hey hey hey! so im glad you liked the last chapter it was so much fun to write. just as always i hope you like this latest edition. as much as this is a true Brittana story, no story is much with out a little side character action. the characters wouldnt be half as interesting with out the influences of the people around them.
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After Quinn drops off Kurt she drops Brittany off at her house. The conversation with the other blonde was replaying over and over again in her mind. She was quite shocked that she had told Brittany how she felt about Rachel. For a long while now she has been thinking about her growing feelings for the brunette. It confused her to no end at the beginning that she could possibly have feelings for a girl let alone Rachel Berry, the very girl she used to make a hobby out of torturing. But no matter how hard she tried to fight it the feelings just kept pushing their way through until she couldn't deny it anymore.
It started with the looks they shared, and then the conversations they would have about nothing and everything and then the little touches that she seemed to become acutely aware of. At first she figured that it was simply a budding friendship but this relationship was so unlike the long and strong friendship she had with Santana and even Brittany. This was different. What made it even more apparent was the fact that it was so different from any feelings that she has had with boys. She never felt butterflies when she was with Finn and just the thought of Rachel sent her into a dream like state. She never got sweaty palms around Sam when they were on dates like the way she does with Rachel when they are just hanging out at Rachel's house watching really bad movies with Santana and Brittany.
She thinks to Brittany and Santana and how their friendship was the foundation to their relationship. It was what made them strong. It made her smile to think that she and Rachel had a really good friendship right now. She could most definitely say that Rachel is one of if not her only best friend. In the midst of her sudden epiphany she turns her car around and heads back towards the direction she had been driving from.
Quinn barely took the keys out of the ignition when she jumped out of the car and starts running up to the steps. She opens the door and runs up the stairs to her destination.
"Hey." She greets the bewildered family members sitting in the living room as she takes two steps at a time. She knocks on the door and before she can get an invite she opens the door. "We need to talk."
"So wait, she told you she likes Rachel?" Kurt asks as he fixes the jacket on the mannequin in his room fixing his blue tooth ear piece.
"Yeah. While you were having a fashion show at the store she told me that she thinks that she and Rachel go good together." Brittany tells him tossing onto her stomach on her bed and looking at her nails. "I need a manicure before the dance." She sighs
"Me too we should go tomorrow before." Kurt agrees checking out his own nail beds. "Did Quinn say the words 'I like Rachel Berry'?" He inquires topping his mannequin off with a top hat tilting it to the side. "Because that's like saying Voldormort." Brittany scrunches her nose.
"Who's Volvo?" She asks and Kurt sighs.
"What exactly did she say to you?"
"After she said they go good together she told me that she really hopes that Finn stops asking Rachel to the dance because she wants to go with her." The blonde explains.
"Why doesn't she just ask her then? I mean even if she didn't say, 'hey Rach I want to jump your bones let's go to the formal together', she could still just ask her to go as a friend." Kurt muses taking a step back from his finished product and smiling proudly at it. "It's not like it would be much different from other gatherings we go to. They are always attached at the hip and the four of you are always going out together. They're practically married." He tells his blonde friend.
"That's what I said to her, but she doesn't think that Rachel feels the same way." Brittany shrugs her shoulders.
"Wow Fabray what if I was straddling Brittany again?" Santana's head jerks up to the door from her chair at her desk and she's sporting a smirk with her arms crossed. Quinn shuts the door behind her, rolls her eyes and tosses her coat on the bed where she takes a seat.
"Please I have been trying to erase that from my mind for weeks now." Quinn shudders even though she is grinning with embarrassment at walking in on her friends getting it on.
"You liked it." Santana jokes and spins her chair around to face her friend and Quinn gives her an irritated look. "So what's up?" Quinn takes in a deep breath and closes her eyes tightly preparing her speech in her mind.
"I sort of have feelings for Rachel." She blurts out and Santana's smile fades abruptly and is taken over with concern and her jaw drops.
"I can totally see Rachel having a thing for Quinn. Have you seen how giddy she gets around her?" Kurt points out and Brittany nods even though she can't see him. "I can't see you Britt."
