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Question 13

Question 13: If a Crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?

Kurt woke up and took a while to recognize his surroundings. He had fallen asleep in the living room and Blaine probably had covered him up with this blanket. He wondered what time it was and began to look around only to find his roommate in his coziest pajamas sipping fragrant coffee and reading a book. Blaine looked at him and exclaimed:

"Oh good, you're up."

"What time is it?"

"A little past ten, why?"

Kurt rubbed his face to see if he could chase his headache away:

"I think I have a hangover."

"There's coffee left, I'll go get you a mug."

Kurt welcomed the coffee Blaine gave him and sat by his side to admire the pile of presents that were under the tree. He turned to Blaine and asked:

"What kept you from opening the presents today? It's already Christmas morning and you're awake..."

Blaine interrupted him:

"How could I do it without you?"

Kurt could feel his cheeks getting hotter:

"Not even the ones from your family?"

"Aren't they all from my family?"

Kurt was sure his cheeks were bright red by now:

"Of course there's also one from me to you."

It was Blaine's turn to blush. Maybe Kurt was still a little tipsy, but he decided to kiss his roommate's cheek to see if the blush would go away. The opposite happened. Blaine begun to stutter:

"I... We... Come on, now you're awake and we can open the presents."

Blaine opened the new sound equipment his family had sent him and the other stocking stuffers. Kurt had got him a pair of headphones to go with the equipment:

"I took the liberty of calling your mother to also coordinate our present."

"Oh, Kurt! You didn't have to."

"It was nothing, silly."

Kurt, on the other hand, opened all his presents – lots of thrift store clothes from his parents – and pouted:

"I told you my father wouldn't buy me the scarf."

Blaine opened up a mischievous smile:

"You haven't opened that last package."

Kurt was curious:

"This wasn't here last night..."

"I know. Go on. Open up."

He couldn't believe his eyes. A light blue and ultra soft scarf fell from the box into his hands. The label said "Alexander McQueen". Kurt was flabbergasted:

"But... but... who?"

Blaine was blushing an adorable shade of pink. Kurt looked from him to the scarf trying to make sense of things:

"You? You bought me this? But Blee, it's so expensive!"

Blaine was rocking his weight from one foot to the other while he had a conqueror smile on:

"You said it yourself how you wanted it. Besides, my headphones can't have been cheap. I know labels and that one is a professional one."

"But you work with music, you need those headphones and..."

Blaine interrupted him:

"And it's only a circumstance you don't work with fashion. But that's not the point; did you like it?"

"Like it? I loved it! You're like my personal Santa Klaus!"

He jumped on Blaine's neck to give him a very tight hug. Suddenly, he broke the embrace and looked deadly seriously at Blaine's eyes:

"However, if I'm being honest, this kind of raises more questions than it answers..."

Blaine's smile fell and he looked kind of scared at his roommate:

"Questions? What kind of questions? It's a Christmas gift, Kurt. You said you wanted something and I got it to you. To make you happy."

Kurt could tell Blaine was getting more and more nervous. He didn't hold Kurt's gaze. Kurt smiled kindly and took his hands. Slowly, he guided Blaine to the couch:

"Come sit by my side."

"Am I in trouble?"

Kurt giggled and shook his head:

"Nothing like that. It's just something I've been meaning to tell you since Thanksgiving. I could never find the right time and then I learned about... your past with Sebastian and I kind of lost my nerve."

Blaine's hands began to sweat in his. Kurt ran his thumbs over Blaine's knuckles to try to calm him down. Blaine was staring fixedly at his fingers.

"Can I go on?"

Blaine swallowed hard but nodded anyway.

"The thing is – why is it so hard to say? – the thing is I have feelings for you. I think I like liked you since the first moment we met. But then I was afraid of it being a crush and that I would ruin our friendship and the amazing thing we got going as roommates if I said something..."

Blaine's eyes ever growing larger and larger.

"...During Thanksgiving, with my father, he made me realized my feelings were deeper. I fell for you, Blaine. And to quote our favorite Christmas movie..."

"Love Actually?"
Kurt giggled and went on:

"That's the one. It's Christmas, and on Christmas we tell the truth."

Blaine bashfully turned his eyes down. Then, he sighed and finally looked in Kurt's eyes:

"There's a second part to that quote, isn't there?"

Kurt's heart began to palpitate in his ribcage. What was Blaine implying? He tried something in a feeble voice:

"And I just want to know..."

Blaine bit his bottom lip and nodded. Kurt began to shake his hands to channel his emotions somewhere:

"Because, you see Blee, I really, really want to know."

Blaine chuckled and pointed up with his head. Kurt looked up and got confused:

"Mistletoe? I didn't buy mistletoe for our decoration."

"I did."