Santana Lopez is a lawyer and she has been working nonstop on a case for the last few weeks that Christmas and her personal life have sort of took a backseat. She's now finally getting some time off though to put her relationship first.
"So have you finished all of your Christmas shopping?" Quinn asks as they hang out at Santana's apartment.
"I have barely even started Quinn" Santana replies shaking her head. "I have been so busy that I haven't had a chance to go shopping. I did order a few things online but other than that I haven't really got anything for anyone" she states.
"Are you just going to use your time off now to finish your shopping?" Quinn asks.
"Yeah and to move in with Dani" Santana states. The main reason she took some time off just now was to move in with her girlfriend Dani but with her so busy at work then she's going to try and fit time in to do some Christmas shopping too.
"Are you looking forward to living together?" Quinn asks.
"I am but I'm also really nervous" Santana points out. "This is my third relationship in 5 years so I really hope this is the one that works because we've been together for over a year already."
"You seem very happy with Dani so I don't see why this relationship can't work out" Quinn smiles.
"We've just had a few issues lately because we've both been so busy with work but we figured moving in together would give us more time to see one another" Santana replies.
"I'm sure it will" Quinn assures her. "Anyway I actually should be heading home now because I want to get ready in plenty of time for my work Christmas party tonight. I can't be turning up looking like a mess."
"Yeah and it will take you quite a while to look decent" Santana teases.
"I can always return your Christmas gifts you know and you won't have anything to open from me" Quinn smirks.
"Come on, there is no need to be mean. I was just teasing" Santana smiles.
"I know, anyway I should go now" Quinn smiles back. "Just let me know if you need help packing and stuff and I'll come over this weekend."
"I will" Santana says gratefully. "Anyway have a good night" she tells her.
"I'm sure it'll be fun" Quinn smiles and then leaves. Santana then decides to make herself some coffee and then sit down with her laptop and do some online Christmas shopping. She is beginning to make some progress when her phone rings.
"Hello" Santana answers the phone.
"Hi sweetheart, it's mom" her mom replies.
"Hey, what's up mom?" Santana replies while trying to pack some of her books into a box at the same time since she just noticed a pile of them sitting at the side making a mess.
"Not much, I was just wondering when you and Dani were getting a flight over here" Maribel replies.
"We're flying on the 23rd, didn't I already tell you this?" Santana asks confused.
"No you didn't" Maribel replies.
"Well I meant to tell you. I've just been so busy lately that work has got in the way" Santana admits.
"That's ok" Maribel replies. "I'm so excited you both are coming home for Christmas. It'll be nice to finally introduce Dani to some of the family she hasn't met yet."
"Just don't put too much pressure on her please mom" Santana sighs. This relationship really means something to her so she doesn't want her family scaring away her girlfriend.
"I won't but at the same time you can't expect me to keep quiet. Those so called neighbours of ours throw their perfect life into our face every year so this will be the first year I can get back at them. Just because their precious son is married and has a job doesn't make him any better than you. I can finally show off my successful and happy daughter" Maribel replies.
"Ok mom" Santana says chuckling slightly. There's always been a competition between her parents and their next door neighbours so she's quite amused it's still going on.
Tomorrow is moving day for Santana so she's packing up some things tonight and she and Dani will start taking things to Dani's apartment. She won't officially move in until tomorrow but they thought getting a head start tonight would be better so it's less to move tomorrow especially since Santana wanted to fit in some Christmas shopping in the afternoon tomorrow.
"Hey babe" Santana smiles as Dani walks into the apartment.
"Hi" Dani replies quietly.
"I know I said I would be all packed by now but my mom was on the phone again and we got chatting for a little bit so I got distracted from packing. I'm almost there though" Santana assures Dani. "Just give me 10 minutes until I finish packing this box and we can start taking some stuff to your place" she says.
"Santana hold on a second" Dani says while walking closer to Santana.
"Honestly I won't be long, like I say just give me 10 minutes" Santana smiles while continuing to pack the box full of her stuff.
"No please stop" Dani says reaching out and taking Santana's hand to pull her away from the box.
"What's going on?" Santana asks confused.
"You and I need to talk about something so let's just sit down for a moment" Dani says while leading Santana over to the couch.
"Ok" Santana nods confused. She has no idea what they need to talk about but by the tone of Dani's voice it sounds serious so she goes along with it. "So what's up?" she asks as they sit down.
"I'm not coming with you to Ohio" Dani says nervously.
"What do you mean?" Santana asks frowning in confusion. "You said we could spend this year with my parents since we spent the holidays with yours last year."
