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Blaine checks his watch yet again, impatient for Kurt to finally arrive. He takes a anxious sip from his wine, trying to quell his nerves.
His phone rings, Kurt’s photo popping up on the caller id.
“I’m sorry I’m late, but I’m outside your building right now. I’ll be up in like thirty seconds,” Kurt informs him, not even waiting for a response before he hangs up.
Blaine checks that the door is unlocked before making his way back to the kitchen to pour a glass of wine for Kurt and refill his own. He wonders if he should even bother bringing up his idea to his best friend.
The door slams shut. “Plates, Blaine!” Kurt calls out to him.
Blaine grabs the plates and utensils, along with their wine, and heads back into the living room.
“Chinese okay?” Kurt asks as he begins to unpack their dinner.
“Yeah.”
They settle down on the couch, the episodes of Bravo shows that Blaine tivoed playing as they eat their dinner and chat about their weeks.
Kurt’s just finished ranting about one of the interns in the office when he asks, giving Blaine the perfect opportunity to bring it up.
“How’d your meeting about your trust go?”
“Well,” Blaine starts, setting his plate down on the coffee table. “I found out that in order to access it, I have to be married.”
Kurt frowns. “That’s unfortunate.” He finishes his glass of wine. “Go to Vegas.”
Blaine bites back a laugh at his suggestion. “It, ah, not that simple actually. I have to be married for a full year.”
“Oh. That certainly complicates things.”
“Indeed it does,” Blaine agrees, gathering his courage for what he needs to say next. “Kurt, you’re my best friend, and I don’t know who else I could eve trust with this more than you. Will you marry me?” Kurt stares at him blankly. “Just for a year,” he assures him. “And then we would get a divorce and everything can go back to normal, I promise.”
Kurt doesn’t answer him, instead reaching out for the bottle of wine and taking a sip directly from it. Several minutes pass by in silence and each one pushes Blaine even closer to trying pass it off as a joke. But, then…
“For a year?” Blaine nods. “And then we go back to this?” Blaine nods again. “You owe me for being the best friend in the entire world, Blaine Anderson.”
“You’re saying yes?” Kurt rolls his eyes and nods. Blaine launches forward, wrapping Kurt in a hug. “Thank you. Really. I have no idea what I’d do without you.”
**
They announce their engagement two weeks later when they go back to Ohio to celebrate Mr. Schuester’s retirement. It’s pure coincidence that there’s a small Warbler reunion the same weekend.
“It’s the perfect opportunity,” Kurt convinced Blaine as they picked out their rings. “We can go visit your parents and mine, and then we can share the news in person. And invite people to the ceremony.”
They’d decided to have the wedding in the middle of July, only a month away. Kurt’s already planned the ceremony; small, but classic, at the botanical gardens in Toledo.
“Kurt!” Carole cries when she opens the front door to the Hummel residence. “You didn’t have to knock,” she scolds gently, gesturing them inside. “How are you, Blaine dear?”
Blaine smiles; the Hummel’s have always done their best to make him feel welcome. “I’m very well, thank you.”
“Good, good.”
They tell Kurt’s parents over dinner. “Blaine and I have been seeing each other for a while,” Kurt starts. “We’ve been keeping it quiet, but well…we’re getting married!” Blaine is impressed by how genuinely excited Kurt looks.
Blaine smiles. “I know this might seem out of left field and all, but when you know, you know.”
Kurt hands them one of the invitations they had made, chattering on about the details.
Carole looks so happy she could cry. “Oh, boys! Congratulations.” She huffs out a little laugh as she wipes at a tear. “I always thought you two would be perfect together.”
**
Surprisingly, none of their friends seem particularly surprised by their announcement.
“Oh Blaine, if only you’d figured this out sooner; the Warbler’s had so much money going on when you and Kurt were going to get together,” Wes tells him.
Mercedes cackles when they tell the New Directions. “Oh, boo, you’re marrying your high school crush; that’s the stuff they make movies out of.”
Blaine’s parents are less excited about the news, but that’s to be expected. Cooper, however, shrieks over the phone when Blaine calls to give him the news.
“Kurt Hummel?! I knew it. I fucking knew you were in love with him, and you kept trying to tell me you were only friends, but I knew better,” he says, Blaine blushing a furious red at the words. “Can I plan your bachelor party?”
“Absolutely not,” Blaine refused.
His brother sighs. “Fine, but I’m organizing the honeymoon, then.”
**
The day of the wedding is beautiful and clear. Blaine has to admit that the ceremony is perfect, and so if the party afterwards. It’s a little awkward, having to act like a giddy newly wed and, he and Kurt keep having to share kisses to keep up the charade, but it’s nice having all of their friends and family there.
“So…we’re married now,” Kurt whispers into Blaine’s ear as they have their first dance together.
Blaine tips his head up and smiles. “Thank you. Really. The ceremony was gorgeous.”
“Well, you know me,” Kurt teases.
“Mmmm, that I do,” Blaine responds, rising up on his toes to press a gentle kiss on the corner of his mouth. At Kurt’s laugh, he pouts. “Come on, we have to make it convincing.”
Kurt kisses him back, off center and fleeting. “Don’t over do it, Anderson,” he warns, but the smile tugging at the corners of his mouth give him away.
Blaine lets his head rest on Kurt’s chest. They can do this, he reassures himself.