The ride back is a lot better than the one going. The mood is less stifling and, if anything, more entertaining thanks to Cooper.

"- then the dog jumps all over me, licking at my face and ruining all of my makeup and messing up my hair! My charm is never ending, clearly," Cooper says seriously, lost in his ego, but everyone else is laughing. "They had to cast a new dog, which literally consisted of the production team running out and finding a random dog off the street."

"And all that for a dog food commercial," Blaine offers, still chuckling lightly.

"Shut it, B. Being attacked by a huge Great Dane is no laughing matter."

Blaine rolls his eyes, but before he gets a chance to reply, the limousine pulls to a stop outside of his apartment.

He and Kurt both say their goodbyes, which consist of hugs and promises of seeing each other soon from Cooper, kisses on the cheek from Helena, and handshakes from Simon.

"So, you survived," Blaine comments as he links his arm in Kurt's while walking up the stairs to the building.

Kurt hums. "Well, I'm still alive."

"Hey, it wasn't that bad was it?"

"No, it wasn't that bad," Kurt confirms, turning to accept a peck on the lips from Blaine.

"You were perfect."

As soon as he gets into Blaine's apartment, he throws on a pair of sweats and a slightly-too-big shirt, both belonging to his boyfriend. He runs a hand through his hair, messing up the style, and smiles. He loves that he can be so casual and not care in front of Blaine; there are very few people he would let see him like this.

"Kurt, you're phone is ringing," Blaine calls from the other room and Kurt rushes in to get it.

"Dad!" he answers the phone happily. Meeting Blaine's parents tonight had made him realize how much he was really missing his father.

"Hey, kiddo. How's it going?"

Kurt smiles at the sound of his father's voice and settles into the space on the couch next to Blaine.

"Everything's good, I just got back from dinner with Blaine's parents."

"How'd it go?"

"It was fine, they're really nice." Kurt bites his lip. "I really miss you, dad."

"I know, I miss you, too. We'll see each other soon. I hope Blaine is looking after you."

"He is, he is," Kurt murmurs. He brings his legs up to his chest and nuzzles into his boyfriend's shoulder.

"Good. I won't keep you too long, I know it's late. Everyone here misses you as well. Love you, Kurt. Goodnight."

"I miss you all; give my love to Finn and Carole. Night, dad, love you."

"Tell that boy of yours I said goodnight. Bye, kiddo."

"Goodnight, Burt," Blaine shouts, able to hear the conversation.

"Bye," Kurt says and disconnects the call.

Blaine works his arm around him, making Kurt comfier yet. "You okay?" Blaine asks, absently stroking at his sides.

"I'm okay, tired," he answers quietly back.

"Have a little nap; I'll wake you up when we're going to bed."

"Mm'kay. Love you," Kurt says before his eyes fall shut.

"Baby? Come on, let's go to bed."

Blaine wakes him up an hour or so later by scattering kisses around his mouth.

Kurt straightens himself out, yawning and stretching. "Bed?" he asks quietly, blinking his eyes open to look at his beautiful boyfriend.

Blaine smiles at him fondly. "You're so cute when you're waking up." He gently rubs at Kurt's sides and captures his lips in a chaste short kiss.

"I'm up, I'm up," Kurt promises, not finding the energy to properly stand up.

"Don't make me carry you, mister," Blaine pouts.

The laugh bubbles up out of Kurt's chest at his boyfriend's actions. "You're so sassy, Blaine. You wouldn't dare," he teases.

But his laughers turns into squeals as Blaine quickly and swiftly puts an arm under his head and one behind his knees and lifts him up.

"Blaine Devon Anderson, put me down this very second!"

"Stop fidgeting, you're just making this worse for yourself," Blaine says with a satisfied smile on his face.

Kurt's arms fly around Blaine's neck as soon as he starts walking, holding on for dear life. The fight leaves him once he knows Blaine isn't going to give up and let him walk to the bedroom like a perfectly capable human being.

He humphs and Blaine retorts, "Don't act like you're not enjoying yourself," which he is, but that is so not the point.

Luckily, the bedroom isn't far away and before he knows it, Kurt is being placed down onto his side of the bed. "Well, I'm no longer tired," he mutters.