"Oh yeah." She replies. "I mean, me and Sany are around them the most when they're together so I can totally see them as a couple." Brittany agrees.
"Maybe Santana can scare Rachel into dating Quinn." Kurt jokes and he can hear Brittany laugh on the other end.
"That would probably work." She smiles at the thought of Santana threatening the diva into a date with Quinn. "I told her to just ask her to go with her and just play dumb if she asks questions like I do." Kurt stops what he's doing and raises an eyebrow in thought but shakes it out of his head. "The less you say the more you get what you want. That's what I do with Santana."
"Am I in another dimension?" Santana asks looking around the room.
"Shut up S I'm serious." Quinn sighs and leans back against the head board bringing her hands up to cover her face. "I like her like her and it's driving me crazy. And Finn is driving me crazy because he's haunting me about Rachel." She explains her dilemma and Santana cannot help herself but laugh. "Stop it's not funny."
"No it actually is." She grins because she has now connected the dots.
"Look I know you aren't the biggest Rachel Berry fan but can you please stop mocking me." Quinn pleads as her arms fall to her sides and her face is even begging Santana to stop. "Especially with the Finn thing, I mean I keep ignoring him and lying that I will talk to her. What am I supposed to say to him?"
"Hey Finn, sorry but Rachel is mine so suck it." Santana offers trying to make it come out as a serious suggestion and Quinn tosses a pillow at her. "Don't worry Rachel is not going with Finn." She tells her and Quinn looks perplexed and suspicious.
"I know that. But how are you so sure?" She inquires. Santana shrugs her shoulders, she was going to enjoy this for a little bit. Seeing Ms. Fabray squirm was slightly entertaining.
"Just ask her to go with you what's the worst that happens? She says no?" The brunette says. "Plus it's like you two are dating anyway, you two are always crashing mine and Brittany's dates and you're always together." She points out and Quinn grunts because that is exactly what Brittany had said to her. They've obviously talked about it before.
The next day at school Santana and Brittany are at their lockers canoodling as usual. Brittany is teasing Santana about how amazing her dress is and that the brunette is going to drool when she sees her in it. They are interrupted by Kurt who leans up against the locker next to them.
"So Ms. Brittany here texted me last night that you got tag teamed?" Kurt raises an eyebrow at the Latina who smirks at him.
"Yeah first Berry and then Quinn." She spits out and rolls her eyes. "Does this look like a face that cares?" She asks pointing to her face but her hand is smacked away by Brittany.
"You totally care." Brittany says to her and then turns to Kurt letting her arms rest around Santana's neck. "She so gave both of them advice."
"Wait so you didn't even tell Quinn that Rachel told you she liked her?" He asks confused.
"No." She answers slowly. "Berry was all cryptic, Quinn actually came out said it."
"But she did say that she likes a girl." Brittany assures the three of them and Santana nods.
"Oh look here comes the soon to be couple coming now." He nods his head to the end of the hall where the two girls were walking arm in arm and giggling at one another. "They do look good together." He thinks out loud and Santana sighs with her patented eye roll. "Hey ladies me and these two are going for mani/pedis after school you down?" He asks the duo when they reach them. They look to one another as if having a conversation without words and nod.
"Yeah that sounds good." Quinn agrees smiling from ear to ear.
"So Rach, have you decided to go with Finn?" Santana questions and Quinn's face nearly drops but she tries to maintain her smile. Rachel shoots a dagger through her eyes to the Latina who smirks.
"No Santana I have denied his offer." Rachel explains pulling her arm out of Quinn's and bringing her books closer to her chest. Quinn awkwardly places her arm to her side.
"Oh so you're going alone?" Kurt pretends to feel for her but is kind of obnoxious with the question and Santana has to try hard to hold in her laughter. Brittany pulls on her earlobe softly and that suppresses her laugh. Rachel looks between everyone and appears to now be very uncomfortable.
"I don't see anything wrong with that. You're going alone and Quinn's going alone." She points out and he nods at the facts. "Plus we're all going to be hanging out together so I won't be that alone." Rachel smiles beaming at her blonde friend by her side and Quinn grins back. When Rachel turns her head Quinn darts her eyes to Santana and gives her the evil eye and Santana smiles wider.
