CHAPTER 4

Britt's POV

As soon as Brittany got to her room, she opened her laptop and logged on facebook. She found Santana's profile right away as they had a few mutual friends and she might or might not have searched for her few times before. She sent her a friend request and didn't even try do go through her profile, everything was private, the same as previous times Brittany had checked her profile. She wasn't feeling tired yet cause it was only after 10 pm and she was excited and giddy from her study "date" with Santana. Well, Santana hadn't really said it was a study "date" but whatever..

Brittany decided on not doing anything really and just settled on playing some Dead Island on her Xbox. What? Zombies are cool! She checked her phone a few times to see if Santana had already accepted her friend request, but she hadn't. She probably had fallen asleep right away after getting home. She did look exhausted. But she still had made the effort to come and help even if she was so exhausted and could have just cancelled. It made Brittany feel warm and fuzzy inside, because it seemed like the latina wanted to spend time with her even if she could have been sleeping all that time.

After killing zombies for like an hour Brittany decided to head to bed. After lying in the bed for like 40 minutes tossing and turning and maaayyybe thinking about a certain latina she was getting a bit frustrated. If this no sleeping thing is gonna keep up it's not gonna go well. Even though she doesn't have her 6 am practices for the next week, she still has a class a 9 am in the morning and she has to be up in like 7 hours and Brittany likes her sleep. Of course sometimes it might not be the easiest task to get in the bed, but once she was in there, it wasn't that easy to get out if she hadn't had enough sleep. But Brittany couldn't figure Santana out. Like.. it seemed like she liked her, but then she goes and turns her down and pretty much runs away. And then she's nice again and what's next now? Does she run away again? Brittany decided that she's just gonna have to wait and see, cause the latina makes her tummy feel funny and she's stunning and exciting and just so so so beautiful. And with that thought Brittany fell asleep.

When she wakes up with a groan she sees that it's like 15 minutes before her alarm will go off and tries to fall back asleep. Only when she remembers and grabs her phone to log on facebook. Yessss! Notification. Crap, it's just a photo tag… It's a good picture for a game though, that's cool. But why hasn't she accepted the friend request. Oh my god, I'm behaving like a 12 year old… She thinks and puts her phone away.

When Brittany was through with her classes and was changing in the locker room for her practice, she heard her phone and checked to see that Santana had finally accepted her friend request. Phew!.. She immediately went to the photos section and started going through them. She had been looking at them for couple of minutes and didn't even realise that Charlie was right next to her looking into her phone.
"Britt, you're totally stalking…" she said with a serious look on her face.
"What? No, I just.. looked at few, you know.. I hadn't bef.. I'm not stalking!" she tried to defend herself.
"Ha! Chill, I'm just kidding, you can stalk all you want. She's really pretty, I have to agree." Charlie said "So what's up with that? Have you already tapped that? We haven't really talked girls or dating, or sex, or whatever is the thing you do nowadays."
"Shut up Charlie! I haven't tapped that… What are you even… It's not like that at all."
"Of course it is, you were smiling like the biggest smile while looking at the pictures. Either you are crazy and want to keep her in your basement or you're totally into her." She does know you pretty good..
"Ugh, fine.. I do want to keep her in my basement!" you say faking disappointment for being caught.
"Shut up! Just tell me already, I can't believe you haven't already.. I thought I was your best friend." She fake pouts and makes puppy eyes. Really..?
"Fine, there really isn't much to tell though, so you're gonna be disappointed. I like her but she's being weird and I can't figure it out, but I might soon. I dunno.. She's just awesome. She's fun and it feels nice when I'm around her, which is pretty much never so this sounds a bit crazy now when I say it out loud" you drift off thinking to yourself.
"Whateverrr, so you two are going out or is this another casual thing or what?" Charlie asks looking really excited.
"We're not going out or doing anything. We did have a study session last night though, it was re.."
"You had a study session? Like with actual studying? Like books and stuff?" she says mockingly.
"Fuck you, I'm not that lazy, I can get it done…. Eventually." You tell her, a bit offended, but you really are really bad when it comes to studying. "But yeah, she helped me to stay focused and even went through my essay and everything, it was really nice of her."
"That's sweet! Is she in your major? You should have seen her by now if she was.."
"No no, she's studying medicine. She wants to be a surgeon, how freaking cool is that? Yeah, she's like really smart and stuff." Brittany says, feeling what..? proud? Okay, that's normal, right?
"Wow, that's awesome! But are you gonna ask her out? Like you can't even stop smiling when you talk about her, and you ramble, and are you blushing?" Charlie asks with a smile.
"What? No, I'm not! And I dunno, I do want to ask her out, but it seems like she's gonna say no cause she already has when I kind of sort of maybe asked her out a little bit jokingly some time ago"
"YOU ALREADY DID?! Why am I hearing this only now? Oh buuurrrrnnn, she turned you down? Haha, lost your game, Pierce?"
"I'm so done with you, Char! I'm not telling you shit anymore!" Brittany says and walks out of the locker room.
"Nooo, Britt! I'm sorry, you know I'm only joking, right?..." and she does know, but still wants to give her friend a hard time for making fun of her. Brittany can't really hold a grudge or be mad at her best friend, but bitch needs to learn.

