Mostly filler for the awesomeness that I hope I write next chapter seriously I've been thinking about chapter ten for like four weeks so here's chapter nine oh and I skipped over doing a special thing for sectionals just assume the performances went down like in the show, I'm lazy you try being a college kid with a shit load of classes and homework up to your eyeballs! Anyway some Pezberry friendship in this one and a BRITTANA interaction whoop more of those to come!
Chapter Nine
All I Wanted
My Mom was super pissed when I got home late from the Berry's (cause I kind of didn't tell her where I was going but whatever) so I was grounded for the rest of the week, probably didn't help that I started yelling back at her and slammed my door but I had, had a very stressful Sunday.
I was laying on my bed head propped up against the back wall thinking about everything that's been going down lately see on Monday Quinn came up and apologized to me for being such a major bitch she wanted to hug it out but I wasn't on the mushy stuff so we shook on it saying we wouldn't make out anymore or anything weird like that. Not that I wasn't still worried for Quinn I watched her sheepishly watch Rachel out of the corner of her eye now and then but she never approached her, but I say progress is progress.
Then I noticed on Tuesday Artie following B around like a lost fucking wheel chair puppy that I wanted to shove down a staircase. I had my ear buds in jamming out trying to not notice everyone around me since I was still a little aggravated with everyone who was breathing my air.
The only reason I noticed that someone was talking to me was because I could hear a faint buzzing noise coming from behind me I pulled out my left ear bud and was greeted to Berry mid-nag.
"It's very rude to ignore people Santana and here I was trying to be polite and thank you for coming over the other day and eating with my family but I think I may rebuke my thanks and give it to someone who is a little more appreciative and someone who will at least listen to me, give said thanks to them" this causes me to roll my eyes.
I hold up my headphone "I wasn't ignoring your midget ass specifically just generally everyone else, and I thought we talked about this you shouldn't talk to me at school I'm not ready for my rep to take another plunge thanks the bottom of the pyramid is bad enough" I say strutting off to my next class.
I could've died the day was going so freaking slow and it didn't help that it seemed that B and wheels were an 'item' now so I guess I didn't avoid it like I thought I did which kind of threw salt on the freaking wound for me, how could I protect her with that cripple in the way?
Every time I pass Berry in the hallway she smiles at me I try to ignore it or stealthily smile back or wave at her I mean she did treat me awesome at dinner the other day, defending me and shit.
I smile politely when Jerome Rachel's big black dad puts a plate down in front of me while I was thinking 'what the fuck is this'? It was like a glob of I don't know what it looked really, really nasty. Rachel is smiling across the table from me as her smaller dad Keith sits down, also smiling almost an identical smile.
"So Santana Rachel tells us you're a cheerleader" I hear Jerome snort next to me.
"Yes, sir I am I was head cheerio part of the year last year" and was supposed to be all year this year if it wasn't for that spot stealing blabber mouth I think angrily.
"Oh well that's nice and stop with the formalities your making me feel old I'm Keith" I heard Jerome mumble something about him being Mr. Berry still "You're also apart of glee club we hear? We saw you guys last week at sectionals you were phenomenal" Keith says beaming it made it easier to see where Rachel got her looks from.
Jerome is staring at me and of course I'm never one to back down from a stare down so I sit there playing with my glob of goo with my spoon making shapes and shit while he glares down at me.
"SANTANA" Rachel says nudging my leg from under the table I whip my head over to her "Yeah sorry what?"
"I was just telling my daddy how you recently got out of a relationship with Brittany" I stared at her for a minute with a 'bitch say what' face on she sits there like prompting me trying to get me to talk about it or something.
"Oh uh yeah I guess" I shrug
"You guess?" Oh so now the man wants in on the flipping conversation, now it was turned to my failed lesbian relationship "How do you guess with something like that"?
"Well we did go out for a while I mean but I think we're just on a break"
"Oh how's that working out for you? Being a young gay couple usually is hard I'm not surprised you two broke up really, not that I don't commend you on your efforts from what Rachel says it was a good try"
I was gritting me teeth trying not to scowl trying to keep what little composure I had Jerome opens his mouth probably to make another point about me and Brittany's relationship which he didn't know the first thing about but little Berry cuts him off.
