Another Angle – Furt:

            Blaine was walking with Wes and David at the Dalton parking lot. His phone rings in his pocket and he picks it up to see who is calling. His grin makes Wes look over his shoulder. Wes then turns to David:

            “Well, Dave, we better get going. It’s Kurt. From now on Blaine will stop paying attention to us.”

            Wes and David wave at Blaine who just shook his head at his friends’ silliness before answering:

“Hi!”

“Blaine!”

“Wow, somebody is happy today…”

“Wonderful news: I’m planning a wedding!”

A wedding? Who is getting married and why is Kurt so excited about it? Is it someone from McKinley? Aren’t they a little too young to have friends getting married?

“That’s… well, out of the blue. Who is getting married?”

“My father! Well, he wants a simple ceremony because he wants to spend the money on the honeymoon. But still; I’ve been planning fake weddings since I can remember and now I’ve got to do this for real. I’m so excited, Blaine!”

“I can tell.”

“Got to go; lots to plan and I also have to prepare to move.”

“Move?”

“We’re getting a bigger house. I’ll explain latter. Bye.”

“Bye.”

Maybe Blaine’s friends were right: he didn’t remember were they’ve gone or how did he get to his car. When he was talking to Kurt it was like a parallel world. Not that he didn’t like his friends; it’s just that Kurt was like him. And yet so different. Anyway, Kurt was someone easy to talk to; someone with he didn’t have to hide. Dalton had this zero tolerance towards violence; yet here Blaine was cautious with his actions. He didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. Unlike with Kurt; with Kurt he could be fully himself.

*

            Kurt and Burt enter home after spending the whole day looking for houses with Carole and Finn. Kurt is exhausted. Not just because they walked all day but also the whole Karofsky situation. Today Mr. Schuester saw part of what he does to Kurt and took Kurt to talk to Principal Sue. Kurt is worried he almost said too much. He is afraid of what Karofsky will do if he tells anyone the whole truth. But that’s not the reason Kurt won’t tell: he knows what it feels like to be in Karofsky situation. He believes that Karofsky should walk out of the closet by himself, not because someone forced him out. Kurt is compassionate but he’s tired of being the victim. The only person he can count on to help him now is Blaine. All he wants to do is go to his room to see if Blaine is on-line so they can talk:

            “Good night, dad. I’m going to sleep.”

            Burt is warming yesterday pizza in the microwave and summons Kurt to join him:

            “Wait, Kiddo, we need to talk.”

            It was the last thing Kurt wanted to do. He knew his father could read him pretty well. However, if he found out about all that’s been happening to Kurt, he would worry too much and it couldn’t be good for his health. Kurt loved his dad more than anything. Usually, he would go for him for help, but not after the heart attack. He couldn’t afford to let anything happen to his father and that was why it was essential to hide his true worries:

            “What’s up, dad?”

            Burt was looking right into Kurt’s eyes:

            “You are different. There’s something there; don’t try to hide, Kurt. We need to talk. I know it must be hard for you this whole marriage thing; but I want you to know that no one is ever going to replace your mother. And Carole knows this feeling because of all that happened to her as well.”

            Kurt was relieved. So that’s what his father was worried? He could play along with it. Could he? Deep down he wanted his father to know his problems so he would hug Kurt and say that everything would be fine:

            “I have no problem with the wedding, dad. Carole is amazing.”

            “Is it Finn? I know you had your problems in the past but I thought you had settled it all out with the whole Glee Club stuff.”

            Kurt smiled:

            “Yeah, dad, Finn and I have settled all our differences. There will be no problems in that matter.”

            “So what is it, Kiddo? You’ve been quiet. Is it that Blaine kid?”

            Kurt was taken by surprise: did his dad have a problem with his friend?

            “What’s wrong with Blaine?”

            “I just worry that you are spending too much time alone with this guy I don’t even know.”

            Kurt was a little too defensive:

            “Well, dad, it’s good to finally have someone to talk to.”

            “You can talk to me.”

            “I know. But it’s different. He’s like me; he understands me.”

            “I see. Do you love him?”

            Kurt didn’t want to think too much about it. He had feelings for Blaine but he was trying to ignore them. First of all because he really needed a friend right now. And second, because Blaine obviously didn’t reciprocate them. However, this was something he couldn’t hide from his father. He looked down and answered:

            “Maybe. But that’s not the point. He doesn’t like me back, anyway.”