She faked being hurt and mad at Charlie during the practice and the whole time in the locker room, and after she showered and got dressed and though that she should let her off the hook when she gets back to her dorm. She checked her phone and saw a message from no other than Santana. It said "Hey! I woke up just now.. Nah, kidding. I've been in the hospital since early this morning and didn't really have time. If you still want to do another study session I have the Friday night free-ish. If that's alright with you? And nice profile pic by the way ;)"
That makes Brittany immediately check her profile picture and it's her and her friend from one of the classes pretending to be gangster? That would maybe come close to the explanation to that picture, Brittany feels a bit embarrassed about the picture because she's not sure if Santana is joking or making fun of her a bit, so she changes it to a random picture of her playing basketball. Then she goes back to messages and reads it few more times with a smile on her face and types back "Oh no, you had to get up early again? How do you even survive? Is that legal? Lol Anyways, yeah of course I want to do another one, I actually got as much work done as I would have done in several days if I had done it myself. And Friday night is awesome. Just let me know what time, but I should be free anyways. Get some more sleep so you don't fall asleep next time ;)" yeah, that seems more or less alright, very casual. You send it and she reads it almost right away. You feel exited to see if she will respond but she doesn't for few minutes. You still check after every 30 seconds. And there it is "Haha, I'm fine really, I'm pretty used to my schedule. I'm glad you liked it, I liked studying with you Umm, it looks like I could be free around 9 pm, if that's alright? It is kind of late.."
Britt types back "No, that's fine really. I wouldn't be sleeping by then anyways, hah. I liked studying with you too, way more fun ;)"
"Yeah, okay. I'll see you on Friday then! Sweet dreams!"
"I'll see you! Goodnight, Santana!"

And she's no longer online. That went pretty well! Brittany thinks. And she got another study "date" with the gorgeous latina. Now only for Friday to come sooner!

When the Friday came, Brittany woke up in a very good mood, in spite of the fact that her least favourite class was starting at 9 am. She was excited for her study date with Santana tonight and couldn't wait for it happen already. And also the essay that she had almost finished with Santana was due in today, for her least favourite class. She never got good grades in it, and she believed that the professor that teaches it hated her. But she felt really good about the essay though. Santana had gone through it and pointed out where Brittany still needed to work on and she had done it, so she felt very confident about it. So she left her dorm room in a good mood and feeling happy, not dreading the class.

The day went by quickly and she hadn't checked her facebook for few hours and before she went out to her basketball practice, she checked her phone. And she was met with the worst thing that could have happened today. It was a message from Santana and it said "Hey, Brittany! I'm sorry, but I think I'm gonna have to cancel our study date. I woke up today feeling like crap, and wasn't even allowed to go down to the hospital. I've been feeling so ill all day. I just don't want you to catch anything.."
Then there was another one because the first one was sent earlier today, the second one was sent like half an hour ago "Hey, you still haven't seen my message and I don't know how else to reach you. I just hope you don't turn up and think that I stood you up!"
Brittany is looking at her phone and just feels sad. It's not like it was a date or anything, they were just supposed to study together. Last time they barley talked. But still, she was looking forward to spending some time with Santana all week. She was so excited this morning because it was finally Friday. She decided that she would not let this go that easily because she had been looking to spending time with her for so long, so she typed back a replay "Aww, I'm sorry that you're not well. I hope you're feeling better that you did in the morning. I was really looking forward to our study date, I got so much done last time and handed in my essay today, I'm feeling very good about it, all thanks to you "
Brittany still had some time before the practice because she had arrived a bit earlier because she liked to shoot around for a little at first. She saw that Santana was online and hoped that she would get a replay before she had to head to the practice. So she busied herself with getting ready and heard her phone go off which meant that she had a message. And it was from the one person she wanted it to be. "I'm glad that you felt confident about it, I bet it's gonna get a really good grade I don't feel as terrible as I did in the morning, but still band enough. I can't get myself to go outside, I've been lying on the couch for most of the day."
"I hope so! And I'm happy that you're not feeling as bad as before, but still sucks. I hate being sick, I can never just lie around the house, hah."
"Well, maybe if you haven't planned anything for tonight, it is Friday night after all, maybe we can have the study session at my place? I mean if you want to, I could be contagious still. And it might not be very fun to hang around an ill person, haha.
"No, it would be awesome! I was really looking forward to it. I kind of have to go now, I have my basketball practice, but I can head out straight after it, only if you give me directions to your place! Gotta go now! See you tonight!"
And with that she put her phone in her locker and headed to the gym.

