A/N: Good afternoon beautifuls! Thank you all so much for the response to this story! It means so much to me! Also, it was brought to my attention that in the last chapter, I made some mistakes with the POV. I said "they" when I meant "we"... I will try to check more carefully for mistakes like this. The fact is that I'm so used to writing in 3rd person haha... so forgive me for the first few chapters. Luckily, it's getting easier to write like this :)
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The next morning, Brittany and I were up before anyone else, because Brittany wanted to go out on the beach when less people were around, just the two of us. I was only complying because well, I loved her and I was willing to wake up super early to go hang out with her.
But honestly, I had a bad feeling that I was starting to go backwards. Like maybe I was falling out of love with Brittany all of the sudden. And that was absolutely horrible timing, too, because we were going to be staying in the same house for the next three months.
"C'mon, Santana," Brittany rushed me as I slid on my swimsuit cover up.
"I'm coming, Britt," I insisted, but she grabbed my hand and out onto the street we went. We ran across the street and Brittany practically pulled me down the road to the beach. There were a few early birds scattered across the sandy beach, and less people in the water. It was peaceful.
"How come we can't see the sunrise?" Brittany asked, giving me a questioning glance as we walked out onto the sand.
"Because, Britt, the sun rises on the east coast. You can only see it set over the water here," I explained, giving her a sweet smile. I really did love Brittany. She was my best friend, and she could always make me smile. She knew me sometimes better than I knew myself. In a sense, she was my other half.
But lately, something seemed to be missing between us. The newness. Everything with Brittany felt routine, even sex. I was not the kind of person to follow strict routines. I wanted variety all of the time. I wanted to be able to be completely spontaneous.
"Do you wanna go in the water, babe?" Brittany asked me, tilting her head a bit and knocking me out of my daze.
"Can we just sit in the sand? It's still kind of cool out," I pointed out, and she nods, pulling me down into the warm sand. We laid there for a little while together, unspeaking and unmoving. I was comfortable with Brittany, I always knew how she was going to react to something or what she would say given a certain question. It was important to be comfortable around the one you love, but weren't surprises a good thing too?
Honestly, I could narrow down my feelings to one point pretty easily. I'd known Brittany since the beginning of high school, and we knew each other as best friends more so than as lovers. But I wasn't going to be the one to rush to conclusions. Who knew, maybe the spark in between us would come back, and this was just a down period of my relationship.
Maybe.
"Santana?" Brittany asked suddenly, and I rolled onto my side to look at her face. "We should come live here after college."
My throat tightened. "Yeah, maybe, B. It is nice here."
Brittany smiled.
"Do you want to get in the water now?" I asked her, grinning and knowing that she would say yes. She gave me a knowing smile, and we both jumped up.
Of course, sand wasn't all that smoothly placed, and I happened to not so gracefully stumble to the side and knock into someone. "Oh, sorry!" I exclaimed, standing up straight and looking at the person.
It was none other than funnel cake girl, clothed in sweats and a t-shirt. It wasn't very beach-like attire. "Don't worry about it!" she said, looking up at me. "Oh hey, you came and bought funnel cake yesterday."
"Yep, and you sold me funnel cake yesterday," I stated, giving her a half smile.
"Santana right? I'm Dani," the girl introduced, extending her hand. I took it with my own, and was pleasantly surprised at how soft it was. I shook it quickly and then dropped my hand.
"Oh, Britt, she works at the funnel cake booth thing. Dani, this is my girlfriend, Brittany," I explained. Brittany extended her hand to Dani, whose smile faltered only for a second.
"Nice to meet you," Dani said, her voice sounding just the slightest bit deflated. "Um, I'm actually meeting someone, so I should probably go. See you around, I guess."
I watched her hurry off for a moment, but Brittany didn't hesitate to grab my hand and pull me toward the water. "Come on, Santana, I want to see if we can find any dolphins!"
I smiled at that, because I knew how much Brittany loved dolphins, and as we rushed toward the water, any thought of Dani escaped from my mind. Because I was Brittany's, and Brittany was mine, and we loved each other, and eventually, we could fix this weird patch we were having. Because we were Brittana, and we got through everything thrown our way.
