notebook: Hey, how are you coping? Kurt read the note; he smiled sadly at Blaine and replied: Hi, not really coping. Blaine couldn’t reply anymore that class, his Spanish teacher was eyeing them suspiciously, all Blaine could do was smile at the grieving boy and continued taking notes.

Kurt and Blaine walked out of the classroom together, they were silent until Blaine decided to break the silence “Kurt, if you want to, you can skip class you know. I know you aren’t paying attention at all, the guys and I will cover you.” Blaine wanted to go along with Kurt, but he couldn’t, he had someone to deal with first, Matthew. “Thank you.....I really appreciate it.” Kurt said; he turned around and left.

When Blaine entered the canteen during lunch, he was ambushed by David and Jeff “Come, we need to talk.” Jeff said and they dragged Blaine to a table in the corner. Wes, Nick, Thad and Rebecca sat at the table and the other three boys sat down at the table “Blaine, we need to talk about Matthew.” They all wore expressions of no nonsense, Blaine nodded in agreement.

“What did exactly happen last night? We know Matthew cheated on Kurt....that’s it.” Thad said, Blaine noticed that Thad and Rebecca were sending each other sneaky glances. He considered what he would tell and what not, he decided that he would let the details out “Well, I will keep it short. Kurt and I went to pick something up at Matthew’s and we...walked in on Matthew and some guy half naked, making out....He started blaming Kurt and that’s when Kurt broke up with him and we left.” Blaine remember how Kurt had looked when they had walked in on Matthew. It broke his heart.

Every single person at the table was furious, Matthew had hurt Kurt and they all cared about Kurt. Even though Blaine had known Rebecca for less than a day and she was a friend now, she cared. Nick was the first who regained his matter of speech “We have to make him pay. He must have hurt Kurt a lot...where is Kurt at the moment?” Blaine nodded in agreement; he answered Nick’s question “He’s in our room now. He skips class today.” Everyone was thinking the same thing, how do we make him pay for his actions? “You know, we could all talk to him and hear him out.” Wes suggested, the others nodded in agreement, Blaine hoped they wouldn’t become violent.

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The plan was in motion, class had ended, all the guys including Rebecca went to Matthew’s room. Wes and David had it officially called ‘The Plan Of Doom’ although the name was funny, Blaine didn’t get the name. It didn’t make any sense, Blaine just ignored the odd name. Nick knocked on Matthew’s door, it immediately opened, as if Matthew had been expecting them “Hello Matthew.” Wes said in his official council tone “Hello guys, Rebecca.” Matthew said as if they weren’t about to have a little ‘Chat’ with him “Matthew we want to talk about Kurt.” Wes said, they had decided that he and David would do the talking and Blaine wasn’t allowed to say anything. In case he would lose his temper and go all Lima Heights on Matthew, Blaine snorted, he started using the same phrases as Santana.

“Why would you want to talk about Kurt.” Matthew acted a little too innocent for his own good, Blaine wanted to punch him in the face. Jeff held Blaine’s arm in a tight grip, to prevent him from going on a punching spree on Matthew, Wes snorted; he said “Isn’t it a little obvious? You broke his heart! Leave him alone, let him go. You aren’t good for him.” Matthew raised an eyebrow “I’m not going to leave him alone. I’m going to get him back. You think I’m not good for him? Do you think that Anderson is good for him? He and that Latina girl were really close in the coffee shop, holding hands and hugging each other.”

All the guys looked at Blaine in confusion, who was furiously glaring at Matthew “She’s struggling with some things, it’s none of your business. And I would never do anything to hurt Kurt.” Blaine wondered if Matthew had seen them when they had coffee together and Blaine had showed Santana the letter from Mark. All the guys turned back to Matthew “You leave him alone, if you don’t we are going to make you regret that choice.” David threatened Matthew, the boy shrugged “I’d like to see that. Kurt needs me, not Anderson.” Blaine was about to punch Matthew, but Thad grabbed his arm too.

“Is something wrong Anderson? Are you upset about that you aren’t Kurt’s boyfriend.” Blaine knew this was a trick “He isn’t your boyfriend either. He broke up with you remember?” he knew he had to leave now, he didn’t want to go, but he wasn’t going to lose his temper again. “I will be his boyfriend again soon, he will want me back in no time. You will never have him.” Blaine fought of Jeff and Nick, turned around and left them all alone. The words kept echoing in his head, ‘you will never have him’ he knew that Kurt returned Blaine’s feelings, Kurt wasn’t ready to be in a relationship yet.

“Breathe Blaine, calm down. Kurt can’t see you like this.” He talked to himself, he needed to calm down. Nobody had followed Blaine, that surprised him, but he appreciated it too. The boy managed to calm down, he walked over to his room, Kurt would be there. And Blaine worried how the boy was coping with all this drama, and his broken heart. Blaine entered the room, his eyes fell on Kurt who was sitting on the floor looking through some sort of scrapbook. Tears were silently falling down, Kurt looked up and their eyes met “Hey...” Blaine whispered, he didn’t know why he was whispering, perhaps it was the sphere.

