WB auditorium – Few minutes later
Brittany was in the back rows then the group entered on the stage. The same stage where she got the job. In front of her there where the other group of dancer, they were arranged in circle around one person. The star. Her heart started beating so fast. She thought in her head of a good way to say hello.
"Hi, nice to meet you! Oh come on that's so boring. Hi I finally meet you! No, that sucks".
While thinking and walking towards the group she saw a older men."Oh, that must be Gil, the other choreographer."They were still walking towards the group.
Santana was satisfied by the other group of dancers. They were all boys, very good looking, same height and weight, that was perfect for all the kind of performances. Plus they seemed very nice guys and they also seemed to like her. She knew they were trying to impress her but for once she wasn't annoyed by all those guys surrounding her and speaking nicely to her. She was still waiting for the other group to come, that was the very important one. She was hoping that the other six dancers introduced in the meeting would be really good, professionals and nice too. They, she and her staff, were at the turning point. No mistake were allowed anymore, no distractions, they were finally at the point where everything was about to get started. No more plans, just actions.
She finally saw, behind the head of one guys, a nice latin girl entering on the stage followed by a group of undefined people. "That must be Ana" she thought. "She's nice".
Santana softly moved aside the guy in front of her to better see who was coming.
While walking toward the group of people that was starring at them Ana said "Hey, we're finally here. Let me introduce you guys the other dancers".
In that moment one guys stepped aside so Brittany could see through the group that was opening.
And it was when she saw her.
Instantly she froze. She couldn't moved anymore. That was really a dream, she couldn't be awake. That must have been a joke of her mind, it couldn't be happening.
Santana Lopez was standing in the middle of the stage ,she was gorgeous in a blue short daily dress. She was as beautiful as she could remember . All the emotions, all the things she had tried so hard to forget and overcome came back in just one second. She couldn't move at all. She was paralyzed by that view. She felt crushed by the weight of all the memories.
Santana looked at the latin girl while she was introducing herself and the rest of the group. She had a wonderful smile.
"She's really cute." She thought "Oh come on! Stop it. You're going to work with her for the rest of the year, you don't have time for that!"
She smiled back and she said "Oh, finally. Welcome guys I'm so excited to have you.."
She stopped, something had caught her attention, not something, someone. A girl had stopped behind the group.
She squeezed her eyes as she could not see very well. At first she thought to have a nervous breakdown, but then she realized. That girl was in the same situation, she was starring at her as she had just saw a ghost.
All she could say or think was "Oh my god, Brit.."
She was still looking at her when Santana saw her. They looked at each other, deeply into the soul. Santana recognized her immediately. They starred at each others for what was just a second but seemed to be a day.
Then Brittany's brain started slowing to work again, with a very hard effort she managed to push away all the emotions and the feeling and start walking towards her.
"What am I going to say now?"
And she started remembering again. Santana left her, that awful day, when she was visiting her from college. She was still in the high school, she knew they were young but that day, that moment was very hard for her. Hearing her best friend, her love leaving her was like the world fell apart. She couldn't believe that the person she trusted most could have abandoned her that way.
After that day they hadn't reunited anymore. That day changed everything in their relationship. Santana had texted her sometimes and after a while she stopped answering because hearing from her was too painful. She had deal with the fact that she wasn't there anymore, she had to overcome everything, she couldn't have lived forever in that limbo. It had taken her a year to get through everything. The trauma of being left alone and not being with her anymore was immense. That day she had not only lost her love but also her best friend.
However after the storm she started living again, more mature, self confident and she had become the woman she wanted to be.
"Oh come on Brit, she left you ages ago. You are over it now, you are with another guy and you have this amazing opportunity. Don't screw it up!" she told herself as she got in front of her.
As she realized Brittany was standing twenty meters from her, she almost fainted. She couldn't feel anything or think of anything. She just stood up as an idiot, looking at her as she was starting moving towards her. She was amazing, wonderful hairs as usual. While she was working Santana could not help but notice her gorgeous legs. Suddenly she got distracted by the another dancer introducing himself, but she was still checking Brittany while she was handshaking and smiling.
In a few eternal seconds Brittany was standing in front of her. They look at each other, deeply in the eyes. Santana felt a shiver running up her back. She didn't know what to say. Brittany smiled at her, she was again overwhelmed by the emotions.
That smile. "Oh, her smile"
All the cells in her body were screaming "oh my god".
And then Brittany said "Hi, I'm Brittany Welsh. Nnice to meet you"
Santana wasn't expecting that at all. She stood in front of her. No words where coming out of the mouth, then she forced herself to say "Nice to meet you too"
Brittany took her hand for the handshake. They were still looking at each other. No one in that room had a clue of what was going on, but the situation was unsustainable for both of them.
Luckily Gil said "Well now that we made all the presentations, we can leave Miss Lopez alone and start organizing our future work"
Santana wanted to hug him for breaking that silence but she had absolutely to speak to Brittany in private. She couldn't wait for the day to be over, she wanted to tell her so many things but most of all she wanted to asked her why she pretended not to know her. In that moment she was feeling such a weight on her chest. But on the other hand she didn't want to blow their cover, she was sure that Brittany had her reasons so she didn't want to ruin anything.
"Thank you Gil. I'm really pleased to have finally met you guys" she looked at Brittany but she wasn't looking at her. "I really would like to know you better, since we'll have to work together for an entire year. So how about some private meeting starting now?" she said.
And she got Brittany's attention, she looked at her with a confused and scary expression.
"What a nice idea" Ana said.
"What the hell was she doing" Brittany thought. Then she smiled inside, Santana was always the same person. She always found a way to obtain what she wanted, and in that moment Brittany could feel her desire of speaking with her.
Santana started speaking again, every word was like a soft pain, a soft reminder of her past love.
"Ok, it is set then. I'll be in the meeting room on the second floor waiting for you and since we all are very polite I'll start with the girls."
Brittany smiled again "Yes, you polite. Please." She thought.
"Oh and guys, I'm really really happy of all of this. I just want to tell you that from now on, if you have any doubts any question or if you just want to talk I'm here. We are going to face this adventure together! So from now on I'm so on your side." She stopped from a second "Proudly so."
And Brittany died again.