He doesn't get a reply as Blaine goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed. He doesn't take long and soon he is lying in bed next to Kurt.

"I know we mentioned it before, but tonight wasn't really that bad was it?" Blaine asks. The only light in the room is provided by the bedside lamp behind Kurt; it catches Blaine's eyes and Kurt could swear that they are liquid, reflecting the light and sparkling. It's almost a shame when he has to blink, but that gives Kurt the chance to focus on the amazingly long eyelashes than fan out across his cheeks. "Kurt?"

"Sorry," he says, coming back to himself. "It wasn't. Maybe not the best start, but your family is amazing." He searches for Blaine's hand and grabs hold of it under the covers.

"Yeah, I'm sorry about my dad especially earlier on the evening."

"You don't have to apologize for him. Was there... a reason he was like that?" Kurt asks, not wanting to offend, but some of the things Mr. Anderson had said were very cryptic.

Blaine sighs. "He's never been too happy with me being gay. It used to be a lot worse but he seemed to have gotten over it - to an extent anyway. But something happened about two years ago, with a boy, and he's never let it go."

He doesn't sound like he wants to expand, and Kurt doesn't like thinking of Blaine with anyone else, but he's curious. He squeezes his hand.

"It's stupid, and embarrassing," Blaine continues, averting his eyes. "To cut a long, painful story short, there was this guy I was seeing who was pretty much just using me to get close to my famous parents."

He wants to know more, but Blaine looks uncomfortable enough as it is. "That's horrible, I'm sorry," Kurt offers. "That guy was obviously an idiot."

"I don't care," Blaine says, smiling suddenly. "Because I have you, and nothing else matters."

Kurt scrunches his face. "You big cheese ball."

"You love it."

"I love you," Kurt says, curling into Blaine chest. He's not sure how he will cope when he has to go back home, sleeping alone is a foreign concept to him now.

"I love you, too. Night, baby."

When they wake in the morning, they both seem to have the same idea.

Blaine places the laptop on the bed in between them and loads it up.

"I've rarely been on this lately, it's crazy," Blaine comments as he sees his inbox has '100+' messages. "I don't even want to look," he groans.

Kurt laughs sympathetically. "I know how it is. Oh, you're over eleven thousand followers," he says happily, pointing to the screen. "Now let's see the damage from last night."

They find Emma's blog, which is surprisingly easy, before they look at the rest of the damage. As soon as Kurt sees the title of her blog, 'Very cute, I like it', he's thrown back suddenly to the unsure and early stages of his and Blaine's relationship; when he was still trapped in Lima, Ohio, seeking security online and making friends with a new blog. But Blaine had always been so much more than that. When he had posted a picture of his outfit for the day and Blaine had commented with those words. He leans his head on his boyfriends shoulder as they try to skim over the pages of her blog to find the posts she must have made last night.

guys gUYS GUYS! GUESS WHO IS IN THE RESTAURANT I WORK AT IM NOT EVEN KIDDING KLAINE ARE HERE. KURT AND BLAINE ARE HERE

BLAINE'S LAST NAME IS ANDERSON RIGHT? BECAUSE HELENA AND SIMON ANDERSON ARE HERE TOO

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. IM FREAKING OUT, KURT MUST BE MEETING BLAINE'S PARENTS

G U Y S

I WAS TAKING THEIR ORDER AND IT WAS ALL GOOD BECAUSE CELEBRITIES ARE ALWAYS HERE AND I WAS LIKE COOL BUT THEN I SAW KURT AND BLAINE AND I SWEAR I FORGOT HOW TO BREATHE

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO BACK OVER THERE

OMG COOPER ANDERSON JUST SHOWED UP

COOPER IS HUGGING BLAINE

NOW KURT

I HAVE TO GO BACK OVER, HELP?

update: I took their orders. Kurt likes fish and Blaine decided to 'have what this lovely guy here is having' THEY ARE SO CUTE AND SO NICE I CAN'T DO THIS

THEY'RE HOLDING HANDS UNDER THE TABLE. I REPEAT. THEY ARE HOLDING HANDS UNER TH E

BLAINE IS SO CHARMING, I SWEAR. HE REMEMBERED MY NAME. BUT THEN I THINK I KINDA GAVE IT UP BECAUSE I CALLED HIM BU HIS NAME THEN I COMPLETELY LOST IT AND TOLD KURT THAT THEY'RE SO GOOD TOGETHER. HE LOOKED SO HAPPY AND HUMBLED AND I CAN'T WITH THESE TWO

I'M TRYING TO GET THROUGH MY OTHER TABLES QUICKLY SO I CAN WATCH THEM

THEY'RE SO ADORABLE

EVERYONE IS GETTING ALONG SO NICELY. THEY DON'T WANT DESSERT.