"Why don't you two go together?" Brittany interjects and everyone looks at her. She looks at all the eyes on her and her face turns blank. "What? It's stupid for you to go together but not go together." Oddly enough everyone completely understood the blonde's statement.
"B has a point. You're going to be going together, hanging out all night and leaving together. You may as well be each other's dates." Santana adds and both the diva and the cheerleader stare at her completely mortified that Santana was so using her power of knowing too much over them. The funny part to Santana was that she knew both sides of the story unbeknownst to them.
The bell rings and the groups disperses Kurt heading one way, Brittany and Santana in the other and Quinn and Rachel straggling behind by the lockers. There is an awkward silence between them and they are both looking from their shoes to their friends walking down the hallway. Quinn finally looks up and decides she will be the one to break the ice.
"They're right Rach. We should just go together." She suggests and Rachel's eyes widen. "As friends of course." Quinn quickly adds absolutely regretting it as soon as it comes out of her mouth. The blonde is certain she notices Rachel's face fall slightly but doesn't want to read into it. The diva puts on a smile and nods.
"You know what you're right. They're right. And this way we don't have to explain why we don't have dates." She laughs trying to make this situation as light as possible. Quinn pushes out a laugh too and her cheeks hurt from fake smiling. It was half of a real smile because Rachel did agree to be her date. "It works out too, because our dresses totally go together." Rachel grins at the thought of their dresses going perfectly together.
"Great." And it's awkward again. "So it's a date." The blonde announces between them and Rachel nods.
"A friend date." Rachel corrects and Quinn hesitatingly nods.
"Yes. A friend date." It hurts coming off of her tongue. "A date with a friend."
Rachel and Quinn say their goodbyes for the period and head in separate directions. With their backs to the other, both girls are wearing matching smiles that go from ear to ear. Rachel is still smiling and in a daze when she gets to class. She sits down and lets out a small sigh of relief. Maybe it wasn't an official date, but she would take anything that had the word date in it when it came to Quinn Fabray.
"You're in a good mood." Finn interrupts her daydream of wonderfulness. She turns to him with her smile still intact. "So maybe it would be a good time for me to talk to you about the dance again?" He asks and she isn't really paying attention and she accidentally nods for him to continue. "Will you go with me Rachel? I really think if we go and I show you how good of a time we have together that maybe we can get back together." He pleads his case but when she realizes what he is saying her smile goes away and she whips her head to face him.
"I'm sorry Finn, but I'm sort of going with someone else." She quietly breaks the news to him, though if he were smarter he would have picked up on the pride in her voice as she spoke of her 'date'. His eyebrows knit together and he looks at her hard.
"Wait you have a date already?" He asks and she nods and her smile returns. "With who?"
"I'm going with Quinn." She tells him forgetting the seriousness of her simple statement. He chuckles.
"You're going with Quinn Fabray?" She looks to him and nods slowly and his laughter goes away and he is serious now. "Like Brittany and Santana are going together?"
"Yes." She quickly replies and his head jerks back. "No." She quickly fixes her verbal mistake. "I mean, yes we are going as dates but it's only as friends." He nods and his eyes reveal that he is working it all out in his head and then when he smiles softly she knows he understands.
"Oh, well that's cool." He lets out and leans back in his chair. "Just save me a dance okay?" Rachel nods and lets out a deep breath. She hadn't realized the power this date had over her. Yeah, Quinn had made it clear they are going as friends, but still, when she walks into the gym on Quinn's arm it should make for an interesting night.
Rachel didn't care what people thought or said about her. The thought of being with Quinn and what people would say didn't matter much to her. There's only one persons opinion of her she cares about, and that is her best friend, Quinn.
Quinn sits down next to Santana who is sitting next to Brittany and they are writing in the same notebook. She slams her books down on her desk gaining both girls attention. Brittany and Santana shoot her questioning looks and she burns holes through Santana's head.
"I am so not voting for you anymore." Quinn spits out and sitting gracefully in her seat next to her friends.
"What's your deal Fabray?" Santana asks leaning back in her chair.
