Skin On Skin

Chapter 15

"I knew getting involved with those kinds of people would only lead to trouble," Finn stated forcefully.

"Please, Finn," Kurt uttered weakly. "Please, not now."

"But still," Finn argued, "I did warn you!"

"FINN!" Kurt exclaimed. He couldn't handle it any longer. He rose from the couch but in his flustered and bewildered state he couldn't decide where he wanted to run to. He just stood there completely lost and defeated, and not knowing what else to do, Kurt sank back down on the sofa and rested his head in his hands to try and attempt to hide his face from the world. Maybe if he couldn't see anyone, no one would be able to see him.

Mercedes stood before them her head going back and forth between the two. Blaine, Rachel and the other man whom Mercedes had never met before, had left over fifteen minutes ago, and still, neither Finn nor Kurt had been able to tell her what had happened. She put her arms on her hips desperate to know, but she had a sneaking suspicion that it had something to do with the arrogant talking stranger.

"Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" she asked for what seemed like the tenth time since she had gotten home. "I really wish Santana remembered that she had my number earlier so I was home for all of this. What happened?"

But before anyone could begin to explain, the apartment's intercom buzzed loudly.

"What now?" Kurt muttered shaking his head. "It better not be any of them trying to get back in. I don't want to see any of them ever again."

Mercedes' frown deepened. That was the last thing she wanted to hear when one of the people Kurt was talking about included Blaine. Troubled, she pursed her lips and crossed the room to reach the front door.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Oh, urr. Hi. This is Kevin." There was a slight pause. "I was looking for Kurt."

Mercedes looked over her shoulder just in time to see Kurt's head snap up in surprise. Kevin was the last person he had expected to hear on the other end of the intercom. In fact, and he didn't mean any disrespect to the fellow, Kurt had all but forgotten that the man even existed after what had taken place over the past forty eight hours.

Kurt gazed at the front door dejectedly. After everything that had transpired, the last thing that he wanted to do was to face Kevin as well. All Kurt wanted to do was to go back to bed and forget the entire day. Heck! He wanted to forget his whole miserable life actually. But even if he had the luxury of doing so, he wouldn't be able to sleep. His mind was still in a whirlpool, spinning fast and out of control as he tried to make sense of everything that Sebastian had told him. He was desperate to find a loophole or a lie in the words that Sebastian had spoken, to make everything that he had said not so. But each and every time he tried to dismiss something, Rachel's words and guilty face brought him back home to the cold truth. Blaine had just used him for a 'weekend away' bit of fun.

"What do you want me to say?" Mercedes asked quietly jolting Kurt out of his musing.

Kurt sighed and rose to his feet. He needed to do the right thing, he needed to let Kevin know that even despite the failure that had occurred over the past two days, he was not interested.

Kurt answered the intercom and Kevin's voice came back loud and clear for the whole room to hear. "So urr, I kind of thought I'd take a leap," Kevin began. "You see, I met this really hot guy at bar a week ago and then we went on a date and everything went well, the date even ended in a really awesome romantic kiss. But then, I don't hear anything from the guy and I'm not usually one to be obsessive, but I thought I'd take a chance and stop by anyway."