After a while of playing around in the water, we trekked back up onto the beach and saw our friends walking down from the pier. They probably figured that we'd be down there. We met them halfway.
"Santana, you actually woke up early for once," Quinn commented teasingly.
"Despite what you all think, I can do things that I don't like doing," I informed them, feigning a gasp.
"Well have you eaten yet? Because we all wanted to make sure that you guys hadn't been lesbian-napped, and now that we know you're fine, I'm starting to feel the need for some breakfast," Kurt said.
"Nope, we haven't. Where should we eat?"
"There's a Bubba Gump restaurant up there that's serving breakfast," Rachel said, pointing behind her.
"So what are we waiting for?" I demand, pushing past them and hurrying up the stairs onto the pier, because now I was feeling really hungry.
We went into the restaurant and ate our fill of breakfast, and then we headed back down to the beach. "Hey Rach," Mercedes said, "do you think we can look around LA and Hollywood tomorrow? It seems like a shame to come and stay so close to them both and not see it."
"Uh, sure. I mean, we'll have to take the bus around, and I really wouldn't know where we were going, but I'm sure we could do it," Rachel agreed.
"I could show you all around," came a familiar voice. I turned my head and saw Dani standing a few feet away from us wearing the same sweats and t-shirt she was in before. How was she not burning up already?
"And you are?" Quinn asked slowly.
"Uh, that's Dani. She works at the funnel cake booth," I answered quickly. Dani flashed me a smile. "Dani, this is Rachel, Mercedes, Kurt and Quinn."
"Nice to meet you," Rachel said, nodding at Dani. "We're staying in my family's vacation home up the road for the summer."
"Oh, so you're going to be here for a while," Dani commented with a smile, and her eyes lingered on me for a moment. "Well anyway, I've lived here my whole life and I wouldn't mind showing you all around the city. I've got a car that'll fit everyone."
"How do we know that you're not trying to kidnap us?" Kurt asked playfully.
"Because there's only one of me, and there's six of you," Dani answered, laughing. "I've got the whole day off tomorrow if you want to hit the city then?"
We all agreed that tomorrow was a good day for that. "Oh, Dani," Rachel called, as the blonde was heading back up to the pier. "You should hang out with us down here this summer. If we don't get outside company every once and a while, half of us will end up dead."
Dani grinned and let out a laugh. "I can come down here for a while again on Friday," she said. It was Tuesday.
"Great!" Rachel exclaimed, and we all gave Dani a wave.
"She seems nice," Mercedes commented. We all nodded or shrugged in agreement, and I caught Rachel giving me a weird look. I completely ignored it, though, because whatever she was thinking was nothing that I needed or wanted to bother with.
We were all quiet for a second, and then Quinn announced, "Time for tanning! Might as well get the majority of it done at the beginning of summer."
"White girls," Mercedes muttered, rolling her eyes.
We all laid out on the sand to tan under the hot sun, and I of course was next to Brittany. Our hands were intertwined together and our bodies were practically touching. In a more private setting, I'd probably roll over on top of her and start kissing her, but I didn't think it'd be quite appropriate here.
Also, something seemed to be nagging at me in the back of my mind. Something like how Dani might be up on the pier looking down at me and Brittany holding hands.
But why would Dani care, and why would I care if she did care?
She didn't, and neither did I, I decided.
"Get up, get up!" came a voice that I did not expect to hear the next morning. I groaned and rolled into Brittany on the bed. "Come on you lazy asses!"
It was Dani. What was she doing in the house, and what was she doing in my room? I raised my head to see an open door, and no Dani. She must just be running through the house to wake us all up.
"Come on guys!" Rachel called from the kitchen.
"I hate you!" I yelled at the hobbit, glancing at the time on my phone. Six in the morning. It was way too early for this shit. "I thought the best part of summer was supposed to be sleeping in?"
"Guess not," Brittany muttered next to me. She rolled over and pressed her lips to mine. I moaned slightly and kissed her back. She hoisted herself on top of me, straddling my hips and moving her lips harder against mine. Even if I felt like our relationship had been a bit lacking in the feeling department lately, there definitely wasn't anything lacking in the sexual department.
"Are you guys—" Dani's voice started suddenly. "Oh! Sorry!"
