Author's Note: I am soooo sorry that this is so late. I actually had this written for a while and I thought I had posted it. It wasn't until earlier this week that I realized I hadn't. Wow. Shows you how scatterminded I can be, but I'm going to blame tumblr and my other fics. At any rate, let's go with the saying never late than never.

This is going to be last part to this, and I'll say more are the bottom.

Blaine tapped his fingers on the table. He was waiting for Finn at his and Kurt's usual table at the Lima Bean, drinking his medium drip and staring at the left over biscotti that Kurt would have eaten.

It'd been only three days since his fight with Kurt, and one since he'd figured out that Kurt knew him better than he knew himself.

Every time the door opened, he looked up hoping that Kurt would come in and he'd manage to catch him. Blaine had seen him just the day before, leaving the Lima Bean hastily, as if he were running from something. Blaine had just managed to make himself not run after him.

The door opened and Blaine looked up. It was Finn, finally.

The tall boy, looked around before he spotted him, and walked over, pulling the chair out and falling into it ungracefully, so different from Kurt.

"So, um, thanks for meeting me here, dude," Finn said, "I just knew I had to talk to you, because Kurt's my brother and I thought I should explain about him and Rachel. They go a way back, and most of us didn't really know how far back, but she was one of the only kids to talk to him when we were younger. Well, her and Brittany. He was different even then."

Blaine smiled fondly. He didn't understand what the point of the story was, but he resolved to listen, especially if he and Kurt could go back to being friends if he listened.

"But Rachel and Kurt, although they were friends, I don't think they ever stopped competing. Rachel's dad's really pushed her to be a star when she was little. I'm not…I don't know if it was at her urging or not, but she was in love with the spotlight even then…and Kurt, that's what Kurt wanted too.

"So, even back then they fought over things like school plays and their grades, and silly things like that. And it was rare that Kurt ever got something first. Rachel's always gotten anything that Kurt's ever wanted, and because it's Rachel no one batted an eye, because she's always been spoiled by her dads, and because who would say no to her and then listen to her whine about it, when saying no to Kurt who wouldn't complain to anyone, was easier."

Blaine didn't know when Finn had gotten so good at actually narrating a story without having to pause to search for a word, but he decided it had to be Kurt's influence.

"By the time we were in middle school, Kurt and Rachel weren't friends. They didn't interact. I think Kurt was just coming to terms with being gay and everything that meant. But when high school started, so came Glee. Rachel has always been our star, not just because she appointed herself so, but because she is genuinely the best in the club. And, Mr. Shue, as much as he tries to include everyone, has never quite managed to actually let everyone have a good moment in the spotlight, but he tries. Still, Rachel pretty much gets any songs that she likes. And Kurt, Kurt is amazing. His voice is just incredible and he can hit some pretty high notes and his taste in music is similar to Rachel's…"

"But he never gets any of the songs," Blaine finished for Finn.

Finn nodded. "And she also got me," Finn said, "I don't know if Kurt's told you, but he had a crush on me last year…and I mean, I'm not gay…so, that just wasn't going to work out, but Rachel liked me too…and…"

Blaine nodded. "You ended up with Rachel."

It was dawning on him now, what Finn was trying to say.

"Kurt told me that last year, Rachel told him she would always come first when it came to me, because she was a girl. And, so, with you, he thought…well, he'd come first…but then the party and…"

"I kissed Rachel. I took Rachel out on a date."

Finn nodded. "You put him second to Rachel. Do you know, had you kissed any of the other girls he probably wouldn't have gotten so angry about it."

Blaine stared at him.

"But, then again," Finn added, "none of them would have gone ahead and asked you out…I'm not trying to make Rachel out to be the bad guy, I'm really not, but she's selfish. She doesn't think about anything but herself sometimes…and she and Kurt were friends."

Blaine understood suddenly. Kurt hadn't just been mad at Blaine was questioning his sexuality thought that had to be a factor, of course, he'd been mad that Blaine was questioning his sexuality because of Rachel. Rachel who was one of his best friends these days and who he'd always held as competition.

"So, he thought…he thought I would replace him with her?"

"You have to know you're the first gay guy he's met, Blaine, and we are so glad he did meet you because he's needed someone that understood him like that for a while. He doesn't let people in easily and I don't know, I think he just idolized you or something."

Blaine ran a finger over the lid of his cup and he let out a breath. If Kurt had held him in any kind of pedestal, that certainly wasn't the case anymore, not after the things he'd said. But he understood things better, now, and he knew he was going to have to be the one to make things right.

"I think I need to talk to him," Blaine said, "you know, these past few days I keep just waiting for him to text me about the most mundane of things. And every time I see a magazine or I find Wes and David cuddled up together, I just want to text him and…he might think that I helped him, but I've never had a friend like Kurt before and to be completely honest, half the time I think he has things more figured out than I do."

Finn didn't respond. Instead he stood up and he looked at Blaine for a while, "he's at home now if you want to go see him."

"Can I?"

"For everyone's sanity, it's probably for the best."

Blaine nodded. He stood up and offered Finn the biscotti. Kurt's stepbrother took it with a grin, "thanks, dude."

It wasn't going to be as easy to make Kurt smile.

Author's Note: Alright, so I know the end is a little bit abrupt in that we don't actually see Kurt and Blaine talk it out and resolve things, but of course we know that they do resolve things and that Kurt eventually does forgive Rachel...and we know that in just a few more episodes Kurt and Blaine get together, so I thought it wasn't necessary. So, this is the end. If you guys do really want a Kurt and Blaine convo after this I might be persuaded to write it, but as of now there are no plans for that...this was how it was going to end. Hope you liked it.

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