Twenty minutes later, the trio found themselves walking into a super Wal-Mart. Well, most Wal-Marts are supers but every now and again a normal Wal-Mart without a grocery section could be found. This was not one of those. Santana nearly had a heart attack at the thought of going to a Wal-Mart. The very idea unnerved her to her core. Wal-Mart was simply beneath her. However, if Rachel wanted Wal-Mart, then Santana would simply buy her a Wal-Mart of her own and yet she didn't want to go that far. Instead she simply drove to the Wal-Mart in Terre Haute.
Having nothing better to do, Santana followed after Quinn and Rachel as they went to the women clothes section. Once in the section, she watched as Rachel looked around her at the different racks trying to find the right one. After a moment or two, Rachel when over to the where the athletic pants was and found a rack with clearance items. She skimmed through the patterns and pulled out a pair of black yoga type pants with pockets, size whatever in petite length.
A smile spread on Rachel's face at the find. It made Santana's heart swell. To bring her back down to earth, Santana huffed, "You know you don't have to buy clearance."
"I know," Rachel said, "but I don't want to take advantage of what might be good thing."
The girl is just too thoughtful, Santana said. Wait until later.
"Whatever," Santana gruffed out.
Rachel made to move away before being stopped by Quinn, "Hey, Rachel you may need to pick out another pair or two."
Rachel looked at Quinn for a moment and thought about things, "You're right." She went back to looking at the racks with Quinn with her.
"Don't you want a pair of jeans?" asked Quinn.
Rachel looked over to the blonde, "Only if they're on the bagging side. I hate how jeans on so tight."
"Maybe, you get the wrong size half-pint," Santana said as she walked over to her.
"Even the one's the fit me are so tight. I like the ability to move my legs around. That's why I wore skirts."
"Why don't you now?"
"I got tired of them and I hated how people looked at me in my skirts. It made me feel uncomfortable and dirty. So no more short skirts for me."
I can respect that, the Latina thought. "That's fine." She looked over at Quinn who was nodding her head in agreement.
Rachel found a pair of loose fitting cargo pants, color: seaweed green, and another of athletic pants, both on clearance. At this point Quinn offered to carry Rachel's items. Rachel put up a small fight, but finally relented. Surprisingly enough, the petite girl didn't look at any tops in the women's section. Instead she went on to the undergarment section. She picked up a pack of Faded Glory white ankle socks, a three sports bra combo hanger, and a pack of Faded Glory white underwear.
At this point, Santana wanted to scream a bit. She was hoping the girl would pick out something sexy. By looking at Quinn, she could tell the blonde was also disappointed. Shrugging it off, Santana went to the front of the store and picked up an empty shopping cart. She figured that Rachel would pick up a few more items and she would be darned to see Quinn or herself be used as some sort of pack horse. She liked Rachel and carrying an item or two, but anything more than six is just too much.
She brought the cart around back to women section and found her companions were no longer there. She pulled out her phone and gave Quinn a text. The blonde replied just one word: shoes. Breathing in, Santana huffed back to the back of the store to the shoe area and found the group. Quinn nodded to her in thanks and put her load into the cart.
Rachel was busy looking at the different styles of shoes, but more importantly at the shoes that were on clearance. They had a lot of sandal wear or shoes similar to those and few pairs of sneakers. Eventually she found a black and pink pair of skater shoes. She tried them on and smiled at how comfy they felt. She took them off and put them back in the box. Taking the box over to the cart, she placed the in with the rest of the things she needed and smiled up at Santana, "Thank-you."
Santana shrugged even though she was rather proud of herself, "No problem."
At this, Rachel smiled again and gave Santana a hug in delight much to Quinn's jealousy.
"Hey where's mine," she complained in a teasing manner.
Rachel looked over to her and gave her a smile to along with a hug,"Thank-you." She released the tall blond and walked off to… the craft section?
