This one's a bit different from the others. Mostly because it's a bit of an epilogue, and not so much about Kurt and Blaine. But enjoy, seeing as it is the last chapter!
March 14th. A (hopefully) soon to be important day for Elliott. Currently, he was sat in his favourite little coffee shop, sipping at his first coffee of the afternoon, nerves tainting his happy demeanour in a barely noticeable way. See, the plan was that today would be the day that Elliott asked Kurt out. Officially. Hence the nerves.
Kurt had agreed to meet Elliott at the coffee shop that afternoon, in about fifteen minutes from now. Elliott had been planning to turn up slightly late – only to stop himself from changing his mind before he saw Kurt. But, just as he'd been about to settle in front of his laptop to finish off some last-minute work, the older man had suddenly been hit with the urge for a coffee so good it could only have been made by his favourite coffee shop. So here he was. Waiting anxiously.
He glanced at his phone hoping to find some distraction in the form of gossip or a latest-craze game. He didn't find much. But the time still managed to go quickly. It turns out that worrying about something about to happen is enough of a distraction to not notice the passage of time. In fact, Elliott was so deeply entrenched in his nerves that he didn't notice Kurt walk in and buy a coffee. It was only the sound of the chair pulling across the wooden floor that knocked him out of thought and back into the real world again.
"Hey you! You were very deep in thought?" Kurt said with a curious smile.
"Hey! Yeah, sorry. Nothing to worry about, I was just thinking of songs I might cover."
"Ooh, I could help you with that if you liked?" Kurt offered. Elliott grinned. This could be an opening perhaps?
"That would be fun, we could make an evening of it? We can have a sing and a dance, maybe even record something?" He asked, trying to add a flirty tone to his voice.
"Sounds great!" Kurt grinned, "Oh, by the way, I need to tell you what happened yesterday at work! Johnny asked me on a date!" He laughed. Elliott, however, had to hold in the sigh that wanted to escape. His 'flirty' tone clearly hadn't been conveyed. Or Kurt wasn't interested. One more try perhaps?
"Oh yeah? Did you say yes?" He probed. Kurt's laughs just grew louder.
"Say yes? Just two weeks ago he was insulting every choice I made to do with the magazine. The only reason he asked me out is because I finally told him where to shove it!" Elliott finally felt like laughing too. Kurt wasn't interested in Johnny then. That's good. One less person for Kurt to like instead of him. Sounds possessive, but Elliott's just glad that the odds have increased ever so slightly.
The pair chatted for around half an hour before Elliott started to drift off in thought again. It wasn't that he didn't want to listen to Kurt; in fact he found his stories interesting and generally quite funny. But the dark-haired man couldn't help but think about how he would ask Kurt on a date, and whether the younger male would say Yes. He was stuck on this for a couple of minutes before he was once again pulled out of it by Kurt.
"E? Elliott? Hello?"
"Yeah, uh, sorry Kurt! I didn't mean to be rude!" He apologised, only to be waved off by the younger.
"It's no problem, just, are you sure you're okay?"
"I am, thank you. There's nothing to worry about, I'm just trying to decide something." He smiled at Kurt, not being able to resist the feelings of fondness welling up in response to Kurt's caring inquiry.
"Can I help?" The brunet asked. Elliott smiled back.
"No, I think I've worked it out actually."
"Yeah? Can I be nosey and ask what it is?" Kurt asked with a cheeky smile on his face. Elliott took a breath. Take two. Go.
"I was just trying to work out how and when to ask you on a date, actually." Elliott said. He was surprised at how calm he sounded, actually. Yay him. Kurt gaped for a moment, apparently shocked that the other had just come out with it like that. But after a pause, he managed to regain himself.
"A date? I di- I didn't know you liked me like that?!" Doubt started to creep into Elliott's mind.
"Is that a no?"
"Why would I say no? I've been trying to stop myself from flirting with you for a while now. I didn't think you were interested!" He giggled. Elliott also found a laugh bubbling from his chest. Kurt said yes. Well, sort of. But it was good enough for him.
"So, dinner next week then?"
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