It's been a week since Kurt and I finalized our relationship with each other. Things have been better between us because not it's not awkward and we know where we stand with each other.
We haven't told anyone just yet because we know that they will be judgmental towards us since Kurt just got divorced. Kurt and Courtney have been split up for a couple months now, but they've only been divorced for a little while. It only was official last week.
Part of me is wondering if I'm making the right decisions since he just got out of his marriage that lasted only a year.
"Kaitlyn," Kurt calls from the other room.
"Yeah?" I ask, walking over to him.
"I got the tour schedule," He pats next to him on the bed for me to sit down, so I do. "There's going to be, like, one show every month, but that's all. The actual tour doesn't start until October, though."
I nod my head. "Okay. Do I go with you guys or do I stay back?"
"It's up to you, Kaitlyn."
I sigh. "I don't even know where I stand with Krist right now. We haven't spoken to each other in so long."
"Well, you could always try talking things out with him."
"Are you guys good now?"
He shakes his head. "We haven't really spoken to each other in a long time, either. But I'm going to have to talk to him about the tour soon, so, we could head over there today and sort things out with them."
"Kurt, they were mad about us kissing. How do you think they're going to react to hearing that we're fucking dating again?"
He shrugs his shoulders. "But does it really matter what they think? We said yes and that's all that matters."
"My brother is older than us," I explain. "He's going to be wiser. But, not only that, I want my brother's approval for things. I don't want him to be pissed off every single time we're around him just because he disagrees with us."
"Even if he's like that now, he won't be that way forever," Kurt takes a sip of his water and then sets it back down on the dresser. "You know him. He's always going to be by your side no matter what."
"I just don't want him to be mad at me."
"Then let's go sort things out with him."
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As we approach his front door, I immediately turn around to walk back to the car, but Kurt grabs my arm and pulls me towards him.
"Just where do you think you're going?" He asks me, putting his hands on either side of my face.
"I can't do this," I chuckle, shaking tremendously. "I'm so nervous! How are you not nervous?"
"Do you know how many times I've gotten into arguments with him?" He smiles, thinking about all those memories. "I've pissed him off more times than I can count."
Just then, I hear the sound of locks unlocking from the other side of the door. My stomach drops and I immediately bury my face in Kurt's chest, not wanting to see Kurt's reaction to me being here.
"Kurt?" Krist asks. "What are you doing here?"
"We wanted to talk to you," Kurt says, gently squeezing my arm, signaling for me to sit up and look at Krist.
I pull away from Kurt and look at Krist. He looks unphased by us, as if he sees us everyday. On the bright side, he doesn't even really look angry with us.
"Hi," I wave to him softly, but he's not paying attention to me. He's looking back and forth between Kurt and I. Kurt is holding my hand and caressing it softly with his thumb.
I pull away from him, not wanting Krist to get mad at us before we even have a chance to walk through the door.
"Can we come inside?" I ask him as we all just awkwardly look at each other.
"Oh, right," He chuckles and steps to the side, allowing us to come inside.
We take a seat on the couch like we normally do. I make sure to sit farther away from Kurt than we normally do.
Kurt shoots me a look, knowing that I'm acting weird, but I don't want to explain it to him right now. I don't want Krist to overhear us talking about this and us not be able to explain to him that we're together.
Krist takes a seat at the couch adjacent to us. "So, what do you guys need?"
"We don't need anything," Kurt says. "We're just here to talk to you about a couple of things."
"Like what?" Krist asks, leaning back in his seat.
"Well-"
"Kaitlyn!" Someone shrieks from behind me. I whip my head around and see Shelli running towards me. She leans down and hugs me, somehow lifting me up out of my seat. "What are you doing here?!"
"I wanted to see you guys," I smile at her, not wanting to tell her anything else. I love how she misses me and I want it to seem like I miss her, too. "And to talk to you about a couple of things, too."