            Burt was wary:

            “I want to meet this kid.”

            Kurt laughed: was his father jealous?

            “Can I invite him to the wedding?”

            “Definitively not!”

            Burt was so assertive that it shocked Kurt:

            “Why not? I don’t understand you: one minute you want to meet him and the other I can’t invite my best friend to my father’s wedding?”

            “Don’t play Mr. Smart Pants with me. You know we have limited sittings and it’s still my wedding, after all. I want to meet him one day we can talk. Besides, I don’t want you to ignore everyone else to give Blaine attention.”

            That really pissed Kurt off:

            “Fine! Can I go now?”

            Burt nodded and Kurt left to his room. Why did his father had a problem with Blaine? His father never had a problem with none of his friends.  And Kurt wouldn’t ignore people to be with Blaine at the wedding. He knew perfectly well his duties as the wedding planner.

*

            Blaine is waiting for Kurt at the door of the tux rent shop. He didn’t quite understood why he couldn’t pick Kurt up at his house or at school. Anyway, Kurt had helped him to find the right clothes last week and he owned Kurt the right tux for the wedding.

            Kurt arrived a little late and worried. Blaine still smiled when he saw his friend:

            “Hey! Why the long face?”

            Kurt took a deep breath:

            “I really need to talk; can I bore you?”

            There was something about Kurt’s pleading eyes that made Blaine do whatever he could to help:

            “You never bore me. I’m a shoulder to cry on. I mean… if you want to cry. Not that I think you should… well…”

            Kurt gave a little smile with Blaine clumsiness:

            “Let’s just go inside and talk over the tux hunt.”

            Blaine grinned and guided Kurt inside with a hand on his shoulder. They spent a few minutes just choosing tux for Kurt to try. They went to the fitting room and Blaine sited on a puff while Kurt changed and they started communicating through the curtain. Blaine asked:

            “So? Is it about getting a new mother?”

            “And brother.”

            “Sorry?”

            Kurt face appeared behind the curtain:

            “My father is marring Carole, Finn’s mother. I thought I told you that.”

            Kurt disappeared again. Blaine didn’t know why this information bothered him:

            “You didn’t. Isn’t Finn the one you said you once were in love with?”

            “And you need to remember that?”

            Blaine was a little awkward. He didn’t know if it was a touchy subject:

            “Sorry; I’m just trying to keep up.”

            “It’s all right; it’s just that it is so in the past. We’re getting a bigger house so Finn and I can get separate bedrooms. I think we’ll be fine.”

            Blaine laughed. It was amazing how Kurt’s mood improved around clothes. He tried to get to the touchy subjects then:

            “I don’t understand. What’s the problem then?”

            Kurt appeared fully dressed in a grey tux:

            “It’s Karofsky. He’s worse now. My father was at school today and saw it. He went running after him and I was so worried about his heart. Oh, Blaine!”

            Kurt had burst into tears. Blaine didn’t hesitated when he ran to hug his friend. Kurt was talking between sobs and wetting all of Blaine’s cardigan:

            “I worry about him so much. And Finn made me tell him about Karofsky. Some of the guys in Glee Club confronted him and one of then got hurt. I know they’re trying to help; but it’s not like there’s something they can do. There’s nothing anyone can do!”

            Blaine didn’t know what he could do so he just hugged him tighter:

            “I’m here for you, you know?”

            “I know. And I’m so grateful. I feel like you are the only one I can talk to these days. Now I’m here just ruining your cardigan.”

            Blaine chuckled:

            “There’s no problem. The only problem is that I think this isn’t the right tux you should wear.”

            Kurt gave a little laugh and then stood looking directly into Blaine’s eyes:

            “Thank you.”

            Something about holding Kurt and then seeing him so fragile moved Blaine. He wasn’t sure about what to do or what to say. He knew he liked having Kurt around and that Kurt needed to be protected. Blaine smiled:

            “What are friends for?”

*

            It’s the Hudson-Hummel wedding day but Blaine isn’t invited; so he’s arriving at David’s place. They would have a Warbler’s night out. Wes is already with David when they open the front door for Blaine. David smiled:

            “So Kurt let us borrow you today?”

            “He’s at his father wedding and I wasn’t invited.”

