Hey everyone! Heres another chapter of the story! sorry its delayed, i lost by beta to this story sadly so I'm lookin for someone to help me with this story :)
Thank you for everyone who has alerted this story and myself! it means sooooo much! i love this story so much. The song at the end that shes singing is : Life is a Show- Cassie Steele
'Life is a show, in every shade of the rainbow, were jumping through fire! lets go! life is a show!'
NOELLA POV
While I stood there in my mami's bedroom just exploring, not really wanting to go to lunch or do anything. I never got answers, maybe it's because I'm young but I'm smart! I am! This door was always closed anyways and my gramma wouldn't ever let me in so I decided to look for myself. As I walked in minutes before I saw a grey shirt hanging out of the dresser my mami kept her clothes in. It seemed nothing was cleaned up. Running over I grabbed the shirt corner that I could reach and pulled on it. Laying it down on the floor I looked over it, looked old to me but I was 5.
"m-mc..mckin..kin-kin..ley..McKinley..High, football"
Pulling up my pink and yellow dress I pulled it off of myself and placed it on my mother's bed and ran over to the shirt on the ground and pulled it over my head then walked over to the long mirror that stood in the corner of the room. I vaguely remember my mami cause I was little when she left to help people. Running my hands over the cracked letters I saw my gramma in the mirror as she smiled and looked at me.
"Bug, what are you doing?" she asked.
"Trying on clothes" I replied like it was the simplest thing in the world.
Running over to her I put my arms up waiting for her to pick me up. I like it when she held me; it made me feel safe when I wasn't feeling safe. I felt the floor below my feet disappear and I wrapped my tiny legs around her waist and smiled.
"You look like your mother with that shirt on, it was her favorite..."
Holding onto her we had started to walk down the hallway when the phone rang and she picked it up. I tuned out and watched the cartoons that were on in the living room over her shoulder. I then heard my gramma start to sniff, 'what was wrong? What happened?' I started to think. Slipping from her grip I noticed she wanted me to get down so I did and played with my hands a bit then flailed them a bit and ran to the couch and sat down on my bean bag chair and watched Dora on the screen.
"Noella..Noella bug were going to the hospital, get ready sweetie" my gramma said fast and I sat up and ran after her.
"why?" I asked
"Cause I want you to meet someone alright..." she said as she walked into the bathroom and started reapplying the makeup she had on.
Shrugging I ran back to the living room content in what I was wearing.
"Noella at least get pants on!" she yelled.
Pouting I got up and ran down to my room and grabbed some red shorts out of my bottom drawer and pulled them on. Running back I stopped at the shoes, so many to choose from but my light up Dora ones were calling my name it seemed. Grabbing the purple shoes I sat on the ground and put them on and pulled the strap over the top to secure it. I saw my abuela on the phone and she seemed worried but I couldn't pin point it so when my shoes were on I ran back to the bean chair and layed there watching TV again.
3rd Person POV
Once Maria got off with the phone with the general she got Noella to get some pants on but it got her thinking. Did she really want Noella seeing her mother all bruised and broken? She didn't want to scare the 5 year old, so she did the only thing she could think of for that moment in time. Grabbing the phone once again Quinn's number showed up and she pressed send. Putting the phone to her ear Maria waited for the blonde to pick up on the other side.
"Maria? Is everything alright?"
"More than okay Quinn, Santana is home! But before my brain got thinking I was originally going to being Noella with me to see her but now I don't know if it's a good idea, could you take her this afternoon while I go see my daughter and you can then go see her?"
"WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS! She's home? Of course! Knowing San she wouldn't want Ella to see her like this anyways..I'll be over in a few Maria, Bye!"
20 minutes rolled by and Quinn was walking into the door with her purse on one arm and the other hand was pushing her round bug eyed sunglasses up to the top of her head. Hearing the door the little girl looked over and saw her auntie Quinn and immediately got up and ran over to her and hugged the older woman's legs.
"Auntie Q! Are you coming to the hospital too? Abuela won't tell me why though"
"Actually your abuela wants me to take you to the park, the hospital can wait she just needs to go out for a while...and we can go and swing and do whatever you would like"
Q said to the little girl, getting to Noella's level the blonde just smiled, she looked like Santana but for some reason this little girl had the personality of Santana and Brittany put together. Which was weird considering she hadn't even met her mother's ex girlfriend/best friend, those two stopped talking the day Santana announced she was going into the army and she was pregnant.
Maria walked into the living room to see Quinn level with Noella talking to her and she simply just smiled and walked over to the two girls.
"Thank you so much for coming Quinn, it means so much to me..Have you by any chance told Brittany?"
Quinn stood up and shook her head, why would Maria think that she would tell Brittany; did she not know that those two haven't spoke in almost 6 years? Maybe she had but maybe she also thought that Quinn would still be in touch with the dancer even though her daughter and the blonde lost touch.
"Brittany and Santana weren't the only ones who had lost contact..Her and I did also after she kind of vanished.." Q said with a sad sigh afterwards.
Noella ran back to the chair and sat down and the two older women looked at the little girl and Q smiled softly.
"San's shirt?"
"Yeah she went into her room today and found it..she's never been in that room but somehow she knew that it was her mothers.." Looking at her watch Maria saw a car pull up outside and she looked at the blonde.
