Get ready and hold on tight, people, we're going to Lima!
UnaAventura96 - you're right, we rushed with Dani a little. You'll still see her struggle and overcome some issues in the future chapters.
A huge thank you to everyone who read & follow the story, write reviews and added it to their favorite. It's a great pleasure to know people enjoy our work :)
Co-writing with Nephewsnixx.
Part I
Rachel was quick on her feet to tidy up the living room, making sure that everything was immaculate, and even if it was she can't relax because of how eventful this day was to her. She prepared some left overs for Wade to have as a way to help convince him to allow Dani to go to Lima, and because she was in a good mood, but mainly the first thing.
When Dani came back from school, she saw Rachel cleaning the same spot she was cleaning before she took her to school. She laughed at the older woman and went to take a shower and get ready for the visit. She met Wade before and he was much nicer than she thought, so she wasn't nervous, just excited. When she was finished getting ready, Dani stayed in the room and texted Marley.
Santana got home about an hour before the home review; she had to get to the club in the morning and take care of some stuff, but hurried back the second she could. She knew Rachel probably doing way too much with getting ready and wanted to be there to calm her down. She took a cab and practically ran up the stair. She opened the door and walked in.
"Hey, Rach." She says nonchalantly.
"Hey." Rachel walked to the living room, looking at every inch of it. "Is that coffee table clean enough? I don't think it is.." She grabs some disinfectant off the counter then makes her way back. "I'm okay, I swear I am okay." She says as she sprays the disinfectant on the table, and then runs a wash rag over the table top.
It's worse than she thought. Santana walks over to Rachel and grabs her hands, "No, stop, the place is shining." She looks around and back at Rachel, "Why don't you go take a shower and get ready?"
"I took like.. 2 today, I am going insane right now." Rachel looked at the coffee table a bit more closely, "I think I see spots on the table." She said in a slight panic. "Where's Emma when you need her." Rachel threw her hands up, and then followed up with a pout.
"Rachel, honey, everything is perfect." Santana pulls Rachel into a tight hug, "Wade knows Dani is very happy here and he knows you take good care of her and loves her. Everything is going to be alright." She cups Rachel's face and caresses it with her thumbs, "We're going to have a nice chat, he'll let us take her to Lima and we'll have the best time there." She smiles and kisses both of her cheeks.
"Thank you, Santana." Rachel gives a smile towards the Latina, gazing into her eyes longer than needed. "So, uh.. I am gonna check on the left overs.." She calmly announced.
"Should I change or is this dress ok?" Santana walks and sit on one of the stools, "Should I check if Dani is ready? You know when she's talking to Marley she forgets everything." Santana asks and giggles.
"Santana, you look perfect, and your dress is perfect." Rachel happily admits then she hears a knock at the door. "You check to see if Dani is ready, I will go see if that's Wade." She walks to the door, opens it to see Dani's case worker. "Hi! Welcome to our home." She greets.
Wade smiles a bit, "Thank you and honey you look great." He compliments as he walks in to take in the atmosphere of the apartment.
Santana does as Rachel asked and walks to what turns to be mostly Dani's room, knocks and gets in, "Hey, D. Are you ready?"
When she's finished her last text, Dani lifts her eyes and looks at Santana, "Hey, Tana. Yeah, I am." She leaves her phone on the bed and gets up to hug Santana, "Is he here yet?"
Santana hugs back and nods, "I think so. Let's go say hi and get that approval or Rachel will die." She jokes and walks with the girl out to the living room. She sees that Wade and Rachel are already sitting in the living room and the two join them, "Hello, Wade."
"Hey, Wade!" Dani waves and sits between Rachel and Santana with a smile on her face.
"Oh my, just a house full of beautiful sisters today." Wade joked as he looked in his bag. "Now, I hear you three wanted to go to Lima, how long were you planning on staying there?" He asked.
"4 days; one day to get ready and the train ride, two days for family, and one day to get ready to come back." Rachel explained then looked over at Santana "That's correct?" She asked her roommate.
"Yep." Santana answers with a smile. She has no doubt they'd get the ok to go, but she's still nervous; Wade is a very nice guy, but if he'd see something he doesn't like, he can take Dani away from them. Santana doesn't want any of them to go through something like that; she wants everything to stay as it is now.
Dani looks between the adults, then focus on Wade, "So, can I go meet the rest of my family?" She smiles and pleads with her eye; who can say no to a young girl like her who just wants a family?
"Well.." Wade said as he brought out some paperwork. "Now you three know that because Dani is under the state's custody, we need to grant the rights to allow you to take her across state lines." He mentioned as he placed the paperwork on the table. "But child, I think you will be having a great Thanksgiving with them." He gave a nod.
Rachel held Dani's hand and smiled some more. "I hope so." She says, feeling good about the review.
"Now before I hand the paperwork, I need some knowledge about Dani's schooling." He requested. "She's going to P.P.A.S still, correct?" He asked.
"Yes, she is."
"Dani, do you like it at that school?" Wade asked with a gentle smile on his face.
Dani's smile grows even more and her cheeks turned reddish, "Yeah, it's great." She tells him and feels Santana's hand squeezing her free hand.
Wade writes a little on his clipboard, "Good, good.. How's the living situation here? Is she getting fed? Also, does she have a room?" He continued to ask. "I know it's pushy but it is my job, and I want to make sure Dani has a great home in you, Ms. Berry, and Ms. Lopez."
Rachel nodded, "She sleeps in my old room; I gave it to her because she needed it, a lot more than I do, so I either sleep on the couch or when Santana is working the graveyard, I sleep in her room." She answered carefully.
"Are you two.." Wade asked, waving his pen in both Rachel and Santana's direction. "Together?"
Rachel quickly shook her head "N-No, we are just best friends, almost like sisters.. Totally not together." She answered rather fast, waving her free hand.
Dani holds back her laughter, 'That wasn't obvious at all, Rachel..' She thinks and keeps looking at Wade. She wishes she could tell him that she's working on it and soon they'd be together and it'd be even more perfect.
She tries not to seem affected by Rachel's words, but inside, Santana is mostly amused, but also there is a slight amount of hurt. Of course, Santana being the closed off person she is, she focuses on the funny side of it, 'Sister, huh? It's not even kinky, it's just wrong..' She makes a note to tease Rachel about it later. "Will any of those issues be a problem?" Santana tilts her head, "We earn more money now, so maybe we could move to a bigger place, but.. Does it matter that Rachel isn't married?" Santana can't imagine losing Dani and she's tightening her hold on her hand.
"Oh, no it doesn't matter, just part of the list of questions I am required to ask. I asked about you two specifically because Dani mentioned in her last visit, that she considers both of you her parents." Wade explained as he finished writing on his clipboard. "Okay, looks like we are set, just need a signature from you Ms. Berry, and then you three can have yourselves a great Thanksgiving."
"Awesome." Rachel smiled some as she signed where Wade pointed, after she was done she shook Wade's hand. "Thank you, and please have a wonderful Thanksgiving." She stood up and walked to the door.
"Actually, there is one more thing, but I understand if you don't want to speak in front of Dani about this particular thing.. Could I talk to you and Ms. Lopez out in the hall for a few moments?" Wade stood up holding onto his bag as he follows Rachel to the door.
Santana stands up and looks at Dani, "You can go back to texting Marley; you took some breath separately and you must tell each other all about it." Santana smirks.
The young girl stands and glares at Santana, "We're not the only ones." She raises her eyebrow and leave Santana. They think they're being so secretive, but Dani notice some changes.
Santana frowns at the closed door of Dani's room and walks outside. She blushes a little when she sees Rachel and decides to stand far from her. She's scratching her arm and looks at Wade, "So.. What's up?"
"Well.. Rachel, I may have good news about the progress of Dani's adoption." Wade quietly, but happily announces. "I have all the paperwork in my bag that you sign, and I will be sending it to the higher ups as soon as I get back to my office."
Rachel gasped with some excitement. "When do you think we will get results?" She asks.
