Hot summer romance?
What an excellent Ask! Who doesn’t like to read a hot summer romance in July? I have 15 recs under the cut. - HKVoyage
Boys of Summer by @whenidance
AU where Kurt and Blaine are childhood friends because each summer, their families stay in neighboring lake cabins. The summer the boys are sixteen, the Andersons don’t show, but the next year when Kurt and Blaine see each other, they’ve grown up quite a bit. They quickly discover they might be a little bit in love with one another. Good thing they have a long summer ahead of them and plenty of firsts to figure out together.
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Shove Me Into Shallow Waters by K8Malloy
A/U The summer before senior year Kurt receives notification that he must pass the school district’s mandatory swim test in order to earn his diploma. A childhood trauma has kept him out of the water until now. Enter Blaine Anderson, Lima Parks and Recreation lifeguard and swim instructor. When it comes to unknown waters, is it best to tip toe in, or take a running leap?
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To Save a Life by rachelovesklaine
It is the summer after senior year and Kurt Hummel has to stay with a sick relative against his wishes. Will Kurt have a horrible summer? Or will lifeguard Blaine Anderson change his plans, and maybe save his life once or twice?
One-shot: Forever and a Day
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Between the Moon and New York City by jackabelle73
Kurt arrives in a small coastal town in North Carolina to join his dad and Carole for a few days of their vacation, but under duress. He can’t imagine that this sleepy southern town has anything to offer him…till a very attractive local goes jogging by on the beach.
~~~~~Light Up The Sky- Part of the Klaine Summer Fic Challenge by MrsCriss2012
AU. Kurt and Blaine meet on the Fourth of July.
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Hail To Whatever You Found in the Sunlight That Surrounds You by Water_Nix
On the third of August in Blaine Anderson’s ninth year, something momentous happens: he sees a boy crying on the beach and decides to do something about it. What he gets in return is a best friend, a confidant, an ally to help him through the ups and downs. They spend one month together every summer. One perfect month until they are old enough to escape together. Eleven Augusts and the letters in between.
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High Tide by Twitchy Squirrel
Ryan Murphy is quoted in Entertainment Weekly as saying that Blaine was never meant to be Kurt’s love interest. Drawing on that possibility, in this story, Blaine and Kurt meet at Dalton during Kurt’s junior year of high school but never become boyfriends. Now in the summer before his last semester of college, Kurt sees Blaine while vacationing on Nantucket. Can he get up the nerve to approach the man he’s been fantasizing about all these years?
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Rose Island Romance (or, “Cute Boys Don’t Grow On Trees But They Do Like to Sail”) by @flowerfan2
AU. Exhausted from city life, and frustrated at his inability to get a good part in summer stock, NYADA student Kurt Hummel decides to spend the summer on a small New England island helping his uncle at Hummel Marine. When a cute boy in a tight polo shirt brings in his outboard engine for repairs, Kurt begins to think that summer on the sleepy island might hold some excitement after all.
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Three Weeks of Summer by AntarcticBird
Kurt just wants to get some work done, Rachel just wants him to relax, and Blaine shows up and makes everything even more complicated than it is already.
Note: Part 1 of the Three Weeks of Summer series
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Scoops by ThePause
It was the summer before Kurt moved to New York and he’d still never had a proper boyfriend. That is until his favorite customer, Coffee Hazelnut, asked for an application. Was there time left in the summer to start a new romance?
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Running on Sunshine by idoltina
It’s the last week of summer and Kurt needs inspiration for his Middleton musical; Blaine suggests a ND/Warblers pool party to get his mind off of things. And Blaine, well, Blaine shouldn’t be allowed to walk around shirtless because then Kurt just gets all hot and bothered.
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Best Summer Ever by @tonks42
AU Klaine. During the summer between his junior and senior years, Kurt returns to camp as a Junior Counselor. His plans for having his best summer ever change when Kurt becomes a friend and mentor to a hurting new guy, Blaine.
Note: Part 1 of the Camp Cardigan series
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Surface Tension by @gleekto
Kurt, a graduated junior from Lima, Ohio, is looking forward to just being part of the crowd at an arts based overnight camp in the Catskills - as far from Lima and as close to New York as he can get himself at age 17. It’s perfect - Everyone dances and sings and comes from places that are distinctly not Lima. He can blend in without being ‘the gay kid’. Sexuality irrelevant. Finally.
And it’s blissful, it is. Until he meets the laughably cocky head of canoe staff, Blaine Anderson. Camp veteran, athlete by day, performer by night, every camper’s crush, every staff’s confidante. He’s only Kurt’s age, but he’s in charge of his section. And also, it seems, is proudly, non-chalantly, and totally, a perfect gold star gay. The out-est boy he has ever met. He is infuriating.
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Camp Arborwood by pickingviolets
Kurt is seriously lacking when it comes to extracurriculars for his college applications. Camp counselor is going to look great. Now, if he can just survive the summer. A fun-loving, curly-haired co-worker will make the summer more than survivable though. It might just be downright amazing!
Read at: S&C or Download: [PDF] [Epub]
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Brix Brax by practicalamanda
Blaine has been going to camp Fire Light since he could walk. It’s his home away from home, but no one there knows he’s gay. He didn’t keep it a secret, but no one had asked and so no one knew. At camp he didn’t have to be the gay kid. He was just a kid. Now that he’s staff, will a new Waterfront director topple this carefully crafted logic? Klaine camp counselor AU
