"I'm running out of clothes Cathy!" Kurt exclaimed as he threw his hands down on his desk.

It had been about two and a half weeks since Blaine had unceremoniously started working for Kurt. However, since that first day things had been going better than Kurt had anticipated. Blaine had not made anymore serious unwanted advances towards him and he was actually very good at his job of taking whatever Cathy chose to throw at him that day.

Kurt was worried that Blaine would protest all the weirdness that happened around the office but he fit into the dynamic very well. If he hadn't been Blaine, Kurt would have been ecstatic with Cathy's choice. He probably would have befriended him as well. But since it was Blaine their relationship was kept strictly professional. Even if a few times Blaine had made Kurt laugh so hard he had shed a few tears...

On another note things with Bill had stayed mostly the same...but maybe it had gotten a little more awkward. At times Bill would brush Kurt's hair out of his eyes or compliment him a bit too personally. Even though those times did not happen every day, Kurt was still unsure of how hard Bill was working on getting over his crush on him. He tried to not let it bother him however, knowing that things would take time.

"What are you talking about Hummel? You have more clothes than half of my girlfriends put together."

"Well ever since he started working here I've had to come up with a new outfit everyday. And it's not like I can repeat any of them. Plus, they have to be something that he won't just look over."

"You're talking crazy. I'm a chick and I don't even put in that much effort to impress my ex-boyfriends."

"Come on! A little sympathy would be nice here."

"Oh I'm so so sorry little Kurty! Whatever will we do since mean ole Blaine is just oh so important we can't repeat an outfit?"

Kurt rolled his eyes at his best friend's sarcasm, "Be a little more sarcastic. I dare you."

"That's a dare I can't except. But really...what do you want me to do about it?"

"I don't know! I'm just getting desperate here."

He stared at Cathy sadly as she sat opposite of him at his desk in the office. Cathy spent a lot of time in there even though she had a desk directly outside of his office facing him through the glass wall. Blaine had taken residence at the desk on the side of hers that way he was at easy access to her at all times, plus Kurt could keep his eye on him.

"Here's a wacky idea...go shopping!"

"We're at work. In case you hadn't noticed. Which obviously you hadn't since you're sitting in my office. Not working."

"That's what Blaine is for, my dear."

He smiled, "You're evil."

"You love it," Cathy teased as she smiled back.

"Of course I do."

"You missed my point thirty seconds ago though. I know we're at work. But go shopping. You know, with Blaine. Since that is what he was hired for and you haven't really used that luxury yet. Plus if he's with you he can help you find outfits that will impress him."

"Please," Kurt interrupted, "like I need him to help me. Did you see the way he was eyeballing me that day I wore...wait, what? You want me to take Blaine shopping?"

"Yes Kurt." Cathy said slowly while nodding her head.

"Are you out of your mind?"

"Well that is what he was hired for. And you were just telling me yesterday how well he was doing and how you wish you could be his friend but that you would settle for Bill if you had to."

"Yeah. But-"

"Don't even say 'but he's Blaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiine.' I know he's Blaine. Which is why you should do this. Show him he isn't getting to you. Plus, maybe Bill will back off." Cathy shuddered.

Kurt had told Cathy about what had happened with Bill the day Blaine had given him the flowers. She had immediately started going off about this and that and how she wanted Bill fired and blah blah blah. How Bill should have never taken advantage of Kurt like that and what had Kurt been thinking... Needless to say Cathy was not Bill's biggest fan.

"Bill is a nice guy Cathy. So he made one mistake. Blaine hurt me a lot more."

"Whatever. So what do you say? You and Blaine shopping, yes or yes?"

Kurt weighed his options. Cathy did have a great point. This would show Blaine and Bill on how he stood with the pair of them. That he was okay with Blaine being around him so much. Plus, that Bill really did have to back off since things would never be romantic with them.

"I think you're right Cathy. Looks like I'm taking Blaine out shopping."

"Perfect," Cathy smiled, "I love it when I'm right. He should be back up at his desk any second now."

"What do you have him doing all day anyway?" Kurt laughed as he questioned.

"Top secret. Ahh there's the boy now!"

Kurt looked at Blaine out his wall made of glass. Even after all this time the sight of Blaine still made Kurt's heart skip a beat and then rapidly accelerate. He wondered if that reaction would ever go away.

Cathy stood up and walked over to the door and opened it, "Hey Blainers! Get your ass in here."

Kurt laughed as he watched Blaine chuckle and then slowly jog over to the door and walk in.

"What's up guys?"

"Well, Kurt here has a proposition for you," Cathy said as she reached up and squeezed Blaine's shoulders. Kurt had taken to teasing her that she is the only person that is shorter than him.

"And what would that be?" Blaine's eyes narrowed at Kurt and his breath hitched in his throat involuntarily. Stupid Blaine and his stupid eyes.

"Would you be opposed to getting out of here for the rest of the day?"

"I'd love to get out of here. What are we doing?" Blaine looked between Kurt and Cathy.

Kurt stood as he said, "You and I are going shopping. Since that is kinda why we hired you."