"Well, because it's a holiday week, it'll get there tomorrow; they will do their own review from their offices." Wade explains. "So I would say the latest would be the Monday after Thanksgiving, and earliest would be the day after."
"Are you serious?!" Santana almost jumped from happiness, "That's amazing!" She takes a few steps towards Rachel and hugs her, "Did you hear that?! You're going to be her mom, she's going to stay with us!" She says, barely containing her excitement.
"It's still up in the air Ms. Lopez, but I have faith in Rachel. Dani deserves her, and I can tell that she deserves Dani." Wade said before nodding towards the women's direction. "Have a good Thanksgiving." He walked down the stairs, and out the building.
Rachel was shaking a bit, "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." She hopped up and down. "Santana am I dreaming?" Rachel asked as her hands gently grip her waist. "Please, tell me I'm not dreaming."
"It's all real and he's right." She holds on Rachel's hands, "You're perfect for each other."
"I.. I am so happy." Rachel breathes in some. "I get to be a mom.." She latches onto Santana as tight as she could. "Thank you Santana.. Your support... That's just everything to me."
"You're already a mom, a great one." Santana holds as tight, "You're the most beautiful person that I know, and I don't mean only on the outside; you gave Dani a life and a family and you didn't care about the price. That's amazing to me." It's an important moment to Rachel, so Santana let herself open up, just a little, and support her best friend.
"I just.. So much has happened!" Rachel moved back and walked around, "If I could go back and tell high school Rachel Berry that consistent caring was a great way to live.. Well, I would." She looks over at Santana and smiles quite a bit. "Everything is perfect.." Rachel kept her smile. "I now have the best family ever.. Well.. One day it'll be even better."
Santana's smile grew, then instantly falls, but she tries to keep it up; Rachel deserves to be this happy. "Yeah, you'd find that someone that will complete the puzzle for you and be a good parent to Dani." She breathes through the pain in her chest, because she has no right to hurt or ruin Rachel's happiness. She made it clear that they aren't and never will be a couple. "And you don't need to tell her that; you made such a huge change, you grew and became someone a young girl can look up to. Even with all the horrible shit you've been through, it's what brought you to this point, so it was worth it."
"Yeah.." Rachel gulped. "Someone.." She looked away for a few seconds. "I am going to make sure we have enough bags for the trip, and see if Marley may need a bag or two from us." She explains before walking back into the apartment.
The next day, the three women made it to the Grand Central Station. Rachel made sure she had the tickets for her and the girls, showing them to the counter. After that, she took the other women to the platform of the train they will take to Lima. "Okay.. Where are Kurt and Blaine?" Asked Rachel.
"Probably trying to get their entire luggage into their car. They're always over packing." Santana answers and pacing back and forwards, trying to get warm.
Dani stands beside Rachel and looks around; it's going to be her first time getting out of New York, but she can't fully enjoy it because she's already missing Marley. The two haven't talked to each other since last night; Dani knew her girlfriend must be still sleeping, so she didn't text or call her yet. But she needs to put it aside, it's only for a few days and it's with her family.
"What's scary is it's mostly Kurt that over packs.. Blaine, literally, only takes two bags." Rachel sat at a bench by the platform. "So Dani, how are you feeling? 8 hours of a comfortable booth, and sightseeing from the window."
"I'm excited for everything!" She sees that Santana keeps pacing, so she sits next to Rachel, "I.. I just wish Marley was coming with us, you know.." She admits and lower her head.
Rachel gently patted Dani's back "It's okay, dear.." She says as she looks up to see Marley.
Marley quietly stepped over to the bench, sitting right beside Dani, then lifted up the pink haired girl's chin, placing a soft kiss upon her lips.
"Oy.." Rachel rolled her eyes and smiled a bit. 'I will leave them alone for a few, I wanna check on San..' She thought as she got up to walk to Santana. "Are you okay Santana?"
Dani jumps back, ready to kick some ass, when she see Marley sitting next to her with a huge grin on her face. "Marls!" She pecks her lips a few times, "What are you doing here?" Dani asks, and then realizes it might sound bad and correct herself, "I'm so happy you're here, but I thought you need to stay home?" She speaks while holding Marley's hands the whole time.
A few feet from them, another woman is startle, "It's cold, I hate when it's cold! And I just want us to get there already.." Santana is happy to get away from work and ho back to see her mom, but it feels different.. She's already missing Dani and Rachel, and they right next to her, "Sorry, I'm being weird." She shakes her head and rolls her eyes, "Those two just too adorable, but.." She almost referred to Dani as her own, instead, Santana frowns and looks away, "-It's too sweet, I might actually get a cavity." She chuckles and tries to warm herself, 'I'm wearing so many layers and still cold, what the fuck?!'
"Santana, calm down, you're probably just excited to see your mom again." Rachel wrapped one arm around her friend's shoulder. "I'm excited too, and the second we step aboard, we will be that much closer to home.. Okay?" She tries to comfort the Latina.
Marley pressed her forehead against Dani's, "Well, it was planned; you see Rachel called my mom to see if the three of us wanted to go, of course we did but Elliot and my mom work at the same restaurant together. So my mom asked if I wanted to go, as long as I behaved myself while around you.. Which is gonna be impossible, but, yeah, I told her I would, then I asked Rachel if she'd keep it a secret from you, and let me surprise you when we got here." She explained while placing a kiss on Dani's cheek. "I can't wait to meet everyone."
"I want to be mad at you, but you're cute." Dani blushes, "It's going to be super fun! We'll meet Santana's and Rachel's parents and see where they grew up!" She says and claps, then rest her head on Marley's shoulder, "And look at them, I'm sure something is going on, I just don't know why they're not telling us." She huffs and cuddle her girlfriend.
Santana inhales Rachel's scent and nods, feeling much better. The last events related to Dani and how close her and Rachel got, making Santana very confused and scared. What Santana does in cases like that? Goes to a familiar place; she sneaks her hand around Rachel's waist and whisper in her ear, "You're going to be ok without me touching you for four days?"
"I think it's unfair that I get to do all the touching." Rachel whispered back. "Remember the massage?" She winked, then a bit of ways down there was Kurt and Blaine. "Hey! Kurt! What took ya?" Rachel waved.
"I am so, so sorry, the storage we bought to store our car wasn't opening with our key, so we had to wait for a guy to come and get us a new key and explain their new management crap." Kurt had a couple bags in hand as he walked towards the girls. "Young love, huh?" He said as he looked over at Marley and Dani.
Blaine slowly made his way, he looked more tired than usual, being a doctor really wasn't something he anticipated on looking into, but it wasn't anything he'd complain about. "I just can't wait till we get on the train.. I am tired."
"Blaine, you're always tired." Rachel points out.
Marley traced circles against Dani's back, "This is my first time leaving the state.. I am nervous.." She admits as she looked over at her girlfriend. "Are you nervous?"
"It's my first time, too." Dani says as she taps her fingers in different places on Marley's leg, "I was more nervous earlier, but now you're here so I feel much better."
The train ride was long, but went pretty well; the group slept most of the way, except Blaine, who slept the whole eight hours, and the rest of the time they spent playing different card games. When they finally got to Lima, Rachel, Santana and the girls said goodbye to Kurt and Blaine and told them they'd talk later to arrange a meeting later on. While they were on the train, Santana's mom texted her and said she left her car there for them to use. So Santana went to her mom's locker and grabbed the car keys from there, like she always does when she comes to visit. The four girls put their suitcases in the trunk and Santana drove to the Berry's household to drop them off. About fifteen minutes later, the car parked in front of the house and it's time to say goodbye.
"Well, we're here.." Santana says and tries to smile.
Dani looks outside of the window, "Is that where your parents live, Rachel? It's so beautiful!"
Rachel nodded, "Yep, they are pretty wealthy in terms of money, and love." She pointed out before stepping out of the car. "Santana, you sure you don't want to hang out for a few minutes?" She asked as she goes to the trunk of the car.
Santana watches the girls' jumps from the car and opens the window on her side, "Y-Yeah, we'll see each other later. My mom is probably waiting for me already.." It's hard enough for her to say goodbye, she just wants to get it over with.
