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Chapter 10

Brittany woke up from the sound of her alarm. She felt the familiar warmth of Santana's arms around her and contemplated staying inside Santana's embrace forever. She thought about what happened last night and she was shocked when Santana told her about her breakup with Emily. Suddenly everything made sense, Santana's mood yesterday and how she turned up at her dance studio out of the blue. With everything that happened she was happy that Santana came to her for comfort, that they're best friends and nothing can ever change that.

She turned her attention back to the girl sleeping beside her. She dreamt that Santana kissed her last night and she can feel the ache in her lips as if the kiss was real. She was tempted to ease the ache and Santana's lips was merely inches away from her own but the knock on her door took her back to reality.

"Girls it's time for school." Brittany heard her Mom say.

Brittany groaned and proceeded to wake Santana up.

Santana's mood was better for the rest of the week and everyone was grateful in Glee Club that she didn't lash out on them. The whole club even took her out to dinner at Breadsticks in order to cheer her up.

Brittany felt guilty for being happy that Santana spends more time with her now that she and Emily has broken up. On Thursday after a particularly awesome afternoon with Santana, who declined to stay for dinner since her parents are threatening to disown her because she hasn't been home since Monday, Brittany couldn't help but grin when Santana gave her a big hug and whispered that she'll miss her before going home.

Mrs. Pierce noticed the smile taking up permanent resident in her daughter's face this week and pointed it out to her husband.

"Are you having a good week honey?" asked Mr. Pierce.

"Yes Daddy." answered Brittany giving her father a huge smile.

"Does Santana have something to do with it?" asked Mrs. Pierce coyly

Brittany blushed furiously at her mother's word.

"You know that we're ok with it honey and we love Santana. No matter what happens we want you to be happy." Mrs. Pierce added.

Her Mom and Dad gave her a smile and continued eating. It wasn't easy to accept at first that their daughter is in love with another girl but after endless discussions they both agreed that in the end Brittany is still their daughter above everything else and whoever she chooses to love is entirely up to her.

"Mom! What's for dinner?" Santana yelled as soon as she entered her house and walked straight to the kitchen where her Mom was standing by the oven.

"Well hello to you too young lady. I'm starting to think I'm a failure as a mother, just look at your manners." Mrs. Lopez teased her daughter.

Santana went over her Mom and hugged her from behind. "You know what they said, kids take after their parents." Santana answered enjoying her banter with her Mom and gave her a kiss on her cheek before she can answer. Surprisingly her relationship with her parents improved when she finally admitted that she was a lesbian. The first couple of weeks was hard, her Mom couldn't even look at her in the eye and her Dad tried to escape from the situation at home by working longer hourq at the hospital. It wasn't until they went on a vacation in Texas at the suggestion her uncle when things started to improve. They went as a family to PFLAG meetings to help them come to terms with Santana's sexuality. It wasn't easy but ultimately it bound their family closer and they still regularly go to PFLAG meetings and now her Mom is an officer in the Ohio chapter.

"Where's Daddy?" asked Santana sitting at the counter.

"He's on his way and can you set up the table please." Mrs. Lopez said.

After a few more minutes, the Lopez family was enjoying dinner when Dr. Lopez asked her daughter if she was driving to Pennsylvania this weekend.

Santana almost choked on her food, "Uh..about that, Emily and I we broke up." Santana said not looking at her parents.

Her Mom placed her hand on top of her daughters and said "I'm sorry."

"It's ok Mom, we didn't fight or anything, I guess the distance was just too hard." Santana said giving her Mom a small smile

"That explains the impromptu vacation at Brittany's house." Her dad said smiling at her daughter.

"We were supposed to have dinner with some of the parents from PFLAG but if you want we can cancel and we can do something this weekend." Dr. Lopez added looking at Santana.

"No, don't cancel, Quinn, Britt and I have plans this weekend plus we have Glee practice." Santana said.

"Well, you know you can talk to us honey if you need anything." Her mom said squeezing her hand.

After dinner, Santana went up to her room and lied down. She turned her head and saw the framed picture of her and Emily. She took the frame and stared at their smiling faces and sighed. She sat up, opened her drawer and carefully placed the frame inside. She then saw the other framed picture at her bedside table, it was a picture of her and Brittany in their Cheerios uniform, they both looked silly in the picture. Brittany was holding up her pompoms to her chin while making a face while she hugged Brittany from behind with a huge smile on her face.

She couldn't help but smile at the picture and they've only been apart for a few hours but she already missed Brittany. She placed the frame back on the bedside table and sent out a text to her best friend.

Brittany was already in her pajamas getting ready for bed when she heard her phone went off.

San:

I miss you already Britts, Good night.

Brittany couldn't help but smile at Santana's message. She felt warm and tingly all over.

She quickly typed in a reply and lied down on her bed a huge grin still plastered in her face.

Santana was changing into her pajamas when she heard her phone beep. Knowing it was from Brittany she quickly grabbed her phone to read Brittany's reply.

Britts:

I miss you more. Wish you were here. Sweet dreams.

