"You know I have to study for Mr. Roswald's pop quiz tomorrow B"
"You're not supposed to study for pop quizzes Quinn that takes away the whole point of the surprise" the blonde cheerleader quipped.
Quinn sighed and stopped Brittany from turning the corridor. " You got to stop obsessing over this guy"
"What? I'm not obsessing over anyone" Brittany protested. She pushed past her blonde friend and headed toward the boys locker room. It was only then Quinn noticed the bright yellow slushy the cheerleader had in her hand. "Since when did they make them in that flavour?"
"They don't" Brittany smirked.
"What the hell? This is insane!" Quinn squeaked out only to yet again get ignored by her best friend. This feud going on between Brittany and Santiago has been going on so long not even them remembers who threw the first punch. It started way back in kinder and it progressed all the way into high school, you'd expect they'd mature or something and get over their differences but nope not even close. It started with wet willies and wedgies to almost cruel pranks and competing at almost everything against each other. It explains their tiring efforts to "out popular" each other which gotten them to impressive ranks in McKinley with Brittany being captain of the Cheerios' and Santiago being co-captain of the school's football team alongside with his best friend Puck. Back to now last week Santiago pulled a pretty dick move and replaced Brittany's spray deodorant for antifreeze. Thank God one of the girls saw it in time before there were any damage but still. This was Brittany's time for payback and she might not have been the brightest kangaroo in the zoo but thanks to a certain Latino; she knows how to play dirty.
Brittany slowly turned the handle to the locker room while signaling Quinn to keep a lookout with the mystery slushy still in hand. Throughout the years she learned enough about him to know Santiago and Puck are last on the field and in the showers so she didn't have to worry about the herd of sweaty and childish guys coming from practice.
Using her dancer's grace she glided into the room with ease but had trouble holding back the bile in her throat when she was bitch slapped in the face with BO. Before she had enough time recompose she was already staring at a smirking, mohawked man-child with nothing but a towel around his waist. She had nothing against Puckerman but he could be such an ass when he wanted to.
Realizing she hadn't thought this all the way through she was being pushed out of the locker room with red dye #7 all over her. It took her a couple of seconds for her to feel the sudden drop in her body temperature which made it all the more worse when it came. She felt hands on her back and a cooing Quinn trying to get Brittany to the bathroom but she didn't move. The dancer was seeing red and not because of the slushy, but because Santiago Lopez was standing at the door with an empty cup and a smug grin that she would give anything to wipe away.
"Better luck next time sunshine" Santiago grinned.
...
"Bro you totally got her" Puck chuckled. Him and Santiago were at his house destroying each other on FIFA . Even though he thinks soccer is for girls and pussies he still gotta give props to people who play. That game is hard as hell.
"I know her face was priceless" Santiago said distracted. He was down by two goals and needed to get more focused.
Thinking back now Santiago was never like this, he never gotten joy out of someone's misery and he knows he should be a little bit worried but it's just something about Pierce. They started this game back in 1st grade or something and they haven't stopped since. If he's being honest it's been kinda fun for him, he wouldn't admit it but sometimes he looks forward to Pierce's comeback just so he can think of something to do to top himself. Because that's what's really all they're doing. Topping each other , as hot as that sounds, it's true. Yeah yeah yeah he knows he's suppose to hate the girl but he's got eyes, every guy and girl at school can see she's gorgeous but only a lucky few has seen the end of her rainbow as that Irish guy likes to say it. (He still thinks that guy is just American doing a fake accent because sometimes he sounds like that big purple dinosaur Barry or something).
Right before half time all of a sudden Puck paused the game. "What the hell?" Santiago yelled.
"Dude we need to talk about something serious right now", Puck said, " we need to talk about you and Pierce"
"What-"
"Look this thing has been going for too long you need to seal the deal. This was funny in middle school but we're juniors now I think you've worked her up long enough " Puck interrupted. Santiago put down his controller knowing he was gonna use a lot of energy in this conversation. "Puckerman me and blondie is never gonna happen" he tried to explain deliberately. Puck tilted his head in confusion and furrowed his brows, so the Latino was already looking for a pen and a notebook to see if it will speed the process along. "Wait", Puck started, " so this thing between you and Pierce isn't... foreplay?"
"No" Santiago sighed.
"OK now I got some questions"
"Great". The footballer picked up his coke and waited for his punishment for god knows what, all the while having a blue-eyed cheerleader in his mind.
...
"I hate him", Brittany stated as they walked into school together.
"No, you don't" Quinn said
"He's an asshole Q"
"No, he's not"
"Ok, I'm lost. Are you still playing the supportive friend right now?"
"No, I'm not" she shook her head. They go through this all the time when Santiago goes a little over board and she's determined to put an end this game cause it's not fun anymore. "You don't hate him and you never did", she stated matter-of-factly," Sir John Denham once said, ambition is like love, both of delays and rivals"
"Who-"
"So, all i'm saying is that maybe there's a reason you can't get over him". Before Brittany could respond the bell rang through the school meaning class was about to start. With that Quinn gave her one last smile headed out to first period leaving Brittany alone in her thoughts.
OooO who's gonna be the first to catch feelings?
This is so exciting! I've been wanting to publish for a while, but none of my ideas made the cut. But one day I was like "screw it" and just wrote every idea I had. Tell me what you think good or bad. Keep a lookout for my next fic "Dragulic".