4/21/13 Chapter 12
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I don't own Glee, or any of the music I use. Because things would be different if I did .
Author Notes: Story is starting to pick up and so the drama will begin. I'll be back next week with an update.
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By the time the media was gone Santana had gotten her sugar attack under control. Her family was surrounding her and she still didn't understand everything that was going on with Rachel, or her dad, or the paparazzi.
"Mija?"
"Si Papi?"
"Are you ok?"
"I think so." she smirked. "I'm just a little surprised is all. I think Rachel's famous."
"Si, she's Barbara Berry," her abuela smiled. "How'd you get so lucky Nieta?"
"I've no idea. Wait how do you know her?"
"I love the Broadway." her abuela smiled. "I've seen two of her shows, she's very talented."
"That she is. I've only heard her sing twice myself." Santana admitted. She tuned out her families bickering and looked over to see Rachel. Rachel had little Beth Cochran on her hip rubbing soothing circles over the little girl. She was arguing with her fathers apparently, who were demanding that she start explaining exactly what was going on.
Finally Rachel had had enough because she called over the man in the black suit and they made their way over to the Lopez family without her fathers.
"Hola, la familia López. Lo siento mucho por los acontecimientos de hoy. Santana está usted bien? ¿Necesitas más ayuda médica?" Rachel asked the man in black standing towering over her as he scanned the room.
Santana smiled. "No, thank you Rachel." waved to Beth who was hiding in Rachel's hair. "Are you ok your dad's seem pretty upset."
"I'll be fine, I may have failed to disclose everything when I left them in the Caribbean. They are starting to put the pieces together."
"Hola, usted debe ser la abuela de Santana. Es un placer conocerte." Rachel held out her free hand to the older woman.
"Hola Rachel que es un placer conocerte también. Usted es amigo de Santana?" the woman held her hand out with a twinkle in her eye.
"Compañera" both Santana and Rachel corrected the woman at the same time.
Santana made a face when she realized that she had just outed herself to her abuela. Who didn't seem to be all that surprised or upset. "Rachel are you ok to go home by yourself tonight?"
"I'm sure my dad's will crash at my place. I'll be fine. I'll see you at school tomorrow." Rachel looked around. "It'll be a zoo tomorrow. So I'll apologize in advance. You're family might be part of the media circus now too, everyone at school knows we're dating." Rachel frowned. "I'll send someone to drive you to school, just to be safe."
"Safe? Maria Lopez came to hug Rachel. "Hello Rachel."
"Hello Ms. Lopez, I just want to protect Santana and the rest of you from the craziness that is about to land on your doorstep."
"Madre, had been letting us in on some of your secrets." she smiled at the little girl. "You'll sing for us one day, yes?"
"Mama! Rachel doesn't sing anymore, it isn't fair for you to ask her to do that." Santana said with a frown.
Rachel grinned. "It would be a pleasure Ms. Lopez." Rachel smirked and kissed Santana's cheek.
"Maria." she corrected.
"It would be a pleasure Maria." Rachel kissed Beth. "I have to take Beth home, she's tired. I would love if you would all join me for dinner tomorrow evening. Say seven, it will give me time to pick up Beth and visit Shelby."
"We can't expect you to cook Rachel." Maria shook her head.
"But I won't be, I have a cock pot it will simmer all day. Please it would be a pleasure to have you all over as a nice distraction for Beth and myself."
"Alright, but we're bringing desert, and fresh bread." Abuela said firmly.
"Perfect." Rachel hugged them all and then left the hospital with Beth on her hip, the man in black close by followed by the Berry men.
Santana woke up the following morning with irritation her cell phone was pining so hard it was falling off the bedside table. She ignored it and hopped in the shower. She put on her cheerios uniform, then remembered she wasn't a cheerio anymore. She switched into jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs as the door bell rang. She headed over to the door only to be stopped by her uncle.
"I wouldn't if I were you." he warned.
"What?"
"There's a mob out there." he said leaning against the door. "I made the mistake of trying to get the newspaper."
"What do you mean by mob?" Santana asked peering out of the long window next to the store shocked to see all the people on the lawn. 'What the hell."
"Nieta, La Diva warned us this might happen."
"La Diva?" Santana looked at abuela with a smirk.
"Make fun of me all you want. Google it, she was famous in Europe for years long before she went to the Broadway."
"My Rachel?"
"The one and the same though, you'll have to look her us as La Diva or Barbara Berry, she isn't known by Rachel." abuela shrugged her shoulders, and headed to the kitchen. A the house phone rang.
Maris picked it up on the second ring. "Hello?" she smiled "Oh hola Rachel, sí está despierta, sí nos aseguraremos de que come antes de que llegue el conductor." she sighed with another smile" Sí, querida, gracias. Eso es muy amable de su parte. Querida bien aquí está Rachel" she turned and handed the phone to Santana. "Its' Rachel."
"Good morning." Santana said with a laugh and a rolling of her eyes.
"Good morning Princesa." Rachel laughed at something on her end. "I'm leaving my place now, I have to take Beth to school and then I'll be sneaking into the back of school. I've sent a driver and they are heading over to pick you up in about 20 minutes, I've asked Coach Sue to escort you into the building."
