Blaine was seven years old, when he first found an interest in birds, it was a little blackbird laying under a tree in their backyard. It wasn't moving much, so he picked it up and walkef inside the house to show it to his mom who was in the kitchen.
'Mom, what is wrong with this bird?' He asks holding the little bird up, for her to see
His mother looks down and sees his son's concerning eyes and the little creature in his hands, she bends down on her knees, so that she is eyelevel with her boy.
'I think it may have broken its right wing!' She brushes a lock of hair that had bounced down on his forehead.
'Can't we do something to make it better?' Blaine asks, his eyes big and hopeful
'I don't know sweetie, I'm not much of a bird expert but I think you should carry the bird outside again, because its mommy may be looking after it. And if you have it in here then she can't find it' She explained
Blaine eyes grow even bigger, and he ran outside, as fast as his little legs could carry him. He really didn't want the bird's mother to be looking for her baby bird. What if the mommy bird was sad because she couldn't find her child? Blaine laid the bird down exactly where he found it, then kneeled down.
'I hope your mommy comes soon. You shouldn't be alone, and when your mommy comes then she will take care of you' Then he retreated a couple of feet's and stayed sitting cross legged in the grass, keeping his eyes on the bird, until it's mother would return.
Another place in town, a 7 year old little boy was sitting on the ground playing with his stuffed animals, while his mother was in the kitchen baking cookies. He heard the sound of a car, and looked up, seeing it coming up the road. It was a purple car, and it was so pretty, it wasn't often that cars where that color, often they were green, blue, red or black. So he got up, running into the kitchen while yelling
'Mommy, can I go look at the car?'
His mother stuck her head out of the kitchen, looking out to see a car driving around at the end of the street.
She smiled at his little boy.
'Of course sweetie'.
'You're the best, thanks, mom. Love you' He ran over throwing his little arms around her neck and kissed her nose. She bobbed his in return 'Love you too sweetie'.
The little boy got outside, eyes locked to the car down the road, he ran directly out on the road, forgetting to turn his head and look the other way.
Inside the kitchen his mother heard a shrieking noise and car brakes being slammed, she dropped everything and hurried outside, in time to see a car coming straight towards her little boy
She ran as fast as she could, yelling 'KURT'.
The boy turned and saw the car and his mother running toward him.
But the car didn't have time to stop and he felt his mother shove him away.
The boy sat up, his right arm hurt really badly.
He looked around, he could see the people in the car was coming out, yelling something about an ambulance, his father came running out of the car shop and he could see his mother lying on the ground, why wasn't she moving?
Four years later
Blaine was getting ready to leave for the zoo. He would be going with his brother Cooper. He was really excited because it meant that he would get to see all kinds of animals today, he was most looking forward to the birds. He ran down into the kitchen getting their food out of the fridge, before he ran to his own room again, checking if Elisabeth had enough water, so she could be alone the next couple of hours.
Elisabeth was a budgerigar he had gotten for his birthday. It was all kinds of awesome blue and he loved the bird more than anything in the world.
Kurt saw his father coming out of the shop, he smiled a little, walking over to take his hand.
'Do we still have time to go see the animals?' Kurt asked.
'Of course son. I just locked up the shop, so we are ready to go'. His father answered.
Kurt did a little jump, he was so excited to go see the animals.
When they got there, they first saw the monkeys, then they walked by some cages with what Kurt was certain would be hundreds of different birds. He saw a boy, maybe his age, sitting on the ground there, but he wasn't looking at the birds in the cages, he sat looking on a free bird, pecking around in the grass.
Kurt looked up, shaking his father's hand and told him he would go over there. His father looked up smiling and nodded so Kurt walked over, stopping a couple of feet behind the boy.
Blaine had agreed with Cooper to sit and wait at the birds cages, while Cooper got them something to eat. While he sat, he saw a bird landing on the ground outside the cages. He turned and smiled when he saw that it was his favorite, a blackbird. He got down and looked at the bird while it was pecking on the ground.
A couple of minutes later he heard someone approaching him, so he turned ready to tell Cooper to be quiet. But it wasn't Cooper, instead he saw a boy standing looking at him, he looked a little shy. So Blaine made a motion with his hand and said
'Hey. Do you wanna sit?'
The boy scrapped his feet against the ground, before he nodded and sat down beside Blaine.
'I'm Kurt' he said holding out his hand, Blaine looked down on the hand, then he took it and grinned
'I am Blaine, nice meeting you Kurt'. Blaine looked up in the boy's eyes, and he came to think of his bird Elisabeth at home, because this boy Kurt had eyes the same blue.
'You have pretty eyes' He said, Kurt looked wide eyes at him before he blushed a little. Blaine made a little laugh because he thought it was cute.
'So, do you know which bird that is?' Kurt then asked, pointing at the bird in the grass. Blaine smiled so big and began to explain all about the blackbird.