A/N: I do not own any Glee characters or Glee the show. I do own Jamie, Jane, Arianna, DJ, Valerie, Jeff, and Taylor.
Family Matters
Chapter 1: Who's Test is it Anyways?
Valerie went through the trash daily at the Lopez-Martinez household, so her green thumb wouldn't go insane, by not separating the trash and recyclables. As she was putting the recycles in the blue bin near the trashcan, she noticed something she had never seen before: a pregnancy test. Although Valerie didn't know what the stick was, she knew she had to find out. "Mama! Mama, come here!" Valerie called. Santana walked into the kitchen with her work attire on and hands full of paperwork. "What is it mija?" Santana asked, not looking up. "What is this, Mama?" Valerie asked, holding up the stick. Santana glimpsed up and did a double take when she realized what it was. "Val, sweetie, where did you find this?" Santana asked, taking the test away from her daughter. "It was in the trash! I was separating the trash again and I found it! What is it anyways?" Valerie asked again. Santana looked at the test result and saw it was positive. Santana's heart skipped a beat with excitement. "It's nothing sweetheart, don't worry about it. I have to go talk to Aunt Jamie now…" Santana said, running up the stairs into Jamie's room. "Oh my God how could you not tell me you are pregnant?!" Santana beamed as she hugged her beloved sister-in-law.
Jamie confusedly hugged Santana back, not knowing what she was saying. "San, not to burst your bubble, but I'm not pregnant..." Jamie told her. "… What do you mean you're not pregnant? Valerie found the test and it has to be yours… Or maybe it's Jane's…" Santana grinned. "What?! No, she's not! I mean she couldn't be!" Jamie said aloud. "Any lesbian can get pregnant, Squirt! We never have to get our tubes tied!" Santana laughed. "Jane's too busy to want to get pregnant anyways. Besides, she would have told me by this point!" Jamie said, relieved. "Then it's not, yours, it's not Jane's and it's definitely not mine, then who's could it be?" Santana asked. "Maybe it's Dani's and she's trying to surprise you!" Jamie grinned. "No, it couldn't be. Dani can't get pregnant again because of the stabbing remember? If anything, it's a sick joke if she's trying to pull one…" Santana sighed. Jamie immediately knew the only two people it had to be and immediately snatched the test away from Santana's hands. "Hey! What's your deal?" Santana asked. Jamie's heart sank when she noticed the pink little plus sign on the stick. "What do you know, Jamie? I know that look." Santana asked her. "Santana the only ones who would've taken this test in this house is our daughters…" Jamie said quietly.
"What? No way in hell that's true! Valerie is way to young for sex and had no idea what a pregnancy test is! Plus, Arianna knows better, and she would've told Dani or I that she's sexually active. It has to be your daughter!" Santana exclaimed. Jamie gasped in disgust. "How dare you accuse my daughter of doing such things! Jane and I warned her that if she or Jeff that if they became sexually active before they are 18-years-old, we are not responsible for the consequences; in a nutshell, they're on their own with being early parents!" Jamie argued. As the two continued to argue, Dani came home from working at the restaurant. As she flopped onto the couch, she heard Jamie and Santana yelling. "Guys… Don't make me come up there!" Dani groaned. Jamie quickly covered Santana's mouth and looked at her directly in the eye. "Sorry Dan, we'll keep it down!" Jamie called in reply. She finally removed her hand and sighed. "San we cannot tell Dani about this, you know she's going to freak out to another new level!" Jamie said quietly. "Jamie you know we don't have a choice here! Dani will know if we are keeping something from here! I mean look how far we got when we tried to keep the fact that we kissed away from her?" Santana replied. "Yeah but San, you were pregnant and I had just—" "How FAR did we get, Jamie?" Santana interrupted. Jamie sighed and looked at Santana sadly. "Not very far at all…" She mumbled.