"I know I said that but I can't come this year with you" Dani replies.
"Why not?" Santana asks, still confused about what's going on.
"Because I'm breaking up with you Santana" Dani sighs. She doesn't want to hurt Santana and she knows it's really close to the holidays so her timing isn't good but she can't do this anymore.
"But we're supposed to be moving in together tomorrow" Santana states.
"Well that's not going to happen either anymore" Dani states.
"I don't understand where all of this is coming from" Santana says refusing to believe her girlfriend could just break up with her like this.
"You know things haven't been going smoothly recently" Dani points out.
"Ok so maybe things haven't been perfect because we're both so busy with our careers but we agreed that moving in together would sort that right out" Santana states.
"Well I don't think that it will Santana" Dani shakes her head.
"You said you loved me" Santana says starting to get a little teary. She's really trying to hold it together because she hates crying but this has all took her by surprise.
"And I do" Dani assures her while trying to take her hand in hers to comfort her.
"Don't, ok" Santana says pulling away before wiping the tears from her cheeks. "If you loved me you wouldn't break up with me this close to moving in together and worse, not during the holiday season" she shakes her head.
"We're not working out babe so we can't move in together and pretend it will fix things when it won't" Dani replies.
"How do you know it won't fix us if you don't try?" Santana asks.
"Because I don't want it to, ok?" Dani sighs.
"What?" Santana asks shocked.
"I'm really trying to be nice about this and break up with you as gently as I can but honestly Santana, I don't want us to work anymore" Dani admits. She doesn't want to hurt Santana right now but Santana doesn't seem to want to believe things.
"Wow…that's real nice" Santana says hurt.
"Look I really am sorry about my timing in all of this but I would have hurt you more if I had let you move in and spent the holidays with you first" Dani states.
"What the hell am I supposed to do now?" Santana asks while shrugging her shoulders. "I have just signed the papers and the people I am letting this place to are moving in in two days. I have nowhere to go now Dani" she states.
"Can't Quinn let you crash at her place?" Dani reasons.
"She could but I shouldn't need to sleep on someone else's couch when I have my own apartment already" Santana shakes her head. "If you really hated being with me so much then why agree to let me move in with you and why not break up with me sooner?" she asks. If this was all done sooner then she wouldn't have let out her apartment to people and she would have somewhere to stay.
"Moving in seemed like a good thing at the time but over the last few weeks I got to thinking and I realised that it won't sort out our situation" Dani says truthfully.
"A few weeks?" Santana questions and Dani nods. "You have been planning to break up with me for a few weeks now?" she asks and Dani nods again. "God Dani!" she shakes her head in annoyance.
"I'm sorry" Dani says genuinely. This situation hasn't been handled well but she can't help how she feels.
"The whole time I have been talking about redecorating your place so it feels more like our home than just yours, you've been sitting mute planning on breaking my heart. Do you really think that's fair?" Santana asks.
"I didn't know how to tell you in the best way babe" Dani admits.
"I'm not your babe, the privilege of calling me that ended 10 minutes ago when my whole world fell apart" Santana states.
"Come on, let's not overreact too much" Dani says. "I'm breaking up with you, I'm not ending your career or something like that."
"You might as well" Santana laughs in disbelief. "I have been bragging to my colleagues for ages about how amazing my girlfriend was and how I couldn't wait to move in with her and now they're going to think I made the whole thing up. They're going to think I'm a complete loser, I don't know how I can show my face back in the office" she states.
"You care too much about what people think Santana. I very much doubt they'll think you're a loser because breakups happen all the time" Dani points out.
"I know they do since this is my third failed relationship in 5 years. They're going to think I can't keep a hold of a girl for more than a year" Santana sighs.
"Look I truly am sorry for the timing and everything of this but I really need to go now. Just please don't take this to heart so much" Dani says giving Santana a gentle smile.
"How can I not take this to heart?" Santana questions. "You've just broke up with me so it's highly unlikely I can just brush it off when I wasn't exactly expecting it a week before Christmas."
"I really am sorry Santana, honestly" Dani replies. "We'll keep in touch or whatever but I do really need to go now, just take care Santana" she smiles before leaving. Santana just sits there frozen on the spot for a moment wondering if that whole conversation really happened or if this was some weird awake nightmare she just had. She sits like that for 10 minutes, just lost in her thoughts until she's brought out of them by Quinn cheerfully running into the apartment.
"Who's all ready to move in with their girlfriend?" Quinn asks skipping over to Santana and smiling.
