This chapter focuses on Santana and her family wrapping a Christmas present and revealing how she met Brittany and Joshua. Joshua is an original character who helped Santana deal with coming out of the closet.

On December 23, 2011, Santana Lopez and her parents were in their large house's three-car garage wrapping a particularly large Christmas present. It was a silver 2001 Chevrolet Impala LS in what seemed to be mint condition. It was slowly being wrapped in red and green Christmas paper. There were several rolls of the Christmas paper right next to the car.

"I still wonder why Joshua wanted an older model vehicle. We have enough money to get him a new or late model used Impala instead," said Santana's father. He was around five feet eight inches tall and had short black hair.

"Joshua likes this particular generation of Chevrolet Impala. I'm sure you remember the information about this generation that Joshua gave me to give to you," said Santana, reminding her father for the umpteenth time about it. She rolled her eyes at her father.

"I'm just trying to be nice," replied Santana's father, with a tone of voice indicating that he was joking.

"I know you are," said Santana. She smiled at her father.

"Joshua's so kind. If you were straight, I would approve him as being worthy of dating my daughter," said Santana's father.

"That's so nice of you to say that," said Santana, smiling at the thought. She is a lesbian and is dating Brittany S. Pierce. Her parents have no problem about it. She still liked Joshua a lot, perhaps almost as much as she likes Brittany.

Santana is an extremely loyal friend once you get on her good side, which can be particularly difficult in most cases. She'll never forget the day she met Brittany and the day she met Joshua. They were both in different circumstances.

She met Brittany during cheerleading camp before their freshman year at McKinley. That was back in July of 2008. A guy managed to have sex with Brittany, taking her virginity in the process. Brittany was confused and Santana helped her by telling her that sex wasn't bad. That caused her to have sex with a small handful of guys over the next couple of years, including Artie, and making out with virtually every guy in the school, including Kurt and Joshua. Luckily, she didn't get any STD's.

They became the best of friends very soon thereafter and were inseparable ever since. They were dating ever since late August, shortly before their senior year began. Brittany and Santana are true soulmates.

On the other hand, Santana met Joshua in late October after a politician running for Congress publically outed her as a lesbian in a political ad on TV. She had met Joshua before, but thought that he was just a person to be made fun of and to be bullied. A few of the Cheerios, including Brittany and Joshua's older sister, didn't like her bullying him and have tried to get her to stop on multiple occasions. She didn't know that several of the Cheerios were friends with Joshua due to his older sister being on the Cheerios.

She stopped bullying him after she found out that she was a lesbian back in March. She had almost forgotten that Joshua was still going to McKinley High. It wasn't until she was outed in that attack ad that she and Joshua met face to face again. Joshua told Santana that he would accept her for who she is, but didn't expect her to listen to him. Santana took his hand and led him into the choir room and made Mr. Schuester close and lock all doors to the choir room to continue their conversation in private.

Joshua feared that he was going to be beaten up, but instead Santana told him that she was indeed a lesbian. He told her about how Asperger's Syndrome affected him. She already knew that Joshua had it, but didn't know what it truly was until Joshua told her. She literally broke down in tears and tearfully apologized about all the mean things she said about him and all the vicious insults. He accepted the apology and Santana hugged him for several minutes.

Santana knew that Joshua would probably become close friends with her, like Brittany did over three years earlier. And so far, their friendship is leaning towards becoming friends with benefits, similar to how her friendship was with Brittany before she began dating her. Both of them knew that dating each other was out of the question, although they love each other a lot.

Later that night after they finished wrapping the car, they headed back into the house. Her family decided to have Christmas with both Brittany and Joshua's families.

Santana headed into her bedroom and called Brittany. She and her family agreed to spend Christmas at Santana's house. She still had to call Joshua. She knew Joshua was nervous about using the phone, but thought that this time he might pick up. Joshua answered on the other end.

"Hello," said Joshua in a nervous tone of voice.

"Hi Joshua!" said Santana in a cheerful voice.

"Whoa! Hello Santana. How are you doing tonight?" asked Joshua.

"I'm doing very well, how about you?" asked Santana.

"I'm doing pretty good," replied Joshua.

"Listen, do you and your parents want to spend Christmas with my family and Brittany's family at my house? You and your family can pack up and come over tomorrow morning," asked Santana

"Are you sure your parents agree to this?" asked Joshua.

"This is their idea," said Santana.

"Oh, in that case, I'll ask them. I'll call you later," said Joshua.

"Okay, bye," said Santana. She hung up.

Joshua called again twenty minutes later and told Santana that his parents and older siblings agreed to the arrangement. They were going to come over bright and early at 8 AM. She was literally overjoyed that she is getting to spend Christmas with three families this year. Brittany's family was going to arrive at noon.

Santana got up and headed downstairs to the living room to tell her parents the good news.

"Did they say yes?" asked Santana's mother.

"Both families said yes. Joshua's family will arrive at 8 AM tomorrow morning," said Santana.

"That is a little early, but I guess we should all go to bed earlier. When is Brittany's family coming over tomorrow?" asked Santana's mother.

"They're coming over around noon," said Santana.

"That sounds good. I know Joshua will need time to adjust being at a different house ruled by a different family. We'll go easy on him and make him feel very welcome," said Santana's father.

"That was what I was going to say Dad. Joshua can't handle change very well," said Santana

"That was what I had in mind," said Santana's father.

Santana smiled warmly at him. She told her parents a couple of weeks earlier about Joshua's Asperger's Syndrome and they were cool about it just like they were with Santana being lesbian. They promised Santana that they would let him come over any time he'd like to hang out with her.

That's it for Chapter 1. Stay tuned for Chapter 2 where you'll actually meet the Flemings and the Pierces.