The practice was pretty intense. An important game was coming up and the coach wanted them at their best and even better. They had barely won the previous game they played with the team, so they knew that it would be a tough one this time too. Brittany was feeling beat, she was dragging her feet to the locker room, grabbed a towel and headed to the showers. Usually showering made her feel a bit better, but she just felt beat. The last thing on her mind was studying for even few minutes, but she had arranged study session with Santana, last time they spent 3 hours studying.. ew.. At least she's gonna be spending them with Santana, so that's the bright side.

She got dressed and checked her phone. Santana had sent her the directions and she realised that it wasn't that far from the campus. She still had time to run to her room and get her books and have some little time left. She got to her room and packed her bag with few books and her laptop and was almost out the door when she thought she should bring something for Santana, cause she was sick and that's what you do when someone's sick. So she made some tea but hadn't thought it through how it would stay hot. Then she remembered her mom packed a thermos for her, but she hadn't used it yet. She dug around her things and found it. Yessss! But wait, she could just make her own tea, she is at home… Brittany thought Whatever, it's the thought that counts. And she was on her way. It was in a walking distance, like 20 minutes maybe. She stopped at a coffee shop on her way and got a chocolate chip muffin for Santana too.

After around 20 minutes she got to the house that Santana had given her directions to. It was a one story house with a small front lawn, it looked like she could be living with one or two roommates maybe, judging from the size, it wasn't huge or anything. She walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. After few seconds the door opened.
"Hey! Right on time, come in." Santana said and stepped aside letting Brittany go in her house.
"Thanks, you have a lovely house, do you live with roommates?"
"Thank you, and no, I live by myself. My parents insisted on paying for it so I can focus on my studies. So yeah, that's not very impressive.." she said with a nervous laugh.
"That's cool! You have your own house! But I think I would get a bit lonely maybe" Brittany thought out loudly.
"Yeah, I don't really have time to be lonely." Santana laughed "Most of my time I spend in the hospital or in the library, I pretty much just sleep here."
"Oh man, you really are busy, aren't you? Anyways, I brought you this!" Brittany presented the thermos and muffin to Santana with a beaming smile. " There's tea in that because it's good for you when you're sick and that's a muffin, I got you a chocolate chip one cause I didn't know what you liked, but I figured that everyone loves chocolate, so I thought I couldn't go wrong with it.." Brittany suddenly realised that she was rambling like a crazy person and Santana was just looking at her with wide eyes.
But then she let out a little laugh and said "Brittany, you didn't have to bring me anything, that's so sweet of you" and she gave her a hug.
It might have lasted just a second too long to be a simple 'thank you for the tea and muffin and the awkward rambling' but that was what Brittany loved about it the most. Then she let go and stepped back a bit and it was silent for a few seconds and then Santana broke the silence.
"Well, I guess we should get on with the studies before it's your bedtime, huh? She said with a little smirk.
"Oohh, she's not only bossy, she thinks she's funny too! I'm gonna re-think that muffin next time"
"I'm getting more muffins? I could be your personal tutor then." Santana says with a wink. Which made Brittany catch her breath a little bit. Then Santana turns and walks towards what seems to be the living room, puts the thermos and muffin on a coffee table and sits down on the coach.
"You don't look sick! How come you don't look sick? Are you one of those people who still manage to look stunning even when they're almost dying?" Brittany asks and just then realises that she called her 'stunning' so she just goes on "Every time I get sick I look like I've been dragged behind a car on a highway."
"Haha, no, I just tried to look more or less presentable since I had someone coming over tonight."
"Ooooor you weren't even sick and you just wanted to get out of our study date!" Brittany said teasingly. But also when she said it she thought what if that's actually true.
"I would never!" Santana said with a smile and got up. "Want some tee?" she asked shaking the thermos in her hand a bit.
"Umm, sure.."

