A/N: Alrighty here is a nice little filler chapter before some of the drama begins. I wanted to add some more Brittana & more Santana horsie stuff before it happened; since that will also play a big part in the story later. Enjoy :D

Disclaimer: I don't own glee… sadly :(

Chapter 11

After finishing chores Rachel and I decided to lie out on the patio get some of the afternoon sun before it set completely. I was kind of bummed Brittany had to go home right after her lesson and I hardly saw her that day. My thoughts always wandered to Brittany when she wasn't around. So far everything was going smoothly for us. Karofsky took my rejection better than I thought. He called me a bitch and the next day was snuggled up next to one of the slutty cheerleaders. Brittany and I had our 'bestie-time' almost every day. We were taking it slow and that was fine with me gave me a chance to get my head around the idea of "dating" a girl.

I finally huffed and turned my head looking at Rachel. "What?" I could feel her watching me.

She was staring at me with that crazy smile on her face. "What's gotten into you?"

"Not following?" I questioned.

Her eyes watched me carefully. "Something's different….Can't place my finger on it."

I turned my head back closing my eyes to soak in the sun once again. "You can't put your finger on it, 'cause there is nothing different." I huffed.

"There's something-" She analyzed. "I'll find out one way or another."

I glanced at her once again and rolled my eyes behind my sunglasses. "There's nothing to find out hobbit." Ok so there was something. There was now Brittany but it had been almost two weeks since we started 'bestie-time' and I was surprised on how difficult sticking to the rules had become when I was around her. We were all over each other every alone moment we had. I couldn't help myself now that I had a free pass to her lips I took advantage of it any moment I could.

"No Brittany tonight?"

My head snapped in her direction. "Huh?" Did I say something out loud in my Brittany pondering?

"You two have been like attached to the hip lately. Thought she'd be over doing homework or something."

I shrugged. "She was doing something with the fam tonight." Rachel was right we were definitely hanging out a lot more. "Plus, Britt's my bestie are we not allowed to hangout or something?"

"Oh no-no that's not what I'm saying. I love Brittany was just curious on where she was hiding today." Rachel smiled at me.

I narrowed my eyes slightly and watched her get comfortable on her lounge chair. Boy was Rachel nosy. What if she already knew? Or suspected something? And she was just trying to get me to admit it out loud. The thought scared the crap out of me. I really wasn't ready for everyone to know about us yet. I wasn't good with relationships and yes I'm fully self-absorbed; image was everything to me. A part of me really wasn't ready to go from resident bitch to well lesbian in the matter of moments; even if it was for Brittany.

I huffed. Why did I have to making things complicated?

My phone suddenly started vibrating on the small table next to me. I shot up straight and snatched it thinking it was Brittany. I rolled my eyes. "Puckerman." I grumbled slightly answering the phone.

"Whoa…why the tone Lopez?"

"Well for starters I've called you several times this week and you haven't even called me back."

"Look I was a little busy this week."

I laughed slightly. Puck busy… that I'd like to see… "Really doing what?"

"Been hanging out with Sam and Artie. Doing stuff."

"Wheels!? What the fuck! You've been ignoring me for Stubbles McCripple Pants?!" I was his best-friend and he was hanging out with my loser nemesis?! That just pissed me off.

"Chill out San! Gee… He's not all that bad." Puck tried to defend him and that just made me more upset.

"Whatever! What do you want?"

"Look you've been calling me. Said you wanted to tell me something."

My eyes narrowed. He was the one person I was actually going to tell my Brittany news to. I felt comfortable telling him; one he was hundreds of miles away and didn't have anyone here to tell and two I trusted him not to blab to everyone back home. There was no way I was going to tell him now. "I'm not telling you anything now."

"That's not fair. Tell me." Puck grumbled. I could tell he was annoyed at my behavior but I really could careless at the moment.

"No. I'm not telling you now. I'm fucking pissed off." I hated Artie; he got me more detentions than I actually deserved. We never got along. Ever.

His voice softened. "Don't be like that."

"I can't believe you're hanging out with him!" I snapped again. "I'm hanging up now before I say something I might regret." I quickly hung up the phone and slammed it down on the table next to me with a growl. It wasn't the fact that Puck was too busy to call me back, it was the fact that it was because he was hanging with Artie. That hurt.

