Friendship Meme: Mike & Blaine
They don’t get to hang out very much now, what with Ohio and Chicago being ridiculously far away and Blaine spending all his dad’s frequent flier miles on trips to New York. And sometimes it’s hard, maintaining a friendship that was so based on little unsaid things when you’re not around to not say them. But they make it work, with the kind of simple dedication that neither of them managed to give to their romances (with Tina and Kurt, it mattered too much. Every single conversation felt weighty with meaning, nearly breaking under the force of their ache for each other).
Blaine emails Mike bi-weekly Glee updates, and Mike sends Blaine clips from his dance classes. A lot of their Skype dates are silent. They like to keep it open as they work; just having the other person there without needing to say anything. Sometimes Blaine will start singing and Mike will dance along. Sometimes they trade texts that are nothing but ridiculous puns for days at a time, and thank god for unlimited texting.
And sometimes Blaine talks a little much about Sam, and Mike has to spend the next day dancing until his feet scream. Because he’s happy, so goddamn happy, that Blaine found such an awesome friend in Sam, part of him wants to cling to Blaine and cry because Mike knows that he’s quiet and a little boring, especially when he can’t pull you into a dance. It’s the same part of him that wants to kiss Tina when he sees again during Grease, even though he knows he’s not supposed to, even though he knows it would be the worst thing for both of them.
And sometimes Mike has to break their Skype dates several times in a row because his classes are so crazy, and sometimes Mike has to hurriedly sign out because one of his friends from class is dragging him away to some party. And Blaine smiles and wishes he weren’t so fucking needy as to wish that Mike were still there to hold his hand. But it’s hard sometimes, to watch Mike flourish in Chicago while Blaine’s still stuck in Lima. It’s like Kurt, and yet somehow even deeper a betrayal because Blaine knew this was coming with Kurt. He’d spent so much time worrying about that, in fact, that he never stopped to consider the life Mike would be building away from him.
But then Mike will send Blaine physical concertos that he writes just for Blaine, and Blaine will mail him care packages that he spent days carefully putting together. They’ll think about each other. And when they’re at the wedding they hold each other so tightly their ribs creak with it, and they don’t say anything else at all but let that speak for them. And they dance together, though of course they split off - Blaine to curl himself around Kurt, and Mike to try and hold Tina together before she flies apart into a million angry jagged pieces.
They don’t hang out together very much after graduating. They never quite make it back to living in the same place. But Blaine is Mike’s best man, and Mike flies half-way across the country to see Blaine’s first off-off-off Broadway show. They send each other letters, hand-written once Blaine admits he loves the romance of the idea, their entire life and they meet up in person at least four times a year. It doesn’t seem like very much to Kurt and Rachel, who never learned the knack of breathing separate air, but they’re happy. They know that no matter where they may be physically, they're there for each other.
Blaine emails Mike bi-weekly Glee updates, and Mike sends Blaine clips from his dance classes. A lot of their Skype dates are silent. They like to keep it open as they work; just having the other person there without needing to say anything. Sometimes Blaine will start singing and Mike will dance along. Sometimes they trade texts that are nothing but ridiculous puns for days at a time, and thank god for unlimited texting.
And sometimes Blaine talks a little much about Sam, and Mike has to spend the next day dancing until his feet scream. Because he’s happy, so goddamn happy, that Blaine found such an awesome friend in Sam, part of him wants to cling to Blaine and cry because Mike knows that he’s quiet and a little boring, especially when he can’t pull you into a dance. It’s the same part of him that wants to kiss Tina when he sees again during Grease, even though he knows he’s not supposed to, even though he knows it would be the worst thing for both of them.
And sometimes Mike has to break their Skype dates several times in a row because his classes are so crazy, and sometimes Mike has to hurriedly sign out because one of his friends from class is dragging him away to some party. And Blaine smiles and wishes he weren’t so fucking needy as to wish that Mike were still there to hold his hand. But it’s hard sometimes, to watch Mike flourish in Chicago while Blaine’s still stuck in Lima. It’s like Kurt, and yet somehow even deeper a betrayal because Blaine knew this was coming with Kurt. He’d spent so much time worrying about that, in fact, that he never stopped to consider the life Mike would be building away from him.
But then Mike will send Blaine physical concertos that he writes just for Blaine, and Blaine will mail him care packages that he spent days carefully putting together. They’ll think about each other. And when they’re at the wedding they hold each other so tightly their ribs creak with it, and they don’t say anything else at all but let that speak for them. And they dance together, though of course they split off - Blaine to curl himself around Kurt, and Mike to try and hold Tina together before she flies apart into a million angry jagged pieces.
They don’t hang out together very much after graduating. They never quite make it back to living in the same place. But Blaine is Mike’s best man, and Mike flies half-way across the country to see Blaine’s first off-off-off Broadway show. They send each other letters, hand-written once Blaine admits he loves the romance of the idea, their entire life and they meet up in person at least four times a year. It doesn’t seem like very much to Kurt and Rachel, who never learned the knack of breathing separate air, but they’re happy. They know that no matter where they may be physically, they're there for each other.