Brittany and Santana spend the following summer days and nights happy and together. Other than actually going to dance class every other morning, Brittany spends it with Santana at the Lopez residence.

Little by little their friends begin to leave to settle in their new lives. First Kurt and Rachel, then Mercedes, Puck and Finn all say good-bye and promise to keep in touch. Every time Brittany said good-bye she felt something deep in her heart. She knew that she would have to make a choice soon, it was either going to the dance academy or following Santana to New York. She still had not shown her girlfriend the letter because in all honestly she was afraid to.

She contacted the Dance Academy and asked if there was anyway she going be sent to New York and the only way she would be able to was if she stayed in Los Angeles for at least 12 months and then, and only then would they consider transferring her. After hanging up with them she felt a little more at ease because technically they didn't say it was impossible and she was confident her relationship with Santana would survive the distance.. they loved each other and it was only a year. "we'll be fine" she whispered to herself.

Santana, Brittany and Quinn spent most of their remaining summer vacation together since most of their friends were gone. They, well mostly Quinn and Santana, spend most of their time looking at furniture magazines and talking about how much fun it will be being in the big city together. Quinn was leaving for New York at the end of the week and Santana programs was going to begin at the beginning of next month.

Every time Santana said things like " Look, B this would look great in our room" or " Babe what color do you want our comforter to be?" it made Brittany feel like she couldn't avoid this situation anymore. The Dance Academy was waiting for a response at the end of the week so tonight she was once and for all going to tell Santana.

It was a sunny afternoon, officially the hottest day Lima had seen all summer so the girls decided to take a dip in the Lopez pool to cool off a bit. Quinn was busy finishing her packing and sorting through things she was leaving in Lima and things she was taking to New York.

Santana was currently laying on her reclining chair in her leopard bikini, her skin glistening due to the little water drops on her body soaking in the sun. She had her hands tucked behind her head and her black aviator glasses over her eyes. Total babe. Brittany thinks as she pulls herself out of the pool and slowly makes her way to her girlfriend.

She quickly gets distracted at the way Santana's abs move slowly in and out and signaling Santana has fallen asleep. She slowly crawls over the Latina hovering her and paying very close attention to all the dips and curves of her body. Santana is jolted awake when she feels drops of water fall on her body. When she opens her eyes she sees her favorite blonde on top of her smiling. "Hi.." Brittany whispers as she leans forward and captures her lips.

Santana whimpers into the kiss and can't stop the moan that escapes her lips when she feels Brittany kiss along her jaw and down her neck. "Britt..." She knows that if at that moment Brittany could ask her for anything and she would do it as long as she continued to kiss her like she was doing right now. " Baby..."

Just when Santana as getting into the kiss Brittany brings her hands up to the Latina's waist to trail her fingers over the Latina's bikini bottom when her stomach starts growling. Brittany looks up at a blushing brunette and laughs.

" Don't laugh, i havent had breakfast."

Brittany stands up pulling the girl with her and kisses her nose. " Well then lets go make lunch before the dragon in there gets mad." She says as she pokes Santana in her stomach. The other girl swats her hand away and laughs.

" Come on, you're making lunch"

The girls walk in and while Brittany makes her famous BLT's Santana gets the living room ready for a movie. They both eat in the kitchen and then settle themselves on the couch.

Brittany was cuddled up on the couch with her back against Santana's while Santana had her arm wrapped around her waist making slow circles on her girlfriend's stomach. The shades were down and the room was dark, the only light was coming from the TV which was currently playing "Titanic". With a full stomach and Santana's soft hand rubbing circles on her skin, Brittany was slowly beginning to dose off until Santana spoke.

"I honestly dont get it, they both could've survived. Rose was being selfish, I mean i would rather freeze that let you die but still i think they couldve at least taken turns."

Brittany let out a soft chuckle before turning around to face the other girl, and there they were those beautiful brown eyes staring back at her. It honestly amazed Brittany how every time she looked at those mocha colored eyes she would fall deeper in love with her. Without any warning she leaned forward and pressed her lips against her girlfriend, she doesnt know why but she had this weird feeling at the pit of her stomach and soon she was kissing Santana like if her life depended on it.

In that one kiss Brittany told Santana everything, her hopes, her dreams, her fears and especially she pleaded reassurance that their love would survive anything. Santana at first laid there holding Brittany in her arms until she felt how the blonde clung to her neck and pulled herself flush against her, pretty soon Santana was kissing her back with the same intensity.

Their kiss continued for several minutes until Santana pulled away and stared back at droopy blue eyes that fluttered open. She smiled and leaned forward for a quick peck. "Go to sleep baby.. you look exhausted. My parents don't come back to later on so we can nap here." Brittany nodded and nuzzled her face to the brunettes neck and placed a gentle kiss there.

Brittany woke up abruptly to find herself alone on the couch. She shivered due to the lack of warmness that only a certain person could provide. She looked around the room and noticed that a lot of time must've passed because the room was pitch black but since the tv was left on Brittany was able to see that Santana wasnt in the living room. "San" she called out, but recieved no response.

