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"So prom's coming up," Kurt Hummel said plainly, stabbing at the lettuce in his mediocre school-bought salad. "What are your guys' plans?"
Kurt had been back at McKinley for two weeks. Not that he didn't love his time spent at Dalton with Blaine and the Warblers, but he was glad to be back. He had missed his friends at his old school.
"None," Rachel Berry answered dully. "You can't go if you're single."
"Are you still going on about that, Rachel," Mercedes Jones asked her best friend, the impatience thick in her voice. "I told you before. You have to choose between love and talent sometimes, and-"
"I know, I know. But neither of you are taking that advice very well, either. Kurt, you and Blaine have been going out for almost a month now; Mercedes, that football player Anthony Rashad has been pursuing you ever since November and he is not letting up anytime soon. I should just face it: I'm going to be the only one without a date for prom. So I shouldn't go."
Kurt gave her a sad smile and patted her hand. Mercedes was shocked. "I can't believe this. Glee club legend and trendsetter Rachel Berry isn't going to prom?! Are you feeling okay?"
Rachel giggled. "What's the point? Finn is obviously going with Quinn, and he's the only guy I would accept." Her smile had faded.
Kurt grinned deviously. "You seem to have forgotten who I am. Let me refresh your memory: Finn's my step-brother. This means I know everything going on in his head, because he isn't good at keeping secrets." His expression became serious. "He's not over you, Rachel. He pretends he is, because you act like you've moved on too, but he's only dating Quinn because she scared him into it."
"I don't blame him," Mercedes laughed, eyeing the mean-looking blond they were talking about. "She's the scariest thing I've ever met."
Rachel smirked. "So what am I supposed to do?" she asked Kurt.
He got that sneaky look on his face again. I'll talk about you at home, but you need to make sure you get a date. Make Finn jealous. And don't settle for a guy just because he'll definitely say yes- like Jacob- try to get a date Finn will hate."
"But remember? Rachel already tried to make Finn jealous with Puck and Jesse. If it always backfired before, why would it work now?" Rachel nodded in agreement with Mercedes.
"Because, honey, I'm an expert at this. With my help, there's absolutely no way anything can go wrong." Kurt sounded confident, and he was convincing Rachel and Mercedes quickly.
"What are your plans for prom, Kurt? Can we expect to see Blaine at McKinley?" She gasped before adding, "Out of uniform?"
"Maybe," Kurt answered, trying to be mysterious. His iPhone buzzed and he pulled it out of his jacket pocket. "Speak of the devil…"
"What does he say?" Mercedes asked, reaching out to snatch the phone.
Kurt pulled the iPhone away just in time. "Let me read it first!" Mercedes pulled her arm back and pouted.
The text from Blaine simply asked what he was doing, but Kurt still smiled. "Discussing prom," he wrote back. An answer came in an impossibly short time.
"I bet you're enjoying that conversation. I wish I could see your face."
Kurt sighed happily at the words. Rachel and Mercedes were anxious to hear what Blaine had written. "I wish you could be here, too. I miss you a lot," Kurt responded.
Before Kurt begin to talk about how perfect Blaine was (for the fifth time that day), Finn Hudson burst into the cafeteria and ran to the table where his three friends sat. His hair was more tousled than usual from the warm breeze outside, and he had a goofy grin on his face.
"Kurt!" he exclaimed when he reached his stepbrother, out of breath. "Come outside, you've got to see this!"
Kurt was obviously annoyed. "Not now, Finn-" But Kurt was interrupted when Finn grabbed his wrist and jerked him towards the door. Rachel and Mercedes quickly threw away their trash and chased after the brothers.
Finn slammed into the heavy doors to get outside. "What are we doing?" a shaken Kurt squealed when they came to a stop at the top of the ramp. Finn wasn't listening, though. He was searching the courtyard for someone.
"Yo, Finn!" The boy's friend Artie at a table with all of the other glee club members. He had his biker-gloved hands cupped around his mouth as he yelled. Once Finn spotted his wheel-chair bound buddy he began pulling Kurt in that direction again.
Kurt was relieved to stop being bragged once he ad Finn reached the table. Apparently Mercedes and Rachel hadn't felt like running- they were strutting across the courtyard towards Kurt.
