1. Glee
"Okay guys let's take it from the top and Santana please put a bit more enthusiasm into it this time" Mr Schue says.
"We're singing another Journey song. How enthused can I be?"
"Santana please just put some effort into it and do the routine."
"Excuse me. Ever since I joined this club I have put everything into it but you always want more from me. You know what I wish I never this stupid club. I'm out."
Santana abandons her position in the routine and leaves the auditorium.
When Santana wakes the next morning she is surprised to find that she hadn't received a text from Rachel. Every morning she would get a text from her girlfriend wishing her a good morning just like every night she would get one before she went to bed.
She quickly showers and changes into her cheerleading uniform. She picks up her cell phone and decides to call Rachel to make sure she still wants picking up for school. She scrolls through her contacts but can't find Rachel's name.
Santana quickly says goodbye to her parents, gets into her car and drives to Rachel's house. When she arrives Rachel's car isn't parked outside. That could only mean one thing, Rachel had driven herself to school.
It only takes her ten minutes to get to school. As soon as she arrives Santana heads straight for Rachel's locker but before she can get there she is intercepted by Puck.
"You still coming over to my house tonight?" he asks.
"What are you talking about?"
"Come on it's Friday, you and I always hook up on a Friday night"
"Very funny Puckerman. Now have you seen Rachel?" Santana asks.
"Rachel who?"
"What the hell is wrong with you today? I obviously mean Rachel as in Rachel Berry."
"Oh, I don't know but if you want to send her a slushy facial I think Karofsky already beat you to it" Puck says.
"What? Why didn't you stop him?" Santana yells pushing past Puck so she can continue her search for her girlfriend.
She eventually finds Rachel in the bathroom near the science room.
"There you are. I've been looking for you everywhere" Santana says walking over to Rachel and taking the paper towel out of her hand.
She attempts to wipe away some of the purple ice on the other girl's face but Rachel moves away.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to help you get cleaned up and then I'm going kick Karofsky's **" Santana replies.
"Is this a joke?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You're offering to help me yet usually you're the one tossing the slushy in my face" Rachel
says.
"That's not funny. You and I decided to leave the past behind us when we started dating so I don't know why you're bringing it up again."
"That is seriously not funny Santana. I don't know why you would say something like that and I don't know how it would be an advantage to you but please can I just be alone to clean myself up."
"Have I woken up in some sort of crazy world this morning? What's going on with everybody today?" Santana asks.
"Rachel are you okay? We heard what happened" Kurt says as he enters the bathroom with Mercedes behind him.
"She's fine, now can you leave us alone" Santana replies.
"You've done enough damage for one day Santana, I think you should leave" Mercedes says.
"I wasn't the one that slushied her. Please Rachel just talk to me."
"Please leave me alone Santana" Rachel says.
Santana leaves the bathroom as confused as ever. She was seriously beginning to think she had woken up in some sort of alternate universe. She didn't know what to do with herself so she goes to the only places she know will be empty.
When she walks into the choir room she finds it completely different. There was no chair and no piano, the main feature in the room was the large trophy case filled with cheerleading trophies.
She hears the door open and Quinn walks in holding some cheerleading folders.
"Hey S."
"Hey Quinn. Have you seen Mr Schue?" Santana asks.
"Mr Schue? Oh you mean that old Spanish teacher? Coach got him fired, remember after she destroyed his attempt to create a glee club."
"Wait so there's no Mr Schue and no glee club?If there's no glee club then that means no nationals and no Rachel."
"Are you feeling okay?" Quinn asks.
"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry Q I need to go."
Santana runs out of the choir room and heads straight to the auditorium where she finds Rachel on the stage.
"I knew you'd be here."
"How did you know where to find me?" Rachel asks.
"You always come here when you want to be alone. You always said you felt most at home on a stage. I know you Rachel, in fact I love you."
"I find what you're saying really hard to comprehend" Rachel says.
"You mean you find it hard to believe that you're my girlfriend?"
"It's just that you're Santana Lopez head cheerleader and I'm just Rachel Berry. I didn't even know you were a lesbian."
"I came out with a lot of help from the glee club. Then you and I got together when we went to New York for Nationals" Santana explains.
"I've never been to New York before."
"You loved it there. We were supposed to be writing songs but you wanted to see New York properly and I caught you trying to sneak out. You begged me not to tell Mr Schue and asked me to come along with you. I thought it would be better than sitting in the hotel room so I joined you and we had a really good time. We lost Nationals and I found you crying in the hotel room so I tried to cheer you up and we ended up kissing. I asked you out once we got back to Lima and we have been dating ever since."
"It's funny because you have all these memories of us together and the only memories I have of you is all the times you've yelled some form of insult at me or tossed a slushy in my face."
"Maybe things started out like that but it all changed when we joined glee club. I really don't know what's going on. Yesterday we went to Breadstixs for dinner and then I dropped you off at home. But when I woke up this morning everything was different" Santana says.
"Well what happened at Breadstix? Did we argue or something?"
"No you took me there to cheer me up after I walked out of glee club."
"Why did you walk out of glee club?" Rachel asks.
"Mr Schue was questioning my commitment and I told him that I wished I'd never joined the glee club. That's it! I said I wish I hadn't joined glee club so I woke up in a world where I hadn't. Without me and the cheerleaders glee wouldn't have enough members and wouldn't have been able to compete meaning no glee club."
"And without glee club there would be no us" Rachel says.
Santana spent the rest of the day like any normal day. She went to her classes and cheerleading practise all the while learning the differences between a world with and without glee club.
By the time she makes it home and is ready to go to sleep, she is fully convinced that joining the glee club was the best decision she ever made. Her experience today had taught her that without glee she would still be hiding her sexuality by sleeping with Puck. She would never have found out what an amazing person Rachel is and would never have had the confidence to ask her out.
Yes, joining glee club was the best decision Santana had ever made.
The next morning when Santana wakes up, she quickly gets ready and heads straight to Rachel's house.
She knocks on the door and a few moments later Rachel is standing in front of her.
"Please tell me that you're my girlfriend" Santana says.
"Of course I'm your girlfriend Santana. Is everything okay?"
Santana launches at Rachel and smothers her in a hug.
"I love you so much and I never want you to go away."
"Well I wasn't planning on it and I love you too Santana. I think you should let go now it's starting to hurt."
"Sorry" Santana says sheepishly as she lets go of her girlfriend.
"So are you coming back to glee club today?" Rachel asks.
"Yeah, I was wrong yesterday and I really meant what I said when I said glee was the best part of my day."