Rachel and Santana are sisters, but were seperated when their parents died and both got adopted by a different family. Santana is in her senior year and Rachel is a freshman, I think that's the first year of High School, I don't know, but if it's wrong let me know. They were seperated for six years. So a long time. But only Santana remembers, I thought it would be fun to make her the only one to remember.
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Santana's heart stopped it's rapid pace for a spilt second and more; as she stared at the petite freshman lining up against the sign up wall on the other side of the school hallway. She started breathing out of her mouth and her chest rose up and down as she dropped the eyeliner she was holding in her left hand to the floor causing her best friend Quinn to look up.
"Santana!" Quinn snapped bending down to pick it up "That cost a fortune" she said handing it back to her. Santana quickly snapped out of herself and shook her head "Huh? Sorry, I just got distracted" she snatched the eyeliner and looked back in the mirror in her locker again, in there she could see the oblivious shorter girl reach up on her tiptoes to the glee club sign up sheet. She watched her scribble her name down and then reach into her pocket for something to stick next to her name. Before balancing back on her heels and turning around.
Santana didn't even get a chance to look at her face before it was covered in red ice liquid. She felt anger beat up in her chest at that Puckerman boy because now the brunette was walking down the opposite side of the hallway towards the bathroom. She didn't even get a chance to see if it was; who she thought it was. Quinn had turned around the minute she heard the slushie thrown "Poor freshman" she said faking a pout.
"Yeah" Santana joined but not with her usual spiteful tone, it got Quinn worried but before she could mention it, Santana closed her locker and handed her back the eyeliner "You wanna go vandalise the glee club sign up sheet?" she asked, not really wanting to, but she wanted to get a look at that sheet, if it was her only way to find out. Quinn nodded, her worries already gone and smiled before sauntering their way over to the pinned up sheets on the sign up wall.
Santana took a quick glance at the list. Her hands were shaking and her heart was beating loudly, Santana worried even Quinn would be able to hear it. She picked up the green glee club sheet and skimmed her eyes down to the last name put on there. Rachel Berry. With a gold star beside it. She quickly dropped the sheet and stepped back. It couldn't have been her. It must have been her.
"Wow, is everything alright?" Quinn asked sensing something when Santana dropped the sheet like it was burning her fingers. Santana put her hand up to cover her mouth and quickly shook her head before speeding down the hallway leaving the very confused Quinn behind "Santana! Santana Lopez!" she called but Santana kept running until she got into the bathrooms. Thanking god no one else was in there but...her.
The new freshman looked up and gasped when she saw Red and White. She obviously knew about the Cheerios already, so the only thought going around in her head must be about her safety. Santana stepped forward and Rachel slowly dropped the cloth she was wiping the slushie off with and looked down into the sink. Santana blinked to stop the tears from falling, because all she could see was a little child in that body. A little child she was forced to not grow up with, a little child that still held a very special place in her heart. A little child that still looked...so little.
Santana stepped back again. Wondering if she had done the right thing following her in here. Rachel finally looked up at her, sideways, and a small but nervous smiled played on her mouth "I thought Cheerios were suppose to be scary" she said thickly "Now I know that's just the jocks"
"Not all of them" Santana replied, her words coming out like wind and sounding hoarsed with an echo. Rachel nodded and looked back down again before looking back up quickly and meeting Santana's eye in the mirror this time "Who are you?"
Santana literally felt her whole world fall apart into pieces, but she kept a strong face, she was a senior, and a cheerleader, she was suppose to be holding the upper hand and standing up tall she replied "Don't you remember?"
Rachel closed her eyes "I saw you in my dream once" she opened them again "I know that's weird, and if you want to punch me for it can you please avoid the nose?" she asked covering her vulnerabe feature protectively. Santana's eyes widened "That's all you know about me?"
"Yeah" Rachel shrugged "Oh.." she said finally realising "And you're a cheerleader, second in command I think, you're the HBIC and if anyone crosses you, you will go all Lima...Heights! On them?"