Rachel walked to the window, she patted around her coat pockets, "Uhm.. Here.." Rachel pulled out a small gift wrapped box. "Don't open it till me and the kids are inside, or until you are a little ways down.. Just a token of my appreciation." She smiled a bit.
Marley had a couple bags in her hands, "Hey Dani, do you think we will get some alone time? Because.. Well I sorta wanted to try some other kisses from other comic book movies." She winked over at her girlfriend.
Dani almost drops some of the things she's holding, but still tries to act smoothly, "That can be arranged, ma' lady." She turns away from the girl and bite hard on her lip.
While the girls having their little conversation, Santana is speechless, "Y-You didn't have to.. Thank you.." She looks into Rachel's eyes, almost hypnotized.
Unaware of the moment, Dani runs to where Rachel is standing and gives Santana a kiss, "See you later, Tana." Then she looks at Rachel, "Come on, let's go, we have tons of stuff and I want to meet your parents!" She nudges Rachel's side because her hands are full.
"I guess you should go.." Santana says and gulps, "Have fun kids!" She says a little louder, "Tell your parents I said hey." She tells Rachel and squeezes her hand through the window.
Rachel calmly smiled, then walks with the girls to the porch of her parents place. "Now about my parents.. Dani they may be a little weirder than Kurt shopping at Macy's on a flash sale." She pointed out as she looked slightly down at Dani.
"M-Ms. Berry."
Rachel looked over at Marley, "Please, call me Rachel." She smiled over at Dani's girlfriend. 'God.. Marley is taller than I am.' She gulped, then looked at the door.
"Rachel.. Are you, uhm.. Well.." Marley struggled to ask, she bit her lower lip as she leaned against the handrail. "Do you also.. Like women?" She asked the older brunette.
Rachel nearly fell forward from hearing that question. "W-Well.. Hey, we're at the door!" She announced then quickly knocked on the door.
Dani holds her girlfriend hand and shots her head up to look at her. First, Dani was nervous meeting Rachel's parents, but some of it was replaced with wonder about where Marley was going with her question. She doesn't have time to think about it because the front door opens and there standing two smiling men.
Santana watch the girls going to the front door and drives a few blocks away. She stops and opens Rachel's gift and sees a set of gold star earrings, the most beautiful pair of earrings she had ever seen. She takes them out and can see there is real gold in them and gasp. Her eyes began to tear up and she fights the urge to drive back and kiss Rachel passionately. Santana puts the earrings back in the box and pulls her phone from her bag.
To Rach: 'I'm lost for words. Thank you so much, they're gorgeous! Can't wait to see you all.. Have fun with your parents.' She types and hit send. She takes a few more minutes to relax and wipe the tears, then drives home.
"Rachelah!" Hiram bellowed out with open arms. "Come give your daddy a hug!" He happily exclaimed.
Rachel bit her lip as she clings to her father, "Dad! I missed you!" She pressed her head against his shoulder.
Marley couldn't help but smile at the interaction, and how much she missed having that with someone. She then looked over at Dani with a smile creasing her face.
"Don't take her all to yourself, honey." LeRoy says. He places one hand on his husband's waist and one on his daughter's and kisses her head, "Hello, my love. I missed you so much!"
Dani is taken aback by all the love Rachel's parents spread on Rachel and squeeze Marley's hand tightly. That might be too overwhelming for her. She wants Rachel to hold her, but the woman is a little busy, so she gets closer to Marley for some support.
"Oh, man, did I miss you both." Rachel squeezed her dads for a few moments before leaving their embrace. "Dad, Papa, this beautiful pink haired girl is Dani, I mentioned her to you both a few times."
"Look at you, adorable like my little star over here." Hiram tousles Dani's hair. "Honey, could I call you Daniella? Or would you prefer Dani?" He asked then looked at the three girls, he lightly bumped his head with his palm. "Come on in already, it's cold out there!" Hiram took Rachel's bags and placed them by the fireplace in their house.
Rachel brought the girls inside, helping them move their belongings by her bags. "Did you two ever update your Christmas cards?" She asked before walking over to Dani. "My old room is down the hall second door on the right, go ahead and check it out."
Marley kept her hand inside Dani's, "This place is huge! Like.. How?" She asked.
"I guess Rachel's parent's makes a lot of money.." Dani says and they enter Rachel's old room, "Oh, wow.." She gasps and look around, walking and dragging Marley with her, to some photos that was left in the room, "Here is Rachel, Kurt and Blaine and.." Her eyes looking for the Latina, "Santana! They look so young, it's weird."
"Those two little girls looks lovely, darling. I can't wait to get to know Dani!" Leroy tells his daughter when he comes back from the kitchen with some snacks and sodas, "Where is Santana? I thought she was bringing you here."
"Wow.. Rachel looks.. Well less like how she looks now." Marley looks at the photos as well, amazed by how much everyone she knows from the picture grew up. "Santana still looks as young as she does in this picture; she must take really good care of herself."
"Santana wanted to see her mom, so I'd assume she's there." Rachel kicked her legs up on the recliner. "Dad and Papa, I know we don't celebrate Christmas, but I was wondering for the sake of Dani and Santana.. Could we do a little shopping for them? Just the three of us? The Black Friday sales are great to hit up." Rachel suggested.
Hiram looked at the ceiling, "Well, I guess we could. We don't ever really do anything for that day, just relax or get the Turkey that ends up on sale." He jokes, then sorts through some of his vintage cassette tapes.
"Of course we can, we can use some quality time together." LeRoy takes a seat on the sofa, "Now, maybe go check on the girls, bring them here so we could talk and get to know?"
In Rachel's room, the girls are still looking around. Dani is fascinated by everything she sees in there; she heard lots of stories, but now she gets to see more of Rachel's life as a child and teenager.
"Yeah, sure." Rachel got up and walked down the hall, before she got close to her room, she pulled her phone out of her pocket to see a text from Santana. She smiled at it then types away.
To San: 'I am glad you like it, a drop in a bucket compared to what you've done for me.'
Marley hopped on Rachel's bed, instantly moaning out, "This bed is so comfy!" She exclaims. "I swear, she had it good as a kid.. On a home life aspect." Marley kept her eyes on Dani, blushing ever so slightly.
Dani gets in the bed and crawl to Marley, resting her head on her shoulder, "Yeah, it looks like it." The pink haired girl pecks her girlfriend's lips, "Did I already tell you that I'm happy you came?" She smiles and bites her lip.
"You brought it up a few times on the train ride, but there is one problem." Marley leans a bit towards Dani, "I need a little bit of convincing.. How happy are you?" She asks before mushing her lips against Dani's.
Dani moans into the kiss and quickly returns it with all the passion in her. She uses one hand to hold herself steady and the other rests on Marley's stomach. Dani, shyly, runs her tongue Marley's lips and waits for her girlfriend to let her explore. Marley slowly moves her hand against Dani's stomach, her hand touching the hem of her girlfriend's shirt. Giving out soft moans throughout the kiss. Dani flicks her tongue against Marley's and moan she feels it for the first time. Her body leans to the girl under her and she tries to press to her as much as she could. Marley taste so sweet that Dani can't help it and she bites the girl's bottom lip, then push her tongue back to her mouth.
Rachel finally walks to her room and catches the girls making out, she quickly backs away without making any noise, her face red as a lobster. 'The hell..?' She looked to the side for a few seconds. 'Kids..' She rolled her eyes, then walked back to the living room.
Marley slowly traced her hand against the bare stomach of Dani, her body pushes up against her girlfriend as they kiss. "M-Mmm.." She softly moaned. 'Oh my..' her face lit up as she slowly stopped the kiss. "O-Okay.. I am convinced.." She chuckled.
"You sure? You don't sound convinced.." Dani sucks Marley's bottom lip, "And what about those movies you talked about earlier?" She straddles the girl and press their bodies together.
