It was two days later. Santana was sitting in the back section of barnes and nobles where all of the little kids toys were. It wasn't a very common thing for Santana to go out to the mall or in very public places in general since her album dropped and is on the verge of becoming triple platinum; it just wasn't safe sometimes.
There were still rare occasions that she ventured her way out and there were some even rarer ones where she ventured out without security. This was one of the more rare times that she was out by herself, well, she had Alanzo with her too. In retrospect, she tried to dress as casually as she could so that she wouldn't have attention drawn to her or her son. They were dressed as casual as possible; Santana was wearing a pair of light blue jeans with a black Glee sweater from high school, a pair of black timbs and a scarf and a large pair of sunglasses that covered a good portion of her face as to try and not get noticed as easily. Since Alanzo had been photographed in candids many times over the years, Santana had been sure to keep him hidden as well; he was wearing a pair of dark blue jeans, a black and white Nike sweater with a pair of Lebron xi Graffiti shoes along with a knit hat and his hood up to hide his curly mohawk and he had on his own pair of sunglasses.
Once inside of the bookstore, Santana had brought her son to the back area of the place and took his glasses letting him go off and play with the blocks and such that were in front of her so that he was always in sight. Santana was periodically checking her phone and it seemed to make the time move by slower. She was meeting somebody and she showed up a little earlier than she had originally intended to.
Okay, she was like an hour early. What could she say? She was extremely anxious and she had been waiting for about a half an hour already. Once 5 more minutes passed, Alanzo brought Santana over to play with the train tracks with him while she waited. They played with the trains for about 10 minutes before Santana felt a soft tap on her shoulder. She sighed heavily hoping that nobody noticed that it was her. She turned around slowly and was greeted with a big smile and bright eyes.
She smiled at the blonde in front of her and quickly leaned in for a hug, squeezing tightly for a few seconds then considered normal. The blonde didn't mind.
"I've missed you so much." Santana spoke softly.
"I missed you too." The woman responded.
Alanzo looked up to see the commotion and smiled before screaming, "B!" and wrapping his arms around her legs. She smiled down and gave the little fella a hug before saying hello back. She told him she missed him and soon let go so he can continue playing with the toys.
"Alright baby, we're gonna be leaving soon so play as much as you can." Santana said softly while fixing his hat and his hood.
The little boy ignored his mother and continued playing without saying another word. Santana guided Brittany over to the two beanbag chairs that she was sitting at before so that she could see her son play. Brittany looked over at the little boy and smiled softly watching him play so innocently.
"He's so much like you San." Brittany said while glancing at the woman.
"Is he?" Santana asked with a faint smile playing at her lips.
"Yes. He's so gentle, and even though most people don't know that about you, so are you. It's crazy looking at him and seeing so much of you." Brittany finished while watching Santana's smile grow with every word. They sat in silence for a few moments before Brittany spoke up again.
"I'm sorry, you know." She spoke quietly.
"Why'd you do it?" Santana asked, the smile quickly leaving her features.
"I knew that if I would have talked to you about it, you would have told me no and that I was wrong and to stop worrying about stuff like that." Brittany responded.
"What's wrong with that? It would have been the truth."
"What's wrong with that is that I know that I'm not fit for the job Santana. I'm not a mom and you've been one for 3 years, almost four and if we count when you were pregnant than that's technically like 5. You know what you're doing and you're raising him so well and I don't want to mess him up. I don't know the first thing about being a parent." Brittany whispered.
"Brit…" Santana started, "you're amazing with kids. What are you talking about?"
"Santana, I had no idea what to do when he got hurt." Brittany started with tears welling up in her eyes. "I thought that I was going to do fine but...When he fell Santana, I didn't know what to do I just, I mean, look at him. He still has that stupid cast on because of me; if you were there that would have never happened. I literally begged for you to let him stay with me and I couldn't even watch him for a few hours San."
Santana sighed softly, "Brittany, that wasn't your fault. Sometimes that boy doesn't think before he does a lot of things. He looks at things, thinks it might be fun to try it and then he does it; where he gets all that courage, I have no idea." Santana paused with a small smirk and wink, "but please believe me when I say that it's not your fault. It's just who he is. I blame Noah."