"Not me" Santana mumbles.
"I know I said I wouldn't be here to help you move until later but I got finished what I was doing earlier than I thought so I just came right here to lend a hand" Quinn smiles.
"Ok" Santana replies quietly while standing up and walking over to the kitchen to get some water.
"Honey are you ok?" Quinn asks concerned when she realises Santana's weird behaviour.
"Never been better" Santana mumbles.
"Yeah I find that hard to believe, what's going on?" Quinn probes. Santana doesn't verbally respond, she just starts crying. "Oh my god, what's happened?" she asks rushing over to Santana and hugging her tightly.
"It's over" Santana replies through hiccups.
"What's over honey?" Quinn asks confused.
"She doesn't love me anymore and she doesn't want me to move in with her" Santana states.
"That fucking bitch, I'm going to kill her" Quinn says in anger while pulling away from Santana.
"No please don't go" Santana says holding onto Quinn tighter.
"I want to knock that bitch into next week. She's clearly hurt you a lot Santana" Quinn states.
"I know but I don't want to be alone right now" Santana admits embarrassed. She and Quinn have been best friends since high school so she is the one person that can make Santana feel comforted when something happens.
"Ok" Quinn says softly while hugging Santana tightly again. "I'll knock that bitch out later on then" she states.
"Ok, thank you" Santana says laughing slightly.
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Brittany Pierce is a very successful accountant. It's not the most glamourous job in the world but because she's very good at what she does, it's allowed her to progress throughout the company and is one of their star employees. She started off as an assistant before being promoted to a fully qualified accountant and then to one of their most experienced accountants.
She is currently working on some things at home for work when she gets a call. She checks the caller ID and sees it's her girlfriend Kate so she quickly picks up.
"Hello" Brittany answers.
"Hey, it's me" Kate replies cheerfully. "I just wanted to check in with you and see how things are" she replies.
"They're good, I'm just doing some work at home" Brittany replies. "How are things with you and your parents?" she asks. Her girlfriend has flown out already to spend the holiday season with her family.
"Yeah everything is good with me and my family" Kate tells her. "I'm a little bored without you though" she admits.
"Why did you fly over there so soon then?" Brittany asks laughing.
"Because you know how much of a tradition Christmas is to my family and my town. It's a very small town so we're all like a little family here. The whole community comes together this time of year to celebrate the holidays" Kate replies.
"Ok" Brittany nods. She doesn't quite get the whole Christmas tradition that Kate's town does but she appreciates it's a big thing to her girlfriend.
"You'd actually enjoy all the festivities here you know" Kate points out.
"Maybe I would but work doesn't stop until nearer the end of the week babe" Brittany points out. It's not necessarily a busy time of year before Christmas but it's still a business and they don't close this early for the holidays.
"I know" Kate sighs. "I just wish sometimes you could see my home life a little more" she states.
"Me too but it is what it is and I can't change it honey" Brittany tells her.
"I know" Kate says downheartedly.
"Just think about the positives, at least I have a job that does eventually close for the holidays that allows us time together. Some people do need to work Christmas you know" Brittany points out.
"Speaking of spending Christmas together, have you booked your flight yet?" Kate asks.
"Yes I have booked my flight Kate" Brittany replies.
"Ok good" Kate sighs in relief.
"I've just got a few work things to take care of over the next few days and I'll be with you in time for Christmas" Brittany assures Kate.
"Ok" Kate replies.
"Listen I need to get back to my work but I'll call you tonight to say goodnight, ok?" Brittany states.
"Yeah, speak to you tonight" Kate replies.
"Love you babe" Brittany tells her.
"I love you too" Kate replies while smiling to herself.
"Talk to you later" Brittany says and then hangs up. She gets about half an hour of work done before she's interrupted again, but this time it's her friends Mercedes and Tina who have come over to catch up.
"Oh are you working?" Tina asks noticing some files lying around.
"I was yeah" Brittany replies.
"We can come over another time then because we don't want to interrupt you when you're busy" Mercedes states.
"No don't be silly" Brittany waves her off. "This is probably the last time we'll get a chance to catch up before Christmas so you might as well stay" she smiles.
"Ok" Mercedes smiles back.
"I'll make us some coffee and then you both can tell me what's been going on" Brittany smiles before walking over to the kitchen to make coffee. Once she's done, she brings the cups over to the couch and they all sit down and catch up.
"So when do you finish up work and head to spend Christmas with Kate?" Tina asks curiously.
