So, Santana is back! She and Rachel are going to have an interesting heart to heart soon that I can't wait to finish. Hope you enjoy! Please review, the comments are awesome, and let me know what you guys like and don't:)
Disclaimer – still nothing. Ryan's hard to get on the phone!
Rachel had been talking faster than Kate ever realized possibly the entire ten minute ride to school. Unlike many of the glee kids and students at school, she never seemed to get annoyed with Rachel or ask her to get to the point. Rachel kept checking to see if her sister was getting bored or losing interest, but she was always listening intently. Even her fathers couldn't just let Rachel go on and on like this. It was refreshing for her to finally get out everything she wanted to say. Kate thought she was hilarious and was glad to let her talk. She had always been more of a listener anyway, never one to talk about herself too much.
The girls said goodbye to Hiram and began walking into school. The night before Rachel had explained most of the abuse that she endured daily. Slushies and such. It had made Kate extremely angry and weary of how the day was going to go. Rachel had told her that the main three people that attacked her were Karofsky, Quinn and Santana. At Santana's name was when Kate had truly shown her anger. She had actually liked the other girl from the day before. Realizing the shit she had put her sister through made her pissed enough to give Santana a piece of her mind.
As the girls walked into the school Rachel linked their arms together and was still going on about all of the movie musicals Kate needed to watch and their ex's (which they had talked about the night before as well). Kate had seen some of them, but was excited to see them with Rachel. Funny Girl had been an experience. Rachel had gotten so into the movie and was thrilled that Kate had as well. By the end of it, the girls were both in tears.
Rachel had been thrilled that Kate was a lesbian.
"Well never be sisters who fights over a guy!" She had proclaimed the night before, much to Kate's amusement.
"I can do coffee this afternoon, but I can't stay with you as late, my foster mom was a little pissed." Rachel looked at her worried that she had gotten her sister into trouble. "I mean, she understood, we just met and all, it wasn't too big a deal, but she said not to make a habit out of it." Rachel nodded.
"That's fine. We did sort of lose track of time."
"Well it was fun!" Both girls smiled at each other as they made their way to Rachel's locker. Kate leaned against it while Rachel got her books out and tucked her set of extra clothes in. "Do you really get slushied that much?" Kate asked. Rachel nodded and could sense her sisters anger.
"Its not just me. Lots of kids get it. Glee club especially, but I do seem to be a favorite target. It has lessened a little in the past few months though."
As the girls were talking Santana and Brittany rounded the corner.
"See, I told you she'd be with Rachel." Brittany said confidently to a nervous Santana. "Sweetie, you've gotta chill. Where is the San I know and love?"
"She apparently died yesterday. I have been weird all night. I kept thinking about what I was gonna wear today, I changed my cloths eight times! I've never done that in my life. I don't get nervous. What the fuck is wrong with me?"
"You've got a crush."
"Yes. Thank you B. Very helpful." Brittany smiled until she realized that Santana was being sarcastic.
"Just go talk to her."
"I am."
"You're not moving."
"No, I totally am."
"No you're not. Your feet are on the ground. I know what moving looks like."
"I am."
"San! You said you weren't going to trick me anymore. You promised. You are not moving!"
"I'm trying. My feet stopped working."
"That can't happen. The doctor told me so."
"B!" Santana screamed, then quickly lowered her voice as half of the hallway turned around. "You are gonna have to give me a pep talk and then push me okay?" Brittany nodded excitedly.
"Is this a game?"
"Yeah B, its a sort of game."
"A get Santana a date with Rachel's hot sister game?"
"Yeah, be quieter B."
"Sorry." Santana waited, but Brittany didn't say anything. She just started at Santana.
"B?"
"Yeah?"
"Pep talk remember?"
"Oh right!" Brittany jumped up and down. "Ok. Santana Lopez." She took Santana's shoulders and pulled her face away from Kate and made her look into her eyes. "You are hot, you are awesome, you are funny, and brave, and tell it like it is. You are vicious and a badass. She is gonna fall in love with you and its gonna be awesome cause you will be happy and we can go on dates with her and Artie." Santana didn't look all that thrilled about Artie, but stopped, she did feel so much better about him and Brittany dating already. The girl she had been in love with only the day before was the one telling her to go for a new girl that she couldn't stop thinking about. It was proving to be a weird 48 hours. "Ready?" Brittany asked. Santana just nodded. Brittany grabbed her arm and pulled her along down the hallway to Rachel's locker.
"Hi Rachel! Hi Kate." She said cheerfully.
"Hello Brittany." Rachel said with a smile. "Santana." She looked back at her sister as she shut her locker.
"Hi." Kate said then turned to Rachel, ignoring the girls. "Can we find my locker now?" Rachel nodded and took her sister's arm again.
"See you later." She said to Brittany and Santana as she pulled Kate along.
"San!" Santana wasn't looking at Brittany. She was watching Kate walk away and feeling like she was going to throw up. "You didn't even day hi!"
"I'm going to class." Santana spit out viciously and ran off leaving Brittany alone in the hall.