Brittany sat up and moved off of me, giggling, as I sat up and looked over at a red faced Dani. Something in my stomach seemed to twist up. However, all I managed to say was, "We're getting up."
"What happened?" Rachel asked, coming up to the door. She looked at the way we were sitting on the bed and smirked. "You know, Santana, I always pictured you as the top."
"Since when do you picture me having sex at all?" I demanded, scowling at the brunette. "And by the way, I usually am the top!"
"Uh huh! No sex in the house while everyone else is here," she reminded us, turning and walking back toward the kitchen, followed by a still red faced Dani.
"Yeah, I remember," I groaned. Then I looked at Brittany and said, "Well, we might as well get up now." I slid off the bed and pulled my girlfriend with me. We grabbed some new clothes to wear and hurried to grab one of the bathrooms.
The trip into the city was a lot of fun. We were talking animatedly and loudly about varied topics. Dani did a lot more listening than she did talking, I noticed, and so she found out a lot about us and we remained in the dark when it came to things about her.
We made our first stop in Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive. We all came from relatively wealthy families, and so we knew we could all at least buy something from the expensive stores.
After going through at least ten different stores, we came to one selling outfits that appealed to apparently everyone but me. I decided that I'd hang back outside while everyone else went in.
After a few minutes of standing out in the heat alone, Dani came out of the store and joined me. "Not finding anything interesting?" I asked her.
She shrugged, not answering my question one way or another. "So, where are you going after the summer's over?" she asked me curiously.
"NYU," I answered proudly. "Most of us are going to New York, except for Mercedes."
"Where's Brittany going?" Dani wondered, her voice oddly quieter than normal.
"Julliard," I told her, giving her a half smile, "she's a dancer."
"She looks like it," Dani said, nodding.
"Are you going to college next year?" I asked her, realizing that I didn't even know if she'd just graduated or not.
She frowned. "No. I didn't get in to the couple of schools I applied to. I'm going to try again for the spring semester."
"Why didn't you just apply for more?" I wondered, knitting my brow.
"Oh, we didn't have enough money at the time," she answered, shrugging, "and I only work during the summers. But since then, my parents have gotten new jobs that they can't get fired from unless they screw up their contracts, so we're set now."
"So you're just going to stay here?" I asked, tilting my head.
She nodded. "It's not like it's horrible. I mean, LA is a nice place to live near."
"Working and living on the beach is pretty cool," I agreed, smirking as I added, "I mean, all the girls around you are always wearing bikinis."
Dani chuckled and shook her head. "Yeah well, too bad none of them are into me."
I gave her an apologetic look, although honestly, it was surprising to hear that this girl didn't have a girlfriend. Just the way she carried herself gave her a type of attractiveness that was hard to find in other people.
"How long have you been with Brittany?" Dani asked, giving me a smile that I suspected was fake.
"About nine months officially," Brittany exclaimed, coming out of the store with a smile on her face and a new shopping back on her arm. She took my hand and pressed a quick kiss to my lips. I smiled, although something in my stomach twisted painfully again.
Dani gave us both a quick smile, and then turned to everyone else. "Are we ready to go to Hollywood?"
We spent the rest of the day strolling along the walk of fame and taking pictures next to stars. We saw the Chinese Theater and all of the handprints of famous people and bands. In the back of my mind, I decided that one day, I was going to have a star and a handprint.
It was getting late when we headed back to Santa Monica. The car was quieter, although there was still conversation going on between some of us. Dani was driving in silence, though, and there was something like a weird aura around her since earlier.
I decided, however, that it wasn't my problem or my place to figure it out, and I just leaned my head against the window, instead of Brittany's shoulder on the other side of me, and tried to tune into the conversation at hand.
So I can't promise that the Brittana scene in here will be the last one, but I can promise that future Dantana scenes will be much better than any of the Brittana scenes in here. Bc Dantana endgame! :D
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OMG GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY OMG
AFTER FAKING IT, DURING THE LIVESTREAM WITH RITA AND KATIE, RITA READ OUT ONE OF MY TWEETS OMG IT WAS LIKE THE BEST THING EVER AND KATIE FAVED ONE OF MY TWEETS TO HER TOO!
Okay sorry I'm just still super happy about it haha. :) Have a great day my gorgeous readers!