I sit back down as she takes a seat next to Krist, her smile not once disappearing from her face.
Shelli always has a way to make me feel loved. She always seems excited to see me. My mother always acts like that, too, but it's different since Shelli's not my mother. She doesn't have to feel that way.
"First things first," Kurt clears his throat. "I got a touring schedule from Danny and-"
"Who's Danny?" I interrupt and ask.
"He's our manager," Kurt turns his face back to Krist and Shelli. He reaches inside of his pocket and takes out a folded piece of paper and hands it to Krist. "Here's the schedule for our next concerts. We can look it over if you would like and switch anything that needs to be switched."
"This looks fine," Krist shortly says, not even looking at the paper and hands it back to Kurt.
He's still mad.
"What the fuck is your problem?" Kurt snaps at Krist.
Here we go.
Shelli and I make eye contact with each other as we both know that they're about to argue yet again.
Krist stands up. "Let's go talk, Kurt."
Kurt stands up and follows Krist into his bedroom, not once looking back at us. I look at Shelli and she starts laughing. I feel relieved that we don't have to take it seriously, so I laugh, too.
"God, what the hell was that?" She groans.
"Have they done that before?" I ask her, remembering that Kurt mentioned he and Krist used to get into arguments quite a bit. Shelli has been with Krist for a while now, so she must know.
"Countless times," She chuckles softly. "But, that's normal for them."
I nod my head. "Yeah, that's not good."
"How have you been, Kaitlyn?"
"I've been good," I reply. "I mean, I've been a little out of it for a little while, but this past week I've been better. What about you?"
"I've been just fine," She then smirks and looks behind me. "Do you want to go eavesdrop on them?"
I giggle and run to Krist's bedroom door. Shelli and I press our ear against the door and listen.
"I've been trying," Kurt says. "I've been fucking trying and you know that I have."
"Well try harder," Krist snaps back.
"You have no idea what I've fucking been through, Krist."
"And who's fault is that? No one's forcing you to go and shoot up, Kurt. In fact, we're all doing the opposite."
My face turns white and I stare at Shelli. She's giving me the same expression.
I didn't know that Kurt was still using. He told me that he was going through a withdrawal. Why would he lie about that to me?
"And I stopped," Kurt says. "I found something that helps my stomach and I've stopped."
Krist sighs heavily. "You're not going to hurt her, do you understand me? You hurt Courtney terribly-which I get that she did the same thing to you-but you will not do that to Kaitlyn, do you understand me? She's come this far and I'm not going to let you fuck up anything like this for her."
"I would never," Kurt says. "You know I love her, Krist. You know I do."
"Then fucking show her!"
"I have! For the past week I have."
Krist chuckles. "I can't believe that you guys are doing this again."
"Me either," Kurt sighs. "I mean, I'm not complaining."
"You better not."
"So, do I have your blessing?" Kurt jokingly asks.
"By the power vested in me," Krist impersonates a British accent. "I now pronounce you boyfriend and girlfriend."
Shelli stands up and opens the door, causing me to fall slightly since I was leaning against the door. I chuckle softly to myself and see her hugging Kurt and Krist tightly. Kurt made eye contact with me and I can tell that he's grateful for this.
I stand up and join the hug. Kurt groans, but Krist begins to giggle loudly and jump up and down.
"You're a geek," I roll my eyes at him.
He huffs and picks me up. I squeal as he does this and he throws me onto the bed.
"Krist Novoselic!" I shout at him. "You can't do that!"
"I just did," He shrugs his shoulders. "Congratulations on your new boyfriend."
I roll my eyes and playfully shove his arm. "Yeah, he's like a whole new person."
"Hey!" Kurt whips his head around and glares at me.
"What else did you guys want to talk about?" Shelli asks.
"Us being together, but Kurt already let the cat out of the bag," I smile at him, letting him know that I'm not mad at him.
"I'm so happy for you!" Shelli squeals.
"Me too," Kurt says.