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Chapter 25: Secrets Revealed
Brittany's POV
"Good morning gorgeous, how did you sleep?" I ask Santana as she slowly begins to wake up. It takes Santana a minute or two before she answers me but when she does she has a huge smile on her face, it is probably the same smile I have on my face.
"I slept good babe" Santana says through her smile. "How did you sleep?"
"Amazingly, I always get a good sleep when my girlfriend is in my arms" I say smiling back just as eagerly. "Last night was…"
"Amazing" Santana interjects with a smile. "I am so glad we waited, having sex with someone you love feels way better than just having sex." I kiss Santana sweetly on the lips before pulling away to just gaze in her eyes.
"I love you" I express with a sigh. "I just wish we could stay here for longer but we need to be out by 10am."
"It's cool because I thought when we leave the hotel we could go grab some breakfast and then maybe you could come over to my house and we could hang out" Santana says. "If the weather holds up maybe we could hang out by the pool."
"Santana Lopez, are you trying to lure me into a bikini so you can stare at me barely clothed" I say with a smirk. "That would be really sneaky of you."
"What can I say, you're irresistible to me babe" Santana replies. "We should get up though so we both have time to shower and leave here at a decent time."
"You're probably right babe" I say before placing a kiss on Santana's cheek. "Do you want to shower first and I will pack our bags" I ask to which Santana nods.
At around half past nine we leave the hotel and make our way to a small café not too far away from our houses. "I am dreading school tomorrow after having such an awesome weekend" Santana says. "I wish we could stay in our own little bubble all the time."
"Me too but just think, we've got the rest of our lives to spend together" I say smiling.
"Do you think we will actually be together forever, I know we say we want to be but do you actually think we will manage it?" Santana asks as we wait for our breakfast being served. "It feels like a dream sometimes."
I take Santana's hands in my own and gaze over the table straight into her eyes. "I one hundred percent believe we can be together forever" I say seriously. "It will be hard obviously because everyone goes through a rough patch in their relationship but none of the two of us are strangers to putting effort into anything." I squeeze Santana's hand gently. "I believe anything is possible when it comes to us because we went from enemies hating one another to girlfriends utterly in love with each other."
"I really love how positive you are babe, you always find a positive in everything" Santana says genuinely.
"If we work hard then there is no reason why we can't be together forever" I say. "I told my cousin the other day that I think I could be with my girlfriend forever and she just laughed in my face and called me naive but you know what, I don't care" I say. "If we both want it then there is no reason we can't have it."
"Was it your cousin Julie?" Santana asks and I nod. "She's just a bitch, I wouldn't pay attention to anything she says, she was in my sister's year at school and always thought she was better than anyone else."
"The only opinions that matter to me are the ones from the people I love" I say.
"Ditto" Santana says.
"Did you girls have a good time at the sleepover last night?" my mom asks us.
"Yeah it was fine mom" I reply. "Santana and I are going to hang out at her house for the rest of the day just so you know where I am."
"Ok sweetheart" my mom says smiling. "I am so glad you two can be friends now, none of us really liked it when you two were not getting along, especially since Mario and Erin are dating."
"I am glad too mom" I say but I bet she doesn't know how glad I am, especially now that I can call Santana not just my friend but my girlfriend too. "I am just going to grab my stuff Santana and then we can go to your house and get our swim on."
"Ok" Santana says nodding her head.
I go as fast as I can to gather my stuff together for going to Santana's house and then I race downstairs and rescue Santana from my mom. Julia Pierce, if not anything else, is a chatterbox but she's still my mom so I love her for it. "That's me ready to go babe."
"Have fun girls" my mom says cheerfully. "Don't get up to no good."
"Don't worry mom" I say kissing my mom on the cheek. "Bye mom."
"Bye Mrs Pierce" Santana says and then she and I leave for her house.
"So let me guess, my mom kept chatting and you barely got a word in or my mom kept asking you question after question" I say and Santana laughs.
"She was asking me a lot of questions" my girlfriend tells me. "She's convinced that you are seeing someone because you are being very coy every time she or your dad asks you about your personal life." Is she indeed? "Apparently Erin told her that you are involved with someone but she has yet to figure out who it is."
"Are your parents as nosy as mine?" I ask Santana.
"When it comes to my love life then yes they are" Santana answers. "I remember one of the first boys I went on a date with, my dad called his parents to see if there is anything to know about their son since he plans on taking me on a date."
"Oh, that's embarrassing" I say laughing.
"Yeah and it was also embarrassing when the boy asked, 'Is your dad always such a dick?" Santana says causing me to cover my mouth with my hand in shock. "Apparently my dad asked if the boy had been taught about contraception because he sure as hell was not sleeping with [my dad's] daughter on the first date or ever for that matter."
