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An 11 year old girl with dark hair and dark yet friendly eyes sat at the long white tables set up in the lunchroom with both of her blonde best friends. They each laughed at one another after one had made a joke.
"Santana."
The girl's smile slowly went away when she turned to look at who had said her name. Her friends both stopped laughing as well and exchanged looks.
Santana sighed. "What do you want Dani?" Honestly, she didn't feel safe around the shorter girl anymore. Dani's presence never brought good only bad for Santana and she couldn't afford anything else "accidentally" happening to her.
"I'm sorry if I'm bothering you but I didn't know if you noticed you had something in your hair." Dani explained, her jaw moving as she chewed the gum in her mouth.
Santana's brows furrowed, hands jerking up to locate whatever is in her long wavy hair. "What are you talking about?"
"I don't think you can feel it. Let me help." Dani went to stand behind the girl, placing her fingers in her hair. "I think I lost it-" Santana felt Dani jump slightly from behind her, gasps following right after. The nervousness she would always get whenever Dani was around came back full force. "What? What's wrong?"
Santana pushed Dani's hands away with her own to feel in her hair. Long fingers touched something wet and soft stuck in her long thick locks. Santana didn't even have to ask what is was, the stick pink bubble gum came into view when she pulled her fingers back. A noise of horror escaped from her throat catching the others attention from around them. Abruptly standing up, Santana glared at Dani who stood there with her mouth agape. "You-" The taller girl shakily started but was soon cut off by laughter filling the lunchroom.
Santana looked around in horror at all the kids pointing and laughing at her. She felt like that small 9 year old girl who was not to long ago covered in paint in 4th grade. The laughter got progressively louder and louder and louder up to the point where Santana had to cover her ears because it became too overbearing. She crouched down on the floor as people began to crowd around her, pointing and laughing. It seemed as if they were getting bigger and she was becoming smaller with each passing second.
Santana squeezed her eyes shut. "Stop it. Stop it. Stop it." She kept chanting while rocking back and forth. "STOP IT.
Santana jolted awake with her heart hammering in her chest. Feeling around, she sighed in relief at the familiar softness of her comforter. It was only a dream. No, a nightmare full of memories that she desperately wanted wipe clear from her mind. They just refused to go away no matter what she did.
She squinted over at the digital clock next to her bed. The red letters indicating that it's 2 AM. The sight made Santana groan as she let her upper body collapse back down onto her bed. In her mind she knew she wasn't going back to sleep.
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"San? Are you sleeping? Or are you trying to read because I don't think that's the right way."
Santana lifted her head off of the open textbook to find bright blue eyes looking down at her. When had she entered the library? Oh right, this period is study hall. There's a test this Wednesday that she had to study for but it's impossible to do so when your eyes can't stay open. She took a deep breath then exhaled, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"I can't keep my eyes open at all."
Brittany took a seat next to Santana, laying her arms on the table. "Hangover?"
Santana laughed. "No Britt Britt. Lack of sleep that's all."
"I know something that could wake you up."
"Sex?"
"No, not that."
Santana stared upward for a moment as she thought. "There's nothing else I can think of."
"Quinn spotted Dani down the hallway and we were going to pour a slushy on her. Wanna join?" Brittany asked with a hopeful smile.
A wild grin spread onto Santana's face. "Of course."
Dani was stuffing books inside her locker when she felt a presence behind her that made her halt her movements. Turning around had to be the last thing she wanted to do but she knew that she had to either face it now or later. Putting the last book into her locker, shutting it close, she turned around to find Quinn, Brittany, and Santana standing side by side. What caught Dani's attention is the slushy that occupied each of their hands.
"I think you know what's about to happen. So you can make this easy or hard. Either way works for us." Quinn stated with a smile that made Dani feel uneasy.
Running would be stupid, they would easily shove her on the floor. Yelling? No one would care to come to her rescue. Stalling? That would annoy the three girls further so Dani sighed, taking off her glasses and putting them inside her bag. She carefully sat herself down on the floor. What was the point in fighting anyway?
Quinn of course was the first to slowly pour the blueberry liquid on top of Dani's blonde head before letting the contents in the cup fully dump on her. Brittany was next, with a huge open mouth grin she simply through the slushy on Dani who jumped at the feeling of ice hitting her face. The taller blonde looked over at Quinn and in a way it seemed like she was waiting for Quinn's approval and when Quinn smiled at her Brittany smiled back. Then both of their heads turned toward Santana who held the last cherry slushy.
Santana stepped toward Dani, gripping the large cup in her hand. Dani wiped the leftover grape liquid that dripped down her face and over her eyes. Hazel eyes that were once bright now looked up at the Cheerio with nothing but emptiness, glazed over with tears. For some reason, Santana froze. Staring back at Dani, standing over her, the girl looked so...small and so vulnerable. This scene was all to familiar in Santana's head.
Santana sat in the sand box, adding the finishing touches to her small sand castle. Whenever she's deep in concentration, the tip of her tongue sticks out the side of her mouth and her eyes are squinted slightly unintentionally. A loud cry coming from the other side of the playground caught her attention. When she spotted a small girl on the ground with tears streaming down her face and a boy sticking out his tongue at her, the sand castle was quickly forgotten.
"Hey!" Santana stormed over toward the scene. Stepping in front of the small girl, she glared daggers at the boy. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size!"
The boy laughed at her. "Like you?"
Santana's small hand shot out, grabbed the boy's nose, twisting and pulling. When he began to cry she let him go, watching as he ran away with his nose covered. Santana's once angered expression softened when she turned around toward the little blonde girl on the floor. "Are you okay?" She asked gently.
The little girl sniffled and used the back of her hand to brush the blonde strands of hair out of her face. Big hazel eyes peered up at the tanner girl with a small pout on her lips and dry tears staining her full pink cheeks. "Yes. Thank you. That boy was a meanie." She spoke in a quiet voice.
"A big meanie." Santana agreed, nodding her head. "My name is Santana, what's yours?"
The little girl smiled up at Santana. Her smile made Santana feel warm. "Danielle. But everyone calls me Dani."
"Santana?" Quinn's voice snapped her out of her small trance. Dani was still looking up at her with those same big hazel eyes."Are you going to do it or not? Because if you aren't I'll-"
"Can it Fabray, I got this." She shouldn't feel guilty for what's she's doing. Dani deserves this. For what she made Santana go through. This is her payback and she shouldn't feel bad because Dani never felt bad or sorry.
Tipping over her cup she let the freezing liquid spill over Dani's head then dropped the cup once the it became empty. Grinning as she leaned down so she was eye level with the girl on the floor she said, "Karma's a bitch, Dani." With that the three cheerleaders left Dani alone in the hallway.
"I'm sorry." Dani whispered once they were gone.