She slowly made her way off the couch and walked towards the stairs that led to the bedrooms. Once at the top of the steps, she made her way towards the last room which was Santana's room. Brittany slowly opened the door and saw Santana sitting on her desk with her back facing the door. " Hey baby, I must of been dead asleep since i didn't feel you get up.." Santana didn't respond, she didn't move. Brittany felt something was wrong so she walked up to Santana and when she was about to ask what was wrong, she saw it.

Santana cleared her throat and quickly turned around. Just a couple hours ago when Brittany stared at mocha colored eyes she could see the warmth, love and adoration Santana had, but now, all she saw was teary and lifeless colored brown. " I couldn't sleep so i decided to start on laundry before my mom came home and went ape shit. I came upstairs to pick up the clothes from my hamper and when i was about to walk away i stopped and thought " I would be a terrible girlfriend if i didnt wash your clothes too" so I emptied your duffel bag and found this" Santana streched out her hand and handed Brittany the paper she was holding.

Brittany gulped as she took the wrinkled document in her hand. She looked at it and saw her dance academy acceptance letter noticing some of the letters were begining to mess up due to drops on the page, drops that she figured were her girlfriends tears. She looked up and saw how Santana had her arms wrapped around herself. " San, I can-"

Santana finally looked up and moved her hand signaling for Brittany to stop talking. " We've been planning our life in New York, looking at catalogs, making plan decorations for our room." She laughed sarcastically " i even bought broadway tickets to go see the little mermaid for our anniversary. what-" Santana couldn't fight back the tears as her sobs began to take over.

Brittany felt a huge lump on her throat. She reached out to grab her but Santana pulled away. " San, please let me explain. I didn't know what to do, then I spoke to Sugar and she said it would be a good-"

"Sugar? What does Sugar have to do with all of this?"

"Well, when I got the letter I needed to speak to someone and I spoke to her we were in the choir room when-"

Santana eyes darted to look at the blonde. " Wait how long have you known about this Brittany?"

"Santana dont get mad, please I was planning on telling you but it was so hard.."

"HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN ABOUT THIS BRITTANY?!"

Brittany knew that whatever answer she gave would dig her into a deeper whole so she figured the truth would be the best option. Better to come clean now. " I've known since before graduation."

The look Santana gave her broke her heart. She looked so broken, so betrayed. " So basically you've known you were going to Los Angeles all this time, and instead of telling me you went and spoke to Sugar, what was your plan? huh Brittany?" Santana broke down and let her sobs take over, Brittany tried to hug her but Santana pulled away. " I think its best if you go home. I need to be alone right now."

" Babe, dont do this dont shut me out. Lets talk about this, we're in a relationship and-" Brittany stopped when she heard Santana's let out a sarcastic laugh.

" Yeah a relationship. So when was this relationship when you decided to go speak to Sugar for advice instead of your girlfriend? Where was that relationship when everytime I spoke about spending my life with you in New York all you would do was nod, you must have had such a good time speaking to Sugar about that too."

" Dont say that Santana. I never once thought that or spoke to anyone about it. I didnt know how to tell you, I didnt want to hurt you. I did consider taking it becuase I can be considered for a transfer after being in Los Angeles for more than a year."

" So what I just stick around like a dumbass waiting until you come back. Brittany we were supposed to be together, if you wanted to go to LA i would've applied somewhere out there, now everythings different. Lets just do the mature thing here, we both know this isn't going to work."

Brittany tried to fight back her tears with all her might, but hearing Santana talk like that crushed her. " No San, dont please. We can make it work." She walked up to her and held her. Santana was facing the window and when she felt Brittany embrace her she let out a soft whimper. Both girls stood in that dark room with tears rolling down their faces. Brittany turned Santana in her arms and with her hand picked up the brunettes chin so she could look at those beautiful brown eyes she loved so much. She wiped a fresh tear that made her way down Santana's cheek. " Dont leave me baby.." She whispered as she leaned in to kiss her. Santana held on to her and kissed her back, Brittany could taste Santana's tears and could hear Santana whimper.

" I need to be alone, please go" Santana said as she pulled away and moved away from the girl who had broken her heart into millions of pieces.

Brittany knew that if she stayed it would only get worse, so with all the pain in her heart she made her way to the door. She turned around and gave her girlfriend one last look. " I love you Santana, more than anything in this world. Never forget that." and with that Brittany closed the door and made her way out of the Lopez house.

It had been a couple of days that neither girl made contact to each other, which was honestly very unlike them. Brittany knew that it would be useless to try to speak to Santana without causing another fight. She knew that once she was ready she would come looking for her. Brittany spent her days and nights just staring at her phone but no calls or texts that she recieved were from the person she needed to hear from. She spoke Quinn a lot and listened to Quinn on how excited she was to leave to New York the following day so they decided to meet up to say good-bye. Quinn didnt really know what happened between her and Santana but she knew it was bad since they werent speaking. Brittany knew that Quinn was also speaking to Santana but never had the courage to ask how she was doing so she acted like everything was ok.

After coming home from Quinn's she cried herself to sleep for the 3rd consecutive night.