"Rachel is all of this really necessary?"
"Have you looked outside you house Santana?"
"Yeah." she muttered with a scowl.
"It's worse at the school right now. JBI released information about us on his Blog. The reporters are eating it up. I just want you to be safe."
"OK."
"Thank you, I'll see you in school."
Santana hung up the phone and looked over at her mother who was setting a plate of food down on the table. "I can't eat all that."
"Do you want to deal with Rachel when I call her and tell her you didn't eat?" Santana rolled her eyes and did as she was told. Rachel Berry apparently wasn't someone one to mess with, she terrified grown Latin women to do her bidding. "That's what I thought." Maria laughed.
Santana was whisked out of the house by some large man, down the porch through the hoards of people and into a waiting car with tinted windows. The minute the door closed her eyes adjusted and she was surprised to see Rachel in the seat across from her.
"Wait..I thought."
"You sounded a little overwhelmed on the phone. I wanted to make sure you were ok." she smiled and moved over to sit next to her. "Do you mind sharing a car with me?"
"No, I'm happy to see you." Santana smiled. "So you're a celebrity."
"Not here in the States, well not really." she smiled. "I'm popular in Europe, and I did a year in New York before I walked off the stage because of my father's health." Rachel frowned. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you. It was, just for the first time I was able to be around people who didn't know my celeb status. For the first time people liked me for me not the fame. But I understand if this changes things between us."
"It doesn't for me. I like the Rachel I met, you also being La Diva, doesn't make much difference to me."
Rachel grinned and pulled the taller girl into her arms. "I love you, I hope that's ok." Rachel whispered before kissing deeply.
Santana felt her head spin. "More then ok, because I love you too." Santana smiled then pulled away. "Rachel is too easy to love you, and that frightens me."
"Me too, I've never felt this way before. Normally I can't get close to people at least not without knowing if its me or the fame they're after."
"With me, it will always be just you. I'm glad that we met the way we did, now you'll always know that I love because of you."
"Well like I told you when we first it really would be nice to have a friend not someone who was after me for what I could do."
"You did, I just didn't realize at the time I was talking to Barbra Berry, NY's Broadway Sweetheart, of Europe's La Diva."
"Ladies we're here."
"Thanks Jaxson, I think Sue should be here…somewhere." Rachel looked out the window to see the crowd parting. "Oh here she comes." she giggled and when the door opened and Sue slipped in the car locking it.
"Well you've stepped in it Berry." She muttered. "You're going to make me look soft.." she looked at Santana. "You're lucky she's my niece or you being out of uniform would really piss me off, right now."
"I quit the cheerios, Coach."
"Again lucky you. NO one leaves, unless I say so." she muttered. "How's your mother, Berry?"
"Stable thanks for asking Coach."
"Beiste told me you tried out for softball, pretty damn good too from what she says. You could have a spot on the cheerios if you had only told me."
"Cheerleading isn't my thing Coach." Rachel smiled and leaned in and gave the woman a hug. "But thank you for believing in me."
"You forget that I've had to sit through everything televises or recorded for the last 18 years of your life." she laughed. "I know what you're capable, you would make a very good cheerio."
"I like being active." Rachel said nonchalantly.
Sue looked at her with both eyebrows. "Like being active." she smirked. You could call it that." she reached for the door handle. "Do me a favor take a moment one day this week to train Pierce that routine from your 2010 tour."
Rachel frowned. "I'll think about it."
"That's fair. All right lets get you to class. Your uncle has the police around the campus, they can't get in once we're inside, but its getting you there that will be an issue. I have the jocks and cheerios ready to block them from getting to you."
Santana looked back and fourth between Rachel and her former coach and was amazed that Sue was able to be civil with someone. "I think we should just go, the longer we wait the more frantic they will be. " Santana said with a roll of her shoulder.
"You're right Princesa, ok Coach we're ready when you are." Rachel leaned in and kissed Santana on the lips. "Don't show them any fear, they'll see it as weakness."
Santana nodded to Sue and they all slipped out of the car. Santana held onto Rachel as they made their way to the front of the school it was ciaos people where calling out to them, flashing pictures, while the student body looked on with fascination.
When they reached the doors Rachel turned and looked at the crowd. "I request that you all find some inner decency that you've locked away and not disrupt this school and its students from their education." She looked at the crowd with a smile. "I'll will be holding a press conference later in the week, I just ask that you respect the needs of the student body and their education. Please don't loiter, asking questions to these minor children." with that she smiled and headed into the building with Santana on her arm.
The minute they were inside the students stared to pepper them both with questions. Teachers were falling all over themselves wanting to talk to Rachel. Santana was just annoyed. "Get back to your own drama." she shouted at them, people stopped then seemed to remember Santana's reputation and wrath and quickly cleared a path.
"Oh so there is some truth to the rumors." Rachel laughed and squeezed her hand. "I was beginning to wonder."
"Stuff it Berry, and lets get to class." Santana smirked at her, as she pulled a grinning Rachel to their first class.
Sorry I lost all my translations as my computer crashed in the middle of writing this and it saved everything except for them…what kind of BS is that I ask you…what kind. I'm suppose to be working and instead I'm writing,…So this update is done LATE but done.
Thanks Taylor