Breaking Free Chapter 4: Karaoke Queens, a glee fanfic

Chapter Four

A/N: This chapter starts exactly where the last one finished. So there's some Quinn and Santana goodness for sure. Apologies that it was a bit later than planned... Work life & non-work life have been super busy recently.
Sorry if there are any mistakes. They are all my fault.

For the singing, Santana is in italics and Quinn is in bold and the lyrics from both of them are in bold italics.

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Quinn looked up at the stage and just saw Santana looking at her and giving her a sincere smile. "That smile is almost enough to get me to do anything" Quinn though as she made her way up to the stage to sing.

"Hey, Quinn." Santana said. "Hi, it's nice to finally meet you properly." Quinn replied with a shy smile.

"You too." Santana said "I hope you can keep up, I'm well prepared for this karaoke session." She said to Quinn with a cheeky smile. Quinn laughed nervously and nodded slightly. She definitely was the opposite of prepared for this karaoke session. She was kind of scared that she might embarrass herself completely in front of Santana (who, for some reason, she wanted to impress) and in front of a huge crowd that included her sister who would not let her live it down if she did embarrass herself.

"Yo, don't be so nervous." Santana whispered to only Quinn, "I bet you'll rock it, but probably not as much as I will." She said and smiled that cheeky smile again.

Quinn looked and smiled and wondered where Santana got all that confidence from and wondered if she could be that confident too... "Okay, let's do this!" Quinn whisper-shouted just as the music started making Santana giggle quietly.

Both girls looked up at the screen, it read: START OF SOMETHING NEW – Red: 1st singer, Blue: 2nd singer, Green: Both singers.

"Oh crap I don't know this one!" Quinn said to herself but it was loud enough for Santana to hear.

"It's cool, I don't either, let's just go with it. I'll go first." Santana whispered in reply and smiled at Quinn. Quinn returned the smile as a sort of thanks and Santana caught it just as the lyrics appeared on the screen.

"Livin' in my own world,

Didn't understand

That anything can happen

When you take a chance."

Santana sang the first few lines whilst trying to keep up with the melody. She was looking out into the crowd when singing these lines and didn't notice Quinn staring at her. As she turned to see if Quinn was ready to sing the next lines they caught each other eyes and Quinn blushed slightly and looked away from Santana to the screen, fixing her glasses as she did so.

"I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart"
"Ohhhhh." Quinn looked at Santana when she sang this and Santana looked to Quinn. Quinn had to hold in a slight giggle and then carried on with her verse.
"Too all the possibilities. Ohhh."

"I know...
That something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
This could be the...Start of somethin' new
It feels so right
To be here with you, ooh
And now lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
[Feel in my heart]
The start of somethin' new
Ohhhh, yeahh."

Quinn and Santana both knew that they had been sneaking glances at the other, trying to be discreet, but both girls also knew that the other one wasn't being very successful with her discretion. All Quinn could think of whilst the song was going on was how everything she had found out about Santana so far had been attractive. Her hair was long and sleek and always flowed beautifully over her shoulders, the tanned shade of her skin looked like it could belong to a goddess, her dark eyes were just amazing and full of mystery that Quinn wanted to uncover, her personality seemed fun and exciting with a splash of spice when she felt like it, and now her voice had been added to list of attractive and sexy things that Santana possessed. When she sang Quinn couldn't believe that it had come from a girl who seemed her age, her voice was raspy and full of soul and Quinn could tell that she obviously loved to sing, and it was clear that Santana also thought that she had a good voice and Quinn found this confidence in herself very attractive. In conclusion, Quinn Fabray was most definitely attracted to Santana Oh I don't know her surname.

"Now who'd of ever thought that... oh
We'd both be here tonight... yeah
Oh yeah, the world looks so much brighter
[Brighter, brighter]
Oh, with you by my side

[By my side]
I know... that somethin' has changed
Never felt this way
Oh I know it for real
This could be the...

