Chapter 1
Beep beep beep
Santana wriggled as she stretched to turn her alarm off.
'7am already?' she thought, yawning, 'that can't be right.'.
She'd spent most of her night thinking about Brittany. Flicking through old photographs of them as a couple, and writing out text messages that would never be sent, but as a consequence, had only slept for 3 hours.
She let out a loud sigh, which attracted the attention of Kurt, who rushed in to make sure she was okay.
"Hey, you okay? You're not bailing on us are you, because the flights at eight and I don't wanna have to miss Mr. Schue's wedding!" He said with a smirk, just peering around the door.
Santana groaned as she clambered out of bed, only wearing her black underwear.
"Oh, okay then! You should probably go get ready." Kurt said quickly, disappearing again behind the large door.
Santana stretched out again, her arms flailing in the air.
'Oh, I couldn't possibly miss this, and miss out on watching the lovely 'Blam'.' She thought sarcastically, shaking her head to remove the image of them like an etch a sketch.
She quickly threw on a pair of blue skinny jeans and a black fitted tank top, emphasising her toned silhouetted figure, before accessorizing with a delicate gold chain Brittany had bought her for her birthday.
Her small black suitcase was waiting for her at the end of her bed, filled with countless dresses and killer outfits so she could remind Brittany of what she was missing.
She walked out into the apartment's living room, where Kurt's Armani suitcase was sat waiting next to Rachel's 3 pink cases.
Santana smirked, imagining Rachel had packed a case of pony jumpers, like old times.
"Right, Kurt, have you turned everything off? We need to go if we're going to be able to swing past Starbucks to pick up my low fat, soy, hazelnut latte; you know how I get when I haven't had any coffee." Rachel shouted, her call echoing through the apartment.
"You know Berry, you need to calm yourself, don't worry, we'll get you you're coffee.' Santana replied, grabbing her leather jacket from the coat closet.
Rachel sighed, raising her palms up, before massaging her temples.
"Woo, let's go guys! It's a Glee club reunion!" Shouted Kurt excitedly, charging towards the door suitcase and tote bag in tow.
"Woo!" Santana shouted, following closely behind.
Rachel remained silent, smiling to herself, before slamming the large door shut behind them, Finn running through her mind.
They rushed down the stairs towards a bright yellow taxi waiting for them. Santana threw their cases into the boot, whilst Kurt opened the door and climbed inside.
"I don't think I'll ever get used to being in New York!" Rachel said, gazing out of the window.
Kurt rolled his eyes, sharing a brief giggle with Santana.
"So, have you heard from Brittany?" Kurt asked, changing the conversation.
"Kurt!" Rachel warned, giving him a stern look.
Santana looked down to the B pendant that hung from her neck.
"No, not since I went back to McKinley." Santana said sadly.
"I know, when we get back, we can have a girls night out!" Kurt insisted, smiling broadly, "and, we can find you a new girl to crush on!"
Santana looked up at him smiling and quickly returned the smile.
She didn't want a new girl to crush on, she wanted Brittany, she wanted her best friend.
The three of them spent the rest of the journey chatting about Blaine.
Santana rolled her eyes as Kurt dismissed his feelings, anybody could see Kurt still loved Blaine.
"Come on Kurt, you still love Blaine. We can all see it, you miss him." Santana added, Rachel nodding in agreement.
Kurt shrugged it off, quickly pointing out of the window towards the planes taking off.
The taxi skidded to a halt right outside NYC airport, each of them gawping at its sight.
The quickly gathered their things and went inside to check in, Kurt managing the boarding passes, Santana collecting the passports and Rachel packing her beauty essentials into a small clear plastic bag.
"Well if it isn't Miss Lima 2013" Kurt giggled, looking Rachel up and down.
"You're just jealous because your gloss is in your case!" Rachel retorted, pouting at Kurt.
Santana looked on, studying the faces of other passengers waiting to check in, a small spotty girl, a fat bald man wearing an Ohio state football jersey and an elderly couple.
'Well who else would want to go to Lima?' Santana thought to herself turning back to Kurt and Rachel.
"I heard Quinn is coming back too!" said Rachel happily, opening up her compact mirror and fiddling with her fringe.
