A/N: This is it, the end. I'd like to thank everyone for reading and reviewing and putting the story on alert and being with me through my summer project! I hope you will like this last chapter.

December - Ending is the Beginning

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an

end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

- T.S. Eliot

On the morning of the 23rd of December, Kurt stares at the calendar hanging on the wall in front of his desk with a frown upon his face while absentmindedly drumming his pencil on the table. When someone knocks on the glass of his office's door, he jumps and turns around quickly.

Millie smiles at him. "Sorry, Kurt." She walks inside the office without waiting for an invite and sits down on the chair across from Kurt, putting the stock of papers she was carrying on his desk. "Our lovely boss wants you to go over these before you leave." Millie sighs deeply and then her lips curve into a big smile. "Last day! Finally!"

Kurt nods smiling back at her before reaching for the papers she brought him. He scans them quickly barely paying attention to what he's reading.

"You seem distracted."

Putting down his pencil and relaxing against the back of his chair, Kurt looks up at her assistant. "I was thinking about Noah."

"Noah?" Millie raises a perfect blond eyebrow and slides her chair closer to the desk, as if she can't wait to hear every little detail.

"Well, about me and Noah."

"Problems in paradise?"

Kurt rolls his eyes but can't help smiling. "No. I was thinking more about the fact that in less than a week it's our anniversary. I don't know if it's one though." He scrunches up his nose and looks outside the window. "Are you supposed to consider your first meeting or the first time you went on a date?"

Millie laughed. "Oh boy."

He picks up a piece of paper and balls it up before throwing it at her. "What? Don't make fun of me, this is the first time I'm in something serious."

"What about your boyfriend in high school?"

"We didn't pay attention to that. We were kids, we had an anniversary for every thing we did. This is serious Millie, I'm an adult in an adult relationship for the first time ever and it's our anniversary," he frowns and sighs. "At least I think so."

Millie studies Kurt for a few moments, the way he's back at drumming the pencil on the table and looking out the window. It's not usual to see Kurt being so nervous and there's something about it that just makes Millie smile and shake her head. "Do you have something planned in case Noah does think it's your anniversary?"

At first Kurt just shrugs but then he glances at Millie for a moment and then stands up from his chair starting to pace. "I may have an idea."

"Are you going to propose?"

Kurt turns around quickly then, fixing her with a bewildered look. "No. We're young, we've been together for less than a year."

"Okay so whatever else it is, you don't need to freak out. I haven't seen you this nervous since the first time we were sent to the Fashion Week."

There are several minutes of silence after that, it lasts so much that Millie starts to doodle clothes on Kurt's notepad.

"I want to ask him to move in with me." Kurt frowns because that doesn't sound right, he's been thinking about it ever since Noah came back from his tour but there's always something off about the idea of him moving in with Kurt and Santana and Brittany and Charlie. And finally, he gets it. "No I don't want that," he says out loud and a new smile is already forming on his face. "I want us to move in together… in some place."

"Someplace?" Millie asked confused.

"Yes." This time, the smile on Kurt's face is blinding.

Kurt doesn't ask Noah if he consider the 31st their anniversary, he just spends his time thinking about them living together. It's not something he just wants to do, it's something he wants to plan, something he wants to see in a rational way. So he thinks about it and doesn't talk about it with anyone. It's not like he's going to buy a place and then give a key to Noah. He wants a place that it's theirs not just his or Noah's. He carefully keeps his mind from wandering to how he's going to feel if Noah doesn't accept.

On New Year's Eve, Kurt is so excited he can't stop smiling. Santana keeps looking at him as if he's crazy while Brittany can't help but smile back at him every time their eyes meet. They're about to walk out of their apartment when Kurt's phone rings.

"Just a moment," he says, holding up a finger. He tells them to go on and then reaches for his phone. When he sees who's calling, he can't help but roll his eyes. "Rachel," he greets with too much joy. He has a strange relationship with Noah's best friend. Sometimes he thinks that she's a female version of himself and sometimes he just wants to pretend they never met.

"Kurt!" Rachel's voice is both happy and worried at the same time. "Are you on your way?"

"Yes, I was just leaving my apartment."

"Okay, great, don't be late, Kurt."

And Kurt rolls his eyes because she's been telling him to be on time for the last two weeks. "Rachel, I've told you, you don't have to worry." While he's talking, he picks up his keys and walks out of the apartment making sure to lock the door before heading out to the street. "We'll be there in a few minutes. Is Noah there already?"

He hears a loud bang coming from the other side of the phone and then Rachel yelling, "Damn. I have to go Kurt. I'll see you later." She hangs up before Kurt can say anything else.

Santana, Charlie and Brittany are waiting on the sidewalk when he walks out. Charlie is in Brittany's arms dressed in his Santa Claus's Helper costume even though Santana has been telling him for days now that on New Year's Eve you don't wear a Christmas costume.

"Are you ready?" Santana asks annoyed.

"Yep." He slides his arm through hers and then they all start walking towards Rachel's apartment.

The first time Noah introduced Rachel to Kurt, they were in a tiny backstage of a theater and Rachel was quickly working on finishing her make-up. She was freaking out and he helped her and while Noah looked at them bonding with pride, Rachel kept trying to swap his hands away.

It felt strange now to consider Rachel one of his closest friends. He had never met anyone more similar to him than that small Jewish girl, not that he was going to say that to anyone.

