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When you first become friends with you sworn nemesis, you kind of expect the world to implode a little, or at least, that’s what Kurt believed.
In reality, it was shockingly, not that big of a deal. Nobody yelled at him for betraying the New Directions. No one called him a traitor. And what was most surprising; absolutely no one broke out into song.
It was quite anti-climactic as far as reconciliations go. It wasn’t even much of reconciliation, really.
They run into each other at Kurt’s favorite coffee shop. In hind sight, Kurt’s not surprised it’s a coffee shop, because of course it was. And of course Sebastian was the person standing in front of him, ordering the most complicated drink on the menu all while Kurt was impatiently trying to get his hands on a cup of coffee.
Kurt held in his annoyance, bit his tongue because it was far too early in the morning to get into a fight.
It was that moment Sebastian turned around, noticed Kurt and smiled. Kurt was at least 90 percent sure he was dreaming (a nightmare, he's positive).
“Fancy seeing you here, Hummel.” Sebastian says, the warm smile still on his face. Kurt only nods in response, hoping that Sebastian would take the hint and leave him alone.
Except it’s Sebastian, so of course he opts instead to continue pestering him. “Kurt? That is you right? I’d be able to recognize those clothes anywhere.”
Kurt shoves Sebastian out of the way so that he can order, and Sebastian moves, just barely, with a small smirk on his face. He murmurs, “So that’s how you’re going to play it, huh? Cold shoulder?”
Kurt resolutely does not look at Sebastian, not even a little bit. Instead he just tells the barista his order with a smile, and pulls out his wallet to pay, only Sebastian’s hand stops him. “Hey, no. It’s on me."
This time Kurt raises his eyebrow at Sebastian.
“My good deed of the day. Plus I figure maybe it’ll get you to break this ice queen routine of yours.” He replies, grinning brightly. Kurt's not sure if he's mocking him or not, so finally, he decides to respond. He's intrigued and a little skeptical when he asks, "Whats your angle, Smythe?"
“No angle, just paying for an old friend’s coffee, trying to get a little conversation out of it, maybe.” He sounds genuine, which throws Kurt off. Maybe Sebastian’s a better actor than he gave him credit for.
But then again, Kurt thinks, it's been a long time since high school. Maybe he just grew up.
So Kurt just says, “If you’re paying for coffee, you can have all the conversation you want, Smythe.”
When they sit down, not to Kurt’s surprise at all, the first thing Sebastian says is “So I haven’t seen you since you very publicly, and very hilariously said no to the puppet prince’s proposal.”
Kurt very nearly laughs at Sebastian’s alliteration, but stops himself. He wants to be surprised that they’re sitting down to talk about Blaine but really, when has it ever been about anyone else between the two of them?
“Yeah, it’s been what, two years? What have you been up to in New York?” Kurt asks, hoping that Sebastian allows the topic change.
“Prelaw at NYU. And don’t try and change the subject, c’mon, tell me why. It was quite the scandal back in the day.”
Kurt’s not surprised that Sebastian didn’t let it go, but he’s equally stubborn so he grins, “Prelaw, I'm not surprised. That’s very you. Usually the polite thing to do would be ask what I was doing, so I guess nothing’s really changed with you.”
“Hold up, what do you mean nothing’s changed? I paid for coffee, that’s definitely a very polite thing to do. Also, I already know what you’re doing, Hummel. You intern at Vogue, study at NYADA and occasionally work at the Spotlight Diner. And there was something about you being in a band? We are Facebook friends after all.” Sebastian rolls his eyes, and continues, “And before you call me a creep, tell me that you didn’t add me all those years ago only to stalk me and make sure I wasn’t hanging out with the hobbit.”
“Okay fine, maybe I did. But I don’t look at your page now.” Kurt says, taken aback.
Sebastian rolls his eyes, “Please it’s not like I stare at your page for hours or anything. Just crap that comes up on my news feed, and you post a lot. Please tell me that we’re not going to spend this entire time talking about my Facebook habits.”
“Fine. So was the only reason you sat me down to talk about Blaine, then?” Kurt asks, only because he’s trying to decide whether he should leave or not.
“Obviously not, Kurt. I just wanted to catch up. But you can’t be surprised that I want to know what happened. One minute you and him were staring at each other lovingly and the next he’s coming to Dalton wide eyed asking us to help him with a proposal. Though, now I'm realizing he may have left out the part where you guys were broken up.” Sebastian murmurs, earnest.
Kurt scoffs, “Yeah. And I’m sure he didn’t tell you that I was seeing someone else.”
“Hold up, you were dating someone else?” Sebastian says, putting down his coffee, interest clearly completely peaked.
“I’m surprised you don’t already know from Facebook.” Kurt jokes, then continues, “Yeah. We were together up until last year, actually. He had to move back to Essex, though.” Kurt’s not hurt about it anymore, it’s been a while and Adam is still one of his closest friends, probably always will be. But remembering the time he was excited about their new relationship only to see that Blaine still hadn’t let go, did seem to tug at old wounds.
“Oooh, an Englishman, very fancy.” Sebastian replies, attempting an accent. Kurt shoots him a look, then goes on, “Anyway, it was infuriating, the way Blaine just kept ignoring everything I said and told me that we were soulmates. Soulmates don’t cheat on you! Soulmates don’t make you feel like garbage for doing well when you’re living on your own for the first time in your life. And soulmates definitely don’t put together a huge proposal solely designed to emotionally manipulate you into getting back together with them. So, I just told him that. I could have waited to do it in private, but he didn’t provide me with the same luxury so why should I have?” Kurt rants, as if the emotions are raw and fresh. As if the proposal had just happened yesterday.
Sebastian looks surprised, pauses for a moment, then earnestly states, “Yeah that…makes sense. I’m glad you didn’t say yes, then, because you're important too.”
Kurt’s trying to get himself together, it’s been a long time since he’s talked about that, it’s been a long time since the person’s first reaction was to tell him he was right. He’s trying to think of anyone from Lima who said those words to him, but he’s coming up short. The fact that the first thing out of Sebastian's mouth, a guy that supposedly hated him, was that he was right is...shocking, to say the least. With his emotions running wild, and with how completely vulnerable he's feeling right now, Kurt kind of thinks that running away is completely the right choice so he mutters, “Yeah well, my coffee’s been finished forever, so I should probably head out now.”
“Hey no. You don’t have to get all weird. Look, I’m almost done with mine too. We can just go do something else, maybe hit up a movie or something? Unless you’re busy, of course.”
Sebastian sounds so genuine, that all Kurt can say is, “Sounds good" and hope that it was the right choice.