Tuesday morning 7:00am:
Brittany did need some fresh air so she headed straight for the courtyard and found a picnic table. She took a seat. Each girl took a side of the small square table. They stayed silent for about 5 minutes till Rachel spoke up.
"How are you, Brittany? I know that this has been incredibly difficult."
"Oh, um…I'm alright, kind of tired but alright. How about you three? You do realize that ya'll could have left earlier with the rest of the crew, right?" Brittany replied
"Yeah but we didn't what you to have to face this alone. I mean yeah your family is here but they are going through it the same way that you are." Quinn answered
"Sometimes you need friends, but if you get tired of us or need to be alone just tell us." Santana added. Rachel and Quinn nodded in agreement to what Santana said.
"I don't know what I did to deserve such great people in my life." Brittany muttered more to herself than anything. "God, I'm so confused." Brittany sighed, "Look, I'm gunna go get some coffee. I need to breathe. Would you girls like any?"
When she looked back up at them, they all looked really worried but Quinn answered, "Vanilla latte is fine for me."
"Me too" Santana added
Rachel spoke up, "Make that three vanilla lattes. We'll be here"
Brittany nodded and stood up. She put her earbuds in and turned on some music as she walked away.
Brittany didn't know exactly where the coffee cart was but she figured that she'd find it sooner or later. She didn't know what to think anymore. She always knew that Rachel had a crush on her but she never thought it was this big of a crush. Then again, when two new and beautiful girls show up of your "turf" feelings are more exposed than before. Rachel is a beautiful girl. They have a lot in common especially when it comes to the interests. They both love basketball and performing (singing and acting for Rachel; dancing and singing Brittany). She is Brittany's best friend and they get along wonderfully but that could change no matter what happens with this situation.
Quinn is extremely beautiful as well. She's pretty easy to talk to which is great. Brittany's never dated a blonde before. Something about it feels weird but it seems like that wouldn't bother her with Quinn. She defiantly likes Quinn but she isn't sure if it's more than a friendship kind of like or more. Oh and of course she has to be best friends with Santana.
God, Santana. There isn't a single doubt in Brittany's mind that she likes Santana. She's insanely, unbelievably gorgeous. Her voice when she sings or even when she's just talking takes Brittany's breath away. It's funny because she's kissed Rachel quite a few times but always for specific reasons and she's kissed Quinn twice during 'spin the bottle'. Quinn's a great kisser even though they were simple pecks. But then there's Santana they've kissed once and almost kissed twice. And it's like when she's around Santana she always wants to kiss her but she knows she can't and that sucks. That one kiss with Santana felt amazing.
Of course there's the obvious choice which is to just drop it and not try anything more than friendship with any of them but damn that'd be difficult, hell, it already is. When she catches Rachel's eyes she gets this weird feeling in the pit of her stomach. When she catches Quinn's eyes her heart flutters a bit (no matter how cheesy that sounds, it's true). But when she catches Santana's eyes, she never wants to look away, even though the pounding in her chest sometimes hurts and it's like every nerve in her body is on high alert, she still loves looking in those deep brown eyes.
So if she decides to date any of them it will be Santana but she has to keep in mind how delicate these circumstances are. All three of them are close friends with each other and with Brittany. So one decision made (who she likes the most) Santana, but of course she's Diego's sister, best friends with Quinn and Puck's obviously trying to get with her.
'Always have to make it difficult, don't you Britt! She thinks as someone passes her with coffee, 'Oh shit, the coffee'.
She looks down at her phone and realizes that its 8:30am, which mean that she left for coffee over an hour ago. She runs up to the first coffee cart she sees. She orders four vanilla lattes. After paying and grabbing the cup carrier with the coffee she takes off, not running but walking quickly. She slows down once they're in sight. Of course they must sense her or something cause they all turn to face her. She pulls out her earbuds and sits down in her spot, setting the coffee on the table. They haven't said anything and Brittany isn't sure if that's good or bad so she grabs her coffee and takes a sip. 'pretty good' she thinks.
She knows that she needs to focus on the friendship of the four of them together. So she comes up with a plan.
"Let's go bowling or something" she says suddenly, startling them as they drink their coffees.
"Who, exactly?" Rachel asks and Brittany can't believe that she let it go this far.
"All of us, well the four of us. I mean if you guys want to…"and now she feels awkward so she takes a sip of her coffee.
