Summer of Surprises
chapter 1
I'm so excited to start this new story. I cant believe it's summer already so I wanted to do a summer brittana fic! I really hope you guys like it. It would really mean a lot to me to get some reviews:)
If youre a fan of my last story Loving Rachel Berry (pezberry) don't worry I will eventually think of a nice fluffy happy ending, but for now I want to start working on this.
Santana Lopez had never had a girlfriend before, even though she really wanted to. She lived in Ohio, and was forced to go to private school where you couldn't be anything but perfect children. You're all the same and you all like the same things and you all have the same standards.
She knew she was different for a while. When she was younger she would think, why girls can't be married to each other? She'd be that girl who actually wanted to be the dad during a game of house. She thought Lily and Miley should've dated instead of Lily and Oliver. That kind of thing.
School was a place of hell for Santana. Even though she was a cheerleader, it's not like she was popular, there were less than a hundred kids at St. Joseph's anyway. All the boys liked her. They probably thought she was just a bitch who thought she was better than everyone else. Truth was she just didn't like boys at all, she never thought they were attractive.
All Santana cared about was impressing the other girls, especially Quinn Fabray. She was the Regina George of Santana's middle school. Santana would do anything to be best friends with her, which turned into a lot of self esteem problems and an obsession to be perfect.
It's now the summer before sophomore year. She hated everything and just wanted to get away from all the pointless drama.
Her goal this summer: Ignore everyone, sleep, workout.
She had this whole idea that if she was a bitch, then she wouldn't have to deal with people anymore so that's what she planned to do.
She'd been quite a pain to everyone lately even her parents who she normally respected. They realized she was just going through a phase but they thought of a way to try and fix it.
"Hey Santana, can you come here please? Your mother and I would like to talk to you."
"What." She entered the room with her arms crossed.
"As you know, your aunt got in that car accident a couple weeks ago and isn't really doing the best. She can't do housework or take care of the kids very well. So since you are now out of school and obviously have nothing better to do, we think you should go stay with her and help out for a while." Her mom said, she was nervous about the reaction she'd receive.
"Ok." Santana agreed. She thought it would be easier just to do it. She did feel bad for her Aunt Jan and didn't completely hate being over her house. Sure as hell will be a lot more relaxing than being at home. Plus absolutely no chance of seeing anyone from school. She might actually be looking forward to this.
"Really? No fight or complaining?" Her dad was surprised.
"Nope." She shrugged her shoulders.
"Well thank you. Go pack your stuff up now, we are going down there tomorrow."
She walked up the stairs to her room and got out her duffle bag. She packed a bunch of casual tank tops, shorts and some sweats to sleep in.
She wondered if she should bring her laptop. They probably don't have wifi or anything, but she brought it just in case.
She then gathered her shower stuff, makeup, and anything else she thought she might need while she was there.
Then she crawled into bed and fell asleep. Totally unaware that the next couple months would be the best of her life.
Her mom pulled in the driveway of her aunt's house. It was kind of small compared to her own but it was cute and in a nice neighborhood.
Her cousins were looking out the window. As soon as they saw the car they started screaming with excitement.
"SANTANA'S HERE! HI SANTANA!" Her cousins really loved Santana.
She had a thing with kids. She just felt like it was way easier to be an innocent little fun child who can do whatever they want so she connected well with them. Or maybe it was just that she was the cool older cousin who was willing to play dolls and Legos with them.
"Hi guys!" Santana smiled walking up to the door carrying her bags.
Her cousins were Trenton, a three year old boy and Emilia, a five year old girl. They were called Trent and Emmi as nicknames. They were both blonde she had green eyes and he had blue. They were the cutest children ever.
"Can I take something?" Emmi asked. Santana thought she couldn't carry the big heavy bags so she just handed her her purse.
"I'm putting this in my room because that's where mommy said you can sleep if you want to. She said you could also go in the spare room but I really want you to be in here with me. Please?" The little girl was so cute how could she say no.
