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Chapter 10
Curtis looked at his dad with a look of hero worship in his blue eyes. He felt safe and loved being in his dad’s arms. He hugged him tight. “Daddy, I’m so scared.” He whispered to himself, his eyes slowly changed from blue to green.
“Why are you scared, Curtis? You have nothing to be afraid of. I’ll never let anything happen to you. I promise you. Have I ever broken a promise to you?” Michael asked his son softly as he hugged him close.
“What if my biological dad comes back and takes me from my family? I don’t want to be away from you. I’m scared.”
“Son, look at me”, Curtis slowly raised his head to look at his dad in the face. Michael noticed his eyes and knew he was scared. He knew he had to reassure his son before dealing with the officers. “They can wait until Curtis is taken care of. He comes before any outsiders”. He thought to himself. “No one is taking you away from us. Absolutely no one. You are our son. We adopted you before you turned 6 after your Auntie Sarah died. You aren’t getting rid of us that easily.” He smiled at his son as he noticed his eyes changing back to blue. “If you left us, we’ll be stuck with Sebastian!” He said with a look of horror on his face.
“Hey! I’m not that bad! You know you love me and can’t be without me!” Sebastian said in protest and a pout on his face. Everyone was laughing at the look on Sebastian’s face.
Curtis giggled at the look on Bas’s face. “Of course we love you, Bas. You know how dad likes to tease us. Besides, I’m not going anywhere because Dad and I have two projects to do.”
“Whew! I was afraid I was going to have to give my birthday car back.” Sebastian said with a smirk. “Project? What kind of project? Can I help?”
Michael smiled at Sebastian, grateful that he helped relax Curtis and made him laugh. “We’ll discuss it later, Sebastian. I think it’s time you boys to get into your pajamas and continue your Disney marathon.” He kissed Curtis on his forehead and whispered, “I love you, baby boy.”
“I love you too, Daddy.” Curtis whispered to him as he got off his lap and walked to Sebastian. “Let’s go and get ready. I want to see Tarzan first.”
Sebastian rolled his eyes at Curtis. “Fine, Kitten. But I picked the second one. I want to see The Little Mermaid.” Sebastian grabbed Curtis’ hand so they can walk to the bedrooms together.
“Meerkat, you just like knowing there is a crab named Sebastian! How conceited! Besides, it’s Blaine’s turn to go second. You picked the first movie last time.”
“But Curtie, I really want to see The Little Mermaid.” They walked out of the room holding hands as they continue to argue the order of the movies they were going to watch. They were so into their argument that they didn’t notice the group of people standing near the door.
“Blaine! Come on! Hurry up!” Curtis yelled halfway up the staircase.
“I’m coming! Be there in a minute!” Blaine yelled back.
Blaine kissed and hugged his mom and then walked over to his dad. He sat next to him and hugged him tight. His dad gave him a kiss on the forehead. “Son, don’t worry. Your brother isn’t going anywhere.” Michael reassured his son. “If he did leave us what would happen to us? Who will be our fashion police telling us we can’t wear certain things? Who will bake us cookies and pies? Who will be throwing tantrums because we told him he can’t be in the bathroom for an hour doing his facial? We can't let that happen to us!” He said with a look of horror on his face.
Blaine laughed at his dad’s serious tone. “True, Dad. We have him too spoiled to be out in the real world. People will pay us to take him back!” His eyes were twinkling with merriment.
“I love you, baby.” Michael said to his youngest child.
“I love you too, Dad. I better go before Kit and Kat throw a tantrum.” He said with a smile as he got up and walked quickly out the door.
Stephanie smiled as she watched Blaine walked out the door. Michael got up and walked over to his wife and said, “I’ll be back. I’m taking them to my office. I’ll let you know if I need to go to the station.” He gave her a tender kiss on the lips. “Yes, baby, we’ll sleep down here with our boys.” He said with a smirk.
“I didn’t say anything, Michael!” Stephanie protested laughing at him.
“My love, I believe you protest too much!” He said with a smile. “We’ll sleep here to reassure the boys that we are family. I love you.”
“I love you too. Hurry back.”
Burt looked at the scene unfolding in front of him. He saw that Anderson fellow comforting Kurt. He was filled with self-loathing. He should be the one comforting his son. He should be the one Kurt looked to for comfort. He looked away from the scene with a heavy heart. “Katie, my love, what should I do? Should I lie to the officers? Or tell the truth? I just can’t risk losing Kurt again! This is my entire fault! I was a selfish son of a bitch!” He thought to himself. He knew he had to make things right for his son. But he was not willing to lose him. He’ll fight to the end of the worlds to maintain Kurt in his life.
Carole hugged her husband and whispered to him, “Honey, we’ll figure something out. We can’t lose him again but we can’t take him from this family. Let’s find out what really happened and go from there, okay?”
“How did you know what I was just thinking, Love?” He whispered to her.
“I know you, Burt. You may want to do anything even lie to get your way but underneath everything you are a decent and honorable man. They really love Kurt you can see it and he’ll be blessed with more love from us as well. We can be an extended family but we need to compromise for Kurt’s sake. He’s the one at risk here and we can’t hurt him.”
“God, I love you. You are the best part of me and my voice of reason. I’ll do anything as long as I can see Kurt. I’ve missed him so much.”
“I know, Honey. But remember it has to be what’s best for Kurt not you or the Andersons. Kurt has to be the main concern.”
Burt looked up over his wife’s shoulder as he noticed Michael coming to them.
“Shall we go to my office and get this resolved? Come this way, please.” Michael stated as he walked past Burt and Carole. Burt released his wife and grabbed her hand.
“Yes, we need to get this resolved.” Burt said as he followed Michael out the door and down the hallway to his office.