Summary: Kurt's best friend is Sebastian Smythe, and that has made him slightly more relaxed about hooking up with random people. Suddenly, said random people start appearing in his 'regular' life.
Title: Casual relations
Pairing: Kurt/Sebastian, Kurt/Jesse, Kurt/Sam, Kurt/Thad
Beta: Thanks to The Other, all mistakes are mine
Disclaime: Once again, no...
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Kurt Hummel had vacationed in France for as long as he could remember. Every summer, him and his mother would take a plane and visit Kurt's grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins in Paris, and his father would come and visit for the few weeks he could take free from the garage. When Kurt was eight, his mother died, and suddenly Kurt had no idea what was going to happen the next summer. When summer came, his dad told him to be a brave boy and sent him off with one of the stewardesses who helped him onto the plane. When the plane landed, his aunt was there to meet him, and after a few weeks his dad came and stayed for four weeks. And thus the tradition continued.
Kurt had gotten several friends while he was in Paris - many of them friends of his cousins, Sophie and Sean, who were twins a year younger than Kurt - but one boy was the son of his mothers’ friends. They had become friends after a few years, and by the time they were 10, they were best friends. His name was Sebastian - he was the same age as Kurt, and only stayed in France on vacations too. He lived with his father in New York, but came to visit his mother in Paris whenever school was out. Kurt often felt a little sorry for Sebastian. Sure, his mother was lovely and really nice, but his father sounded mean. Kurt knew that the other boy would have much rather stayed with his mom, but unfortunately he wasn't the one that got to decide. At home in New York, Sebastian had a nanny and a cook, and he really only saw his dad once a week when they had Sunday brunch. Kurt just couldn't even imagine his life like that - without his loving father, who might not be able to relate to him, but who tried his hardest anyway.
Sebastian and Kurt would play around in the big garden by his grandmothers house, or they would read out loud to each other from stories they liked, or they would lay on the grass and talk about nothing and everything. When Kurt learned how to fix a car, they would look under the hood at the little ford Kurt's grandmother owned and Kurt would teach Sebastian. Sometimes they would sing together, though for two years whilst his voice was breaking, Sebastian refused to. Kurt often sang for him, though.
Kurt had known he was gay since he knew the meaning of the word, and when he was twelve years old, sitting out in the garden in Paris with Sebastian, he suddenly decided to tell his best friend.
“I'm gay.”
Sebastian looked over at him and cocked his head slightly, gave him a small smile and said:
“Me too.”
And that was that, really. In later years Kurt would suspect that Sebastian already knew, but at twelve he still hadn't lost his baby fat, and his high voice was nothing odd, because no one else's voice had broken yet.
That summer they shared their first tentative kisses, and suddenly that was a natural part of their friendship.
The summer two years after, when they were both fourteen, they had both grown slightly taller and thinner, but were still mainly the same height. They started fooling around a little, and by the end of the summer had both received and given several hand jobs.
When they came back the year after, they were both decidedly different. Kurt had grown a little more and had lost any semblance of baby fat. His face had slimmed down a lot, and his dance training had given him long muscles throughout his body. Sebastian had grown a lot more, and suddenly he was standing well above Kurt, and, for the first time in his life was looking down at his best friend. He was a lot thinner, and Kurt had almost been worried that he had stopped eating until he sat down with him at dinner. He was becoming a lot more angular, and the years of soccer made his long legs strong.
That summer, Sebastian had called Kurt beautiful, and for the first time in his life, Kurt had believed it. That summer, Kurt had called Sebastian handsome, and for the first time in his life, he took it with a smile rather than a cocky smirk. And that summer they lost their virginity to each other.
They weren't a couple, neither were they exclusive (although it would take Kurt a little longer to sleep with anyone else) and they weren't in love. They did love each other, but more as best friends with really good benefits. They knew everything about each other, and would be there for the other in any way possible. Sebastian stayed in Paris when they were both starting high school, and when the bullying was getting to Kurt, they talked for hours - Sebastian giving Kurt the confidence he needed. The summer between freshman and sophomore year, Sebastian had them enrolled in defense class in Paris, so his best friend at least would be able to defend himself to some degree. During sophomore year, Finn had somehow gotten it in his head that Kurt was in love with him, and when that whole thing had gone down, they had talked on Skype for five hours before Sebastian had to go to class and Kurt almost fell asleep. When Burt had the heart attack, Sebastian had jumped on the first plane to America and stayed until 'uncle Burt' woke up again. When Sebastian's mother remarried, Kurt flew down to Paris for the weekend for his 'aunt Michelle'. They were best friends quite literary for life, and would do anything for each other.
Because of Sebastian, Kurt's life turned out a little different than it otherwise would have. He was much more comfortable with himself and his sexuality, and his life reflected that. He still had good fashion sense, though it was much more toned down as he had no need to show the world how fabulous he was when he knew it so well himself. He was still in Glee club, but after he joined the Cheerios, he stuck with them throughout school. After a rather long talk with Mr. Schue about a fair chance for everyone, he managed to convince the man that there should be auditions for all solos in competitions, and that the members of Glee club should be the once to decide. This changed the dynamic drastically in the club, which earned them a second place in Regionals the first year instead of third, a fifth place in Nationals the year after and a win the third year.
There were two things in Kurt's life that were most affected by his best friend; his relationship to the rest of the gleeks and his sex life.
Tina and Artie had been friends with Kurt since before any of them could walk, and long before Artie suddenly couldn't walk again, and they stayed friends throughout everything. He was much more open with them about things than he otherwise would have been, which cemented their friendship in a way.
After joining the Cheerios it didn't take long for Kurt to befriend Brittany, Santana and Quinn, and the unholy trinity soon became the Fierce Foursome. They matched Kurt in wit and sarcasm, and the four of them was a force to be reckoned with.
When Puck had joined the club, Kurt had been reluctant, but as they both relaxed more, Puck had started flirting with him, and Kurt had decided to flirt right back. The jock had been surprised at first, but seemed to enjoy their strange banter, with the added bonus that it made Finn extremely uncomfortable.
Mercedes and him never really got along all that well - they were friendly, but she was a little too self centered and bitched a little too much about life.
He was indifferent to Matt, as he never got to know him all that well, but Finn could be rather annoying. When he had set up his dad with Carole, he hadn't known that she was Finn's mom, and sometimes he almost regretted it, but seeing his dad happy was worth it. So he had tried to be kind and patient with Frankenteen, which in turn had made Finn think Kurt was in love with him, and that was just a whole mess in itself.
When Kurt had come back from France after losing his virginity, he had contacted the local LGBT office, and had started attending meetings every month. That's where he met his second gay friend and sex partner. When he was in Paris the next summer, he only slept with Sebastian - as they had a going deal that when they were having sex, they would stay exclusive - but when he came home after that summer, someone in the LGBT meeting suggested Scandals to him. Kurt still couldn't quite believe he got in, but that's where he found his next several sex partners. He never slept with someone the first night he met them, but simply told them that he wanted friends with benefits, if they were interested. Most of them were, although some of them were only stopping by Lima, and lived elsewhere in the country. Kurt really didn't mind that, and although most of them were several years older than him, he got plenty of friends out of the deal. What he hadn't expected, was for these people to show up in his 'regular' life.
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