It was 4am when Santana climbed through the same window she had been sneaking in and out of since she was 13 years old. She made her way to the bed where the love of her life was sleeping tightly hugging Shelly, the stuffed unicorn Santana had won for her at the senior carnival. Techincally she had tried to win it but after 13 failed attempts at knocking all the bottles down she just threatened to beat the crap out of the kid who was taking care of the stand. He was so afraid he ended up giving her the unicorn and returning the money she had invested in it.

She slowly sat down on the bed, careful not to wake the blonde up and just stared at her. Brittany was the love of her life, she had been since the minute she saw her in kindergarden. Seeing that little blonde sitting on the ground with tears in eyes and that adorable pout looking down at her newly scraped knee. Santana knew at that moment she would do anything in order never to see her suffer again, she remembers like it was yesterday how she ran to the nurses office, stole a bandaid and ran back to the blondes aid. She remembers sitting on the ground and looking at those pretty blue eyes as she gently put the bandaid on and pulled out her favorite, and last candy out of her pocket in order to make the blonde stop crying. Since that day they had been insperable, first as best friends then as girlfriend, professing their love for eachother every second they got.

Santana knew she couldnt stay her longer so she slowly reached over and planted a soft kiss on Brittany's lips. "te amo tanto, nunca lo olvides mi cielo" She pulled out a letter from her pocket and kissed it before placing it on her nightstand, with one last look she got up and headed towards the window and to the car that was waiting for her.

Once she made it back to the car she closed the door and leaned her forehead against it. " You sure you wanna do this San, maybe you should wait until-"

"No Q, its better this way, lets just go."

Brittany was jolted awake. The sun was shining so Brittany knew it must be early, she leaned over to her night stand and felt around for her phone, her hand came across a paper that she didnt remember leaving there. She opened it and immediately recognized the handwriting. She was here, Santana had come to see her, she quickly looked around and didnt see anything, she scrambled out of bed and made her way to the window to see if the Latina's car was out there, but her driveway was empty. She looked back down to her hand and began to read...

B,
I know you must be tired of hearing it but youre amazing Brittany, especially when you dance. When I see you dancing I see you so so happy, so much that it makes my heart hurt. For those short minutes that you perform I see nothing less that perfection. The way you're body moves and the way your face transforms makes me realize how big you're going to be and how much people are going to admire you when they see you in youre element. I need to apologize for the way I acted and I need you to know that I'm so proud of you getting into the academy, but i need you to promise me something. Promise me that you will never give up and you will go to LA and be the best dancer you can be because when youre touring with all these big shots I want to be able to say " You see that girl, Shes Brittany Pierce the best damn dancer in the world." Britt I love you with everything that i am and everything that i will be and thats why I'm letting you go. I'm letting you go so you can follow your dreams and I know that you won't do it in order to follow me to New York. Its not fair to you if i tie you up in a relationship and force you to something that in the long run you could regret, I wouldnt be able to live with myself knowing that I let you not take this chance, you deserve it. Its not a good-bye because I know that i'll see you again, even if its only in my dreams. Te Amo princesa. I love you baby, to the moon and back!

Santana.

No no no no no. Brittany sobbed like a baby as she re-read that letter, she rushed to her closet, put on her sneakers and ran out of her house not even bothering to change out of her duck pijamas. She ran as fast as her legs could take her to Santana's house, she couldn't let her do this, she couldnt leave her, Santana promised her that they were going to be together forever and she demand that she keep that promise. She got to the house and immediately saw Santana's cherry red beetle outside. She knocked on the door and paced back and forth until the door swung open.

" Where is she?" Brittany said as her tears continued to fall.

"Oh honey, come here" Maribel, Santana's mom said she hugged the blonde. " She left this morning with Quinn, her flight left took off an hour ago." Brittany immediatley pulled back and stared wide-eyed.

This couldnt be happening, she pulled away from Mother Lopez and ran up to Santana's room. Once she walked in it felt like reality had slapped her in the face, the room was completely empty. Her posters that hung on her room were gone, the clothes in the closet as well. She made her way into the empty room and let her tears take over again, she left, Santana had packed her stuff and left. She looked around one more time and a box caught her eye. She walked over to the box and noticed everything that Brittany had ever given Santana was there. Old pictures of them, their friendship bracelet, and other things all stood there in that box.

A foregin feeling came over Brittany, something she had never felt before, Anger. Anger that Santana left her and left everything they had built together in that one fucking box. She picked it up and made her way out of San's room and out of the Lopez residence with out saying a single word. She got home and picked up everything that reminded her of Santana and shoved it in that box, if San didnt want anything of Brittany well neither did she. She looked around the room for any more things and her eyes landed on Shelly. She picked the unicorn up and was gonna put it in the box, but instead she held it tightly and cried. She cried for hours until she couldnt anymore.

The next day she sent her acceptance letter and packed for Los Angeles, She left Lima and along with it her memories of Santana.

So sorry for the late update, School is a killer. Well thats all for the flash back.. now that settled the story and go on...

Please review, if you guys have any suggestions let me know!

-M