For the next 40 minutes or so they were pretty silent most of the time, just speaking briefly with their heads in the books. Brittany was fighting hard to keep her attention on the text, but being so tired wasn't helping and Santana being so beautiful was not making everything easier either. So she was kind of studying her face for a bit and then decided that it was enough of studying for the night.
"Why did you decide to be a doctor?" she broke the silence and made Santana jump a little bit.
"Ha, you scared me!" she said with a little laugh "Well, both of my parents are doctors. So I've grown up around doctors and hospitals and grown to love it. And it just seems so powerful to be able to save lives, it sounds so cheezy but that's just it." Santana said with a shy smile.
"I think it's very impressive"
"What about you, how did you end up in your major?"
"Ehh, I just love making movies. Me and my friends in high school always used to video random stuff and make stupid videos. I think it's pretty cool and I've been making a couple of short films while here for my school projects and it's awesome, I love it!" Brittany told her with a smile. "So are both of your parents surgeons too?"
"No, my mom is a psychiatrist and my dad is an oncologist. What about your parents?" Santana asked with curious facial expression.
"Ha, it's not as exciting as yours, my dad is a veterinarian and my mom is I don't even know what to call her, umm, she has a degree in Marine Biology and a phd in something with sharks. In short, she researches sharks."
"What?! That is crazy, Brittany! Can she not get hurt?!" she asked with a shocked expression.
"I guess she could, but she knows what she's doing though, don't worry. She knows the risks." Brittany said with an assuring smile.
"I would be so terrified, I think sharks are soooo scary! Ew, no!" Santana said with a little shudder.
"Haha, they're not that bad, I think they're pretty cool, but enough about sharks"
"Gladly! Do you want some more tea maybe?" she offers.
"Yeah, I'd like some."

When Santana got back from the kitchen she handed Brittany's cup to her and sat next to her on the coach. She had been sitting in the chair before and Brittany immediately noticed that. How could she not, she had been throwing glances at her from across the table most of the night. But now she was so close, Santana's hand was almost touching Brittany's calf which made her want to move her leg a little bit so they would touch but that would be so obvious and she didn't want to make it awkward, so she decided against it. Then Santana spoke and brought Brittany out of her thoughts.
"How long have you been playing basketball for? You're so good!"
"Well thanks, I could always be better, you know… But I've been playing since I was six years old, so that makes it what, like 15 years." She said thoughtfully.
"That's a long time! How did you get into it?"
"I've always been an active kid. My parents think maybe a bit too active. So I've been into a lot of things during my childhood and high school to keep me occupied and busy. Mom put me into a dance class when I was 4 which is crazy I think, haha, but she said it tired me out. Then I picked up basketball when I was 6 and after that when I was like 9 or 10 I started surfing."
"Holy crap! You surf too? Did you have any time to be a kid at all?"
"Well, nothing was mandatory really. Mom wanted me to stay in dance, but that wasn't a problem, I love to dance. Dad was really into me playing basketball and would shoot hoops with me late at night, and I just loved surfing too. It was all fun, I made a lot of friends with all that, so it's cool. And it's not like those things aren't fun, it wasn't all work and no play, more like all play, hah." Brittany says thinking how much she loved being a kid and not having to worry about being good at everything, no one expected of her to be perfect at something back then.
"That actually sounds a lot of fun. I never really did any sports when I was little. I played soccer for like 2 months when I was 9, but someone hit me with a ball in the head and I pushed them to the ground, after that there were couple of small incidents and my parents decided that competitive sport was not for me" she told Brittany with a little laugh and sly smile.

They spent the next hour just talking about random things about their childhood memories and how the life was in high school and stuff. Brittany learned that Santana was very determined and serious about academical stuff. She had been straight A student all through high school and spent a lot of time in books. There was no surprise that one of her hobbies was reading and that was something they had in common, so they discussed their favourite books for a while and then music and movies and so on. Studying was far forgotten, not even in the back of their heads. Brittany was enjoying their evening together so much, she didn't want it to end. So they talked some more. They were talking about pets they have or had had and Brittany was just telling about her cat Lord Tubbington.
"Wait, I have a picture of him on my phone, I'll show you!" Brittany told Santana and took her phone out and found the pictures if her cat.
"Oh my god, Brittany! I think he needs to go on a diet! I think he's the biggest cat I've ever seen" Santana said while laughing.
"Heyyy, don't be mean, he's just full of love!" Brittany responded and put her phone on the coffee table.
"Brittany, is that an iron man phone case?"
"What?" she grabbed her phone and showed it in her pocket "No it isn't.."
"It totally was!"
"Was not… Well maybe it was. This is embarrassing."
"Don't be embarrassed. Are you one of those secretly nerdy girls then?" she said with a smirk on her face.
"Ugh, stop making fun of me, superheroes are cool!" Brittany said blushing. She didn't want to show her inner nerd because Santana seemed so grown up and serious.
"Britt, don't worry, I think it's really cute actually." She said and put her hand on Brittany's.

Brittany immediately shot her eyes to their touching hands and then to Santana's eyes. She didn't know what to say and didn't know if she wanted to say anything really at that moment. They just stared at each other, neither even blinked. It was getting a little bit intense and Brittany kind of took Santana's hand in hers and turned her body in her direction. And right then when a smile had started forming on Santana's lips, Brittany's phone rang.

Author's note: Thank you for reading!