Mutual Butterflies

Kurt Hummel

Chapter 6

   *knocking*

"..."

   *knocking*

"Kurt?

"Is this even the right appartement-?"

   *door opens*

A short tan man is hurriedly drying his dark curly hair with a white towel wearing nothing but grey sweatpants. He's way shorter than Finn, and if he wasn't so confused, the situation would have been funny,

"Hi, can I help you?"

"You're not Kurt..."

"No, ah- my name's Blaine... sorry but who's Kurt?"

Finn's even more confused and unlocks his phone to go through his past conversation with his step-brother.

It's definitely not the right appartement...

"He's my brother... he lives here normally... wait a sec let me check..."

The shorter guy seems thoughtful, maybe searching his memory and trying to remember such a name...

"Is this the appartement 21B?"

"Ah- no. Actually this is 22B, 21B is right behind you but I'm not sure this is who you're looking fo-"

Finn was already at the door opposite of the shorter man's.

   *knocking*

   *shuffling noise*

"Fuck that cat seriously... no!"

   *scratching noise*

"Nope it's definitely him... thanks man..."

The door opens revealing the same neighbor, chestnut hair, perfectly styled in a calculated swoop. Pale unblemished skin, rosy cheeks and high cheekbones. Pale blue-grey eyes and flush lips. But it doesn't feel the same at all. No.

Because now he's not just his secluded neighbor. He's Kurt. Kurt. 

Kurt Hummel and wow...

"Finn..."

"Hey bro, what's up? Kinda got your place mixed up with that guy's..." said the ridiculously tall guy pointing at Blaine with a goofy grin.

Kurt's eyes went from Finn's tall figure to Blaine's face, dumbfounded, mouth agape and towel almost falling from his loose grasp.

But what made Kurt blush and turn his gaze away was the perfectly sculpted and *very* naked chest that his neighbor was putting on display.

"H-hi"

Blaine had a hard time breathing and filling his lungs but he got back down to earth when the blue eyes turned icy.

"Hello."

"Anyways, thanks again for showing me... kinda haven't been to his place in a long time! Sorry for disturbing you... have a good one!" said the taller guy completely oblivious to the tension forming in the hallway and walking past Kurt, inside his appartement rubbing the cat's head on his way.

"Y-yeah... no problem..."

Kurt closed the door without as much as a glance in his direction and Blaine let out a breath he didn't know he was holding and got right back inside.

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"How come your fridge's empty? You don't even have beers!

"Didn't I warn you I was coming? I thought I'd called... maybe my message didn't get recorded... or maybe I hung up while I was recording it... or may-"

"No Finn... don't worry I got you message..." answered Kurt matter-of-factly not hiding his sarcasm one bit, "but thanks for reminding me that I was just fired two weeks ago... 'didn't soak it in yet..."

"Oh right... well I can go grocery shopping if you don't mind..."

"I don't need your charity Finn-"

"Hey! First of all, it's not because you've decided to starve yourself to death because you won't accept help that I have to do the same! And second of all, stop treating me like I'm a child... We're bros ok? Now I'm gonna go grocery shopping...

"Do you need anything? 'Cause I'm not buying any of your healthy crap if you don't specifically ask for it..."

Finn only got a roll of the eyes for an answer and nodded before leaving the appartement once more.

   *deep sigh*

"I can't believe this..."

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   *shuffling*

   *key slipping into the lock*

   *door unlocks*

"You took my key?"

"Yes, I didn't want to risk you locking me outside of your appartement-"

"I'd never do that-"

"-yes you would... plus I'm not a child, remember? You can trust me with your key..."

Finn dropped the paper bags on the kitchen tabletop before taking out a beer and sitting on the couch next to Kurt,

"Guess who I ran into at the grocery store?"

"Oh my God Finn, who?" answered Kurt faking enthusiasm and not taking his eyes off the book he was holding, forearms resting on his cat's back.

"Sam! Remember Sam? From high school?

"Can't believe he's in New York! I thought he ended up coming back to Lima but anyways we caught up a little... he hasn't heard from you in a while apparently.

"Mercedes and him are engaged! Did you know that?! And I'm still running after Rachel and fixing cars in Lima, of all places!

"Anyways! He asked me about you, he's very sorry you've been fired man. I told him to come by tomorrow..."

"First of all," started Kurt holding up his hand to shut his step-brother up and putting his book down on the cat, "could you please not tell the whole city about my job situation. I would like to avoid all the pity...

"Second of all, this is still my place Finn and you can't be inviting people over without telling me, wether it be Sam or the freaking president... Understood?"

"Wow calm down man, didn't mean to upset you or anything..."

Kurt grabbed the book not looking back up at Finn and didn't add anything.

Finn got up quietly and went into the kitchen to put away the groceries.