"Should I be worried about your dad?" I ask jokingly but I am actually a little serious. "I mean, I have already slept with you and none of our parents know we are more than friends."
"Don't worry about him" Santana assures me. "If he dares to say anything to you then I will be having some choice words with him, you are completely different to anyone else that I have ever dated."
"How so?" I ask playfully.
"Because I am in love with you" Santana answers simply. No more words need said, just knowing that Santana loves me as much as I love her says it all. We spend the rest of the walk to Santana's house in silence with only the sound of our breathing and our jointed hands swinging between us.
"Oh, hi girls" Santana's mom says when we enter Santana's house. "How was the sleepover with the cheerleaders?"
"Yeah it was good" Santana answers and I just nod in agreement.
"Funny that because Hailey's mom called me" Maria says. "You girls know Hailey, right." Uh oh, I have a feeling we are busted. "Of course you do because she is the cheerleader that was hosting the sleepover you went to, right?" Now we are totally busted. "Santana, I want the truth. Where were you last night?"
"Why did Hailey's mom call you?" Santana asks.
"She called about a night out" Maria answers and then I suddenly remember that Maria is friends with a few of our fellow cheerleaders mom's since some of them went to school together and were cheerleaders also. It is only about three mom's Maria is friends with but it just so happens that Hailey's mom is one of them. "That's not important though so back to my question Santana; where were you last night?"
"If you must know, I am dating someone at the moment so we went to a hotel for the night" Santana says.
"There is no need to try and make me panic by telling another lie Santana because if that were true then why was Brittany there?" Maria asks her daughter.
"Because I am dating her and she's my girlfriend" Santana says. To say I am shocked is an understatement, I didn't think Santana was ready to tell her parents yet.
"Like I believe that Santana" Maria says before bursting into laughter. "You really are your dad's daughter with all these jokes."
"I am serious mom" Santana says in a serious tone, grabbing Maria's attention. "I am sorry that I lied to you about my whereabouts but Brittany is my girlfriend and we were together last night, we went for dinner at a hotel and then stayed overnight" Santana says before grabbing my hand. "I am in love with her mom."
"Oh my… you are serious" Maria says. "Why… why did you not tell me sooner?"
"I was scared, I mean I am not even sure if you guys knew I was a lesbian let alone had a girlfriend" Santana says.
"I am not going to lie Santana I am a little disappointed that you felt the need to lie to me and didn't tell me sooner" Maria says. "However, I have no problem with you and Brittany dating. I only want the best for you sweetheart so if Brittany makes you happy then I say go for it."
"Thanks mom" Santana says. "I am sorry I wasn't honest with you."
"Please know Santana that you can always talk to me and your father" Maria says.
"I know" Santana says nodding.
"Good" Maria says. "I trust you two girls so I hope you are being safe and careful within your relationship and with regards sex."
"Mom we're not ready for sex yet" Santana says frowning, clearly uncomfortable with where the conversation is going. "But when we are, you can trust us." Maria nods and then leaves after telling us that she has to nip out to the store for a few supplies.
"Why did you tell your mom we are not at the sex stage yet?" I ask out of curiosity.
"I think learning that your daughter is a lesbian and in love with her new best friend is enough for one day" Santana says. "I don't think she needs to know that we escaped to a hotel to have sex because we couldn't find the right time at one of our houses because there was always someone home.
"I suppose" I agree with my girlfriend. "We didn't just go to the hotel for sex though, that wasn't my main goal you know."
"I know babe, we went to spend time together and have a nice meal" Santana says.
"Exactly" I say. "Are we going in this pool then, I am desperate for a swim and I guess you are desperate to see me in my bikini, which is why you suggested it right?"
"Totally, that was my intention all along" Santana says smiling. "After last night I can't stop thinking about what is under those clothes."
"Is that right?" I ask playfully. "I guess I better get into my bikini and give my girl what she wants then."
"I guess you better" Santana says.
"Come here Britt" Santana whines. "Why do you keep swimming away from me?"
"I am just playing babe, calm down" I say kissing Santana. "Come and get a cuddle from your girlfriend so she can apologise."
"You don't need to speak to me like I am a baby" Santana says.
"Don't whine like one then babe" I say with a smirk before pulling Santana closer to me and wrapping my arms around her waist. "I was thinking that when the school summer holidays comes around maybe we could persuade out parents to let us take a trip away together" I suggest. "We could go to that place you took me too with the lake, I loved that day."
"Me too, that was the day I knew for sure I was in love with you" Santana says. "It was also the day we became official girlfriends."