"Yes, I am more than convinced." Marley ran her hand through Dani's hair, gently kissing the top of her head. "Dani.. That kiss we had at school, that was my first." Marley confessed with a huge blush forming on her face.
"I w-was your first kiss?" Dani sits up, smiling widely, "Wow. Hmm.." Dani skin color matches Marley's, "I'm happy that no one had done it before me.." She caresses Marley's face and moves to lie next to her.
"How happy do you think I am?" Marley rubbed Dani's arm, biting her lower lip. "I think there is a reason why we're here.. Let's go hang out with Rachel and her dads." she suggests as she moves her body as close to Dani's as possible. "What do you say?"
Dani shakes her head, "They have a lot of catching up to do. I say, we stay here." She says, her eyes never leaves Marley's lips.
On another side of town, Santana arrives to her childhood home and parks the car in the driveway. She places the gift from Rachel, together with her phone, in her purse, takes it and her bags and gets out of the car. She looks around, smiling at some memories, and walk to knock on the door.
The door opens, and it's Santana's mom. "Mija!" She calls out, instantly hugging her daughter as tight as she could. "I missed you!" She looked at Santana, observing her face. "Dios mio! You look too skinny." She pointed out.
"Hola, momma." Santana hugs her mom back and feels like a kid again, "I missed you, too." She breaks the hug and grabs her bags, "Thank you for leaving the car. How are you?" She goes pass her mother and gets in the house.
Maribel closes the door behind her then follows Santana into the living room, "Where's the Jewish girl that lives with you?" She asks with curious intentions. "Also, that young one that you told me about."
"I dropped them all at Rachel's parents." Santana sits on the couch, taking her heels off and pulls her legs up, "They'd be here for the dinner, but they're staying there." She says with a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Oh." Maribel frowned. "Well, at least we're all gonna be around each other this year." She smiled some as she walked into the kitchen. "You must be done after that train ride, is there anything I can fix you?"
"Maybe something small." Santana smiles, "I need to do some work, I can use the energy." She gets up and follows her mother, "You have any beer?"
"Yes." The older Lopez answered sarcastically. "But it's not here, it's at the store." She pokes Santana's nose once. "Actually, it's not so much mine, as it is the store's, so you need to buy it." She continued as she went to the fridge pulling out some leftover Enchiladas and a bottle of flavored water. "Also, you will need a place to drink it because I don't allow alcohol that isn't the kind you put into your wounds, in my house."
Santana chuckles and rolls her eyes, "Momma, It's not like I'm going to get drunk; it was a long ride and I need to work, it helps me." She rests her upper body on the table, "I missed your food." Maybe compliments would help, though she knows it won't. But she did miss it, her mother is a great cook.
Maribel shook her head, "I really don't approve, but I can't stop you.." She expressed as she placed the plate on the table. "Just be safe.."
Santana huffs and goes to give her mother a hug, "Lo siento, momma. I know it's hard for you, it's hard for me too." Just the thought of her father brings Santana to tears, "But I'm always responsible. And now, that we have Dani, I drink less." She kisses her mother's cheek.
"Speaking of which," Maribel said as she pulled a fork out from the drawer. "I know you hate when I meddle in your personal life, mija." She mentioned before setting the fork by the plate. "But, when are you going to find someone?"
"Ugh, mom!" The young Latina sits back down and takes a few bites from the plate, "I only got promoted, I need to focus on that. Plus, I have a kid in my apartment. I don't have much time for dating." She moves her hand through her hair.
"What about Rachel? I know you see something in her." Maribel points out and sits on the other side of the table.
"W-What a-are you talking a-about?" Santana gulps, "I told you, ma', we're good friends, that's all." She tells her mother and drinks from her glass, 'Yeah, a good friend you can't keep your hands off or sleep without.. Damn emotions!' Santana glance at her mom, "Does Leo get those questions too when you talk to him?"
"Yes, but the thing is he knows what he wants. You, you've been looking for some answer to your purpose in life ever since you went to New York." The older Lopez expressed. "I just don't want you to wake up at 40 still unsure of your life.. So far, every time we talk on the phone since that little girl came into your life I have been hearing you say so many positive things, a lot of them having to do with Rachel."
Santana sighs, "I know you have good intentions, but with everything that's going on now, I can't think about it. I'm in a very good place in term of work and Dani is going to permanently stay with us. I like how it is now." Santana says and plays with her fork around the plate, "Rachel and I got much closer, but she's.. She's the types that will fall head over heels for someone, she's a romantic and she wants a quiet family life. Besides the fact we're friends, we can't be more different." So Santana thought about being with Rachel more than she'd like to admit, but she reaches the same conclusion every time and it doesn't matter how much she's drawn to the woman.
The thing Santana forgot was that no one knows a woman better than her own mother. That's the mindset of Maribel as she took notice to the pain in Santana's voice, the facial expressions she makes when she talks. The older woman knows more than what Santana is willing to let on, but she wanted to let it sink in first before she says anything more. "Right.." Is all she says about the whole situation." How are you enjoying your food?"
Relieved, Santana answers, "Of course! You're the best cook, momma."
Thanksgiving follows, after a lengthy sleep Rachel, the girls, and her dads all got up, cleaned themselves, and started to get everything ready for this day. Maribel called Hiram and asked if he and Leroy would help with the cooking, and they agreed because cooking was something they loved doing. The dads left for Santana's house, and the girls stayed back to wait for Santana to pick them up.
Rachel looked over at Dani for a few minutes, then over at Marley "Marley, I'm going to borrow Dani for a bit. Let us know when Santana gets here?" she asks as she takes Dani over to the room she stayed in. Rachel opted to not sleep in her old room because she wanted Dani to be as comfortable as possible, they make it into the room. "Dani.. I wasn't going to bring this up, but I feel as a parent, I should.." she scratched her arm gently, "I feel like a hypocrite for this, but I want you to take it easy on the kissing.. I sorta saw you two in my room.."
Dani gaps and turns red as a tomato, "Oh my God, mom!" She's never been so embarrassed, "That's creepy!" Dani frowns and tugs the hem of her shirt, "And we weren't doing anything, it's just kissing.."
"Hey, you forget I was your age once as well." Rachel crossed her arms and tilted her head. "I just.. I don't want you to make the same mistakes I made.. God, I sound like my dads and my mom.." She shook her head. "I am not mad at you, honey. I really am not, I just.. Safe.. Words.. Uhm... L-Like I said, take it easy.." Rachel nervously left the room.
The girl blinks a few times, then run after Rachel, "Waite, mom, a-are you going to t-tell Santana?" She looks at the woman with worried eyes. Dani knows that Santana care, but she wouldn't be as calm about it with how protective she is. Usually Dani loves it about her other mother, but she wants to keep seeing Marley.
"That's for me to know, and you to find out." Rachel covers her mouth quickly. 'Wow! I think I am overdoing it on the motherly thing.' She thinks to herself as she continues to walk towards the living room area. "Marley, have you seen Santana's car?"
Marley shook her head "No, I saw a cute tuxedo cat frolicking through the lawn, but other than that.. Nothing." She explained as she leaned against the wall. "So are we going to Santana's place?" The younger brunette asks.
Dani frowns at Rachel move back to the living room, but stands a bit far from the other two. "We're going there tomorrow." Dani answers her girlfriend, "If Santana would show up, we're going to see some places." Right when she finishes her sentence, the women hears a horn and see Santana's car outside.
Santana honks to tell the girls she arrived and gets out of the car. It's barely been a day, but she missed them so much. She moves to the other side of the car and starts to walk slowly to the front door, when she sees them coming out. She pulls Dani to her and gives her a bone breaking hug and kisses her temple, head and cheeks. "Hey, kid. I missed you!" She smiles at Dani, then looks at Marley, "Hey, Marls." She says and let go of the girl in her arms. Her eyes moves to Rachel and her heart starts to beat faster, "Hey, you."
Dani looks at Santana and Rachel a little nervous, but walks to hold Marley's hand. She wants to tell Santana she missed her too, but the two adults look busy with the eye contact.