"Dad stop please, this has been a really hard time for Santana already and I won't sit idle by while you insult her young love, if I do recall you and daddy were only sixteen when you met and it wasn't all skipping through daisy for you two either" that didn't fucking shut his trap though.
"How can you defend her after everything her and that Fabray girl put you through since before high school? Don't act like your naive Rachel because your really not this is probably some kind of trick to get at you and get your guard down or something and Iwont sit idle by and watch this train wreck happen" then he pushed his chair back towered over me a minute then left the dining room stomping a little. Diva fits must run in this family or something even though it was comically seeing the huge black man act like Rachel, maybe something in the water.
Keith sensing the tension smiled "So how about some dessert girls? Rachel you go on and get it out honey I'll go deal with your father. Santana it was a pleasure meeting you really, I'm sorry about Jerome" he smiled then followed in his husband's footsteps.
Rachel sat there a minute while I continued to sculpt the Eiffel tower with my goo trying to act neutral even though nuclear warfare with Jerome was going on in my head "It's not a prank is it?" her voice was so small I didn't hear her at first.
"No" I sigh I hate emotional shit "Honestly I've never really had a close friend before, B went from Best friend to girl friend and me and Quinn's relationship is weird like this love hate type thingy, I guess your like my first friend outside of those two and I don't wanna fuck that up so I guess what I'm getting at is uh… I like you"
She raised her eyebrows it took me a minute to get what she was getting at and I nearly died choking on my water "Oh no damn it Berry not like that we've been over this, this is just a friends type thing god Berry, gross"
She smiles sheepishly at me "Okay Santana thanks you know I've never really had a close friend who's a girl either so it's nice that we have that common interest hopefully it'll help our friendship stay strong" I just shrug.
"Whatever 'nough of this mushy shit where's that dessert I'm starving!"
After Coach Sylvester made us do a crazy ass 'conditioning' practice, which included fun activities like suicides, laps, Sweet sixteen's, more suicides, Abs work outs, and of course holding the pyramid for as long as possible first to fail got to start over oh and so did everyone else since you can't make a pyramid by yourself, it was just a fucking BLAST the three times we did it!
I knew B was sitting behind me on the bench like watching me, I'm not physic or anything but I had my locker open and in the little mirror in my locker I was watching her too so we kind of caught each other. Sighing I shoulder my duffle bag and turn around to face her "Hey, B I miss you what's been going on?"
Her face goes blank a minute like when she's trying to pull up a memory or something it's this kind of cuteness I miss but then her eyes light up "Artie is taking me on a date to Breadstix tonight! You should def come Sanny I miss you lots too!"
To say my heart broke a little was an understatement hearing her say Artie, Date, Sanny and Breadstix in the same sentence hurt like fucking hell but I'm a tough girl so I grin and bear it "Yeah that would be great but I have other plans tonight you know an earlier commitment or I totally would" her smile falls a little.
"But you could bring Rachel I wouldn't get jealous at all we could like double"
If one more person assumed I liked Berry I think I might yak all over my trainers "No, B that's okay I'm not like dating Treasure Trail and it would be weird and shit with Quinn since that like her undercover lover. Tonight just wouldn't work out okay".
She nods frowning "Okay Sanny well you know a cell phone works both ways so text me back sometime" she stands up and waves to me before skipping off leaving me alone in the locker room.
I shake off the lonely feeling before putting my chin up and walking out to my car which also looked quite lonely in the lot since everyone else had already dipped out of here, probably incase Sue changed her mind about ending practice right now and called us all back in for one more round of fun.
There was a yellow post-it note stuck to my front windshield I peel it off and throw it into the passenger seat while I throw my cheerio bag into the trunk so it wouldn't make my car smell like shit, you can't smell like roses after a cheerio practice it's like a crime against nature.
I forget about the note until I'm at a stop light right before my house fiddling with the radio it catches my eye. I scan over it before smirking the night had suddenly taken a pleasant turn for me.
Look at me leaving a cliffhanger ha you'll be surprised.