"Want to talk about it?" Rachel asked softly. I had forgotten she was there.

"No. I'm fine." I reached back over and picked up my phone texting Brittany. Can u call me later if u have time need to vent.

"You don't look fine."

I finally looked at her. "Look Puck is just being an asshole as usual. I'm fine." My phone buzzed.

Britt – of course call u lata :)

I smiled slightly seeing her text and set my phone back down on the table a little more gently this time. "If you say so." Rach sighed slightly.

"I do say so. So can you drop it now hobbit?" We remained silent the rest of the time which was perfectly ok with me.

I didn't want to admit it but I was being a little impatient waiting for Brittany to call. I lay in bed; phone in hand while I watched some ridiculous show on TV that I wasn't really paying attention too. I kept looking down at the time. It was almost ten. Brittany was always in bed by ten on a school night. She said she'd call me.

10:01

I frowned seeing the time. I really had wanted to vent and Brittany always let me vent to her without judging me for what I said. It always helped when I was upset and at the moment I was still pissed at Puck. Finally swinging out of bed I placed my phone down on my nightstand and started getting ready for bed. I'd just have to call her tomorrow. I knew she didn't call me on purpose it was family night and she probably just forgot or was too tired to.

After brushing my teeth and changing into my pajamas I snuggled down into my bed flipping through channels to find something to watch. There was hardly anything on Wednesday nights so I opted for some cheesy movie on lifetime and snuggled down to sleep.

The sound of my phone buzzing brought me out of my light sleep and I reached over feeling around for it. I finally snatched it answering it. "'ello?"

"Hey…" Brittany's soft voice sounded in my ear.

"What time is it?" I muttered sleepily.

"10:46."

I slowly sat up some leaning against my pillow. "You're still up?"

"We just got home. Sorry I woke you."

"It's fine."

"So you need to vent. What did Rachel do this time?" She asked with a slight giggle.

I sighed. "It's nothing really…Plus it's late…" I wasn't really all that mad anymore. Was more content on just listening to her talk than having my venting session anyways.

"You sure? I don't mind."

"Positive. Plus it's past your bedtime baby."

She chuckled. "You just broke rule number two."

I rolled my eyes. "Oh you're one to talk, Miss I-promise-to-not-leer-at-your-chest. You were totally staring during study hall today."

"You weren't complaining. That low cut top was just an open invitation."

"Yeah yeah, so what did you do for family night?" I quickly changed subjects.

"We went to a drive-in movie. They were showing Puss In Boots. It was so adorable. And Ali and I shared a huge thing of popcorn. Dad bought me sour patch kids too. They were super yummy." I just smiled as she rambled on about her evening with her family. She suddenly paused. "I'm boring you aren't I?"

"What?! Never. I love listening to you talk." It was true I could listen to her reading the phonebook and be completely content.

"You sure? I did wake you. We can talk tomorrow."

"Britt. Keep going."

"Ok…" She took a deep breath and continued. "Well I would have called you sooner but after the movie we went for ice cream."

"Let me guess. Chocolate brownie chunk in a chocolate dipped waffle cone with rainbow sprinkles."

Brittany paused. "How'd you know?" She asked softly.

I smirked. It wasn't hard to figure out; she got the same thing every time. "I just know these things."

"You're a mystery to me sometimes."

"I am?"

"Yeah… you like know things that I know I haven't told you before. Wait…is your super power telepathy?"

"No I'm not a telepath." I laughed. "I wish…but no…I just pay attention."

"I'd have time travel as a power. That would be awesome." Brittany started explaining why she'd have time travel as a power. Then it switched to teleportation. Then to flying. Then back to time travel. She was just so cute.

I finally heard her yawning and I glanced at the clock it was past 11 already. "Baby you need sleep."

"But… I like talking to you…" She stifled a yawn again.

"We'll talk tomorrow."

"Promise?"

"Of course I promise." I grinned.

"Ok…night."

"Night." We hung up and I couldn't stop smiling.

My phone suddenly lit up getting a text as it started playing 'Part of your World' from the Little Mermaid. I quickly snatched it knowing exactly who it was. Britt –almost forgot! XOXOXO :D I almost laughed she was a dork. A hot dork… I quickly replied the same back before snuggling back down into my bed; I was asleep within minutes having the best dreams. Mostly about Brittany.

