Title: Man, I feel like a woman
Disclaimer: Don't own Glee or Lalola
Rating: T (can change later on, not sure yet)
Word count: 2.5 K
A/N: Hey people. This is my first story. Not sure if this is okay so I'd appreciate some honest feedback. English isn't my first language so you can always help me out by correcting me on spelling. I got this idea from a tv show a couple years ago that was one of my favorites so I thought why not make it into a Brittana story. I based my story on a remake of Lalola, I'm not sure if it's 100% the same or not. In the beginning I'll follow the story but later on I'll try to give my own twist to it so I'm not just copying the story.
Reviews or PM's are always welcome.
Okay, I'll stop talking now, hope you'll enjoy this.
EDITED
Prologue
When Santiago opened his eyes, he noticed he wasn't in his own bed. What happens more than not when you're him.
He looked to his right and oh yes, there she was, the model/actress from last night. She was okay, but he had had better.
He looked outside and saw it was still early in the morning, time for him to leave. He carefully slid from under the covers and got dressed as quietly as possible. Without looking back he was out the door.
He crossed a pretty brunette and winked at her while getting in his car.
Santiago Lopez has it all. He's 25, handsome, successful, and a major womanizer. He attracted many women, like Elaine, the woman who's still blissfully asleep because she had just spent the night with Santiago.
Elaine is in love with Santiago, because yesterday, he promised her the world. So her decision is made, he'll be with her. Unfortunately for her, that wasn't according to Santiago's plan.
Santiago has everything he needs. In his case that's a well-paid job, an expensive car, enough friends and a lot of girlfriends, well for one night at least.
Santiago arrived at his workplace, Don, a very popular magazine for men. When he arrived, he saw Brittany Pierce being very busy during a photo shoot. Brittany was beautiful, funny, mysterious, you could say she was the opposite of Santiago.
They work together. Brittany is the talented art director from Don, the magazine where Santiago is the editor in chief.
You would think with Brittany being beautiful and Santiago being a real ladies men, surely something would have happened between them. It's not that he never tried, she just never seemed responsive to his advances or laughed it away. After a while he noticed he could never convince her for a night with him, in his bed or hers, he didn't really care. So he kind of gave up on that one, but that never stopped him from trying to flirt with her from time to time.
When Santiago walked in, he couldn't help to appreciate the good looking models in skimpy lingerie posing for the camera.
'Good morning everyone!' He said with a grin on his face.
He walked over to Brittany and put an arm over her shoulder while looking at the posing models. 'So how is it going here?' Brittany looked amused and took his arm off her shoulder with an eye roll.
'It's all going well,' she said.
'Yeah, I can see that, but um… can I change a couple of things?'
'Yeah sure.'
He walked over to the models and looked deep in thought, then he smiled, went to one of them and put her hair out of her face.
'There you go,' he said with a smile, 'we want to have a good view of that pretty face.'
He winked at her and went back to Brittany. 'Now it's perfect,' he said. 'Good job Brittany, keep that up.'
When Santiago walked into the building of Don Magazine, he passed some of his co-workers; Kitty, the receptionist, Marley, the overworked fashion director and Jake. Jake was talking to this brunette and she looked extremely bored, that guy had no game, seriously.
There was also Alyssa, she had the title of production manager along with the one of biggest bitch of the company.
And finally we have Blake, you could say he has very expressive eyes, but that was about the only positive thing you could say about him, he was overly confident, a sexist, sly as a fox and took advantage of people at any given opportunity. But he was also Santiago's best friend.
Alyssa called Santiago's name.
'Will is looking for you,' she said.
'Okay, I'll go there right away,' he said over his shoulder.
His phone rang, Elaine again, she has been calling him all day, why can't she get the message and leave him alone for Christ's sake. He pressed the red button and went to Will's office.
When he went inside he saw Will playing golf on an indoor golf mat while being on the phone.
'It was probably his wife, Terry.' He thought.
He's always very relieved he isn't married when he hears him talking to his wife. She's a nightmare.