"Wait, you and I? As in the two of us? Just us?"

Blushing, Kurt nodded. "If that's okay with you."

Blaine scoffed, "Right. Like I'm really going to object to that. Plus now I don't have to be her bitch for the rest of the day."

He was laughing as he playfully shoved Cathy just enough to knock her off balance but not enough to force her over. It warmed Kurt's heart to see how well the two of them had hit it off. If only he could allow himself to be friends with Blaine...

"Nope. Much worse. You have to be my bitch." The words were out of Kurt's mouth before he could stop them and his eyes bugged out of his head at his own brash comment.

The laughing and giggling in the room stopped as both Cathy and Blaine stopped dead in their tracks. They both were staring at Kurt like they had never seen him before and Kurt knew his cheeks were turning about ten different shades of red. Then something seemed to snap in all three of them and they all bust out laughing. The kind of all consuming laughter that hardly happens, the kind where you are doubled over gasping for air and have tears streaming out of your eyes. Cathy had quite literately fallen to the floor and her fit which just made Kurt and Blaine laugh harder.

After several long moments they all started to come down from their laughing highs. They stood (and lay) panting as they caught their breath. Kurt couldn't remember the last time his stomach hurt so much from laughing so hard.

Blaine was wiping tears out of his eyes as he said, "Been there and done that Kurt. And if I'm not mistaken...still doing it now."

Kurt blushed even more and was at a loss for words as Blaine just stood staring at him. But thankfully Cathy was always there to have Kurt's back.

"Help the ole girl up will ya?" She said as she raised her arms and waited for Blaine to pull her to her feet.

Air whooshed out of Kurt's lungs as he realized he had been holding his breath since Blaine's comment but still he laughed and said, "Cathy you do realize you are younger than both of us right?"

Blaine pulled Cathy up to her feet and she immediately started to smooth down her outfit, "And don't you forget it!"

Both Kurt and Blaine giggled quietly as they watched Cathy run her hands down her perfectly straight hair. Kurt walked out from behind his desk and over to Cathy where he gave her a small peck on the forehead, "Your hair is fine sweet cheeks."

"Ewww! Gay germs. Get'em off me!" Cathy yelled as she started to scrub her forehead with her hand.

Kurt looked behind him to where Blaine was standing and he grinned wickedly. Blaine winked and Kurt knew they were on the same brain wave length. Slowly Blaine stalked his way up to the other side of Cathy, who was too preoccupied to notice. Kurt held up one finger as both he and Blaine leaned down, then he added a second as they gabbed her to keep her still...

"THREE!" Kurt yelled and then they both started attacking Cathy with kisses. All over side of Cathy's face they planted kisses over and over. All over her cheeks and ears and Kurt kissed over just a small fraction of her forehead in fear of catching Blaine's lips. Cathy was squirming wildly between them and laughing her head off.

"Come on guys!" She yelled through her laughing, "No fair! There's two of you now!"

Kurt was laughing himself as he decided that Cathy had finally had enough of this unique torture and went to place a delicate peck on her lips. He closed his eyes and shifted his head to reach her lips and went he went to press them down.

"Oh no you two don't!" He heard Cathy yell. But that didn't make sense because he had his lips on hers, how could she be talking?

His eyes flew open and what he saw was Blaine wearing an equally shocked expression. Cathy had pulled away at the last second and when he had his eyes closed he ended up kissing Blaine. That made sense though, seeing how he had just managed to kiss the corner of the lips under his. Kurt wrenched his mouth away as quickly as he could and then took several steps backwards. He looked at Blaine who was still leaning over, still puckering, and wearing a heavily dazed look on his face.

Cathy was just standing there with her eyes bugging out of her head. Moving her head quickly between the two men waiting for one of them to react. Blaine finally shook his head and stood upright, still wearing a dazed and shocked expression, but one that was obviously of happiness. Kurt was just as dazed. Every fiber of his being had told him to grab Blaine's head and pull it closer, but in the end his brain had won and he had backed away.

"Umm..." Cathy was the first to break the silence.

"That was..." Blaine said breathlessly.

"Interesting." Kurt finished.

"If by interesting you mean amazing! That worked out way better than I could have planned!" Blaine looked like he was ready to jump up and down.

"You are such a child Blaine."

"Aww Kurt don't be mad 'cause we accidentally kissed. Plus it doesn't even count cause we were both trying to kiss Cathy. Right Kitty Cat?"

"I'm staying out of this one! No matter what I say will piss one of you off. Just remember, this wasn't my fault." Then she turned on her heel and stomped out of the office. Clearly exasperated by the two supposedly 'grown' men.

"Sooooo," Blaine said looking at Kurt, "shopping?"

"Right." How Blaine could switch between topics so quickly and easily was beyond Kurt. But right now he was happy for the distraction.

Kurt walked over to behind his desk and turned his computer monitor off. He grabbed his jacket which was resting on the back of his chair (the weather had finally turned) and his satchel before making his way out of the office. He could hear Blaine following him even though he hadn't said anything, and Kurt couldn't help but wonder if Blaine was still replaying the last couple of minutes in his head...

