Blaine hasn't talked to his mother in a while.

Not since he broke up with Dave nearly two weeks ago, and even then he'd only called to tell her about how he was ready to make an impassioned speech about his love for Kurt, only to be faced with Kurt's new boyfriend.

Now, as he watches Kurt sleeping peacefully next to him, he is overcome with the urge to call her and let her know how things turned out, that he's going to attend Brittany and Santana's wedding not by himself as he'd thought but on the arm of one Kurt Hummel, whom she hasn't seen in over a year, and maybe this would be the perfect time for the two most important people in his life to see each other again.

I *did* initially RSVP to the wedding with a plus one though, so…

He picks up his phone, slips out of the bed (Kurt snuffles at the disturbance and rolls over), makes his way down to the living room, and dials.

"Mom?"

*******

Pam Anderson was not expecting to not see her son among the Glee club men lined up in front of the left side of the seating area. She would have thought he'd be right there, hopeless romantic that he is, practically shaking with excitement at getting to see two of his closest friends getting married.

She also notes Kurt's absence and briefly entertains the thought that the two newly rekindled lovebirds were vicariously overwhelmed with emotion and run off to do something about it, before mentally shaking her head and chiding herself for thinking her dapper, well-mannered son would do something like that and miss his friends' wedding.

So it comes as a surprise when Brittany walks in with an arm hooked through Kurt's, the latter clad in a dark suit instead of the white jacket that all the other males in the wedding party are wearing… and even more of one when moments later Santana follows on the arm of a similarly dressed Blaine.

It all becomes clear when Brittany and Kurt separate at the front but instead of joining Sam and the rest of the men Kurt steps onto the right side of the small stage instead, and Blaine follows suit.

Her son was about to get married.

Out of the corner of her eye, she sees Carole leaning closer to her. “Did you know?” comes the hushed whisper.

Pam shakes her head no and looks from the stunned expression on Carole's face to Blaine up in front next to Kurt… Kurt, who for as long as he and Blaine had known each other she had met only a handful of times, and yet she has no doubt that she has never seen anything more magical than the love radiating from her son as he gazes at the man he was about to promise his forever to.

And the soft "I do", uttered with such reverence and certainty, followed by the eager slide of the band representing the eternity that had begun years ago in a private school in Ohio, was the proudest moment of her life.

*******

"You're not upset?"

Pam squeezes Blaine's hand and gives him a look of fond amusement. “No. Why did you think I would be?”

"It's just…" Blaine shrugs as he and his mother spun in slow circles to Jane crooning in the background. "I didn't even tell you I was getting married today. Heck, I didn't even know it myself, so there's that in my defense. And I haven't even finished college, I'm working a job with no financial security or actual possibility of tenure. I basically have no plans, other than…" he trails off.

Pam tilts her head to the side, eyebrows coming together in curiosity and confusion. (Blaine takes a moment to appreciate where he got that particular quirk from.) “Other than?”

He sighs, a small smile gracing his lips. “Other than devoting the rest of my life making Kurt as happy as he makes me. I just… I love him, Mom. With every last breath in me. And maybe this on-the-spot wedding to him wasn't something you ever envisioned for me, but I really love him and I know we just got back together again and it wasn't that long ago when I proposed to him within less than a week of being boyfriends again and we know how that turned ou —”

"Blaine." Pam laughs. "Darling, you're rambling."

"I just really need to know that you're okay with all of this."

"How can I not be?" She slides her hands out of his hand and off his shoulder to cup his trembling jaw and looks deep into Blaine's eyes. "All I've ever hoped for you was for you to find your happiness. The weekend after Kurt transferred to Dalton, and you decided to come home for the weekend and I met him for the first time? You were so oblivious to yourself it was adorable. He…" Pam smiles, wistfully reminiscing. "He made you light up in ways I hadn't seen since before your own transfer to Dalton. And now I'm going to get to see you like that for the rest of my life. How can I not be okay with all of this?"

"Mom…"

"Look at you. Twenty years old and still such a crybaby."

Blaine laughs wetly, and Pam wipes away the single tear that had threatened to fall. The song comes to a close, and both of them look to the stage, where they find Kurt watching them from where Carole is starting to pull away from him. Pam disentangles herself from Blaine's embrace and pushes at his shoulder. “Go on.”

"Okay. I love you, Mom."

And as she watches him — her baby boy, when did he become a grown young man? — walk away from her and toward Kurt, taking the proffered left hand waiting for him with his own (she imagines they both smile as they feel the clink of their wedding rings meeting between them), the two of them leaning in for a soft kiss before Blaine's arms move up to wrap behind his husband's neck and pull him closer, she couldn't think of a time when she was happier at what her younger son's life is shaping up to be.