Old hangups and new beginnings
A/N: I really hope I can avoid another hiatus like the last one. Thanks a lot for everybody who is still sticking around and hello to the new readers.
Chapter 10
"Does that mean you're gay?"
It's one of the few dinners since their parents got together that Kurt sees Finn not paying any attention to the meal. Puck reluctantly agreed to stay for pizza and immediately destroyed all of Kurt's plans to tell Finn after dinner by just blurting out that they are dating. His father had the audacity to laugh while Finn just sat there with a slice of pizza on the way to his mouth.
It's just that when Burt left the room to answer the phone... Finn started asking uncomfortable questions.
"What about all the girls you eh... dated?" Finn nervously looks around as if he's expecting his dad to be standing in the doorway.
"I guess you could say I'm bisexual."
"Right. Okay... Did you ever think about me like that?" he queries.
"Ugh, no!" Puck scoffs.
"Why not?"
Kurt wishes one of their parents to come into the room, just so they could end this conversation.
"Why does it matter? Do you want me to? Please don't! That would be weird. What with me dating your brother and all."
"Holy shit!" Finn yelps and turns to Kurt, "You're dating Kurt!" Please someone come save him.
It seemed that Finn had finally realized that Kurt also had a role in any relationship between him and Puck.
"Dude! What about Blaine?" Finn blurts.
"What about him?" Kurt rolls his eyes, wondering why is Puck looking like he's also interested in an answer to it? "It's over. We broke up."
"I know, but I mean everyone thought you would get back together."
Everyone. Funny no one told him anything about it. Once the girls got over their initial shock, even they had been supportive.
"Clearly, you thought wrong." He snarks.
From the corner of his eye he sees Puck relax. Obviously he's going to have to talk to Puck later about that. They've dating for a few weeks and he still seems worried that Kurt might run back to his ex. An ex who didn't support him, nor his dreams, and more importantly: who he hasn't talked to since they broke up.
"But Rachel said...", Finn trails off, probably remembering that Kurt and Rachel are still not talking.
"What did Rachel say?" Kurt narrows his eyes.
"Nothing really."
He explains anyway once Kurt raises an eyebrow at him, "She just said that you guys are like me and her, you know... soulmates? And that you always find your way back to each other, cause you can't live without the other."
He doesn't know what's worse: being compared to Finn and Rachel's fucked-up relationship or being reduced to being part of a couple. Ever since he'd started dating Blaine his friends seemed to forget that he is a person of his own. Well, maybe it's a little his fault, Puck did say that he'd have to find himself again. Which implies that he'd lost himself. (Probably somewhere between Lima and Westerville.)
"Blaine and I are not soulmates. And Rachel doesn't know what happened between us so you can tell her to refrain from labeling my former relationship or any of my relationships for that matter." He informs his step brother decisively.
Who knows what opinion she's going to voice after finding out about him and Puck? Puck... who seems entirely too amused to hear his friend say that his boyfriend has a soulmate that isn't him.
"I would love to know what Rachel has to say about you dating me," He grins and lays his hand over Kurt's, which causes Finn to mumble something unintelligible into his soda, "Maybe she'll reconsider and declares me as your new soulmate." he teases.
Of course his father chooses to come back right this moment, "For the time you should stick with boyfriend." he intones. Puck may have been speaking the truth when he talked about there being a 'Hummel Glare'. (Not that Kurt is going to admit it.)
They four of them go back to eat dinner without any more awkward conversations about Kurt's relationship by strictly sticking to one of three topics: Puck and Burt's work, Kurt's plans for New York and Finn's preparations for the army. The last one isn't as uncomfortable to talk about as it was a few weeks ago, their family had eventually come to terms with Finn's decision and are able to talk about it. Finn's enthusiasm for it was contagious and right now the biggest bump in the road is that he hasn't told Rachel yet.
"Kiddo, you have to tell her. The longer you wait the harder it gets." Burt urges.
She's going to be so upset, Kurt's pretty sure that it would be better to tell her sooner, rather than later. The less time between Finn's revelation and him leaving means that Rachel might not have time to come to terms with it all. It would be a shame if Finn and Rachel broke up again after all their work to come together in the first place, only because Finn is afraid of her reaction.
But what does he know? He thought Rachel would be happy for him and not stop talking to him when he got into NYADA, so maybe she won't freak out and she might even approve of Finn's decision.
"Tell her soon, or she'll start planning your wedding again." Puck adds.
Confused, Kurt turns to Puck, and sees his dad and Finn do the same.
"I'm just saying. You guys put it on hold because you thought that only Rachel was going away, if she thinks that both of you are staying here in Lima, she is so going to turn you into the first Lima Loser Couple of our class."
"That makes no sense." Puck has a lot of strange theories, sometimes Kurt wonders if he's gong to turn into one of those crazy guys on TV yelling about conspiracy theories and searching for UFOs.
"No? Are we not talking about that Rachel that gives up her dream of being famous everytime there is a setback? She was running around in her jammies when she failed her audition. Tina had to drag her to convince that teacher to come to Nationals. She didn't get in and hasn't done anything to plan an alternative." Puck explains.
"Is that true?" Kurt's dad sounds really sad about it. Of course he does, Kurt and Rachel were friends for a long time when they were little before they reconnected in Glee Club.
"Well, her dads told my mum that they are pretty bummed that she doesn't want to talk to them about her future. Something about her dream finally being dead."
Kurt couldn't care less about her dramatics, but she has to get over NYADA. It's not as if she dreamed about going there since she was little.
Finn seems to have come to the same conclusion, "Fine, I'll tell her tomorrow."