Time had never seemed to go by as fast for Kurt as it had during the past few weeks. Between rehearsals, costume fittings, and trying to stay in touch with Blaine, Burt, and Carole, Kurt was exhausted and definitely losing track of time. Before Kurt realized it, it was Christmas and he was on a plane back to Ohio to spend a very short break with his family and boyfriend.

Burt had called earlier that day to confirm that he and Carole would be meeting Kurt at the airport. The plan was to then go out for dinner and catch up. What Kurt wasn't expecting to see was Blaine standing there waiting with Burt and Carole. Kurt couldn't help but pick up his walking pace as when he saw them. Sure, he missed his dad, but Blaine was different.

Blaine could tell Kurt was surprised and extremely excited to see him, and Blaine couldn't deny the fact that he was practically bouncing with excitement on the drive over. Blaine walked toward Kurt and they met in the middle, arms going around each other.

"Oh my god, I've missed you," Kurt whispered into Blaine's ear.

"I know. I've missed you, too. Skype isn't quite enough."

Before pulling apart completely, they shared a quick kiss. Yes, they were in a crowded airport in not one of the most tolerable states in the country, but it had been almost four months since they had seen each other in person. Some people were going to just have to deal with that.

Kurt and Blaine let go of each other and walked over, hand in hand, to go greet Burt and Carole. Kurt let go of Blaine's hand and gave his dad a hug.

"It's good to see you, kiddo."

"I missed you too, dad. And you too, Carole."

Although everyone was happy to see each other, the group wanted to get out of the airport as quickly as possible. They got Kurt's luggage and made their way out of the airport and to the car and eventually over to Breadstix, because in all reality, there really isn't anywhere else to go for dinner in Lima.

Once seated, everyone started catching up, which mostly consisted of Burt, Carole, and Blaine asking Kurt about every little detail about his life in New York. While Kurt was happy to answer everyone's questions about New York, he had his own questions he wanted to ask, mostly about was exactly was going to be happening during the few days that he was home.

"Well, we don't have a ton of stuff planned," Burt explained. "Just the basic Christmas traditions with the four of us."

"Wait," Kurt said. "I thought Finn wasn't going to be home for Christmas. Did something change?"

"No, Finn's still at boot camp," Carole explained. "It's going to be the four of us. You, me, Burt, and Blaine."

"Wait, what?!"

"Yeah, your parents were kind enough to let me stay over while you are home."

"Are you serious?" Kurt couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was going to be able to spend the entire break, even if it really wasn't that long to begin with, with his boyfriend.

"Yup," Burt answered.

"But what about your parents?" While it was one thing that Burt agreed to let Blaine stay, it was another that Blaine's parents agreed to let him stay. Kurt didn't know Blaine's parents like Blaine knew Kurt's, but Kurt did know that Blaine's father wasn't particularly accepting.

"Yeah, well, my parents are out of town for something. It's not as if they are going to know if I'm here or at my house for a few days," Blaine explained.

"Oh," Kurt said. He really didn't want to elaborate on Blaine's relationship with his parents here, but maybe later he could actually talk to Blaine about it.

The group finished their meal and headed back to the Hummel-Hudson household. It wasn't exactly late when they got home, but Kurt was exhausted from travelling and his hectic schedule for the past few weeks. So, just after they all got in the house, he announced he was going to bed and would see them in the morning. Blaine went upstairs with Kurt. They both changed, Kurt did his skin care routine, and they crawled into Kurt's bed and immediately fell asleep.

The next day, Kurt and Blaine woke up and went downstairs to find Burt and Carole waiting for the boys to get up.

"Morning," Burt said.

"Good morning, dad."

Blaine just nodded. He was never a morning person, and was still adjusting to actually being up and moving. Blaine just slumped over into a chair at the kitchen table.

"Blaine still waking up?"

"Yeah. He's not much of a morning person. Is there coffee?"

"Over on the counter," Burt answered. "So what's on the agenda for today?"

"I was going to ask you the same thing," Kurt said as he poured coffee for Blaine and himself. "I purposely didn't plan anything because I didn't know what you were thinking." Kurt set the coffee down in front of Blaine. Blaine perked up a little and began to drink.

"Well, I'm assuming the two of you are going to want to do something. And I don't know if you are getting together with the glee club or not."

"I was only going to meet up with the glee club if I actually had time."

"Go see them," Carole said. "I know you are only here for a short time, but they are your friends. Go see them."

"We could go this afternoon," Blaine suggested.