"Exactly! So we have to tell her, or we'll both get our heads cut off!" Santana said proudly. "Well, we should probably tell her now before Val does…" Jamie said, leaving the room. Santana nodded in agreement and followed her. Dani was lying on the couch watching the nightly news, when the two women came down the stairs and sat near her. "All right, what was going on up there you two? I usually have to mediate your fights before you two look calm again! So, what's up?" Dani asked. Santana looked at Dani and tried to keep her calm. "Sweetheart, I was doing some paperwork today, and—" "Santana please don't rant to me about your clients right now… Work was crazy enough for me today…" Dani whined. "Dani, just listen to her." Jamie said sternly. "Anyways, Val called me into the kitchen, and she handed me this…" Santana said, giving her the positive pregnancy test. "What the hell? Why do we have a pregnancy test, might I add a positive one, in this house? Who's pregnant?" Dani asked, confusedly. "We don't know…" Jamie told her. "What do you mean you don't know? How do you guys not know?" Dani asked, getting angry. "We just don't know who's it is, honey…" Santana said, trying to calm her wife down. "I swear to God Jamie, if this is some trick—" "I promise Dani it's not… But I do have an idea on whose it has to be, and I know neither of us are going to be happy…" Jamie explained. "Well? Don't keep me waiting! Who do you think it is?" Dani asked. "Ari or Taylor…" Jamie said calmly.
Dani kept her calm look on her face, before she screamed and tackled her sister to the floor, trying to beat her up. "Oh my God! Dani!" Santana said loudly, trying to pry her wife off of Jamie. "HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE MY ARI OF BEING PREGNANT!" Dani yelled. "Dani please! The test could be Taylor's too! I'm not just eye-balling your daughter!" Jamie argued, trying push Dani off of her. Finally Jamie rolled Dani off of her and glared at her. "Dani I'm sorry that you can't accept that your "perfect princess" could possibly have done some wrong." She said sternly. "Babe, Jamie was just trying to tell you the truth. Trust me, Jamie reacted the same way when she realized it could be Taylor's… Just relax, mi amore…" Santana explained, rubbing her lover's shoulders. Dani sighed and looked apologetic at her sister. "I accept your apology. Now, how are we going to confront them?" Jamie asked them. Dani and Santana look at each other and sighed. Later that evening, the four women had the two suspects sit down with them in the kitchen to talk about the mysterious pregnancy test. "All right you two, do you know why we've asked you to come talk with us?" Jamie asked. Both girls remained silent, not knowing what to say. Santana finally got tired of waiting and broke the silence. "All right, fine. Who was idiot to put a positive pregnancy test in the top of the trash where Valerie can easily find it?" "Santana!" Dani scolded.
"What? Whoever did that was stupid 'cause they didn't hide it well enough!" Santana mumbled. "Anyways, as Santana was saying, who's pregnancy test was in the garbage today? And no it couldn't be any of ours, so don't suggest that." Jane explained. Ari looked at Dani and Santana and tried to gain their trust. "Mama please trust me that it's not mine!" "Arianna you know it's hard to trust you after all of the things you have done lately. You know exactly what I mean, young lady." Dani told her. "What do you mean Dani?" Santana asked. "Mom you know I haven't even kissed a boy let alone talk to one! It can't be mine!" Taylor whined. "It's not that we don't trust you, Tay, but we got to know who's it is and you are a suspect until someone in this house comes forward!" Jamie explained. Dani pulled Santana towards to whisper in her ear. "I didn't want to tell you, but Ari lost her virginity..." "WHAT?!" Santana shouted. "Oh no, here we go…" Ari mumbled. "How could you not tell me something that important?!" Santana asked Dani. "I didn't want to tell you because I knew you would overreact like this!" Dani explained. "I am not overreacting! This is something I promised I would never let happen to one of my daughters! And you! How could you let something so special just slip out of your fingers?" Santana scolded. "I trusted the person I slept with Mama! Besides, at least I'm not known as the school slut like you were!" Ari snapped. "Arianna! How could you say something so rude to your mother?" Dani yelled, getting angrier with her daughter.