I AM SOBBING

OH MY GOD THEY LEFT ME A NOTE

THEY LEFT ME A NOTE!

THESE BOYS ARE SO FUCKING PERFECT. IF THEY EVER SEE THIS I JUST HOPE THEY KNOW HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE THAT THEY DID THAT AND FOR THEM TO KNOW THAT I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

There's a picture of the receipt with the note on which already has over three thousand reviews.

"This is... this is crazy," Blaine says, shaking his head in disbelief. "The way people are so invested in us. I just - that's crazy, right?"

"Crazy," Kurt mutters in agreement. "Is there more?"

"That's the main bit on her blog. I suppose we'd see the Tumblr 'freakout' if I scrolled far enough down my dash."

"Is it bad that I want to see?" Kurt asks, grinning slightly and biting his lip.

Blaine chuckles but doesn't answer; just goes back to his dashboard and scrolls down, reblogging a few things along the way. "Ah, here we go."

wait, so kurt and blaine are on a date?

how bad are is everyone wishing they worked at the same place as emma rn

blaine is related to helena and simon? omg no wonder he is so good looking. i mean damn.

KURT IS MEETING THE PARENTS? UNLESS THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE EVEN BLAINE'S PARENTS CAN SEE HOW PERFECT THEY ARE FOR EACH OTHER

it's been a while since the last Klaine riot, I've been needing this. The fact that they're all out together is so adorable. The whole fandom has been following them for a while and can we just appreciate the fact that this website has brought them together and now they're actually in New York together and going on dates together and meeting each others parents. They're in love and - fuck, they're so perfect for each other. Long live klaine.

wow you guys work fast. fic rec: Inconveniences | NC-17 | Cooper walks in on his little brother and his boyfriend in a very compromising position.

THEY'RE COPYING ORDERS? jgsnboidsfoisfdnbbsktb BOYSSSSSSSS

oh my god?

omg what did I miss OMG klaine date with parents!

they're holding hands under the table I bet Kurt is stroking Blaine's hand as they interact with the parents

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT ^^ IS IT NOT BAD ENOUGH THIS IS HAPPENING TO START WITH

idk if i can do this lol

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I'm so happy but can we talk about the fact of WHO Blaine's parents are. and his brother, sigh, Cooper is so dreamy...

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that note is the cutest thing ever, these two are going to kill me

KURT AND BLAINE I LOVE YOU

"love klaine" r u kidding me. f u two. they know exactly what they're doing to us 33

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh date with family, acknowledgment of their ship name and written notes I CAN'T

jnnfeijcniejvnejrnfijrenfuinren same.

They're both laughing by the time they're done; they don't read it all, it goes on for too long, but it's so entertaining.

"They're on to us," Blaine teases, closing his laptop.

"Obviously," Kurt says as his laughter dies down. "You don't mind them knowing about your family do you?"

Blaine gives a weary smile. "There's nothing I can do about it now. But no, I don't really mind. One of the main reasons I made a Tumblr was to get away from all that, be somewhere where no one knows who my parents are and I can just be accepted for me."

Kurt turns to face him, he crosses his legs and he throws his arms around Blaine's shoulders. "Well you managed to get even more famous than your family if last night was anything to go by," he jokes, trying to lighten the mood.

It works. Blaine's laughs, his shoulders vibrating. "And so did you. Now, it's getting close to midday, should be go eat?"

Kurt pulls back, stealing a kiss as he goes and nods. He crawls over Blaine and drags his boyfriend out of bed behind him.

"Let's go."

A/N: This took longer than I anticipated, sorry! Now I'm done with college I'll have a lot more time to write. Like I said last time, there isn't much of this left, I wouldn't know where else to take it so I'm going to start wrapping this up next chapter. Thank you as always!