Chapter 2
The four arrived at Santana's fifteen minutes later. Brittany was the first one to jump out of the car and head into the house. "Abuela! Happy Birthday!" Brittany greets Santana's grandmother with a big hug and Santana has to keep from rolling her eyes. Alma can't but chuckle at the girl's enthusiasm, it was heartwarming Although Alma was close to all the girls, Brittany was the second closest, if not just as close to her as Santana is.
Santana, Quinn, and Rachel proceeded to exit the vehicle and greeted Alma with hugs and "happy birthday Abuela"s. "Look at you four. You all are becoming such beautiful women." Alma says with the happiest smile. They all blush, except Santana who still until this day insists that she does not blush.
One set of Brittany's grandparents were in Amsterdam, and the other had already passed away. Quinn's grandparents didn't ever try to keep in touch with them, and Rachel's grandparents were out of the picture since both sets did not approve of their sons' life choices. So the three girls looked to Santana's as if they were their own. When her husband passed away, Alma grew quite depressed. Seeing the four girls that she loved so much always brought a smile to her face.
"Girls! Im glad you all made it just in time!" Antonio says when he notices the commotion in the living room. "Why don't you girls bring Abuela into the dinning room, dinner is ready."
The dinner table at all their houses were always huge. They were always at each other's houses having dinner and getting together. After the huge dinner, they all gathered around in the living room to give Alma her presents, even though she insisted on them not getting her anything. While she received nice gifts, her favorite was the pair of yellow fuzzy duck slippers that Brittany had given her.
"Thank you all for everything, the dinner and the gifts." Alma says after all the gifts were given. Everyone is scattered around the living room. "I love you all dearly, and I'm so happy to have such a loving and caring family." She says looking around, they may not all be blood and the young ones many not get along at the moment, but she loved them all. "I know it's my birthday, but I want to give something to the girls." Santana, Brittany, Rachel, and Quinn each scooted closer to her.
"I've been there for all your births and watched you four grow into beautiful, respectable, independent women. I want each of you girls to have your own necklace, so you will all remember this and us. We may not all be blood related, but we are a family. And family always sticks together." She says handing each of the girls a black box. All the men have smiles on their faces while all the girls are tearing up and crying a little bit. Each of the girls opened their box to find a beautiful gold necklace with their own initial on them. "I hope you girls like them."
"Abuela, of course we do."
"They're beautiful."
"Thank you so much."
"We love you." Were the responses that were accompanied by bone crushing hugs.
It was later on that night after Abuela had gone to bed, the rest of the adults headed out to the bar. Santana was in the kitchen getting a glass of water, Quinn was studying in one of the offices on the first floor, Rachel was brushing her teeth, and Brittany was watching cartoons on tv. On the way back to her room, Santana bumped into Rachel who was heading to the kitchen.
"Dammit Berry!" Santana said yelled as her glass of water shattered as soon as it hit the floor. "Why the hell aren't you watching where you're going?" She glares at the shorter brunette who glares right back.
"It was your fault Santana. I wasn't the only one who wasn't paying attention to where i was going." Rachel bites before bending down to help pick up the shattered glass.
"What is going on out here?" Quinn says stepping out of the office. A second later Brittany comes around the hallway.
"I heard something break. Is everything okay?" She asks.
"Well nothing would have happened if Hobbit over here could just watch where she was going."
"Oh please, I'm helping you pick up the glass, and it wasn't only my fault."
"Can you two get any louder? Abuela is sleeping and other people here are trying to study."
"Shut up Fabray. Maybe if you'd loosen up a bit you'd finally get laid and wouldn't have your granny panties in a bunch all the time."
"Not every one is in a rush to give it up like you do Ho-pez."
"I agree with Quinn for once."
"Oh please you're the Queen of S.S Virgins, of course you would."
"Guys-"
"Why do you have to be such a bitch all the time?"
"Guys look-"
"That coming from the girl who started the slushy trend freshman year."
"It looks like it's getting closer-"
"That was an accident, and you and your demon squad were the ones who started it."
"Guys shut up! And look!" Brittany finally yells breaking up the argument between the three just in time for them to see a streak of bright light through the windows. It looked like it was coming right at them. The four girls freeze as the light got closer and closer to the house. And right as they thought it was going to hit, it landed towards the side of the house with a loud bang, causing them to jump.
"Fuck!" Santana cursed, she has cut her hand on the piece of glass she was holding.
"Language! And oh my gosh, you're bleeding." Brittany presses the towel that she had intended to use to use to wipe the spilled water onto Santana's palm. The cut was surprisingly pretty big.
"What was that?" Rachel asked clearly frightened. She had grabbed onto Quinn's arm, who had stepped closer to the window, trying to see if there was any damage. All she could see is a red-ish tint of light.
"I think there's a fire. I'm going to see if I can put it out before it can get any bigger." Quinn says heading for the fire extinguisher she knew the Lopez's had in the kitchen.
"Wait, don't go alone. What if it's like aliens or something." Brittany says, her eyes widening at the thought. She heads towards the closet by the front door and grabs one of the bats that Mr. Lopez likes to keep in there. "Okay, I'm ready."
"Maybe we should stay inside and call someone. Maybe the police?" Rachel says. She's still kind of shaking from earlier.
"Oh please drama queen, it was probably a prank that some douche bags decided to play on us. I'll show them, come on." Santana says wincing as she grabs one other bat from the closet and heads towards her back door. Quinn and Brittany follow her lead.
"Wait!" Rachel half yells and half whispers grabbing a bat from the closet. "Don't leave me here alone!" She quickly catches up with the other three who already set foot outside.
With Santana leading the way, the four girls try to sneakily make their way around to the right side of the house. Maybe they should have though it over a little more, because it was pretty dark outside. "Ouch. Who stepped on my foot?"
"Oops. Sorry Brittany." Rachel responds. She hated being the last one, she was paranoid that something or someone would snatch her up and no one would know.
"It's okay Rachel."
"Could you guys keep it down. If there's someone still out there, they're going to hear us." Quinn says, you can hear the annoyance in her tone of voice. They finally make it to the edge of the house.
Santana's is not afraid. She's not. Okay, maybe just a little afraid. But no punk is going to get away with trying to prank her. She takes a deep breath before calling out, "Hello? Is anyone there?" causing Quinn to face-palm her forehead. So much for the element of surprise.
When there isn't any reply, the four girls peak around the corner. If any could see them they'd probably laugh. They looked like a stack of floating heads from Rachel, to Santana, Quinn, and finally Brittany's head peaking at what had landed, er-crashed next to the house.
It was a glowing ball of red, green, blue, and yellow hovering above the ground.
"I knew it! Aliens do exist!" Brittany said pumping her fist in the air triumphantly before heading closer to the object to check it out. "Damn I should have brought my phone with me."
"Brittany wait!" Quinn calls out trying to stop the blonde from getting too close. The three girls run to catch up to the taller blonde.
"Brittany don't get too close! You don't know what it is!" Santana says glancing curiously at the lights behind the girl. It seemed like the closer they got, the more active the ball of energy would become.
"Guys, we definitely should call someone." Rachel says. She's standing the furthest away from the ball.
"Yeah Rachel's right. We don't know what we're dealing with." Quinn says setting down the fire extinguisher.
"Well can i at least get a picture of it before we do?" Brittany says with a pout. Santana chuckles and Quinn sighs but reaches into her pocket to grab her phone to take a picture of Brittany and the ball of light behind her.
"Okay, but just one." Quinn says holding up her arm to take the picture. "3, 2, 1." As soon as the flash goes off, the ball shoots out a wave of energy, knocking all four girls down.
