This is an AU where Finn, Puck and Santana are close friends, and Rachel is new to McKinley. I obviously don't own Glee or any of it's characters.
For as long as anyone could remember, Finn, Puck, and Santana had been best friends. They don't really remember how they had come to be such good friends, but since middle school they had been inseparable.
They had started high school together, the boys joined the football team and Santana joined the cheerios, they had joined glee club together, and when Santana had come out in tenth grade, Finn and Puck had been there threatening anyone who even looked at her the wrong way. It was junior year and none of that had changed.
Santana walked into school that day a little late, because her car hadn't been able to start, and her friends had early football practice. She walked to her locker and started grabbing her books for her first class. She had finished swapping materials and turned to head to her class, when someone caught her eye. She was a short brunette, couldn't be more than 5'3. She was wearing a white blouse which had an extremely low cut and a pink mini skirt that showed off her legs which seemed to go on for miles. When Santana caught a glimpse of her face, she realized that she was gorgeous. She had to be new, because Santana would have definitely remembered her. The Latina was about to go approach her when the damn bell rang. She walked off and took her seat. Santana was not able to pay much attention though, her mind kept on drifting back to the brunette from earlier.
The lunch bell had rang and Santana was on her way to her normal table in the middle, where she, Puck, and Finn sat. She was normally the first one, so she took out her sheet music for glee and began memorizing her lines for her solo. She was half way through when she heard someone clearing their throat. At first she had assumed that it was one of her boys, but when she looked up, she realized just how wrong she was.
"Is this seat taken?" Said the brunette sweetly.
"Oh, Um...I" Santana was at a loss for words, she had practically spent all of Spanish dreaming about talking to the girl, and now that it was happening, she couldn't speak. "N-No it's, um, not" Santana looked up at the girl.
"You mind if I sit here?" Santana nodded, because she didn't really want to make a bigger fool of herself than she already has. She's Santana Lopez, she doesn't get nervous around girls, but this one just seemed to have a spell over her. "Thanks, I'm Rachel Berry" The girl, Rachel, held her hand out to Santana to shake it.
"Santana Lopez, are you new here?" She managed to ask without a stutter.
"Yeah my dads and I moved here a couple weeks ago." Rachel gave a friendly smile. "I haven't made too many friends here though." Rachel gave a sad smile.
"Well, we could hang out sometime, you know, if you want to?" Santana looked really nervous, but when Rachel looked up at her and smiled, she began to calm down.
"I'd love that!" Rachel exclaimed, making Santana blush.
"Are you looking to join any clubs? Because if you are, you could join the cheerios with me, I'm also in glee club, but that may not be the best way to start the year."Santana looked at a confused Rachel.
"Why not?" Rachel looked at her with a crease in her eyebrows.
"Well, we're not exactly the coolest club here so receive a lot of slushie facials." Santana shrugged. "I was in the cheerios way before that so it's not as bad, but people still give us a hard time." Santana looked at the brunette who was looking back at her shocked.
"I don't understand how someone could make fun of someone as beautiful as you though." Rachel looked at Santana through her eyelashes, and made Santana seriously blush. It's just a friendly compliment, Santana tried to convince herself, but when Rachel put her hand on her thigh, she couldn't help but think otherwise. Santana couldn't help but smile, was this actually happening? Before she could say anything though, they were interrupted.
"Hey San, I see you've already met Rachel." Finn said with his signature half smile. "Could he have worst timing?" Santana thought to herself. Rachel quickly hopped up to go hug him. "Finny, I missed you." Santana felt like someone had punched her in the gut, when Rachel reached up and gave him a peck on the lips. "Wait, you and Santana know each other?" Rachel looked between the two of them.
"Yeah, we know each other pretty well" Finn chuckled as he sat down in front of Rachel and Santana.
"So uh, how do you two know each other?" Santana said as she somewhat recovered from her state of shock. Rachel smiled brightly.
"Well two weeks ago when I came to get a tour of this place, Finn was assigned to show me around and-"
Rachel was interrupted by Finn, "And when I finally worked up enough courage to ask her out last week, she said yes." Finn returned Rachel's smile. Santana felt like she was going to throw up. She had met this stunning girl, only to learn her best friend had gotten there first. Not that Rachel would be into her, she was obviously straight.
