"I can't do this!" Brittany whimpered, getting teary and pushing Santana away.
"Why? I love you." Santana murmured and tried to kiss Brittany but she pushed her away yet again.
"No, you don't. Your dating Finn now." Brittany stated sadly.
"I do love you. I know I'm dating him, but remember what I said, how if your kissing another gender it doesn't count as cheating."
"Artie said you were manipulating me when you told me that." Brittany remarked.
"Yeah, well maybe Artie was manipulating you when he told you that!" Santana snapped, getting quite aggravated.
"I'm so confused!" Brittany cried.
"Don't be. Come on Britt, we did this when you were with Artie and I was with Karofsky, why are you hesitating now?"
"Because it would hurt Finn if he knew about us and I don't like to hurt people…and you being with someone else hurts me too." Brittany said looking away with teary eyes.
"Don't be stupid, just-"
Brittany started to cry. "I can't take it anymore! You were the only one who hadn't called me that, Santana. Even Lord Tubbington did!" Brittany ranted, running out of Santana's room.
"Wait, Britt I'm sorry!" Santana shouted, but Brittany was gone. She sighed, wishing she had the courage to ruin her reputation and come out, but she couldn't do it…not even for Brittany.
"Hey, so how are you and Finn?" Mercedes asked, catching up to Santana in the hallway.
"Just great." Santana muttered sarcastically.
"Well someone's in a bad mood…what happened with you two?"
"It's not him I'm mad about…" Santana mumbled, thinking about Brittany.
"Then what is it?"
"Just forget it. But Finn and I are pretty good, I had fun with him at Chopstix the other night." Santana said.
"That's great! Anyway, since you, Tina, Finn and I were assigned to do a number for Katy Perry week, I was thinking the four of us could go to my new beach house to work on it. Then after, you and Finn can, you know, hang out and have a date there. You two could have the basement to yourselves while Tina and I would watch Pretty Little Liars upstairs. Oh, and no need to thank me." Mercedes announced.
"Um yeah, okay, we'll be there." Santana stated, obviously distracted.
"Are you sure your alright?" Mercedes questioned suspiciously.
"I'm fine, get off my ass!" Santana snapped as the bell rang, and stormed off.
Well then... Mercedes thought to herself, shrugging and walked to class.
"Since the theme this week in glee club is to sing a song about being there for someone, I think we should do the song Not Alone by Darren Criss. What do you think?" Finn said to Tina, Mercedes and Tina, who were all sitting in the kitchen of Mercedes' beach house.
"Oh my god, I love that song. Darren looks so much like Blaine it's creepy…well, besides the hair." Tina exclaimed.
"I know right? Lord, I thought I was the only one who thought that." Mercedes stated.
"What do you think?" Finn asked Santana and put his arm around her and squeezed her shoulder.
"Whatever." Santana muttered.
"What the hell is bothering you hun, you were like this yesterday too." Mercedes snapped, getting annoyed with Santana's attitude.
"Nothing is bothering me! Why is everyone getting on my ass?" Santana shouted and stormed off into the living room.
"Wait, Santana!" Finn yelled, getting up to follow her.
"Just drop it, I think she needs some time to cool off. Maybe she'll be better when you guys have a date in the basement later today. But for now, we should start rehearsing and when she's ready, she can come and join us." Tina replied.
"Amen." Mercedes mumbled and laughed. Finn sighed, feeling bad for Santana. He wished there was something he could do to cheer her up. I'll kiss her on our date…that's what I'll do. Finn thought to himself.
Mercedes, Tina and Finn had just finished learning all the lyrics and were now practicing choreography.
"No Finn, you need to be more graceful when you do the step-turn move." Mercedes ordered, because Finn kept tripping over his own feet. Santana walked in, looking a little less frustrated.
"Are you okay now?" Finn asked with sympathy, reaching out to take her hand. She pulled her hand away, nodding.
"Fine…can I just learn the choreography now? I know this song backwards and forwards."
"Sure, so it goes like this…" Tina said and started teaching her the choreography.
They practiced and practiced and after an hour or two they had the song and choreography down perfectly.
Finn and Santana sat on a sofa in Mercedes' beach house basement watching a movie. Santana sighed, still quite angry. The reason Santana was so angry was because she lost Brittany. The one and only thing that she felt like was real in her life. When she was Brittany, she felt like she could be her true self. Why do I have to care so much about my stupid popularity? Santana thought. She wished she could be with Brittany, she really did, but it would ruin her popularity at school and she does 'not' want to be treated how Kurt was back in the day.
After a few minutes, Finn turned to her. "You know you can talk to me about anything, and I'll listen. I really wish I knew what was bothering you." Finn said comfortingly, scooting closer to her. "I really like you, and after our first date…I really felt a connection between us." Finn reached in to kiss her, and Santana kissed back, hard. Eventually Santana was on top of Finn, their lips still locked. Right as they were really getting into it, Santana got off of him and stood up. This wasn't her, and she was sick of kissing people that she didn't even like. Now that she thinks about it, she doesn't even know how she's hooked up with so many boys at McKinley. What am I doing? I'm lesbian. Santana thought. "I have to go." Santana whispered, and ran upstairs.
"Where are you going?" Tina asked, her and Mercedes sitting in the living room eating fondue, watching Pretty Little Liars.
"Doing what I should've done a long time ago." Santana announced, running out the door.
"What is with her?" Tina questioned aloud.
"I have no idea…but mama-cedes wants to know. And we're going to find out." Mercedes proclaimed.
"Okay…oh my god, Mona is A!" Tina cried, pointing at the TV.
"Hell to the no! This was not what I expected!" Mercedes exclaimed. Then they heard footsteps coming up the stairs, Finn.
"How was the date?" Tina and Mercedes mumbled to Finn in unison, distracted by what they had just discovered.
"It was going great...we were kissing and then she just got up and said she had to go. I have no idea what I did!" Finn rambled, very confused and irritated.
"You should go follow Santana, she just flew out the door and I hear her car starting now." Mercedes suggested.
"Good idea! I'm gonna do that right now." Finn declared, as he ran out the door and into his car to follow her. He was determined to figure out why Santana was acting so cross and why she had to go.
