Yesterday was really fucking weird. Brittany came into my life and it was all a blur from there. She weaseled her way into my head and as much as I don't want to admit it I like the girl. I mean as like a friend of course, because that's how any girl likes a girl. She made me smile more yesterday than I'd smiled in all my days at McKinley. She even made me laugh in sixth hour a few times, which is a rare occurrence unless I'm laughing at other peoples pain. After the bell rang sixth hour I actually felt sad to be leaving school. I'm not sure what's gotten into me since I met her but I don't know if I like it.
When we said goodbye after school it seemed like she wanted to ask me something but I hurried my way out of the classroom and quickly got my stuff from my locker before practically running out the building. I thought about her a lot last night and it was really starting to get on my nerves. She was one of the first things I thought about this morning when I woke up. I just don't get it. I mean I've never thought about anyone this much in my life and we've barely known each other twenty four hours.
I almost forgot that I had Cheerios practice this morning when I set my alarm last night. Damn I was happy to have the extra hours of sleep for the past week. I got up early enough to get my Cheerios uniform on and put my hair in a tight pony with curls. I did my make up lightly since I'd have to redo it after practice anyways. When I opened my car door I saw a familiar head of blonde hair three houses down and froze in place. Did she really live three doors down from me? Why was this girl everywhere? I don't know what made me do it but I yelled out to get her attention before she got into her bright yellow prius.
"Hey! Brittany!" I yelled and she looked around frantically searching for my voice. She turned towards me and caught sight of me standing in front of my car. She smiled so big it made my heart skip a beat. I couldn't help but smile when she ran across the yards between us and approached me.
"Hey San! You live here?" She asked looking over to my house. I nodded and her eyes brightened at the realization of how close we lived to each other.
"Sure do. Did you wanna ride to school together?" I said without thinking. Where were all these nice gestures coming from, I wondered to myself. She nodded her head up and down smiling bigger than ever.
"Well, get in. We can't be late for practice." I said with an irritated tone. I got in the drivers side and Brittany got in the passengers side.
"This is a really nice car. What kind is it?" She asked running her hands across the leather seat at her sides.
"It's a BMW. I got it for my birthday." I said before turning the car on and speeding out of my driveway towards school.
"Wow, that's awesome..." She said looking around the car and bouncing in her seat.
"Why do you have so much energy it's not even six am..." I said.
"I don't know... I always have this much energy. My Mom says I'm like the energizer bunny but that doesn't make sense because I don't even like carrots." She said as if it was the most obvious true statement ever. I smiled at her cute innocent nature. There she goes making me smile, again. We pulled into school with fifteen minutes to spare before practice.
"I can't wait for practice... it's going to be so much fun." She said unbuckling her seatbelt. I pulled out a joint from my center counsel and sparked it up. She looked at me with wide eyes and turned away when I looked over to her.
"You're smoking weed?!" She asked with fear in her voice.
"Yeah, do you want a hit?" I asked as I took a long drag. She shook her head no and I shrugged. I know that I'm not supposed to smoke and doing it before practice was probably not such a good idea in most peoples eyes but, I needed something to help me handle Sue's bitchass.
"Suit yourself." I said after blowing the smoke from my lungs. She looked around the parking lot nervously and fiddled with the strings from her backpack.
"I've never done it before." She admitted quietly.
"Well, it's not that big of a deal. It's really great actually. It just makes you relaxed and it helps enhance the world around you." I explained before taking another hit.
"Well, maybe I could try it." She said timidly. I handed her the joint and she took a big drag before coughing furiously. Her face turned red and her eyes watered.
"It's kinda harsh if you don't smoke often. You'll get used to it if you do it again." I told her smiling and she shrugged. I took another hit and she watched me as I blew smoke rings. She was fascinated by them and it reminded me of a little kid staring at a lava lamp or something.
"Want to hit it again?" I asked offering her the joint. She nodded and took it from my hand this time taking a smaller hit. She held the hit in for a few seconds before coughing a little less hard than before. I smiled at her and took the joint back.
"Alright we should probably go in." I said before hitting it one last time and putting it out in my ashtray. I sprayed us both with perfume and we walked towards the building together with our bags.
"That tasted good, but I'm thirsty now." She said smiling at me.
"Yeah that happens. Drink some water when we get inside. We can get you a cheerios water bottle and fill it for practice." I explained as we made our way towards the locker room down the hall. It was always weird to be here this early since nothing was going on but it was kinda nice to see the hallways empty.