"What was that all about?" Kurt asked for the second time. Again, nobody answered. Instead, Finn pushed the smaller boy down onto the bench at the end of the table. Kurt looked over his shoulder at his friends from glee club. He searched their faces for a clue of what was happening, but the only thing he saw were a dozen smiles identical to Finn's.
"Well don't stare at us," Santana Lopez snapped with a laugh. "Just watch."
"Watch what?!" Kurt tried to wail, but Sam Evans shoved his shoulder to make him face the other way.
Right when Kurt was about to explode with curiosity and irritation, the intercom crackled.
"Hey, Kurt' we've got a song for you." Kurt recognized the voice as Wes Hughes,' one of the Warblers, and cocked his head. What was he doing here?
Suddenly, all of the Dalton Academy Warblers streamed into the courtyard. Each one was carrying a microphone and whistling a familiar tune. They got in three lines on the tall set of stairs at the end of the yard in front of Kurt.
The McKinley students looked up from their disgusting lunched and boring notes at the uniform-clad private schoolers, who were beginning to sing the opening to a song in a capella. Kurt spotted all of his old friends- Wes, David, Nick, Thad- but where was Blaine?
He felt a hand rest on his shoulder and jumped. The New Directions giggled. Kurt looked up to see Blaine smiling at him. Kurt opened his mouth to formally introduce his boyfriend to his friends, but Blaine silenced him by taking his hand. Kurt tried not to swoon at the simple gesture as Blaine began to sing to him. He recognized it as one of his favorite songs.
"Let's pretend baby,
That you've just met me,
And I've never seen you before."
The rest of the Warblers ran down the stairs to Blaine's side.
"I'll tell all my friends
That I think you're starin'
And you'll say the same
To yours"
Blaine winked at Rachel and Mercedes who giggled and turned red. Wes and David, Blaine's two best friends, went over to the girls and began to twirl them around.
"And, oh, we'll dance around it all night
And then I'll follow you outside
And try to open my mouth,
But nothing seems to come out right"
Blaine took Kurt's hand sand pulled him to his feet. Despite how much Kurt was blushing, the two began to dance around the courtyard.
"And I wanna fall in love with you again,
I don't have to try, it's so easy
Who needs to pretend?
But because it's so funny
Let's just think about it, honey
Let's just fall in love again
The New Directions couldn't contain their laughter. Tears came to Mercedes' eyes as she watched her best friend and her boyfriend skirt around the tables in the yard. She had never seen Kurt look so happy.
The students of McKinley started to clap along, and this was obviously irritating Rachel. When the New Directions had their own flash mob at school earlier in the year, only two people looked up- Sam Evans and Sunshine Corazon. That wasn't much of an audience, if you ask her.
"We'll fall disgustingly fast,
And we'll stop hanging out with friends,
And they'll be so offended…
And I just wanna fall in love with you again
I don't have to try, it's so easy
Who needs to pretend?
But because it's so funny
Let's just think about it, honey
Let's just fall in love again…
The song came to an end and the students erupted into an applause.
Finn leaned down to whisper to his girlfriend, Quinn. "People thought it was cute when Kurt and I danced at the wedding, but it looks a lot cooler when Blaine does it." She rolled her eyes.
Blaine gestured for the Warblers and New Direction members to come over. Wes put his arm around Santana possessively, and she let him. Brittany and Sam watched jealously.
Once all of Kurt's friends surrounded the couple, Blaine smirked at Kurt. "Hey," he said nonchalantly.
They all chuckled in anticipation. "Hey," Kurt echoed, looking around. "What's with the crowd?"
"I was planning to ask you to prom right now. I figured there was a better chance of you saying yes if your friends were watching."
"Why would he say no?" Santana asked softly, eyeing Blaine appreciatively. The boys from Dalton laughed, not realizing that Santana wasn't joking.
"She's got a point," Kurt said.
This made Blaine smile. "Okay then… Kurt, will you go to prom with me?"
"I'd love to."
Everybody cheered. Rachel, Mercedes, and Tina Cohen-Chang elbowed through the crowd to Kurt's side.
