"You're not mad that they're here?" Brittany asked Santana quietly while they sat on the bank watching Rachel and Quinn play in the water, "Because I thought of what you told me about how they were keeping themselves a secret and…I know what that's like and I thought they'd have fun out where with no one around, but us."
Santana couldn't help, but smile at the explanation. Brittany had always been thoughtful like that. She wrapped her arms around Brittany's waist and held her close, "No I'm not mad."
Brittany let out an audible sigh, "Good."
"Do you think your dad would have abandoned us here if he knew what I'm doing to you right now?" Quinn asked with a devious twinkle in her eyes as she bent down to lay claim to Rachel's lips.
Rachel didn't answer. She just ran her hands up Quinn's sides as the cool, knee-deep water ran between them.
The rest of the weekend ended too fast for any of the girls' liking. They slowly packed up Sunday afternoon and piled into Santana's car to head back. First Santana dropped off Brittany and Rachel then Quinn.
She drove home with a smile on her face, knowing that her relationship with Brittany had never been more solid. However all the bonding did not include sleeping, so she was ready to go to bed as soon as she got home.
When she walked into her house, she let out a tired smile to her mom who was sitting in the kitchen.
"Did you have fun?" her mom asked with a sweet smile.
Santana walked into the kitchen and leaned on the counter, "Yeah I did. I think Brittany really got to forget everything and have a good time."
"That's good," her mom reached out and pulled Santana into a one armed hug, "We have some great news and some okay news."
"Okay news first," Santana walked to the refrigerator and got out some water.
"I can't make it to your career day tomorrow," she explained, "However, your father cleared his schedule and he's going to take you out to lunch afterwards."
"Cool," Santana nodded, not really remembering that last time she had some good father/daughter time.
"And-"
Her dad walking in interrupted her mom. He had a huge smile on his face and dropped a stack of papers in front of his wife, "We got it."
"Got what?" Santana asked.
"That was the great news," Santana's mom said, "We're moving."
A sudden panic took over Santana. She didn't want to move far. Ten years ago she could have given her right foot to move out of Lima, but now she couldn't stand the thought. "To where?"
"Across town," her mom answered.
"Like across town Belgrade or Oak Ridge?" Santana asked. Both neighborhoods were across town and were well know. One was known as a place where the town's elite lived, where Santana had dreamed of living since she was in kindergarten. Belgrade would complete her high school fairytale. Head Cheerio, super hot, all the guys want her, dating the love of her life and lived in Belgrade. Oak Ridge on the other hand was the lower-middle class area of town where the girls from Jane Adams Academy were from. Although Santana was sure that she would never have to transfer schools and even if she did she would rule the school as HBIC, she couldn't leave Brittany.
"It's not necessarily in Belgrade, but it's right down the street from the Fabrays," her dad explained.
"How big is it?" Santana thought it over before getting excited.
"Five bedrooms," he pushed a printed out picture to her, "That's it and since your brother is heading off to college next semester, you get first choice in rooms."
"Yes!" Santana jumped into her dad's arms, "This is awesome." Not only was she moving to her dream area, she was a lot closer to Brittany.
Brittany sat in the living room on the floor in front of the coffee table doing her homework with her headphones in her ears. Rachel sat across the table from her listening to her own iPod.
Rachel's dads were in the kitchen cleaning up the mess from dinner, quietly whispering to themselves.
"I'm just saying, I wouldn't let my daughter live alone in an entirely different country than me. I would move to where she was."
"I know you would honey."
"It's ridiculous. No job is more important than her."
"I know."
"Brittany deserves a lot better."
"I know."
"What are we going to do about it?"
Rachel's dad sighed and hugged his husband, "We're doing all we can do right now. All we can do is get her what she needs."
"I want to have a talk with her dad when he gets here Wednesday."
"Do you really think that's a good idea?"
"I don't know."
"Let's go to bed. We can talk about it in the morning."
Rachel's daddy sighed and nodded, "You're right."
They said goodnight to Brittany and Rachel on their way up the stairs.
"What are you doing?" Brittany asked, looking over at Rachel's open notebook. It looked a lot more like a list than her homework.
"I'm making a CD of all the songs that remind me of Quinn," Rachel explained and looked over the really long list, "I think it's going to end up being more than one CD."
Brittany grinned, "Are you two going to be a couple at school too?"
Rachel's face saddened, "I don't think so. I think it would be hard for Finn to do it so soon and as mean as Quinn is sometimes, she's not nearly as intimidating anymore as Santana is. We haven't really talked about it, but I think it's safer if we don't."
"Well," Brittany looked thoughtful, "You should probably have something to think about so no one thinks you're with Quinn. Like when you think she does something cute, instead of smiling you could think of something that makes you sad or something. When me and Santana were hiding, I used to think of my math homework a lot."
Rachel frowned. She never really thought about all the intricacies of hiding her relationship with Quinn. She looked at Brittany, "Is their anything else you worried about?"
"Um…we used to pretend to date other guys," Brittany shrugged. "We'd go to parties and wait until guys passed out and woke them up to tell them we were leaving. They thought we had sex with them. And we've been holding pinkies since sixth grade, but we could only do it three times a day…and…"
Rachel zoned out of the conversation. It was going to be really hard to hide her relationship with Quinn. A lot harder than she thought.
