Be my Escape- Brittana
Chapter 1 – Missed texts and Crystal blue eyes
"Mummmmaaaa!"
Santana sprinted upstairs at the sound of her baby girl's scream, running into the nursery over to the purple cot in the corner and picking up the small girl and cradling her to her chest "Shhhh bubba, mumma's here. Mumma's here Estrella. Hush Baby, silencio" Santana rocked her small daughter kissing the top of her raven curls. When she had calmed her down enough, Santana turned her attention back to the pink cot placed opposite her daughters where she was greeted with two big chocolate eyes staring at her from behind the safety bars of the cot. "Joey had bad dweem", Shifting Jovanna's wait from one hip to the other Santana gathered up her second bundle of joy on to her unoccupied hip, "Yeah Nina, She did and how do we scare off bad dreams" she asked her girls as she sat down on the large overstuffed rocking chair in the corner, bouncing the twins on her knees "Pixie kisses!" squealed both the toddlers as Santana peppered Jovanna's face with kisses while tickling Nina in the stomach before switching so she was kissing Nina and tickling Jovanna within moments the two latina tots were squirming and giggling in their mothers arms and soon the two were all smiles.
She had just gotten the girls into their highchairs when she heard a knock on the door. When the door swung open standing there was the one and only Quinn Fabray looking all the part of a teenage dream with a smooth pressed Cheerios uniform and signature high pony Quinn was the envy off all girls even Santana at one point. The only thing out of place about the picture was the bubbly blonde baby in Quinn's arms. "Hey Tana!" Quinn said as she hugged the shorter Latina. "Hey Q! Hey Baby Beth!" Santana said placing a light kiss on the baby's cheek causing Beth to giggle. The three walked in to the kitchen where the twins soon piped up at the sight of Mini Quinn, "Can we hold Bethy, Pweeeasee!" Nina started with Jovanna right behind her. Santana smirked and her girls consistent begging. "After you have breakfast and are dressed and only if you ask Aunty Quinn really nicely." Santana grinned at Quinn as her daughters started once again their deafening begging "Of course you can but like your mumma said you have to get ready for day care first alright?" Quinn told Jovanna and Nina as she sat on one of the kitchen stools bouncing Beth on her knee.
The girls sat in the play pen showing Beth their toys and making her giggle and squeal with constant tickling whilst Santana got dressed in her Cheerio's uniform and Quinn finished some last minute homework on the couch, keeping an eye on their children. "San, did you hear about the new chick at schooI?" Quinn asked as Santana walked in, fixing her pony, "Yeah but I haven't seen her yet have you?" the latina asked. Quinn looked up with a smirk "Nope but according to Puckerman she's cute." The two teens packed away their texts books and got the girls in their strollers before locking up and starting the 10 minute walk to school. "God help her if Puck's got his eye on her" Santana stated as the two walked down the pathway pushing the two strollers. "Yeah wouldn't want the girls having another sister" Quinn sighed, Santana and Quinn laughed but it soon died down as the two remembered the day Quinn told Santana that Puck had gotten her pregnant, the same day Santana confessed to Quinn the Puck was Jovanna and Nina's father and the tears that followed their confessions.
The rest of the walk continued in comfortable silence, Santana and Quinn had long ago accepted the fact that their daughters were half-sisters; they had also accepted that Puck wasn't the best at being a consistent father to Beth, Jovanna and Nina. Of course Puck loved his daughters, he was present at their births and helped Quinn and Santana pick names and decorate the nurseries. Santana and Quinn were insistent on their children knowing their father but both girls knew that Puck wasn't ready to grow up and play the role of active father and Santana feared he never would.
As Santana and Quinn entered the hallways of McKinley High they were greeted by the ever bubbly and loud duo that was Tina and Mercedes "Hi girls!" Mercedes greeted them before instantly drawing her attention to the tots sitting in the strollers, Tina on the other hand continued chatting with Santana as the four teens made their way to Santana and Quinn's lockers. "C'mon it will be fun! Us girls away for one weekend at my aunt's lake house, it will be great you guys can relax. When was the last time you relaxed?" Mercedes asked trying to talk Santana and Quinn into their weekend getaway plan. "Let me think. The day before nationals last year" Quinn joked after all she had gone into labour after nationals. That caused a chuckle from Mercedes and Tina, the two looked at each other before turning to the blonde and the Latina and started a simultaneous pout. "I can't just drop everything and go away for the weekend I have kids!" Santana reminded them. "You can get a baby sitter and if you can't, bring them along" Tina said simply "Same for you Quinn" the blonde cheerleader laughed "Yeah right! You and 'cedes turn into the world's most over dramatic, bitchy teens if you don't get enough sleep. Do you think you can seriously stand a weekend with twins who wake at five in the morning and a baby that wakes every three hours?" Quinn challenged, Santana laughed at the honesty behind her words and nodded her head in agreement. "So? We'll buy earplugs it'll be fine" Mercedes laughed.