Brittany wiped her cheeks softly with the pads of her thumb before speaking, "I know there's somebody out there that's better for you and him than me Santana. Why won't you accept that?"
"Because there's not." Santana responded without even taking a second to think about anything, "You are the best thing for me and the best thing for him. Please believe that. I don't know how to explain it to you in any other way. You know that he loves you because look at how he reacted when he saw you." Santana finished gesturing to the little boy sitting by the trains with a smile plastered on his face.
Brittany shook her head softly.
"Please, Brittany." Santana began to plead, "Both of us need you and I know that you want this just as much as I do."
Brittany mumbled incoherently in response.
"What?" Santana questioned while raising an eyebrow.
Brittany lifted her head up and looked in Santana's eyes, "I said 'okay'. But we need to take it slow."
"Slow?" Santana asked while cocking her head to the side.
"Slow." Brittany repeated. Santana continued to stare at the blonde with a look that said "elaborate" because of the vague answer. "I'm not moving back in with you." Brittany continued, causing Santana to frown. "Yet."
"Yet?" Santana asked again, just as confused. Brittany nodded her head. "Why?" Santana questioned.
"Because I don't want to move too fast, like we originally did."
"Was there something wrong with that?" Santana asked frowning even more.
"Honey, of course not. I loved it. It's just, I want to learn how to be a part of something so important, you and Alanzo. I need to learn my place first. It's like a puzzle San. We can't just blindly try and shove the pieces together, we have to slowly take the time to piece things together properly." Brittany finished while grabbing Santana's hand and kissing it softly.
"Okay." Santana responded softly while looking into soft eyes.
/
It's been two weeks since Santana and Brittany have had that talk at the book store.
They've talked every day since and have tried to see each other all the time as well. Santana had told her about the Glee album and Brittany was more than excited; she couldn't wait to get started on it. She was really excited about the duets and such too; she and Santana agreed to try and do two- Landslide and Valerie. If there were more room, they would try to do more together. All of the songs have been received. There were to be a total of 22 to 24 songs on each CD; the fans were going to be ecstatic considering that it was going to be a double album CD.
Everybody was in the process of recording their songs; they're all doing songs that they've covered in Glee so there wasn't much to learn. The line-up was nice and the songs had already been picked out and a lot of them had already been recorded.
The first CD with the solos were already figured out:
Mine (cover) - Santana Lopez
Waiting For A Girl Like You (cover) - Noah Puckerman
Bust Your Windows (cover) - Mercedes Jones
Can't Fight This Feeling (cover) - Finn Hudson
Papa Don't Preach (cover) - Quinn Fabray
I'm A Slave For You (cover) - Brittany Pierce
Don't Rain On My Parade (cover) - Rachel Berry
Baby (cover) - Sam Evans
Dancing With Myself (cover) - Artie Abrams
I'll Remember (cover) - Kurt Hummel
Songbird (cover) - Santana Lopez
Keep Holding On (cover) - Noah Puckerman
Girls On Film (cover) - Sam Evans
I Will Always Love You (cover) - Mercedes Jones
Jessie's Girl (cover) - Finn Hudson
Safety Dance (cover) - Artie Abrams
Beautiful (cover) - Mercedes Jones
Girls Run The World (cover) - Brittany Pierce
Over The Rainbow (cover) - Noah Puckerman
Isn't She Lovely (cover) - Alanzo Lopez & Artie Abrams
Tears Dry On Their Own (cover) - Santana Lopez & Alanzo Lopez
Latch Acoustic (cover) - Alanzo Lopez & Sam Evans
The second CD lineup was already figured out as well:
Landslide - Santana Lopez & Brittany Pierce
Lucky - Quinn Fabray & Sam Evans
Valerie - Santana Lopez & Brittany Pierce
The Boy Is Mine - Santana Lopez & Mercedes Jones
Don't Stop Believing - Everyone
Every Breath You Take - Santana Lopez & Rachel Berry
Hate on Me - Mercedes Jones & Tina Cohen-Chang
I Feel Pretty/Unpretty - Quinn Fabray & Rachel Berry
Love Song - Santana Lopez, Quinn Fabray & Rachel Berry
River Deep Mountain High - Santana Lopez & Mercedes Jones
Just Give Me A Reason - Quinn Fabray & Noah Puckerman
She's Mine - Santana Lopez & Sam Evans
I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Rachel Berry & Finn Hudson
I'm Still Standing - Quinn Fabray & Artie Abrams
