Welcome to You and Me
Ch. 4: Inch by Inch
Ever since that community service event, Rachel and Brittany ended up hanging out with us a little more throughout the next couple of months. "Us" included me (obviously) Puck, Quinn, Finn, Mike, Tina, Sam and Mercedes.
Here, let me give you a little background story on our group. I already talked about Puck and Quinn, so we can skip them.
Let's see... oh, I can start with Mercedes. This bitch, (and I mean that in the best possible way) is one of a kind. I met her in one of my undergrad classes. I took a music class for fun and she just so happened to be the girl seated next to me on the first day of the semester. I was humming along to some Adele song through my headphones while I waited for class to start and she got my attention somehow. We hit it off immediately with our overlapping music tastes and eventually became friends outside of school. Mercedes also has a voice. Let me tell you... Girl can belt it out like no other. She doesn't take any shit from anybody, and that's one of the things I admire about her. Yeah, she's a little bigger in size, but her personality and "you sass me, I sass you back" attitude is what makes her such an amazing person. By the way, don't tell her I said any of this. I don't want her to think I went soft or anything. She usually calls me "Satan," or something like that.
Finn. Where do I begin with this one? Okay, so I didn't like him... At all when I first met him. But he eventually grew on me. Sure, he can be a little dense and sooooooo dopey, but he really does have best intentions in his heart. He's Puck's best friend so I was kinda stuck with him being in our circle of friends. I may or may not have come up with a few not so nice nick names that I call him, but he knows that I don't really mean it. Most of the time. (I mean, lumps the clown, Finnocence and Frankenteen aren't that bad)
Trouty Mouth, or as most people call him, Sam, was surprisingly one of the guys who I actually liked (no, not in any romantic sense). He's also one of Puck's close friends... so again, I was also stuck with this one. Although his geeky comic book side can be a little overwhelming at times. Not the mention his impersonations/ impressions. He can totally have more game if he gave those up. But that's what makes Sam... Sam (or in my case, Trouty Mouth...) Did I mention how huge his lips are? It's weird how a white guy like him can have such a big mouth. Also at one point he had this weird Justin Bieber phase... he pulled it off pretty well though.
And finally... the two Changs aka Asians. No, they're not related. Actually... they're dating. Mike Chang and Tina Cohen-Chang. Weird huh? Yeah, I know. Makes it easier on us I guess... I can just say "Girl" or "Boy" Chang and they'll answer. Mike has some pretty awesome dance moves. Girl Chang definitely did a good move on claiming that boy cause he has some hard rock abs. Don't ask me how they came into our friend group. I honestly don't remember. Tina doesn't say much... I heard a story how she used to fake a stutter back in high school, but she's definitely gotten over that. Also apparently she had this gothic phase back then too... That's not very surprising for me to imagine.
We started to have some workouts in the evenings and invited everyone. We'd actually meet up at Sam's apartment cause it was pretty much in equal distance from where everyone lived. I was always one of the first people there so I'd raid Sam's fridge for some food. He's used to it already. It was fun, we'd run from his house to this park that was about one and a half miles away. Then we'd do some sort of cross-fit training there before running/ walking back to his place.
When Rachel and Brittany first joined us everyone was so excited. Rachel was more of the center of attention with her "diva" -ish personality while Brittany kept more of a low profile but her random, yet hilariously funny interjections made everyone love her.
Example, I don't even know how we got on the topic of sea animals and sea life, but we did, Brittany all of a sudden asked,
"Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?"
Her face was completely serious. I was taken slightly aback, but when I thought about it more, it kinda made sense. Everyone else had a laugh and I noticed the tiny hint of a smile on her lips along with a quirk of an eyebrow.
Brittany Pierce was definitely someone with a personality that was so unique.
Those evening workouts became a weekly thing for a while. I actually found it amazing how Rachel could practically sing and keep up with us during our run at the same time. Usually Puck and Sam set the pace of our runs in the front followed by Mike and Finn. The rest of us (the girls, Mercedes, Quinn, Tina, Brittany, Rachel and myself) would trail behind a little. Mostly because we'd be talking or something.
I remember one night I showed up in my workout gear at the usual time at Sam's and he told me basically everybody had bailed. I was content with just having a night in (raiding his place) but he said Brittany was still gonna come after his phone beeped from a text form her.
About half an hour passed and there was no sign of Brittany. Sam called her up and we found that she actually ended up falling asleep. I found that incredibly amusing (and maybe a little cute?) while Sam sighed and called the night a bust.
"I didn't mean to take a nap. I'm so embarrassed," Brittany said, Sam had put her on speakerphone so I could hear.
"It's not like we were waiting for you or anything," Sam joked in a light hearted way.
"I'll come next time, I promise," She replied back earnestly.
"No worries, Santana and I will manage," I scoffed at Sam's statement. We'd most likely just ditch the workout to stay at his place and order some pizza and watch TV.
And we did just that. After he and Brittany got off the phone I looked over at him and asked,
"You want Chinese or pizza?"
"Pizza,"
"Perfect,"
Halfway through watching some B-list movie that was playing on TV and about three-quarters of a large Hawaiian pizza later, Sam brought up Brittany.
"So... Brittany's pretty cute,"
I looked over and gave him a bored expression.
"Yeah?" I deadpanned.
"I'm just saying," Sam sighed and I cracked a laugh.
"We should make her feel a little bad for bailing on us," I told him with a smirk and focused my attention back on the movie.
"But everyone else bailed on us tonight anyway,"
"I wanna see how she reacts," I remarked blatantly.
"Really, Santana?" Sam side eyed me with a knowing expression.
"It's not that mean, besides I'm sure she'll understand that we're kidding," I continued on with a glance back at his direction.
Sam hummed unconvincingly in response.
"Oh, right... you think she's cute." I began to patronize with air quotes added to "cute", "Which is guy code for I wanna get in her pants," I finished as I shot him another expression that dared him to challenge me.
He actually dropped his jaw and was speechless for a few seconds.
"N-no!" He stammered in shock, I swear, Sam's face went bright red and his eyes were so wide. I couldn't help but start to crack up hysterically.
"Calm down Trouty, I know you're not like that." I reassured him after a minute of catching my breath.
"That wasn't cool," He frowned and crossed his arms with a huff.
"Whatever. It's technically a compliment because you're better than that. And you actually had great parents who raised you to be such a well mannered young man," I rolled my eyes at him.
We ended up doing a little thing with telling Brittany that we ran like five miles that night and how it would have been better if she join us, the next time a group of us had a workout/ hang out. It did make her feel a little bad... But as I thought, she joked it off with saying she probably would have fallen asleep on that run anyway.
I think Sam's little crush on Brittany grew a little because he somehow always seemed to gravitate towards her more and more when we all were together.
Unfortunately for him, he wasn't the only guy who had his eye on her.
A/N: Oh look. An update already? Yeah. (After an 8 hour shift at the hospital and a 2 hour nap after that, I did this)
Glee's back tonight? God damnit. No.
I'm just waiting for the 100th episode.
Also, Dianna Agron has one of the most soothing voice on the planet and I was kindly reminded of that on Saturday when I was able to hear it again with my own ears. Such a lovely thing to listen to.
-Perseids