"What are you going to wear?" Mercedes asked Kurt breathlessly.
Kurt paled. "I don't know!"
She tsked and pulled him away to talk about prom trends. "New Directions, Warblers; Warblers, New Directions," he barely managed to introduce the two groups before his girlfriends dragged him away.
"I'm totally going to wear a purple dress," Mercedes announced, pushing Kurt down into a seat. "My sister told me it stood for royalty."
"Fine, you called purple, so I get gold. They both symbolize being the best," Rachel dealed. "What about you, Tina? I'm sure you have plans to wear something beautiful."
Tina began to explain for she wanted to dress a little more modern for prom, but Kurt had zoned out. He gazed longingly across the courtyard at Blaine, who was in a conversation with Finn. Finn was trying to be a good step-son by doing a bad job of intimidating Blaine, while the other boy was nodding along, trying to make a good impression. Blaine's expression changed when he felt Kurt's eyes on him. He glanced at Kurt in the corner of his eye, knowing what he was thinking.
"Excuse me," Blaine said to Finn, interrupting him. Finn watched in disbelief as Blaine crossed the yard to his boyfriend. Quinn patted Finn on the shoulder, not trying very hard to be comforting.
Kurt tried not to smile too wide when Blaine came over and took his hand. Tina paused mid-sentence as Kurt got up from the table and walked away with Blaine. Mercedes and Tina looked upset, but Rachel just shrugged. "It was going to happen sooner or later," she said flatly as they watched the cute couple go.
Blaine led the way until they got inside the school, when Kurt pulled them into the choir room. They sat down next to each other and Blaine looked around.
"I missed you too," he said, smiling at Kurt. "I never got to respond to your last text."
Kurt grinned. "How on earth did you pull that performance off, Blaine?"
"It wasn't my idea, actually. Turns out the rest of the Warblers have been dying for us to get together ever since they met you. They've had this planned out for months, and never told me about it. They were planning to make me ask you to prom that way, whether we were already a couple or not."
"God… I love those guys," Kurt said quietly, making Blaine laugh.
Blaine put his arm around Kurt. "I do too."
END OF PART 1

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"So prom's coming up," Kurt Hummel said plainly, stabbing at the lettuce in his mediocre school-bought salad. "What are your guys' plans?"
Kurt had been back at McKinley for two weeks. Not that he didn't love his time spent at Dalton with Blaine and the Warblers, but he was glad to be back. He had missed his friends at his old school.
"None," Rachel Berry answered dully. "You can't go if you're single."
"Are you still going on about that, Rachel," Mercedes Jones asked her best friend, the impatience thick in her voice. "I told you before. You have to choose between love and talent sometimes, and-"
"I know, I know. But neither of you are taking that advice very well, either. Kurt, you and Blaine have been going out for almost a month now; Mercedes, that football player Anthony Rashad has been pursuing you ever since November and he is not letting up anytime soon. I should just face it: I'm going to be the only one without a date for prom. So I shouldn't go."
Kurt gave her a sad smile and patted her hand. Mercedes was shocked. "I can't believe this. Glee club legend and trendsetter Rachel Berry isn't going to prom?! Are you feeling okay?"
Rachel giggled. "What's the point? Finn is obviously going with Quinn, and he's the only guy I would accept." Her smile had faded.
Kurt grinned deviously. "You seem to have forgotten who I am. Let me refresh your memory: Finn's my step-brother. This means I know everything going on in his head, because he isn't good at keeping secrets." His expression became serious. "He's not over you, Rachel. He pretends he is, because you act like you've moved on too, but he's only dating Quinn because she scared him into it."
"I don't blame him," Mercedes laughed, eyeing the mean-looking blond they were talking about. "She's the scariest thing I've ever met."
Rachel smirked. "So what am I supposed to do?" she asked Kurt.
He got that sneaky look on his face again. I'll talk about you at home, but you need to make sure you get a date. Make Finn jealous. And don't settle for a guy just because he'll definitely say yes- like Jacob- try to get a date Finn will hate."
"But remember? Rachel already tried to make Finn jealous with Puck and Jesse. If it always backfired before, why would it work now?" Rachel nodded in agreement with Mercedes.