We Are The Champions - Everybody
How Will I Know - Santana Lopez, Mercedes Jones, Rachel Berry & Kurt Hummel
My Love Is Your Love - Everyone
The Only Exception - Santana Lopez, Mercedes Jones, Rachel Berry & Quinn Fabray
Glory Days - Finn Hudson & Noah Puckerman
Be Okay - Santana Lopez & Rachel Berry
Good Vibrations - Mercedes Jones, Finn Hudson & Noah Puckerman
Toxic - Santana Lopez, Brittany Pierce & Quinn Fabray
Artie had been busy recently making sure that everybody had their songs properly picked out. He had a plethora of songs to go through and he chose a top 44; he apologized to everybody if they weren't on there as much as they wanted to be. He mainly apologized to Santana because since she was going to be the head star promoting the album, she needed to be on in the most, and she definitely was. It was going to be a long time of recording for her. She was fine with it ultimately because it was going to a good cause. She knew that the money they raised would make a difference, especially at schools like McKinley where there were teachers like Coach Sue.
Those things were bound to happen, but at least now more schools had funding for those programs. Hopefully, they'll make enough impact that other funds start opening for the same cause so that Alanzo and Quinn's baby will be able to go to school and get to experience and make the great friendships that they've all had.
It was a stretch, but she was going to make sure that it would happen.
A lot of the songs had been recorded already and they were working on final touches for those songs while continuing to get everybody in for the rest of the songs. They had gotten most of Quinn's songs done, considering she'd be having the baby soon and who knows if she'd be able to come and record with the baby being around; it can be difficult with a baby. Just about everything that Quinn had to do was done, she just needed to supply some background vocals and that was it.
Since everybody was pretty much already done recording, with the exception of Santana who had to record her solos and bring Alanzo in to finish their duet, they were all going to go out to a big dinner and talk about everything that they had planned on the horizon. It was going to be a big family dinner; Quinn was going to be giving birth to her and Puck's daughter in a few days and after that, the rest of the group was going to be parting to go their separate ways. Since it was a few months into the new year, the projects were beginning to pile up.
"San, are you sure that tonight's going to be going fine?" Brittany called from her bedroom closet to Santana who was sitting on her bed.
"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?" Santana questioned while gazing at the blonde with a smile.
Brittany came walking out of the closet in her underwear and tanktop with her bra in hand ready to change out of it. "Well, I mean, Puck doesn't really seem like he's too fond of me right now and I haven't really seen or talked to anybody else besides you or Artie recently. Oh, and Mike."
Santana stood up to help the blonde clip her bra and took a deep breath, "everything will be fine Brit. Don't worry about it. Trust me."
Brittany turned around in Santana's arms and smiled softly, "okay." She whispered.
Santana sat on the bed while Brittany finished getting dressed; she was wearing a black skirt that stopped mid thigh with a grey shirt that had ruffles down the front and a black cardigan. She matched Santana who was wearing a short black dress that zipped down the front and stopped mid thigh as well. Santana smiled at the blonde and grabbed her keys beckoning Brittany to hurry up so that they wouldn't be too late.
Santana walked into the living room while Brittany finished gathering her things and bent down to tie her sons shoes. Alanzo had been sitting in the living room watching tv since the pair had arrived at Brittany's house; he had been watching Transformers: Rescue Bots and was glued to the tv. She then went and fixed the young boys tie. Alanzo was dressed in black pants with a black button down shirt and a grey bow tie. He looked perfect; not only that, but he matched Santana and Brittany perfectly.
Santana lifted her son as Brittany exited her bedroom and started walking towards the door…. Which resulted in a pretty sad Alanzo who began flailing his arms.
"No mommy!" He yelled. "Rescue bots!" He continued to scream.
Santana sighed and continued out the door and waited for Brittany on the other side, who appeared within seconds and locked the door.
