Snow is falling from the sky and Kurt’s sitting in the window of their appartment, staring at it. New York is so pretty when it’s all covered with this beautiful soft white blanket. It’s exactly 48 hours ‘till christmas. Rachel’s gone back to Ohio already, so there’s no one there. He’s just staring, thinking, dreaming.... Just him and his thoughts.

“It’s a promise ring.. I made it out of gum wrappers. Juicy Fruit. My favorite wrigley’s. And…”

“Is that a little bowtie? But what are you promising?”

“To always love you.. To defend you even if I know you’re wrong.
To surprise you. To always pick up your call no matter what I’m doing.
To bake you cookies at least twice a year and to kiss you whenever and where ever you want.
Mostly to make sure you remember just how perfectly imperfect you are.
I know it’s not something Elizabeth Taylor would’ve worn...”

“I love it! I love you..”

“Merry Christmas, Kurt.”

“Our first Christmas together.”

“First of many..”

He blinks. “First of many” Kurt whispers to himself and feels the water in his eyes.

This was supposed to be their second christmas together. The last one they had to spend apart before their lives together finally began. They were supposed to spend hours at Kurt’s house with Burt, Carol, Finn and Rachel and some holidaytime in Westerville with Cooper. They were supposed to buy eachother christmas presents and go for walks in the park holding hands while it snows. Share soft kisses and smiles while making some hot chocolat. Watch movies sitting in front of the fire place. Supposed to kiss eachother under the mistletoe.

They were absolutely not supposed to spend it like this. Miles and miles apart and not talking. Kurt missed Blaine like crazy. It had taken him a while but since a week or two Kurt unconsciously forgave Blaine. Not thinking about what he had done anymore, but only about all the memories they shared.

Kurt got up from the window and started making himself a cup of thee. He suddenly realized the appartment was all quiet, putting his iPhone on the docking station and pressing play randomly. He took a the blanket from the chair and settled himself on the couch, just listening to the music.

After a few songs he heard those pianotones followed by two voices. Their voices.
‘I really can’t stay... but baby it’s cold outside..’

Last year they decided to sing it again and recored it. Kurt smiled softly at the thought of them singing it for the first time at Dalton. But soon the tears were back.. The thought of another christmas they, sort of, spend together..

He let himself cry silently for a while. For once not trying to resist it and just let it be. Let himself be miserable because of the boy he lost.. the love of his life.

Kurt looked outside again. It was getting darker and it stopped snowing. It would be 13 hours until his dad and Carol arrived at JFK. They decided to spend christmas in New York this year and Kurt was all to happy about it, not having to think about maybe running into Blaine or to be faced with last years memories... like he could forget those.

He decided to spend the night watching the Holiday. One of his favorite christmas movies. He ordered some pizza and made himself comfy on the couch.

He forgot about the tears and thoughts about Blaine this afternoon and laughed about Miles and Graham’s cute little girls. He felt much better.. Maybe christmas wouldn’t be that bad.

That was, until the part where Amanda and Graham had the talk about their longdistance thing...... He cried until the part where Amanda cried too and ran back to Graham. And then he even cried harder. Why did they have eachother and why didn’t he have Blaine.

At exactly that moment his phone beeped.

One new message.
Blaine: I know we haven’t talked in a while, but.... Happy Christmas, Kurt.

Followed by another one.

Blaine: Not sure if I should say this.. I miss you, Kurt

Kurt’s tears were back immediatly. But somehow they were happy tears. He smiled at his phone through his tears.

BEEP. There was another one.

Blaine: I love you, so much.

Before Kurt knew what he was doing he started packing a bag and calling his dad.

“Hi buddy, wha..”

“Hi dad! Okay, don’t ask but I need you to try and switch your New York flighttickets to a single ticket from New York to Ohio.”

“I’m coming home!”

“..Finally” was all Burt said and he hang up the phone to switch the tickets.

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Five hours later Kurt arrived at the airport in Columbus. Flying in his dad’s arms.

“Daaddd! My god, I missed you so much!”

“Hey buddy, I missed you too!” Burt held on to Kurt. “Good, to have you back!”

They started walking from the arrivals towards the car in the garage.

Kurt told his dad all about the latest updates at Vogue.com and about Isabelle, about his first lessons at NYADA, how Rachel was doing, the show they recently saw. He spoke at least every week with his dad on the phone or skype but he felt the need to tell him everything again.

It had been snowing in Ohio as well. So they had to drive carefully. At the moment they drove out of the garage and towards Lima, Kurt decided to tell his dad why he came to Ohio, besides seeing his dad, Carol and Finn.

“Dad, ehhm... listen..”

Kurt told his father about everything he thought about today, the memories, his tears and Blaine’s text. Burt just listened en nodded several times.

“Dad, I need to see him.”

“Yeah.. I figured you would..” He said with a small smile on his face and took a left turn. Kurt hadn’t been paying attention as to where they were going untill he read the sign: Westerville.

Before Kurt knew it he was beside their car and staring up at Blaine’s house. It looked beautiful with all the snow and some christmas lights. Kurt knew Cooper and Blaine did that. Blaine’s parents were almost never home.

He nodded towards his dad that he could go home. Kurt knew no matter what happend, Blaine or Cooper would want to bring him home. He started walking towards the front door and took a deep breath while ringing the doorbell.

Kurt waited for an answer as he heard some laughter and screams coming from the backyard.

“Coop, noooo” he heard Blaine laughing. “Stop hitting me with snowballs.” The laughter came closer and then he saw Blaine. Running into the frontyard with Cooper on his tail. “I tell you, I will get you ba..”

And then he saw Kurt.

Blaine almost slipped on his ass because of the snow while trying to stand still..

“Kurt...?”

Their eyes met and it felt like they were standing there forever. Warm honey ones meeting those beautiful clear blue ones.

“Blaine” Kurt finally breathed out.

Blaine slowly came closer as Kurt walked towards him.

“What are you doing here?”

“I....” Kurt felt silent still staring into Blaine’s eyes. And then he couldn’t take it anymore and flung himself into Blaine’s arms.

“God, I missed you so much! I was all alone in my appartment in New York and it was snowing and I started thinking about you, about all of our memories and moments. And then about last christmas, about your promise ring, about, how that was our first of many christmasses..” Kurt rambled fighting his tears.

“Blaine, this was supposed to be our second of many christmasses!” letting his tears fall.

“Ooh, Kurt..” Blaine started crying too.
“I missed you so so much. There wasn’t a moment of every day I didn’t think about you.”

“I’m so sorry it took me so long” Kurt apologized.

“No, no baby don’t apologize. You needed the time. And I am so so so lucky you came back to me. God, I’m so happy you’re here.” Hugging Kurt again and putting a soft kis to his now slightly frozen nose.

“I’m happy to be here too.” Kurt smiled softly.

Kurt stared into Blaine’s eyes once more and then carefully pushed his lips against his. He felt Blaine kissing back and closing his arms around him. Kurt felt all the warmth, the happiness, the softness, the memories. Everything.

“Let’s make this our second of many christmasses.”