Sorry for the wait, life and school has been crazy busy, but here is a new chapter. Hope you like it and please review and let me know what you think.
The next few weeks went by without incident. The girls fell back into their rhythm of school and practice and Cheerios. Santana worked with Brittany on all her classes until it got to the point that Brittany was actually doing better and showing a significant improvement in her grades. School was going better than they had expected; with the glee club members supporting them the girls had not real problem showing the fact that they were a couple to the school. Was it perfect, hell no, it was still high school, they still got starred at and whispered about, names were still thrown around, but Santana would shoot an icy glare at those people and they would keep walking. When it came right down to it they didn't get picked on anymore than anyone else in the school did, so really they didn't have much to complain about. In fact it was quite the opposite, as on that particular morning, both Santana and Brittany had something special to celebrate; Brittany's birthday.
Santana had spent weeks trying to figure out what to do for Brittany's birthday and she soon realized that as perfect as Valentine's day was, she may have outdone herself. She didn't want to seem like the one trick pony of romance so she thought of anything and everything she could do to make Brittany's day special. Flowers were a given, but not roses, too obvious, her favorite flower would work if Santana knew what it was. Eventually, Santana figured she would make Brittany a simple cake and then take her out that night and do something special. She just had to find the perfect gift and put everything in motion without Brit finding out about her plans.
The night before her birthday Santana kissed Brittany goodnight before going back downstairs and getting to work on her cake. As she watched her daughter frantically trying to perfectly decorate the cake, Angela Lopez couldn't help but smile, she found it slightly funny and very sweet that her daughter was falling all over herself to make her girlfriend happy. Angela went upstairs with a smile on her face and a warm feeling in her heart and she was even more thankful that Brittany had found her way into Santana's life because the perky blonde seemed to melt the heart of her normally very guarded daughter.
When she was satisfied that the cake was perfect Santana put it in the outside fridge and after quickly cleaning the kitchen she climbed into bed. In her mind her head had no sooner hit the pillow then the alarm clock was going off. After getting ready, Santana made her way to Brittany's room only to find it empty.
"She went in early this morning, said she wanted to go running before school started." Santana looked up to see her mother at the end of the hallway with two mugs of coffee.
"Did you at least say Happy Birthday?" Santana asked in a slightly agitated voice.
Angela shot her daughter a look only a mother could give, "no Santana I was a heartless shrew and said nothing, of course I said Happy Birthday. Now if you want to catch her before class you should get going." Santana took another gulp of her coffee before handing the mug back to her mother kissing her check, "thanks mama, see you later."
Santana pulled into the school parking lot and when she got out of the car she could see Brittany running around the track. She walked over to the fence and waited there until Brittany came around again and ran over to her.
"Happy Birthday baby!" Santana gave her a quick kiss between the chain link fence before pulling back. "How come you left so early, you should have slept in on your birthday?"
"I wanted to go running, figured I would work off the calories I will be eating later in the ways of birthday cake."
"And what makes you think you're getting a cake?" Santana teased.
"You always get me a cake for my birthday, ever since we were 5 and you made me one out of mud."
"Some of my finest work. Well how about you go shower and I'll give you one of your presents." Brittany beamed and ran over to the locker rooms while Santana grabbed her things from her car. Brittany came bouncing out of the locker room about 15 minutes later, hair still wet but now she was in her Cheeios uniform.
"So where is my present?"
"What no good morning sweetie, where is my present?" Santana feigned being hurt and Brittany leaned over and kissed her briefly.
"Good morning."
"That's better. You present is in you locker." The two walked over to their lockers and Brittany took the lock in her hand and then froze. Santana took the lock in her own hand and spun it three times before popping the thing open. Santana pulled back the metal door and no sooner had she done that was Brittany screaming and jumping up and down. Inside the locker were a dozen mixed color tulips.
"Santana, how did you know these were my favorite?"
"A little bird told me."
"Birds talk to you too; I thought it was just me?" Santana looked at Brittany, but decided to not respond it would have ruined the moment.
"They are amazing Santana."
"No you're amazing; they are flowers, just like the roses were." Brittany grabbed Santana by the strap of her backpack and pulled her into a searing kiss. Thankfully the halls were still fairly empty at that moment so they were able to enjoy this moment without an audience. After several minutes a voice interrupted them.
"You know people are trying to learn here right?" Quinn stood there with a shit eating grin on her face.
"Very funny Q."
"Happy Birthday Brittany."
