A/N I just want to remind everyone to read the warning at the beginning of chapter one. Thanks for taking the time to read this, please leave some reviews if you think of some criticism you'd like to give.

Throughout the whole class I kept glancing at the back of Santana's head thinking of all the things I could say to her when class was over. I was anxious now because I'm not good with words and I wanted to make a good impression. I'm not really popular at school but I still have lots of really nice friends and I hope that I don't mess up my chance of being friends with Santana. I don't even know why I want to be friends with her because I don't even know what kind of person she is. What if she's really mean? I don't think that she is because if she was really mean she wouldn't have made the effort to smile at me when she did. She was smiling to let me know that she was ok with me showing her around because she did it right after Mr. Schue had told her I was friendly. She was showing me that she was friendly too. I hope she was anyway.

Tina kept nudging me and passing me notes on 'the new girl' like asking me question like; "Do you think she can speak Spanish?" or "Have you seen Puck? He looks like he's got himself a little too excited!" I laughed out loud when I read that one because Tina was right, Puck was staring at Santana with an expression on his face that made me think his little friend was doing its best not to be little anymore. I hadn't realized how loud I had laughed until Tina hit my shoulder and Mr. Schue shushed me without even turning away form the board.

He was asking the class to finish the sentences he had written up so when he heard me laugh, he asked me to finish the next sentence. I got flustered and couldn't think of the right word and I looked at Tina helplessly. Before Mr. Schue could get mad at me for not listening, Santana spoke for me and told him the correct word and he was too busy praising her to give out to me. She glanced back again and smiled at me and I smiled really big back at her because I was so happy that she had done that to help me out even though I didn't know her.

Before I knew it, the bell rang loudly and everyone in the class rushed to get their stuff in their bags so that they could leave. I had my lunch break now and I wondered if Santana did too. As I put my notebook in my backpack, Tina told me that she was meeting Mike in the choir room because he was going to show her the new routine he was working on for Glee club. I told her to remind him that we were practicing after school together and not to leave me hanging like he did last week. Mike is a really nice guy but he's so forgetful that sometimes I think of Tina as his memory because she always remembers stuff for him.

When I turned to face where Santana had been sitting, she was chatting to a few people from the class and I noticed right away that Puck was waiting to swoop in to try and charm her. My stomach dropped at the thought of her being charmed by him because Puck just used girls to boost his reputation and I didn't think it would be fair for that to happen to her so soon after joining McKinley. When Puck slept with a girl, the guys would give him high fives and pats on the back but they would always make fun of the girl was with by calling her a slut or saying that she was easy. Usually it was Puck who was the slut though because he's been with way too many girls and I know for a fact that he has slept with people's moms because he told me that himself.

The closer I looked, the more I realized that Santana was just standing there with a scowl on her face while some cheerleaders chatted animatedly to her. I wondered why she looked so frustrated but I just walked up to her instead and interrupted the conversation.

"Hi I'm Brittany!" I smiled as I stuck my hand out for her to shake.

I know that she already knew my name because Mr. Schue had already told her but I thought it would be rude not to introduce myself.

One of the cheerleaders snickered and fake whispered "She already knows who are, Brittany"

I flushed immediately because the cheerleaders were always mean to me and the way she said my name was hurtful even though it was just my name and not a bad word.

Before anyone spoke again, Santana stuck her hand out and shook mine. "Nice to meet you Brittany" she said and she winked at me.

I flushed again but this time because I was flustered rather than upset. Quinn Fabray, head cheerleader and founder of the God Squad, called over and gestured for the other cheerleaders to meet her outside. They gave me a fake smile before telling Santana that they would see her in the cafeteria and quickly hurried to meet up with Quinn. Quinn was like a queen bee because even though all of the cheerleaders wore the same clothes and acted the same way, they all swarmed around making sure that Quinn got what she wanted all of the time. Pleasing Quinn meant pleasing Coach Sylvester and everyone wanted to please the Coach. She was the toughest Coach ever and was really vicious with her words too. Maybe the cheerleaders learnt from Coach Sylvester about how to use words to make people feel like crap.

Puck left with the cheerleaders and I guessed it was because he was meeting Quinn for lunch. It was well known that he was trying to sleep with Quinn because she was in the chastity club too and Puck always loved a challenge. At least that's what he told me when we were drunk at a party a few weeks back and I asked him why he always followed Quinn around and carried her books. Puck can be so sweet though, and I think that he actually really likes her but he doesn't want anyone to know that. He's also really popular but we'll always be friends regardless of popularity because we grew up together and our families are really close.

Santana barely acknowledged the cheerleaders as they left and she kept her eyes on me. "So, are you going to show me around or what? She asked with an amused glint in her eye. I suddenly realized that I was standing in front of her staring at the door that Puck and the cheerleaders left through without saying anything. I coughed awkwardly and quickly ran out of things to say. Well, I had lots of things to say but my mouth didn't want to say them because my brain was worried about messing them up and my heart was beating faster than usual.

"Oh yeah of course, I'm sorry sometimes I just think about things too much and there's too much to say at once" I answered her.

"Well, don't worry I don't have much to say so you can say all the things you want to" she replied with a smile on her face. But, I knew that if I wasn't looking at her I would have known that she was smiling anyway from the tone of her voice.

We started to walk out of class together and I said goodbye to Mr. Schue. Santana spoke to him in Spanish and he looked impressed. I think I looked impressed too because she told me that her mom and dad were from Mexico and that she spoke Spanish a lot at home.

"That's hot!" I blurted at her before covering my mouth with my hands and widening my eyes in shock. I couldn't believe that I had said that. What was I thinking? She was going to think that I was really weird now and probably tell all the cheerleaders that I was a freak.

Surprisingly, she just laughed loudly. She thanked me and asked me if I had lunch now because she did and she was wondering if I could start showing her around after we ate something.

I was still embarrassed at what I had said but she seemed ok with it so I nodded and began leading her to the cafeteria.

"So, why did you come to McKinley?" I asked her because I wondered why someone would move from a nice school like Mount Carmel to somewhere like McKinley. It's not that McKinley is a really bad school but it's nowhere near as good as Mount Carmel and all the wealthy people in Lima sent their kids there. I knew that because Quinn Fabray went there before she came here after her parents divorced and her dad moved out leaving her alone with her mom. I thought that was really sad but sometimes Quinn is so mean that I don't feel sad for her, I feel angry with her because she is trying to mask her own feelings by making other people feel the same. That made me wonder something though;

"You must know Quinn, right? She went to Mount Carmel, are you friends with her?"

Santana froze when I asked my question and I felt really bad all of sudden and I didn't really know why. I went to backtrack and tell her that she didn't need to tell me but she spoke before me.

"Yeah, I know Quinn alright but we're definitely not friends." she answered me with a tone in her voice that I couldn't place but it wasn't cheerful or happy and it made me feel funny. I quickly dropped the subject of Quinn and was about to turn the corner toward the entrance of the cafeteria when I felt something cold hit me in the face and drip down the front of my shirt. I knew right away that it was a slushy but I couldn't open my eyes to see who did it.

"Welcome to McKinley, Santana. Nice to see you again, I hope you don't mind that I gave Brittany a friendly reminder about where her place is on the social ladder. I'm sure you understand seeing as you used to do it all the time back in your glory days" I recognized Quinn's voice right away.

Oh no. This was bad.