"You can have the locker next to mine, it's empty." I said smiling to her as I opened my locker and put my stuff inside. She smiled back and I could see that her eyes were glazed over and I laughed silently to myself knowing she was probably high.
"I feel kinda funny. Like I'm floating." She whispered quietly so that I could barely hear her.
"It's normal. You'll have so much fun at practice." I told her feeling my own buzz set in and my brain cloud over. My body was relaxed and I felt super light.
"Okay, let's go to the gym." I added after shutting my locker. She followed behind me across the hall to the gym where there were already cheerios sitting in a circle doing stretches. I sat down away from everyone else and did my routine stretches with Brittany next to me. She kept laughing which was making me laugh and the gym was silent besides the echo of us laughing like idiots. I saw all the other cheerios staring over at us with confused expressions and then Coach Sue walked into the gym. I quickly put an end to my laughing and stared over at Brittany sending her eyes to the doorway Coach had entered. She stopped laughing and her face went completely straight trying to hide the smile creeping on her lips.
"Alright you lazy idiots, in case you haven't noticed we have a couple new additions to our squad. Our captain has returned to her spot and is here to get your disgusting routine in check. We also have Barbie over here joining us." She said as everyone stood lining up on the paint line of the gym. Brittany rose her hand high into the air and Sue glared at her.
"Yes Barbie?" She said with an irritated tone.
"Actually, I just wanted to say that my name is Brittany. Brittany S. Pierce. I'm so excited to be on the squad and I can't wait to get started." She said smiling and almost falling into laughter once again. I elbowed her and she straightened her stance staring down at the ground.
"Well, as I was saying... Barbie here needs to be taught each of our routines from the beginning and I expect you to work closely with her and help her get up to speed. Let's start practice today with twenty laps around the gym." She said before blowing a whistle that was painstakingly loud and high pitched.
Practice was long as hell and I'm super tired after coming down from that joint we smoked before hand. I could barely keep my eyes open in first hour if it weren't for Brittany poking me every time I drifted towards sleep.
"Would you fucking stop that?" I snapped after she poked me with a pencil. She smiled at me with that innocent look on her face.
"Stop what?" She asked as if she had no idea what I was talking about.
"Stop poking me with your pencil every time I almost fall asleep. I'm trying to take a nap here." I said before grabbing her pencil out of her hand and keeping it underneath my folded arms on the desk.
"Sannnnnn. I need that pencil to take notes. Sannyyyy... Santanaaaa." She said as I ignored her with my head on my desk. After a few times of her saying variations of my name I handed her the pencil back.
"Don't poke me with it." I warned.
"Was it weird that Quinn wasn't at practice today? I wonder if she's even at school today. I mean i think you broke her nose yesterday." Brittany spoke. I was trying to ignore her and shut my eyes tight trying to fall asleep. The bell rang and I groaned as I put my stuff together and we headed out of the classroom. I saw Puck standing by my locker and I tried to ignore his presence. I opened my locker without so much as giving him one ook.
"Santana... look. We just kissed, we didn't do anything more." He said and I could hear the regret in his voice.
"I hope it was worth it Puckerman. Get the fuck away from me. You were getting boring anyways and I was getting sick of worrying about small woodland creature crawling off your head." I snapped. I shut my locker after grabbing my books and walked over to Brittany. She held her pinky out and I looked at it with an arched eyebrow, what the fuck? Then she grabbed my pinky with her own and linked them together before walking down the hall. The tingles I felt from her pinky in mine were making me slightly uncomfortable; I shouldn't be getting tingles from a girl. For some reason which I don't really know or understand, I didn't pull away.
We walked to class pinkies linked and she smiled the whole way. I couldn't understand how she could be so happy all the time, especially since we were in high school. I'm pretty sure no one is this happy in high school they're always melodramatic and have all that inner angst. She's different. She's always happy and smiling since the minute I laid eyes on her. I know it's only been two days but I could tell that's just how she was.
Class went by quickly but I found myself staring at Brittany most of the time. I was starstruck by her, everything about her intrigued me and quite frankly it fucking freaked me out. She would catch me staring at her when she was lightly chewing on the end of her pencil in between writing notes. She didn't chomp on it like those weird kids that eat pencils like it's their daily breakfast or something. It seemed like it was just a habit and it was definitely cute. Cute, what the fuck am I thinking. Santana Lopez doesn't think people are cute, I don't even bat an eyelash when I see a tiny puppy.