"Thanks Quinn, look at what Santana got me." Brittany proudly showed off the flowers.
"They're beautiful Britt, but you should probably put them back in your locker, the bell is gonna ring soon." Brittany gently placed the flowers back in her locker and grabbed her books and the trio walked to their classes. The next few hours went by fairly quickly; Santana sent Brittany texts in every class from first period until lunch, even in the classes they shared. Texts saying I love you and several other messages. By the time lunch came around Brittany was beaming, Santana was treating her like a princess and she loved it. They sat down at the lunch table with the rest of the glee crew and everyone wished Brit a happy birthday and a few of them even gave her cards and small gifts they had made for her. Santana held onto her gift, she wanted to give it to Brittany later.
As the end of the day came around and brought with it glee practice Santana walked into the choir room only to find that Brittany wasn't there. Santana took her usual seat and thought that maybe she was just running late, but when ten minutes passed and Mr. Shue walked in the room and started talking about set lists Santana got that nagging feeling in the put of her stomach again. She looked and Quinn and Rachel who must have been thinking the same thing she was because they both looked concerned. Santana quickly texted Brittany again, but again got no response. She tried several more times and finally her phone vibrated in her hand, but when she looked down the message wasn't from Brittany, it was from her mom. Santana quickly read the text looked at Quinn and Rachel and without saying a word she grabbed her backpack and started to walk out of the room.
Quinn tried to stop her, "Santana wait, what hap…" Quinn was cut off by Santana throwing her cell phone over her shoulder to Quinn and thankfully she caught the device. As Santana disappeared out the door Quinn read the text message from Santana's mother and soon the same look of worry spread across her face.
"Quinn." Rachel shock Quinn lightly trying to get her talk and all Quinn could do was hand Rachel the phone. Rachel read the message out loud and soon everyone understood what was going on, "Santana, thought you should hear it from me, Roger's court date was today, plead no contest, he'll be sentenced next week, but he's not going to bother us anymore, might want to check on Brittany. Love, Mom."
Rachel finished the text and looked around at everyone, "we have to go find her." Everyone stood up and walked out of the choir room, it didn't take them long to find Santana. When the turned the corner they saw the Latina standing at the entrance of the auditorium just standing there. Quinn put her arms on Santana's shoulder and the Latina turned to her friend with tears in her eyes.
"Santana, where is Brittany?" Santana held open the door so the rest of the group could see inside; sitting on the stage was Brittany audibly crying while sitting on the piano bench.
"I don't know what to say to her Q, he hurt her so bad, and he almost killed us both but he was her father and I don't know how to make her heart stop breaking." And then to everyone's great surprise Santana lost all composure and started sobbing into Quinn's shoulder.
After a moment of just standing their Quinn tried to calm her down, "maybe you can't fix this one San. Sometimes people have to go through the heart break so they can be stronger people, you can't protect her from every bad thing in the world."
"Yes I can." Santana spat back.
"No you can't." Quinn was dead serious. "Santana you will always protect her, you love her it makes sense, but there are things in this world we can't protect people from and heartbreak is the biggest one of those things."
"Then what can I do?"
"When she done being sad, you come in and help pick up the pieces, you help her put her heart back together; that is what you do." Santana nodded and whipped her eyes before looking back to the stage. Brittany had started to play the piano softly and she slowly began to build up sound until it was clear she was playing an actual song. Santana stepped inside the auditorium and the glee members followed, each of them taking a place in the audience. Brittany continued to play and Santana was floored, she had no idea Brittany could play an instrument. But before her shock could register, Brittany started to sing along with the tune coming from the piano.
2am, where do I begin I'm the ghost of a girl Dancing slowly in an empty room Too afraid, to go inside I'm the ghost of a girl Dancing slowly in an empty room
Crying off my face again
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Then you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again
For the pain of one more loveless night
For the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep
That I want to be most
I'm the shell of a girl
That I used to know well
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Then you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again
The entire club sat in stunned silence, most of them had tears in their eyes, well most of the girls anyway. Santana was sobbing with Quinn trying to soothe her. Then without warning Santana stopped sobbing, stood up and started walking to the stage door. Soon she was standing behind Brittany as she went into the final verse.
Broken pieces of Dancing slowly in an empty room
A barely breathing story
Where there once was love
Now there's only me
And the lonely...
Can the lonely take the place of you
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Then you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again...
As Brittany played the song out and the sound of the piano eventually died out she felt a familiar pair of hands on her shoulders.