"Looks like somebody finally woke up," Kurt laughed.

"Yes, I'm awake. I'm sorry that it takes awhile. We can't all be morning people."

"I know. So meeting with New Directions today?"

"It works for me," Blaine said. "I'll send everyone a text in a little bit."

The group planned to meet at the Lima Bean, just for the fact that it was in the center of town and was definitely the easiest place for everyone to meet.

Kurt and Blaine were the first to arrive, which wasn't a surprise, and slowly the rest of the members of New Directions filtered in. Well, everyone who was actually back in Lima for Christmas. Finn was at boot camp and Rachel and her parents were spending a few days in New York before heading back to Lima. As people got there, they ordered their drinks and pulled up couches and chairs to make one big circle.

Mercedes instantly sat next to Kurt. "Hey Mercedes. What's new?"

"Nothing much. Still recording back up vocals, but hopefully that will change soon."

"I don't doubt that you will get there. You have a fantastic voice, Mercedes. Anyone who doesn't hear that obviously needs to get their hearing checked."

"Thank you, Kurt. But what about you? There's only so much information you can get from Facebook. And that's even if you would update it frequently."

"I'm sorry. Life got in the way, so I didn't have much time for Facebook recently. What do you want to know?" Kurt asked.

"Just, what's it like? I mean you're on Broadway."

Kurt noticed that everyone was focused on what he was saying, which Kurt had to admit was a weird feeling. While he had been in New Directions for three years and had his times when the club focused solely on him, it was a strange feeling. Kurt figured it was probably because even though there was always drama with someone, usually it had to do with Rachel Berry.

"I mean it's hectic. I can't deny that. However, I wouldn't change it for the world. What about everyone else? What are you guys up to?"

Puck spoke up first. "The pool cleaning business is going great. And let me tell you, the ladies in L.A. Wow, much better than anything you will find in Ohio."

Quinn rolled her eyes at Puck. "Really, Noah? That's how you choose to explain what you're doing?"

"What's wrong with that? It's the truth and I thought that's what you wanted."

Quinn just rolled her eyes again. "Well, I just finished my first semester at Yale."

"How was it?" Tina asked.

"It was amazing. The people there are intelligent and fun to be around. I don't think I went wrong with that decision."

"I'm really happy for you, Quinn," Tina said.

"Thanks, Tina. What about you guys in New Directions? How's that going?"

The current members of New Directions shared a glance and finally Blaine spoke up. "It's going. We're going to Regionals, but it's hard. We lost so many of you guys at graduation, so we had to recruit a bunch of new people, which was really hard. It's still fun, but it just doesn't have the same group dynamic as it did last year."

"And it didn't help that some of the new people decided to try and take over the club," Artie said.

"What do you mean?" Puck asked.

"New Directions has a way of doing things, and we obviously don't want to change it because it seems to be working. I mean we won Nationals last year. So some of the new recruits come in and don't like the way we were doing things, and tried to completely take over. It's just hard. I have no problem with letting other people have solos or whatever, but you can't just come in and expect things to go your way just because you don't like the way we do things," Artie explained.

"So what happened?" Mercedes asked. All the former members of New Directions were very curious. It was obvious that there would be drama in New Directions because that was what happened in glee club. However, none of the former members knew anything like this had happened.

"Well, it's gotten better. Once we won Sectionals doing things our way, I think it kind of hit them that we know what we're doing. However, that doesn't mean that some people haven't stopped trying to get every solo," Artie said.

"But it's still not the same," Tina added.

"But that's expected," Mike said. "You guys still looked great at Sectionals."

"That's only because you came back to help with some choreography," Tina said.

"It wasn't that hard, though. It's less than five hours away and I had a long weekend."

"You still didn't have to come back and help us," Blaine said.

"But I wanted to."

"And we are extremely grateful," Sam added. "There was no way we would have been able to win without your help."

"That's true. You should have seen what the new people wanted to do. Disgusting," Sugar said.

"It wasn't that bad," Joe said, trying to defend the new members, even though they weren't there.

"Yes it was, and you know it," Sugar said.

"As much as I would love to sit here and watch these two go at it, there are other things we could talk about," Santana said, effectively breaking up any fight between Sugar and Joe.

"And what did you have in mind, Santana," Kurt asked.

"Like what's happening with me and Brittany," Santana responded.

"And what is that?" Mercedes asked.

"Oh, nothing we're still going strong, despite me being in Louisville while Brittany is in Lima. I just didn't want to have to break up a fight," Santana said.

