A/N- That's all folks. Thanks for staying with this story to the conclusion. This was never what I foresaw when I wrote the first chapter of this, but I'm so glad that this is what it turned into.
"He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand."
― Hilary McKay, Saffy's Angel
It was summer, and Kurt was doing his very best to get tanned without getting burned, but he knew he was failing. He was sitting under a tree on the lawn of the University, watching the Summer Festival happening around him. He was two weeks into his sophomore year of college and he was loving every minute.
The Thespian society had set up a booth like most other clubs, trying to pad their bank account to make up for the lack of funding the school gave them. He was pulled from his thoughts by a hand on his shoulder, "You're up!"
He nodded, and went to relieve Blaine of duty. The Thespian society had decided to go with a kissing booth this year after raking in a great profit from a similar fundraiser last year. He swapped out with Blaine just as Rachel was swapping out with a blonde junior named Aubrey.
Soon enough two lines began forming to pay 2 bucks to kiss either actor. Kurt had locked lips with two giggling freshman girls when he spotted a familiar blonde.
Quinn smirked as she stepped up to the table in front of Rachel and placed a twenty down, "How many kisses will that get me?"
The brunette laughed and shook her head, "You could just wait half an hour until my shift is over, then you won't have to pay anything."
"Then I have to spend half an hour watching other people get to kiss you." Quinn replied with a small pout.
Rachel rolled her eyes, but wrapped her hand around the back of Quinn's neck to pull her in close. She kissed the blonde deeply, and Kurt blushed just watching them. When Rachel pulled back, Quinn still had her eyes closed her mouth slightly open in satisfaction.
Rachel put the money in the collection jar before smirking, "Next."
Quinn's eyes popped open, "Excuse me?"
"You're holding up the line."
"Rachel." Quinn whined tragically.
"I'll only be here for a little while longer." Rachel replied, "Now shoo."
The blonde frowned but did as her girlfriend told her, scooting around to the side of the table. She talked with some of the members of the Thespian society while Rachel continued working the booth. When a particularly sketchy boy with curly brown hair let his hands wander onto Rachel's hips when he kissed her, Quinn practically growled at him.
Rachel chastised her for scaring away potential customers.
Quinn relented and spent the rest of the time talking to Kurt. His line was totally gone, Rachel being the runaway hit of the kissing booth with a minimum of five people waiting at any one time to kiss her.
"How was your summer?"
"Great." Kurt smiled, watching the way Quinn was glaring at a boy in line, "How about yours?"
"Great." Quinn echoed, "Rach and I road tripped to California and back. We visited my sister in San Francisco and her fathers in Ohio."
Kurt nodded. He knew how significant it was that Quinn was starting to reconnect with her sister. One day at the very end of his freshman year, he had shown up to Quinn's dorm room with no real plan of what he was going to say, or any real knowledge of why he had gone there.
He was flying home the following day, and he couldn't spend the whole summer at home without telling his father about Blaine. But he didn't know how.
In the end, he ended up crying for nearly an hour in Quinn's room with her on the floor. She just let him lean against her shoulder and soak her shirt through with his tears. She rubbed his back, and told him everything would be alright.
She told him about when she was six and she had decided she was going to become a professional soccer player. Frannie kicked the ball around with her outside for hours until it went over the fence into a neighbor's yard. When their father found out he was furious (and blind drunk) and Frannie lied saying it was her fault. Quinn told him how Frannie always lied and covered for her until she left for college.
She told him about how when she was nineteen she drove for forty three hours from Connecticut to San Francisco over Spring Break her freshman year. She made the trip in two and a half days, driving singlemindedly until she made it to Frannie's apartment. She told him about how she broke down on the sidewalk when she told Frannie she was gay.
She told Kurt to call her if he needed a pep talk before he told his father, or for support after, or for anything.
When he called her past midnight one day, clearly crying, Quinn had her shoes on, and was already halfway out to her car, entirely set on driving to Kurt's house to pick him up before the boy even got any words out. Thankfully, before Quinn managed to stick her keys in the ignition, Kurt had finally gotten out that it went well and his father even cried a bit and told Kurt he would always love him.
Which was great on multiple fronts seeing as Kurt and his father could finally connect on another level, and also because Quinn had no idea really where Kurt lives, and her car really probably couldn't handle the mileage.
"So I heard you and Santana are living together?" Kurt asked Quinn, bringing the blonde out of her staring match with an acne ridden awkward boy in line to kiss Rachel. The boy blushed, and when it was his turn, he hardly managed to peck Rachel quickly on the lips before practically sprinting away.
"Yeah." The older woman laughed, running a hand through her hair, "We're both doing graduate work here, you know she's in law school, and I'm getting a doctorate so it's easy to live together."
"It's easy to live with her?"
"Well she doesn't ever do the dishes or take out the trash, but other than that it's easy." Quinn smiles.
"That sounds more like it."
"Rach basically lives with us too, but you know she's the president of Adams Tower so she's got to keep up appearances." Kurt nodded, he was an RA in Rachel's dorm building.
Rachel finished her shift at the kissing booth, and she laced her fingers with Quinn's. The blonde got a dopey smile on her face when Rachel leant up to whisper something in her girlfriend's ear. Quinn blushed, and followed when Rachel tugged their interlaced hands and led her across the quad towards the dorms.
"See you later, kid." Quinn called over her shoulder to Kurt.
"See ya!" Kurt yelled back.
He didn't think twice when he went and leant his head on Blaine's shoulder. He didn't check to see if anyone was watching before he pressed a quick kiss to his boyfriend's cheek. He wasn't afraid anymore, Quinn taught him that.
A/N- Leave a final review to let me know what you thought, and if there's anything you want to see me write. Thanks for reading- Ms. Informed