She was beaming as she re-read Brittany's reply and she was still smiling when she turned off the lights and went to bed.

Two weeks passed by quickly and Brittany and Santana fell into a comfortable routine. They would spend the afternoons together doing homework and goofing around sometimes with Quinn or they'd go and have coffee at the Lima Bean with the other Glee Club members.

Sectionals was in 2 weeks and emotions were running high especially Rachel who was becoming more unhinged as days passed. Quinn, Brittany and Santana decided to blow off some steam at the mall after Glee practice. Santana was thisclose to kicking man hands ass if it weren't for Brittany's pout as she was about to spew off expletives to the dwarf.

The retail therapy worked and soon enough they were sitting giggling at the food court of the mall eating ice cream.

"Hey Britt, try this, it's delicious." Santana said holding up a spoonful of her ice cream to Brittany who happily opened her mouth to taste Santana's ice cream.

The two girls then took turns feeding each other ice cream while Quinn watched with a knowing smile in her face. It was like she didn't exist and she wanted to tell the two to get a room but she knew that it would just embarrass the two.

They carpooled in Quinn's car and they dropped off Santana first. After saying goodbye to Santana they headed to Brittany's house.

"Britt, what's going on between you and Santana?" Quinn asked casually.

A faint blush creeped in Brittany's cheek and she avoided Quinn's eyes.

"Nothing we're just friends." Brittany answered quietly

They pulled up Brittany's driveway and Quinn sensing that there was a lot more going on than Brittany was letting on asked Brittany if they could hang out to kill time since Quinn's mom was out with her friends for drinks.

Once they were inside Brittany's room, her phone went off. A wide grin spread across her face as she read the message. This didn't go unnoticed by Quinn.

"Let me make a wild guess, Santana just sent you a text message asking you if you're already home and that she misses you already." Quinn asked Brittany with a smirk on her face

Brittany just blushed at Quinn's statement. "Come on Britt, you have to spill." Quinn prodded Brittany.

Brittany just sighed and looked at Quinn in the eye. "I would Quinn if something is actually happening between me and Santana. We just hang out more now ever since she and Emily broke up and I don't want to read too much into things that are nothing."

Quinn raised her eyebrows and said "You mean the whispers in the choir room, the intertwined fingers while walking to class which is an upgrade from the pinky link by the way, the dopey smiles and most recently feeding each other ice cream, I mean Britt that's a whole bunch of "nothing" if you ask me."

"What do you want me to do? Ask Santana what it all means? Last time that happened I ended up hurting her and she didn't talk to me for weeks." Brittany said

"Look Britt all I'm saying is maybe this time you could once and for all confront all these feelings you have for each other now that you're both free. It's worth a shot." Before Brittany can answer Quinn's phone went off. After reading the text message Quinn said goodbye saying her Mom was already at home waiting for her.

After having dinner with her parents she got ready to go to bed. She was glad that they have no homework but she kind of missed having an excuse to spend time with Santana. Their study nights usually turning into sleepovers and by now Santana has abandoned the sleeping bag and slept beside Brittany. She thought about what Quinn said, they have gotten closer than ever these past few weeks, the first time Santana intertwined their fingers while they walk to class, her heart skipped a beat. Later that day Santana slept over, she gave Brittany a kiss on the cheek and intertwined their fingers again until they both fell asleep. She wanted to believe that they are more than friends but so far aside from the hand holding and the borderline flirty texts, Santana hasn't given any indication that she's interested in becoming more than friends. Her thoughts was interrupted by her phone and as expected it was Santana.

San:

Night Britts =) *hugs*

Brittany couldn't help the happiness she felt and sent a reply to her best friend.

Britts:

Night San, wish you were here beside me

The following day at the Glee Club practice, Santana was ignoring another crazy rant by the Oompa Loompa aka Rachel and was instead focusing her attention to Brittany. She and Mike were teaching Mercedes and her boy toy Trouty Mouth the choreography for Sectionals. At this angle Brittany was absolutely beautiful, there are no words to describe her when she's dancing it was as if she was part of the music. She must have sensed Santana's eyes on her because she looked at her direction and gave her a little wave. After a few more minutes, Brittany joined her best friend who gave her a big smile.

"So did guppy lips and weezy finally learn the choreography for Sectionals?" Santana asked Brittany.

"Santana be nice besides they didn't have your advantage, you had private lessons with me." Brittany said pouting at Santana. Santana just rolled her eyes and went back to watching Finn fumble through the choreography.

Santana remembered that they have a paper due in History and she left her book in her locker. She asked Brittany to look after her phone and bag while she gets her book. Brittany agreed distracted by Mike's attempt to teach Finn the steps. After a particular tricky step, Finn spun around too much that he ended up kicking the chair where Santana's things were placed.

"She's gonna kill you dude." Mike said.

"Oh God." Finn said picking up Santana's bag and shoving the contents inside. Brittany on the other hand picked up her friends phone. Someone sent Santana a text message and Brittany couldn't help but read who the message was from. It was from Emily.

