Fic: The Sparrow (PG)

Last week was Klaine Week 2013, and I wrote a bunch of fics. This one was for Friday's theme: Anniversary.

luckyjak prompted: “For "Anniversary" -- what they're doing this year, when they're broken up (do they call one another? Does Kurt go out with Adam? Does Blaine miss school? Do they try and pretend it's a normal day? Tell me tell me).”

~2,500 words of feels and hope. Dedicated to asecondgrace and luckyjak. And Klaine. And feels.

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On March 8, 2013, at 3:42 p.m., the same calendar reminder pops up on both of their phone displays: “THERE YOU ARE - ANNIVERSARY in one week.”

Kurt and Blaine have a lot of anniversaries. There’s the anniversary of the day they met, and the anniversary of their first official date, and the anniversary of the first time they spent the night together (which is not the same as the first time they had sex).

But this is the only one that Kurt didn’t delete from his calendar back in November. He’d stared at it, the memories sweeping over him – his sweet, vulnerable Blaine sitting before him, giddy and a little terrified, and Kurt had felt the same way, too, thought his stomach was going to leap out of his mouth when Blaine spoke those magic words (“There you are, I’ve been looking for you forever”) and Kurt became absolutely speechless for the first time in years.

Kurt’s thumb had hovered over the red delete button for a long time. But in the end, he just couldn’t press it.

So here on a sunny winter afternoon in New York City, walking arm in arm with Adam in search of a romantic movie to help Kurt forget Moulin Rouge, Kurt’s phone buzzes in his pocket, and he immediately knows why without having to look.

He should delete it now – or maybe not right now, but as soon as Adam’s not looking. Maybe after they’ve bought their tickets and Adam goes to find them seats while Kurt stands in line for popcorn.

He really should.

But he doesn’t.

 

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