A/N: Oh lucky duckies I finished chapter 8 just now, so looks like you get chapter 2 :D I was WOW'd be the amount of follows I got on this story for the first chapter, that was the biggest immediate response I've ever gotten on a fic lol.
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Dani found herself brave, and yet nervous at the same time, as she approached the entrance to Kurt, Rachel and Santana's apartment. She gave the door a light knock, and heard some yelling from inside the apartment.
"Open the door, it's Dani!" she heard Santana yell.
"Open it yourself, lazy!" came a boy's voice. Kurt.
"You're closer!"
"Rachel's closest!" Kurt hollered.
"If you both are this lazy you're never going to make it out here in the real world," Rachel shouted at them, sounding as though she was coming to the door, which swung open as she finished her sentence. She smiled at the blonde. "Hey, Dani!"
"Hi Rachel," Dani greeted with a smile.
"Welcome to our own little piece of New York," Rachel said dreamily as she opened the door wider and Dani stepped into the apartment. It was interesting, with only one door into a separate room, and a large curtain blocking off part of the apartment, which Dani assumed were the separate sleeping areas. The kitchen and living room were small and cozy.
"Nice place," Dani said simply, looking around the apartment. She was pretending to just look around, but she was looking for Santana.
"Thanks!" came Kurt's voice suddenly as he came out from behind one of the curtains.
"You must be Kurt!" Dani smiled and extended a hand to the boy, who shook it with a smile on his face.
"Yep, and you're the Dani I keep hearing about," Kurt exclaimed.
"Watch what you say, Lady Face!" Santana yelled. Dani raised an eyebrow, smirking slightly as Santana suddenly hollered from behind one of the curtains. Santana had already talked about her to her friends?
"That's me," Dani answered with a wink.
"What's your story?" Kurt asked, seeming to be intrigued by the blonde.
"There's no need to interrogate her, Kurt," Santana chastised as she came out from behind a curtain, dressed in some jeans and a red blouse. She was stunning, and Dani wasn't afraid to scan the Latina's body, since Santana was doing it to her as well.
"I was just trying to get to know her," Kurt said, breaking the girls' body staring.
Not fazed by the question Kurt had asked, Dani answered with, "Well, I left my folks during senior year, 'cause they caught me making out with a girl in the basement. And basically, I'm chasing a dream that probably will never happen."
"Sounds like you'll fit in with us perfectly!" Kurt exclaimed.
"Hey!" Rachel exclaimed, sounding offended. "My dream will come true!"
"No one said it won't, Berry," Santana grumbled, rolling her eyes. "And Dani, you sing amazing, and your dream will definitely happen."
Dani smiled at that.
"I hope you're not a vegetarian, Dani, because I made some gourmet fish for dinner!" Kurt announced as he went into the kitchen where the smell of food was very strong.
"And by 'gourmet', he means that he'll organize it all pretty on a plate," Santana informed the blonde, who smirked.
"Fish is great, thanks," Dani told Kurt.
Kurt served up his fish and some veggies and they sat around the small table and ate the food, which Dani had to admit was pretty good. "This is really good, Kurt."
"It doesn't taste like anything," Santana grumbled, poking at her fish.
"Be nice," Dani scolded, nudging Santana's leg with her foot under the table. Santana's cheeks blushed slightly.
Rachel was chuckling. "Santana? Nice?"
"Shut up, man hands!" Santana rolled her eyes.
"Not really helping your situation," Rachel pointed out, "but you know I was just kidding. You're actually a good friend!" She feigned a gasp.
"Considering how many times you slushied us in like freshman and sophomore year, I have to say that you've come a long way to be a good friend," Kurt added.
"Slushied?" Dani asked. What the hell is that?
"Yeah, at our high school there were this Big Quench slushies that were pretty much colored, sticky ice, and all the popular kids would throw them in all the loser's faces," Kurt explained. Dani's eyes widened.
"Wow, that sounds kind of harsh," she said, glancing at Santana.
"Well, if it makes you guys feel better, I was slushied too," Santana reminded them.
"Like once," Rachel argued.
"At least none of us had rock salt in the slushies like Blaine's," Kurt muttered, frowning.
"Who's Blaine? And who the hell would put rock salt in a slushy and throw it in someone's face?" Dani gaped at them.
"Blaine is Kurt's fiancé," Rachel said, winking at Kurt.
"As for who, it's this asshole Sebastian who had an obsessive crush on Blaine and hated Kurt and the slushy was supposed to hit Kurt. When we were trying to find out what was in it, I had to tape a recorder on my underboob to get him to admit what it was," Santana explained.
