It was early the next morning when Brittany texted Santana to meet up with her. Brittany had initially invited Santana over to her apartment for the meet up, but Santana quickly declined because she felt that it was too personal and she wasn't comfortable. Instead, they were both now on the way to a nearby restaurant to discuss details of what was going to be going on.
Brittany was the first one at the restaurant and was sitting waiting by the host for Santana, she was wearing her favorite pair of light blue distressed skinny jeans and her favorite top which was a gray shirt that had wonder womans insignia on it, so they could be seated. It took about ten minutes for the Latina to finally arrive. But when she did show up, it was definitely worth the wait. Santana showed up in a pair of jean shorts and a black tank top with a red flannel shirt tied around her waist. Her legs seemed to go on forever despite how short she actually was. And it wasn't until that moment that Brittany realized how hot she thought defined arm muscles on a woman could be.
The blonde quickly stood up and smiled at Santana, saying a soft hello before gesturing to the host that they were ready to be seated. The pair followed the man in his black collared shirt to their table and sat down to look over the menus after ordering their drinks.
"So, when do we have to leave for this trip?" Santana questioned. "Like what, a week?"
Brittany scratched her head before quickly glancing away causing Santana to stare at her suspiciously and raise an eyebrow.
"What?" Santana asked slowly, staring at the blonde but still not making eye contact with her.
Brittany smiled a tight grimace before mumbling, "About a day and a half."
Santana looked at the blonde and narrowed her eyes and questioned, "Did you basically say a day?" just to watch the blonde nod her head slowly. Santana rested her face in her palms and sighed. She shook her head before looking at the blonde again. "I wish you would have told me that yesterday."
"Do you not want to do it anymore?" Brittany asked hesitantly. "It's okay if you don't."
Santana sighed before shaking her head, "I already told you I would do it. I just wish you would have given me a heads up, I would have started packing my things so that I wouldn't have to rush tonight and probably forget a lot of stuff."
"If you forget something, I'll buy you a new one." Brittany offered up quickly, causing Santana to have a slight smile.
She shook her hand in the air. "Don't worry about it, but thank you anyways. But, we have to do a crash course than and fast."
"On what?" Brittany asked, looking around the restaurant for their waiter who was supposed to be bringing their drinks.
"On you." Santana shrugged. "If I'm supposed to be playing the role of your long term girlfriend, I need to know some basic things about you and some non basic things that a long term girlfriend should know. Starting with, how long have we been dating for?"
"Oh okay." Brittany responded. "They don't really know how long we've been together for. Um, we can say like six or seven months if that's okay with you?"
"It's whatever you want Brittany, don't worry about what I want. Just tell me what you want it to be and I'll make it that for you." Santana responded, placing her hands on the table folded together.
"The Notebook?" Brittany said with a smile. "Do you always speak in movie quotes?"
Santana nodded her head. "Yes to the notebook, not always to the quotes and making things what you want is mostly what my job is here. Okay. So tell me about yourself, the basics and we'll work towards the more intricate stuff after and whatever else you think I need to know."
Just as Santana finished talking, the waiter finally brought their two drinks over.
"A strawberry lemonade with light ice for you." He said while handing the pink drink over to Santana and an orange-ish drink to Brittany, "And a cup of pineapple orange juice for you."
The girls both politely said thank you before placing their orders and turning their attention back to each other. Santana took a sip of her lemonade and smiled contently to herself.
Brittany smiled when she noticed the action. "Is that your favorite drink?"
"Yeah. I love lemonade and my favorite fruit is strawberries so it's complete perfection. It reminds me of when I was a little kid." Santana responded without realizing before quickly stopping. "But, we're not talking about me. We're talking about you."
"Shouldn't I know things about you too?" Brittany questioned, confused about Santana's sudden change in conversation. She watched as Santana vigorously shook her head no.
"Your family doesn't know me, therefore they don't need any accurate information about me." Santana shrugged. "So, tell me the basics about you. Where you grew up, high school, birthday, siblings and all of that."
Brittany sighed and nodded her head.