"Because, honey, I'm an expert at this. With my help, there's absolutely no way anything can go wrong." Kurt sounded confident, and he was convincing Rachel and Mercedes quickly.
"What are your plans for prom, Kurt? Can we expect to see Blaine at McKinley?" She gasped before adding, "Out of uniform?"
"Maybe," Kurt answered, trying to be mysterious. His iPhone buzzed and he pulled it out of his jacket pocket. "Speak of the devil…"
"What does he say?" Mercedes asked, reaching out to snatch the phone.
Kurt pulled the iPhone away just in time. "Let me read it first!" Mercedes pulled her arm back and pouted.
The text from Blaine simply asked what he was doing, but Kurt still smiled. "Discussing prom," he wrote back. An answer came in an impossibly short time.
"I bet you're enjoying that conversation. I wish I could see your face."
Kurt sighed happily at the words. Rachel and Mercedes were anxious to hear what Blaine had written. "I wish you could be here, too. I miss you a lot," Kurt responded.
Before Kurt begin to talk about how perfect Blaine was (for the fifth time that day), Finn Hudson burst into the cafeteria and ran to the table where his three friends sat. His hair was more tousled than usual from the warm breeze outside, and he had a goofy grin on his face.
"Kurt!" he exclaimed when he reached his stepbrother, out of breath. "Come outside, you've got to see this!"
Kurt was obviously annoyed. "Not now, Finn-" But Kurt was interrupted when Finn grabbed his wrist and jerked him towards the door. Rachel and Mercedes quickly threw away their trash and chased after the brothers.
Finn slammed into the heavy doors to get outside. "What are we doing?" a shaken Kurt squealed when they came to a stop at the top of the ramp. Finn wasn't listening, though. He was searching the courtyard for someone.
"Yo, Finn!" The boy's friend Artie at a table with all of the other glee club members. He had his biker-gloved hands cupped around his mouth as he yelled. Once Finn spotted his wheel-chair bound buddy he began pulling Kurt in that direction again.
Kurt was relieved to stop being bragged once he ad Finn reached the table. Apparently Mercedes and Rachel hadn't felt like running- they were strutting across the courtyard towards Kurt.
"What was that all about?" Kurt asked for the second time. Again, nobody answered. Instead, Finn pushed the smaller boy down onto the bench at the end of the table. Kurt looked over his shoulder at his friends from glee club. He searched their faces for a clue of what was happening, but the only thing he saw were a dozen smiles identical to Finn's.
"Well don't stare at us," Santana Lopez snapped with a laugh. "Just watch."
"Watch what?!" Kurt tried to wail, but Sam Evans shoved his shoulder to make him face the other way.
Right when Kurt was about to explode with curiosity and irritation, the intercom crackled.
"Hey, Kurt' we've got a song for you." Kurt recognized the voice as Wes Hughes,' one of the Warblers, and cocked his head. What was he doing here?
Suddenly, all of the Dalton Academy Warblers streamed into the courtyard. Each one was carrying a microphone and whistling a familiar tune. They got in three lines on the tall set of stairs at the end of the yard in front of Kurt.
The McKinley students looked up from their disgusting lunched and boring notes at the uniform-clad private schoolers, who were beginning to sing the opening to a song in a capella. Kurt spotted all of his old friends- Wes, David, Nick, Thad- but where was Blaine?
He felt a hand rest on his shoulder and jumped. The New Directions giggled. Kurt looked up to see Blaine smiling at him. Kurt opened his mouth to formally introduce his boyfriend to his friends, but Blaine silenced him by taking his hand. Kurt tried not to swoon at the simple gesture as Blaine began to sing to him. He recognized it as one of his favorite songs.
"Let's pretend baby,
That you've just met me,
And I've never seen you before."
The rest of the Warblers ran down the stairs to Blaine's side.
"I'll tell all my friends
That I think you're starin'
And you'll say the same
To yours"
Blaine winked at Rachel and Mercedes who giggled and turned red. Wes and David, Blaine's two best friends, went over to the girls and began to twirl them around.
"And, oh, we'll dance around it all night
And then I'll follow you outside
And try to open my mouth,
But nothing seems to come out right"
Blaine took Kurt's hand sand pulled him to his feet. Despite how much Kurt was blushing, the two began to dance around the courtyard.