=.=.=.=

I paused completely out of breath and placed my hands on my knees taking in a few deep breaths. My lungs burned, my thighs ached, and my calves had a pins and needles feeling.

God I hated gym class.

It was the bane of my existence. I hated running. I always felt like I was going to die after a run. And this week during gym we had to do PE tests. Today we were all out on the track doing a one mile run. Timed. That was even worse. I liked to win and I tended to push myself to a limit I shouldn't push to.

It wasn't hard; 4 laps around the 400 meter track. Well… easier said than done.

"Don't stop!" Brittany slowed down next to me jogging in place.

"Need…break…"

"You'll crab up."

"Cramp. It's cramp up."

"Whatever. Go go go." I felt her hands pressing up against my back getting my feet moving again.

I muttered under my breath and started running again. Brittany stayed right next to me. "You can go ahead, I won't stop again. Promise." She could easily pass me. The girl had long legs and this crazy stamina. I swear if she wasn't so into horses she would be a track star.

She smiled at me. "I want to stay with you."

"I only have a little over a lap left." I huffed.

Brittany shrugged. "It's ok I'm done anyways."

I stopped. "You're done?! Why are you still running?!"

"You said you wouldn't stop."

"Right right." I started running again. "Britt you're finished you don't have to run with me."

"I don't mind. I'll keep you motivated."

I rolled my eyes. "How are you going to do that?"

She turned and started jogging backwards. Now she was just showing off. "If you beat me I'll convince my mom to let me hangout at your place after my lesson later. And we can have bestie-time."

I perked up. "Oh?!"

"Mmmhmm…If you beat me." Brittany smirked wiggling her eyebrows playfully before turning around and taking off. I quickly took off after her smiling.

=.=.=.=

I couldn't help but pout standing next to Pip as Brittany started to untack him. "Pleeeease." I put on my best puppy dog face.

"But you didn't beat me." She was trying not to smirk I could tell. Brittany bit her bottom lip to hold that smirk at bay.

"Well it's kinda hard when you have those model long legs to beat me with." I huffed and crossed my arms; hoping pissy would work better since pouting didn't.

"Guess you weren't motivated enough."

My eyes narrowed. Motivated my ass. I looked through the bars of the stall making the sure the coast was clear before sliding up next to her pulling her down into a deep kiss.

She slowly pulled back running her tongue along her lower lip slightly. "You keep on breaking the rules, you came up with." Brittany kept a stone face. She loved teasing me. I can't help the fact that I can't keep my hands or lips off of her. She's super-hot.

I smirked and leaned up nipping her lower lip slightly. Brittany shivered slightly with a groan. "Please?"

My lips traced her jaw softly. She let out a puff. "Of course I will. Texted my mom right after school saying we were doing homework tonight." I pulled back quickly; eyes narrowed and smacked her arm.

"Your evil." She laughed with a smirk and placed a soft kiss against my lips.

Brittany pulled away and grabbed her saddle. "You almost done?"

"Yup. All done was just waiting for you." I smiled and took off Pip's bridle for her. "How was your lesson?" I asked while we took care of her things in the tack room.

She spun around quickly beaming. "He was soooo good! We had our fastest time on the cross country course. He cleared everything too."

"That's awesome." I grinned as she grabbed my pinky. "No more weird refusing?"

Brittany shook her head. "Nope! Not for the past couple of weeks. We've been doing great!"

"Good. Come on you can ride up with me on the 4-wheeler." I started pulling her towards the front door after she finished feeding Pip and grabbed her backpack.

Brittany followed along. "What about my truck?"

"I'll bring you back down later silly." She smiled brightly.

"Ok." Her arms wrapped around me tightly before I started up the small vehicle and headed up to the house.

Rachel was making something in the kitchen I don't know what it was but it smelled really good. Josh sat at the island doing some homework bickering at Rachel about how much he hated math. They both looked at us when we walked through. I sat down taking off my boots. "Rach it smells good."

"Chicken stir-fry." She smiled over her shoulder.