"Okay. Well, my full name is Brittany Susan Pierce and my middle name is actually my mom's first name. I have an older brother named Jason and a younger sister named Emily. Jason is 26 and Emily is like 22. I just turned 24 last month. I grew up in Chicago and moved out here as soon as I graduated from high school, literally like two weeks later. I didn't really have a plan for what I was doing, but it worked out." Brittany shrugged her shoulders.
"Can you tell me more about your siblings? And why you moved out here so fast without a plan? That was a little, not so smart, don't you think?" Santana questioned, not noticing the cringing look on Brittany's face as she said the last sentence due to her being distracted by the food being placed on the table.
The blonde quickly wiped the look of her face before nodding her head.
"Well, Jason is a CEO of some big company. I don't remember the name of it, but I'm pretty sure that it deals with electronics or something. Emily is still in college and she lives with my parents still, she's studying law. And I know it probably wasn't the best idea, but it was just something that had to be done." Brittany tried to generically answer.
Santana just stared at the blonde for a moment with a vacant look, almost as if she knew that feeling of what Brittany had just described.
"Look, Brittany, I get that it's probably something that you don't want to talk about dealing with your family, but you do get that you've hired me to basically live with them for a month so whatever it is that you're hiding is going to come out eventually anyways so you might as well just tell me instead of trying to hide it."
Brittany nodded her head slightly.
"You're right," she said quietly. "I just, I don't want to scare you away from coming because of them."
"I already agreed to help you, I'm not going to back out last minute and leave you hanging Brittany. That's not how this Lopez roles." Santana responded, wiping her mouth from the little bit of sauce that dripped off of her burger.
"Alright." Brittany responded before taking a deep breath. "My family is just, really mean to me."
"Just to you?" Santana asked quickly, just to watch Brittany nod her head sadly.
"Yeah." She said softly. "They said that they don't mean to be mean to me but it just happens. I know that I'm their least favorite child and I know it's not going to change. It started in high school when I wasn't really the smartest in my classes. My brother was making high honors and stuff and I was kind of barely passing my classes while my younger sister had skipped a grade and was doing really well in the grade behind me and that's kind of the moment that they really started to just not be that nice I guess. And then my brother was already married, successful and with kids at my age and my younger sister is already engaged and I'm kind of the disappointment in the family right now." Brittany finished off while letting her voice get quieter and quieter at the end.
Santana frowned at the blonde and actually felt for her, she knew what it was like to be the black sheep of the family and it was never a good feeling.
"I'm sorry that you've been in this situation Brittany."
"It's not your fault." The blonde shrugged. "It's just the way that things have turned out I guess."
"Is any of their issue with you dealing with your sexuality?" Santana questioned softly, wanting to prepare for the situation she was potentially putting herself into.
Brittany quickly shook her head.
"No, not at all." She assured the latina, "I wouldn't put you in a situation like that. My sister is actually bisexual too. She's engaged to a guy though."
Santana nodded her head and released a grateful sigh.
"Well, I will try my best to make you seem like you're the best child that they have. Okay?" Santana questioned, causing Brittany to smile at her softly.
"Thank you." Brittany said sincerely to the latina.
For the rest of their lunch, the girls talked about Brittany's life and a few other things like different celebrities, music, movies, tv shows and more. They realized that they actually had a good basis of interests that they shared so it shouldn't be difficult for them to get along in the coming month. Santana learned more about Brittany like her favorite color, her favorite animal-which was her pet cat Lord Tubbington, she also learned that Brittany was an ad executive and she made up different slogans for commercials and products which Santana thought was pretty cool.
Santana didn't offer up much about herself. She did offer up that she worked in a recording studio, but not about what she actually did in the studio. She didn't speak about her family life, even though Brittany really wanted to know about it. She only told Brittany simple things that she would need to know in order to seem convincing, nothing more. That was the way that Santana liked things, the less that people knew about her the better. The less she worried about what they would think of her.