I also noticed how she scrunched up her nose when she was thinking real hard about something. After realizing that I spent the entire hour thinking about Brittany and staring at her on and off, I snapped out of my trance and started to realize something was up for real. I scooted my chair a little further from hers for the last five minutes of class. She looked over at me but I kept my gaze at the front of the room.
I felt my phone vibrate between my tits and almost let out a squeal at the surprise sensation. There wasn't really anywhere else to put this thing in my uniform and I needed to stay connected. It was a mass text from a Cheerio.
Incoming Cheery Ho #12: Party tonight. Remember the rules ladies. -Eva
Outgoing Cheery Ho #12: Where's this lame party taking place? I invented the rules #12 so don't go reminding me, your captain, ever again. Got it? -Snix
These damn cheery ho's need to recognize their place again. I rule with a tight whip and I'm not afraid to cut a bitch. Sometimes I regretted making these rules but it is all about the image we have to uphold our status. I had created a list of rules to make sure each of the girls were playing their parts. Rule number one is obviously Don't ever get caught behind enemy lines, in other words when you're doing something sneaky, manipulative, thieving, or otherwise; you better be fucking good at it and not get caught. Followed by my favorite rule, don't ever fuck with Santana Lopez and silently they all knew this meant Quinn as well. Well it did mean Quinn but I had a feeling that place would quickly be taken by Brittany. Rule number three was simple Cheerios are expected to make an appearance at every party thrown by someone of good social standings, no exceptions. I don't give a rats ass if your parents won't let you out of the house, you can sneak down the drainpipe for all I care. You have to be seen around to keep your name in peoples minds so they don't forget who's at the top. My mind was snapped back to the conversation when my phone vibrated again.
Incoming Cheery Ho #12: Sorry. Won't happen again. The parties at Pucks. -Eva
Outgoing Cheery Ho #12: Britts and I will be there. Next time I'm the first to hear about parties, clear? Who's buying the booze? -Snix
Incoming Cheery Ho #12: Jessica said she'd get it from her older brother. We're clear. -Eva
I turned to Brittany and smiled. Puck was the last person I wanted to see right now but I couldn't miss the party and break my own rules. Also, I couldn't show that he had got the best of me to the other Cheerios and make myself look weak. Fuck it, I'd go and make him jealous and totally turned on then but ignore him all night and leave him hanging like the dog he is.P
"Britt Britt, we're going to a party tonight. Tell your parents you're staying over." I told her smirking and she smiled bouncing up and down. I shook head at the bubbly blonde and the bell rang.
School seemed to be never ending and everyone kept talking about Puck's party tonight. Word had also gotten out that I had dumped Puck for being boring in bed. I may have had something to do with the spreading of that little tidbit. In my uniform people knew not to make eye contact with me for fear of me going off, that didn't stop them from talking about me when I wasn't within earshot.
Brittany and I went understage bleachers for our lunch break and it felt weird to bring someone into my safe haven that I wasn't macking on. We say down on the couch silently and I pulled out my stash of cigarettes while Brittany opened her duck lunchbox.
"This party is going to be so much fun. I can't wait!" Brittany practically squealed as she opened a packet of dinosaur fruit snacks.
"I can eat these because they aren't made from real dinosaurs so I won't get sick." She said very matter of factly. I chuckled at her and just nodded in agreement.
The cigarette wasn't really satisfying so I put it out halfway through.
"Let's skip the rest of the day?" I said in somewhat of a question form but mostly a demand. Her eyes brightened and she looked at me with the most curious expression.
"We can do that?" Brittany asked between popping fruit snacks in her mouth. I kept staring at her lips they looked soft and I just wonder what kind of Chapstick she uses.
"We can just get coach Sue to write a note saying we hadofficial Cheerio duties to attend to." I told her knowing it was true. She smiled wider and bounced up and down on the couch.
"I can't San. It's only my second day here." She said after her smile faltered and I frowned.
"Boo. Fine have it your way we'll go to class." I said glaring at her and she just smiled back before jumping at me and wrapping her arms around me.
"Jesus you act like I just said you won the lottery or something." I joked melting into her arms before stiffening at the realization of how good it felt to be there.
"Better! I get to have class with you!" She said before getting up and holding her pinky out to me. I linked mine with hers and stood up walking towards the building.