"Are we taking your car or mine San?" The blonde asked as she put her hand on the small of the Latina's back considering she couldn't grasp her hand with Alanzo flipping out about the tv show…. The kid truly loved Transformers.
"Uhhh….I've actually made an arrangement for something. You'll see." Santana said with a small smile.
Brittany side eyed the woman but followed her without question. Once they got outside, there was a limo waiting. Brittany lost her breath for a second. "Santana," she whispered, "a limo?"
Santana simply nodded and continued walking towards the limo leaving Brittany to follow her. The driver opened the door and Santana walked in, placing Alanzo in so that she could help Brittany in. Brittany was smiling heavily at the gesture, that was, until she looked behind Santana.
Alanzo had threw himself on the floor of the limo face first and just laid there. Brittany raised her eyebrow at the young boy and Santana turned her head to look at him. She just sighed. She didn't understand why he was acting like this. He was normally understanding when they had to go somewhere. All she could think in her head was why the hell is he acting like this right now?
It was really making her wonder. She turned around and picked up her son who was dead weight and placed him in the car seat that was placed for him. She strapped him in and all he did was cross his arms, pout, and glare at her.
"Ms. Lopez, are you ready to go?" The driver asked through the intercom.
"Uh, in thirty seconds you can pull out." Santana replied while making sure that Alanzo was strapped in properly.
The little boy continued glaring at the Latina who in turn just rolled her eyes at him. She turned away once she sat in her own seat knowing that the little boy wouldn't talk to her right now. Brittany glanced between the two, who were still exchanging glares. Brittany chuckled to herself softly glancing at Santana and Alanzo. She tapped Santana's thigh and then moved by Alanzo.
Alanzo softened his glare when he seen Brittany. He stared at her curiously as she slipped her hand in her bra and took out her cell phone. She unlocked her iphone and tapped on an app before handing the cell phone to the young Lopez. Alanzo looked at Brittany and began smiling.
The app opened and Brittany read the screen, "Toca Boca" she said in a funny voice causing Alanzo to smile and copy her.
When the app opened, it was an app where you make food for monsters. You can cut it, fry it, boil it, microwave it and more. There were tons of different options and she knew that it would make the young boy smile. He mumbled a thank you before she left to sit with Santana again. Santana just stared at Brittany in disbelief.
Brittany leaned in and pecked her softly, "it's rude to stare."
Santana playfully glared at the blonde before laughing at her and letting loose the smile that exemplified her dimples. She leaned forward and kissed the blonde again softly while mumbling a soft "thanks".
The rest of the car ride went by fairly smoothly. Alanzo continued to play the game, his favorite part was using the blender and he would continuously ask Brittany for help adding the salt and pepper. They soon arrived at the 5 star restaurant with the camera's flashing on them. They got bombarded with questions as usual but they chose to ignore most of them. Alanzo, who was now in a better mood, began waving at the cameras and saying hi while he held Santana's hand who was also holding Brittany's hand as they walked to the door of the restaurant.
They walked into the building and quickly followed the hostess to find the rest of the group. As they sat down together, the rest of the restaurant stared at the large group. It was understandable why, it was a celebrity party in almost the center of the restaurant. The group was used to getting all of the odd stares and the cameras flashing in their direction so they ignored it as if it wasn't happening. The group greeted Santana, Brittany and Alanzo and were excited for them to finally join them so that they could order their food.
The waitress came over and smiled at everybody at the table.
"Would you all like to order your drinks?" The petite waitress asked the group while letting her eyes linger on a few of the members for a little longer than acceptable. She was a little shorter than Santana, had green eyes and kinky curled hair with an award winning smile.
The table went around and ordered their drinks and thanked the young woman who said that she would be back to take their actual orders momentarily. The owner of the restaurant soon came out with a large smile gracing his lips, "Santana, Quinn, Artie!" He said happily through his thick accent.
The two girls stood up to give the man a hug, "Vinnie, it's nice to see you." Quinn stated while giving him her hug.
"It's really nice to see you Vinnie." Santana said smiling.
Artie extended his hand to the man and leaned in for a hug saying his hellos as well.