"Sure I'll sleep in your bed." Santana gave in even though she would have to share a twin bed with a five year old now.
They went into the room and dropped the stuff off. Then headed into the living room where the rest of the family was at the moment.
"Hi Aunt Jan." Santana greeted her noticing her hand that was wrapped up.
"Hi sweetheart, thank you so much for coming to help me out. It really means a lot."
"Of course. It's no problem." She smiled. Wow, she was doing a lot of smiling here. Totally not her thing.
"Well I guess we should be going now. I have work in the morning. Nice seeing you Jan, I hope you feel better." Santana's dad said to his sister.
"Thanks. See you soon." She replied from the couch.
Her parents left and soon it was just her, aunt Jan, Emmi, and Trent.
"Can we have dessert now?!" Trent asked.
"Sure, go have Santana help you get out some Popsicles. Also use the magic words!" Jan was way too easy going. It was 7:30 at night and these kids were hipper enough, why is it a good idea to give them sugar?
"Please nicely Santana." They both said as she opened the freezer to retrieve the treats.
"Ok guys, what flavor?" She asked holding the box.
"Orange!" Emmi claimed.
"Grape!" Trent yelled.
She then looked through the white paper covers to find those colors. She then opened them and realized she accidentally got a root beer instead of grape.
"It's fine. I'll have this one it's my favorite flavor." Santana told them.
"Ew, I don't like root beer." The blonde girl made a face.
"How can you not like root beer?" Santana was surprised.
"It's brown. I don't like brown foods."
"Chocolate, banana bread, meatballs, potatoes, coco puffs." Santana replied knowing she liked those foods.
"Oh, that doesn't count." She looked puzzled and just licked her orange Popsicle.
"Okay" Santana laughed.
After they finished their snack it was time to get ready for bed. She changed into her sweats and helped the kids pick their night clothes out.
They said goodnight to Trent and he went into his room. The girls then headed back to Emmi's room.
"I can't wait to play with you tomorrow. You can meet my best friend Alyssa, she lives down the street. We can draw with chalk and ride bikes. I learned to ride without training wheels already, but I probably need you to help me. Alyssa has a really cool bike, she is 7. She has an older sister named Brittany who is super nice and fun. We can meet them tomorrow." Wow this girl was a talker. It reminded Santana of Rachel Berry, but obviously cuter and more tolerable.
"That should be fun. Remember we have all summer to do lots of things so we don't have to do everything in one day."
"Ok goodnight Santana. I love you." She gave the older girl a hug and kiss.
"Love you too." This kid really was bringing out the best in Santana and she had only been there for a day.
"Mommy can I take Santana to Alyssa's house?" Emmi asked.
"Sure, but bring your brother."
"Ugh. Why? He will be the only boy and he won't have fun." She whined about bringing him. It really was true.
"One second." Jan got out her cell phone with her good hand and dialed her friend from a couple streets over and asked it Trent could go over their house for a play date today. She has a son a little older. The woman agreed and was happy to take Trent for the day.
"We got it covered. Go have fun girls. Santana call me to check in around noon."
"Ok. I will."
Emmi got her bike and they headed down the street. She stopped at a blue house about five doors down.
"This is it! My best friend's house. I know because it's the only house on this whole street that's blue. I can't wait for you to meet her. We have the best times together. I bet you'll like her. We can have so much fun." The little blonde girl was practically jumping up and down with excitement.
"I bet." Santana laughed at the enthusiasm.
They rang the doorbell and a little girl with curly blonde hair answered.
"EMMI!" They hugged.
"Alyssa, this is my cousin Santana. I love her so much and she is here to play with us. She's watching me while my mom gets better." Emmi explained.
"Hi Santana, you are really pretty. You are like a real life princess." Alyssa complimented.
"Aw thanks. So are you." She wished everyone was as nice as little kids.
"Let's play pets! I'm a puppy. woof woof. What are you Emmi?" Alyssa said getting on her knees pretending to be a dog.