Dani found herself laughing at that. Although she also found an image of what Santana might look like without a shirt or a bra in her head, but she pushed that away quickly.
"What even is your underboob? And who actually sweats under their boobs?" Rachel asked.
"Uh, everyone?" Santana asked rhetorically before rolling her eyes. Dani smirked. She liked just watching the three of them interact. They knew each other so well, it was weird.
"I wish we'd all been more like Brittany. She never got slushied," Kurt muttered. Santana bit her lip and glanced at Dani, who immediately felt the tension at the table.
"Who's Brittany?"
"She's an angel! Really sweet girl, and bless her heart but she isn't necessarily the brightest. Everyone loves her because I mean, she's just so loveable!" Kurt exclaimed.
"Okay, Kurt, thanks for that," Santana snapped at him. Kurt pursed his lips.
"Also, she's Santana's ex-girlfriend," he added.
Dani nodded. Santana had mentioned her, just not by name, and had said that it was completely over, so she wasn't going to fuss over it. "And what, she's still in high school?"
"Well, she didn't graduate with all of us like she was supposed to, but she got early admissions to MIT a few months back," Rachel explained.
"That... doesn't really make any sense... but okay," Dani responded with a shrug.
"Yeah," Santana agreed, clearly waiting for someone to break the awkwardness and bring something else up.
"So, Dani, you want to be a singer?" Kurt asked, finally.
Dani smiled, and she noticed Santana's relief at the change of subject. "Yeah I do."
"Let's hear you sing!" Rachel exclaimed, getting perkier at the thought of singing. Santana gave Dani an encouraging smile. Dani wasn't usually shy, and by not usually she meant never, but in front of Santana and Santana's best friends, she felt pressured to be amazing.
"What should I sing?" Dani asked, trying not to seem nervous.
"Whatever you're good at singing," Kurt suggested. Dani big her bottom lip, thinking, before she grinned.
She stood up, no longer nervous or shy at all, and began to sing.
"I hung up the phone tonight,
Something happened for the first time,
Deep inside... it was a rush, what a rush!
'Cause the possibility, that you would ever feel the same way about me,
It's just too much, it's just too much!"
Santana was blushing, as Dani sang.
"Why do I keep running from the truth?
All I ever think about is you!
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized,
And I just got to know!"
Dani grabbed Santana's hand and pulled her up to dance around with her.
"Do you think, when you're all alone,
All that we could be, where this thing can go?
Am I crazy or falling in love?
Is it real or just another crush?
Do you catch your breath, when I look at you?
Are you holding back, like the way you do?
'Cause I try and try to walk away, but I know this crush and going away!"
Santana joined into the song with Dani, while Kurt and Rachel cheered and clapped and sang along.
Santana sang next.
"Going away!
Has it ever crossed your mind,
When we're hanging, spending time, girl,
Are we just friends? Is there more? Is there more?"
Then Dani.
"See it's a chance we've gotta take!
'Cause I believe that we can make this into something that will last,
Last forever, forever!"
Then they sang together.
"Do you think, when you're all alone,
All that we could be, where this thing can go?
Am I crazy or falling in love?
Is it real or just another crush?
Do you catch your breath, when I look at you?
Are you holding back, like the way you do?
'Cause I try and try to walk away, but I know this crush and going away!
Going away!"
Then Santana.
"Why do I keep running from the truth?
All I ever think about is you!
You got me hypnotized, so mesmerized!
And I just got to know!"
Then Dani.
"Do you think, when you're all alone,
All that we could be, where this thing can go?
Am I crazy or falling in love?
Is it real or just another crush?
Then Santana.
Do you catch your breath, when I look at you?
Are you holding back, like the way you do?
'Cause I try and try to walk away, but I know this crush and going away!"
Then together.
"Going away! Going away! Going away!"
Rachel and Kurt started cheering and clapping. "That was amazing! You're seriously awesome Dani!"
Dani was beaming at Santana, who was blushing and smiling at her, and they realized that they were holding hands. Dani, not releasing the other girl's hand, smiled at Rachel and Kurt.
"Thanks!" She bit her lip, glad that she had nothing to be nervous about.
The two girls released hands, much to Dani's disappointment, and sat down again while Kurt jumped up to get some cake out of the fridge. Dani moved her foot over to Santana's and nudged it under the stable. Santana smiled at her and they started playing footsie under the table while Rachel told them about how she was planning on auditioning for a bunch of shows.