Brittany felt the color drain from her face just as Santana came back to the choir room. Santana immediately saw what Finn was doing.

"What the hell Frankenteen! Did your abnormally large feet cause this?" Santana said shooting Finn a murderous look.

Brittany handed her something saying she needs to go the restroom.

When she looked at what Brittany gave her, she saw her phone and a message from Emily. Santana took a deep breath and opened the message.

Emily:

I know this is out of the blue and I hope you don't hate me you're a good person Santana and I want to try and be friends with you. Also did you get your girl yet ;)

Santana smiled at the last sentence and sent a reply to Emily saying that she would love to be friends and that she would call her as soon as she can. Brittany entered the choir room and saw Santana smiling while looking at her phone and felt her heart break.

Brittany was quiet during the drive home and Santana thought that she was just tired from teaching the Glee kids the dance steps for Sectionals.

When she pulled up Brittany's driveway, Brittany just gave her a small smile and murmured thanks and took off. Santana was dumbfounded, she thought they were doing their homework together but something must have pissed off Brittany. She knew better than to demand an explanation from Brittany right now when she's clearly upset, she was looking forward to sleeping over at Brittany's house tonight but guessed she'll have to sleep alone tonight. With a sigh Santana started to drive home.

Brittany looked sadly while Santana drove away, she wanted so much to ask her to stay but she couldn't erase from her mind the smile she saw on Santana face while reading Emily's message. She managed to do her homework despite the emotional turmoil she was feeling. At 11 pm she was staring at the ceiling willing herself not to cry while replaying everything that happened between her and Santana, her reverie was broken when she heard her phone and as expected it was from her best friend.

San:

I know you're upset Britts, I don't know why but if it's McCripple Pants or Man Hands, I'll kick their ass tomorrow. I miss our sleepovers and I hope you were able to finish all your homework. Goodnight.

Despite everything Brittany couldn't help but smile at Santana's message. She typed in a quick reply saying that she was just tired and reminded Santana that violence is never the answer. She closed her eyes after pressing send and for the nth time that night tried to go to sleep missing Santana's warmth beside her.

Brittany had dance class at Thursday after school and was grateful for the distraction. She tried to avoid spending too much time with Santana in the previous days and Santana seems to be giving her space. She was glad that Santana knew her so well that she knows when to press Brittany for information and when to keep her distance.

Brittany focused her attention on her dance class, enjoying the lesson. The teacher was great and she was able to meet new people, she was even asked out a couple of times but she declined knowing that she was crazy in love with someone else. A girl who has just recently joined struck up a conversation with her, it turns out that she recognized her from Regionals last year when she danced Valerie with Mike and Santana on vocals and was impressed by the choreography. They exchanged phone numbers and promised to set up something so they can practice the steps they learned at their dance class for the class presentation.

Brittany didn't notice that Santana showed up at her class wanting to surprise her. Santana saw the exchange and felt jealousy coursing through her veins. She wanted to yank Brittany away from the girl who was making her laugh and from the looks of it was able to get Britts phone number. After the girl left to change clothes, Santana walked up to Brittany and called her name, Brittany was startled to see Santana but nonetheless happy to see her. Brittany asked Santana if she could wait for a few minutes while she changed clothes and Santana just nodded not trusting herself to speak.

While in the car they made small talk and Brittany could feel that something was bothering Santana and when hey finally pulled up at Brittany's house, Santana finally asked the question nagging her ever since she saw the Brittany talking to the girl in her class.

"Britt, who was that girl you were talking to in your class?" Santana asked not looking at Brittany.

"Oh you mean Megan? She's new in class and she saw us perform at Regionals and she wanted to go over some of the lessons with me." Brittany answered

"So you're going on a date with her?" Santana asked not able to keep the spite out of her voice.

This was not lost on Brittany and all the jealousy and hurt she had been keeping in check ever since she saw Emily's text came spilling out.

"So what if we were Santana? What do you care?" Brittany spat back

Santana didn't answer and just stared at the steering wheel of her car.

"It's not like we're dating Santana, you hold my hand, you kiss me goodnight but not once did you tell me what I mean to you. Or are you just keeping me around until Emily comes back." Brittany said the tears now openly flowing from her eyes.

"Emily? What does Emily have to do with any of these. We're not together anymore, you know that Brittany." Santana answered her voice angry.

"Then tell me Santana. what do I mean to you?" Brittany asked Santana her pain evident in her voice.

Santana couldn't look at Brittany and was gripping the steering wheel as if her life depends on it. After a few seconds she heard Brittany sob and the car door slam on the passenger side. When she finally dared to look, she saw Brittany running towards her house and Santana felt helpless and did what she did best, she pushed her foot to the gas pedal and ran away.

A/N: I didn't originally intend to include Santana's parents but it made sense while I was writing the story and also I don't know any Spanish and I'm to lazy to look up the words so I didn't include any Spanish conversation with Santana and her parents. Hopefully I will have the next chapter available as soon as possible. I wanted to continue writing but exhaustion is winning. Again all reviews are appreciated,