"Mama please, you guys gotta trust me! It's not mine, I promise! I don't even have time to have a relationship with all of my studies I have to keep up with!" Taylor tried to argue. "Now see Jamie, that's the kind of child I signed up for!" Jane said proudly. Jamie gave Jane "the look" while raising her eyebrows. "What? It's true!" Jane commented. Jamie got tired of everyone arguing so she slammed her hand on the table. "All right! That's enough!" She shouted. Everyone became silent and had their eyes on Jamie. "Thank-you. Now, since neither of you will come forward, I had asked Jane to pick up a few pregnancy tests that will 100% tell us which one of you is really lying. Now, pick a test and bathroom and we'll be waiting for each result of each test." Jamie stated. Both girls did as they were told and went to separate bathrooms. Santana watched her daughter leave and Dani knew she was furious with her. "San, I'm—" "How could you not tell me about this? You knew how I felt about our children and the topic of intercourse!" Santana snapped. "I was trying to protect Ari!" Dani said through her teeth. "Protect her from what Dani? The fact that I will rip the head off of the fool who slept with our daughter or maybe yank the hair of the skank who decided our little girl was ready for such a big decision in her lifetime? I will do whatever it takes to make sure they don't make the same mistakes I made!" Santana replied.
"Both of you knock it off!" Jamie interrupted. Dani glared at her sister, expecting she knew her place. "Jamie not now, this doesn't concern you." Santana told her. "It does when it comes down to my family. Now come on guys, seriously you're going to fight over the past? Or even the fact that Ari made her OWN decision to lose HER virginity?" Jamie pointed out as she went upstairs. Taylor immediately came out of the bathroom with her three pregnancy tests. "They will be ready any minute now, Taylor. Now we just want you to know that we will love you no matter what the results are." Jane explained to her daughter. Jeff and DJ came out of their room as Taylor came out of the bathroom. "What's up guys?" Jeff asked. "Yeah what's all the commotion about?" DJ added. "It's nothing important." Jane told them. "Hey dude, I'll catch up with you in a minute, I want to make sure everything is okay…" Jeff whispered to him. "Dude, our ride will be here any minute!" DJ reminded his cousin. "I know, but… Just go check on Ari too. I feel like something is going on here…" Jeff replied. DJ nodded and went downstairs and saw his mothers sitting on the couch. "Hey guys… What's going on?" DJ asked. "It's nothing important, honey. Have a good time with your friends!" Dani smiled at her son. "No, I'm not going to go out knowing something is very wrong here!" DJ argued. "Hijo, this doesn't concern you. Everything is okay here, we promise." Santana told him. "Mama please do not tell me lies!" DJ yelled.
Dani looked to Santana in fear, never seeing her son react this way in his life. "Daniel Santiago Lopez you do not speak to us in that tone." Santana said through her teeth. "Well don't lie to my face then." DJ growled. Dani went in between the two to mediate. "Sweetie, it's just your sister is lying about something very important… Just trying to figure out if she's right or wrong, that's all…" Dani said, trying to calm him. "I told you I wasn't lying!" Taylor called. "Well it's not our fault we had to make sure!" Jamie replied. As they heard a door slam, two guilty women came down the stairs. "What's are the results?" Santana asked. "After what y'all heard, what do you think?" Jane replied. "Negative huh?" Dani added. "Yeah, won't blame the poor girl if she doesn't talk to us for a while…" Jamie said. "Ari? Ari open the door, it's DJ!" DJ called, pounding on the door. "GO AWAY!" Ari called. "That means she didn't even take the test—she knew the whole time…" Dani said quietly. "I need to talk to her… She needs to know that I'll be here for her…" Santana said, opening the door. As Santana shut the door again, she could feel Dani's disappointment in her bones. "Ari, Arianna look at me…" Santana told her daughter, trying to lift her chin. "Don't look at me! I know you're disappointed!" She cried. "No, no, baby… Neither I or Mom are disappointed in you… Come here, mija…" Santana said, pulling her daughter into a hug. Ari cried in her mother's arms, afraid, not knowing what to do. "Mama I'm so scared!" She balled. "It's okay, Mama's here… I won't let anybody hurt you… " Santana cooed.
