We arrived at Quinn's house for quarter past 11. Fashionably late and on purpose of course. Nothing to do with anything we may have been getting up to after landing on the bed together.
Ahem...
When the door opened, all I saw was a flash of blonde before two strong arms, still ripped from brutal hours of Cheerio practise, were wrapped incredibly tightly around my neck. After a while I thought my head was going to explode due to lack of blood but I didn't care. Quinn still smelt the way she'd always done, her hair flowed in my face giving me a waft of berry scented shampoo. Same old Quinn, I smiled. She finally let go and smiled from me to Brittany, back to me with a shocked expression and then back to Brittany.
"Oh my God you are beautiful," she said to Brittany with an exasperated smile, giving her a hug too, I wondered if she was sick of people saying that to her, "I'm Quinn."
"I'm Brittany, and thank you so much. So are you, sweetie." the pair exchanged smiles and I grabbed onto Brittany's hand before Quinn lead us into her house. The familiar Fabray surroundings were comfortable to me. I felt a lot like I had done the previous day walking into my house, like I hadn't gone anywhere at all, like I was still the same old high school student. Except now I had Brittany, and that made everything different, better, special.
"Oh! Santana!" Judy Fabray clapped her hands and ran over to me before embracing me in a hug not dissimilar from Quinn, only a little less crushing, "and you must by Brittany? Yes, Quinn's told me." Brittany and Judy shook hands and Judy asked us if we wanted anything to drink.
"No thank you," we both said at the same time and began to laugh as we sat down on the sofa opposite Quinn and Lily.
"San, Brittany, this is Lily," the girl was not exactly as I'd imagined. She was small, brunette with a very tidy smile. Pretty, very pretty but she seemed calm and collected. I couldn't imagine a dirty word leaving her lips but with a girlfriend like Quinn, I imagined I was probably wrong. No matter how sweet my Quinnie seemed, she... well... wasn't.
"It's so nice to finally meet you," I smiled at her and turned to Brittany who began to talk.
"Me too, I feel like I know too much about someone who I'd never met's girlfriend," she laughed and Lily nodded her head.
"Me too! It's like all Quinn talked about was you and Santana and I hadn't met either of you." both of them nodded and laughed so I turned to Quinn and winked at her. God I'd missed her.
"Puck and his girlfriend is coming over too," Quinn said quietly and I silently wondered why. She seemed sad, slightly hurt in fact.
"Oh, cool," I nodded, as did Brittany, "why though? I'm sick of him! I live with him!" I joked and Quinn laughed slightly at me but not a lot, not a Quinn laugh. It worried me but then thought about how long it'd been since I'd last seen her, maybe she'd changed. People changed right? Of course they did. I told myself not to be so stupid and brushed it off.
"I know, I think I've had enough of Puck for a year," laughed Brittany, keeping her hand on my knee as she began to draw little circles, something she did when she was comfortable. It allowed me to relax and fall into easy conversation with Quinn and Lily.
At about twelve, Puck and Rachel turned up with some wine and beer. Typical Puck, I couldn't help but think. The six of us managed to talk for a good few hours without any problems apart from a little strangeness from Quinn and Lily but I figured it'd just be from the flight they had or something. Nothing to worry about.
I was propped up with my back against the arm of the chair with Brittany's head in my lap as I noticed her begin to drift off. I was running my fingers through her hair when I heard a little whisper, "and I love you, I love you, I love you like never before." the Fleetwood Mac song I'd sang to her once came out of her mouth as she dreamed and I felt my cheeks flush red as everyone's gaze shot to me.
"Sorry if I'm such a romantic and sing my girlfriend sweet songs sometimes and she goes on to sing them in her sleep." I defended and began to giggle, making sure not to wake the sleeping blonde.
"Oh San, you two are just adorable," Quinn's eyes told me all I needed to know, she wasn't happy, "who knew Santana Lopez would have a romantic side?"
"Well, you never did appreciate that side of me did you?" I winked at her and caused a snort to leave her. It'd been a while since we'd joked about our previous sexual relationship, even over the phone it didn't quite seem right but for some reason the more we spoke about it, the more funny it was.
I felt a little shake from Brittany and realised she was awake, deciding to play along with the game, I ignored it and continued to play with her delicate blonde hair. I looked to Lily who seemed to be shooting me dagger eyes so I shut up and looked back down to Brittany whose face was telling me something different than she wanted me to think.
"You're not fooling me, you're not asleep are you?" she burst out laughing and opened her eyes to me before looking to Quinn.
"I couldn't help it. You made me laugh and then her snort made me laugh even more." I could see Lily pulling a face at her and wondered why.
"You seem awfully happy for someone whose girlfriend has just joked about having sex with her best friend." her voice was cold, like she was blaming Brittany for my comment. At first I was angry, then I was just embarrassed. If she didn't understand Quinn and I's relationship, the two of them were probably not going to last very long. Luckily for me, Brittany could sharpen her words instantly. And that she did.
"It was years ago, and Santana loves me. It was a joke. Why do you care so much about how I react?" I could see Quinn shake her head in embarrassment at Lily.
"Look I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything," I apologised, shaking my head feeling a little stupid. I never thought it would actually upset her, I just thought she'd see it as the joke it was. Clearly she didn't.
"No Santana, don't apologise. Lil, why are you doing this now?"
"Ugh forget I said anything," she stood up and stormed up the stairs. Quinn shot us a look that said 'sorry' and ran after her.
"Wow," Puck broke the silence and then looked to Rachel, who also seemed to be annoyed, "oh not you too."
"What Noah?"
"What's wrong with you?" he spat, retracting his arm from around her shoulders and pulling a face at her. Brittany and I looked between them as they argued, utterly confused. I literally had no idea what was going on but suddenly became only too aware that I needed the toilet. I thought a minute, I didn't want to leave Britt with an arguing couple but I also didn't want my bladder to explode. I grabbed her by the arm before lifting her up off the sofa with me.
"Come to the bathroom with me, I'm scared to go alone." I whispered and through a slight giggle, she nodded and followed me up the stairs the toilet. We ran into the bathroom and I sat down on the toilet, fully clothed.
"What the hell happened out there?" she asked me, a confused expression on her face as she pointed to the door.
"I have no idea, I don't like that Lily though." I shook my head and looked to the floor, trying to figure everything out, "Nobody should be able to control Fabray like that."
"I don't like her either, she's icky."
"Icky?"
"You know... weird," she giggled and sat down on my knee, wrapping her arms around my shoulder, "I think we should go home now, what do you think?"
"I do," I winked and kissed her lightly on the nose, "you know, I'm sure I heard my parents say they were going out tonight."
"Me too, and Daniel's around his at his girlfriend's." she nodded.
"How do you know that?"
"I was talking to him this morning when you were helping your Mom wash up." That did it, that was the moment I knew we'd be together for a long time. If anyone could talk to my brother and get an actual conversation, they weren't going anywhere. She was just, perfect.
"Well what are we waiting for?" I stood up and remembered the reason I rushed upstairs in the first place, "Hang on, baby. Could you just wait outside this door a minute?"
"Why, Sanny?" her brow furrowed and head tilted to the side.
"I..." I hesitated and began to laugh, "I need to use the bathroom." she hit me on the shoulder, pushed me away and laughed before walking towards the door, swaying her hips like she had done the first morning I woke up with her.
"Don't be long." she whipped her head around, winked at me and shut the door behind her quietly.
She's doing this on purpose. Now I don't know if I actually need the toilet, or if I'm just really turned on. I began to walk towards the door before changing my mind and turning back to the toilet, almost running to guarantee I didn't miss it. Yes... pee... pee... I need to pee.