Santana frowned but nodded approvingly "The sophmores taught you well"
Rachel nodded, picking up the wet cloth again and began cleaning off all the slushie off her clothes "It's weird being in a bathroom with a cheerio without them killing me, the sophmores warned me, you either get out of the bathroom or get out of life" she said then noticed Santana was stilll standing there "Are..Are you just going to-"
"Stand here?" Santana cut her off "Don't worry, I'm leaving soon" Santana said walking over to stand beside her noticing the way Rachel took in her new scent and her eyes snapped open. Santana looked at her hopefully, maybe the familiar odour would get her to remember, but when Rachel just carried on washing out all of the slushie, she sighed and her shoulders slumped disapponted. Standing in the mirror she was a good head taller then Rachel. Rachel was so tiny, she hadn't met such a small freshman before. Before Rachel could ask what she was doing, the door swung open "Santana!" Quinn breathed out in relief.
Rachel quickly turned off the tap, now half slushie free and faced them, her own chest coming up and down nervously "Q-Quinn Fabray" she stuttered "I..I should leave now" she decided to herself. Quinn crossed her arms "Yeah, you should dwarf" she said watched the little girl praticually scurry out of the bathroom leaving her alone with Quinn.
"What the hell Q!"
"What the hell you, S! What are you doing? You ran off without even telling me where you were going"
"Because I have my own life" Santana spat turning back to the mirror "And problems" she added.
"Problems? Did that little dwarf bother you, should I send someone on her?" Quinn asked. Santana shook her head "No..she's not the, well, you know what, it doesn't even matter" Santana said. Although inside her heart was killing her "I'm just..annoyed there's such thing as forgetting someone"
"Why?" Quinn questioned "Who doesn't remember you?" she asked. Santana shook her head "I don't want to talk about it" and then it hit Quinn, she remembered something about Santana being adoptive, she almost forgot they weren't her real parents "You..You're parents?" Quinn asked.
Santana spun around fuming "My parents are dead Quinn!" she barked.
"Sorry" Quinn apologised sheepishly "But, who else could forget you?"
It took a moment of silence for Quinn to think it all out "Oh my god...the girl in your locker!" she said. Santana's eyes widened, of course, she had a picture of Rachel in there somewhere and of course Quinn would have seen it "That girl in your locker, she's the../she's the girl who was in here wasn't she?"
Santana swallowed back tears "Your sister!" Quinn exclaimed "Your sister!" she repeated happily. Santana broke down into happy tears as Quinn hugged her "San, you've found your sister!" she said jumping them both up and down.
"You have her now" she said wiping her own tears of joy from her eyes.
"I know, I know, I just hope she remembers me again" Santana said.
"How can she forget you San?" Quinn asked pinching her friend's cheek lightly "I don't know Quinn, maybe because it's meen like six years" she said. Quinn wrapped her arms around her again "Oh San, stop with the negativity, you have her now and you will never let her go again" she whispered. Santana rested her head on the blond's shoulder "I hope so"
Santana Lopez was at her locker the first day of High School with her new best friend Quinn Fabray "I can't believe we're in high school San" Quinn said admiring her new locker "I hope one day we can be Cheerios" she said.
"I don't know Quinn, it's going to be hard, you heard what the Sophmores said" Santana said to her as she looked at her own locker. They had both decorated it how they wanted to, but something was defiantly missing "I heard they have mirrors in their lockers" Santana stated.
"How pathetic" Quinn laughed.
"I have to put something in here" Santana reached into her pursed and pulled out a small box before opening it and smiling sadly at the photo she had in there "Whose that?" Quinn asked looking at the picture over her shoulder.
"My sister" Santana replied sadly "Don't tell anyone, but I had a sister before I was adopted"
"Really?" Quinn gasped "Did she die too?"
"No" Santana shook her head as she hung up the photo "She's with another family, I have no idea where"
"I'm so sorry San" Quinn hugged her friend.
"It's okay" Santana shrugged.
"Hey freshman" a senior Cheerio called as she walked past. Quinn and Santana quickly pulled away "Here, it's a leaflet for tryouts, we need some little people to toss in the canon" she smirked. Quinn gulped as she took the flyer and the laughing older senior walked off.
"She's Sadrina Lambrine, Head Cheerio" Quinn whispered.
"She seems mean, how about we sign up for something else instead"
"Like what?" Quinn asked "Glee club? That's what'll get us killed in the High School, remember?"
"Yeah I do" Santana thought back to the warning the Sophmores had given them "I wonder how Rachel's first day is going" she stared up at the picture and smiled.