Brittany walks in and notices most of the staff has already arrived. She catches herself searching for Santana almost instantly, but the woman isn't here yet. Mercedes walks up to her and gives her a hug.
"Gurl, you look amazing!"
Brittany smiles and does a little twirl "Why thank you! And you're not so bad yourself, Cedes, you look totally hot"
Mercedes smiles at her, and then suddenly turns serious. "May I just steal you away for a second.."
"Sure!"
She takes Brittany's hand and drags her away. Behind a corner, she stands still.
The blonde frowns at her. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No, no no no" Mercedes shakes her head. "I was just wondering, you haven't updated me on .. Ya know, situation sexy"
Brittany rolls her eyes and laughs. "I can't believe you are really calling it that .. And it's just, you know .. Nothing particularly special happened"
Mercedes raises an eyebrow at her "Oh, so you're still not speaking to each other, or what?"
"No, we are" Brittany frowns "I uh .. I talked to her like, two days ago .."
"And?"
"And what?"
"Have you talked since then?"
"Um, no .." Brittany mumbles.
"Well, did you make it clear to her that she's your employee and that she should act like it? And yes, I know, or at least from what you told me I know that nothing really happened yet, but you and I both know that there will."
The blonde bites her lip and looks down.
Mercedes sighs. "You know I love Santana, Britt. Didn't always love her, but I can actually stand her now, and I don't want either of you to get in trouble.."
Brittany nods. "I know, but it's just .. More complicated than you think. And I don't want her to hate me and-"
"-Britt, seriously, this has to stop. It's just all kinds of wrong and I have no idea what you mean with complicated but if that means that she has like.. Other feelings for you, than you have to stop leading her on, that's just-"
"-Who says I'm leading her on?"
Mercedes's eyes widen as she gasps. "You what?!"
"Uh, Britt?"
Both women turn heads to find Sam frowning at them. Brittany raises her eyebrows at him.
"How long have you been standing there?" She asks, as calm as possible.
Sam gulps "I wasn't eavesdropping, I swear.. I just .. Um, Britt, people are asking for you"
Brittany frowns, then forces a smile. "Oh .. Thanks, Sam. We were done talking anyway .."
"Oh hell no we're not!" Mercedes calls, following Brittany to the others. "You still have some explaining to do, Britt"
Brittany sighs "Look, Cedes, I just .. Can we not talk about this here? I just want to have-"
Brittany's words get caught in her throat when the doors of the restaurant open, and a woman walks in. Dressed in a tight, knee-length, red dress, a black stola draped over her shoulders, she walks up to Tina and the others. She greets them, and then looks up to scan the room. Her lipstick-red lips curl into a little smile when she catches Brittany's eyes.
The blonde gulps, and eventually succeeds to tear her gaze off Santana and back to Mercedes. Meanwhile, the other woman has realised who Brittany was staring at, and she shakes her head.
"Santana does look hot tonight, doesn't she?"
Brittany's eyes widen, before she frowns, and then nods quickly. "Uh, yeah, she .. she does"
She blinks and looks up at Mercedes "I'm just gonna say hi .. To everyone"
Mercedes raises an eyebrow "To be continued, Pierce"
The blonde walks up to her employees. She hugs Tina and Mike, shakes Joe's hand and quickly says hey to Kitty and Rory. After pretty much greeting everyone, she eventually turns to Santana.
"Soo ..." the Latina smiles "I see your bf isn't here yet, huh?"
"He, um, he's not coming ..."
"Isn't he? What a shame .." Santana can't help the grin spreading across her face. She snatches a glass of wine from a waiter walking by and she takes a sip. "You look hot" she smiles.
Brittany gulps and smiles awkwardly "Thanks .. You too"
"Oh good" Santana says, acting relieved "That was kinda what I was going for"
The blonde rolls her eyes and smiles. When Sam calls them to the table, Brittany quickly grabs Santana's arm to stop her.
"San"
She waits for the woman up look up at her. "Can you just .. Please don't make it hard on me tonight, just because Artie isn't here .."
Santana smirks "Don't worry .. I'll make it very easy for you" she winks, before freeing herself out of Brittany's grip and walking over to the table.
"No that's not what I -" she tries, but Santana is seated already. Right across an empty chair.
Great.
Brittany sits down and crosses her legs. When she accidentally brushes against Santana's, she quickly glances up and feels her cheeks flush.
"Sorry.." she mumbles.
When she looks at Santana through her eyelashes, still with her head bowed down, she notices the woman smirking at her.
"I didn't complain"
Brittany smiles shyly and bites her lip. After the appetizers, the waiter arrives to take their orders for the main course. She briefly reads through the menu, before deciding on a dish with roasted chicken and a salad. She tells the waiter her order and he nods, then looks over her head, at Santana. The woman grins.
"I'll have what she's having"
The man just nods again and continues his way down the table. Brittany raises an eyebrow at Santana "Really?"
"What?" She chuckles "I just really love chicken"
Brittany rolls her eyes, but can't hide her smile. "Ofcourse you do .."