"Thank you so much again for doing this, the car is here to take me..I'll see you later Quinn..I'll see you later nieta! Have fun with auntie Q love you, Oh do you mind taking her to Jennifer's house, she can take her to dance class "
"Of course" Quinn said with a smile.
"Love you too abuela!" Noella said back with a smile.
Q walked over and held out her hand for the little girl to take, as she did the two made their way outside into the fresh air and walked to the park. It was a quiet walk and made Quinn think a little bit. Why had she stopped talking to Brittany? Other than the fact she vanished really there was nothing that was stopping her to find the dancer. Santana, Brittany and Quinn were inseparable from the beginning really. At first it was Brittany and Quinn then when Santana moved into the neighborhood they all instantly bonded. S more to B than to Q. What exactly happened to the blonde dancer she grew up with?
BRITTANY POV
My eyes were closed, I had to focus it was now or never almost. I was the one they wanted no one else; dancing was always a way of life for me. Where others needed air I needed dancing. Never in a million years did I think dancing would take me to this right now. Opening my eyes I looked down and took down my attire. White booty shorts, white see though top which my black bra stood out. Black stilettos and to top it off was a white and black tie that hung loosely around my neck and sat right in the middle between my cleavage. My hair was in a tight pony tail at the back of my head, it reminded me of high school. Though in cheerios it was more on top of my head but it still reminded me of it. My make up was smoky with hints of dark blue; all in all I looked super hot.
I got pulled out of my trance when I heard Kal open his mouth.
"You ready?" I nodded and smiled as he led me over.
"OK AND ACTION!" the other man, Lucas yelled.
Music came on, Rockstar 101 by Rhianna. My body moved to the beat, as the lyrics started Rhianna herself was singing. As the Barbados beauty stood there in front of me I knew my dancing had to be hard and sexy. She wanted to redo the video because it didn't really show case anything. They wanted me to choreograph and dance in the video. Rhianna called me herself and asked if I would do it and I said 'yes' quickly. That was a couple months ago so I had to work on choreography before hand to show her what I had in mind. It was an honor to do this video. I loved the song. I have worked from singers anywhere from Ke$ha to Britney Spears. (Not to be confused with me Brittany S. Pierce). I have been in numerous music videos but I never let the fame monster get to me. (no not gaga)
When I'm not in videos or teaching choreography I'm in my home town of Lima, Ohio teaching dance classes to younger kids. My high class dance friends always ask me why and I say. 'Its where I started and I love teaching'. So here I am dancing my ass off until the director calls cut and calls it a day. I walk off and grab my bottle of water after hugging the singer and I twist the cap off and take a drink. Where I am now is a long way from where I was back in Ohio. I was a no body but here I'm somebody what I always wanted to do. I feel arms come around my waist and I know whose they are. We have been together for about a year and it's been total bliss with her, yes her. Melissa Gardner and she's a dancer just like me. We met about 2 years ago in an audition, I was choreographer and she was auditioning. She's a few years younger than me but that's ok because age doesn't matter.
"You know I think you might just have to wear this outfit home babe.." she said huskily in my ear, it reminded me of someone every time she did that.
"That can totally be arranged" I said and turned around in her arms and looked at the girl in front of me.
Melissa was about my height, brunette hair, brown eyes slender athletic dancer body. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida but came to New York for dancing and now her and I live together in Columbus. I was near Lima and in route to an airport for jobs.
"You getting ready to go to work or something? Or do you have the day off?" I asked sweetly placing a kiss on her lips.
"I have to get going, some photo shoot they want to do with four other dancers..Upcoming dancers baby not big ones like you" Melissa said and smirked a bit.
"I am pretty big aren't I?" I said.
"Totally..get going to your class..I'll be home around 9 or 10..see you babe" Melissa kissed me once more before running out and hailing a cab.
Sipping at my drink I gathered my belongings up and looked at the time. It was around noonish; I could sleep on the plane before my 2pm dance class I was teaching in Lima.
2 HOURS LATER
A bunch of 3-5 year olds excited to twirl and dance around for an hour and a half and just be silly. Getting on the plane 20 minutes later I sat there looking out the window, was this going to be the rest of my life? It was pretty awesome..I had the dream job and the girl, I think. The plane landed in Columbus about an hour later and I was in a cab off to 'Just Dance' Studios. It was mine and Mike's studio, it was successful too. We named it after Gaga's first single. Walking in I saw the Asian man standing there talking to some parents with a little girl and I kneel down and look at her.
"Hi there.."
"Hi.."
"I'm Brittany..Are you going to be dancing here?"
The little girl nodded slowly like she was unsure really of what was going on.
"Did you just move here?"
"Yeah"
"You're going to like it here..What's your name?"
"Vikki.."
"That's a really pretty name, dancing here is fun.." I said with a smile and stood up and met the parents then went and changed really quick. Leotard and tights and my ballet shoes, not the professional ones. I pulled my hair up into a bun and walked into the studio and waited. Soon little girls and two boys filed in. I had been out for a while due to choreography in New York and I see some new faces. I hear everyone talking and saying hi, parents and children but out of all the commotion I hear someone humming a tune I know. Looking over I see a little girl with no one beside her. Her parents must have just dropped her off and she walked in with someone else. I have heard that tune before I swear..
"When..I..hit rock bottom..hmmm hmm hmm" the little girl sang softly and hummed to herself.
Where have I heard that..?she looks familiar too, that can't be cant it?