"Sure that sounds like fun" Santana says smiling at Brittany "I'm all for it."
Brittany has force herself to look away from Santana's eyes. Quinn's giving Britt this look like she can read minds. "Alright" Quinn says nodding "when should we do this, Britt?" The way she said 'Britt' had some kind of tension in it but Brittany can't figure it out but she knows that she's not making it up because Santana is just staring at her lap.
"Um, well probably after school starts since this week is gunna be kind of crazy. Sorry I should have thought about that first" Brittany replies suddenly feeling insecure
"No, Britt, its fine. We'll figure something out" Rachel says with slight edge and that when Brittany realizes that they had an argument while she was gone.
"You know, um…you three can leave if you want. It's gunna be pretty boring. I'll get Ma or Pop to take ya'll home. Come on so you three can say bye to Benny." Brittany gets up and starts walking toward the entrance not bothering to look back. She doesn't want to see the looks on their faces cause she basically just kicked them out of the hospital.
When all four of them are back in Benny's room Bonnie can tell that somethings wrong with Britt, but she just waits. "Hey, Chief, Santana, Quinn and Rachel are gunna leave so say bye to them."
Bonnie sees the look on the trios faces and Brittany won't meet her eye so she stands up and says "Well, I was about to run to the house so I'll take the three of you home."
"Do you guys really have to leave?" Benny asks the trio with a pout. All three girls look over to Brittany for some kind of help. Seeing this Bonnie looks over to Brittany as well but she already has her headphones in and her eyes shut leaning back in the chair.
Santana sighs and turns back to Benny, "Yeah, Benny Boy, we do but we'll come back tomorrow, if we can. I'm sorry."
"Why is Britt sad?" Benny asks
"I think she's a little mad not sad, Benny" Quinn replies
"No that's her sad face. When she's mad there a vein that sticks out on her neck and she clenches her jaws but when she's sad she tucks her bottom lip between her teeth. See?" Benny says pointing at Britt whose eyes are still closed.
Bonnie and the girls all look over at Britt and sure enough her bottom lip is tucked between her teeth. Bonnie sighs and steps in saying "Benny I think Brittany's just tired and sad that you got hurt. But I need to take to the girls home, so say bye to them for now."
"Bye Tana, Bye Quinn, Bye Rachel. Come back tomorrow, please." Benny says and the girls just nod and walk out of the door with Bonnie.
Wednesday morning 10:45am:
"Ok Chief, what song do you wanna hear?" Brittany asked. Currently she was the only person hanging with Benny. Her parents were at work and Bridgett really hated hospitals.
"I don't know" Benny said grinning
"Alright." Brittany said laughing, "How about 'Thinking Out Loud'?"
"Yeah!"
"Cool." Brittany cleared her throat
"Tana!" Benny yelled
Brittany looked up confused and saw that Benny was looking behind at the door. She turned around and there was Santana walking into the room. She was wearing jean shorts, a purple tshirt and a black snapback. 'Damn' Brittany thought when she saw how sexy Santana looked wearing a snapback.
"Tana! Come sit down! Britt's about to play 'Thinking Out Loud'!" Benny said happily
"Alright. Uh…hey Brittany." Santana said while she sat down on the bed next to Benny. Brittany was sitting at the end of the bed in a chair, holding her guitar.
"Hey Santana." Brittany said with a slight smile. But of course it couldn't stay simple, oh no, that would make too much sense.
"Quinn! Rachel! Come on Britt's about to sing" Benny's smile was huge and now Brittany felt a little helpless as she watched them come in the room and sit on the couch. They were both wearing shorts and tanks tops.
"Hey Benny" Rachel said with a smile
"Hey little man" Quinn added
He grinned and waved at them then looked at Britt and said, "Ok Britt, now you can sing it."
"Chief, maybe we should pick a different song" Brittany said unsure of the song choice now that the 'trio' was in there
"No! Come on, Britt! I like that song!" Benny said with a pout
"Ok, Ok here we go…" she started by playing the first few chords then added in the words
"When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks
And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70
And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Oh me I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am
So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are
When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mm
I know you will still love me the same
'Cause honey your soul can never grow old, it's evergreen
Baby your smile's forever in my mind and memory
I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe it's all part of a plan
I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand
But baby now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are, oh
(Ah la la, la la la, la la la, la la la la)
So baby now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Oh darling, place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are
Oh maybe we found love right where we are
and we found love right where we are"
When she finished the song she looked up to see Benny with a smile big enough to give Sam a run for his money. She stayed focused on him not looking at the girls.
