A/N Back with another chapter! I've been super busy writing stupid college essays and having soccer every day and now school starts in like 3 days so it's just going to get worse. I definitely wanted to get this chapter out before today was over though. I know I'm cutting it a little close, but whatever. Here we go, our girls first date! Enjoy!

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I don't think I could grip my steering wheel any harder at this point. I was still really nervous and my knuckles were getting the worst of it. It was normal to be like this on a first date, but we'd already had our first kiss and admitted that we like each other so what did I actually have to be nervous about?

Well other than the prospect of her parents opening the door; that would just be super awkward. It took me less time than I thought it would to get to Brittany's house so I was a few minutes early, but I figured that was better than being late.

I felt like I was walking in slow motion up to Brittany's door. She lived in a pretty nice house and there were two cars in the drive way so I knew both her parents were home. The house was white with a big blue door, it fit her.

I rang the doorbell and then anxiously waited for it to be open. Thankfully, it was Brittany who opened the door, so meeting the parents would be done another day. Not that it would matter if I met them tonight because it's not like they knew I was taking their daughter out on a date.

When Brittany opened the door it was like one of those cliché movie scenes. My jaw literally dropped. She looked absolutely gorgeous. Not that she didn't look beautiful every day, but right now she was stunning. She was wearing light skinny jeans with a dark blue, low cut sweater. I could tell she didn't know what we're doing otherwise she would have dressed a lot warmer for Ohio in the middle of winter. But I planned for this and made sure I had a lot of blankets in the car.

"Wow Britt. You look amazing." I say after realizing that she was giggling at me standing there and staring at her.

"Well thank you." She said now blushing at the compliment. "You look great too."

"Ready to go? Not to be a wimp or anything, but I would prefer to avoid meeting your parents right now."

"I'm going to have to call you a wimp for saying that. You do know that you're going to have to meet them at some point right?"

I got nervous even thinking about it and she must have noticed how I tensed up even though she was laughing at me because she said, "But we'll deal with that when we have to. Let's just go on our date first because I'm dying to find out where we're actually going."

It made me happy to know that she was excited for this date, even if it was just to find out the surprise. I didn't know if she was just good at hiding her emotions or what, but she didn't seem the least bit nervous. She really had no reason to be. If she had any idea how much I've fallen for her she would never be nervous again.

I turned to walk towards the car, making sure to go around to the passenger side and open her door for her first. I wanted this date to be perfect, down to the very last detail and that definitely including treating her like a queen and opening the door for her. After I shut the door, I went around the other side and got in the car. I was thinking about blindfolding Britt to keep the surprise going, but it just reminded me of kidnapping too much. Freaked me out a little bit.

I was too nervous to think of anything to say right now, but about two minutes into the drive Britt broke the silence in the car. "So are you going to tell me where we're going? Because right now it just looks like you're driving me to a deserted area to like leave my body or something."

I had to laugh at that. Who the hell would think something like that? "Am I sending off a serial killer vibe or something right now?"

"I mean the leather jacket does make you seem like kind of a bad ass, but no not really." She said, hopefully kidding. "But seriously. I think I'm going to die of anticipation. It's not a long drive right?"

"We still have a good twenty minutes left, but trust me I definitely could have made it worse. Quinn and Mercedes thought I should blindfold you."

"Wow. Then I would definitely freak out. I'm having a hard enough time now knowing where the hell we are. If I couldn't see I'd probably just try to jump out of the car."

"That's a bit extreme don't you think? You would ruin your outfit and plus you would be forced to explain to your parents what you were doing."

"That would be rather difficult to explain. So new plan, I would just rip off the blindfold and steal the car. There, it's flawless." She was so cute. Even what she was saying was completely ridiculous the smile she had on her face while she was talking about it was adorable.