Santana had spent the entire morning thinking about Kate. And it pissed her off. The girl hadn't even looked at her! She looked hot today! She was wearing one of her tightest, smallest dresses, her black hair was down and she had on kickass heels. Kate hadn't even given her a second glance! Fuck her.
Not even seconds later she felt like shit for thinking anything bad about Kate. This girl was messing with her head. Santana excused herself to go to the bathroom in every class hoping to run into the girl in the hall. No luck. By the time lunch came around Santana was twitchy, nervous, and very, very pissed off. Everyone who got in her way instantly regretted it. She had punched two freshman already just for not moving out of her way fast enough. Even Brittany didn't bother saying a word to her, just walked (sprinted) quietly with Santana on their way to the cafeteria.
"Where the fuck are they?" Santana screamed.
"Who?" Artie asked as he, Mike, Tina, Kurt, Mercedes, Quinn and Sam made their way over to the girls.
"Yental and Kate."
"Rachel usually eats in the auditorium." Kurt answered. Santana took off leaving her friends completely confused. The glee kids wasted no time following her grabbing Puck and Lauren on the way.
Sure enough, Santana burst the door to the auditorium open and Berry and Kate were sitting on the floor of the stage eating sandwiches and laughing. She took a deep breath, plastered on a typical Santana smirk, crossed her arms and walked over to them.
"You know they invented this room, with tables and chairs and food for the purposes of eating lunch at school. Owls today huh Berry?"
"Hello Santana. What can we do for you?" Rachel asked.
"Scoot over."
"What?" The rest of the glee club had made it to the auditorium by now and were filing in behind Santana. They all sat down around the two girls and Rachel couldn't help but be a but annoyed with the disruption to their conversation. "What are you guys doing here?" She asked.
"Getting to know the other Berry!" Kurt yelled as he tried to sit down next to Kate. Santana shoved him away and took his spot.
"Hi." She said with a smile to Kate. Kate only nodded her head in Santana's direction and took a bite of her sandwich. Santana frowned, this was not going as she had planned.
"So, you lived in NYC?" Tina asked. Kate nodded. "Have you ever seen any Broadway shows?"
"Yep." Rachel waited about a millisecond before practically yelling out.
"Which ones?"
"Beauty and the Beast, Les Mis, Young Frankenstein, Curtains, Spring Awakening, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Sweet Charity, that one was off-broadway, the tour, with Molly Ringwald. It was crazy. The Breakfast Club is one of my all time favorite movies so I was kinda stoked to see her."
"Wow." The glee kids all looked completely envious. Rachel most of all.
"Avenue Q, Rent, Wicked, Phantom, Chicago, 9 to 5, Little Women, and Gypsy. The version with Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti. I saw part of the one with Bernadette Peters and almost died. She is a goddess. A motherfucking goddess."
"You are living my dream life. How did you pay for all that?" Rachel yelled out before anyone else could get a word in.
"Well, I kinda didn't pay for all of them." The glee kids all smiled.
"What?" Puck asked. "How?" Kate smiled a bit sheepishly. She wasn't really used to all the attention on her like this. New schools yes, but mostly she just walked around and kept to herself most of the time. Plus city schools were bigger than this one. People could come and go practically unnoticed for weeks, months even.
"Well, my friends and I would go to matinees mostly, and we'd go to the theater around intermission for the first show and find a group of people outside the theater smoking or talking. There is almost always a small group out there. We'd follow them back in, and kinda pretend to be with them. Then we'd find seats and watch the second half. When it was over, we'd hide in the bathrooms until the next show and catch the first half. But that's mostly if we had seen the show before. If we hadn't, we would wait until the matinee was over and sneak in while most people were coming out and hide out in the bathrooms to catch the whole night show. I mean, we paid too. We'd wait at the TKTS booth."
All of the glee kids were quiet for a minute, thoroughly impressed with their newest member.
"That is so badass." Puck finally said. The rest agreed.
"But illegal." Rachel reminded everyone. They all groaned and began to tell her to shut up until Kate spoke up.
"Don't." She warned as Quinn started the name calling. Quinn lifted her brow in shock and confusion.
"Excuse me?" She asked annoyed.
"Leave her alone." Rachel smiled sheepishly as the rest of the kids turned to stare at her. They couldn't believe that someone was sticking up for her. Especially after Rachel had been explaining that Kate had been doing something wrong. "I mean it. Cut the shit with the names and the slushies. She can talk if she wants to." None of them said anything. Santana and Quinn especially were looking at Kate in complete and utter disbelief. "Come on Rach, lets go. I gotta use the bathroom." Rachel gave her friends a small smirk and skipped after her sister. They were all quiet for another minute before Santana broke the silence.
"Fucking hell."
Rachel had gone of to speak to Mr. Schue about something for glee and Kate had gone to the bathroom. Santana had followed them out after a few minutes and headed into the bathroom after the girl.