Then Kurt finished cutting the cake and set it out in front of them all, and Santana immediately took the biggest piece. Dani, who didn't feel like getting her own piece, picked up her fork and took a piece off of Santana's and ate it. She earned a glare from the Latina, but she took another bite off anyway.
Out of the corner of Dani's eye, she saw Rachel and Kurt whispering something, and she knew it was about the two of them. Considering how Rachel had been playing "Yente the lesbian matchmaker", it wasn't hard to guess what exactly they were saying.
When Santana got herself a second piece of cake, Kurt scolded her. "Santana! You already had the biggest one!"
"Hey, she ate half of it!" Santana exclaimed, pointing at Dani with her fork. Dani just shrugged and took a piece of the new cake off with her own fork and stuck it in her mouth.
"This is really good cake," Dani commented to Kurt, ignoring Santana's glare, "did you make it?"
"Yes, I did!" Kurt exclaimed with a smile. "Thanks, I'm glad you like it!"
"It's really good," Dani repeated, taking another piece off of Santana's plate.
"I'm going to go all Lima Heights on your ass if you take another piece of my cake," Santana threatened. Dani couldn't help but laugh.
"What does that even mean?"
Rachel and Kurt broke out in a fit of laughter and Santana just rolled her eyes, although her blush was very visible.
"Seriously though, what's it mean?" Dani asked again, actually confused now.
"Lima Heights Adjacent is where Santana lived in Lima, Ohio. It was the ghetto part of town and it was supposed to be the scary place. And it only increased Santana's fear factor," Kurt explained with a roll of his eyes.
"Aw but Santana's so sweet and shy," Dani teased. Santana dropped her fork and her jaw dropped, while her entire face turn bright red. Dani nudged the girl with her foot under the table.
Rachel and Kurt started laughing hysterically. "Maybe around you, but around everyone else..."
Santana, who recovered from her shock, said, "Hey, I'm not near as bad as I was in high school."
"I know, I was just teasing," Rachel insisted with a smile. Santana shook her head and finished the last bite of her cake.
About ten minutes later, Rachel and Kurt had started to watch some musical that neither Dani or Santana really cared about. So they snuck off behind the curtain that separated Santana's area from everywhere else.
Dani lazily dropped herself onto Santana's bed, which was very, very comfy. "I love your friends."
"They're pretty awesome," Santana agreed, sitting cautiously on other side of the bed. Dani scanned the Latina from where she was laying on the bed. She looked tense.
"Are you okay?" Dani asked genuinely, propping herself up onto her elbow so that she more directly faced the other girl.
"I'm... okay."
"Seriously, what's wrong?" Dani asked very seriously, sitting up all of the way and crossing her legs.
Santana faced Dani directly and said, "I really like you."
Dani felt like beaming, but this was supposed to be serious, so she didn't. She just tilted her head a bit and waited for Santana to continue. She didn't, she just kept looking tense and eventually dropped her eyes from Dani's down to the blanket on the bed. Dani finally spoke, "You haven't liked anyone very much since Brittany."
Santana's eyes went back up to meet Dani's, and then she nodded shyly. "I'm just... I'm scared. She really hurt me and I'm afraid that if I let someone else into my life... that I'm going to get hurt again."
That's what Dani was expecting to hear, so she wasn't really surprised. "Santana, I know you're scared. You'd be crazy if you weren't. But life is about taking risks, and if you back away from everything because you're scared, you're never going to get anywhere. That goes for love, for opportunities, it goes for everything. You just have to push away the fear and go for what feels right."
Dani stared into Santana's eyes confidently. She wanted so badly to kiss that girl hard on the lips, but she wanted Santana to be the one to lean forward and kiss her. She needed to know that Santana thought that Dani was worth the risk. Although Dani followed her own advice, she was still protective of her own heart as well.
Finally, the Latina leaned forward and pressed her lips softly on Dani's. Dani kissed her back sweetly. It only lasted a few seconds. "Thank you, Dani."
"Anytime," Dani answered with a smirk.
Santana laughed. "I meant for the motivational speech," she teased.
"Oh, I can do that anytime, too," Dani said. She smiled sweetly at Santana and batted her eyelashes at her cutely. Santana started laughing and Dani couldn't help but laugh as well. Somehow, they both ended up laying down on the bed laughing so hard until they were crying and their abs hurt.
"I'm not shy, by the way," Santana said once they stopped laughing.
