Title What’s Up Is Down

Word Count 7,916

Rating NC-17

Warnings Teensy bit of Hummelberry (nothing graphic), bicurious!Kurt, underage drinking

Summary Kurt & Blaine have been best friends for the past two and a half years when Blaine’s 18th birthday comes around. Even though Kurt’s straight, he offers to take Blaine to Scandals for his birthday - and maybe realizes he’s not quite so straight after all (Filled for this prompt on the GKM - read the prompt if you’re not sure, it’s quite detailed and I tried to tick off all of the boxes :))

Notes What happens when you’re stuck being the designated driver for a bunch of boring dudes on a Friday night and you’ve banished yourself from Tumblr? Apparently, you troll the GKM for prompts.

So I’ve been feeling ~nostalgic for a while (no idea why *cough*), and just felt really, really compelled to write something that would have been written a year ago, before Sexy and Original Songs and The First Time - not that I don’t love our boys now, but man. Nostalgia. So, yeah, I like to think of these incarnations of K&B as extensions of these two gifs (thanks Odd and Birdie for the help there :D)

So, yeah, hope you enjoy even though I’m aware this was extremely self indulgent for me!

Preview: Blaine leans back and basks in the early September sun as he watches the Cheerios practice routine after routine. The person he’s waiting for is spectacularly late, not that he minds so much. He probably shouldn’t, but he can’t help zeroing in on Kurt as he bends and stretches and flips, all of the others surrounding him. As they break momentarily to hydrate, Kurt spots him and waves. Blaine grins and waves back, and tries not to jump when he hears a voice behind him.

“Is he your boyfriend?” a voice says, and Blaine turns to see a girl a few rows behind him on the bleachers. He doesn’t know her (freshman, probably, for her not to know Kurt), but he laughs and shakes his head at her.

“No, just a good friend. Kurt’s actually straight.” The words roll of his tongue effortlessly, the line perfected from many years of experience. He should be used to it by now - everyone always assumes he’s Kurt’s boyfriend. He wouldn’t mind so much if he hadn’t developed a crush on Kurt the moment Blaine’s family moved in down the street freshman year after the Sadie Hawkins debacle. That was over two years ago, and Blaine had settled for being Kurt’s best friend and confidant, which was better than nothing. Most days.

LJ // AO3