"Big group today huh guys?" Vinnie asked smiling while looking at the large table, "Are you guys signing somebody new today?"
Quinn laughed softly, "Nope, just a family dinner to celebrate a few things."
Vinnie nodded and smiled graciously at the rest of the group. "I see. Well, if there's anything you ladies, and Artie, need, just come and find me."
"Actually, Vinnie, do you think you might still have that booster seat in your office? Alanzo's being a wiley one today." Santana said with a soft smile while glancing at her son who was climbing all over her chair and onto Artie. Vinnie nodded his head and brought her one moments later and said that he would be back around to check on them in a few. The waitress, who's name turned out to be Angela, quickly brought out their drinks and took their orders, finally leaving the group to talk amongst themselves.
"Do you guys want to play that game one positive?" Sam asked while playing with his straw.
Almost everybody looked at him in confusion for a few moments before they realized what he was talking about; in high school, at the end of their senior year, they came up with a game called one positive. The point of the game was to go around the circle listing positive things that were going to be happening to each of them. There was, obviously, always a winner. The winner was the person who had the highest amount of positive things going on.
"You guys ready?" Finn asked looking at his competition.
"You start Frankenteen." Santana said with a small smile.
Finn smiled back and nodded his head. "Alright. Well, me and Rachel are gonna be going to Ohio so that I can see my mom and Burt."
Rachel smiled and then went, "Funny girl is starting back up and I've been asked to be the lead again."
"I'm getting more modeling gigs." Sam said with a smile.
"I just got a new puppy!" Mercedes said with a large grin.
"I've been developing a new line and would be completely grateful if you ladies would endorse it….And you Sam, in your modeling." Kurt added.
The women all nodded and gestured for Mike to speak, "Well, Brittany hired me under her studio and I'm learning the ropes so that I could open my own sometime soon. Give her a little friendly competition" he winked causing Brittany to chuckle and shake her head.
It was now Tina's turn and Mike looked like his happiness was going to drown him from the inside out. He was smiling so hard that he was shaking, Tina looked at Mike and knew that he wanted to talk & announce what was going to be happening. Tina shook her head at him, "later round." She told him softly before speaking to the rest of the group, "In recording, I hit the high C that I've been struggling with recently." She said with a smile causing everybody to clap.
It then turned to Puck and Quinn, "we're doing this one as a double so it's for both of us." Puck stated. The group simply nodded their heads.
"We picked a name for the baby." Quinn started earning squeals from the rest of the table and bright smiles waiting on the results of the name. "Her first name is going to be Eva like Pucks grandmother."
"It means life or living one, and that way my grandmother will always be living with us and especially since the due date is her birthday too." Puck said with a small smile.
"We also picked a middle name." Quinn started while watching everybody hang on her every word.
"Santana." Puck said making direct eye contact with her causing everybody to turn their head to the woman.
"What?" She asked dumbfounded.
"We want her middle name to be your first name." Quinn elaborated.
Santana's smile grew strongly, "are you serious?"
"Yeah. I mean, we both love you dearly San. You've done so much for us and continue to do so every day. You always manage to make our days better and we know that you're going to treat Eva as if she was yours, so…. Will you hold the honor?" Puck asked with a shy smile.
"Of course!" Santana all but yelled while getting up and running over to the pair and giving them a big hug. "I love it. She sounds perfect already."
"Eva Santana Puckerman, we can't wait to meet you." Mercedes said softly while watching the trio hug.
"That's awesome, I'm glad you guys finally decided on a name!" Mike said happily congratulating the pair.
"Alright, enough about us. You can keep fussing in a few days when she finally shows up." Quinn said with a smile. "You're turn Artie."
"Alright, well, one positive will be that since all of you recorded your solos and parts, everything for the CD is pretty much already put together and once I get Santana in that recording studio, we'll have a hit CD." He said with a giant smile.
The table clapped and hollard at the CD almost being released.
"Are you guys ready for that publicity, Sam, Noah, Q, Finn, Kurt?" I know that a few of you already get publicity but it's going to be completely different once they realize you can sing. You'll be asked about the album a ton and it'll follow you forever, if you want to back out, do it now." Santana finished with a chuckle, causing the table to follow in suit.