Rachel can't help but smile at the sight of Santana, "Hey.." She shyly says before turning to make sure the door is locked. "I was thinking, we could get something to eat, and head over to the old school." She suggests as she holds her bag closer to her.
Marley held on to Dani's hand feeling nervous around the two older women. "S-Santana?" She calls out. "I just wanted to say, you look as good as you did in high school." Marley gave a smile towards her.
Rachel looked at Marley for a few moments then back at Santana, "She's right, you know." Rachel smirks as she walks down the steps of the porch and heads over to Santana's car.
Santana and Dani raise their left eyebrow at the same time. "Of course she's right, did you look at me?" She points at herself and laughs, "Thank you Marley." She tells the girl and smile at the young couple joined hands. "Hop in the car and let's drive to Breadstix."
"Oh lord.." Rachel rolled her eyes and softly chuckled. "That's like your home away from home."
Marley walked with Dani over to the car, her eyes don't move away from her girlfriend that much, "D-Do you see the tension between those two? They are nuts for each other." She whispers to Dani.
"See it?" Dani opens the door for Marley, "I live with it! It's so clear there's something between them," She gets in the car and lower her voice more, "They just need to stop pretending." Dani sighs.
"I haven't eaten there in so long! And you can't say the food isn't great." Santana catches up to Rachel and lower her tone, "By the way, you looked kind of hot in high school, with that nerd-style." She smirks and walks to the driver's side.
Rachel's face lit up at Santana's comment as she enters the car, as much as she wanted to spill every hint of her real emotion for Santana, she needed to be strong for Santana's sake, she knows their relationship, she knows there can't be more for personal reasons... But it's getting to Rachel on a personal level.
After a short drive, the group arrived to Breadstix and find themselves a booth. Lucky for them, the place wasn't too crowded and quiet. They're trying to decide what to order when a tall, skinny, blonde waitress come to the table.
"Lopez?!"
Everyone's eyes shifts to the waitress. Dani frowns; she doesn't like how this woman looks at Santana.
"Kelly?" The waitress nods, "Oh, hey! It's been ages, how are you?" Santana gets up to give the woman a hug.
"Good, good." The waitress smiles at her, "What about you, captain?" Her hand caress Santana's arm.
"Not bad at all."
"Are you here for a visit or are you staying?"
Santana sits back next to Rachel and looks up, "Just for thanksgiving." She answers and clear her throat, "I don't know if you remember, but this is Rachel berry." She points at Rachel, then at the girls, "And those are Dani and Marley." Santana points at Kelly, "Everyone, this is Kelly. We've been together on the cheerleading squad." She says, feeling like they're a big family.
"Hello to you all." Kelly smile, her eyes linger a second too long on Rachel.
"H-Hey Kelly.." Rachel waves her hand then focuses on the menu. Rachel never got along with a lot of the Cheerios, just Santana, occasionally Quinn, and once, Brittany. Kelly was the last person Rachel really liked only because she was one of Rachel's tormenters, but it's questionable if Kelly remembers.
Marley's eyes glared at the blonde for a few moments, she wasn't a fan of her looks either, so much so that Marley kept close to Dani in a protective like manner.
Dani doesn't like it at all; it's supposed to be their first family vacation and now there's a girl all over Santana and she doesn't even see it. The teenager holds her girlfriend's hand tightly and glace between the adults.
"Well, I don't want to interrupt. So just give me your orders." Kelly mainly focuses on Santana, "And maybe we can meet up later, if you have time?"
"Ah.. I'm not sure, we have a schedule." Santana starts to feel uncomfortable. This is not something she wanted to happen, especially with the three sitting right next to her.
"Let me give you my number, in case you find some time." Kelly writes her number on a note and place it on the table, "You know what? My shift is just about to end; I'll get you a new waiter." She winks at Santana and leave.
Dani follows her with her eyes and grits her teeth, then she looks at Santana with some anger and disappointment in her eyes.
The Latina raises her eyebrow and stares at the note, "Who knew there were so many lesbians on the squad.. And I was terrified of coming out." She tries to light the mood.
Rachel growled a bit under her breath, 'Oh hell no..' She let out a sigh. "Yeah, who knew, makes me wonder if the old glee club had more rainbows than we realized." she harshly joked but it was the only way to make things seem like she wasn't jealous. "And where is our waiter or waitress." She asked.
"Well, I don't know if you know about those that I know about." Santana frowns, she confused herself a little. She sees how Dani looks at her and it makes her feel like shit, she really didn't mean for it to happen; she wanted to bring them to her favorite restaurant. She folds the piece of paper and opens it, starting to tear it up along the lines that were created from the fold.
Dani's relaxes as she watches Santana tear the paper and she tries to snuggle further into Marley's side. That until she remembers the talk with Rachel before they came here; she blushes and put some space between them.
"So.. Is this place like.. Great?" Marley asked, trying to break the tension that surrounds the table. "Also, thanks for having me tag along; I am really enjoying myself here." She gave a nod towards both Rachel and Santana.
"I be.. I am glad you are." Rachel smiled over at Marley and Dani. 'Remember, Marley doesn't know that I told Dani to ease it..' She sighed and ran her hand through her hair. "Sorry for my outburst.. I guess it's the stress of the holidays.. It affects everyone even those who don't do anything for them." Rachel nervously laughed.
"Yeah, we're happy you're here so stop thanking us. You're a part of the family." Santana smile at the girl, "And this place is amazing, I used to eat here almost every day."
Finally to waiter come and takes their orders, promising they won't have to wait too long for their food. He brings them a couple of baskets of breadsticks and leaves. Santana tells the girls they have to try it, but not to dare touch her basket. She eats a few and get up.
"I'm going to fresh up a little. Rachel?" She looks at the woman and nods in the direction of the bathroom.
"I will too." Rachel gets up and starts walking towards the bathroom, wanting to just forget the fact that she got severely jealous out of nowhere. The second they get into the bathroom, Rachel leaned against one of the stalls.
"They either going to make up in a good way or have a bad fight." Dani states and lean on Marley's side.
Santana feels really bad for what happened. She steps to Rachel and wraps her arms around her waist, "I really wanted to do that." Even if it's only physical, Santana hopes it'd make Rachel feel better because that's all she can do for her.
"Why?" Rachel asked with a frown on her face. "I just.. I think today needs to be over already." She said as she looked to the floor. If she could be honest with Santana, she'd tell her how miserable she is right at this moment.
Santana starts to panic; everything about Rachel is sad and she hates it. "C'mon, Rach, it's going to be a great day! We'll go to our high school and tell the girls some stories, we can go to the park and have ice cream.." She gets closer to Rachel's ear, "Déjame ver una sonrisa en la cara bonita de la suya." Santana is almost completely sure that Rachel doesn't remember anything in Spanish, but it's still a beautiful language, so she hopes it'd do something good.
Rachel blushes like mad the second Santana makes that demand. She leans against Santana her lips close to the Latina's ear, "What do I get out if it?" She asks before biting her lip.
Santana sneaks her hands under Rachel's shirt, "You know I always reward good behavior." She starts to kiss Rachel's neck, "Maybe I should tell you something first," She presses her lips to Rachel's ear again, "Last night, I was very lonely in my bad and I had to take care of myself. Maybe I should demonstrate it." One hand moves to unzip Rachel's jeans and the other goes to her bra.
Rachel bit her lip as she grabs Santana's hands. "You would punish me if I took care of myself, what makes you think I want to reward your bad behavior?" She raised a brow as she moved back. "Gold star." She smirked. "You're lucky you are the master, so I won't be too defiant." Rachel moved Santana's hands to her chest.
"Are you sure you remember that's I'm the master here? Cause last time I checked, I could touch myself as much as I wanted." Santana winks at Rachel, "And you said your safe word, Rach," Santana cups Rachel's chest and squeeze them as she press herself, as much as she can, against Rachel, "I just wanted to make you feel good, but if you don't want it, if you think you can do a better work yourself, maybe I'll stop touching you, huh?" She nibbles her neck and move up, "Do you not want me to touch you anymore, Rach?" Her right leg press on Rachel's center and Santana starts to move back and forward.