Later that night, Kurt and Blaine were cuddled up in Kurt's bed talking about what was going to happen in the future with the two of them. It was obvious that Kurt was going to continue with Broadway.

"So, we're going to be in New York together next year," Kurt said.

"With you continuing to do phenomenally on Broadway."

"And you studying at Colombia. Have you made a decision about a major?"

"English," Blaine said.

"Sounds like an awful lot of reading."

"Yeah, but I love to read and all that stuff. And like I said, I want music to remain as something to do for fun and relaxation. I just can't believe we are actually going to be living together soon."

"Me either. It'll be nice not living by myself. It gets really lonely, even if I'm not home that often.

"And we won't have to worry about your dad coming home or interrupting us."

"That is definitely something to look forward too," Kurt said.

"So I have a question," Blaine said.

"Ok."

"What exactly happened with Rachel?"

"Well, we are on speaking terms again, and I think it's back to what it was before. Like we talk, and I'm not as afraid of accidentally saying something to offend her and making her jealous again. Although, no matter what happens, you will always have to worry about Rachel's jealousy."

"So she just came around?"

"I guess so. I think she was having some roommate issues, which could have definitely played a factor in everything. Plus, she never got back with Finn, or got a new boyfriend, so I guess she was lonely. And let's face it, I'm the only one she really knows in New York right now."

"I guess it makes sense, but she was still so rude before. It's just really hard to believe the turnaround."

"I get what you are saying," Kurt said, "but I think that she was just lonely and needed or wanted someone she has known for a while."

"I guess."

Kurt and Blaine continued talk for a while before they finally fell asleep. Unfortunately, their sleep didn't last as long as they would have liked because Burt came into the room early the next morning declaring that it was Christmas, so sleeping in was not allowed.

Sleepily, Kurt and Blaine got out of bed and made there way downstairs. Thankfully, Carole was kind enough to have coffee made, which significantly helped the waking up process.

As the boys woke up, everyone started exchanging gifts. Kurt was lucky enough to be able to do most of his Christmas shopping in New York, meaning Carole was able to get some gorgeous jewelry. Burt's gift was a little easier, seeing as Burt had been complaining about the crappy coffee maker in the garage, Kurt knew exactly what to get. Out of all of Kurt's gifts, Blaine definitely gave the best reaction.

"Oh my god. Oh my god," Blaine said as he opened Kurt's present. Kurt just smiled.

"You got me a ticket to come visit you," Blaine said in disbelief.

"Well, I would have loved to come back here and visited you, but my schedule doesn't exactly allow for that, so I was hoping you would maybe come out to visit me," Kurt said.

"Absolutely," Blaine said as he got up, wrapped his arms around Kurt and gave him a kiss.

"So you like it?" Kurt asked.

"Definitely. I can't wait."

"Me either."

"Now, it's my turn," Blaine said as he handed his gift to Kurt.

Kurt tore open the wrapping on the first gifts to find some homemade cookies. Kurt looked up at Blaine with a huge grin on his face. "Hey, I did promise to make cookies at least twice a year," Blaine said. "Keep going. There's more."

Kurt did as Blaine instructed and ripped the wrapping paper off the second box. Kurt's eyes widened. "What -? How did you -?"

Blaine laughed. "So I take it you like it?"

"Yes, it's amazing," Kurt said as he pulled the signed Wicked playbill out of the box.

"I know that you are probably going to meet them all in person at some point, but until then, you have this," Blaine explained.

"Thank you," Kurt said. This would make things much less awkward later if he actually met the original cast. He wouldn't have to ask for an autograph.

When the rest of the presents under the tree were opened, everyone went to the kitchen for some breakfast. It was the last time they would be doing this, because Kurt had to fly back to New York later that night. Kurt, Blaine, Burt, and Carole spent the rest of the day hanging around the house and just enjoying each other's company.

At about 7:00 that night, Kurt got everything ready so he could make his flight back to New York. Kurt got everything packed up and everyone loaded up in the car to take him to the airport.

One thing Kurt realized is that it would never be easy to say goodbye. He knew he would be seeing Burt, Carole, and Blaine again soon, but that didn't matter. He didn't want to leave them. Yes, Kurt wanted to be back in New York, but he wasn't quite ready to leave his family and boyfriend because they really didn't get to spend that much time together. The only good thing was that everyone would be coming out to New York very soon for Kurt's opening night.

Everyone said there goodbyes and Kurt walked on through security to eventually board his plane.