Both Quinn and Santana followed after Rachel as she looked down certain aisle until she found where she was certain her quest would lead her. Curiously, Santana pushed the cart along until she reach where Rachel stop. She glanced at the shelf and found herself looking at plain t-shirts of varying colors. Rachel pulled off three t-shirts: black, blue and pink. She even picked up a white sweat shirt. She placed them in the cart. Once done, she looked to her companions and sighed, "That's it."
"Are you sure?" asked Quinn.
Rachel simply gave a nod.
"Okay then," Quinn said. "Hey S, I think why we're here we should look around a little more. We have time."
Santana laughed, "What for? We have want we want."
"Actually, I was thinking about going over to the electronics to see if we could pick up a movie or two and then go over to the grocery section and pick out some food items."
It seemed rather reasonable to Santana, "Sure."
They walked towards the movie selection and looked through the titles. Quinn looked at some of the older films, Rachel went over to the Television section while Santana stuck to the new arrivals. She couldn't find anything. Most of the new arrivals suck. The only good ones were the Marvel movies and those that are fairy tales. Other than that everything was lame. Fed up, Santana pushed along to Rachel as she was peering at a DVD.
"What do you have there?" Santana asked to be polite.
Rachel looked up from the DVD, "It's Once Upon a Time."
"What's it about?"
Rache l pouted while thinking of an answer, "It's about the queen from Snow White cursing fairy tale people to our land. I've never seen it, but I heard it's real good."
"May I?" Santana asked as she held her hand out for the DVD box. She looked at it for a moment and read the back of the box for a better description. She had to admit, it sounded very intriguing. She tossed it the basket. "I haven't seen it either. Let's give it a shot." She then looked at the other TV shows on DVD and picked up the last season of Smallville.
Rachel shot her a look.
Santana shrugged before laughing, "I'm a Chloe fan. She is smart and hot. Honestly, I surprised she lasted as long as she did on the series. The audience must have really loved her. I know I did. At the end of every season, I hold my breath waiting to know if she would go on. I'm mean I knew Lana Lang would, but to tell you the truth, I'm really surprise it went on for ten seasons and that they would put Lois Lane. At first wasn't so sure of Erica Durance playing Lois, but I grew to love her. I like how the writers kept her pretty much the same throughout the series."
"What do you mean?" asked Rachel.
"Unlike Lana, who went all crazy dark, Lois remained true to herself, a constant light."
Rachel laughed.
"What?"
"You're truly a geek. Who do you like more Batman or Superman?"
"Honestly?"
Rachel nodded her head.
"Both."
At this time, Quinn came over with a movie of her own. When Rachel asked what she picked out, Quinn handed the DVD over to Rachel who got a bright smile on her face, "Seriously?"
Quinn nodded.
Santana rolled her eyes, "What is it?"
Rachel smiled as she handed the movie over to Santana. Her first reaction was to smirk at the fact that it was a collection of Disney classics, four to be exact. There was Darby O'Gill and the Little People, The Gnome Mobile, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, and The Happiest Millionaire. She only knew of the first movie since it had the original James Bond in it."What's so great about these movies?"
Blushing a little Quinn went on to explain, "As a kid I loved watching these movies with my family. That was before all the drama. So it brings me happy memories."
"Not to mention they're all musicals," Rachel squealed.
At this Santana raised an eyebrow, "I thought musicals weren't your thing anymore."
"Being on Broadway is not my thing anymore," Rachel corrected, "But I still love a good musical and I haven't seen these movies in ages." She then began to bit her lip. "You may not like them, but you may like The Gnome Mobile or at least the ending."
"My favorite is The Happiest Millionaire," Quinn exclaimed. "The mother of the movie is Greer Garson, who was played Elizabeth Bennet in the 1940, black and white version of Pride and Prejudice. Even though she was like in her thirties when she made the movie, she really did Elizabeth Bennet justice, especially her eyes."
Santana huffed, "So what?"
Quinn looked at her as she lost her head, "In the novel, Elizabeth Bennet is supposed to have the most engaging eyes. Keira Knightly don't have those eyes." She then looked over at Rachel and gave her a small smile, "Not that I'm pressuring anything, because I don't care what you do, but Rachel, you could portray a terrific Elizabeth."
