"Okay one Caesar Salad and one Mushroom Frittata. Enjoy your meal ladies." The waiter put the food down on the table and smiled at Santana and Quinn before walking away from the table.
"This looks so good, I am starving!"
"Me too, I haven't eaten all day." Santana said as she picked up her knife and fork.
"I'm glad we could do this, it's been a while since we hung out just the two of us." Santana nodded at Quinn's comment as she swallowed a bite of her salad.
"Yeah I know I'm sorry, life's been pretty crazy lately. For both of us I mean." As Santana said it she gestured to both of their left hands. Santana and Dani had been married for almost 2 and a half years and at the wedding, Dani had introduced Quinn to her best friend from high school, Matthew Bailey. The two had hit it off right away and after dating for 18 months, had gotten engaged before getting married a few months later. Santana and Dani were both so happy for them, neither of them had ever seen their friend so happy.
The two couples often hung out together and they frequently hung out with Kurt, Blaine and too but it was rare anymore that they got to spend any time just the two of them. Besides that they both had their own things going on in their lives. Santana and Dani were expecting their first child and Quinn was spending as much time as she could with Beth after coming to an agreement with Shelby.
"So not long to go now. How are you feeling?" Dani only had a week left until her due date. Santana wiped her mouth with her napkin before letting out a nervous sigh.
"I'm excited, I'm…I'm scared shitless Q." The two women laughed as the truth left Santana's mouth.
"Everything will be great. Besides, Matthew and I are counting on learning a few things from you and Dani." Quinn sipped her water nonchalantly as Santana took in her words, her eyes widening in shock.
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Quinn had a huge smile on her face as she nodded her head.
"I'm 3 months pregnant." Santana couldn't hide her excitement for her best friend as she got up out of her seat and leaned down to hug her.
"Congratulations Quinn, that's amazing! I'm really happy for you both."
"Thank you." Santana held up her glass.
"To babies." Quinn laughed as she clinked her glass against her friends.
"To babies." As they put their glasses down, Quinn's cell phone began to ring. She pulled it out of her purse and was surprised when she saw Dani's name flashing up on the screen. She answered the call. "Dani?" Santana looked surprised and wondered why her wife was calling Quinn and not her. She picked up her purse and started looking for her phone.
"Fuck." She muttered under her breath when she couldn't find it.
"Woah woah slow down. Yeah she's right here." Quinn quickly passed the phone over to Santana who grabbed it.
"Baby?" Santana was worried when she heard heavy breathing on the other side of the phone.
"Santana I have been calling you for that last 15 minutes, why didn't you answer your phone?"
"I'm sorry it must have fallen out of my bag when I was in the cab. What's wrong are you okay?" Dani was spending the day with her sister.
"Baby I'm in labour." Santana felt her heart start to race at her wife's words. Dani had suffered from Braxton Hicks Contractions a week earlier but other than that she'd been fine.
"Wait what?"
"I started having contractions and I thought it was just you know Braxton Hicks again but then my water broke. Amy's driving me to the hospital, I need you here Santana."
"I'm on my way right now!" Santana hung up the phone and practically threw it at Quinn.
"What's going on?
"Dani's in labour, we have to go right now." Santana quickly pulled $40 out of her purse and put it down on the table before the two women grabbed their coats and hurried outside.
19 hours, a lot of screaming and bruised fingers later, it was finally over. Santana sat at Dani's bedside as she slept, her eyes never leaving her wife. In this moment as she looked at her, Santana had never seen Dani look so beautiful. Quietly the door to the room opened and a nurse came in, wheeling in a tiny little cot. Santana's eyes instantly filled with tears again as the nurse just gave her a smile and placed the baby next to the bed.
"How's your wife doing Mrs Lopez?" The nurse whose name Santana had recently learned was Lorraine whispered to her. Santana returned the smile as her gaze drifted back to Dani.
"She's good, she's just exhausted naturally."
"Of course. Well I'll leave the three of you alone." Santana's heart started to thud so loudly that she was sure it was going to wake up Dani. The three of them. That was it, they would never be a twosome ever again. From now on they would forever be a trio and even though she'd obviously known for months this was happening and was preparing herself for it, that fact truly hadn't hit her until right this second.
Santana took her gaze from her wife to her new-born child to see the baby was awake. She slowly reached down into the cot and cradled the child into her arms.
"Hi baby." She whispered in awe as her beautiful baby girl looked up at her. "You're probably wondering who I am aren't you. I know we met briefly before when you first got here." What are you even saying Santana, get a grip. "But anyway you're definitely going to be seeing a lot of me in your life because you're my girl and I'm your mami." Santana took her daughter's tiny hand in her fingers. "And you are an incredibly lucky little girl because you have the most amazing mommy in the entire world. And I know you are gonna be just like her because there is no way you can come from someone like her and not be the most beautiful, wonderful, most amazing little girl in the entire world." Santana smiled in pride when she felt the tiny hand grip onto her finger. "It's true. You're mommy is the best person I know. She's kind, she's funny, she's SO unbelievably caring and generous and I hope to god you get her self-confidence and her strength. Trust me baby girl, you got a pretty great deal in life already just by having her as your mom."
"She's got a pretty great mami too." Santana turned her head at the sound of her wife's voice. She smiled when she saw she was awake.
"How long have you been awake?"
"Long enough to see you getting all mushy."
"Can you blame me? I mean just look at her. She's perfect."
"She is, isn't she?" Santana carefully handed her over to Dani. She gently stroked the few wisps of light brown hair on top of her head. Dani moved over on the bed so Santana could sit down with them.
"She still needs a name you know." Santana carefully climbed on to the bed so not to make Dani uncomfortable.
"I thought we already decided?" Santana smiled and nodded her head.
"I just wanted to make sure you hadn't changed your mind." Dani shook her head.
"No, I think it suits her just right."
"Thank you so much." Dani just smiled at her
"For what baby?" Santana pecked her on the lips.
"I wouldn't know where to begin. I love you, I love you both so much." Dani kissed Santana again with as much passion as was acceptable in front of a new-born baby.
"We love you too honey."
Just then there was a quiet knock on the door. Santana called for whoever it was to come in and the door was opened to reveal Quinn, Matthew, Rachel, Kurt and Dani's sister Amy. Kurt was carrying a bouquet of flowers and the biggest stuffed bear that Santana had ever seen and Rachel was carrying at least 6 "It's a girl" balloons.
"Hey guys." Rachel had tears in her eyes already.
"Wow Berry you haven't even seen her yet and you're already blubbering more than me and Dani put together." Rachel gave her a watery smile as all 4 of them walked closer to the bed to get a look at the baby. The room was suddenly filled with girlish squeals of aww and oh my god.
"She is so beautiful. I love her little tuft of hair it's so precious." Rachel put her hand on her chest as she was overwhelmed with emotion.
"How bad was it?" Amy asked, scrunching up her face a little bit as if she was imagining the pain. "As bad as they say?"
"Much worse." Dani said with a small laugh, she turned her head and looked at her wife and then at their daughter. "But worth every second." Santana leaned in and kissed her.
"So does this little angel have a name?" Quinn asked unable to take her eyes off the baby. Santana looked at Dani who nodded giving her permission to tell their friends.
"Everyone, please say hello to Sienna Danielle Lopez."