"I'm ready for it. I've always loved to sing, and maybe I'll be able to sing around the office now without feeling self-conscious about it." Kurt shrugged while cutting a roll in half.
"I kinda get some publicity from Rachel, but it'll be nice for people to actually ask me stuff that isn't all about Rachel." Finn stated before quickly adding, "no offense Rachel."
"I'm looking forward to it. I love singing." Quinn stated with a smile.
"I just want to see how all those little girls react to my voice and then seeing me with my three favorite ladies." Puck stated with a smug grin.
"Three?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, Q, obviously. But then there's Eva and San too so." Noah shrugged like it was nothing causing the two women to smile wholeheartedly.
"I'm glad you're all looking forward to it. Maybe this will lead to more collaborations down the road." Mercedes added with a big grin.
"Same here." Artie added, "it's your turn San."
Santana looked up at the table after buttering a roll for Alanzo and handing it to the boy. "Hmmmmmm," Santana fake thought, "well, for starters, my son is healthy and alive and that's all that matters most to me." She said with a smile. "B?" She asked while squeezing the blonde's thigh under the table.
Brittany smiled at the gesture and then spoke, "my studio is officially opening next week for classes. Thanks to somebody," Brittany continued while nodding her head towards Santana, "word got out about the studio and all of the classes are booked completely."
"That's awesome Brit." Quinn said with a smile, "good job Santana."
The group continued to go around the table a couple more times. Everybody had a few really good things that were going on. Finn was the first one that got knocked out of the game, followed by Sam, Artie, Rachel and Puck. All of the big things that were going on in their lives were all knocked out of the park for the most part and now they were down to the smaller positive things. The contest was still going on strong, the winner was going to win whatever desert they wanted bought by the rest of the group and they all wanted it.
"I just finished writing three new songs last night." Mercedes said.
"I got voted employee of the month." Kurt said.
"Well, I found the cutest outfits for our family picture, even though it took literally forever." Quinn added.
"This is going to be our last one I think." Mike said sadly. He turned to look at Tina. "Can I?" Tina nodded her head softly with a smile and covered her face in her hands. "Tina's pregnant!" Mike yelped smiling.
"Seriously?" Brittany exclaimed to which the pair nodded happily.
"That's amazing guys!" Quinn said happily.
"How far are you?" Artie questioned.
"I'm about two months." Tina said with a soft smile while glancing at her stomach.
"I'm so happy for you." Santana said looking at the pair.
"Thank you guys." They both said.
"Alright, Santana, it's your turn. We're out." Mike said with a smile.
Santana smiled and shook her head softly. "Alright, well, I think I'm the happiest that I've ever been in my life right now. I mean, look at my son; my niece is going to be named after me; you guys are pregnant; I have the top album of the year so far that's gone double platinum already; not to mention I have the love of my life back." Santana finished kissing Brittany's hand softly earning an uproar of awws from the table.
Brittany smiled. "Can that count as both of ours? Cause I feel the same." Brittany said softly while glancing into Santana's eyes. Brittany leaned in and pecked Santana softly, neither of them catching how Puck rolled his eyes at the sight.
"Your turn Cedes." Santana said softly, her eyes never leaving Brittany.
Mercedes chucked but continued. After another round, Kurt was out.
"Death round?" Santana asked.
"What's that?" Finn asked.
"Well, it was what me, Brit, Q and Mercedes did to try and one up each other when we played together. It's like speed round. You have five seconds to think of a positive thing that's going to happen to you or whatever, but if you miss the 5 second window then you're out." Santana explained like it was the most simple thing in the world.
"Who's got time?" Quinn asked.
"I do." Artie responded.
"Awesome." Brittany smiled.
"Alright, one...two….three, Mercedes go." Artie said.
"I have a new pair of favorite shoes." Mercedes said quickly.
"I just picked out the cutest car seat for Eva the other day. It's perfect." Quinn said.
"Alanzo knows the numbers up to 20 in Spanish now." Santana said.
"I might have celebrity appearances at my dance studio." Brittany challenged.
"My dad is finally happy with my life choices." Mercedes said, referencing her father who wasn't too happy about Mercedes wanting to be a pop star but who is now accepting her.
