Things hadn't been the same for him since she decided to go to
NYADA. It's not like she was his to begin with, but he had a soft spot in his
heart for her. A spot that if he kept examining it the way he did he would honestly tell you had developed into something a lot like love. Hell if he were honest with himself he would know that what he felt for the shining star was in fact love. Yet if you were to ask him how he felt he would feign apathy
to the whole situation. Here he was the school bad boy, the boy from the
wrong neighborhood, the boy that was rumored to have been kicked out of
his parents house when he hit his dad, the guy that had slept with most if not all of the female population at his high school. All the girls except the one that was making him dig deep inside himself every day to be a better man. He was everything that she didn't need in her seemingly perfect life but she was everything he wanted in his understandably shitty one. His name was Alejandro Santiago Lopez, but everyone called him Santiago or Santi as he was affectionately called by his on again off again girlfriend Quinn. Who coincidently was in the off again position since it was widely known to everyone that Quinn's affections lied with the other McKinley resident bad boy Noah Puckerman, Puck for short. Santi didn't like playing second fiddle to anyone and he didn't feel the need to make Quinn feel like she was second best to Rachel Berry.
She was the reason that Santi stayed late at school everyday after football practice and why he has subsequently ended his tumultuous relationship with the head cheerleader and she was also the reason that the resident stud of the high school hadn't had any questionable relationships with various other girls. Alas, Rachel Berry was unattainable. Not only was she going to NYADA after graduation but she was currently dating his teammate Finn Hudson. Hudson was the quarter back he was everything that a girl like Rachel needed and wanted in her life. He was dependable, popular, and hadn't had the type of life that Santi himself had.
Santiago wanted nothing more than to knock Hudson down a few pegs and it was because of this that Santiago had forced his best friend, Puck, to join him their sophomore year and join the Glee club, the club that coincidently had one Rachel Berry as the star singer and he goof of a boyfriend as her co-captain. Santi and Puck had joined the club one because at the time Coach Tanaka had wanted to keep an eye on the Glee instructor and make sure that he wasn't making a play for the coach's woman. Then Santi decided to sabotage the whole club by leaking set lists and ruining performances and blaming it all on the tall oofish Finn. All of this stopped though when for some god forsaken reason he got a heart. He had leaked the set list to the competition at regionals and saw how truly devasted it made Rachel when she thought that her whole singing career was a wash.
It was then that he decided to try and stop being a dick and actually try to participate in glee club and at least have a good time. In his junior year his heart started to thaw towards the small brunette. That year was the year things would change for him that year was the year he would work his way into Rachel's heart. But like most of Santiago's plans that idea crashed and burned.