"It's my fault."
"No, he made his choices Brit, he hurt you, he tried to kill us, he got what her deserved, you didn't do anything wrong ok." Brittany could only nod before she collapsed into Santana's arms. The crying stopped crying after a few minutes and Santana lead the two of them off the stage and back into the choir room with the rest of the club following behind them.
Mr. Shue finally broke the silence, "look guys if we want to end practice early I think that would be alright."
Santana's hand shot up before he could finish talking, "Mr. Shue I have a song I'd like to do." Mr. Shue nodded and sat down next to the piano
"I know that this day kind of took a crappy turn, but it's still Brit's birthday so I wanted to perform this song for her. Happy Birthday baby." Santana nodded to the band and the music filled the room and soon so did her voice.
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby I broke them all for you
Because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do
I was made for you
You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what
I've been through like you do
And I was made for you...
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true...I was made for you
When the song ended the whole room jumped to their feet and broke out into applause. Santana looked over to Brittany and was glad to see the blonde with a big smile on her face. She walked over and whipped away a few stray tears and kissed her. "Good tears or bad tears?"
"I love you tears. Thank you."
"I meant every word, I was made for you. I know this day kind of sucked, but I'm hell bent on making it awesome." Brittany smiled and kissed Santana again before they picked up their bags and left. They drove their cars home and when they walked in the door Santana told Brittany to go change so they could go on their date. Brittany practically ran up the stairs while Santana went to put the cake and the food she had ready in the car. When she grabbed the cake there was a note attached to the plate, written in her mother handwriting.
'Santana, your father and I are staying at your Aunt's tonight so you and Brittany can have the house to yourselves. I measured the alcohol in the cabinet so no funny stuff and don't make me regret this later. Have fun and be safe and tell Brittany Happy Birthday again. –Love, Mom'
Santana smiled, they had the house to themselves for the whole night. She quickly changed clothes and knocked on Brittany's door. When she opened it Santana couldn't breather for a minute.
"B you look beautiful, I mean like really hot."
"Thanks babe, you do too. You ready to go ?"
"Yep, let's go." Santana lead Brittany downstairs and into the car. The two drove for about 10 minutes before Santana stopped at Brittany's favorite park.
"San, what are we doing here?"
"This is where we are having our date tonight. Now come on I have it all set up." Brittany took Santana's hand and walked with her until they reached the small pond in the middle of the park. Santana put her hand over Brittany's eyes as they got closer, "San what are you doing?"
"It's a surprise baby." Santana had asked Puck, Rachel and Quinn to set up the blanket and what not before the couple arrived and they had done a great job.
"Sit down right here and open your eyes." Brittany opened her eyes and almost started to cry at the sight before her. The blanket had candle set all around it and the moonlight bounced off the water perfectly, it was like they were in a movie.
"San, this is so amazing." Santana kissed her lightly, "I'm glad you like it. Now we have some food courtesy of Breadstix because I know how much you love it and we have some sparkling water so we can at least pretend it alcohol and we have a birthday cake for dessert."
"So you did get me a cake."
"Sort of, I made you a cake." The two dug into the food and enjoyed the scenery and each other and when the food was gone Santana pulled out the cake and lit the candles before putting it in front of Brittany. "Make a wish baby." Brittany closed her eyes tightly and after a moment she quickly blew out the candles with one big blow.
"What did you wish for?"
"I can't tell you that silly it would mean it wouldn't come true."
"Well we can't have that." Santana handed Brittany a slice of cake and they sat there eating the cake and enjoying the silence that surrounded them, after the day they had had, silence was what they both needed. When they had finished off their cake Santana packed up the basket and put it back in the car before returning to Brittany and helping her get the rest of their things. When they walked back to the car Brittany placed a kiss on Santana cheek.
"What was that for?"
"For my birthday really perfect eve after what happened today."
"I love you B."
"I love you too. So where we going now."
"Home."
"It's 7:30 and you want to go home."
Santana leaned in and whispered in Brittany's ear, "my parents and brother are at my Aunt's until tomorrow, we have an empty house to ourselves. So I'm going to take you home and when we get there I want you to do me a favor."
"What?"
"By the time we get to my bedroom I want you completely naked." Santana smirked as she put the car in drive and took off toward the house.
So yeah, sorry about the wait, but sexy times are ahead so that will be cool, I hope. You all know the drill if you want more review. Thanks for reading.