"Mm.. I love that.." Rachel moved her hips against Santana's leg, she slowly lifts her shirt up a bit, her chest rises against Santana's hands. "But.. I am hungry, I need the energy." She let's go of her shirt and places her hand on Santana's leg. "Seriously, gold star.." She bit her lower lip.
Santana backs away to the other side of the room, feeling like her heart just broke. One night apart and she acts like she hasn't seen another human being in years. She's angry at herself for pushing, for being so needy and for losing control. But all of that chaos happens inside, because the second she heard Rachel uses her safe word and moved away, her walls came back up, stronger than before. "Yeah, we have a long day. Let's eat." Santana says and moves to leave the bathroom.
Rachel instantly felt guilty for pushing Santana away, it reminded her of her failed relationships. "I'm sorry.." She softly says before leaving the bathroom, rubbing her arm gently.
Meanwhile, at the table, the two girls were still chatting. "Well, I guess we got a weird ass family, right?" Marley joked as she held on to Dani as tight as she could. "I still can't thank you and your parents enough for allowing me to tag along, it really means that much to me." She admits happily.
Dani looks to see that Rachel and Santana still in the bathroom and cuddles Marley more, "You heard Santana, no more thank you's." She smiles at her and tell her, once again, she happy she's here.
Marley rested her head on Dani's, "Sorry.. I can't help it." She softly giggles. "It's hard not to be thankful of your families hospitality, but.. It's not as hard as not kissing your sweet lips." Marley presses her finger against Dani's hip playfully.
Dani jumps and nervously giggle at Marley's comment. It seems like the pair doesn't hurry to come back, so Dani uses the opportunity to quickly peck Marley's lips. "Well, yours are addictive, so it's harder for me." She sticks her tongue out and rests her head on the girl's shoulder.
"Keep teasing me with that tongue I am gonna lose it." Marley threatened as she lifted Dani's chin to give a soft kiss. "Thank god your parents take forever, I don't have to worry about kissing you."
"Can we please not talk about them when we kiss? Or at all right now, I don't want to think about what they're doing over there." Dani makes a disgusted face, "I do like kissing you, but I'm also crazy hungry." She looks around for their waiter.
"Sorry." Marley also looked around, "Yo! Waiter! There are two starving young girls waiting for service!" She bellowed out while using a bit of her New York attitude to back her voice. "God.. We can get better service in the Bronx.." She slouched in the booth.
The rest of the meal was a bit awkward and Santana tried to, somehow, not be so affected by what happened with Rachel in the bathroom. She had to be strong, at least for the girls. After they ate, the group drove to McKinley high. They parked and walked inside and Santana is flood with memories right away; some amazing and some not so much.
Rachel took in the familiar aroma of the school, at times she missed going to the school, she remembers over a decade ago that she first stepped foot on the grounds of McKinley. "Talk about nostalgic, right San?" Rachel asked as she spotted her old locker
"Oh, yeah." Santana smiles, "Go check, maybe you forgot something in there."
"What are you talking about m.. Rachel?" Dani blushes at her almost slip, "Any of those lockers is yours?" She looks between the women.
"This, right here." Rachel patted her hand against the locker. "This is the ol' Berry locker." She proudly admitted. "Things were simpler back then, well.. For the most part.. It's a lot easier to get over the hardships now than it was then, because we are only limited by laws." Rachel chuckled as she slid down against the locker, sitting on the floor.
Marley sat beside Rachel and looked over at Dani and Santana, "There is a weird atmosphere about this place, maybe it's just me but I kinda feel a mixture of accepted here and worried for my sanity." She pointed out.
Rachel patted Marley's head, "That's what it was like here at McKinley, and I loved it here for what it was worth. Because this is where it started for me, I met Dani's mama, I met her Auntie Porcelain, and Uncle Herbal Essences." She joked towards the end.
"Yeah.. It all started here.." 8 years have been through since Santana visited here and the last time she was here was when it was the whole mess with Brittany began. Every single memory from that time involves her and how can it not? They were inseparable. Between all the pain, Santana finds the ability to focus on friendships she had and the fun she had being head cheerleader and in the glee club. She sees the cup the cheerleaders one next to the one the glee club won the same year and smile. Her eye catches a picture of her, Quinn and Brittany celebrating and tears come to her eyes. She quickly wipes them takes a deep breath.
"And I thought high school supposed to be hell.. It sounds cool." Dani tells Rachel, not seeing that Santana wandered away, "Can we see the choir room? Maybe Santana can-" She turns around to see the woman a bit far from them, "What are you looking at, Tana?"
"Ah, nothing important.." Santana turns with a smile on her face, "Let's keep moving."
Rachel noticed Santana rather closely, she saw the tears almost right away. "Okay girls you go on ahead to the choir room, it's about 4 doors onto the right." she got up and walked to Santana.
Marley got up, took Dani's hand and walked away from the two older women, "Let's leave them alone for a bit, so they can look reminisce." she suggested as they eventually made it to the choir room.
Rachel placed her hand on Santana's shoulder "Honey.. Are you okay?" She softly asked, moving closer to her friend and seeing the pictures on the display. "Oh.."
"It's not about her, it isn't for a long time now." Santana tries to clarify, "But seeing this picture.. I lost two of my best friends.." She can't break down, not over this and not with Rachel there. She must hold it together, at least until she can see Kurt.
"You didn't lose them.. Quinn is a few hours away from us, living the married life with Puck, as for Britt.. I can't speak for her, but I can promise you, in the long run you got more out of it.." Rachel attempted to reason with her roommate, she wrapped her hands around the Latina's waist, then rest her head on Santana's shoulder. "I.." She gulped a bit, 'I want to say a specific three words..' Rachel thought in her head. "I.. I am here, I know I've said it a million and three times, but I am.. I won't ever abandon you.."
'Britt?' Santana frowns, 'Of course my stupid brain would choose to focus on that rather the other things she said..' She sighs; Rachel is only trying to help and she doesn't know the whole picture. Santana is frustrated with herself for still being stuck and for hurting Rachel. Santana lifts Rachel's head so she could look her in the eyes, "Thank you." She whispers and she kisses the edge of Rachel's lips for a long moment. "The kids are alone for too long. Let's go share some stories." She takes Rachel's hand and pulls her with her.
The rest of the day went pretty good; they spent another hour at the school, telling the girls stories and walking around. From the school, the group went to buy some ice cream and walk in the park. They talked, laughed and took some pictures together; it was fun and help them bond even more. When it started to get darker and colder, the four women went back to the Berry's household; this time Santana stayed and they're about to watch a movie in Rachel's parents theater room.
Rachel made sure the girls were comfortable before taking her seat next to Santana on one of the sofas. "Hey San, you feeling any better?" she asks as she relaxes in her spot.
"Much." Santana nods, "It turns out to be a great day. Don't you think?" She crosses her legs and lean back in her chair.
"Tomorrow will be even greater, and it's all thanks to you." Rachel admits. "If you didn't push me to step up my game, I wouldn't be this close to being a mom." she blushes some due to what she said. "I know.. You don't do this kind of thing.. But.. I care a lot about you."
"I just gave you the push, you had the all potential and you did all the hard work." Santana turns her body to Rachel's side. She glances at the young couple in front of them to see that they're still busy talking to each other and takes Rachel's hand in hers, "I care too." She comes closer and nuzzle her nose on Rachel's. She smiles at the woman, let go of her hand and goes back to her previous position.
"Santana.. You are more important than you realize, you took this Broadway diva, and made her better." Rachel glanced at Dani and Marley for a few seconds to make sure they weren't listening in, then she looked back at Santana. "Every step of the way, you stayed.. You didn't have to, but you did.. That's what makes you amazing.." She shyly admits as she pushes her index fingers together.
