In this story my OC is named Amy Hartman and she is dating Quinn and has been since sophomore year. Quinn is in Yale and is studying drama, Brittany also is studying in Yale and is majoring in dance she is still dating Santana. Quinn and Brittany are roommates. Amy is in New York she is not in college but has an internship at the New York Times. Santana is studying law at NYU. Rachel is studying at NYADA she is single. Amy, Rachel and Santana all share a house in New York.
Chapter 1
Quinn POV
It's been 3 weeks since everyone started college, I love college I just love being out of Lima. The one thing I hate about going to Yale is that I'm away from my girlfriend Amy. Amy and I have been a couple since she joined glee in sophomore year when she moved from the UK, out of all of my relationships I've been in before Amy I have never felt as safe and as loved as I do every time I see her face, hear her voice or cuddle in her arms. We visit each other every three weeks and we alternate who visits who. I'm drawn out of my thoughts by the door to our room opening I look over to see my roommate and good high school friend Brittany. She comes and sits next to me she lays her head on my shoulder, I take a glance of her face and I see her frowning and tears starting to gather in her eyes.
"What's wrong Britt?" I ask, Brittany is always so happy and innocent so when she gets upset it feels like someone has kicked your puppy. She adjusts her head so she is still leaning on me but is looking at my face.
"I miss everyone, I miss Rach, I miss Amy but most of all I miss Sanny" she says crying, I just take her in my arms and I let her cry into my chest.
"I know Britt I miss them too, do you want to know a secret?" I ask, I feel her nod into my chest." I can't sleep without Amy telling me goodnight and being in the safety of arms so every night before bed she rings me to say goodnight." She looks up at me with a confused expression playing on her face.
"But what about her arms because Lord Tubbington is the only person that can teleport." I smile whilst gently shaking my head she still thinks her cat is a magic superhero.
"No Britt Amy can't teleport, I can't sleep without having Amy surrounding me so before we left for college I stole her west ham jumper that she wore every Saturday and I put it on and go to sleep curled up in it, I mean I know that it's not the same as curling up and sleeping in her arms but it smells so strongly of her and when I curl up in it to sleep it feels like being in her arms." She looks up at me and her confused expression has morphed into one of understanding.
"I totally understand when Finn died and I missed him I went to Rachel and asked for his Letterman Jacket and I wrapped myself up in it and it felt like he was giving me a hug." I give her a sympathetic smile, Finn's death was hard on all of us especially Rachel but it was very hard for Brittany to understand how one minute he was here giving us his goofy smile and the next minute him dying. Finn died 2 weeks ago he was found in his dorm, he died of a drug overdose. Rachel took it very hard she still loved him and she felt that it was her fault that he turned to drugs because she broke up with him so she could follow her dreams in New York. I felt bad for Amy because when me and Brittany left to go back classes she was left to comfort a distraught Rachel and a shocked Santana. Brittany breaks me out of my thoughts by poking my cheek I look at her and see that she is going to tell me something.
"San told me yesterday over the phone that Rachel still sleeps with Amy she walked into Amy's room last night to ask her something and she saw Rachel in Finns jacket sleeping with her head on Amy's chest." I nod as I was already told this by Amy this morning during our Skype chat. It kills me to see Rachel, one of my best friends, hurting like this. "I'm scared that she's not going to be ok" she tells me, I bring her back into my arms as she starts to whimper, I stroke her hair and we stay like this for a few minutes until Brittany calms down.
"Rachel will be ok I promise. Do you want to know how I know that?" she nods her head in my shoulder whilst I stroke her hair. "I know that because Amy promised me that she will look after her and you know how protective she is of her family and me, you, Santana and Rachel are her family so don't worry ok." I say whilst looking in her eyes, she smiles and nods and tells me that Amy has always protected her family, I agree because Britt's right, when it comes to family Amy never fails to deliver and that's why I love her.
Amy POV
I am having the day from hell. It started when my alarm went off 30 minutes late, I then find out that Santana reset the alarm so I could have extra sleep since I've not had one good night's sleep since Finn's death 2 weeks ago because Rachel sleeps with me and normally wakes me up due to nightmares about Finn, I snap at Santana because that made me late for work which I am currently at now. I am an intern at the New York Times, I've always wanted to be a journalist so when this came up I would've been an idiot but now I think to myself that I am an idiot for taking this job, I'm not doing anything that a journalist would do I'm stuck organising work rotas for every branch of The New York Times. I stare at my desktop wallpaper on my work computer it's a picture of my family, not my blood family but my glee family, it was taken when we won nationals last year and we had our group photo taken in the choir room with the trophy. I look at the photo and see Sam beaming with Mercedes and Mike, Sugar is sat on Arties lap whilst wearing his glasses, Tina is holding hands with Mike whilst the two of them smile at the camera, Blaine and Kurt are looking at each other laughing at something the other one said, Rachel is climbing on Finn so she could gain some height advantage over the rest of the group, to the right of them is Santana and Brittany, Brittany has her hands interlaced with her Latina girlfriend smiling whilst Santana kisses her on the cheek. Then my eyes land on the image that creates a smile on my face whenever I look at this picture, it's me and my girlfriend Quinn I'm standing behind Quinn with my arms wrapped protectively over Quinn's midriff whilst Quinn is leant into my touch with her right hand laying on my cheek. I love this picture it always makes me relax during work, we are a family and even though we annoy the hell out of each other we still love and protect each other like a true family does. My mind wonders back to this morning when I yelled at Santana and I instantly feel like crap for lashing out at her when she was only trying to help, 5pm finally arrives so I can go home and the journey back felt like hours when it was only 25 minutes, I walk in and just collapse onto the sofa in the living room next to Santana.
