Skin On Skin

Chapter 21

Kurt tilted his head back and let the beads of water from the shower nozzle pound onto his face, his feet tapping on the tiles in time with the song that was playing inside his head. He reached for the shampoo, squirted a healthy dollop into his hand and began to lather his thick hair. He didn't really need a shower, Blaine and he had made good use of the large bathtub the night before, but Kurt was getting ready for facing the real world again and no amount of gel and combing was going to fix his bed hair. Kurt stopped short and giggled to himself. It only just dawned on him which Blaine Anderson song his subconscious had dug up.

'I want to take you in

Take you in all night,

Yeah, all night long...'

'Yes, and all day too thank you very much, Mr. Blaine Anderson sex beast extraordinaire,' Kurt thought to himself with a wicked grin. In fact, he couldn't remove the smile that came to his lips as some of the more intimate moments of the past twenty four hours flashed before his eyes. He could honestly not remember a time in the past two years where he had been happier.

Blaine and Kurt had not moved from the large bed once. Half because they had had such a disturbed night's sleep the night before, and the other half because they couldn't keep their hands off each other. They had bided their time with cuddling, stroking and whispering promises to each other, and by having the most delicious and sensuous love-making sessions. When they had needed replenishment, they had eaten from the hotel's exquisite room service. They had also put the TV on at different times, when they had been too awake to sleep but too tired to have sex, but neither could remember anything that had played on its screen. As far as they were concerned, the world only consisted of the two of them and nothing else.

Only a short time ago however, Kurt had awoken to find the bed beside him empty, his memory jaded for a short few seconds while sleep still held onto him. He had rolled over searchingly, a frown immediately forming on his face before it quickly fell away when he remembered that Blaine had left to meet Rachel before the three of them had breakfast together. In fact, it had been Kurt who had advised Blaine to go ahead first. Rachel and Blaine needed to talk about what had happened that frightful day when Rachel had been fired, and it was the kind of conversation that they needed to have alone.

A rush of butterflies fluttered through Kurt's stomach as he towelled himself off, wrapped it around his waist and re-entered the bedroom. In all his mad panic and stress from the night before, and the fact that they had been completely absorbed in each other ever since, Kurt hadn't even had the time to take in where Blaine was staying. But now, standing all alone in the middle of Blaine's Ritz Carlton suite, with the large room splayed out in front of him in broad daylight, it really struck home.

And even though Kurt had been intimidated once again by just where his life had ended up so quickly, he was also hit with a twinge of pity, that this was the hotel suite that Blaine had chosen to stay at, with its large and abundant rooms. Kurt couldn't imagine staying in a place like this by himself, no matter how much money he might one day earn. How lonely must Blaine have felt staying there, knowing that he was returning to all these empty rooms alone? Kurt nodded to himself. No wonder Blaine had tried to fill that void with endless parties. He had to do something to block out the silence.

Kurt's nerves continued to cause havoc in Kurt's stomach as he focused on the day before him. That very afternoon, after breakfast and after Blaine had checked out of the hotel, Blaine was going to be on The Ellen Show. On Ellen! The Ellen! Of all things! And, Blaine had insisted that Kurt join him backstage and wait for him in his dressing room so they could spend the rest of the afternoon together. In the infancy of their relationship Blaine had explained that while he didn't want to sound clingy, he also didn't want Kurt to be too far away from him. He wanted to nurture their relationship further and allow Kurt to be filled with the confidence of Blaine's love for him.