"I will be a cat! I'm lord tubbington." She laid on the grass being the lazy lord tubbington.
"I'll be owner I guess." Santana said.
"No! You have to be a pet too." Emmi pouted.
"Uhm, How about a fish?"
"Nah you aren't the fish type." Alyssa disagreed.
"She can be a unicorn!" Emmi suggested.
"But that's always Brittany's animal." Alyssa brought up.
"Yeah she might get sad if we let Santana be it. She can be a bunny."
"Ok I'm a bunny. Nibble nibble." She said not really sure what noise to make.
"Get on the ground like one." They were really getting into character here.
"Fine." She got down and began to hop and whatever bunnies do.
They did that for a while. First pretending they were at a pet store, then escaping the pet store and going on adventures.
After an hour or so the door opened and a very attractive tall blonde teenager walked out.
"Hey guys, playing animals?" She smiled. God her face was adorable. What the heck. Why was Santana on the ground embarrassing herself in front of this hot girl?
"Hi Brittany!" The little kids yelled.
"Brittany look, it's my cousin that I told you was coming for the summer! She's here. She came yesterday." Emmi said. Santana smiled and stood up.
"Hi Samantha." She greeted.
"It's Santana but you can call me that if you want." Well that was smooth.
"I'm sorry Santana. Why would I not call you your name?" She giggled.
"I don't know." She blushed and decided not to say anything else to avoid embarrassment.
Brittany giggled at the nervousness of the brunette.
The younger girls were riding their bikes up and down the street now. Since Santana didn't have hers she sat down on the door step and Brittany sat next to her.
"So where do you live?" Brittany asked trying to make conversation.
"Lima, about a half-hour north of here."
"Oh yeah I've been there for dance completions and other stuff." she nodded.
"I dance too. I'm not on a team really. More like taking classes." Santana didnt want to seem more into it than she was.
"Really? I love to dance! It's like my favorite thing in the world."
"That's cool." Santana was getting awkward. That was not normal for her; it was probably because she's talking to a super nice beautiful girl that she just met.
"Yeah. You are probably really good. You have the whole dancer's body. Or like a hot fitness body, maybe both." Brittany eyed her in her jean shorts and tight tank top, which you could see her abs through.
"I do Yoga and Pilates. I also go to the gym twice a week."
"I can totally tell." Brittany flirted. Or at least that's what Santana hoped she meant. She didn't know her well enough to be sure.
"Thanks."
"Did you bring a swimsuit? We have a pool in the backyard. The kiddos love to go swimming."
"I didn't actually. I didn't know I needed one." She was kinda sad she didn't now.
"That's fine you can borrow one of mine." Brittany smiled.
"That's nice of you. Thanks."
"Of course, truthfully it's kind of selfish I really want to see you in a bikini."
Santana giggled. She then looked at her phone and realized it was twelve thirty so she called her aunt to check in.
"Hi Santana, are you having fun?" Jan asked.
"Sure am. Do you want us to come home for lunch soon?"
"I'm making BLTs. You're welcome to stay." Brittany invited them. Is this girl like perfect or something? I mean BLTs.
"Brittany just invited us to eat here, is that ok?"
"Absolutely, tell Brittany I said hello! Call me when you plan to come home."
"I will. Thanks Aunt Jan." Santana then hung up the phone.
"We can stay. Also Aunt Jan says hi." She turned to Brittany.
"Awesome! She's like the nicest lady ever. I also made some peanut butter cookies yesterday that are to die for you have to try one."
"Will you like marry me?" Santana whispered not meaning to say that out loud.
"What?" Brittany smiled.
"Nothing." Santana tried to cover that up unsuccessfully.
"Ok then. Alyssa Emmi, come in for lunch!"
woo chapter one done. I was going to finish out the day but the chapter was getting really long so I cut it off there. Hope you like it! PLEASE REVIEW! I will love you forever ;)