"My deal is that I am mortified." She looks between the couple. "I told you two in secrecy and then you totally ambush me in the hallway." Quinn explains trying her hardest to not let her voice get too loud. "And now me and Rachel are going to the dance together." She huffs and hastily opens up her binder.
"Wait, you're going together?" Santana leans forward.
"Like me and Santana?" Brittany asks suddenly very excited.
"No." Quinn shakes her head and sighs. "I asked her to go with me."
"Aw you asked her that's cute." Brittany grins at her blonde friend nodding in approval.
"No it's not cute because then I got nervous because she looked weird." She explains.
"That's just Berry's face." Santana snickers and Quinn glares at her and Brittany pokes her side.
"And then I just spit out 'as friends' and completely made it super awkward." Quinn finishes and crosses her arms in frustration.
"Don't worry Q." Santana comforts her after getting a nudge from her girlfriend. "I bet that as soon as she sees you in that pretty pink dress she's gonna want to throw you up against the wall." She winks at her friend.
"Why don't you go with Santana and pick out a corsage?" Brittany suggests and Santana whips her head around to Brittany.
"Corsage?" She asks and the blonde nods.
"Yeah S, usually you get your girl a corsage for dances." Quinn interrupts before Brittany can explain.
"Shut up I knew that. But I just didn't know we were doing them?" Santana admits and winks to Quinn. She was only messing with Brittany. Of course she was going to get her girl a corsage. She had picked it out in her mind long before she had even asked Brittany to go. Quinn shakes her head and chuckles at her friend's sense of humor.
So after school just as planned the five of them went to the nail salon and got manicures and pedicures. Kurt offers to drop off Rachel because they live closer than the other three, so Quinn goes with Brittany and Santana. She cringed having to drive with them because she knew that Santana was just going to pick on her about her sudden confession.
"So Berry lover, are you excited for your date tomorrow?" Santana asks looking in the rear view to the blonde smirking. Brittany nudges her and tilts her head for her to stop making fun.
"Yes." Quinn admits gazing out the window and Brittany smiles back to her friend.
"That's, cute?" The brunette forces out pretending to have to hold back some vomit and Brittany slaps her arm.
"Stop it Sany, it is cute Q. I'm sure you two will have fun together." Brittany offers and Quinn lets out a weak smile. "Are you going to dance with her?" Quinn shrugs her shoulders.
"I don't know. If I ask her to dance it might freak her out." She admits.
"It's a dance Fabray you're supposed to dance." Santana tells her and the blonde shoots her a death glare through the mirror.
"Yeah, me and San are going to dance all night." Brittany smiles and takes Santana's hand in her own.
"Well, we'll see. I'm sure Finn is going to try and steal her from me all night." She rolls her eyes and Santana chuckles.
"She's not going to want to dance with Finn trust me." Santana sighs pulling over in front of Quinn's house.
"What do you mean?" Quinn asks arching an eyebrow. Brittany looks to Santana and then quickly to Quinn.
"You're so hot and Finn's so not." Brittany explains in monotone and Quinn scrunches her nose at the blonde's comment.
"Yeah, okay so call me tomorrow about the corsage's S." And she leaves the couple shutting the door behind her.
"Why aren't we telling her that Rachel likes her again?" Brittany asks when Quinn disappears into her house. Santana smirks at her as they pull away.
"We're just having a little fun B. Don't worry. They'll figure it out." She winks.
"So you and Quinn are going together?" Kurt asks the diva as the pull up in front of her house. She nods to him placing her hand on the door handle ready to leave before any further questions are asked. "That's sweet." He adds.
"Yeah, it works out. We're going as friends so we have dates." Rachel explains the reason for them to be going together.
"Yeah okay." He responds shrugging his shoulders and smiling widely at her. She glances at him questioningly.
"Umm, thanks for the ride Kurt. I'll see you tomorrow." He dips his head to her and gives her a wave with his fingers.
The next afternoon Santana texts Quinn that she's outside of her house and she better be ready to go or she is leaving without her. Quinn runs out of her house like she is rushing and Santana laughs when the girl is out of breath when she gets into the car.
"Wow, you really are nervous." Santana points out as they begin to drive to the florist.