            Wes interfered:

            “Do I detect a little edginess in your tone?”

            Blaine sighed:

            “Is it too selfish that I want my best friend with me all the time?”

            David seemed puzzled:

            “Wait, best friend? I thought you guys were dating.”

            Wes laughed:

            “You haven’t been talking to Blaine lately, right? You haven’t been hearing the whole “it’s so good to have someone to talk to” madness.”

            Wes finished his Blaine impersonation by batting his eyelashes. Blaine wasn’t pleased:

            “Cut it off; Kurt and I are just friends. I don’t want to date right now; not after all the jerks I’ve dated lately. Besides, Kurt is fragile and needs a friend, so I’ll be there for him.”

            David rolled his eyes:

            “Where you’ll be is stuck in the friend zone.”

            Blaine objected:

            “And who says I want to get out of the friend zone?”

            David and Wes were chortling. Wes then looked at Blaine and added:

            “Are you serious, Blaine? Your eyes! Your eyes give you away!”

            Blaine was getting fed up with that talk every day:

            “It’s nothing like that! Come on; two gay guys can’t be friends?”

            David turned very seriously to Blaine:

            “Ok, so are you telling us that you don’t feel absolutely anything for Kurt? It would be perfectly fine for you to see another guy hugging Kurt? Kurt kissing him back. This guy hands running through Kurt’s pearly white skin until he reaches…”

            “STOP IT!”

            Blaine didn’t want to imagine where this guy hands would reach on Kurt. Was it too wrong not wanting to imagine your friends… well, getting nasty? Wes and David were laughing. Wes commented in a tune he thought Blaine wouldn’t hear:

            “Just friends my ass.”

            David nodded and they left the subject dye for the rest of the night.

*

            Kurt thought this nightmare have ended. Karofsky was expelled for a few days from school and now he was coming back. At least Kurt was transferring to Dalton. He liked that he would spend more time with Blaine but he felt like he was betraying his friends at McKinley. If he were lucky enough to join the Warblers he would be competing against them at sectionals.

            He was now driving to the mall where Blaine insisted on join him buying his new uniform. Kurt had said he was perfectly fine but Blaine had insisted. He arrives and sees Blaine giving him that irresistible smile. Focus Kurt; having a crush on Blaine wouldn’t help at all. He approaches Blaine protesting:

            “I don’t know why you insisted; I’m fine!”

            Blaine chuckled:

            “Mm-hmm. If you were fine I wouldn’t be listening to Wicked in the background of your phone call. So I brought you to the one thing that makes you smile: clothes!”

            Before Blaine said clothes, Kurt believed  for a second that his friend meant himself. Kurt had got better at not fantasizing about Blaine having feelings for him and not he was back to zero. It was right that he has been emotionally fragile these past few weeks; but searching for a heart-break wasn’t the best way out of it. Before Kurt couldn’t answer his phone rings loud in his pocket. He picks it up just to silence it. Blaine is puzzled:

            “Aren’t you answering it?”

            Kurt shrugs:

            “It must be someone from New Directions.”

             “And why don’t you want to talk to them?”

            Kurt didn’t want to make eye contact:

            “Because they probably hate me….”

            “I don’t believe that for a second.”

            Why? Why was Blaine saying all that? Why wouldn’t they hate him? He turned his back on all of them at once. After all they did. After they had confronted Karofsky for him; after all they had said (and sung) for him at the wedding. He had run away from home so he wouldn’t have to face Finn. He looked at Blaine, who was giving him an encouraging smile:

            “They all wanted to help me and I’m letting them down all at once. I’ll be competing against them at Sectionals. If the Warblers take me, off course. Am I just the worse friend ever?”

            Blaine hugged him:

            “Of course not. Otherwise your phone wouldn’t be buzzing all day. I think you should try to calm down and call them when you feel better. They are worried about you. They are your friends; it’s the least they deserve. Now, as for the Warblers, I’ll find a way to ease you in.”

            Blaine was the only one with the power to make Kurt smile. He didn’t care if Blaine didn’t love him back as long as he was in his life. He would find a way to introduce Blaine to his father and they would get along just fine. For now, he would simply pick the hand Blaine was extending him and try to be happy:

            “Say, you mentioned clothes before?”

            Blaine laughed and took Kurt buy the hand to the store where he could buy his uniform.