When they arrive to Rachel's apartment, Jesse is the one who opens the door. His usual perfect hair are wild and when he sees Kurt, Brittany, Santana and Charlie, he sighs heavily. "Thank God you're finally here."

"What did she do?" Santana asks and she doesn't sound concerned at all, more like she can't wait to see Ms. Rachel Berry in troubles.

"I have no idea," Jesses answers while taking everyone's jacket. "Something wrong with one of the things she's cooking. She's been on the phone with her fathers for the last twenty minutes."

Kurt shakes his head but no one offers to go help her because they tried last time they had a "dinner for my special friends" at Rachel's house and Rachel had yelled at them to not try to help with things they know nothing about. So they all take a seat in the living room and start talking about what's going on in their lives.

Kurt keeps glancing at the door but tries to be subtle. However, when the doorbell finally rings, he's up before anyone else can say a word.

When he opens the door, Noah is standing on the other side shaking the snowflakes from his coat. He has that ridiculous yellow hat his sister sent him to shield his shaved head from the cold and despite his tanned skin, his nose is red and so are his cheeks.

Instead if pulling Noah inside, Kurt walks out and closes the door behind him.

"What…" Noah's sentence is cut off when Kurt grabs the lapels of his coat and tags him forward until they're as close as they can get and then Kurt kisses him, hungry and happy and it doesn't get deep because they both can't stop smiling.

Noah closes his arms around Kurt's waist and his hands slide down to rest on Kurt's ass. There's a whispered, "Hey there," before they get lost in their kissing, standing there, in the hallway outside Rachel Berry's apartment.

They don't stop until the door behind them is opened and Rachel grabs both their arms, pulling them apart from each other and inside the apartment.

It's almost time for the ball to drop when they make it to Times Square. Charlie is walking holding one hand with Brittany and the other with Santana, and they pick him up every other step making him laugh with joy.

Jesse has his arm around Rachel's shoulders and she has a little smile on her face that makes her look younger because Jesse is the only person who actually manages to relax Rachel Berry.

Kurt and Noah are a few steps behind the others, they're walking next to each other, their shoulders brushing together but they aren't holding hands because the way they look at each other it's enough to not need a physical contact.

When they all stop in Time Square looking up at where the ball should drop from, Kurt feels his hand being grabbed and he turns around finding Noah with that little boyish grin he sometimes has, usually before dragging Kurt to the bedroom.

"Come on," he says and then tags on Kurt's hand getting him to move, and it's not until they're far away from Time Square to be able to get a taxi that Kurt gets an idea on where they're going.

"It's our anniversary right?" Noah asks uncertain and Kurt laughs.

"I've been asking myself the same thing for the last few weeks."

"I want it to be," he smiles brightly, looking younger than his twenty-four years. "I mean, you don't get a more romantic one, right? Meeting on the last day of the year, sharing a taxi."

"No, you're right, you can't."

After a few minutes, Noah tells the cab driver to stop and he pays before dragging Kurt out in the cold. They're standing in front of a little diner and Kurt shakes his head. "This is so cliché and kind of perfect, actually."

"I'm the best boyfriend ever. I remembered where we came to eat on our first meeting and we haven't been here since."

"I didn't remember the name of this place."

They walk inside the little diner and there's the same waitress with the red hair that was there the last time and the little TV on the shelf is showing Times Square. The different thing it's that this time they don't seat across from each other but next to each other.

"What can I get you guys?" She asks them with a friendly smile.

After she leaves with their orders, Kurt relaxes against Noah's side and Noah puts his arm on the back of their booth so he can turn a little and Kurt can lean against his chest.

Kurt has been thinking about what he wants to ask for a long time now and there isn't a particular way in which he imagined the proposition going. When they said "I love you" for the first time, it was natural and simple and while they were watching Project Runaway of all things. Being where they first eat together, on their one year anniversary, is as perfect as everything could ever be.

H grabs Noah's hand and starts playing with his fingers to get his nerves under control and then just asks, "Would you like to move in someplace together?"

There's silence for the first few moments and then Noah leans on Kurt's shoulder so he can at least look at the side of Kurt's face. "To move in someplace?"

"Yeah. I haven't been looking around for places because it's something we should do together and

Charlie is getting bigger and he will soon want his own room and it's awkward at breakfast when you stay over because Santana and Brittany make out on the other side of the table so you can't move in with me.

"And I can't move in with you because you live way too close to Rachel. I love that girl, but whenever I stay over, it's like she spies on us and knows I'm there and then first thing in the morning, there's she is, knocking at the door and…" Noah chuckles and Kurt can feel Noah's chest vibrating against his back. "And I just really want to live with you."

"So, someplace in New York?"

"We could get something close to where we work. It's a little pricey living in Midtown Manhattan but we can manage."

Noah squeezes Kurt's hand for a moment and Kurt wishes he could read what's going through his mind but no matter how scared he is, he's not going to take it back. So he waits and after a few minutes, just as Kurt's eyes fall on the little TV where the ball is dropping in Times Square, he feels lips leaving a kiss on his neck and then Noah's breath hot against his ear.

"Let's move in someplace together."

The End

Just in case anyone wants to know, the studio where Puck records is the Skyline Recording Studio in Midtown Manhattan and Kurt works for ELLE. Google maps told me that those places are just a few minutes away from each other so Kurt and Puck will move in together in Midtown Manhattan. This is their apartment:

www[.]metropolisapts[.]com/View_Listing[.]aspx?lid=964878&sid=4136062&page=1