"I believe you."
The three words that Rachel Berry said earlier had made Santana Lopez smiling for the rest of the day. Before they went up to the stage, Mike came to her with his lips closed tightly.
"Okay, what do you want, Chang? I am terribly sorry that Brittany did that to all of us, but I thought you were the one who should believe me?" She snapped.
"I believe you." He said smiling widely. He was mimicking Rachel's words earlier in the green room.
She hit his chest making him laughed. "I hate you."
"Thank you, I love you too, San. Now do me a favor." His face became serious.
"No, I don't want to kiss you just because you need my superpower before performing for the first time in front of a bunch of people for a competition."
"Thank you for reminding me that, I don't love you anymore. But no, that's not what I meant. Your new friend over there is freaking nervous as hell. Go wish her a good luck or something." Mike pointed his back to the corner of the stage where Rachel paced back and forth.
"You've got to be kidding me! No!" She looked at Mike with disbelief. If Mike thought she would go soft to the brunette, he thought wrong.
"Yes, you will. It's the least you can do after she stood up for you. She is going to win this for us."
She sighed heavily. As much as she hated it, Mike was true, though. "You are coming with me."
He smiled and scooted away so she could walk first. She stopped at Rachel's back, "Berry."
Rachel jumped a bit and turned around, "Santana, Michael. Hi. Can I help you?"
"Actually, Rachel, yes you can, Santana wanted to say something and she wanted you to hear her out." Mike began, understood that his Latina friend couldn't say anything nice directly. The Latina glared at him in return, but tried to talk. She couldn't really concentrate herself as Rachel watched her expectantly. "Uh, it is, uh... What I meant to say is, uh…"
"We wanted to wish you good luck." He helped her again.
"Yeah, that's it. Break a leg, or, whatever." Santana rushed rolling her eyes to Mike making the boy smirked.
Rachel's eyes widened, but quickly went nervous again. "Oh! Thank you, guys. Really, thanks a lot."
"And Santana said she wanted to hug you." Mike grinned. This time Santana's eyes went wide. She elbowed him with an uncomfortable smile plastered her face. Rachel smiled sweetly. "You don't have to. But really, thank you guys, I really need that. And there is no need to make Santana uncomfortable, Michael."
Mike just shrugged and slipped his arms around Rachel where she returned immediately. When he was about to pull out, they heard Santana said, "And Berry."
Mike looked at her expectantly with his arm still around Rachel's waist. Santana took a deep breath, "Thank you, for believing me."
Rachel smiled widely feeling a tear coming out from her eyes and Mike smiled at his friend proudly. The next thing the girls knew, Mike pulled Santana into the hug. Rachel laughed lightly making Santana grinned and finally hugged them back. Mike chuckled at them and whispered slowly, "Let's win this thing!"
Rachel smiled as wide as she could when she belted out the verse of Don't Rain on My Parade where her Glee mates would come out. It was fact that she had no friends, and her Glee club fellows didn't really considered her as friends, so she wasn't that surprised when no one came to talk to her before she came out to stage. Not even Finn. She accepted a quick peck on the cheek from Matthew, but what made her surprised was that Santana and Michael came to her at the last minute. Michael, she could handle, but wow, did Santana Lopez just really wish her a good luck?
She ended the song flawlessly. The least she could do for Santana and Michael, and of course Matthew, was rocking the stage with the ballad number. The crowd gave her a standing ovation, something she could really get used to. As she walked back to her friends to sing the next number, she saw Santana smiled sweetly at her. She returned the smile and looked at Michael who grinned at her. This competition was going to be a blast, and she would love to remember it forever.
Brittany made sure that she and Santana hugged Rachel when they announced that New Directions had won. Even with their former song had been sabotaged, they won fairly. The blonde hugged her tightly and whispered her genuine sorry to the brunette, while the Latina hugged her quickly. Rachel beamed and Michael laughed at the view. He twirled Rachel around making her laughed with him. She whispered her thank you to his ear as he put her down back to her feet.
She was packing her bag when she felt big arms around her waist. "You know, the world is going to end, tonight."
She frowned and turned to see her best friend. "What do you mean, Matthew? Did you watch another apocalypse movie? Because you need to stop, and I am not watching it with you."
"You are mean. But no, it's not that, it's worse than that. You talked to Santana, Santana let Mike and Brittany talked and hugged you, you and Santana hugged each other, and the most obvious sign for the end of the world is that you both smiled while doing it. Since you and Santana are friends now, the world is coming to the end. Maybe at 8PM sharp." He made her chuckled but continued packing her stuffs.
"We aren't friends; I don't think Santana would consider me as her friend. We barely were acquaintances. And she was just saying thank you for me believing in her." She shrugged.
"Yeah, maybe the world is ending at midnight."
"Matthew!" She smacked his arm made him cringed. "Alright, alright! Come on everyone is on their way to the bus and we wouldn't want my mom gets worried."
She smiled at her friend and let him took her bag. She was going to stay at the Rutherford's since her fathers were away. It was like the best way to end the best day.