I walked into the kitchen while Brittany took off her boots and grabbed us a few bottles of water. The corner of my eyes caught Josh staring up from his homework and over in Brittany's direction. I knew that look. Within two steps I was standing across from him and reached out smacking him upside the head.

"Oww!" He rubbed the spot I hit him and looked back at me. "What the hell was that for?!"

"Stop undressing her with your eyes." I growled.

"I-I was not." Josh muttered getting laughs from both Brittany and Rachel.

"You totally were. Keep your eyes to yourself." I poked him in the shoulder. There was no way I was going to let him leer at my Brittany. He was my cousin it was not acceptable. Plus, I was the only who could stare at Brittany now. It bugged me at school when some of the boys ogled at her; but I couldn't do anything about it. If I did then our secret would be out and I was happy with our current situation for the moment. Why complicate it?

"You staying for dinner Brittany?" Rachel finally interrupted the awkward silence that I currently created.

"Umm… I don't know."

"Of course you are. Plus we have homework to do." I smiled and walked up to her handing her a water. Our fingers brushed lightly, a shiver ran up my spine, I tried not to stare at her for too long.

"Fine."

"When's dinner?" I turned to Rachel who was oblivious to my little interaction with Brittany.

She finally looked up at us. "Like a half an hour."

"Cool we'll be down soon." I started for the stairs and Brittany quickly followed me up.

I dropped to my bed and smirked hearing her locking the door behind her. Smirking I couldn't help but bite my bottom lip when she dropped her book bag and walked up to me. My heart always hammered in my chest any time she was in close proximity to me. She stood right in front of me and started leaning down. My lips curled into a smile and hovered near hers anticipating a kiss; she suddenly brushed past me and flopped down on the bed next to me smirking brightly.

A soft grumble passed through my lips. "You little tease." I turned on my side propped myself up on my elbow. My fingers ran down her arm softly linking my fingers with hers; she suddenly turned towards me and her lips landed on mine in a soft kiss.

Untangling my hand from hers I brought it up around her neck pulling her into a deeper kiss. Our kiss wasn't urgent like many of our stolen kisses that happened in the barn or the occasional time at school in the locker room. These was slow and I tugged her lip gently getting a barely audible moan from the hot blonde I was currently making out with.

She slowly pulled back taking in a couple of short breathes. "We should start our homework."

I stared at her catching my breath. Was she serious? "You're kidding, right?"

Her bottom lip sucked into her mouth as she bit it trying not to smirk. Brittany let out a chuckle and placed a kiss on the corner of my lips. I tried to be mad at her but there was no way I could, just a small smile from her broke down all my walls. It was scary to think that one person could make me feel so happy. "You are going to be the death of me…" I let out a light laugh before her lips reattached to mine in a deep heated kiss that left both of us breathless.

=.=.=.=

Saturday was almost over. Brittany had to leave around noon after her lesson, I missed her already and it had only been a few hours since I saw her. Ugg…I was so whipped. By a leggy hot blonde no less. I went the rest of the afternoon keeping myself busy riding horses so I wouldn't keep thinking about how much I missed her not being around the barn.

So now I waited patiently for Auntie A by Rogue's stall. There was a mixture of nerves and excitement rushing through me. It was the first time I was going to help her with Rogue's training. We had planned to do it last Saturday but by the time she was done for the day it was too late. I wasn't disappointed really…it was my first morning with Brittany and we ended up spending most of the day down stairs watching TV with Rachel until Brittany had her lesson in the afternoon.

I had brought Rogue in. Brushed her. Then grabbed her tack setting it outside the stall waiting for Auntie A. I leaned against the door and Rogue played with my ponytail gently with her lips. I swatted at her slightly when she tugged on it and gave her a look. "Not the hair…" She stopped for a second before nibbling at it again.

"You ready?" My focus suddenly turned towards the woman walking towards me with a bucket of grain.

"Absolutely!"

She laughed at my enthusiasm. "Rogue is still a little touchy with someone putting her saddle on so I bribe her with grain to keep her still until she gets used to it."

I chuckled and scratched under Rogue's chin. "She does like her food."

"She all brushed?" I nodded. "Alright grab her saddle." I quickly did what I was told and followed Auntie A into the stall. She poured half of the grain into Rogue's feed bucket and I offered her the saddle. "No no you do it. I want you to learn so you can work her when you feel like it."