The two diva's continued their pleading whilst they headed to the choir room, Santana and Quinn sat down with their girls on their laps before finally speaking up. "Okay okay we'll think about it! God! You're more annoying than my girls!" Santana laughed with Quinn chuckling beside her. Mercedes and Tina finally sat down and stopped their pleading settling for discussing the latest Adele album. The four teens and the kids were the only ones in the choir room until Puck and Finn entered. Finn's attention was drawn instantly to Quinn and Beth and the two started talking instantly as Finn sat next to Quinn taking a bouncing Beth from Quinn placing her on his lap, meanwhile Nina and Jovanna launched themselves at Puck who gathered the twin Latinas in his arms with ease "Daddyyyy!" the two screamed as he attacked them with kisses while taking a seat next to Santana who looked on in awe as her daughters pulled Puck out of his badass attitude and acted like an adoring father, before worry took over because one day her baby girls will be old enough to ask the question she was dreading "Where's daddy?"
When the twins calmed down and Santana had taken Nina back into her arms Puck leaned in and asked "how come they aren't at day care?" Santana sighed reaching into the pocket of Puck's jeans ignoring the dirty jokes that poured from his mouth, she retracted her arm his phone in hand and silently scrolled through his inbox trying to ignore the sexts from several Cheerios' before opening the unopened message and reading aloud "'Puck just so you know the day care is closed tomorrow morning so Q and I are bringing the girls to school until lunch.'" She closed his phone and silently handed it back to him, he took it and tried to respond but she held up her hand and turned her attention to retying the laces on Nina's little Nikes before handing her daughter to an eagerly awaiting Mike who had entered the room with the rest of the glee club. Nina laughed at her favourite god father's crazy faces.
Thankful that Mr Schue was yet to arrive; Santana silently stood up and walked out the room heading straight for the bathroom, once inside her signature HBIC glare and some talk about being from Lima Heights Adjacent soon emptied the room of its three junior occupants. Santana checked the stalls before letting the tears fall; tears of anger at Puck for being able to so easily forget his daughters, for the girls he sexts when he thinks she doesn't know. Tears of pain for her daughters who deserve more than she can provide, for her best friend who cries these same tears because she fell for Puck's charms. She was Santana Lopez nothing was supposed to scare her and yet everything did; the fear of letting down her daughters, the fear of Puck completely leaving her, of losing her friends but above all this nothing scared her more than the ever rising stack of bills at home and the never ending cough and fever radiating from Jovanna's body. She had to be strong for her family but sometimes, like now all she could do was crumble as her insecurities took over.
Santana sat on the floor leaning against the wall with her arms wrapped around her knees talking to herself through her tears "estúpido, estúpido, estúpido!" her sobbing slowed, wiping her tears on the sleeve of her Cheerio's jacket. So wrapped in her thoughts she didn't hear the door open or the footsteps cross to her until a warm hand was placed on her shoulder. She looked up to see who it was expecting to see Quinn, Tina or hell even Man-Hands Rachel. However the person looking at her was a stranger and the first thing she noticed was the piercing blue eyes staring at her with a look that spoke volumes to Santana, it was a look that said 'everything will be okay' she looked into the face of this beautiful stranger whose whole being screamed caring and gentle. The voice that left those lips was just that. In the most caring and sincere voice Santana had ever heard this peaceful stranger asked her the words she rarely heard. "Are you okay?"
The words also pulled Santana out of her staring and made her realise that the two were incredibly close to each other. "Yeah I'm fine now," Santana whispered in a very non-Santana like tone. "I'm Brittany, by the way Brittany Pierce." the blonde, Brittany shared as the two stood up, Santana smiled which caused Brittany to smile the most radiant smile known to man. "I'm Santana, Santana Lopez"