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Summary: College AU/Famous!Blaine and Fanboy!Kurt - Kurt POV
Kurt really doesn’t have time to figure out the dating world between being a freshman at prestigious theatre school, LAADA, and his active but secret blogging life in the Sing!Fandom. So what if Sing! ended last year? There are still fics to read and actors to follow. Especially the uber talented heartthrob lead, Blaine Anderson. He can act. He can sing. He can even dance. He’s gay. He’s out. And he’s only 24. Kurt is willing to twiddle his thumbs and click refresh until Blaine Anderson’s next project.
He just didn’t expect the next project to be on his roommate Rachel’s new TV show.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Even Better Than the Real Thing (4/15)
It takes Kurt until the following afternoon for the haze to lift and for his feet to land back down on the ground after spending the evening floating. He finally logs on to his tumblr and to the entirely unsurprising 13 messages, all anonymous, all asking him if he heard about whether his source met Blaine. He deletes all of them and clicks on his direct message from Mercedes last night.
From LimaBlaineFan to MercedesSing! : Guilty as charged. You found me out.
MercedesSing!: So let me get this straight - Your roommate and close friend is literally working with Blaine Anderson?!
LimaBlaineFan: He’s her love interest. They kiss.
MercedesSing!: Please don’t tell me you’re jealous because you know that’s all acting and you have suddenly gone from number one fanboy to real life acquaintance overnight and there are a good few hundred followers who would be intensely jealous of you if they knew.
LimaBlaineFan: They don’t. And they won’t. But no, I’m not jealous. Blaine is indeed gay, and you know, he doesn’t have a boyfriend right now. Was too difficult to meet someone while on a show like Sing!
MercedesSing!: He did not tell you that.
LimaBlaineFan: He did. And we commiserated about growing up in Ohio - two gay kids. We’re like peas and pod, Blaine Anderson and I.
MercedesSing!: Shut up. You had a heart to heart with Blaine Anderson.
LImaBlaineFan: Now let’s not get ahead of ourselves. But I can confirm that he is even more beautiful in real life.
MercedesSing!: This is nuts. I’m happy for you. Hell, I’m happy for me. Do you think he can hook me up with Jo Johnson for some music lessons? Kidding. No not really. Anyways. You met Blaine Anderson. And shit got real.
Kurt and Mercedes plot out just the right amount of info to post publicly on his blog from his “source”.
My source confirms that Blaine Anderson is a genuinely nice guy, but you’ve all heard that before. He did find out that Blaine sang in his high school Glee club, and oh, he’s single right now. Don’t get any ideas though, fandom, because Blaine knows there’s a difference between a fan and a friend. Anyways, sounds like Blaine Anderson was as cute as ever - oh and he was wearing cherry red shoes.
...
“Let’s go, Kurt. Off your laptop, put away your homework, we’re going to the cast open mic night.”
Kurt looks up over his computer skeptically. “Open mic night?”
“Oh come on. You don’t even have to perform if you don’t want to. And Blaine asked if you were coming-”
“He did? We talked for like five minutes. How does he even remember my name?” What.
“Yeah. I know it’s weird but I think you’re a good excuse not to have to be networking the whole night. For me too,” Rachel emphasizes. “Come on.”
Kurt nods his head from side to side, feigning indecision but of course he’s going. Blaine Anderson asked for him to come. Or asked if he was coming. Or whatever. He’s obviously going.
...
As he and Rachel are whisked into the Limelight - closed for a private event - by the security guard at the door, he’s sure he has accidentally fallen through a portal into the world of Sing!, with Blaine’s character, Roy Royson, up on stage as usual, serenading his on screen love interest with an unplugged version of an 80′s rock ballad. Today it’s Jack and Diane.
Only Roy Royson would be wearing a plaid flannel shirt and not a fitted red cardigan with tight dark blue jeans and a navy bowtie. And man, Blaine Anderson can rock a bowtie.
“He’s good, right?” Rachel gestures to Blaine on the stage, who sees them and gives a wink and smile. What a showman. “Talented.”
“He was on Sing!, Rachel. Not a shock that he can carry a tune,” Kurt shrugs. No way is he letting Rachel know how captivated he is. He’s seen Blaine as Roy perform on screen countless times and then on repeat, but something about seeing the real Blaine, all styled and a touch deliberately flamboyant but also very boyish singing classic 80′s rock, completely holding the live audience in his hands. He’s hard to look away from. By the time Kurt catches himself staring slightly open mouthed and manages to turn around to get a drink, Rachel already has a drink in hand and is sitting at a table with Jesse St. James and a few of the others he met the other week.
Kurt orders a ginger ale with one lime (can’t be caught drinking underage with the high profile cast), and turns towards Rachel’s table where Blaine is now conveniently sitting. Kurt would not have normally dared to sit beside him for fear of spilling his drink from shaky hands, or worse being tongue tied when being asked a mundane question, but it appears that the chair beside Blaine is the only empty one and Kurt is not sure if it’s a punishment or a reward. So it’s facing his fears or cozying up to the showrunner at a separate table. Awkward.
“Great performance,” Kurt starts as he sits down beside Blaine. “I can appreciate a strong stage presence despite the strange choice of music genre.”
Blaine looks up and his smile widens amusedly as he shifts his chair over to make more room. “Thank you,” Blaine nods and then leans in to Kurt’s ear. “Well, despite the choice of genre, I may have caught you staring.” Blaine winks. Did he just-
Kurt is mortified but Blaine just elbows him in the side and takes a sip of his beer. He was caught. But Blaine doesn’t appear to be mad, or embarrassed, or irritated - In fact, he seems happily entertained . Cocky bastard. “Well, my dad is a big Mellencamp fan, and I can’t say I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching a classic performance where the lead is in anything other than stone washed jeans and flannel.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
“Oh it’s a compliment.” Kurt turns to him. “I did try to do Mellencamp once in a Glee club assignment in my junior year - complete with the flannel. But somehow I couldn’t pull it off. My dad even called me out.”