After our conversation discussing blindfolds, the radio filled the silence for the rest of the way. I could tell she was lost in her thoughts by the way she was staring out the window not really at anything in particular. I had to admit I got lost in my own thoughts for a while as well. I was excited to just get there and see her reaction. Hopefully she understood what I was doing.

When we pulled up to the empty area, I pulled on to the grass making my own parking spot. There wasn't a lot or anything because people were never really around this area. It did look a little sketchy if you didn't know the area well.

When I parked the car I looked over to Britt to see if she realized why we were out here yet and her reaction was worth everything I did to put this together. She was already out of the car and staring, literally star struck, at the night sky. It looked like you could see every star in the sky right now and she was absolutely loving it.

"Santana… I don't even know what to say. This is amazing. It reminds me of –"

"Your house in New York?" I asked hoping that was the answer. Brittany was just looking at me confused, wondering how the hell I knew that.

"How did you know what I was going to say?"

"You said something about how much you loved being able to see all the stars when you were there and how much you missed it." She was still just standing there looking at me, I was guessing confused as to how I remembered it. "It was the other night when we were on the phone. I guess you thought I wasn't listening." I said looking down at the ground feeling embarrassed that she really thought I wasn't paying attention.

"No, no it's not that. It's just… I guess no one has ever really remembered what I said before. Not enough to do something like this at least." She stuttered out, seemingly self-conscious about the fact. I wanted to make sure she knew every word that came out of her mouth was important, no matter what she was talking about.

"Brittany. You deserve things like this to be done for you." I said moving my hand up to cup her cheek so they were looking each other directly in the eyes. "And I will always remember every word you say." I didn't usually say romantic things or really ever even say things with emotion, but I meant what I said to her. She deserves the best and that's exactly what I intend on giving her.

Romantic words seem to work for me because as soon as I finished talking Brittany was leaning in to kiss me. It wasn't anything long or rushed, but it had just as much passion as every other kiss with her and the same spark was there that I felt every single time she kissed me. I really hoped that never went away. I could tell she was thanking me for everything I did with the kiss. She hadn't even seen half of what I had planned yet.

After kissing for a few minutes I had to pull away so we could get to part two of my plan. "Britt, not that I don't like kissing you, but there is more to this date than just the stars."

"There's more? Well now I'm intrigued. What else do you have up your sleeve tonight?" She said following me over to the back of my car.

"Well come to my trunk of magic and we shall see." I joked before opening the trunk to a large picnic basket, a huge comforter for us to sit on, and a few blankets in case we got cold, which I was sure we would.

"Aww San! You planned us a picnic under the stars?" Brittany said practically giddy. I loved seeing her happy.

"Yes I did. I wanted to go to a restaurant or something, but then I thought about bringing you here instead and I didn't know how we would eat so this just seemed like the perfect option." I answered rambling. I was still nervous. She just had this effect on me, but it was definitely the best kind of nervous.

"San you don't need to be nervous. Really I love everything about tonight." She said practically reading my mind. How the hell did she just do that?

"I'm nervous because I want this to be perfect for you. It's our first date; I just want to do this right."

"Well you're doing great so far. If anyone should be nervous it should be me."

"But you're not nervous. Which I'm starting to think should be insulting." I said completely kidding. But I know I was nervous because I liked her so much so shouldn't she be just as nervous?

"Are you kidding me? I'm so nervous. I thought I was going to have heart attack like two minutes before I opened the door. I was pacing in my room for like a half hour before you picked me up!" Brittany said laughing at me. I was relieved to know that she was nervous too, but she really didn't have a reason to be.

"Well that makes me feel a little bit better." I said laughing. "Now onto the main event." I continued holding up the picnic basket to show her I meant the food. I laid down the blanket and put the basket in the center, waiting for her to open it and see what's in it. "Go ahead and open it up."

She gave me a skeptical look before shrugging and moving over to the basket to get the food out. Her face lit up with the first item she took out and her smile kept growing wider with each thing she pulled out. "San… this is all my favorite food. I know I never told you any of this."