"Well we close on Thursday but I'm not getting a flight until Saturday morning to stay with Kate and her parents" Brittany replies. "I wanted to spend a little time with my parents here since I won't see them on Christmas day before I fly out."
"I don't think I could spend Christmas without my parents and my family, it just wouldn't be like Christmas to me" Mercedes points out and Tina nods in agreement.
"You two are just lucky because you parents and your boyfriends' parent's all stay relatively close together so you can spend the holidays with both families" Brittany states. "I wish I could spend time with my family but Kate and I spent Christmas apart last year and that was just as bad so I want to spent time with her this year" she says honestly.
"It makes sense" Tina states.
"Yeah it does but it still makes me a little sad. I don't think I have ever not spent Christmas with my family" Brittany points out.
"Kate is sort of your family now though, I mean isn't the whole point of you proposing meaning you want to spend the rest of your life together?" Mercedes replies.
"Yeah it is" Brittany smiles thinking about Kate. "I supposed I just need to man up so to speak and accept the fact our families are so different."
Saturday 23rd December 2017
Santana is waiting in the very long queue to check in for her flight. Ordinarily a busy airport is manageable even though it's not ideal but this today just infuriates her even more because everything is so much worse with it being the holidays. She can cope with people bumping into her every now and again when they're rushing for a flight but this is magnified 1000 times since it's Christmas and she just wants to throttle the next person that pushes past her.
"Kick my bag one more time and I'll kick you" Santana snaps at the person behind her. "We're all waiting for the same reason so just chill out" she shakes her head.
"It's not me, it's the family behind me pushing me so I end up kicking your suitcase" the young man replies.
"Well tell them to stop instead of getting dirt all over my designer suitcase" Santana states.
"Designer suitcase?" the man laughs.
"Yes, why?" Santana questions offended.
"I'm sorry but this is the holidays and the airport is clearly hectic so I don't know why you'd want to bring anything expensive here if you didn't need to. It's to be expected that people will bump into you and push you when it's this busy. You should have expected this with it being two days to Christmas" the man states.
"Whatever" Santana says rolling her eyes and turning around. She realises the man does kinda have a point but she doesn't want to admit it to him.
The next few minutes feel like an hour with how slow the line is moving. She is seriously getting very frustrated at how people keep faffing around. Everyone knows they're flying somewhere so she doesn't understand why they don't have their boarding passes etc. all looked out ready to be checked in. It's wasting time having to rake through their belongings to find what they need when they've had every opportunity to do this while waiting in the queue.
Santana is just standing impatiently fidgeting with her phone when she feels someone push against her. "Excuse me" Brittany says trying to fight her way through the queue to get to the first class line.
"No I will not excuse you" Santana states annoyed while shaking her head. "You can't just suddenly turn up here and skip the line. The back of the queue is way over there so on you go."
"No I'm not…"
"You're not skipping in front of me so go to the back of the line" Santana states.
"You don't understand, I'm not trying to skip in front of you" Brittany assures her while smiling.
"Oh really?" Santana questions, not buying what Brittany is saying.
"Yeah I'm just trying to get to the first class line" Brittany states.
"Yeah nice try" Santana smirks before moving in front of Brittany so she can't get past.
"No honestly, I'm just trying to get to the first class line" Brittany states. "Here, take a look" she says while waving her booking confirmation in front of Santana's face.
"Fine" Santana states annoyed while sidestepping to let Brittany past.
"Thank you" Brittany smiles before proceeding to the first class line.
"That wiped the smirk right off your face didn't it?" the man behind her says while laughing.
"Whatever" Santana states while turning away from him again. This day just seems to be getting worse and worse for her. Not only did the man behind her point out a mistake earlier but now she has embarrassed herself in front of the whole queue by accusing Brittany of skipping the line.
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Brittany has just successfully checked in and is on her way to the first class lounge to wait until the boarding call comes for her to board the plane. She is just about to enter when she overhears an older couple debating on who should get the last first class ticket. There happened to be a cancellation so one of them could upgrade their ticket but it would mean the other one would need to stay where they were. For some reason this strikes a chord in Brittany and she decides to offer them her first class ticket.
"Oh no you don't need to do that" the old man assures her.
"Honestly I want you to have it and you can both travel together. I'm just flying on my own anyway so I don't really need it" Brittany shrugs.
"It's very kind of you" the woman tells her.
"It's Christmas so think of it as an early Christmas present from a stranger…in the least creepy way possible" Brittany laughs.
"Thank you so much" the couple tell her gratefully.
"Don't worry about it" Brittany tells them and then switches tickets so the couple both have first class seats. "Have a nice Christmas and all the best for the new year" she smiles.