Because he was. He could still feel the phantom pressure of Blaine's lips under his. Could still feel how much his body wanted to pull Blaine closer. And how much effort it had taken to pull away instead. He couldn't help but wonder what Blaine was feeling. For Blaine things were so much easier because his emotions were out in the open and Kurt had to work so hard to keep his a secret, especially since he still wasn't 100% sure of how he felt.

Once inside the elevator Kurt snuck a glance at Blaine. He had his head resting on the wall and his eyes were closed. A smile was clearly present on his lips and Kurt knew what Blaine was thinking about. How magical just those few mere and slight seconds had been when their lips had been hardly touching...and how much more magical it would feel if they could kiss for real. Which was not something co-workers should be thinking about each other. Kurt fought back his groan with a cough. Blaine's eyes snapped open.

"You okay?" Concern painted across his face.

Coughing a few more times Kurt said, "Yeah. Must be coming down with something."

"You better not make me sick," Blaine teased and Kurt smiled as he relaxed.

"No saliva was passed. I think you'll be okay."

Blaine sighed, "Sad. But true."

Kurt had never been more thankful for the elevator to ding. He exited first and Blaine followed quickly behind. As they walked toward the front door Bill looked up and immediately smiled when he saw Kurt. But then Blaine walked out from behind him and Kurt saw something dark pass over Bill's face.

"Hey Kurt! Blaine." Bill said Blaine's name coldly. But Blaine didn't notice.

"What's up Bill? Wonderful day, huh?" Blaine was bouncing on the balls of his feet again.

"Yeah. Sure. So what are you two up to?" Bill said staring pointedly at Kurt.

Kurt fought the urge to blush, "Oh just going out shopping."

"Oh. Well how-how wonderful."

"Isn't it though!" Blaine said happily.

Bill just stood and stared at Blaine but he was too oblivious to notice. Kurt started to pull on his arm.

"Come on Blaine. We have to get going. Bye Bill!" Kurt called over his shoulder.

"Have a good day, Kurt." Bill called back and Kurt felt uneasiness in his stomach. That was the worst Bill had acted since the...incident as Kurt liked to call it. Kurt tried to shake the feeling as he walked to the curb edge and hailed a taxi, but somehow he felt like what happened with Bill wasn't over, and the idea of it made his stomach turn.

"Where are we going?" Blaine pulled him out of his thoughts as the taxi pulled up.

Kurt smiled slyly, "Oh just a few of my favorite stores."

"I know that smile. I'm in for a long day aren't I?"

"Shut up Blaine." Kurt said smiling as he pushed him to the taxi.

Blaine was complaining about how he had lost track of the amount of stores they had been to when Kurt finally announced they had one more stop.

"How many stores have we even been to?"

"You are such a boy," Kurt huffed, rolling his eyes.

"Uhh yeah. I have a penis. And penis equals boy. I would have thought you of all people would know that."

Kurt blushed crimson at the casual mention of Blaine's...anatomy. Oh great, now he was picturing it. Shaking his head trying to dispel the image he heard Blaine chuckle.

"Stop thinking about my dick Kurt. Unless you plan on doing something for it." Blaine said lowly right into Kurt's ear. Kurt squealed in surprise and jumped away from him.

Blaine put his hands on his thighs and doubled over laughing hysterically. "I will never get sick of that! It will almost be a tragedy the day you finally crack and I can't do that and cause that reaction anymore."

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch." Kurt said narrowing his eyes, still fighting back his blush.

"Whatever, you'll crack eventually. We both know I'm not giving up. Especially after today. That was just enough to get me by for a while."

"Lovely. Let's go."

Blaine groaned but followed Kurt anyway. Kurt had really put Blaine through the paces today, mostly to see if Blaine would keep up and not complain. And surprisingly, that last comment had been his first complaint. He had followed Kurt around all day, holding whatever Kurt threw at him, carrying the many bags that had piled up and even helping make suggestions. Some actually pretty good suggestions if Kurt was going to be honest. He almost felt bad for Blaine. Almost.

When they walked into the last store Kurt turned around to face Blaine and took all of the bags out of his arms.

"Kurt? What are you-?"

"This last store is for you. My treat. Pick out whatever you want. For being such a good sport today as I dragged you around."

"You're being uncharacteristically nice to me. What's your angle?"

Kurt laughed, "No angle. I mean it. Go crazy. Well...not too crazy."

Blaine looked up at Kurt and a huge smile broke out on his face. "Thanks! You know, this is almost something like a friend would do for a friend..."

Rolling his eyes and smiling as he playfully shoved Blaine he said, "Shut up. Or I am revoking the privilege. That also applies if I see you pick up one bow tie." Kurt flicked the fabric under Blaine's chin to emphasize his point, Blaine only rolled his eyes.

"Yes sir, Mr. Friend sir," Blaine said with a mock salute as he turned into the store and started looking around.

And this time, Kurt didn't correct him.