"Well... 'Um, I think I'm gonna go get the salt... salt sh-shakers...' kinda gave me that vibe," Dani teased.
"Hey, can you blame me?"
Dani smiled and turned her head so that she was looking at Santana. Her eyes were starting to drift closed, it was getting pretty late.
"Someone looks tired," Santana teased as she turned her head to look at Dani.
"Yeah, I should probably go home," Dani said, but she didn't move.
"You can just crash here," Santana insisted.
Dani smiled, but said, "Well, I wouldn't want to intrude."
"Intrude? I need a break from those two, please stay," Santana joked, but the "please stay" came out as a sort of beg. Dani gave her another smile.
"If you're sure you don't mind, because I'm too tired to move, and I'll be sleeping right here," Dani informed the Latina.
"That's fine," Santana assured her, laughing. "Do you want to change first though? Sleeping in jeans is so uncomfortable."
"Sure," Dani agreed, sitting up slowly and Santana stood and went to her dresser. She pulled out two pairs of shorts and two tank-tops, tossing one of each to the blonde, who caught them both despite her tiredness.
Not bothering much with privacy, Dani stripped off her jeans and put on the shorts, and then pulled off her blouse and her bra and pulled on the tank top. She did, however, turn away from Santana for the latter part.
She climbed into Santana's bed again under the covers and looked over at the Latina, who had just started to get changed. She couldn't help but stare at the girl's legs and ass as she pulled on the shorts.
When Santana climbed into the other side of the bed, Dani really wanted to press her body against the Latina's. She couldn't help herself as she scooted closer to the other girl. She stopped just short of physical contact, but Santana scooted backwards so that her back was pressed onto Dani's front.
Immediately satisfied, the blonde draped her arm over Santana's waist so that her hand was on the Latina's stomach, and felt her eyes begin to close.
Dani woke up the next morning alone in bed, but she wasn't afraid, since she was at Santana's apartment, not the other away around. She got out of the bed quickly, since she actually was a morning person, and started towards the curtain to the kitchen.
"So, she's in your bed right now?" Dani heard Kurt ask Santana seriously.
"Chill, lady Hummel, we literally just slept okay?"
"Oh my gosh! This is awesome!" Rachel squealed. Dani bit back at a grin that appeared on her face, but then forced her smile to disappear as she walked out into the kitchen.
"Good morning, Dani!" Rachel exclaimed. "Did you sleep well?" The short girl gave Santana a pointed look.
"I slept great, thanks," Dani said with a smile as she sat down at the table, where the others were seated.
"Do you want coffee?" Santana asked.
"Sure."
Santana got up and poured the girl a mug of coffee. "You seem like a morning person, Dani," Kurt commented.
"Yeah, I kind of am," Dani agreed.
"Ugh, I am not a morning person," Santana grumbled, taking a drink of Dani's coffee before handing it to the girl. Dani eyed Santana's already empty coffee cup on the table before chuckling and taking a drink of the bitter coffee.
"We know, Santana," Rachel insisted. Dani glanced over at the clock that was on the wall.
"I have to work in an hour," she announced. "I should probably go."
"It was great having you over, Dani," Rachel told her as the blonde stood up with a smile.
"Yeah it was nice to meet you," Kurt agreed.
Dani smiled. "You too. Thanks for letting me sleep over, by the way. I probably would've crashed my car if I tried to drive back home that tired."
"No problem," Santana assured.
Dani grabbed her stuff and Santana walked her out. When they reached the street next to where Dani's car was parked, Dani turned to Santana. "Thanks again."
"My pleasure," Santana said with a smile, "do you work tonight too?"
"No just this morning," Dani answered.
"So I guess I'll see you Monday?" Santana asked.
"Maybe. Maybe sooner." Dani gave the Latina a wide smile.
Santana smiled back, and then she looked down shyly. "Dani?" Dani raised an eyebrow, waiting for what Santana was going to say. "Do you wanna like... be girlfriends?"
Dani chuckled. "See I told you that you're shy."
"I'm not!" Santana whined. Dani laughed.
"Sure, Santana," Dani agreed. Santana grinned at her and Dani pressed a quick kiss to her lips. "See you later, girlfriend."
Song used was "Crush" by David Archuletta. If you haven't heard it I think you're odd and you should go listen to it ;) Hehe jk but yeah listen to it! Also, I'm sorry if you think this moved fast, but you have to remember that for this first part, it follows along with 5x02 with just added parts, so I had to make them "girlfriends" already ya know?
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