When they left, Brittany went home to make sure that her things were packed and ready to go for their scheduled trip. She made sure that one of her friends from work, Tina Cohenchang, would be coming over to take care of her obese feline and water the few plants in her house while she was gone. Santana went home to begin packing for the month long trip, she threw thing after things into her suitcase knowing that she was grabbing stuff that she didn't need and was probably forgetting things that she did need.
They stood in text messages with each other for the whole night and the next day continuing to go over the smaller details about Brittany's life and family.
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Almost Time For Flight..
The girls were in the backseat of Puck's new truck on their way to the airport. Quinn was in the front seat and the music was playing loudly, something that both girls were already used to from Quinn and Noah. The ride was silent when it came to anybody talking to each other.
When they arrived at the airport, Quinn and Puck helped get the bags out and placed them on the sidewalk for the two girls. They gave them each a hug, Puckerman giving Santana a kiss on the forehead.
"I'll see you in a few weeks San. Let me know if anything happens and I'll be out there in no time." Noah said after letting go of his younger cousin. "Take care of her Brittany."
"I will Noah." Brittany assured him. "I won't let anything happen to her."
"I'm trusting you!" Noah called out pointing a finger as he began walking around his truck to get in and the girls began walking towards the inside of the airport.
Once inside, Brittany turned to look at the smaller woman walking beside her. "He's really protective of you."
"Yeah." Santana nodded her head, a relaxed smile on her face. "He is."
Brittany continued to stare at the latina to see if she was going to add on anymore, but when she realized that she wasn't, she accepted the answer for what it was instead of trying to pry. She knew that it wasn't going to get her anywhere.
"So," Brittany began, "have you ever been on a plane before?"
Santana nodded her head. "Yeah. But not since I was like sixteen." She replied honestly.
"Seriously?" Brittany looked on in shock, to which Santana nodded. "Where'd you go?"
"Seattle." Santana responded before sucking her lips into her mouth, not looking like she was going to elaborate.
"Where'd you move from?" Brittany questioned, dying to learn a little more about this girl that she would be spending the next month of her life with.
"New York." Santana responded dryly again, obviously keeping her answers short, causing Brittany to frown slightly. This girl was guarded, really guarded. She wouldn't even elaborate on a little detail about moving across the country. Did her parents get transferred for work? Was there a family reason why they moved all the way across the country? Did they just do it to do it? Did she get kicked out of New York for committing a mass crime or something? There were a million different reasons, but which one was the right one.
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It wasn't until they got off of the plane in Maine and were walking towards the line of taxis that Santana abruptly stopped and looked at the blonde.
"Brittany, I'm sorry to bring this up now. I should have done it when we were having lunch." Santana began, quickly capturing all of the blonde's attention. "There's going to be a difference between how we act in front of your family, compared to how we're going to act when we're alone and I don't want you to get the two confused."
Brittany stared at her with big curious blue eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, like for example I'm going to be acting sweet and open and flirty and stuff with you when in the presence of somebody else, but when we're alone, it's not going to be like that. Kissing, and flirting and playful touching and whatever else isn't going to happen behind closed doors, get it?" Santana finished, watching as the blonde nodded her head slowly, still looking slightly confused. Santana sighed but ignored it and began walking towards the line of taxis again. Right as they were about to open the door to climb in, Santana turned to the blonde again. "Oh, one more thing Brittany."
"Yes?" Brittany responded, quickly looking up and trying to make eye contact with the latina again, but ultimately failing.
"Don't fall in love with me." Santana said straight forward. "This isn't what this trip is for. It's all an act, none of it is going to be real. So don't let it happen."
Soon after finishing her sentence, she climbed in the taxi door and began to buckle herself in.
Brittany stared at the raven haired girl with a dumbfounded expression and raised an eyebrow, the only thought running through her head was how could this girl be so full of herself to think that Brittany was actually going to fall in love with her. If this was going to be her personality all month, Brittany was really starting to regret her decision of hiring her. She sighed before making her way to the other door and climbing in, bracing herself for what was going to be coming her way.
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PS: To those asking about more Quick scenes, they're not going to be very prominent in the story for a few more chapters until they come up after the first two weeks. They're a secondary couple in this story, sorry for any confusion.