"Everything is right there. Caesar salad, mashed potatoes, broccoli, which can I say you might be the only person in the history of the world who would chose broccoli as their favorite food, chicken fingers and jello. I asked Rachel the other day what your favorite foods were. She probably thinks I'm like a complete weirdo now, but I wanted it to be perfect."

"I couldn't even imagine a more perfect date than this. You did everything for me down to the very last detail." There she goes again, reading my mind and using the exact same words I used earlier.

"You're completely worth it Britt-Britt." I said pulling her closer to me so I could kiss her. I'm officially convinced that nothing would ever be better than kissing her. Her lips were always so soft and they tasted like her vanilla lip gloss that she wore. That along with her cinnamon scented shampoo made her smell amazing.

"I hate to break this up, but I'm actually really hungry and you made all my favorite food so…" Brittany said making me laugh. She had a point, I was pretty hungry too.

"I blame the nerves. I think it makes people hungrier when they're nervous." I said making us both laugh before we dove into the food. It was pretty silent while we were eating, both hungrier than we realized. Brittany just kept looking at the stars and she would get the most intense look on her face that made me want to know what she was thinking about. By about the fifth time it happened I had to ask.

"Hey Britts. What are you thinking about." She snapped out of her daze at my words looking over towards me now.

"Just a little bit of everything I guess. Sorry I always get like this when I look at the stars. Rach always hates when I do that to her."

"No its okay I like it."

"Yeah? How come?" She asked a little surprised that I said I liked it.

"You get this look on your face when you think like that. Your eyes kind of darken and they get a little glazed over. I don't know. I just like seeing you like that." I had my head down while I said this and when I looked back up I noticed she was shivering from the cold. I knew she didn't dress warm enough. "Are you cold? Because I have a blanket in my car."

"Well you just thought of everything now didn't you?"

"Duh, I'm brilliant." Brittany just chuckled and pushed me before I got up and went over to my car. I actually brought two blankets with me, but I'm only going to bring one over. That way I can be closer to her.

"We're going to need to share, I only have one." I said sitting back down next to her. She packed all the food away while I was gone so now we had space to lie down and watch the stars together.

Somehow I ended being the big spoon even though she had a good 4 inches on me. It was okay though because I loved having her snuggled into me as she looked at the stars. I could see her eyes glazing over again although it was a little different this time. Now I knew she was thinking about something specific.

"What's going on in that head of yours beautiful?" She blushed at the name 'beautiful' but she closed up like she didn't want to talk about it. I didn't know if there was something in her past that she could be thinking about it. Come to think of it I really didn't know much about her life before coming to Mckinley at all. It was 16 years of her life that I knew nothing about.

"Hey I have a question for you." I said after another minute or so of silence, when it was evident she didn't want to talk about whatever it was she was thinking about. She looked up me, giving me the hint that I should continue. "I was just wondering about how you and Rachel ended up coming to Mckinley together. People don't usually transfer with their best friend."

Brittany smirked a little and laughed to herself, which confused me. "I don't know how you do that. You always say exactly what I am thinking." I laughed a little to myself because she did the same thing to me a lot, but I let it go for now because it didn't seem like she was done talking. "I was just thinking about Rach and everything that happened before me came to Lima together."

"Quinn must be rubbing off on me then becuase she's the only person I know that can actually read minds." I said just messing around. "Well where did you live before that?" I asked.

"We lived about 2 hours south of here in Ohio. We went to a private high school, St. Peters."

"Catholic school. Sounds like a lot of fun." I said only kidding, but Brittany seemed to shut down a little at the comment which only made more curious about what happened that made them move here. I noticed after a few seconds of silence that there were puddles of water in her eyes on the verge of spilling over. I put my hand under her chin and gently lifted her face she was no longer looking at the ground, but at me. "Britt. Whatever happened to you its okay now. You don't live there anymore."

