Quinn and Rachel are standing at the stop of the small staircase that leads up to the entrance of the school with giddy smiles and their eyes looking over the crowd of students pouring through the doors. Quinn holds her books close to her chest peaking past the big football players brushing past her while Rachel watches her anxiously.
"Where are they? " Quinn asks leaning towards the brunette as to be heard over the loud conversations around them. Rachel shrugs and removes her gaze from the blonde to look out to the parking lot getting on her tippy toes to see further.
"I have no idea I can't wait to see their faces when they see the posters." Rachel beams over to the Cheerio who grins back her eyes sparkling proudly at their beautiful redecorating job from the day before. "Oh, there they are." Rachel practically shouts and points towards the two uniformed girls ascending the staircase in their direction.
"San why are you walking so fast?" Brittany asks her girlfriend who was all but dragging her up the steps.
"Because I have another surprise for you." Santana grins slyly and winks to the blonde who gets excited at the word surprise and stays in stride with the brunette.
"Hello Santana, Brittany." Rachel greets the couple with a nod and a knowing smirk towards Santana who eyes her with excitement.
"Hey Rach." Brittany greets in return anxiously.
"Did you tell her?" Quinn interjects and Santana shakes her head and looks at her blonde.
"No I want it to be a surprise." She explains and the other two girls in on the plot smile at one another.
"Well on with it then." Quinn directs the two to go in front of them which they do and Rachel and she follow closely behind.
Santana opens the door for Brittany and follows her shortly when Quinn takes the door for her and Rachel. The Latina takes the blonde's hand and squeezes it preparing them both for the wonderful surprise she had in store that Rachel and Quinn had secretly set up for them. Their trip to their lockers seem to take forever and with every step Santana scans the walls of McKinley High just waiting for her eyes to fall on pictures of them. But as they get closer to their lockers she begins to shoot questioning looks behind her to Quinn and Rachel who only return those looks tenfold. Rachel and Quinn stop abruptly just a few lockers short of Quinn's and turn their heads in circles examining the walls that are completely bare. They glance at one another in confusion and displeasure. How was it possible that their hard work was nowhere to be seen?
"Umm, Q, Rach where are they?" Santana asks in a small voice letting go of Brittany's hand to fully turn around and face the two girls. They look between them and then to Santana and shrug their shoulders uncomfortably.
"We spent a good 2 hours putting them up S." Quinn assures her and she looks to the one bulletin board she had put up Rachel's favorite picture of them and points it out. "I specifically remember posting one right there." The other three girls look to where she was pointing and all that could be seen was a blank red piece of bulletin board paper with a bunch of staples in it.
"Santana this place was more or less a shrine to you and Brittany. And by shrine I mean a perfectly planned out, tasteful display of your love and affection for one another." Rachel explains as panic sets in for her. The one time the Cheerio co-captain had put faith into her and she did not pull through. This was not going to go over well. She darts her eyes to the other brunette expecting a fist to come flying at her face but the only thing she could read off of the Latina's expression was complete sadness and disappointment.
"Sany why are you sad?" Brittany asks her rubbing her back softly.
"You know that picture I gave you?" Santana turns to her and the blonde nods with a thoughtful smile. "Rachel made posters for us to put all around school so people would vote for us for Spring Formal." She explains and Brittany's smile only grows and her wide eyes glance to the two girls near them.
"That's awesome I want to see them." Brittany exclaims but her smile fades when she sees the uncertainty in Quinn and Rachel's facial expressions and she looks back to Santana. "Is this what you guys are talking about?" She pouts for not understanding anything, Santana and the other two nod. "Oh."
"We put the posters up last night and now they're not here." Rachel tells her pointing to the bare walls and Brittany nods in understanding.
The girls continue to explain to the couple how they had used the key Santana had given Rachel and that they put about 40 posters up all throughout the school. They were so immersed in their conversation they hadn't noticed Sue Sylvester walking up behind them. She stops just before reaching them crossing her arms and watching them squirm trying to figure out what had happened to their precious gay pride posters. With a smirk she takes one more step closer still maintaining and a good distance.