“Hi.” Kurt whispered, Blaine sat down next to Kurt he wrapped his arm around Kurt’s shoulder “What is that?” Blaine pointed at the scrapbook. The book was pink, it had several pictures, pieces of texts and lyrics in it, Blaine regarded it with curiosity “It’s my mom’s scrapbook, she used to put everything in it. Before she died she gave it to me, and I promised her to finish it. When I’m upset I simply look at it. Here is a picture of me and my Dad when I was six years old.” Kurt pointed at an old picture with an adorable young Kurt and his dad. Kurt was covered in freckles and he was a little chubby, but he was incredibly adorable when he was young.

“Aww, that one is adorable.” Blaine smiled, Kurt continued flipping through the scrapbook, they read the lyrics of some songs and then Kurt would explain why it was in the scrapbook. When they reached on of the last pages that was filled Blaine forced his tears away, it was a picture of Kurt’s mom in the hospital and a little Kurt was snuggled up against her. They were asleep. Blaine observed the woman, she had chestnut hair like Kurt, but hers was shoulder length, she was slim and had the same porcelain white skin as Kurt. She was absolutely beautiful, this was the last picture of Kurt and his mom together before she died. That made the picture so intense, and sad. It was obvious that Kurt’s mom was ill, she had bags under her eyes and looked just fragile.

“One day after this photo was taken she died, in her sleep.” Kurt whispered softly “I didn’t do what I promised to my Mom, it made me too sad to keep filling it. I never continued her work.” Blaine had an idea, he could just ask it right? “Kurt, perhaps we could do it together. You have tons of pictures of the New Directions, the Warblers, we could look up some lyrics on the internet and copy them. Did you know I can draw? I could help you with the decorating of the pages, there must be some coloured paper around here.” Blaine suggested, he knew that this was a risk, he didn’t know if Kurt wanted to do this with him.

“I’d love that.” Kurt smiled at Blaine “Come on, get all the pictures you own here on the floor and I will get the other things.” The boys got up and started searching for everything they needed, after several minutes of intense searching both boys had found everything. They started looking through Kurt’s pictures, and there were millions of them. “Is that you and Finn...in...dresses?” Blaine stared in awe at the picture Kurt laughed “Yes, that’s me and Finn. That was for the Lady GaGa assignment from last year.” Blaine wanted to see more of those Glee assignments, they seemed a lot of fun.

They were sorting the pictures, they made a pile of nice ones for the scrapbook and for the ones that hadn’t any chance for ever reaching the scrapbook. Kurt and Blaine had split all the pictures in two piles and they were both looking through it. Blaine found a certain picture that made all of his thoughts disappear.

“Is...Kurt..you...were...you?” Blaine’s sentence didn’t make any sense, he was staring dumbstruck at a picture of Kurt and Mercedes in a cheerleader outfit “Blaine, make sentences, I don’t understand you.” Kurt still hadn’t looked up “Cheerleader?” his thoughts were still blurred, Kurt hastily looked up “Uh...yeah...for a while.” Kurt blushed, Blaine couldn’t stop staring at the picture, Kurt’s cheerleader uniform fitted in all the right places.

“This one is definitely going in the scrapbook.” Blaine said and tossed the picture on the pile of good ones “No, no, no, no, no.” Kurt said cheekily “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.” Blaine answered smugly “We aren’t going to do that.” Blaine started tickling Kurt “Ok, I give up.” Kurt managed to say whilst he was laughing.

“Good,” Blaine knew that Kurt just wanted distraction of his thoughts, that’s why he hadn’t mentioned Matthew yet, they would eventually talk about it. The boys continued looking through all the pictures, Blaine noticed that Kurt stopped, he was staring at one picture. Blaine tried to see the picture, but Kurt held it in a way that it wasn’t possible for Blaine to see the content of it “Kurt? Can I see that one?” Kurt gave the picture to Blaine, the boy immediately smiled.

The picture contained Kurt and Blaine sitting next to each other in the Lima Bean, Blaine had his arm wrapped around Kurt’s shoulder to pull him close, theirs cheeks touched and they both wore the biggest smile ever. It was the first time they had gone to the Lima Bean, Blaine remembered how good he felt when Kurt called it a coffee date “I remember this one, we asked an random costumer to make this picture for us....This one is really nice, do you have an extra copy?” Blaine wanted to put this in the scrapbook, but he also wanted to keep this one for himself, the picture was the best one of the two of them together.

“We should put this one in the scrapbook, and I have a copy,” Kurt started digging through the pile and he found it “Here.” He gave the picture to Blaine and he laid the other one on the pile of pictures. Blaine laid the picture on his desk and as he sat down he hugged Kurt tightly “Thanks.” And the let go.

