rachel.

                  glancing at him out of the corner of her eye, rachel noticed the big dumb grin blaine wore whenever he wanted something. && she was not immune to it. she shook her head at him && stood up from her seat, keeping her back toward him as he spoke more. the truth was that she didn’t want sebastian there because of a brief fling they had in high school—- a very brief && secret fling— that she wanted nobody to know about ;; hence the reason she never mentioned it to blaine. 

                    but his smile, && the points he was making && the gaze that was practically burning through her despite her back being turned cracked her. she sighed again, && faced him.

   “ fine, blaine. two weeks. fourteen days. if he hasn’t toned it down— he’s out. ”       

Blaine was clueless on the real reason why Rachel didn’t want Sebastian to stay.  There were plenty of obvious ones that he could list at the drop of a hat. But they all dated back to years ago and they’d all grown up since then.  Truth was?  He needed her to say yes.  If she didn’t?  The situation he was going to be left with wasn’t one he was sure he’d know what to do in.  Pick between his boyfriend or the girl who had been there through a hell of a lot of bad times and helped him?  Yeah, not the best situation.  Not at all.

“He’s not the guy you are used to.  Yeah, it might not seem like that now but–” Wait?!  She just agreed?  “R-Really?  You’re serious?”  A flood of relief had him deflating as he burst into motion and rushed over to wrap his arms around her shoulders tight.  “Thank you!  Two weeks and I’ll tell him to be on his best behavior.”  Would Sebastian listen?  Probably not.  No.  He better.  Eh?  Just in case?  Blaine was already trying to figure out what damage control techniques he was, no doubt, going to have to use–repeatedly.