"Why did you choose that anyways? There are like millions of delicious things on that menu and you choose roasted chicken and salad."
Brittany huffs, "You got the exact same thing."
"Yeah, I know" she nods, smiling. "I was just wondering"
"Oh, .. It was one of the few things that had a picture .. Everything just has really fancy names and normally Arthur translates them for me but .. yeah .."
Santana's red lips curl into a grin "You're cute" she whispers.
Brittany swallows and glances left and right. Tina and Rachel are engaged in a conversation with Sam, on the left side of the table, and the right side doesn't really seem to pay attention to them either.
The blonde looks up and raises her eyebrows "I thought I was hot?"
"Well .." Santana smiles and shrugs ""That too"
"Hey, Britt?"
Brittany looks up, Sam is calling her. "Yah?"
He grins "Time for a speech?"
She frowns for a second, but then smiles and stands up from her chair. "Right."
She clears her throat and quickly shoots a glare at Santana, who's trying to hide her laugh, and obviously knows Brittany was not prepared for this.
"So, um .. Welcome everyone."
Heads turn and Brittany feels the warmth rise up to her cheeks. "Uh, like every year, I am .. proud of you, and pleased to have you all in my team. We have delivered great work already, so .. Let's just try to make the second half of the year just as successful, shall we? Um, anyway, bon appetit." She raises her glass with an awkward smile, and the others raise their glass too. It doesn't take long for the mumbling to return again, and Brittany quickly sits down.
Santana is smirking at her. She nods slowly "Inspiring words"
She gasps as Brittany kicks her under the table "Shut up" she laughs. "You try to give an unexpected speech"
"Hm ..." She bites her lip and narrows her eyes, overthinking the idea. Eventually she shrugs and shakes her head "Nah"
Brittany chuckles "Why am I not surprised .."
"But .."
The blonde looks up questionly.
"There's something else I am willing to do" Santana says with a smirk.
"Oh yeah?" Brittany asks amused, "What?"
"You"
Brittany laughs and rolls her eyes "Nice one"
"Thanks" Santana says proudly, joining Brittany in her laughter.
"What's so funny?" Tina asks them with a smile.
Brittany shakes her head at her, still giggling "Nothing"
"Oh no, tell me. I want to laugh too"
Santana rolls her eyes "Let it go, Chang"
Tina glances at Brittany and when the woman doesn't react, she looks down, turning so she's with her back to the two women. Brittany sighs as she looks up at Santana.
"What?"
"San, just act nice .. please?"
She rolls her eyes "Fine .. But I'm doing it for you"
Brittany smiles, shrugging her shoulders "Fine with me."
The waiter arrives with their food and soon enough they are already ordering for desserts. Brittany orders a meringue cake with berries and cream, and to her surprise, Santana orders something different this time. She didn't quite know what it was, but it sounded good.
While they're waiting for the dessert, Brittany starts talking to Tina, who is seated next to her. Santana tries to engage a conversation with Sam, but after a while she decides he isn't interesting, so she just listens to Brittany's stories.
The blonde doesn't notice Santana staring at her, she's too busy telling Tina about Lord Tubbington. Not that Santana is really listening, she's trying to find a way to get Brittany alone. Well, she knows how she could do that, she just needs to figure out how to do it as subtle as possible.
Brittany looks up and grins when the waiter arrives and places her plate in front of her. "Mm" she hums contently, looking at Tina. "This looks so good . "
Tina nods and chuckles "It does! Gosh, now I'm jealous .."
"Oh" Brittany giggles "You can have some if you want"
"Hey, what'd you get, San?"
Santana snaps out of her thoughts and looks up at Brittany. "What?"
Brittany grins "What were you daydreaming about?" she jokes.
Santana smirks at her and winks "You don't wanna know"
Brittany rolls her eyes and pops a berry in her mouth. She notices Santana still watching her, and she frowns. "Why are you staring at me ..."
"Hm" she hums, and Brittany receives an answer a second later. She almost chokes on a berry when Santana's smooth leg suddenly slides up in between her legs. She coughs and looks up at her. Although, her glare isn't that effective, because Santana just continues stroking up her leg, teasingly slow. Her eyes widen, and when Mercedes asks her if she's okay, she nods and attempts to kick Santana under the table. She fails, but the woman got the hint, she looks up from her plate and looks up at Brittany.
"Santana" the blonde hisses. "Bathroom break. Now."
"Hm" the other woman smirks. "I thought you'd never ask ..."
So sorry for the delay, I'm not even going to make up excuses .. I practically spent all my time freaking out because BRITTANA IS GETTING MARRIED TONIGHT.
AAAAAHHHHH FINALLLYYYYYYYY
I'M SO EXCITED
(See what I did there?)
Anyway, a longer chapter and the promise of a new update soon should kinda make up to it, right? And to you guys that are attending the wedding tonight (and you better be), feel free to tag me into every Brittana thing you post or see on Tumblr, I'm gonna try to watch it live, but I'm not sure if I will succeed because it airs at 3am in my country. Gonna try my best to stay up though. Tumblr : imsoundercoverrr or maanofanfic