"Hey I thought you would be in class." I ask whilst taking my shoes off, she turns the TV volume down and looks at me.
"I had a half day so I came home" I can see that she not looking directly in my eyes and then I feel even worse when I know that I caused that look.
"Hey san I'm really sorry about snapping at you this morning I'm just so freaking stressed out with work and Rachel and I'm really sorry for yelling when you were only doing me a favour." She looks at me smiles whilst shrugging.
"I get it so don't worry about it ok" she tells me, I nod but she can tell that something is bothering me I think she can tell due to her `Mexican third eye` or something. "What's wrong I know that look on your face, it's the same look you had when we found out Finn died." I shake my head my eyes start filling with tears, I feel her place her hand on my shoulder and I break, I collapse into her embrace whilst sobbing uncontrollably. She just holds me and waits until I am calm enough to tell her what's wrong.
"I'm sorry it's just I never got to grieve for Finn, when we got the phone call I spent every minute of day comforting you and Rach and then at the funeral I was holding together a hysterical Quinn, I just hadn't had a time for myself to grieve and I just miss him so much san and I hate that whenever I look in Rachel's eyes I see all of this pain and I just wished he was here to help me with her." I resume sobbing into Santana's chest whilst she holds me, I've spent all of my time helping and comforting everyone around me I forgot to help myself so I just let San hug me and I let her tell me that everything will be ok and whilst relaxing into the embrace I am once again reminded how much us gleeks care about each other and love each other. It's true. We are a family.
Santana POV
I hold Amy as she finally lets out all of her feelings that she has had to bottle up so she could help comfort Rachel, me, Britt – Britt and Quinn. I start to feel guilty as I realise that I haven't been helpful to Amy because I was dealing with Britt. "I'm sorry that I haven't been helpful with this I promise that I'll be more helpful with Rachel." I tell her, she pulls out of my embrace and she wipes her eyes she looks at me with a small smile on her face and nods her head.
"I'm sorry for breaking like this it's just work is being an ass" I can see that the sadness in her eyes have left and anger has appeared in place. She tells me how badly they are treating her at work and that causes anger to flare up in me, no one messes with my family.
"We will sort it ok" I tell her, she says ok and then we fall asleep on the sofa watching some god awful reality show. I wake up to find myself alone on the sofa; I hear soft murmurs coming from Amy's room so I walk towards it. I open the door to see Rachel crying curled up in Amy's arms with Amy whispering comfort words in her ears, I shut the door behind me and I walk Rachel's other side and I climb into the bed and I put my arms around both of my friends. I look at Amy and I see her nod at me we both then resume whispering words to Rachel and we all fall asleep wrapped up together. A few days later and I find myself outside Amy's bosses' office ready to go all Lima heights on his ass if he doesn't listen to me. I walk into his office and just as I was about to speak he puts his finger up to stop me from talking. He put his BLOODY FINGER IN MY FACE. He removes his finger and looks at me as if to tell me that I am now allowed to speak.
"My name is Santana Lopez and I understand that you are not treating my home girl right. My home girl being Amy Hartman." He goes to interrupt me but I shake my head and resume my rant. "Now Amy is a good person, she is a very hard worker and a team player so when I find out that she is being taken advantage of here I do not take it very nicely. You see Hartman is my family so I don't take it very well when I find out that someone is messing with my family. Do you understand me?" I see him very pale and he nods his head franticly, I smile sweetly and bid him a farewell when he agrees to treat Amy with more respect. I walk home and I go straight to my room to open a Skype talk with my smoking hot girlfriend.
"Hey Britt Britt" I say with a huge smile on my face when I see her beautiful face looking back at me with a soft smile.
"Hey Sanny I really miss you but its ok because Quinn is taking care of me." She tells me, I smile because I know that no matter how many times Quinn tells us how tough she is we all know how much of a softie she is when it comes to the glee club.
"I know Britt I miss you too but you and Quinn are visiting us this weekend and I can't wait to see you." I tell her, her face breaks into the biggest smile I have ever seen. We both stay up into the early hours of the morning talking seeing as we both have a day off from classes, when I turn off Skype and get into bed I fall asleep with thoughts about this weekend and I fall into a blissful slumber with a smile on my face.