Rachel blushed but shook her head, "No, your eyes are much more enchanting than my own."
Santana felt a stab in her heart. She hated how Quinn got a compliment. What's more, she hated that she wasn't familiar with Pride and Prejudice to actually get involved in the conversation. Great, Rachel thinks of me as a geek and that Quinn has really pretty eyes. Who would I date?
Rolling her eyes, she tossed the DVD collection in the basket, "So, should we go get snacks?"
With a nod from the other two, they began to walk over to the food section of the store. Then Rachel stopped at an end cap to picked-up a CD. Santana walked over to her and glanced at the title, "Glee?! What's Glee?"
Rachel just smiled, "It's a TV show about a Glee club who trying to survive and the members of the club, who try to get by day by day."
Santana picked the CD from Rachel and put it back, "I'm sorry, it just sound too close to home. Can we move on?"
Rachel laughed a little and agreed to go on, "Okay, but I think you're right. It is too close to home. I wonder if Nick audition piece went okay."
"What do you mean?" asked Quinn.
Rachel looked back at the girl, "You may not know this, but I have cousin and his name is Nick. We made a bet two months ago. I won."
"So?" asked Santana.
"Well, if I lost, I had to I had to take him to the movies. If I won, he had to film himself singing and sent it off to Project Glee."
"Nick can sing?" asked Quinn with curiosity.
"Yeah, he has a great voice. He was in choir when he went to high school. Actually, I'm rather jealous of his high school."
"Why?" asked Santana as she turned down the chip aisle.
"His high school had five choirs."
Santana stopped and turned towards Rachel as if she lost a head. "What the hell? I've never heard of such a thing. How is the even possible? Our school can barely come up enough people for our club."
"I know. Actually, Nick's school is rather cool; unfortunately, it's in another state and in a town where they value the arts. He said in junior high some football player played the Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie. Although, he did say the guy looked like Pee Wee Herman in a handsome way."
Both of the other girls laughed as Santana randomly picked cans of Pringles. Once they stopped, Quinn asked, "So what kind of choirs did they have?"
Rachel became all thoughtful for a moment, "There's a women's choir and a men's choir. According to Nick, no audition is necessary. He also said they only have one competition and three real concerts. After them there is a more advance choir with a combination of both girls and boys. They have the opportunity to sing in more concerts and competitions. After them, they have a show choir and an advance women choir (A/N: think about in season three where Santana and others were in an all women choir). The more advance the choir it the more they get to perform."
"How students end up in choir?"
"Seventy-five to a hundred," Rachel said with a smile. Then she bit her lip, "For fundraising they have like a dinner theater event. All the choirs get together and put on a show. The first time I went they had a medieval theme. All the choirs had the chance to sing. The lesser choirs acted as serving people as they brought out the food while the higher choir members had the ability to royalty. It was quite fun. The food was catered, the decorations were amazing and the music fit along with era they were trying to portray. However, "I'm in Love with a Girl Named Fred," does not come from the medieval period. The only thing medieval about it is the fact in comes from a sort medieval musical called, Once Upon a Mattress."
During Rachel's ramblings, Santana couldn't help but be glad that the girl could still talk if she wanted to. Not that she didn't find what the girl was saying interesting, but she just liked that girl would ramble. It was a source of normalcy. She liked it, but she also didn't mind some of Rachel's new mannerisms. She glanced over to Quinn, who looked like she was hanging onto the girl's every word. She didn't know what to make of Quinn but she knew that she really was in love with Rachel. She wonder what would happen if she put her name in the ring. Would she even have a chance with Rachel?
Sighing, she kept going down the grocery aisle and finding things to take along with them. Besides Santana the other two girls also put their input into food and drink choices. Through Santana they gain a lot of snack food items. Through Rachel they gain quite a bit health food item. From Quinn, she made sure they had food for actual meals, like peanut and jelly sandwiches. After they were done with shopping, they went to go check out.
