AN: I didn't realise it at first but the beginning plot is similar to a film I remember seeing years ago (you might know which one). It's AU of course. Eventual Faberry and Brittana (inevitable with my stories…)

Disclaimer: I own nothing

Posted: 27/10/11

Promises for our future

7 years ago, four girls who were best friends, made some promises…

…

"Quinn? Where's Quinn" the short brunette asked her two other friends

"Rach, she always hides in the same place, don't you remember?" the Latina replied "yet you found me and Britt first" she grumbled

"That's because I could hear Brittany giggling, she always gives away your hiding place"

"Yeah but she doesn't have to follow me every time, do you Britt?" She turned to the girl with the long blonde hair who pouted

"You don't like me San?"

Santana realised she'd upset the other girl without meaning to and regretted it immediately "No, no I just meant…"

Rachel left those two to the same words they'd exchange every time they played this childish game. They may have been eleven years old but it wasn't about the game of hide and seek; it was the nostalgia behind it, it was the first game they'd played the first time they'd met at this park 5 years ago; the four had hit it off immediately and had been best friends ever since… perhaps on some occasions you would get a glimpse of them each being slightly closer with another; Brittany and Santana were definitely more obvious, Brittany followed Santana when ever they played their games, and the young Latina never minded it.

"Quinn?... Quinn?" Rachel asked as she circled the groups favourite tree (it stood out from the others behind it, in the park, it was the biggest, the strongest and it offered the most shade in the summer, so by default it was the one they sat under 5 years ago and talked, got to know one another)

Rachel found the girl with the short blonde hair, in the baby doll dress and the white cardigan, sat against the tree trunk her knees bought up to her chest as her hands fiddled with a the blades of grass, she'd ripped from the earth by her feet.

"Quinn, what's wrong?"

Rachel's words brought the other girl out of her trance, she smiled when she saw the worry on her friends face "Nothing to worry about" she said shaking her head

"Are you sure?" The small brunette asked

"No" she muttered "I'm scared Rach"

"Of what?" Rachel took a seat next to her friend "What have you got to be scared of?"

"The end of the summer…" she said quietly

"Rach did you find Q?" Santana appeared, her hand clasped in Brittany's. "Oh, hey Q" They sat joining their best friends on the darker, more sheltered side on the tree "What ya talking about?"

"Quinn's scared" she took her friends hand while the two girls opposite them still held each other's too.

"Why?" Brittany asked simply

"I don't want us to get split up" she snivelled wiping across her face with the sleeve of her cardigan

"What makes you think that's going to happen?" The brunette holding her hand asked

"My dad told me I'm going to a different school, he wants me to grow up and he thinks it would be best if I'm not around you guys anymore"

"What, that's not fair!" Brittany yelled first, Quinn noticed Rachel's unusual silence before she saw the sad shock on the other girls face

"He can't do this Q. We're supposed to be friends forever!" Santana was more forceful and angry with her words

"He has done it San, they bought me my school uniform last weekend"

"You have to wear a uniform?" Rachel worried further, knowing that it was going to happen whether they like it or not

Quinn just nodded

"This sucks" Santana huffed

"What are we going to do?" The blonde with the long hair asked

"I'll tell you what we're going to do" Rachel started getting her three best friends attention "We're going to still be best friends because it doesn't matter what school we go to, we'll still have the park, and our sleep over's right?"

They all nodded in agreement as well as Quinn's whispered "Yes" as she sniffed, wiping away the few tears she'd let fall.

"So, we'll stay in contact, we just will because this friendship is supposed to last; I just know it"

They were all quiet apart from a few randomly timed sniffs from the shorter blonde

"… But what if we don't?"

"San how can you say that?"

"I'm sorry Britt, but I'm just thinking, what if we don't stay best friends?"

"Well…" Rachel wasn't sure what to say, she didn't like to think of a future where she didn't have her best friends "I-I don't know"

"We should make a promise?"

"Like what Britt?" Quinn asked

"Erm… we could, no, should promise that no matter what on a certain day in the future that we should meet up… here" she suggested

"I like that idea" Rachel said softly

"Me too" The Latina smiled fondly at the girl she was still holding hands with

"Yeah, at least that's a promise that we can keep, no matter what" Quinn agreed, suddenly looking a little brighter

"We could do more than that Brittany" Rachel got an idea "We should have something to come back to, we could get a box and put something as a memory in it"

"And we could write things, things we hope will happen, or things we want to do when we're older together, like promises or something?" Brittany added as a question

"Okay, so are we going to do this?" Quinn asked hopeful, looking at Santana the only one who hadn't said anything about their box idea

She smiled "Yeah, let's do it"

"Okay, tomorrow we meet here again, with an item that means a lot to us and some promises written down, promises that we won't let the others see until the day we dig this up"

"When should we dig it up?"

"How about mid-night, the night of our senior prom" Quinn suggested

The others agreed "Okay, so no matter what we meet up then and in front of this tree. What if we're at different high schools?" Rachel was thinking about every detail

"I'll make sure I go to the same one" Quinn was adamant "I'll tell my dad I've grown up so he'll send me to the high school I choose, which is the one you guys will all be at" she smiled at them all, but mostly, without even realising it, at Rachel

"So no matter what, mid-night here" Brittany asked one lat time

"No matter what" Santana finished smiling at the girl next to her

They enjoyed the rest of their afternoon. As soon as they were collected and taken home they all rushed to their rooms, trying to figure out what they would write and what they would sacrifice to their box of promises.

…

The next day they kept their promise. Rachel got her an old shoe box, it was the box for her first pair of tap shoes and Brittany got an old swim bag made of thick clear water proof plastic to put the box in. They all wrote down something they wanted to do on separate pieces of paper with out showing one another and gathered a single item that meant a lot to them to place in the box. They gathered the next day, assembled their box of promises and buried it exactly where they said they would. They promised to come back one day; together and dig it up.

…

7 years ago, four girls who were best friends made some promises; a promise to stay together, be best friends forever, a promise to never let others get in their way and a promise to return to that spot under their favourite childhood tree on the night of their senior prom, where they buried some memories.

They didn't know that middle school would damage that friendship, especially when Quinn would be separated from them and attend a different middle school. And even though they were reunited at high school, the social hierarchy and their parents wanting different things for them; obliterated any remnants of that friendship, which had been so strong when they were eleven years old.

Tonight was their senior prom, who kept their promise…

Let me know what you think…

I have a lot planned for this…