"Hey." She said as she walked in, angrily at first, but she quickly calmed herself down and put a smile on her face. "You've barely looked at me all day." Kate said nothing. "Hey." Santana tried again. This time Kate turned to her and Santana stepped back a bit. The girl wore a glare on her face that could rival Santana's and Quinn's put together.
"What." She spat out.
"Did I do something to piss you off? Because I thought we were cool yesterday."
"Yesterday I didn't know you. I talked to you for like five minutes, yeah, I thought you were cool. But then I went home with my sister and found out that you are a raging bitch who gets enjoyment out of throwing ice cold slushies in my sister face, calling her horrible names like RuPaul, Stubbles, Manhands, Midget, Dwarf, Yental and various others and making her feel like shit daily. So, no, we are not cool." With that Kate walked past a very stunned Santana and out into the hall.
Santana took about half a second to be shocked, but then became angry and followed Kate.
"Okay, you don't get to call me a bitch. You barely know me. That is all one-sided shit that Berry told you." Kate turned around and stopped so quickly that Santana bumped into her.
"Are you denying it?"
"What?"
"Are you denying it?" Santana paused a second and considered her words carefully.
"No." Kate turned to leave but this time Santana was faster. She reached out and got a tight grip on Kate's arm. "Wait, let me explain." Kate paused but Santana did not loosen her grip in fear that the girl would walk away again. "No. I am a bitch. I've always been. Berry is...Berry is annoying." Kate began to pull her arm away but Santana held on tightly. "She is! I'm sorry, but you have known her a couple of hours. I've known her most of my life. She gets annoying. I don't feel bad saying that, its true. She's full of herself, and manipulative, and selfish, and annoying."
"I'm not gonna stand her and listen to you insult my sister."
"I'm not done." Santana practically growled at the girl. "She is annoying, but I'm not stupid, she's alright otherwise. She's crazy talented, everyone knows that. Its why we put up with her. That and beneath all the annoying crap, she can be okay sometimes." Kate relaxed a little bit. Enough for Santana to loosen her grip, but not let go. Even just holding the girl in place, Santana was nervous and could feel her stomach flipping in such close proximity to the girl. "Most of the shit I did to her, it was before I really knew her. I'm not gonna lie to you and tell you me and Berry are best friends or anything, we're not. But I didn't know her that well before glee, she was just this tiny, loud freak. Everybody picked on her. I was a Cheerio, so I did too. It was fun." Kate began to pull away again and Santana tightened her grip and grabbed her other arm. Thankful that it was still lunch and the hallways were empty. She was not one to talk about feelings and why she did crap. This was bad enough, an audience would kill her. "Hang on! Its not like I never felt bad about it. I get picked on now too. Glee has fricking ruined my life, in a good way kinda, but I've been slushied, it fucking blows, I don't do it to people anymore. I haven't done it to Berry in years, I haven't even ordered anyone to do it to her in forever. Yeah I still call her names and tell her to shut up once in a while, because like I said, she gets annoying. Plus, its not exclusive to her. I'm a bitch to everyone. But I'm awesome too. That's why we should be friends." Santana took a deep breath and waited. She went over what she said and hoped that it didn't sound as idiotic out loud as it had sounded in her head. That was the most she had talked about herself and feeling and all that crap in years. This chick better fucking appreciate that!
"That is your selling point? I'm a bitch, be my friend?"
"Awesome bitch. But yeah." Kate was quiet for what felt like hours to Santana. People were starting to trickle out of the cafeteria. Santana refused to let go of Kate's arms but wished she would say something before the entire student body came out to see her practically hugging the girl. Kate was staring into Santana's eyes which made her extremely uncomfortable. She hated when people looked at her like that. She was trying to figure her out. Santana looked down to escape her gaze and Kate let out a small laugh.
"You can't ever slushie Rachel again."
"I said I haven't..." Kate cut her off.
"I don't care, promise. Never again." Santana nodded. "Say it out loud." Who did this bitch think she was?
"Fine. Never again." Fucking hell, they weren't even dating and Santana was whipped.
"Stop calling her names, picking on her cloths and ideas, just leave her alone. If she annoys you, tell me and I'll calm her down okay?"
"Fine." Santana grumbled.
"I mean it. If you make her cry even once. I am done being your friend got it?" Santana was the one to make eye contact this time. Kate was deadly serious. Santana took a minute to think about it. It would be really hard to be nice to Berry. She wasn't about to just say yes to anything this girl wanted, hot or not.
"Fine. But you can't just expect me to get over seventeen years of being a bitch to her in one night. I'll do my best, but that's all I'll promise."
"Fair enough. As long as she doesn't cry. And as long as you are actually trying. You don't have to be her best friend, but you can't be mean to her."
"Deal." The hallways were full of students now and Santana, noticing instantly dropped her arms. Something Kate noticed. "So, see ya in glee." She said quickly, and with that, she turned and walked away. A huge smile was plastered on her face. An idiot freshman Cheerio made some comment to her friend about Santana's smile. She whipped around and smacked her across the face before heading to class. Berry may be off limits, and she may be practically whipped and not even in a relationship, but she was still Santana fucking Lopez.