Kurt slammed his head down onto his desk, forgetting to cradle it in his hands. It made a sick cracking sound as the pain of it registered slowly. However in that moment it had been better than seeing Blaine standing in his office. Stupid Blaine wearing a big, goofy smile like he was the funniest person on the planet. Blaine who was now his employee. Blaine that had been hired as someone to go shopping with. Stupid fucking Blaine. How could this have happened?

"Call you what?" Came Cathy's voice, lacking any emotion, like she couldn't believe what Blaine had just said.

"Blaine!" Kurt snapped his head up off his desk. "Blaine! Cathy, you hired fucking Blaine! How could you?"

"Kurt," Cathy said brokenly; her eyes bugging out of her head, "Kurt I swear to God I didn't know. I would have never done that to you. You know that. I would never. He-He lied! He told me his name was Joshua! You never told me his last name or even what he looked like. How was I supposed to know that this was Blaine?"

"Wait," Kurt said slowly standing up, "he signed that contract Joshua Anderson right?"

Cathy nodded.

"Thats perfect!" Kurt clapped his hands together while Cathy just started at him. "You see! He didn't sign his own name therefore the contract is null and void! We can just rip it up and forget this whole thing ever happened!"

"Kurt it's not that simpl-"

"Can I say something?"

Kurt jumped when he heard Blaine's voice. He had almost forgotten that the other man was in the room.

"What do you have to say Joshua?" Kurt said with scorn.

Blaine smiled, "My name really is Joshua Blaine Anderson. I wasn't lying."

"You mean to tell me that we dated for almost three years and you never thought it necessary to tell me Blaine wasn't your first name?"

"It never came up. Works out pretty well for me now, huh?"

"I don't believe you!" Kurt yelled. This wasn't fair!

"Kurt," Cathy said quietly, "he has a birth certificate. He had to show one for the contract. I told you it was a lot of legal stuff."

Kurt's jaw dropped. His head whipped back and forth between Cathy's completely white and scared face to Blaine's smug smile. "Birth certificate?" He whispered.

Blaine smiled even bigger. He reached behind him to pull out a sheet of paper from his back pocket. He took a few steps toward Kurt holding the paper out. It took everything Kurt had not to step away from Blaine. Yet he still reached out and took the paper out of his hand.

Kurt's hands were shaking when he unfolded the page. He looked at the top and there it was, the Ohio state letter head. His eyes traced further down the paper to find Blaine's legal name, 'Joshua Blaine Anderson.' His index finger slowly traced over the raised seal. This was official. Kurt's heart sunk. The paper fluttered out of his hands and onto the ground as he looked up at Blaine.

"Told you I wasn't lying."

"Cathy let me see the contract please," Kurt said slowly turning to face her. He was at the point of being so mad that it wasn't even showing anymore.

"I-I have to go get it."

"Then go," Kurt practically growled.

"Yes sir!" Cathy squeaked and ran out of the office. Kurt had never heard her call him sir before.

"Jeeze Kurt! Get a grip! She really didn't know. There is no need for your behavior right now. You are completely over reacting."

"Shut up Blaine. If you have any idea what's good for you right now you will fucking shut your mouth."

"You're such a child. Grow up."

Kurt's whole body stiffened. His arms went into rigid lines at his sides. He was fighting every nerve in is body to slap Blaine across his smug face. He had no right to come in here to Kurt's work place and mess everything up. Kurt clenched his jaw and adverted his eyes. Just looking at Blaine was making him angrier. Where the hell was Cathy?

"Because this is just so mature of you. You set a great example. Hypocrite."

Then suddenly Blaine was standing right in front of Kurt. Just a few more inches and their lips would be touching. Kurt didn't recoil. He didn't want to give Blaine the satisfaction of knowing just how much he was getting under Kurt's skin. So instead he just met Blaine's eyes.

"Look me in the eye," Kurt could feel Blaine's breath on his face when he spoke, "and tell me that the reason you are so upset right now isn't because you still have feelings for me. Come on Kurt. You say that to me and this will all end. Go on."

Kurt just continued to stare into Blaine's eyes. His whole body was shaking. He was fighting everything in him. He wanted to do so many things at once. Push Blaine away. Slap him. Knee him in the balls...but the thing that was making Kurt the sickest, was how badly he wanted to just lean forward and press his lips to Blaine's. To take out all of his anger in one kiss. To make Blaine whimper for the first time in seven years...

"Go on Kurt." Blaine's breath blew across his face again. "Tell me you don't have feelings for me. I dare you."

Kurt's resolve was shaking. His body was trembling even more now. He was losing. Kurt felt his eyes flutter and he was starting to lean down...

That's when the door to his office opened. His eyes immediately opened and he put both of his hands on Blaine's chest and shoved him away. Not hard enough to knock him down, but hard enough to get him away. That was close. Too close. Much much too close. Kurt's heart felt like it was going to explode.

"Umm," Cathy was standing awkwardly in the doorway, "here." She held out the paper in her hand.

Kurt walked over to her and took the paper out of her hands. "Thanks."

Slowly he walked back over to his desk and sat down heavily. His felt like knees were about to give out. He placed the paper in front of him on the desk and he looked up at Blaine under his lashes before he cast his eyes down.

Blaine had been looking right at him. His arms were folded over his chest and he was smiling. Smiling like he knew exactly how badly Kurt had wanted to kiss him. Well of course he did! If Cathy hadn't come back; oh God, if Cathy hadn't come back...Blaine was winning, and he knew it.

Kurt shook his head and pulled in a deep shuttering breath and he finally looked down at the paper. It all went over his head. Cathy was right, it was all legal talk. He couldn't make head or tails of it. Other than the flowing signature of Blaine's at the bottom.