"Hey." Sue shouts garnering the foursome's attention. "Ellen, Portia. My office now." She says with hostility pointing to Santana and Brittany then points behind her back and then turns on her heels without looking back. She knows that by the sound of quick moving footsteps following her that the Cheerio's were close behind.
Walking into her office she heads right for her desk and takes a seat and watches as the two girls slowly take tentative steps to the seats in her office. She points to each seat and they follow directions and place their books down carefully sitting down. Sue leans back in her chair and glares at them for an uncomfortable amount of time.
"Let me cut to the chase." Sue interrupts the silence and leans forward on her desk. "There's no way I can have you two as a couple on my team." Santana knits her eyebrows together and Brittany looks over to the brunette. "Now I can't kick you off regardless, so you're lucky with that one. However, I don't appreciate you two parading around trying to be, what was it again?" She leans back in her chair and opens a draw down on her desk and pulls out a stack of brightly colored papers. Lifting one off she puts her glasses on to read the print and then turns it around so they could see what she was looking at in disapproval. "'Queen & Queen' of the formal. I don't think so." Sue shakes her head and tosses her glasses back onto her desk along with the poster which Brittany picks up and smiles at it.
"I don't understand why it matters if Brittany and I are dating. It's not like it affects you." Santana stares Sue down gripping hard onto the arm of the chair.
"See that's where you're wrong Rosie." Sue chimes in. "It affects me and the rest of your team. As co-captain how is your team going to feel when you spend extra time with your little Lindsay Lohan lesbian project and cast them to the side? Jealousy, fighting and losing that's what." She explains in her know it all fashion. "Now the first two I am all for but the third not so much." She shrugs her shoulders.
"You can't just tell us to end our relationship." Santana tries not to get loud but is finding it hard not to and her knuckles are surely turning white as the grip intensifies on the chair. Brittany looks over to Santana as for an explanation of what is going on and then back to Coach Sylvester.
"Here's what's going to happen. You two can do whatever it is you do outside of school. Go march in parades, try and get tickets to Lilith Fair or watch re-runs of Buffy together." Sue looks between both girls and Brittany only nods to show she is listening. "But as Cheerio's you are going to focus on the cheers, the dances and the jocks. You're main goal as a cheerleader is to make the male athletes look good, and you can't do that if you're too busy staring at each other."
Santana crosses her arms in a huff and Brittany slowly brings her eyes to the floor and then to Santana who gives her a reassuring look that everything is going to be fine. Sue tells them she's done with them and then sends them off feeling pleased with their little meeting.
"San I don't think I liked what Coach Sylvester was saying." Brittany whispers pulling her books closer to her chest.
"Don't worry B." She says turning to her blonde and takes her by the hand. "We aren't going to listen to her."
"Wait why? We always listen to what she tells us to do." Brittany tilts her head in confusion and Santana stops walking.
"Britt she was telling us to break up pretty much. Do you still want to listen to her?" Santana is getting upset now so her voice is getting a little louder and Brittany pouts at the volume of her voice and shakes her head.
"I don't want to break up Sany." She sighs out and looks to the floor.
"She told you guys you had to break up?" Rachel comes barreling into the conversation with Quinn right beside her shooting dirty looks down the hall in the direction of Coach Sylvester's office. "She can't do that, that's like against so many personal rights and probably can be harassment." Rachel informs them.
"Don't worry I've got a plan." Santana lets out and the four of them huddle up so she can explain the details of the plan as they came to her. Sue Sylvester was in for a treat.
hmmm, what is Santana going to do? perhaps deviate from the laws Sue is enforcing? probably, maybe, not at all? haha, i hope you guys liked this one. so please let me know by reviewing what you think and if you have any suggestions let me know.:)