'Oh there you are Santiago,' his boss said looking relieved. 'Yes I'm still listening honey, sure you can buy that new purse, everything for you my love, bye.'
He hung up and looked at Santiago. 'I wanted to say you have to be at your best for the meeting tomorrow, you know how important it is for this company,' Will said.
'I know, I'll do the best I can,' Santiago said.
'I know you will but my job depends on this too so I'm counting on you….'
Santiago's phone rang, he looked at the screen an pushed the ignore button. '
Don't you have to pick that up?' Will asked.
'No, it's not that important.'
Now Will's phone rang.
'I'm afraid that one is important, I'm out, bye.' Santana said with a smile.
He heard Will saying 'no of course I haven't forgotten honey' while he went out the door.
Indeed, very happy he isn't married.
After a long day of work the co-workers all liked to relax. For that the Sky Bar was the place to be. It was trendy and very expensive. It was at the first floor of the building complex, so that half of the monthly paychecks didn't even get the chance to leave the building.
It was not long after entering that Santiago saw a pretty blonde and started chatting with her, and he also didn't miss the flirty smiles Alyssa and Blake were giving each other, gross.
The only co-worker missing was Brittany. She was waiting at the school gates on the love of her life, Lena.
She saw a 9-year old girl running towards her and lifted her up in her arms.
'Hey pumpkin, how was school?' She asked her daughter.
'It was okay,' the little girl said.
'Just okay?' Her mother asked.
'Yeah, it was fine.'
'Okay then honey, you know you can always tell me if something is wrong, right?'
'I know mom.'
'Okay then, let's go home.' Brittany put her down, took her hand and they headed towards her car.
In the meantime the conversations in the Sky Bar were getting more and more intimate. Alyssa and Marley were talking with some of their colleagues.
'I interviewed Ryan Gosling today, he looks so handsome on film but in real life he's even hotter,' Marley said dreamy.
'It's so cool you get to interview all of those famous people!' One of her colleagues said excited.
'Yeah, it was, and I really had the feeling he was truly listening to me when I asked him a question.'
'Oh Marley, men never listen, they collect trophies.' Alyssa broke her off and looked at Blake while she said it.
And she was right, at the bar the men were talking about their favorite subject: women.
'Well, how many women did you sleep with?' Blake asked Jake.
He looked deep in thought. 'Um… 4,' he said unsurely. 'Or 5, yeah definitely 5, and some Swiss girl at a camp, but that was just kissing so…'
'Only kissing?' Santiago asked. 'Well, that's not so bad I guess, that's almost half a football team.' he smirked.
'And you, Santiago?' Jake asked.
'Good question, Jake, I think we all want to know the answer to that question, how many women did you spend the night with?' Blake asked loudly.
'I don't count that stuff, Blake, you know that, but I suspect that would be around 10 or 12.' He answered.
The two men looked like they didn't believe him.
'Football teams, guys,' Santiago laughed.
They both started laughing and gave him a fist pump.
'But I must say, the ladies always come to me and then I just have to smooth talk them a bit and they're hooked.' He said.
'And do you never want to like, you know?' Jake asked unsurely.
'To wake up next to the same woman, is that what you want to say, next to the same bitch, next to the same whining? No, I don't think our bro here's into that stuff, right Santiago?' Blake asked.
'No I don't think so, Jake man, I always want something else, something better, the sky, the limit and beyond,' he answered.
'That's the spirit, cheers to that!' Blake cheered.
Santiago's phone rang again, he picked up without looking who it was.
'Hello, Santiago speaking.'
'Santiago?' A woman's voice asked.
'Elaine?'
'Yeah, it's me, just like the 10 other times I tried to call you. How dare you ignore me like that?'
'Oh right, sorry but I was really busy today, it's still busy actually, I have to work some more now.'
'Working, with that music?'
'My colleagues like to have a little party after five.'
'So you're still saying you're at the office? That's okay, then I'll come check on you, I have a couple of things I want to talk about with you.'