"Whatever." Quinn shrugs her shoulders running her fingers through her hair and not looking at Santana. "Let's just do this." The brunette smiles and they drive the whole 5 minutes it takes to get there in silence.
"So what color is Brittany's dress?" Santana inquires doing her best to hide her grin. If she knew Brittany as well as thinks she does, then the corsage she ordered was perfect. They walk up to the desk and she hands over her ticket to the cashier without Quinn seeing.
"Light blue." Quinn tells her as she browses through the colors of flowers in the store. "But you already knew that." She eyes her friend and Santana nods with a smile.
"Of course." She replies and then the cashier gives her a bag with two boxes in it.
"Hey." Quinn shouts and rushes to the counter looking into the bag in her friend's hand. "What did you do? Order two just in case you were wrong?" She looks up to her and Santana uncomfortably shakes her head and shuts the bag so the contents are hidden.
"No, I'm never wrong." She explains and pushes herself away from the counter.
"Wait so did Brittany make you pick up your own corsage?" The blonde infers and once again Santana shakes her head no. "You're not going to tell me are you?" And Santana grins and shakes her head one more time. "Whatever, I don't care. Just help me pick one out for Rachel."
Kurt closes his closet doors revealing a mirror that is about the size of a wall. He stands there in his tuxedo that he put the finishing touches on. It's a navy blue tux with tails on the jacket he's sporting a glittery matching blue cummerbund and bowtie. Brittany comes over to his side with his matching top hat and hands it over to him. She stands next to him and puts her arm in his and they smile at their reflections.
"My my sweet Brittany." He sighs shaking his head. "You look breathtaking." She grins and blushes a little.
"You too Kurt. You look beautiful." She leans her head on his shoulder and brings her hand to his bowtie acting like she's fixing it.
"You better save me a dance." He winks at her reflection and she leans up and kisses his cheek.
"Of course Kurty." She tells him and they laugh at her calling him 'Kurty'. "You're my pretty pretty princess."
"Well if the night goes as planned you and Santana will be the formal's royal family which by association will make me a princess." He beams looking to the ceiling. "And then my dreams will come true." He laughs at himself.
After putting the rest of the fixings on their outfits the duo hop into Kurt's truck and head over to Rachel Berry's house. They all decided that since her house was the closest to school it would make sense to meet there and take pictures there. On the way there Santana rolls by Quinn's house to pick her up and surprisingly Quinn's mom was so excited that she followed the Cheerio's to Berry's house. She had a video camera and about three disposable cameras.
The Cheerio's co-captains are the first to arrive at Rachel's house and Quinn's breathe hitches when she sees the diva in her long black dress. She looks absolutely stunning and Quinn can feel her face getting hot by the second. The slim straps over Rachel's shoulder lay perfectly not once falling down. They meet one another in the middle of the lawn and lean in awkwardly to give the other a hug, not exactly sure where to put their hands and arms. Santana watches on rolling her eyes and looking down the road wondering where her woman was.
She looks down at her dress and smiled at how much she hopes Brittany likes the color she chose. Santana chose a light yellow color with spaghetti straps and the top showed off her cleavage, but in a classy way. It was tight up top and as it went down it got a little more flowy but not too out of control. She absentmindedly plays with the charm bracelet on her wrist when she hears a car pull up. Her head snaps up and notices that its Kurt's truck and a smile takes over her face.
With the car in park she watches as Kurt hops out of the driver's side and smoothly walks over to the passenger side to where Brittany is. He opens the door and places his hand out for the blonde. Brittany cautiously takes it and places her foot carefully on the ground and steps out with her head down to make sure she doesn't step on her dress. Santana's jaw is on the ground and her breath is caught in her throat. Brittany raises her eyes up and instantly locks with those brown eyes. Her blonde always looks amazing, but tonight was beyond belief and Santana suddenly felt knots in her stomach.
She walks over to the truck and puts her hand out for Brittany to take and the girl does so gracefully. The five of them walk over to the porch of Rachel's house and all of the parents are begging to get pictures of the corsage's being put on. Santana grins at Brittany and then the couple look to Quinn who was beat red. Rachel looks away when the parents bring up corsages because since this was a 'friend' date she and Quinn were not going to be pinning anything on anyone.
