A/N: So I shall be updating Quinntana Week 2014 submissions here! Some will follow my other story while others may not. Here is Day 1: Quinntana begins. This is part of my other story 'I Got You' but you don't have to read that one to read this one. This stands entirely on its own. Well here it is!
Quinntana Begins.
Cars flood the parking lot of Belleview Elementary as parents drop their children off to their first day back to school. While some were returning to Belleview Elementary, some were just beginning their education. A black mustang stops at the curb, and a little girl pushes the door open and hops out. The little girl had her hair in a ponytail, short jeans, and a batman t-shirt. She adjusted the straps of her red backpack around her shoulders as she slammed the door shut.
She toys with the straps of her backpack nervously as she comes face to face with the looming gate in which all the other kids and their parents were walking through. The girl peers over her shoulder and bites her bottom lip. The window rolls down and two figures appear.
"Go in, mi'ja. It'll be fun." A women with dark brown hair tied in a bun told her daughter. She didn't even look at her daughter when she spoke as she was to preoccupied with applying her makeup.
"C-can you go in with me?" The little girl shuffled her sneakers on the ground and fiddled her fingers.
A man with a clean shaved face and black hair looks over from the driver's seat. "Go in by yourself, Santana. Mommy and Daddy can't go in with you." He spoke with a rough tone.
Santana balls her fist at her sides. "B-but I see other Mommy's and Daddy's going in!" She looks at the kids walking through the school gates, hand in hand with their parents, like a family.
Her father looked at her sternly. "Santana, you're not a baby. Mommy and Daddy are busy. We'll pick you up after school."
The little girl's lip quivers and she steps towards the car and reaches her arm through the window and tugs her Mother's arm. She pulls her mother's arm the moment she was applying lipstick resulting in a red thick streak smeared across the older woman's cheek.
"Santana!" Santana retracts her hands immediately and looks down in shame.
"Please, Mommy." Santana whines. Her mother wipes the red lipstick mark off her cheek and stares at her frightened daughter from her peripherals. The women aches at the sight and softens her expression.
"Oh, alright." She says softly and smiles when Santana grins widely.
"But, Maribel, we have a conference to—"
"Oh, shut it David. We're the head of the conference, they can wait. But today is our little girl's first day of school." The woman steps out of the car and grabs her little girl's hand.
The little girl waves her free hand at her father. "Daddy? You coming?" David immediately softens and relaxes his shoulder when he looks at his little girl.
"Coming, mi'ja." He puts the car in park and steps out. He grabs his little girls hand and then three of them all walked through the gates and set foot onto the black asphalt of the kindergarten playground. Santana swings her parent's arms gleefully, all of her fears dispelled.
Santana stares in awe at the playground with all the other kids running around and playing. An Asian woman suddenly blocks the view and smiles warmly at Santana.
"Hi, there sweetie. I'm Miss Lee and I'll be your teacher for the school year." The woman, who doesn't look a day over 25, holds out her hand to Santana. Santana let's go of her Dad's hand and quickly shakes the woman's hand.
"I'm Santana Lopez." She smiles shyly and grasps her parent's hands tighter. Her parent's look down at her proudly and smile.
"It's nice to meet you, Santana." Miss Lee smiles brightly. Miss Lee then starts a conversation with Santana's parents about the general outline for the day.
Santana's eyes roam the entire playground, idly scanning through the seas of nameless faces as her parent's and Miss Lee drone on about mundane things. Her eyes land on a girl with red hair, tied in pigtails, in a pink sundress. The redhead was trying, miserably, to tie the loose laces of her white tennis shoes. Santana, intensely intrigued for some reason, watches the girl puff her cheeks in frustration as she fails to tie her shoes. Santana watches the redhead do the same thing over and over with her shoelaces just to get the same result as before. Finally, the girl lets the laces fall from the grips of her hands and stands up, giving up on trying.
The redhead starts walking over to the grass field when, as if in slow motion, Santana notices how the girl steps on one of her shoelaces and proceeds to fall forward. Immediately, Santana moves away from her parents (who are shocked by her sudden action), pushes past the teacher and other little kids, and runs toward the falling redhead.
Just when the redhead was about to fall face forward on the ground, Santana came swooping in swiftly with her arms stretched out to catch the girl. Santana breathes a silent sigh of relief when she wrapped her arms around the other girl in the nick of the time. The redhead lifts her head up slowly and looks up at her savior.
Santana is greeted with hazel eyes and her cheeks grow warm. Santana gulps. "You 'kay?" She asks the hazel-eyed girl softly.
The redhead nods her head shyly. Santana pulls the girl up to have her standing upright. The girl slowly removes her hand off Santana's shoulders and steps back.
"Tanks." She says softly.
Santana nods her head. The redhead is about to move away when Santana stops the girl. The girl looks at Santana with scared eyes. Santana kneels down.
"You haf to tie your shoes or else you going to fall again." Santana pulls the two laces together. "Here I'll show you." The redhead blushes and watches Santana tie her shoes. "You make an 'X' with the strings like this." Santana looks up at the girl. "You listening?" The girl nods her head. "Okay. Then you take this guy under the 'X' and pull. He's like a pirate, y'know? Trying to find the treasure." The redhead giggles softly to herself, not wanting to disrupt Santana's focus. "And then you make bunny ears like this." Santana continues to explain the steps to the girl while tying both of her shoes. "And there. See not hard?" Santana stands up and smiles, face to face, at the other girl.
"Tank you." The redhead smiles bashfully.
"You're welcome." Santana suddenly becomes shy.
Both girls stood there in silence, hazel eyes and brown eyes glued to one another. Santana wipes her sweaty palms on her jean shorts and holds it out to the redhead. "I—I'm Santana!" Santana rushes out.
The redhead giggles and Santana can't help but love how sweet the sound is. The girl takes Santana's hand and shakes it but never lets go. "I'm Lucy."
Santana grins widely. "Lucy. I like it." A blush paints Lucy's cheeks and she ducks her head trying to hide it. Both girls still haven't let go of each others hand, neither of them really wanting to let go. Santana relishes the warmth from Lucy's touch and Lucy finds comfort in the touch.
"Do you wanna play with me?" Santana tilts her head to the side. Lucy stares up at brown eyes and smiles. Lucy nods her head vigorously and giggles at Santana's enthusiastic response. "Yay! Let's go play on the swings!" Santana and Lucy, hand in hand, walk towards the swing set when the sound of Santana's parents calling for her halted them.
"Mi'ja! There you are!" David and Maribel run over towards Santana and Lucy.
Maribel bends down and gently holds Santana's hand. "Santana, you shouldn't run off like that out of the blue. Is everything okay?"
"Yea, mommy!" Santana tells her mom.
"Who is this Santana?" Her father asks sweetly.
Santana looks over to the girl next to her with the hazel eyes that entrance her. "This is Lucy." Lucy stands shyly behind Santana and whispers a polite 'hi'. Santana feels Lucy's grip tighten and without even thinking about it, Santana rubs her thumb on Lucy's hand in a comforting motion.
"It's nice to meet you, Lucy." Santana's mother gives a warm smile. She then looks at her daughter. "Santana, your dad and I have to go now? Is that okay?" She asks tentatively.
"Yea! I'll be 'kay. I got Lucy!" Santana kisses both of her parents by the cheeks swiftly and then runs off with Lucy.
And that's how it all started...
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