'Elaine, now is a really bad time, I have to focus on my work.'
'Santiago, don't think of me as a fool, a woman knows when she gets blown off, you just don't want to see me anymore.'
'No, it's not that, of course I want to see you, it's just that I'm really busy today and tomorrow too because I have this important meeting that I talked about with you.'
While Santiago was talking he suddenly heard Elaine's voice very clear, like she was standing next to him.
'We had such a good time Santiago, why did you ruin it all?'
And surely when he turned around she was standing there looking very livid.
'Elaine?' He asked surprised.
'You asshole!' She screamed. 'I thought I meant something to you, you sneaked away out of my bed without a word last night!'
'Elaine, stop.' Santiago said looking uncomfortable.
'You didn't answer my calls all day, you promised me we'd be together, yes people Santiago Lopez is a big manwhore and an even bigger asshole!' She screamed adressing everyone in the bar.
'Elaine, that's enough.'
'Enough, it will be enough when I say it's enough.' She said with a crazy glint in her eyes. 'Because you probably got away with this multiple times, but this time it'll be different, this time you'll regret that your sexy eyes ever fell on me.'
She turned away ready to leave.
'Oh yeah and Santiago, if you ever want to get someone in your bed again, inform them first about your little situation.'
His colleges and the rest of the Skybar started snickering at that.
And off she went.
'Jesus.' He breathed.
'Was she on her period or something?' Jake laughed.
'She had more going on than her period, Jesus man what a crazy bitch, glad I got rid of that one.' Santiago said.
He turned to the barman. 'A beer please.'
Santiago went home and started working on his computer. Fifteen minutes later his roommate and best friend Rachel walked in.
'Santiago! I'm home!' She yelled.
'In here!' He said.
He was typing away on his computer when he let out a big sigh.
'Nervous for your big presentation tomorrow?' She asked.
'Yeah a bit and tired.' He replied.
'There's something else I see it, what is it Santiago you can tell me, a problem with a woman again?' She asked with a smirk.
'Haha, well yeah actually, crazy woman, and they all want the same, a house, a dog, marriage, children, Jesus.' He sighed.
'I think I'm really glad I've been immune to your charm for the last 15 years, you're not boyfriend material.' She said.
'Well yeah, I'm glad you're not like them, you're the sister I never had.' He said seriously.
She smiled and went to hug him. 'Let's go to sleep, big day tomorrow.'
'Yeah, you're right, goodnight Rach.'
'Goodnight Santiago.'
Indeed a big day, or rather a big night. Cause what this night held for Santiago, no one could have ever expected.
Not even Elaine, while it was her fault actually.
Elaine was sitting with her friends in a circle, candles and tarot cards all around them. They were at Zoe's place, who really believed in all this spiritual stuff.
She came telling about her problems with this guy when Zoe suggested they had to make him suffer. When Zoe said they could do it by putting a sort of spell on him Elaine didn't really believe her. But Zoe looked so serious about this stuff so she decided to give it a try, what's the worst that could happen right?
Elaine handed Zoe a picture of Santiago. 'Do it, make him suffer.' She said.
'I'm just a beginner', she said, 'so I'm not sure if this is even going to work. Okay, hand me the book. We have to put our hands on top of each other.'
She started chanting Latin words. Hoc est corpus quia sexus infidelitas Santiago Lopez. Homusculus feminis passio masculinum indignitatis.
She poured some suet on Elaine's hand.
'Au, that hurts!' Elaine yelled.
Zoe ignored her and kept on chanting the same Latin words. Hoc est corpus quia sexus infidelitas Santiago Lopez. Homusculus feminis passio masculinum indignitatis.
A storm broke out outside, lightning flashed through the windows while rain kept pouring on the roof.
Zoe kept chanting the same words.
'Stop, that's enough!'Elaine yelled.
She was starting to get freaked out.
The storm outside has reached his worst. The rain kept hammering on the roof, lightning kept flashing and it kept on thundering. Then suddenly it stopped altogether.
And just like that Santiago's life would never be the same again.