"I, uh, I…"
"TIME QUINN! YOU'RE OUT!" Artie yelled laughing.
"What?! Damn it!" Quinn yelled.
"Santana, go." Artie said ignoring the pregnant woman.
"I think I'm going to have a movie role in the next few months, finally." Santana added.
Brittany sat there for two seconds, "Uh, pass."
"I'm going to be doing a commercial in a few weeks." Mercedes added.
"I just finished shooting that weird M&M commercial." Santana challenged.
"I finally got my Christmas decorations down." Mercedes challenged back.
"Somebody's buying me a free dessert tonight." Santana laughed, causing the whole table to laugh and Mercedes to forget her next line and miss her five second window.
"YES!" Santana yelled jumping up. "Give me high five baby. Mommy just won us a free dessert!" Santana said to Alanzo who happily high fived his mother, proud of the words "free dessert".
The table laughed and they began to continue their normal conversations as their food finally got there and they talked about the little things. Everybody was talking about how they were accepting the fact that after Quinn had the baby that most of them would have to go off to do their travels and they'd be back soon. They talked about making a video to promote the Glee album more than it would be. They all agreed and thought that it would be amazing.
Throughout the dinner, Puck also managed to act like Brittany wasn't there the entire time. He didn't talk to her or respond to a thing that she would say. He didn't even look in her direction and if he did it was as if she wasn't even there.
The dinner was beginning to close off nicely and everybody was having an excellent time. Everybody loved the dinner and they were all talking about how they wished they could do it again and that they would hopefully plan everything soon. There was nothing that they were looking forward to more than the day that they would all be able to have dinner like this again, and by then they would have a new member to their family, and soon after that there would be another one. Life was beginning to look up for all of them recently.
The group paid the bill, and not to mention, bought Santana her desert which turned out to be Tiramisu that she happily shared with Alanzo and Brittany. It was no secret that Santana was a coffee addict, but she was slowly turning her son into one too, which couldn't be good. They went outside to go to their respective cars and stopped to sign a few autographs while they were out there. They posed for a few pictures with their fans as well.
While they were in the restaurant, a few people had tipped off the media with their tweets and pictures and it was causing a big uproar outside. The frenzy was mostly over Santana and Mercedes, and also a little bit of Rachel. There were a few people who watched the tours with Beyonce that knew who Brittany was and there were a few others who knew where Mike was. They were going ballistic over the few who they knew.
"You know, you guys are going to regret not taking pictures with all of us." Sam said with his arms crossed, but the group continued to ignore him.
Which, in turn, made Santana bust out laughing at him which made for some very good paparazzi pictures of her. Alanzo was on her hip and Brittany was on her other side of her, having heard the comment she started laughing as well. They posed for a few more pictures and the valet had brought their cars over, and limo for Santana for them to leave.
"Did you enjoy yourself?" Santana asked Brittany after she strapped her son into his seat.
Brittany sidled up to Santana and smiled, she gave her a soft kiss on her jawline and smiled, "of course I did. Any time that I'm with you I enjoy myself."
Santana smiled softly at the blonde before entwining their fingers.
"Are you guys going to stay the night?" Brittany asked Santana as they drove.
Santana glanced at the blonde and smiled softly, "do you want us to?"
"If you don't mind."
"Then, you can count on it babe." Santana responded quickly kissing the top of Brittany's head.
Brittany smiled enthusiastically and quickly snapped her head around to face Santana, "seriously?"
Santana chuckled at the blonde. "Yes, seriously."
Brittany began grinning, "This is awesome."
"You should have known the answer to that B. I mean, you're the one who said that you want to move slowly; anything you want, I want. It's always been like that and it always will be like that." Santana said while looking into crystal blue eyes.
"Are you sure you want to live your life like that?" Brittany asked, just to be sure.
"I've been living my life like this since I've first met you Brittany. I wouldn't change a thing about it. I love living this way." Santana said softly before glancing to Brittany's eyes.
Brittany searched Santana's eyes to see if she was being completely serious and found that she was; there was nothing misleading in her eyes or anything that seemed like it was untrue. She leaned forward and captured Santana's lips softly in a kiss. Brittany pulled away from the kiss first which prompted Santana to quickly reconnect their lips in one last peck before letting go completely.