"It was indeed" I say. "I never thought someone could ever make me as happy as you do" I admit before placing another kiss on Santana's lips. "I remember I used to look at my mom and dad and wish I could be just a fraction of happy with someone as they are with one another but with you I feel even happier than I ever imagined my parents to be."
"You make me super happy too Britt" Santana says. "Are you ok that I told my mom about us?"
"Of course babe, I want the whole world to know how proud and happy I feel being able to call you my girlfriend" I say.
"Aw, you're cute" Santana tells me before kissing me. Our gentle kiss soon turns a lot more heated until we hear someone cough causing us to break apart.
"I am not sure what is going on here girls but I would rather not see that sort of thing giving the fact that Santana is my sister" Mario tells us. "I only came out here for a relaxing swim not to see my sister kissing someone she used to hate."
"Yeah, well I don't hate her any more" Santana says. "I love her so how about you have your 'relaxing swim' later so my girlfriend and I can get some peace."
"I didn't want to stay anyway" Mario retorts. "I just hope you prepared Brittany for her little talk with Marc, you know what dad is like Santana. You are his favourite after all since you are his baby girl, so any boyfriend or girlfriend in this case gets the third degree when it comes to you."
"Please stop annoying me" Santana asks her brother.
"Sorry sis" Mario apologises. "You ladies have fun but promise me one thing…"
"What" Santana asks annoyed.
"Don't have sex in the pool that would so not be cool or hygienic" Mario says causing Santana to throw water out of the pool at him.
"If you want to talk about hygiene then maybe taken a look at your bedroom, how Erin can ever sleep in there is beyond me" Santana says. "Now fuck off and leave Britt and me alone."
"Oh, Britt is it?" Mario asks smirking.
"Seriously, go away" Santana shouts to which Mario does as he is told.
"He is such a pain in the ass" Santana says before turning back around to face me and wrapping her arms around my neck.
"Will your dad actually want to have a serious talk with me?" I ask a little nervously. It's not that I mind Marc or Maria but I am just not too fond of parents asking me what my intentions are with their child, it makes me feel like I am a naughty three year old that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. "I want your parents to accept our relationship but I don't feel comfortable getting talked to like I am a child and warning me about what's it's like to be in a serious relationship when I am perfectly capable of learning and figuring things out for myself."
"If I get my way then there will be no talks" Santana says. "I want to be with you, you want to be with me and that is no one else's business but our own."
"Ok" I say with a nod.
After we hung out in the pool for another hour or so we decided to go up to Santana's room and just hang out. "Is this a new bed?" I ask when I sit down on the object after I took a shower. "It feels different, like more comfortable."
"Is this a line to try and seduce me?" Santana asks smirking causing me to immediately blush before I compose myself.
"I was actually serious but it can be a line now if you want" I say. "I wouldn't mind if you fancied a repeat of last night."
"It's tempting but with Mario and my mom home then there is no way anything is happening" Santana says and I have to agree, it wouldn't be the best start if someone found us in such a compromising position so early after revealing our relationship.
"Hey Britt, can you do me a favour babe?" Santana asks, smiling sweetly at me.
"I would do anything for you babe" I say kissing Santana. "Don't think for one second that that means you can rip the piss out of me and be lazy, I'm not going to wait on you hand and foot."
"I just need one tiny favour babe" Santana says. "I just need my sweatshirt from the living room because I feel a little cold in here."
"Aw you're cold, you should have said sooner baby and I would've het you up a bit" I say as I pull Santana into a hug. "I will get your sweatshirt too though" I say before quickly running downstairs and retrieving the garment before coming back to my girlfriend. "Here you go babe" I say as I hand Santana the sweatshirt. "Have you lost something?" I ask when I observe Santana frantically looking for something.
"Can you help me babe, I've lost my folder that contains my chemistry homework?" Santana asks and I nod.
"Sure, where do you want me to look?" I ask.
"Check the closet near the window and I will look in my chest of drawers" Santana says so I nod and then get looking. "It is a yellow ring binder with graffiti covering it." I nod again. "It may say 'I love BP' on the front."
"What's BP?" I ask. "Is it an acronym for something?"
"It means Brittany Pierce" Santana answers, making me feel a little embarrassed for asking the question. "I love Brittany Pierce, that's what it stands for. I was doodling when I was bored in class the other day so I was just writing random shit."
"If it was random shit, does that mean that you don't love Brittany Pierce?" I ask smirking.
"No babe, I do love Brittany… I mean you, I do love you" Santana says, fumbling her words a little. We're both still at that shy stage in our relationship where saying 'I love you' is still pretty new to us.