After an hour or longer Blaine and Kurt were finished with the pictures, Blaine had seen several one that Kurt had to explain to him, Kurt as a football player, Kurt in baggy old clothes, Kurt in funky clothes. Blaine liked the assignments of the New Directions, he was going to ask Wes and David if the Warblers could do such things. They moved on to the computer and started looking for the lyrics that meant a lot to Kurt, the first one Kurt found was ‘Defying Gravity’ Blaine was shocked “Wait...did you sing that?” Blaine asked in confusion. That number was extremely hard and it had a high F in the end “Yeah, it was for a diva-off, Mr Shue said I couldn’t sing the song, because I am a boy blah blah blah, in the end I was allowed to audition, but I threw it.” Blaine was more confused than before, why did Kurt throw it?

“The day before someone called my Dad and said that his son was a fag. He was really upset about it, and if I would sing that song before a crowd then there would be more calls to my father. That’s why I messed it up on purpose.” Blaine stared at Kurt “Kurt, I’m sorry.” Kurt shrugged and wrote the lyrics in the scrapbook, after several songs Blaine was confused about one song “Why...Teenage Dream?” He asked, Kurt turned red “....It reminds me of you...you are my best friend....”

“You are my best friend too.” Blaine mumbled softly. They stared intensely at each other, Blaine was mesmerized by Kurt’s marvellous eyes, they seemed to be changing colour, Blaine couldn’t recall the name of the colour.

Blaine’s phone rang, Blaine looked away and picked up the phone “Hello who am I speaking with?” he asked, he hadn’t recognized the number “Hi, I am Finn. You are Blaine, right?” Finn was Kurt’s stepbrother, why would he be calling him? Blaine mouthed to Kurt ‘Finn’ Kurt seemed confused too “Yes, I am Blaine, why are you calling me and how did you get my number?”

“I don’t hurt Kurt, I know you are dating him and I won’t tell Burt, I’m not that evil. But if you hurt him, I will hurt you.” Blaine was utterly confused, why did Finn think Kurt was dating him “Uhm....ok, I promise I won’t hurt him, although we aren’t exactly dating. I repeat the question, how did you get my number?” Kurt stared at Blaine in pure horror, he grabbed the phone out of Blaine’s hands “FINN! You little...if you threaten Blaine again, I will tell everybody about your dreams about a threesome with Rachel and Quinn.” Blaine couldn’t hear what Finn said, but he snorted at the threesome part.

“We aren’t having sex, seriously shut up.” Kurt blushed furiously and Blaine blushed too, they were talking about him and Kurt having sex. Blaine wondered how it would be to have sex with Kurt, no he wasn’t supposed to think like that, they were friends. Although they both had feelings for each other. “Bye Finn!” Kurt hang up on Finn and avoided Blaine’s eyes.

“I’m sorry, Finn tends to do stupid things. I don’t know why he thought that we are dating, he is not the smartest.” Both boys burst out in laughter.

xxxxx
“Blaine?” Kurt shook Blaine awake “Uhm yeah?” It was in the middle of the night and Blaine had been sleeping, he noticed that Kurt was crying “Hey what’s wrong?” Kurt sat down on the bed and Blaine hugged him, Kurt started sobbing on Blaine’s shoulder.

“Sssht. It’s going to be ok.” Blaine soothed, Kurt shook his head “No, it’s not. I never seem to get it right, why do I mess everything up. Matthew cheated on me, and I hurt you. Why do I do always everything wrong? You should hate me, I deserve this, Matthew was right. I should have gone further with him, but I am a coward.” Blaine cut him off “It’s not your fault that Matthew cheated on you, I will never hate you, I promise. Why do you think that you never get it right? You have never deserved any of this, you have been through so much Kurt, too much.” Blaine held on Kurt tighter.

“I can’t be with you yet, I’m scared. What if you hurt me? What if I am not good enough for you?” Kurt was desperate, Blaine was speechless, why would such precious boy think he wasn’t good enough for him? Kurt was perfect, Blaine loved all of his flaws, the good ones and the bad ones. It made him Kurt, the flamboyant boy in the expensive clothes, with his beautiful features, skin and eyes. His voice sounded like an angel’s voice, he was so strong, he had been through too much, why couldn’t Kurt see that he was beautiful?

“Kurt you are everything I need, I understand that you are scared, heck I am scared too I don’t want to ruin our friendship. But I promise you I will never hurt you. Kurt you are perfect, you are beautiful.” Tears welled up in Blaine’s eyes too. Kurt stared at Blaine, his eyes wide “You think I am beautiful?” He said in a hoarse voice, Blaine nodded “Most beautiful person I have ever met.” Blaine was glad that they were in the dark, because he was blushing furiously. Blaine leaned forward hesitantly and kissed Kurt on his nose, he didn’t dare to do more than that.

Blaine felt absolutely amazing, his heart swelled up and the butterflies were dancing wildly in his stomach.

They fell asleep after an hour, they clung to each other, arms and legs wrapped around each other. They slept peacefully that night, nothing could hurt too much when they had each other.