"You too" the couple smile back and then Brittany leaves.
Since she gave up her ticket then she was left standing at the departure gate waiting on the boarding call because all the seats had been taken already. She's a pretty active person but standing still for that length of time was making her a bit stiff. She did think about walking it off but the gate was getting busier and busier so there was practically no room to move. It didn't help either than kids were running around all over the place knocking into people, no doubt too excited for Santa coming to be able to sit still.
She breathes a sigh of relief when she finally gets to board the plane and gets sat down. She's not sure how she feels about her seat. It's an aisle seat which is good for the bathroom but you can't really see out the window from it so she'll likely be bored the whole journey. On the other hand though, a window seat would mean she's crammed in at the end and would have to disturb people to get to the bathroom and a middle seat is no use either because she'd be stuck in the middle of two people. Knowing her luck, she thinks she'd end up in the middle of two bulky men and wouldn't be able to move so perhaps the end seat is the best.
She is just sitting quietly waiting for her journey to get started. The window seat is now occupied but the middle seat isn't yet. She's kinda half hoping no one actually sits there but at the same time, it's highly unlikely there will be any free seats considering how busy the airport just was. After a few minutes, she's sees a somewhat familiar face push past her to get into the middle seat. She wants to say something to the woman but she seems engrossed in a phone call so she just lets her sit down and patiently waits.
"Dani I really don't care anymore" Santana shakes her head. "Honestly I am over it all so please just let it go. You made your feelings perfectly clear…no I'm not still bitter, how could I still be bitter about it when you don't even want me anymore…like I say there's no point in me worrying about it when it's never going to happen…no I won't calm down…I'm on my way right now to see my parents…no I don't think that we will talk when I get back…because there's nothing else to say…how am I being childish…Dani you are the one who called me and wanted to talk, I'm trying to move on."
"Excuse me miss, you need to turn your phone off" a flight attendant says approaching Santana.
"Ok" Santana nods. "Dani I need to go now…I'm on a plane so I do actually have to go, I'm not being childish" she says beginning to get irritated with Dani.
"Now, miss" the flight attendant says getting annoyed.
"I really need to go…I NEED TO GO!" she says yelling the last part so Dani will register what she is saying. "The whole flight is watching me and can hear my conversation so I need to go, goodbye" she states ending the call abruptly.
"Can you switch that off please" the flight attendant says with a warning look. "We are about to take off so seatbelt on as well please."
"Yes, jeez calm down" Santana rolls her eyes. The flight attendant just walks away shaking her head when she sees Santana turn the phone off. "Merry Christmas to you too" Santana shouts after her annoyed. She quickly regrets it when she sees the plane is in complete silence and everyone is looking at her.
"Hi" Brittany smirks.
"Oh it's you" Santana says in realisation while rolling her eyes. "I thought you were supposed to be in first class" she smirks.
"I gave up my seat to someone who needed it more than me" Brittany smiles.
"Ok, sure" Santana says in disbelief while nodding her head.
"I did, I swear" Brittany states.
"Whatever you say Blondie" Santana smirks again, refusing to believe Brittany's story. "So tell me, did you cut in front of some vulnerable old person or something because there's no way you would be seated before me if you went to the back of the queue?"
"You just won't believe anything you don't want to, will you?" Brittany smirks.
"I'm a lawyer so I can easily tell when someone is lying so I know you weren't in first class initially" Santana states.
"You must be a pretty rubbish lawyer then because I can assure you I am 100% telling the truth" Brittany smiles at Santana.
"I can assure you I…"
"Ladies and gentlemen, please prepare yourself for take-off" the announcement comes across the plane interrupting Santana. "It is likely we will experience some turbulence due to the winter conditions so please do not unfasten your seatbelts until we say it's safe to do so."
"I think we have already experienced a little turbulence with your phone call, what was going on with that" Brittany asks smirking. She clearly doesn't know Santana but she's noticed she is very easy to wind up and for some reason she enjoys doing it.
"I have no idea what you mean?" Santana states pretending not to care.
"At one point I thought you were going to fly off your seat in a rage. You shook the whole plane at one stage getting very animated with your hand movements. Did you think the person on the other end could see your hand gestures or something" she teases.
"This is going to be one hell of a long ride" Santana sighs before taking a deep breath to calm down. She's not going to rise to Brittany right now. She just wants to sit quietly and forget about her conversation with Dani.
It's a new story I'm trying out since it's Christmas time. Let me know what you think and if you'd like to see it continue.