Santana walked out of her room to see Rachel sitting in the living room, they had yet to speak about what Rachel confessed. Santana saw this as perfect opportunity to speak to her because she knew that Rachel didn't have anywhere to go so she couldn't bail when Santana brought it up. Santana just wanted to get all of this resolved, she hated being in an awkward situation with Rachel, she was her best friend and a person needs their best friend to talk to and confide in and Santana just wanted that back.
"Rachel, can we talk?" Santana asked causing Rachel to look up.
"I'm actually pretty busy right now Santana" Rachel replied even though Santana knew she wasn't doing anything important since she was watching TV.
"Please Rachel, I can't keep carrying on like there's this wall between us. We need to talk about what you said."
Rachel sighed like she really didn't want to do this now, but knowing Santana she knew that she had no choice. "Okay"
Santana sat down beside her roommate on the couch. "About what you said…"
"When I told you that I had feelings for you?"
"Yeah… did you really mean it?" Santana had to ask, wondering if Rachel just said it in the heat of the moment.
"I did" Rachel replied.
Santana sighed, she didn't really know what to do. Rachel was her best friend but Santana was in love with Quinn, she couldn't change that, and she couldn't change how she felt. If she could, she would because it would have been a hell of a lot easier if she was in love with Rachel rather than Quinn since Rachel wasn't married to another person, but she wasn't and there was nothing she could do about that.
"Look, I know it's not what you want to hear but…"
"You're in love with Quinn" Rachel finished for her.
"Yeah" Santana confirmed.
"It's okay Santana, I know you don't see me that way."
"I just want things to go back to how they were. You're my best friend Rachel, I don't want to lose you"
Rachel gave her a small smile, "I don't want to lose you either. Can we just pretend like I never said anything?" Rachel asked.
"Sure, if that's what you want"
"That's what I want."
"Good"
"Look Santana, I know that you're in love with her but she's still married. I just don't want to see you get hurt is all" Rachel had to say it, after all, Santana was her best friend and she didn't want to see things get blown up in her face.
Santana sighed, she hated that Quinn was married, she hated that she was in this situation and there was nothing she could do about it. If she could break up with David for Quinn she would, but she couldn't, she would just have to wait for Quinn to do it and hope that she would do it soon because Santana didn't know how long she could wait. She wanted to be open with Quinn, she didn't want to hide the fact that she loved her, she wanted a proper relationship.
"I know, but she loves me and I love her. She said she is going to leave him and I trust her" Santana replied.
"Well I hope you're right"
"I know I am" Santana assured her even if she wasn't so sure herself but she couldn't let Rachel know that. "Anyway, what are you doing tonight?" she asked, wanting to get away from the subject of hers and Quinn's relationship.
"Nothing, why?" Rachel replied.
"Well, it's Quinn's gallery event tonight and I was wondering if you wanted to go with me"
"Wouldn't that be a little weird? I mean Quinn can't exactly be my biggest fan after what happened that night"
"She won't mind at all, she actually suggested that I invite you. Plus you could keep me company, come on, I know it would suck less if you were there" Santana pleaded.
If she couldn't spend the night with Quinn the second best option was hanging out with Rachel.
"Okay then" Rachel agreed.
"Great" Santana grinned.
Later on, Santana and Quinn arrived at the gallery. From the looks of it things were already in full swing as the gallery was pretty packed.
Rachel went over to the bar to get a drink whilst Santana went to go and find Quinn so that she could say hello. She found her straight away talking to some people.
Santana couldn't help herself, she walked over to Quinn and placed her hand on the bottom of Quinn's back and leaned in to whisper in her ear.
"Hey beautiful"
As she said this she saw how a huge grin arrived on Quinn's face upon hearing Santana's voice and feeling her touch.
Quinn quickly said goodbye to the people who she was talking to and then walked with Santana over to the corner of the room.
"You know, you look really sexy when you talk about all this art stuff"
"Oh yeah?" Santana nodded, "You say things like that I'm going to have to take you back to my office"
Santana raised her eyebrow with a smirk on her face, "Well, I wouldn't say no to that"
"Quinn, darling! The collection is wonderful" A man in a tux came up to them, interrupting their conversation.
"Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Um, James this is Santana, Santana this is James, he's one of my investors" Quinn introduced them.
"Pleasure to meet you Santana, are you in the art business as well?" He asked as he shook Santana's hand.
"Uh, no I'm…" Santana didn't really know how to finish that. She was in a room full of well established, successful people, she didn't really want to say that she was an assistant because then they would already be wondering why she was there.
"Santana, is an upcoming record label owner. You should watch out for this one James, I guarantee you she'll be snatched up before you know it" Quinn finished for her, Santana grinned at Quinn's words. How could she not love this woman?
"Oh really? Well, maybe I should invest now before she's gets taken away"
"I think that would be a smart move" Quinn told him.
"Santana, when do you think this company of yours will be up and running?" James asked.
"Well, at the moment I'm still saving up my money so I can set it all up" Santana replied.
James nodded at her words, "Well, if you wanted I could make an early investment and you could get it running sooner than you thought" James offered.
Santana was taken back slightly, "Really?" She couldn't believe her luck right now. "But you don't even know me?"
"I have been working with Quinn for a while now and when she says I need to invest in something, I know it's worth my time. Here, take my card and you get back to me if you're interested" He handed the card over and Santana gladly took it.
"Wow, thank you so much" Santana said, she was extremely grateful right now.
"Don't worry about it honey, anyway, I'll see you ladies later" James waved goodbye and walked off to go and talk to some other people.
When Santana turned back to Quinn she saw how Quinn was grinning at her.
"You're amazing, you know that?" Santana said.
"You're the amazing one, I've seen your business plans Santana and they're great. You deserve this, you deserve to be doing something you love"
"I love you" Santana had to say.
"I love you too" Quinn replied.
"I really wish we weren't surrounded by a group of people right now"
"Oh yeah? Well I think I can fix that"
Quinn looked around before grabbing Santana's hand and led her back into her office at the back of the room.
Once they were in there Quinn locked the door and then crashed her lips onto Santana's. Her hands tangled their way into Santana's hair and Santana's wrapped around Quinn's waist.
"Mmm, I've wanted to do that since you walked in" Quinn muttered into their kiss.
Santana pressed Quinn up against the wall. Both of them knew that they couldn't exactly have sex in there right now because of the group of people outside who were all here for Quinn and would notice her absence.
"Fuck, I missed you last night" Santana said as they let go of the kiss.
"Me too. David out of town tomorrow night and the next, which means I'm all yours then"
Santana smirked, "Well in that case I can't wait" she grinned.
Before either of them could say anything there was a knock on the door with someone shouting, "Quinn, are you in there". This telling them that they had to get back out there.
They both sighed and let go of each other and gave each other one last kiss before walking back out.
Santana went over to Rachel who was stood by the bar.
"Hey" Rachel said upon seeing her friend. "You've been gone a while"
"Yeah. I actually have some really great news"
"What is it?"
"I can finally quit my job" Santana said happily.
Rachel seemed surprised yet happy for Santana.
"How come?" She asked.
"When I was talking to Quinn this guy came up to us and we started talking and he told me that he wanted to make an early investment in the label!"
"Santana, that's great" Rachel said excitedly for her friend.
"I know, I can finally quit a job I hate and actually do something that I love. Plus I no longer have to work for that asshole" Santana said, speaking of David.
"Plus you can't get fired when Quinn tells David of your relationship" Rachel added which just made Santana even happier.
This was the new beginning that Santana had been waiting for and she couldn't wait to start it. She couldn't even describe the excitement she had for quitting her job.