"There has to be a loophole here somewhere," he whispered more to himself than to either Cathy or Blaine.

"Kurt, Harvey wrote that contract himself. There won't be any loophole. You know how thorough he is."

He looked up at Cathy, eyes pleading. "I'll get a lawyer..."

"Don't waste your time," that was Blaine, "I'm here for a year. Might as well get used to the idea." And with that he flopped himself down into one of Kurt's chairs. His back leaning up against one arm rest and his legs bent over the other side.

"I think Blaine is right. We just have to make the best of this now. We can't change the past. He's here for at least a year. After that you can fire him or he can quit. But until then...we have to make this work."

Kurt looked up into the room again. "You were hired as my personal shopper, right?" It was the first time Kurt had really addressed Blaine.

"Right."

"Welllllll..."

"Cathy. Well what Cathy?" Kurt paled.

"The company doesn't actually let people just hire people to go out shopping with them. Even someone as high up as you. So I kind of made Blaine like...my assistant. To help me with what I can't get time to. So he's kind of your personal secretary as well."

Blaine grinned hugely, "I'm gonna be here everyday! Isn't that great! Now you can't just never say you don't need me to go out with you."

Kurt just gaped. That had been exactly what he had been thinking. Let Blaine work for him. Kurt would still pay him, he just would never call him into work. Things were going from terrible to horrific.

"How did you even know about this?"

"Rachel." Blaine said happily.

Of course, Kurt should have known.

"I told that girl to not talk about me!" Kurt slammed his hands down on his desk.

"Oh she didn't talk about you really. That night we went out. Well, she got a little drunk and then I started to ask the right questions and the truth came pouring out so it wasn't really her fault. She didn't really break your rule."

"What about the coffee shop?" Kurt had to know...

"I quit," Blaine shrugged, "that was just to see you. I knew you wouldn't resist a new coffee shop. So I waited for you to come in. I knew you would go home and tell Rachel. I also knew you wouldn't come running back with open arms, even when I told you the truth so I set the plan in motion. Find out how to get closer to you. Rachel was a big help. I told you I was going to earn your trust back. How else better than to work for you?"

"How else indeed." Kurt said with defeat. There was nothing he could do. His anger was still vastly present, but now he was just tired.

"Did you really think I would give up that easily Kurt? I'm offended." He clutched his chest in mock horror.

"Do you see how tricky he is now Cathy? Now you can't make fun of me anymore."

Blaine guffawed.

"Yeah Kurt. I totally get it now. I still say don't let him get you drunk. There's no telling where your limits are Blaine. No offense."

"Nooooooone taken." Blaine crossed his arms behind his head. Kurt wished he would fall out of the chair.

"You can go now Blaine."

"What?" He looked at Kurt with confusion.

"Kurt's right. You don't officially start work until tomorrow. And Kurt is your boss."

Blaine pouted. Kurt waved at him. "See ya."

"Yeah. Until tomorrow." Blaine rolled his eyes and stood up. He walked over to the door to leave the office. "Until then," and he kissed his palm and blew air on it right at Kurt before smirking and walking out the door.

"Kurt! I am so so so sorry!" Cathy said rushing towards him.

"Not now."

"Kurt-"

"Please. Not right now. Give me at least until tomorrow. I don't want to yell at you anymore. Please, just go away and don't disturb me."

Cathy had tears in her eyes, it broke Kurt's heart. "Please Cathy."

She sniffed and turned on her heel walking out of the door. Finally Kurt was alone.

Somehow he made it through the day. But now it was five and he had to go home, which was the last thing he wanted to do. Rachel was there and this was all indirectly Rachel's fault. He wanted nothing to do with the girl right now. But what other choice did he have?

He made sure Cathy had left before he walked out of his office. She had walked by slowly, staring in at him. But he had just cast is eyes at his computer screen. Kurt wasn't mad at Cathy. He was just afraid he would start yelling at her because she was someone that he could take out his emotions on and she didn't deserve that. Most of Kurt's anger had ebbed anyway. Now he was just upset. And annoyed. And yeah...he was still pissed. But he had calmed down.

All of his emotions were mixed together and sitting in the pit of his stomach. It had been such a roller coaster day. He still couldn't believe how much he had let his guard down. He had almost kissed Blaine! The thought made him sick to his stomach. How could he have let that happen? It couldn't happen again, if Cathy hadn't walked in...Kurt shuddered.

Going home was the only thing left to do. So he stood up and walked slowly out of his office. He walked to the elevator and climbed in. Moving all on autopilot. The elevator dinged and he climbed out.

"Hey Kurt!" Kurt jumped at Bill's voice.

"Oh. Hey Bill."

"Kurt? Are you okay? You look terrible."

He laughed humorlessly. "Yeah I feel pretty terrible."

"Want to talk about it?"

Kurt winced. "No."

"Okay." Bill said. Not pushing, just genuinely concerned. Kurt found it extremely refreshing.

"Thanks for asking though."

"No problem," Bill smiled. "You gonna be okay to make it home? Want me to walk with you or-"

Kurt winced again. "Rachel," he hissed though his teeth; remembering she would be there.

"Who's Rachel?"

"My roommate." Kurt said sighing. "I really don't wanna be around her right now."

"Oh. Hey! Do you wanna maybe come over my place for a bit? It'll get you away from your roommate and I just bought a bottle of vodka. Maybe get your mind off of things a little?"

Kurt looked at Bill. He looked so damn hopeful and he was as red as a tomato. It made Kurt laugh. A real laugh for the first time today since he had seen Blaine in his office. Maybe Bill could make him feel a little bit better...

"You know what...yes. I would love to. Lead the way."