The Latina wasn't sure what got Rachel to say all these things, but she shouldn't be surprised; she knows Rachel for years and that's how she is. "I love this girl, I'm here for her." She shrugs and send a loving look at Dani. It became so much easier for her to say those words when it's related to Dani. "We were a family even before Dani came; you, me and Kurt, we've been through a lot together and I'm who I am and where I am thanks to you. That's what best friends do, so stop it or I'll start blushing. Not that you can see it.." Santana chuckles and nudge Rachel's side.
"Well, I can't help but tell you the truth, it just happens upon seeing you." Rachel gently pinched Santana's side as she leaned towards Santana a bit more. "So.. Guess what happened today?"
"So the movie was just an excuse to keep the kids busy while we talk?" Santana giggles and shifts to a more comfortable position, "Yeah, what happened?"
"Dani called me Mom.. I know she's called me that before, but I just can't get used to it." Rachel explained and wraps her arms around Santana's waist. "Also, the movie was an excuse for me to get all close to you without them looking." She winked.
"That's not a sisterly behavior, Rach." She winks and pulls her legs on the sofa. She just couldn't let that comment Rachel made to Wade pass. She puts one arm around Rachel shoulders and her other hand on Rachel's. "That's truly amazing! I think it'd get permanent very soon with everything that's going on." She smiles and squeeze her arms a little, "She usually does it when something happens, did she get hurt or what?"
"Yesterday I was going to get the girls so they could get to know my dad's.. Well, they were on my bed.. Making out.." Rachel gulped a bit. "They didn't see me walk in on them, and I was a little nervous so I didn't bring it up till today, but I only talked to Dani about that."
Santana's face went blank and she stares a long moment at Rachel, then at the teens in front of them, "She's more like me than I thought." She shakes her head; not sure if it's a good thing or not, "So you told her she won't have a door anymore?" Santana states more than asking.
"I was thinking more of the door stays open when Marley visits." Rachel leaned her head against Santana's shoulder. "It's scary how fast kids grow, also if she's like you, then Marley will end up being the daughter-in-law for sure." She pointed out while gently stroking Santana's chest.
"That might be true, but they're 14 and it's been more than 10 years, but we both know that they won't stay on the kissing stage for long." For not being Dani's mother, Santana is very protective and worried, "She's too young for this, speaking from experience."
"What do you suppose we do? If we consistently get on their cases about this, they will do more, and get to that specific stage that we are familiar with.." Rachel sighed, she's dealt with the trials from her dads multiple times, she knows how it is.
"Home school and they can Skype?" Santana looks hopeless at Rachel, "I don't know, I need to think about it."
Rachel shrugged, "We both know how that would end up, Dani would have that rebellious attitude that you had when you were young, end up running off to Marley's house when we think she's at Kurt's." She explained as her index finger went around in a circle on Santana's shoulder. "Although.. Maybe we are a tad too worried, because this is a new generation of kids, maybe we'll be lucky with ours."
Santana looks at Rachel with an expression that says she's not buying it, "With every generation it starts earlier. I know my expectations are crazy, but she needs to at least wait a bit more.." Santana lays her head backwards, "Can we continue this talk some other time? It's too much for me to handle."
"Okay.." Rachel looks at her lap with a frown on her face. "I'm sorry, Santana.." She held onto her roommate a bit tighter, she then gently nuzzles Santana's neck as she closed her eyes.
"Why are you sorry? It's my stupid problem, it's hard for me to think about her.. Doing stuff like that.. She's just a kid." Santana says while brushing Rachel's hair.
"I brought it up, and it upset you." Rachel explained. "I wanted this day to be good, and I haven't been as good as I was hoping to be." she continued as she looked at Santana. "So the right thing to do is apologize, right?"
"It had a rocky start, but we had a lot of fun and I never seen Dani so happy." Santana isn't going to let go back to feeling bad; they had too much of it for one day. "And if someone needs to apologize, it's me, so I'm sorry." She grazes Rachel's cheek with her thumb, "Now, can we focus on the good parts?"
Rachel quickly looked over at the girls to make sure they weren't looking, then she looked back at Santana and gives her a soft kiss on the side of her lips. "Yes, ma'am." She said before biting her lower lip, smirking only slightly.
Santana raises her eyebrow and smirks, "That's not a way to kiss your sister, Rach." She says playfully. In her mind, Santana can't help but think how cute Rachel is right now.
"Says the one who tried to fuck her sister earlier today." Rachel returned the playful comment as she held onto Santana's hand.
Hearing Rachel's words makes Santana's body slightly shiver, "I did not agree with you in that matter, so I'm free to do as I please." She licks her lips. "Maybe, when the girls go to sleep, I should wash your mouth with soap; you're a mother now, you shouldn't speak like that." Santana always enjoyed their teasing, but now that it's sexual, it's way better.
"I'd prefer your tongue, but that's just me." Rachel loving their random foreplay like moments, it made her feel more at ease with life since they joke around quite a bit in a sexual manner. "I just realized that I am gonna be a 27 year old Milf.." she held onto Santana a bit tighter as she started to chuckle softly.
"First of all, I thought you're more innocent," Santana is tiny surprised to hear Rachel knows what a Milf is, "And you definitely are." She looks up and down Rachel's body, "And I just learned that I'm pretty into it.." She husks with a smile.
"I am glad you're into it, that makes what he have even better." the diva placed her hand on Santana's chest and gently grazed it. "I feel a bit tired, and I think the girls passed out, how about you and I go to the spare room that I'm sleeping in and we can cuddle.. Stark.." Rachel bit her lip and raised her eyebrows twice.
Santana presses her legs together and puts her hand on Rachel, but not really stopping her, "Do you think it's a good idea? With the kids and our parents.." She wants to stay more than anything, but doesn't want to risk it.
"We'll lock the door, and also my dads love you, like as if you were also their kid.. So I think we are safe." Rachel slowly gets off of Santana's lap, then stretches her body. "It's a big bed, and I get lonely easily, you know that."
Santana didn't get such a good night's sleep the previous night and she knows she'd get one with Rachel's there, so how can she say no? She just nods and follows Rachel.
Before Rachel left the room, she quickly walked to where the girls were lying, grabbed a blanket, then carefully covered them up. "Good night girls." she whispered, then she made her way to the door of the theater room. Rachel lead Santana to the guest room that she was sleeping in, almost instantly as she entered with Santana, she locked the door then tossed her shirt to the end of the room. Rachel had been naked around Santana many times, but each time felt like it was her first time being that way around Santana.
"I think a proper thank you for your gift is required." Santana push Rachel against the door and take off her bra and her hands moving to cup her breasts. She's pressing her legs to Rachel's center and bite her lobe before whispering, "I believe that's where we left off. Still want to use your safe word?" Her hands give Rachel's a little massage, "We can just go cuddle and sleep."
"S-San.. As much as I really want this.. You don't need to thank me.." Rachel placed one hand on Santana's shoulder, she bites down on her lip to hold back the reason she bought the earrings for Santana. "I.. I owe you more than just those earrings, Santana."
"You don't owe me anything, Rach. I was just trying to show you my appreciation." Santana pulls herself from Rachel and walks to the bed, "We have a busy day tomorrow, we better go to sleep." It's the second time today and Santana isn't going to deal with it now too. Yeah, the rejection hurts, but she gets to have Rachel next to her and that's something she missed last night.
Rachel just stood there, half naked and all, in her mind, she was curious why Santana stopped, but she didn't want to question it. She missed Santana, and she was happy Santana was there. But if she was being honest, she really was hoping for more action from Santana, Rachel shook her head, then grabbed Santana's hand. "Wait.." Rachel calmly demanded as a sudden burst of adrenaline went into the brunette, she carefully lifted Santana up a bit, then pressed her against the wall. "We both have things to be appreciative over, specifically that involves us.." She blushed a bit as she placed a soft kiss on Santana's neck.
"Well, your parents won't appreciate it if they'd hear us and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with doing it in their house." Of course Santana wants Rachel and what she told her is true, but she also confused; either she reads the woman wrong or Rachel acting weird. Having Rachel's body press against her makes it hard, especially with her lips on her neck, but she's not sure if it's a good idea anymore.