"Oh yeah, you two kinda sorted things out right?" asked Kurt, handing in the boarding passes to the clerk.
"Yeah, I guess you could say we're becoming best friends" replied Rachel, throwing her herd of cases onto the security scales.
130lbs
"I'm s-sorry miss, you're going to have to pay a fee to get these onto the plane, they're too h-heavy." The small greasy haired clerk said shyly, avoiding eye contact with Rachel.
"N-No, that can't be right." Rachel insisted, brandishing her puppy dog eyes and slamming her passport onto the desk.
"No, you're right!" The clerk said, giving into her eyes.
He permitted it through, wrapping on the stickers and sending them down the chute.
Rachel smiled broadly at him, before winking.
"Wow Berry, that makeover really did you good didn't it." Santana said, amazed at Rachel's new found allure.
Once all of their bags were through check in, they headed through security and to the departure lounge.
"Starbucks!" Rachel squealed, running in her black stilettos.
"Guess we better follow queen Rachel!" Kurt laughed, winking at Santana.
"Yep!" Santana replied, her phone vibrating as she received a text.
Can't wait to see you this weekend! – Britt xx
Santana looked down at the warm glow of her phone screen, rereading the message.
Did this mean Blam were finally over?
She smiled down at the message before responding with a quick, 'yeah, you too. x'
Just as she placed her phone back into her pocket, she felt it vibrate again. She quickly pulled it out expecting to see another message from Brittany.
Hi Santana, are you still going to Mr. Schue's wedding this weekend? I really hope you are, I can't stand to be around Berry and have to listen to her man problems, not after that sleazy professor. I know we've had some issues recently, but you'll always be my best friend. – Q. x
Santana read the message, she knew Quinn would apologise for slapping her at some point.
"Bout time Fabray! Nobody slaps me and gets away with it! ;) x" She replied quickly, smirking at her response.
Santana quickly caught up with Kurt and Rachel, phone still in hand.
As they sat down at a rounded coffee table, Santana's phone buzzed and flashed again.
"Ooh, who might that be? A hot date maybe?" winked Kurt, reaching for Santana's phone.
Santana quickly pulled the phone away, clicking the home button to see it was another text from Quinn.
Xoxo
Santana replied with a quick X before stuffing the phone into her jacket pocket.
"Actually, it was Quinn!" Said Santana smugly, pulling out her tongue.
"still a hot date then?!" Rachel muttered under her breath.
Kurt laughed, but Santana ignored it.
"CAN FLIGHT 12091906 TO LIMA, OHIO PLEASE GO TO GATE 23!" The tannoy blared out.
"Thats us right?" Rachel asked worriedly, looking at Kurt and Santana manically.
"Yes, Rachel." Kurt replied, standing up to move.
Rachel gulped down the last bit of her latte before standing parallel to Santana and Kurt.
"SECOND CALL FOR FLIGHT 12091906 TO LIMA, OHIO, GATE 23!"
Rachel, Kurt and Santana began to run through the airport, dodging other waiting passengers and sprinting the last 100m towards gate 23.
The gate was empty.
"HAVE WE MISSED IT?" Rachel asked the clerk worriedly.
"No, you're the last passengers on however, and unfortunately, and the seats we do have left are all separated." The lady replied calmly.
Rachel let out a sigh of relief, as she handed in all three boarding passes.
The lady scanned them quickly before allowing them down the staircase towards the plane.
They reached the plane and were each assigned a seat.
Rachel was in 12A
Kurt in 22C
and Santana in 27C
They quickly said goodbye to each other and headed off to their seats.
Santana took her seat. Not only was she sat right next to the window, beside her was a petite blonde girl with piercing blue eyes. Santana's eyes drifted towards her, the girls vanilla perfume filling the air around her.
The young girl looked back up at her into Santana's dark brown eyes.
"Hi, I'm Laura!" she said quickly, offering her hand for Santana to shake.
"Santana!" Santana replied, carefully grabbing the girls hand and shaking.
"Pleased to meet you Santana!" said Laura, beaming up at her.
Santana smiled back, for a moment forgetting Brittany.