Blaine laughs, eyes sparkling and staring right at him. Man, that eye contact. “Too forced?”
“Too straight,” Kurt answers and Blaine laughs again like Kurt is both funny and entertaining. “I think I got a lecture about not trying to be someone I’m not just to impress him. That he loves me just as I am blah blah blah.”
Blaine’s face turns serious. “That’s lucky.”
Kurt stares back. “I know.”
“So you were out?”
“Yeah. And maybe thanks to my dad and my Glee club, I survived Lima. But it wasn’t fun. Guess Lima’s just too narrow for all this fabulousness,” Kurt jokes, gesturing at today’s outfit - lime green tight army jeans with a purple button down and scarf. And of course a heart shaped broach.
“Lima’s loss,” Blaine says seriously, reaching out to touch Kurt’s arm. Kurt jumps and then Blaine’s hand is gone again. “Well, you’re in LA, now. The fun is only just beginning.” Kurt’s jaw drops slightly and he can feel himself staring at Blaine, again, and trying to stop being drawn to that impossible magnetism.
“Let’s go, Kurt! It’s our turn.” Luckily Rachel pulling at his arm against the magnetic force rescues him.
“What?”
“I signed us up, of course. Defying Gravity. Let’s go.” Kurt normally loves performing. Loves performing Broadway hits. Loves performing with Rachel. But performing in front of his celebrity crush - that was not on his agenda. “Come on!” She pulls him up on stage. Ah well. Good thing he’s a good actor. Game face is about to be in full force.
When they take their bows, the room full of appropriately enthusiastic applause, Kurt lets out a breath he didn’t know he was holding. “That was great, Kurt!” Blaine seems genuinely excited. “You’re a countertenor - You have an amazing voice!” Kurt beams. He has an amazing voice.
Before he can second guess himself, Kurt turns to Blaine and whispers, “Thank you. And I assume your love of Broadway is why I caught you staring.”
Blaine laughs and chinks their glasses. “Guilty.”
...
When he gets home that night, high from all the performances, from the performing, from talking to Blaine Anderson again, he closes his door and screams silently into his pillow. He grabs his phone and texts Mercedes who is of course asleep in New York City.
Kurt: Mercedes, I’m back. We talked. Again. A lot. He kind of stared at me through my whole performance with Rachel. Which he admitted. And laughed. He even likes my voice. I think we’re friends. Like actually friends.
In the morning, Kurt wakes up to Mercedes’ reply.
Mercedes: Of course he likes your voice. You’re epic. And friends? Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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QRKY Radio Playlist For 02/25/20
QRKY – Quirky Radio Playlist For 02/25/20
Listen Free. Blues, Swing, Rockabilly, Old Time Radio Shows & More.
Click on the playlist song titles in BOLD below. They’re linked to music videos or to online audio files of the old time radio shows. It;s all for fun and for free, so enjoy.
Along The Navajo Trail -- Roy Rogers
You Keep Coming Alive -- Sean Rowe
Woog’s Blues -- Douglas Jack
Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You -- Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
Rock Thie Town -- Stray Cats
Cuchy Frito Man -- Martini Kings
We’re Gonna Roll -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Never Make Your Move Too Soon -- Bonne Raitt with Ruth Brown, Charles Brown & Kim Wilson
Boot ‘Em Up -- Du Droppers
Carioca -- Etta Moten Barnett, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
La Grange -- ZZ Top
Eight Hour Woman -- Edith Johnson
Jackson Stomp -- Mississippi Mud Steppers
Move Over -- Janis Joplin
Shotgun -- Southern Culture On The Skids
The Mooche -- Duke Ellington & the Cotton Club Orchestra
Alligator Shuffle -- Lazy Lester
Chattanooga Choo Choo -- Glenn Miller
Crawfish -- Jesse Stone
The Peanut Vendor -- Jack Purvis & the California Ramblers, with Lupe Velez
Brother Blood -- Neville Brothers
You And The Night And The Music -- Connie Evingson
Fever -- Louis Prima, Sam Buttera and the Witnesses
Cry Me A River -- Dexter Gordon
La Patria Madrina -- Lila Downs with Juanes
Talking Sailor -- Woody Guthrie
Pig Meat On The Line -- Memphis Minnie
Girls! Girls! Girls! -- Elvis Presley
Brand New Day -- Staple Singers
Sock It To Me Baby -- Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
If I Can’t Turn To You -- Groove Kings
Phonograph Blues -- Robert Johnson
Flying Home -- Lionel Hampton
Up Above My Head -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Can’t Leave You Alone -- Susan Tedeschi
Satellite Rock -- Joe Tate & the Hi-Fives
I’m On My Way -- Ernie Lieberman
Pig’s Feet and Slaw -- Tiny Parham & His Musicians
Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino
Crossfire -- Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
No Wine, No Women -- Mr. Google Eyes & Billy Ford’s V-8s
We Wanna Boogie -- Sonny Burgess
That Man -- Caro Emerald
I Want To Be A Cpwboy’s Sweetheart -- Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers
She’s Not There -- Santana
Shake, Rattle And Roll -- Big Joe Turner
Wolfman Told Me Tonight -- Taters
Rock Me Daddy -- Laurie Tate
Rockyn’ Up -- Ronnie Molleen
Fantasy -- Earth Wind & Fire
Party Time -- Bald Bill Hagen
MELODY ROUND-UP #528 with the Saddle Serenade Trio -- Armed Forces Radio Service
Stranded In The Jungle -- Cadets
Honky Tonk Man -- Dwight Yoakam
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