"Good point.." Rachel set Santana down, then walked over to the end of the room, picking up her shirt. "I feel embarrassed.. Completely.." She put her shirt back on and kept her eyes towards the floor. "I.. I'm sorry.." Rachel sat down on the bed, keeping her eyes away from Santana.
For a woman, Santana can't understand women; Rachel went from hot to cold twice today and now she's sad cause Santana gave her what she initially wanted. Santana swallows hard and go to stand in front of Rachel, giving it a one final chance. She unbuttons her shirt and unzipping her pants, "You'd have to be quiet." She stands vulnerable and waits for Rachel's move with a plan to how she's going to get out of there fast in case of a third rejection.
Rachel stood up, looked at Santana and walked over to her. "Do you want to?" she asked while resting her arms over Santana's shoulders. "I don't want to if you don't, I also don't want you to feel like you owe me anything.. I wouldn't have done a lot of things for you if I didn't want to.." Rachel placed a gentle kiss on Santana's lips. 'I just.. Love seeing your perfect smile..' She blushed a lot, as her lips traveled towards Santana's neck.
Santana pulls Rachel closer, "Oh, I do and you can check to see just how much." She holds Rachel's face and makes the girl look at her, "Do you want to? Can you be quiet?" Santana tries to smirk, but she's still nervous. Her other hand just rests on Rachel's waist.
"I wanted to all day, especially when you had me against the door." Rachel whispers into Santana's ears as her hand moves down the Latina's body, the second she feels the waist she moves her hands to Santana's back then grips ass. "Have I mentioned that I love this ass of yours?" Rachel pressed herself against Santana.
"I may have heard you mention it a few times." Santana says with her playful voice. Whatever was going on with Rachel seems to pass and Santana is going to push whatever she felt away and take Rachel. "Unfortunately, you broke a rule so I'm going to be the one who's going to do all the touching tonight." She goes back to unzipping Rachel's jeans, "Off with the shirt."
"What rule did I break?" Rachel asks as she takes her shirt off, looking at Santana with sad eyes. "What wrong did I possibly do, Mistress?"
'Fuck, why does she have to be so adorable?!' Santana's hands move up to caress just under Rachel's chest, "Weren't those your lips I felt on mine?" She raises her eyebrow.
Rachel held her hands behind her back and nodded once, "Yes.." She admitted, feeling ashamed for doing that. "Only because I wanted to make sure you were okay.." Her face blushed even more the second she admitted that.
"Thank you, it was very nice of you." Santana starts with that, she doesn't want Rachel to feel bad, "But we have rules and you know that. I'm going to give you a mind blowing orgasm and you can touch me, but you can't give me one. Unless you have a suitable punishment to replace this one, then I'm willing to consider it, but if not, you better start to get undressed." She traces the marks on Rachel chest area, then takes a step back so Rachel could strip.
Rachel pushed down her pants along with her panties, she bit down on her lip as she really, really wanted Santana, and has been waiting for a couple days to be around her like this.
Santana bites her lips; she'd never get tired of seeing Rachel strip and that the woman's body. She takes off her unbuttoned shirt and her jeans, then lock eyes with Rachel. She gets closer and traces her fingers different parts of Rachel's body, "Breath taking." She whispers just an inch away from Rachel's lips, "On the bed."
Rachel crawled on the bed, she then took her glasses off and places them on the nightstand beside the bed. "I.. I did some reading online, it said that women succumb to better orgasms when they don't expect the action that causes the orgasm.." She explained nervously.
"You did.." Again, not too surprised, "You should've said it earlier, when you were making the popcorn; I would've sneaked and fuck you there. The fear of getting caught would've helped too." Santana says and stand next to the bed looking at Rachel, "How does it help you now, though?" She asks and folds her arms.
"Because the glasses are off, meaning I can't see what kind of pleasure you give me.. Which would further stimulate me" Rachel sits up, holding herself up by her elbows. "I would have told you earlier but there are 4 other people in this big-ass house that use the theater kitchen, so.. The embarrassment wouldn't be worth it."
"Hmm, I see.." Santana finds the new information interesting. She makes a note about if for the future, when they'll be at home alone. Then she straddles Rachel, "That was kinda geeky, but hot." She says and get closer to Rachel's ear, "Obviously, you can't scream and with that further stimulation, it's going to be hard, but I still want to hear you." She says and starts to kiss along Rachel's neck. One hand caressing around Rachel's right breast, while the other stroking the woman's inner thigh. Santana reaches the marked area and starts to create new ones, getting closer and closer to Rachel's left breast.
"A-Ah.." Rachel lets out as her upper body rises up against Santana's hand. The research Rachel did the night before was indeed true as she was feeling warmer than usual.
Santana's fingers get closer, she teases Rachel's entrance, but when she feels the woman moving against her, she returns them to her thigh. It's hard to not do anything with her own arousal when she feels how much Rachel needs her. Santana, still with her lingerie on, starts to slowly move her lower parts against Rachel's leg. She bites a bit harder and moves her finger back to tease Rachel some more.
Feeling waves of arousal, Rachel lost some of her balance, laying her arms across the bed as she gave soft moans towards Santana. 'Oh F-Fuck..' she thought while moaning.
"Oh, God, Rach!" She moans against Rachel's body, not sure if it's because how good she feels or what she feels when she enters Rachel with two fingers. She thrust faster and faster and kiss her way back to Rachel's neck.
Rachel moves her hips at the same pace as Santana's thrusting, she wraps one leg around Santana out of pure impulse. "S-San.." she continues to moan out, her muscles tensing up from what Santana was doing to her.
Hearing her name comes out of Rachel's mouth with a time dripping from desire, Santana moves her fingers fast. The hand that on Rachel's chest now squeezing it and Santana starts to kiss Rachel jaw line. She's close to her own climax, so she slows down; Rachel is first. Always.
Her breathing becoming sharper, faster, and lengthier; Rachel was fighting the urge to not release, she couldn't just yet, but Santana's fingers were working her like fucking magic. "Oh.. Mmm.. H-Harder.." She pleaded.
Santana does just what Rachel asked her and moves as fast and as hard as she can. Feeling Rachel, hearing her, seeing her; it almost pushes her over the edge. Her body slowly rides Rachel's leg. She kisses and bite her neck, moaning and humming as she does.
"Fuck.." Rachel moaned out as her hips move faster than Santana's fingers, her body shaking with every thrust and movement between the two. Rachel's hands pressing more against the Latina's back as she rolls her eyes "S-San.. San!" she moans out, pressing her body up against Santana's as she releases, her lower body moving and her eyes forming tears from how great she feels. "F-F-..Fuck.." She moans as her grip tightens.
Santana hurries to capture Rachel's lower lip with her teeth, to stop her from moaning louder. She watches closely, amazed all over again at how beautiful Rachel is. Santana let Rachel ride her orgasm and let go of her lip. She can't hold it any longer and let the release take over, "Si! Si! Rachel!" She moans in the woman's ear and collapse on top of her, panting.
Rachel's body was still shivering, but was she ever satisfied. She ran one hand up and down the spine of the Latina's spine, her fingers pressed against the bumps she felt. "Oh my god.." She was able to utter.
"Mmm.." Santana whispers in Rachel's ear and kiss her temple. She takes off her bra and soaked underwear and throws them aside. Santana brushes her nose on Rachel's and leans on her side, "Turn, babe. Tired, let's sleep." She mumbles softly and hugs Rachel's body even before the girl moved.
Rachel turned her body, making sure Santana was holding her from behind. Her eyes slowly closed, her hand slowly feels for Santana's, the second she finds it, she places her fingers within the spaces of Santana's fingers. "I.. Love you..." She falls asleep.
Even longer chapter than the usual :) Tell us what you think about Rachel & Santana and Marley & Dani and if you liked this one.
Translate:
Mija = my daughter.
Dios mio = my God.
Lo siento = I'm sorry.
Déjame ver una sonrisa en la cara bonita de la suya = let me see a smile on the pretty face of yours.
Si = yes.
'till next time.