Brittany leaned into Santana's side and got comfortable for the remaining car ride to her house. Santana leaned back and got comfortable as well while asking the driver to turn the music up.
Once he turned the music up, Santana began to sing.
Tell me something I need to know
Then take my breath and never let it go
If you just let me invade your space
I'll take the pleasure, take it with the pain
And if in the moment I bite my lip
Baby, in that moment you'll know what this is
Something bigger than us and beyond bliss
Give me a reason to believe it
Cause if you want to keep me you gotta gotta gotta got to love me harder
And if you really need me you gotta gotta gotta gotta got to love me harder
Baby, love me harder
Love me, love me, love me
Harder, harder, harder
I know your motives and you know mine
The ones that love me, I tend to leave behind
If you know about me and choose to stay
Then take this pleasure and take it with the pain
And if in the moment you bite your lip
When I get you moaning you know it's real
Can you feel the pressure between your hips?
I'll make it feel like the first time-
"HEY! I was singing to that!" Santana yelled at her driver since he changed the song right in the middle of it. Brittany snickered at how upset Santana got at the driver changing the song.
"Sorry ms Lopez. I should have asked first. Before I took on the task of driving you today, I had to drive a 16 year old to her birthday party and all she did was play this song. I can't deal with it anymore. I truly apologize if I've hurt your feelings." The driver said sincerely.
Brittany rubbed Santana's thigh as the brunette took a deep breath. "It's fine. Just, whatever you put on, turn it up so that I can sing along and do not think about changing it when it's in the middle of a song. You ruined my mojo." Santana told the driver with a playfulness in her voice.
Brittany smiled at her because she loved seeing this side of Santana that many didn't get to see. She's pretty sure that if Santana was by herself, she might have flipped out on the driver because it was obvious that was her favorite part and he cut her off mid note. It was ridiculous.
The next song that came on the station was Blank Space by Taylor Swift.
Santana's smile grew from the pout that it was previously in and she quickly started bobbing her head. She looked at Alanzo and he was smiling too, he loved this song. He started dancing in his chair while Santana started singing the song aloud without a care in the world. Brittany put part of the car ride on snapchat so that more people would see this cute side of Santana. It had Santana, Alanzo and her in it.
-Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space, baby
And I'll write your name
Cherry lips, crystal skies
I could show you incredible things
Stolen kisses, pretty lies
You're the king, baby, I'm your Queen
Find out what you want
Be that girl for a month
Wait the worst is yet to come, oh no
Screaming, crying, perfect storms
I can make all the tables turn
Rose garden filled with thorns
Keep you second guessing like
"Oh my God, who is she?"
I get drunk on jealousy
But you'll come back each time you leave
'Cause darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
'Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space baby,
And I'll write your name
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say, I didn't warn ya
So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames
You can tell me when it's over
It the hi was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space baby,
And I'll write your name
Once the song ended, they were pulling into Brittany's parking lot and getting ready to get out. Santana went over and unbuckled Alanzo while they walked up to Brittany's apartment. Brittany opened the door and they walked in.
"Staying at B's house?" Alanzo asked walking over to the couch.
"Yes mijo. Is that fine?" Santana asked while following him to take his coat off. He nodded his head and let his mother take his shoes off. "Rescue bots." He stated with a large smile on his face while pointing excitedly at the tv.
Santana sighed and smiled while grabbing the remote and turning it on. She then went and hung her coat up on the rack as well as placed her shoes by the door with her sons. She then grabbed her cell phone and texted Quinn letting her know that she wasn't coming home and for her not to stay up waiting for her. She didn't want to drive Quinn crazy. She then told the blonde that she would be there sometime tomorrow and she'd text her if anything happened and for her to do the same.
It was going to be a good night.
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A/N: Quick update, it's been a good week so I wanted to share the love. (:
That game that I mentioned is called "Toca Monster" and I recommend downloading it if you have little kids. Baby boy was enthralled in it for hours just cooking for a monster lol.
Anything that you want to see? Leave it in a review :)
& For questions or previews etc, tumblr's listed on my profile.