"That was awesome, Britt! What's next?" He asked happily
Brittany laughed and said "Chief, you gotta give me a second in between songs, ok?"
"Ugh fine" He groaned as the young nurse from the day before walked in.
"Hey Brittany" she said smiling at Britt, "Is he still working you to the bone?"
"Heather, you have no idea" Brittany replied grinning
"Well I just came in here to change bags and check his temp and Bp. It will only take a second" she replied and Santana got up and went to sit on the couch with the other girls.
"Alright" Brittany said then 'Bed Rock' could be heard through the room. Brittany got up and walked over to her bag and pulled out her phone, "Hello…hey what's up…nah man I can't make it tonight…Yeah I was gunna go but then a family emergency came up…ha ha…you're so funny. Really I'm rolling on the floor laughing right now…mhmm… Alright man later. She hung up, slipped her phone into her pocket and walked back to the chair.
"hmmph mhm phmm?" Benny said
"Chief, wait till she gets done taking your temp." Brittany said and Benny groaned.
When the nurse finished taking his temp he asked, "Are you gunna race tonight?"
"No, Chief, I'm not."
"Why not? And who was that on the phone?" He asked with concerned and tired eyes
"That was Ryder and I'm not racing cause I want to stay with you." She responded seriously
"Britt are you scared cause you gave me your lucky neckless?" Benny asked looking even more tired
"No Benny, I'm not." She said. Then she turned to Heather, "What's his temp? He doesn't look good."
"It's a little high. I'm going to go get the doctor and see what he wants to do" She walked out and Brittany walked over to Benny.
"Chief, how ya feeling?" she asked completely forgetting that the girls were in the room.
He just pouted, so she sat down on the bed next to him.
The room stayed quiet till Nurse Heather and the doctor came in. The doc didn't say anything. He just looked Benny over and wrote on the clipboard. Handing the clipboard back he walked out.
"God, I hate that guy." Brittany sighed "He never talks."
"Yeah, he's always quiet." Heather replied "He's prescribing some IV antibiotics. I'm going to go get them, I'll be back." She smiled and walked out.
"I'm tired Britt." Benny mumbled closing his eyes
"I know Chief, just go to sleep" she replied
Wednesday afternoon 12:30pm:
The room has been silent since Benny fell asleep right after Heather set up the antibiotics. The hospital room door opened. Brittany and the three girls all turned towards the door to see some of their friends filing in.
"Hey B, how's it going?" Diego asked
"Hey, D, it's alright. They put him on some antibiotics. What are you all doing here?" She asked
"Well we wanted to see how Benny was doing and D wanted to tell you something." Mike answered grinning
"Mhmm what's you do, Diego?" She asked suspiciously
"Ok check this out. This group of girls came to the pool together, there were four of them, but they weren't those chicks from the basketball game. Anyways I got to talking to them and one of them is gay and she's super-hot so I told that one of my best friends was gay and that we should get together."
"He got their numbers and we're going to take them out. We just need to call and set it up." Sam spoke up. Brittany noticed Kurt and Mercedes laughing from behind the three boys
"So you're telling me that you guys set me up on a date?" Brittany asked narrowing her eyes at the boys
"Well yeah kinda. Look, I couldn't just ask one of them out and ignore the others. Please, Britt, do this for me."
"Hey Britt, who knows, you might get lucky." Sam said wiggling his eye brows.
"Besides, B, she's crazy hot." Diego added grinning
"Ok, ok I'm going to jump in here." Kurt spoke up still laughing, "Why don't you just invite them to the party Friday night? That way Brittany doesn't feel stuck and you boys still get to see the girls."
"Genius." Sam muttered
"Thank you, Kurt." Brittany said
"Ok we'll do that but I'm still gunna introduce you to her, B." Diego spoke up. Brittany just rolled her eyes.
Mercedes and Kurt laughed and walked over to the couch where, Britt just remembered, the 'trio' was sitting.
"Hey, S, ladies!" Diego said grinning, "How are you three today?"
Brittany looked over at the couch and noticed the 'trio' looking at her. She sighed and walked back to her chair and sat down.