Brittany goes to the bag she had placed down on the porch as does Santana who pulls out two. She walks over to Quinn and hands her one of the boxes and Rachel's jaw drops.
"What is that?" Rachel asks pointing to the box as Quinn walks over to her opening it.
"It's a corsage." Quinn answers like it is obvious, because it really is. Rachel chuckles uncomfortably.
"Clearly, but…" She looks to the blonde kind of sad. "I didn't get you one." Quinn smiles and looks over at her mom to make sure she has the camera out and so do Rachel's dad's taking non-stop photos.
"It's okay Rach. I was the one who asked you, so I'll let this one slide." Quinn tells her and gives her a wink as she slides the light powder pink corsage onto Rachel's wrist. The diva smiles softly and looks from the flower to her date.
"Wow, its, its beautiful." She breathes out.
"So are you." Quinn whispers and their eyes lock.
"Okay Santana and Brittany your turn." Mr. Berry announces and all the parents turn their attention to the couple.
"Come here B." Santana motions Brittany to step closer to her and she pulls out a light yellow corsage to match her dress and Brittany gasps.
"Oh Sany." She squeals smiling lovingly at her girlfriend as she slides it onto her wrist. "It's perfect. It matches your dress." She beams and Santana nods with a perfect smile that reaches all the way up to her eyes. "Here let's put yours on now." Brittany fiddles with her box before she finally gets it open and she pulls out a light blue corsage.
"Britt." Santana breathes out gazing at the corsage that matches Brittany's dress, but most importantly matches her eyes.
"It's your favorite color." Brittany proudly announces and Santana nods to her. After the blonde slides it on she brings her hand up to Brittany's cheek and pulls her in for a sweet soft kiss.
"You guys are ridiculously adorable." Kurt tells them as he watches the dates putting on their corsages taking pictures along with the parents.
"Okay guys let's get group shots and couple shots." Mrs. Lopez announces walking over to them ready to put them in poses but Santana steps back and heads back to her bag.
"Wait, one more thing before we do that." The other four kids watch her bend down and take something out of her bag, wondering what she is doing. She stands back up and has another box and she is walking over to Kurt. He looks around to everyone wondering what the crazy Latina was going to do to him. "Kurt, if anyone deserves a pretty flower to accentuate their outfit, it's you." She says in a soft voice holding the box loosely in her hand and he looks at it and to her several times. "You are very important to Brittany and by that you are important to me." She opens the box and reveals a beautiful corsage that matches perfectly with his ensemble and she can't help but smile at the grateful tears forming in his eyes.
"Wow Santana." He breathes out and raises his hand to his chest. "I don't know what to say."
"I'd ask you where you want me to stick it, but that seems inappropriate." She jokes and everyone chuckles at her lightening the mood. She pins it to his lapel and he proudly marches around with is sticking his chest out to show it off.
They do their group pictures in all different poses because Mrs. Lopez gets a little crazy when she has a camera in her hand. When it comes to couples pictures Brittany and Santana take turns standing behind and in front and then they do one with their hands interlaced between them. When they are done with pictures of the two of them they motion Kurt to join them and they do a few pictures of them as a threesome. Rachel and Quinn however, were just as awkward as ever. They never had problems touching and poking and hanging on each other until now. Their hands were uncomfortably placed and too much space in between them that the parents eventually decided they had taken enough pictures.
The five pack up into Kurt's truck and head towards McKinley for the Spring Formal. When they pull up there is a valet at the front and he opens the doors for the girls and Kurt tosses him the keys. Kurt is in the middle of the four girls with Quinn's arm on his right and Brittany's on his left and their respective dates on their other arms.
Tonight was going to be interesting Kurt thought as he glances over at the will they won't they duo. Tonight was going to be memorable Santana thinks as she looks to the beautiful blonde on her arm. I love you Brittany thinks when she makes eye contact with Santana who smiles back. Finn is so annoying Quinn thinks as she spots Finn at a table gawking at Rachel. God she's beautiful Rachel thinks taking a quick glance at Quinn.