"I'm so sorry… Everything was going fine and then after everything, the condom broke and— and—" Ari said, beginning to break down. "It's okay, honey… If the condom broke, why didn't you—" Santana was interrupted. "Why didn't you just take the Plan B or morning after pill?" Dani said, coming to her daughter's side. "Because! I was already panicking and I knew you and Mama would be mad at me for being so irresponsible!" Ari explained. Both women stayed silent, slightly understanding her reasoning "Well, how far along are you?" Dani finally asked, breaking the silence. "I don't know I haven't gone to the doctor yet! And the guy I was with bought me the pregnancy test…" Ari sniffled. "All right, then the three of us will go to the doctor together tomorrow…" Santana said, helping her daughter off of the floor. "But Mama, I—" "Arianna you don't have a choice. We need to know certain things in order to help you, love…" Dani told her, wiping the tears from her daughter's cheek. Ari nodded and ran up the stairs to go to bed. The next morning, Dani sat on the couch and sighed. "San, I'm not ready for this…" "And you think I am? Babe, I didn't even know she was… You know…" Santana mumbled at the end. "What?" Dani asked with a smile. "You know!" Santana laughed. "What do I know? I have no clue Sanny, tell me!" Dani joked. "Sexually active…" Santana mumbled. "I'm sorry what was that?" Dani laughed, tickling her. Santana laughed more, causing Dani to laugh harder. "Okay, okay! I didn't know she was sexually active!" Santana laughed. "And you think I was just going to blurt it out?" Ari interrupted. "Sweetie please—" Dani tried to explain. "No! It's nobody's business except mine about that! Did you tell Abuela that you sleeping for the entire football team, Mama?" Ari snapped. "Excuse me young lady but that was extremely uncalled for!" Santana scolded. "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to get into your business. But I'm right, aren't I?" Ari sassed. "San, just stay here to cool down. I'll take her to the doctor on my own." Dani told her wife. "No, you're not going alone. Let's go." Santana said, blowing it off.
Once the three were in the doctor's office, the wait was getting more and more antagonizing for Ari. Dani looked over and noticed the worried look on her daughter's face. "Baby, don't worry so much! The doctor took a blood and urine test and will tell us what to do after that…" Dani said, patting Ari's leg. The doctor invited the family back into his office for the test results and such. As the doctor looked at the paperwork, he has a confused look on his face. "What's wrong doctor?" Santana asked. "Well it's just strange, because Arianna here says she pregnant, but the blood and urine sample says she's not. What kind of test did you take?" The doctor asked. "I don't know, the guy I slept with gave it to me, when I told him I was late…" Ari explained to him. "San, don't you still have the test?" Dani asked. "Oh! Yeah, here." Santana handed it to him. The doctor looked at the test and his face saddened. "What is it?" Santana asked. "Well, this appears to be a fake pregnancy test or known as something from a joke shop." He explained. "What does that mean?" Ari asked, confused. "It means Ari, that the guy who bought you the test knew what it was. The test, no matter what, would always become positive. I am sorry for the scare." He told her, leaving the room. A huge sigh of relief came over the three women. "Well, let's talk more about this at home, okay? I know everyone is pretty much shocked." Dani finally said. The three left the doctor's office and went home. As they all sat in the living room comprehending the information given, Ari finally broke the silence. "I think I need to go find that guy and umm, talk to him." Ari said getting up.
"Sweetie, wait a minute. Come here." Dani said, patting the couch cushion. "Ari, you need to understand that sometimes, coming to us will help you in your life. Like what happened in the past couple of days. You knew I wasn't going to be happy that you disobeyed my hopes I had for you, and I understand you felt the need to get out of that protective shell." Santana told her. "Mama, I'm a grown woman now, not a child anymore. I wanted to do that with that guy and I did. Yes, it had some consequences, but that doesn't matter." Ari explained. "Yes it does, babe. What you did very irresponsible, and you could've been pregnant. Mama and I know you're not a child anymore, but we are still protective of you because you are our first child. We care about you a lot Arianna. DJ and Valerie are loved just the same, but you are very special to us. Next time just tell us what's going on before you do something life-changing, okay?" Dani smiled. Ari nodded and hugged her mothers. "Love you guys…" She whispered. As Ari went off to find that boy, Santana placed her head onto Dani's shoulder and smiled at her. "What is that look for?" Dani blushed. "We did really well with her, you know? All of our kids, we raised them well." Santana told her. "We did, didn't we?" Dani grinned. "I love you so much, Dani…" Santana said kissing her wife. "I love you too…" Dani kissed her in return.
Well? What did you think? I hope you enjoyed this first chapter and the second chapter will be posted soon!