"I love you too Santana" I say smiling which earns me a smile in return from Santana.
"Oh, a vibrator?" I say surprised when I dig into the closet. "I didn't know that was your style babe."
"Just keep looking for the folder please" Santana tells me, looking a little embarrassed.
"Do you use this a lot?" I ask, holding up the vibrator.
"Not really" Santana answers. "I do need to find this folder babe so please can you keep looking."
"Sorry" I apologise. "Can we use this next time?"
"Brittany put the virbrator down and just help, if you want to have a conversation about it then we can do it later, just not now" Santana says and I nod. I then place the pink device down and continue looking in Santana's cupboard for her folder.
"What's this envelope?" I ask my girlfriend after finding it stuffed at the very back of the closet.
"I'm not sure Britt" Santana says. I decide that it wouldn't be that nosy of me to look in the envelope since she has me rooting through her closet anyway so I open it up.
"What the…" I say shocked, hoping to god what I just saw wasn't what I thought it was. When I look further into the envelope I realise that what I saw was indeed what I thought it was. The feelings of anger and humiliation soar through my body. "Santana why the fuck do you have these?" I ask angrily, slamming the envelope down on Santana's desk.
"Have what?" Santana asks. "Babe are you ok, you seem angry?"
"No I am not ok, Santana" I snap. "Tell me why you have these?" I shout a little louder than before, clearly making Santana jump. "Why do you have these pictures of me in your possession?" Santana doesn't answer my question but there is no way I am giving up without an answer. "These are my pictures, my pictures that should be in my bedroom out of reach of anyone."
"Britt I..." Santana starts but I cut her off.
"Santana why are there pictures of me naked in your bedroom?" I shout. "Can you please just explain to me how the pictures I had of myself in that position ended up in your bedroom? I don't feel very good about myself for taking them in the first place so why the heck does my girlfriend have them?"
"Do you remember that time Erin and Mario wanted the two families to meet each other?" Santana asks and I nod. "Remember you guys threw a birthday party for your mom at your house" Santana says and I nod once again. "Well since we were enemies back then I decided to have a snoop in your house to see if I could get any dirt on you. I found a photo album in your room so I took a look in the hope that I would find some embarrassing baby photos of you that I could use against you but when I reached the end of the album I found that envelope."
"So you decided to take it" I say. "To do what… act like a little pervert and stare at nude pictures of someone you hate?"
"No Britt, it wasn't like that" Santana says defensively. "I never looked at them once after I found them, I actually forgot I had them."
"Why did you remove them from my house in the first place?" I ask with a sigh.
"I took them because I had planned of using them to get back at you for being so nasty to me" Santana says. "I got a crazy thought that I would post all the pictures for the whole school to see but then when I realised what I was thinking I didn't because it is illegal and I could never do that to someone, not even an enemy as it were back then."
"Why did you not put them back?" I ask. "Or even tell me this before, why did you let me fall in love with you believing that we didn't have any secrets from one another when you were keeping something really big from me" I say, fighting back the tears in my eyes. "I am humiliated enough that I ever took those photos never mind how humiliated I feel that the girl I love stole them and even knows they exist." The tears eventually start rolling down my cheeks, I can tell Santana wants to approach me but she is too nervous. "Do you have any idea how many nights I would lay awake in my bed trying to figure out how to tell you that I had photos of me like that and how I got them when all along there was no need for me to fret because you already knew they exist."
"I am so sorry for ever taking them Britt" Santana apologises. "I know it was wrong of me but we hated one another so I just took them to try and hurt you but I promise you that I honestly did forget I had them, if I remembered they were there then I would have told you babe and I would have come clean."
"Even though you did hate me Santana, I don't understand why you would stoop as low as even thinking about publically displaying naked pictures of someone" I say. "Did you hate me that much?"
"No Brittany, deep down I didn't hate you at all" Santana says. "I was struggling with some stuff, stuff regarding how I felt about you so I covered it up by hating you so I just wanted to do something to get back at you for all the stuff you done to me."
"I'm not sure I want to be around you right now" I say. "I am just going to go but I will see you at school tomorrow." Santana nods her head at me, I try not to get affected by the sad look on her face but it is proving really hard. "I am going to take these with me though" I say, gesturing to the envelope with the photos.
"I am sorry Britt, my intention was never to hurt you" Santana says. "Well it was when I took the photos but after that I just forgot they were there."
"I do believe you, I just need a little space that's all" I say and Santana nods. "See you tomorrow Santana."
"Bye" I hear Santana say before I leave the room. I can't believe how well things were going but now everything has been spoiled.
A/N: Hope you liked the chap, let me know what you thought.