"It wasn't me that it happened to. It was Rachel." She took a second to compose herself before continuing on with what I hoped was going to be a bit of an explanation. "Remember when I said that Rachel had a rough coming out?"

I remember her mentioning it, maybe on the phone or something one day. "Yeah I remember. Why?"

"Well it's sort of the reason that we had to move to Lima." Oh this can't be a fun story. "Rachel was closeted in our old town. She didn't want to come out for obvious reasons being at a catholic school and hello, we live in conservative Ohio. But during freshman year she started dating this girl, Miranda. She was queen bee at the school. The pastors' daughter, dating the quarterback. That kind of girl. But outside of school she was really into Rachel. They were pretty much always together and there were even some glances thrown around in school."

"Sounds a little like Q actually."

"Which is why I was thinking about it. You'll understand in a second. They were dating for like six or seven months and nobody knew about it besides me. The three of us hung out sometimes and she was actually pretty cool when she wasn't in school. So sometime in like May, they were at a park just hanging out and some douche bag on the football team saw them and took a picture of them kissing. Needless to say the next day it was all over school." I didn't really understand what this had to do with Q or how it was going to end badly, but I just kept listening to Britt. "So Rachel thought that this just mean they were outed and they would just have to deal with everyone together. She was wrong. Rach went up to Miranda in the hallway and Miranda completely embarrassed her. She started yelling at her about how she was disgusting and how Rach took advantage of her. It was horrible. Rachel was crying in the middle of the hallway while everyone just watched Miranda tear her apart."

"Wow that's terrible. What kind of person does that to someone."

"Right? They were together for almost a year too. Anyone who spent time with them could tell they were in love. I don't see how Miranda could do that to her without completely breaking down. But she did eventually breakdown. Later that day I found Miranda crying in the bathroom, as hard as Rachel had been in the hallway earlier that day. She pleaded for me to forgive her and understand that her dad would throw her out if he ever found out. She did that to Rachel to protect herself from her parents and to keep her popularity."

"You think Q would do the same thing?"

"I don't think she would. I'm just worried about Rachel. She was really determined not to be in the closet at this school and now with Quinn, she's back there again. And I don't think Quinn would ever do what Miranda did to her, but you have to admit the situations are really similar."

I could see where Brittany was coming from with this, but I knew Q and she would never do that to someone if she loved them that much. "Q knows who she is and she would never let her parents tell her otherwise. You really don't have to worry about it."

"I wasn't really thinking about Quinn and Rachel, more about coming out in general."

Shit she didn't want to come out did she? I don't think I'm prepared for that yet. "What about?"

"Well I wanted to tell my parents about us. I understand if you don't want to tell your yet, but I really can't lie to mine and I know they'll be cool after everything with Rach."

"That's fine with me if you want to tell them about us."

"Well I was kind of wondering if we could talk about that because… I don't exactly know what to tell them. Like…what are we exactly?"

"Well if you would have waited until later in the evening before bringing this up you would know." I started completely kidding around, making sure to keep my voice light so it didn't sound like I was angry or anything.

"What do you mean?"

"Well Brittany Pierce, I was wondering if you would be my girlfriend?" I asked confidently. I'm not sure where all this sudden confidence was coming from considering all the stuttering I was doing around Britt lately, but I guess I was more sure of this than I thought.

Brittany smiled instantly at the question which told me that was at least happy I asked. Hopefully I would happy with her answer. "Yes of course I will be your girlfriend, Santana Lopez."

I couldn't help but kiss her now. The kiss was getting heated pretty quickly and I knew it was about time to head home even though I never wanted to leave this place. Once again, I was forced to pull back from Britt and so I could tell her that we needed to leave. After packing up everything and getting in the car, we started back towards Lima.

Definitely an epic first date. I don't think I will ever forget this one.

A/N I hope you enjoyed their date! A definite pace pick up for the next few chapters. We have some big things happening. I'm excited for them. Review(: