A/N:

Hello readers! Sorry for the long delay in updating. I'll keep this note short and the one on the bottom will be a bit longer. With that being said…Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Glee or its characters

Santana, Artie and Brittany were on the stage and the lights turned back to normal. They saw the rest of the glee club scattered around the same area. Santana shifted nervously, waiting for someone to say something.

"That was…" Mr. Schuester stared before being cut off.

"Amazing!" Kurt interrupted.

"I personally feel cheated!" Rachel declared.

"Here we go…" Puck moaned as a few others rolled their eyes or sighed, expecting one of Rachel's long-winded critiques.

"We've been in glee club for over a year and we're seeing all of this now? Where have you three been hiding all that talent?" Rachel added. "I feel like we've all missed out on a year's worth of spectacular performances. I expect all future performances to be at this level from now on."

"I think she means she likes it." Finn clarified with a smile.

"Girls, your choreography was on point, as usual. But, Artie, boy…you killed it!" Mercedes spoke up with her notorious sass. A bunch of others cheered her on.

"Thank you, mama!" Artie smiled.

"I really have to hand it to you guys. That was a very impressive performance." Mr. Schuester started.

"It was all Santana's work." Brittany blurted out.

"Yup!" Artie quickly agreed.

"Well, that was very well done, Santana." Mr. Schuester congratulated them. He went on to give everyone another assignment for the week. After seeing what Santana, Artie, and Brittany can achieve in a week, he had high expectations. Santana couldn't help but feel a bit proud that she helped set the bar pretty high.

The rest of the week was pretty smooth. It seemed like the glee club really came together trying to produce really great performances. It was now Friday and school just let out.

"The movie starts at 9, so I'll see you at there at around 8:30." Artie stated as he rolled up next to Santana. She was sitting at one of the outside tables where they eat lunch.

"Sounds good. Hopefully, Sue won't keep us at Cheerios practice too long. I'd like to look alive tonight."

"You don't have to worry about that…" Artie began and Santana smiled. "Yeah, the movies are dark so no one will notice if you look like a mess…" Artie explained casually as Santana shot him a look. "Oh, that's not how I meant it." He tried to quickly correct himself "I mean you shouldn't worry not looking your best because no one will see how bad you look." Artie tried to explain while further sticking his foot in his mouth.

"Ok…"Santana placed a finger over his mouth to stop him from talking and smiled. "I'm running late for practice, but later I'm going to explain all the wrong things you just said."

"I'm kidding." Artie explained with a laugh.. "I know you never look bad. Seriously, look at you…even when you were in crutches, you turned heads."

"There you go!" Santana said as she gave him a little kiss on the lips before hurrying off to Cheerios practice. Artie was about to leave school when Puck caught up to him.

"You two seem to be hitting it off." Puck stated while walking along side Artie.

"Yeah…" Artie said indifferently.

"It was a bit surprising. I didn't think you and Santana would hook up." Puck added casually.

"Yeah, well things change."

"You're right. No one thought me and Tina would work out, but here we are..." Puck boasted.

"Yeah, until Tina finds out that you made out with Santana after you got into a fight with her." Artie stopped as Puck turned to face Artie. There was a bit of a pause between the two of them.

"Santana told you?" Puck asked after everything registered. "Why haven't you told Tina, yet?"

"Santana asked me not to." He admitted. "If you know what's good for you, you should really tell Tina."

"What's the point? She doesn't need to know." Puck shrugged, trying to play it off as if it's no big deal. "You're with Santana and both of you seem happy. I'm with Tina and we're in a good place. Why ruin it?"

"Santana and I are honest with each other. Don't you think you owe it to Tina to be honest with her? Of course she's going to be pissed, but at least she'll respect you for being honest." Artie didn't mean to sound preachy, but he was still friends with Tina, so looks out for her. He believes that she'd do the same thing.

"You think so?"

"It's better if she hears it from you than from someone else." Artie reasoned. "I have to go. Just think about what I said." Artie added before heading off.

While Artie and Puck were talking about Tina, Santana was in the locker room, getting ready for practice. Two sophomore Cheerios approached her. Santana refused to remember their names since names were personal and she practically wanted nothing to do with these girls outside of Cheerios practice. She just called them Six and Seven, based on their positions in the pyramid.

"Well, it's good to have you back on the Cheerios." Seven uttered in a snide way.

"I'm pretty sure not everyone feels that way." Santana replied bitterly, knowing that those two girls don't like her and were absolutely fake.

"Well, we just wanted to see if you're coming to my party tonight." Six, the redhead Cheerio, replied. Santana hated these two girls. They were a cheaper, wannabe version of Santana and Brittany.

"It's just a get together for the Cheerios and football team." Seven emphasized. Santana could read her like a book and she knew that these girls meant that she can't bring Artie.

"I have plans." Santana hardly acknowledged them.

"Oh right, Brittany told us about the movie. We forgot." Six played dumb."Well at least one captain will be there." Santana forced a weak smile, not allowing to show the girls that they pushed a button.

"If you change your mind, everyone will be there at around 7:30. Still plenty of time to make it to your movie." Seven explained.

"We like you, Santana." Six blatantly lied. "And let me put it this way: we highly recommend you come if you don't want to be further marginalized by the Cheerios." She added with a shrug.

"You're standing is already questionable and we'd hate to see you lose everything when you've clearly worked so hard to get to this position." Seven added. "I hope you're not mad that we're being honest with you, but we felt that you should know this."

"You said 7:30, right?" Santana asked as she began texting. She sent a text to Artie telling him she'd be at the movies a bit later than 8:30 because something came up. She put her phone back in the locker with the rest of her things. "Don't be late for practice. Also, Quinn might let it slide, but I noticed your knees twitch in the pyramid. I'd hate to see you become lower than where you already are." Santana shot back. If these two girls thought they could out-bitch Santana, then they had another thing coming.

Santana stormed off. "I hate her." One of the girls muttered as the other giggled. They heard the phone in Santana's locker beep. "It looks like she didn't close her locker…it would be a shame if someone went through her things." Six suggested with a smirk.

"We'll take care of that for her." Seven said. The two girls read Artie's reply to Santana's message. They quickly sent him a reply while pretending to be Santana, of course.

"Oops, I deleted the message." Six snickered. "If it's important, he'll text again."

After Cheerios practice, Santana and Brittany were walking out of the girls locker room and about to leave, when they spotted Finn and Rachel arguing.

"We should give them some privacy." Santana whispered.

"They might need some friends right now." Brittany was always looking out for others. Santana smiled.

"Finn, just stop!" Rachel demanded. "I don't want to talk about this right now."

"Nothing happened. We were at the party, talking…you were dancing with your friends."

"There's a picture of you two together doing more than talking."

"So now you don't believe me?"

"You weren't just talking." Rachel insisted.

"Quinn gave me a hug…it was just a hug. It was nothing." He argued back. "You can be so uptight sometimes…you're exhausting." Finn shot back, clearly getting angry.

"Ok…" Rachel's eyes began to water and her expression softened. She knew that she could be a bit much some times, but she was genuinely working on it. She spotted Santana and Brittany nearby, so she made her way over to them.

"Everything ok, Berry?" Santana asked.

"Can I just get a ride home with one of you?" Rachel spoke, trying her best not to cry.

"You're on my way. I'll drop you off." Brittany offered as she led Rachel out of the school, leaving Santana and Finn alone.

"What was that all about?" Santana asked Finn.

"At Brittany and Mike's party last weekend, Quinn and I talked for a bit."

"So…"

"People said we were making out…that Jacob kid is really ruining my life with his blog. He has a picture of me and Quinn together, apparently. What was I supposed to do? She gave me a hug."

"Was that all?" Santana questioned.

"Yes!" Finn defended. "I really love Rachel. I wouldn't do that to her." Finn spoke earnestly.

Santana tried her hardest not to roll her eyes. She hated all that emotional fluff. "Berry has always been a drama-queen. Give her some time to calm down, then talk to her. If nothing happened, then I'm sure Quinn would talk to her too and tell her it was just some misunderstanding."

"You think so?"

"Well, what else can you really do? it's not like she wants to see you right now. You totally messed up."

"It was just a hug." Finn emphasized.

"I like to think that you're smarter than this, but some times I can't be so sure." Santana explained.
"You hugged Quinn of all people and Berry is insecure about being with you." Santana was waiting for some sort of response from Finn, but he only had that blank look on his face. Santana sighed. "You really don't know this by now?"

"I know it hasn't been easy for her…"

Santana cut him off, not wanting to waste any more time talking about Finn and Rachel. "Give her some space and then she'll go back to being normal…or at least her version of normal. Before you know it, she'll be throwing herself all over you. It's a bit disgusting." Santana cringed as she walked off. Regardless of how bitchy she sounded, Santana knew she was right.

Plus, it's kind of felt good to help people.

A/N:

Ok so first of all- A huge thank you to everyone who reviews and alerts. It makes my day. I also love when people just discover this story. It feels great that the number of readers is growing and there is more feedback from readers. I love it!

Second- Can we talk about the Duets episode? It was an overall great episode. I love bitchy Santana. She makes my day BUT I had a really hard time writing when she was bitchy to Artie.

Finally, I hope everyone reviews this chapter. Let me know what you think. Expect another update soon…like real soon.

R&R, P&TY!