Start of somethin' new
It feels so right to be here with you... oh
And now... lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of somethin' new

I never knew that it could happen
'Til it happened to me
Ohhhh, yeah"

Santana watched Quinn intensely as she sang that line. Her voice was not only cute but also endearing. Santana knew that she was being dramatic by comparing it to angels yet she couldn't help herself. She didn't think that she'd ever heard a more perfect singing voice, not from the lead singer of the Glee club who though she was amazing and not even from the lead singer of her favourite band. It confused Santana deeply that she could find someone so attractive from hearing their voice when she barely knew this person. Not only that, she was deeply confused that she was so attracted to another girl (sure she'd had fun with girls, namely cheerleaders from school, before but she'd never felt like she wanted more than that). Then she thought about it a bit more whilst looking at Quinn and realised that maybe it wasn't only her singing voice that attracted her. She thought about when Quinn skied into the back of her and how adorable she had been during her apology. She was even adorable enough to stop Santana from shouting at her. She thought about Quinn's cute, sort of messy hair and how it looked like she had tried to tame it tonight but hadn't quite managed it. She finally thought about Quinn's eyes... They were the perfect shade of green and they seemed to shine like more than any one else's in the room. Even behind the black-rimmed glasses that were over them they were still capturing Santana's attention.

Santana was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she got a fright when she heard someone shout loudly from the crowd.

"Santana you suck! You should just give up now before you permanently damage the ear drums of everyone in this room." Carlos Jr. shouted.

Santana shook her head and whispered "Oh god..." and before she had time to reply it was her turn to sing. As she sang her next solo lines she glanced at Quinn and saw her trying to give an evil stare to her brother. "Oh m god" Santana thought "That face is too adorable to be real." She was trying not to giggle "But it's nice she's trying to defend me, even if my brother is harmless." She thought as she smiled into the next line.

"I didn't know it before
But now it's easy to see

Ohhhhh

It the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you... oh
And now... lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
That it's the start of somethin' new
It feels so right
So right... oh
To be here with you... oh

And now...
Lookin' in your eyes

Lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart

Feel in my heart

The start of somethin' new

The start of somethin' new
The start of somethin' new

Somethin' new."

As Quinn finished of the last line she could feel Santana's eyes on her. She turned her head and stared straight back into Santana's eyes. This time neither of them tried to make their staring discreet and were openly looking into each other's eyes as the crowd of people in the bar cheered and clapped. And for possibly the first time in her life Santana didn't actually care how the audience reacted to her performance. All of her attention was on the blonde who had beautifully sung that song with her a few moments before.

"YEAH! THAT'S THE TYPE OF SINGING WE WERE LOOKING FOR!" The announcer shouted, "You girls are definitely in with a chance of winning. Stick around and we'll announce the winners later!" Both Quinn and Santana grinned at him as he was speaking and did a quick bow before walking of the stage when he finished.

When they got back into the crowd Quinn turned to talk to Santana but as she did, she was rudely interrupted by her big (drunken) sister.

"Quinnie! You guys were pretty good! Who knew you could sing like that when you tried?! And who knew you could keep your cool for so ling around girls that you thought were super hot?!" Frannie basically shouted at them and Quinn blushed when Frannie mentioned Santana's hotness. Santana smirked when she saw Quinn's blush and new that Frannie was speaking the truth.

"Thanks... I think..." Quinn mumbled, "How many drinks have you had? She questioned.

"Too many. Probably" Frannie laughed, "At least enough to make me really need the toilet!" She exclaimed, and then as an after thought said "I'm gonna go to the toilet, catch up with you later." And with that she ran off to the other side of the bar.

Quinn turned to Santana, "Apologies on behalf of my sister and her drunken state" Quinn laughed shyly.

"Haha it's not a problem Quinn, she seems nice enough" Santana smiled

"Yeah she can be. So who are you here with?"

"Just my brother, you know that jerk who was shouting abuse at me on stage? None of my friends were allowed to come on this family 'vacay' with me." Santana said with a fake sad face.

"Ohh, he's your brother." Thank god that's all he is, not competition. Quinn thought and smiled discretely.

"Yeap. Why?" Santana said eyeing Quinn's smile.

"Oh... Em... N-no reason." Quinn said quickly and changed the subject, "Want to go sit down?" She said and pointed over to the empty sofas in the corner of the club.

"Sure." I wonder what she was thinking about my brother... She better not be interested in him. Not that I should care really.

And with that Santana lead the way of to the sofas, checking behind her every now and then to make sure Quinn was still following and every time she caught Quinn's eyes and they shared a shy smile with her. She looked around the seating area and decided on two large, comfortable-looking chairs that were near to the wood fire. They were at a sort of angle to each other so it wasn't like they were sitting completely side by side and they weren't sitting directly across from each other. Santana held out her arm like she was offering the seat to Quinn and Quinn sort of half smirked and half giggled at this and happily sat on the chair.

"So chivalry ain't dead?" Oh god why did I say that out loud Quinn thought as the internally cringed.

"Damn right," Santana laughed in reply, "Shit, these seats are comfy!" She exclaimed, forcing the former topic of conversation to be forgotten.

"True..." Quinn nodded, "So you must be like 21, right?" No way she'll ever be interested in me if she's that age.

"What makes you think that? Do I look that old?" Cool I might've been able to get in here without any iD, score! Santana thought excitedly.

"Umm no I don't think you do, not that you look really young either, but I thought you had to be that old to get into this bar..." She said nervously, not wanting to offend Santana.

Oh damn! Maybe I did need iD.

"Ohhh! Yeah you do, but my bro got me and him some fake iD" She whispered the last few words, just in case, "But that means you're 21 then?" Santana said, narrowing her eyes at Quinn, "No offence but you look way younger." Please don't be that age, that's way too old for a 16 year old, even a hot one like me.

"Oh, well thanks I guess, but I'm only sixteen" Quinn whispered her age, also as a just in case, "My sister really wanted me to come with her so she gave me her iD."

"Ahh sweet." Perfect age. "I'm sixteen too! Congrats on being a rebel, rebels are hot." Oops Santana thought. That wasn't supposed to be out loud. She looked to Quinn to see what her reaction would be.

Quinn sort of giggled but tried to hold it in and ended up having a huge smile on her face, her cheeks may have went a bit red too. "Thanks... Congrats to you too I guess. She said and smiled at Santana.

It was just after half 11 when they discovered each other's ages and they kept chatting and finding out other things about the other, like learning each other's surnames, uninterrupted for the next 25 minutes. It was then that they noticed that the people around them seemed to be excited about something and there was a sort of electric atmosphere going through the bar.

Suddenly the announcer shouted, "ONLY TWO MINUTES TO GO, LET'S GET EXCITED!"

"Oh my god!" Santana shouted over the loud music, "It's that time already? Want to hang out with me until after midnight, I can't be bothered going through that huge group of people to find my brother," She smiled. Please say yes, please say yes.

"I know! Time went so quickly," She smiled, "And sure. If that's okay with you? I don't want to be a burden, I can help you find him if you want?"

"You won't be a burden, Quinn! We'll have fun!"

"Okay then!" Oh God, I forgot everyone kissed at New Years. What if she wants to kiss me? Oh wait, that might be a good thing... I'd kiss her back. Oh I should probably stop staring at her face and see if she's trying to say something to me.

Santana noticed Quinn's glazed over eyes, "You okay in there?" She laughed.

Quinn simply nodded in reply.

"ONE MINUTE TO GO; GRAB YOUR KISSING PARTNER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!"

Santana smirked at Quinn when she heard this. Tonight might be my only time to kiss her ever; I should probably go for she thought. The she stood directly in front of Quinn and looked over the other girls shoulder to look at the big screen in the corner. It read: 00:00:47 and was counting down continuously.

"So Quinn, you don't want to run off and find a boy to kiss?" Santana asked with that cheeky smirk on her face.

Quinn shook her head almost immediately and looked at Santana, "N-no. N-not even a little bit, I've never kissed a boy before."

"Oh?" Maybe I shouldn't kiss her; she probably wants her first to be special. Dang it.

"I mean, I wouldn't want to, I'm not into boys at all, never have been," She said shyly.

"So you're a lesbian?" Maybe she will want to kiss me then, haha, win for me.

"It's the one thing I'm one hundred per cent sure of" Quinn said proudly, "I-is that a problem?" I really hope she isn't one of those people whose "scared" of gay people.

"Umm no, not a problem. I mean I'm not a lesbian but I can certainly appreciate women." Well, I might possibly be a little bit gay but I won't tell her that right now.

Quinn narrowed her eyes and then smiled at Santana. That's good enough for tonight I guess Quinn thought.

It was then that they both realised that the countdown had started.

Santana looked Quinn in the eye and tried to decide whether or not she was going to go in for the kiss.

Quinn by now had pretty much decided that Santana had the most amazing eyes she's ever seen and was sure that she couldn't not kiss her now.

"Happy New Year," Santana whispered softly to Quinn and said to herself, "There's no time like the present." With that she looked at Quinn's eyes and then her lips, when she saw the other girl do the same she connected their lips.

A/N: Well, thanks for reading! The song used was, of course, Start of Something New from High School Musical. I googled the lyrics so I'm hoping the internet was right.

Anyone feel like reviewing?

Also, Updates will probably be closer to fortnightly than weekly from now on, for a while anyway, since I don't really have as much "free time" at work or home so I can't write as often.

Rose :)