"Really?!"

"Of course. Neither Shelby nor I really have the time to work her right now with show season in full swing and I think you're ready to take on a project of your own. So go ahead." She nodded towards Rogue. "Just be nice and gentle when putting it on. You can't just throw it up there she'll get saddle sore."

I followed her instructions and put the saddle down softly on Rogue's back. "She can get a little fussy with the girth. She bit Shelby's thigh the other day. So be careful." My lips smirked seeing the image of Shelby getting nipped in the thigh by the sassy Andalusian. I almost giggled.

My fingers scratched Rogue's neck. She wouldn't bite me but I didn't want to say it out loud. I grabbed the girth and carefully tightened it and kept my eye on Rogue's head who kept her nose firmly into the bucket. Auntie A handed me the bridle with a smile. I put it on carefully and turned to Auntie A. "Alright let's go to the indoor. You have treats?" I patted my vest pockets.

I walked Rogue into the indoor and out to the middle. Auntie A followed soon after caring a few things I'd needed and set some of them down on the ground next to me and handed me the side reins. "So twist up the reins and put them up under her throat latch so she doesn't step on them." I listened carefully following her every instruction to the letter. "Now clip the side reins to each side of the girth. Put the other end through the bit and clip it to the third ring." I did it on both sides noticing how the side reins pulled Rogue's head down and round.

"What do they do?" I asked curiously I've seen people use them when lunging but I never knew that they did.

"They are a training tool to help encourage flexion and softness in a horse's mouth. They encourage balance and correct head frame, as well as help a horse develop self-carriage. But they also help train young horses get accustom to pressure on the bit so when you begin riding them and start using the reins they don't freak out." I couldn't help but smirk she was going all instructor mode on me. But it was nice I liked learning these kinds of things.

"Here, clip it to the bit." She handed me the lounge line and the whip. I clipped the line and stood back next to Auntie A. "Now always keep the whip in the hand closest to her hind and the line in the hand towards her head. It's like you're going to make a V. Tell her to walk on and just brush the whip on her butt to move her forward. She knows her voice commands so you don't need to use too much whip."

I gulped slightly a little nervous I was going to do something wrong. But finally the words 'walk on' slipped through my lips and Rogue started off. A huge smile spread across my lips. She trotted when I told her to and she went in a large circle around us. "Now roll your tongue like you're going to do an R in Spanish and ascend the pitch at the end."

I glanced at her and she nodded for me to do it. So I did. Rogue stopped dead in her tracks from a trot. "That's so cool!" I smirked brightly.

"Give her a treat." She smiled back at me and I walked up giving Rogue a treat and a pat on the neck. "We teach all the horses the noise. I learned it from a friend of mine back in the day. It comes in really handy if you have a horse that takes off or you need them to stop quickly. They seem to stop better with that than someone yanking on their mouth to get them to stop."

"Yeah I wouldn't want to stop either if someone was ripping on my mouth. I'd just get pissed and go faster."

She laughed. "Exactly. Which is the reason why we started training this."

We spent about twenty minutes out in the arena having Rogue walk, trot, and canter on both sides before stopping for the evening. I undid all of her lounging gear and took her back to her stall. Auntie A leaned against the doorframe watching me. "Why don't you do this for a few days then next week I'll put you on her."

"Really?" It seemed to be my word of choice when dealing with Auntie A and Rogue.

"Yes really. I want you two to get used to each other a bit before I put you on her." I nodded still beaming. "Give her the rest of the grain when you're done."

"I will." She left and I turned back to tend to Rogue. The smile on my face would not let up. I didn't want it too. I was having so much fun. I couldn't wait to call Brittany later and tell her about all of this. I wish she had been able to stay and watch us; I really wanted to share this experience with her. Rogue nudged my pocket and I laughed before giving her one of the last treats in my pocket, then the rest of her grain. I made my way up to the house after texting Brittany to call me later. I couldn't wait to talk to her.

A/N: I already have the next chapter half way done. So I'm hoping to get it done tomorrow on my day off and get it posted. Hope you guys are ready ;) Thanks everyone once again for all the reviews and alerts! I'm excited that everyone has been enjoying it so far! Reviews are always welcomed!

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