"And I wanna fall in love with you again,
I don't have to try, it's so easy
Who needs to pretend?
But because it's so funny
Let's just think about it, honey
Let's just fall in love again
The New Directions couldn't contain their laughter. Tears came to Mercedes' eyes as she watched her best friend and her boyfriend skirt around the tables in the yard. She had never seen Kurt look so happy.
The students of McKinley started to clap along, and this was obviously irritating Rachel. When the New Directions had their own flash mob at school earlier in the year, only two people looked up- Sam Evans and Sunshine Corazon. That wasn't much of an audience, if you ask her.
"We'll fall disgustingly fast,
And we'll stop hanging out with friends,
And they'll be so offended…
And I just wanna fall in love with you again
I don't have to try, it's so easy
Who needs to pretend?
But because it's so funny
Let's just think about it, honey
Let's just fall in love again…
The song came to an end and the students erupted into an applause.
Finn leaned down to whisper to his girlfriend, Quinn. "People thought it was cute when Kurt and I danced at the wedding, but it looks a lot cooler when Blaine does it." She rolled her eyes.
Blaine gestured for the Warblers and New Direction members to come over. Wes put his arm around Santana possessively, and she let him. Brittany and Sam watched jealously.
Once all of Kurt's friends surrounded the couple, Blaine smirked at Kurt. "Hey," he said nonchalantly.
They all chuckled in anticipation. "Hey," Kurt echoed, looking around. "What's with the crowd?"
"I was planning to ask you to prom right now. I figured there was a better chance of you saying yes if your friends were watching."
"Why would he say no?" Santana asked softly, eyeing Blaine appreciatively. The boys from Dalton laughed, not realizing that Santana wasn't joking.
"She's got a point," Kurt said.
This made Blaine smile. "Okay then… Kurt, will you go to prom with me?"
"I'd love to."
Everybody cheered. Rachel, Mercedes, and Tina Cohen-Chang elbowed through the crowd to Kurt's side.
"What are you going to wear?" Mercedes asked Kurt breathlessly.
Kurt paled. "I don't know!"
She tsked and pulled him away to talk about prom trends. "New Directions, Warblers; Warblers, New Directions," he barely managed to introduce the two groups before his girlfriends dragged him away.
"I'm totally going to wear a purple dress," Mercedes announced, pushing Kurt down into a seat. "My sister told me it stood for royalty."
"Fine, you called purple, so I get gold. They both symbolize being the best," Rachel dealed. "What about you, Tina? I'm sure you have plans to wear something beautiful."
Tina began to explain for she wanted to dress a little more modern for prom, but Kurt had zoned out. He gazed longingly across the courtyard at Blaine, who was in a conversation with Finn. Finn was trying to be a good step-son by doing a bad job of intimidating Blaine, while the other boy was nodding along, trying to make a good impression. Blaine's expression changed when he felt Kurt's eyes on him. He glanced at Kurt in the corner of his eye, knowing what he was thinking.
"Excuse me," Blaine said to Finn, interrupting him. Finn watched in disbelief as Blaine crossed the yard to his boyfriend. Quinn patted Finn on the shoulder, not trying very hard to be comforting.
Kurt tried not to smile too wide when Blaine came over and took his hand. Tina paused mid-sentence as Kurt got up from the table and walked away with Blaine. Mercedes and Tina looked upset, but Rachel just shrugged. "It was going to happen sooner or later," she said flatly as they watched the cute couple go.
Blaine led the way until they got inside the school, when Kurt pulled them into the choir room. They sat down next to each other and Blaine looked around.
"I missed you too," he said, smiling at Kurt. "I never got to respond to your last text."
Kurt grinned. "How on earth did you pull that performance off, Blaine?"
"It wasn't my idea, actually. Turns out the rest of the Warblers have been dying for us to get together ever since they met you. They've had this planned out for months, and never told me about it. They were planning to make me ask you to prom that way, whether we were already a couple or not."
"God… I love those guys," Kurt said quietly, making Blaine laugh.
Blaine put his arm around Kurt. "I do too."
END OF PART 1