CHAPTER 26

She was crying, just sitting on the couch crying. Santana had just gotten home from work and was setting down her music files and demo CD's she brought home to listen to when she saw her curled up hysterical.

"What is wrong love?" She asked sitting on the couch beside the sobbing girl.

"He left me, and I don't know what to do." She cried into Santana's arms.

"What do you mean he left you? He can't leave you, you're married!" Santana looked shocked at her daughter.

"Divorces happen everyday Ma!" Valerie spat back.

"But what about the baby!?" Santana asked in horror staring at her very pregnant daughter who was just hysterically sobbing on the couch.

"I'll be a single mom I guess." Valerie responded.

Santana woke up screaming bloody murderer and thrashing wildly in the bed. Brittany rolled over placing her hands on both sides of the Latinas face and whispered lightly. "Santana what what's happening?"

Santana finally stopped gasping for air and searching around the room frantically for something, what for? No one was quite sure.

"OH MY GOD! I HAD THE WORST NIGHTMARE!"

"What what?" Brittany asked as Santana burst into tears.

This was the norm as of lately, Santana was about to go out of town for the first time in years leaving Brittany alone with the four kids who were the wildest possible now at 18,16,12 and 10 years old. It was a lot and she felt guilty for having to leave Brittany alone with the troops it was causing her to have nightmares and anxiety.

"What was the dream San?"

"Lord, Valerie married some dirt bag and had a baby and he left her and oh Jesus no!"

"Santana slow down, she's not going to marry any dirt bag, she isn't even dating anyone is she? And she won't get pregnant till she's GRADUATED from college we both know that I will kill her if she does."

"But my psychic Mexican third eye is never wrong."

"Go to bed Santana."

Santana couldn't just shake the feeling so got up sneaking quietly into Valerie's room to make sure her daughter wasn't in fact making out with some boy. She could see from the hallway the light was on, a bad sign. She peeped in and saw her sweet girl lying sideways asleep on her bed her sheets tangled all around her, her MacBook still on beside her. Santana walked over to turn the laptop off and saw that her daughter was in fact doing homework, she must've passed out during which filled Santana's heard with pride. Looking around the room she couldn't believe how much it had changed since that first time Brittany had surprised her with the princess fairy theme those 18 years ago. The bedroom was a mess, which aggravated Santana to no end. Her walls were now covered in boy band posters and pictures of her and her friends. A giant mirror took up half of the wall close to her window and had little inspirational quotes on it. Santana decided to leave her a small message on a post-it and stick it on the mirror, hoping her daughter would catch it one day and it would make her smile. With one last look around the teenagers bedroom she shut off her light and went back to bed, crawling in beside her wife who instantly pulled her into her embrace.

"She's fine, she's asleep." Santana whispered into Brittany's hair.

"I told you babe, you worry too much."

Before Santana had to leave to catch her plane she gave her wife one last kiss and hugged each of her kids. Whispering into Valerie's ear "Don't do anything stupid or I WILL fly home instantly."

Valerie rolled her eyes hugging her mother back, "I wouldn't do anything you wouldn't do." Thus making Santana cringe.

Later that evening when Santana's skype began to ring on her laptop she practically sprinted through her hotel suite to get to the laptop and answer it knocking over half the hotels décor in her haste.

"WHAT IS IT WHAT DID SHE DO?" Santana panted out as she opened the chat. Brittany sat there, half dressed, very calm, looking very very very sexy.

"OH its this kind of chat is it? Where are the kids?"

"San they're asleep all is fine. I checked them all myself not 10 minutes ago. Now if you don't mind I don't want to talk about OUR KIDS I want to talk about….other things."

"But my psychic Mexican third eye says tonight is the night she sneaks a boy in!"

"Your psychic Mexican eye should be focusing on something else right now." Brittany slid off her robe finally shutting her wife up for the rest of their skype call.

Coming back home wasn't as scary as Santana had assumed, Valerie was on the couch, like in her dream however she was laughing and reading a magazine out loud to Angelica.

"What are we reading?" Santana asked sitting beside her two oldest daughters peeking at the article.

"101 Ways to get your dream man!" Valerie waved Cosmo in the air. "Wear makeup to make your eyes look bigger, eyes are the window to the soul." Valerie read outloud again and batted her eyelashes at her Ma.

"Will these really work Ma? If I do my eye lashes will the boys come a-runnin?" Angel asked her 12 year old pre-teen hormones just starting to kick in and terrify the moms.

"I don't know baby, I like the ladies." She hit the girl over the head with a pillow and laughed getting up.

"YOU DIDN'T ALLLWAYYYSS." Valerie sing songed as Santana stuck out her tongue and walked away.

She turned the corner into the kitchen catching Gabbie with one of her goats feeding it apples from the counter.

"I'VE BEEN GONE A FEW DAYS GABBIE!" She screeched shoving her out the back door and giving her the glare.

"Where is mommy?"

"I'm here!" Brittany waved at her from yard where she was attempting to fix the garden, that again got ruined by heavy rain fall.

"So no one got pregnant or married while I was gone?"

"Nope, that psychic Mexican third eye is on the blinker babe." She laughed.

She pulled Brittany in for a long passionate kiss, running her fingers through her hair and sighing in contentment.

"I missed you, I am not doing that again for a long time."

"Good!" Brittany nodded.

"Did you do something different?" Santana asked stroking Brittany's cheek staring intently at her.

"Oh new lash extensions, aren't they cool. Cedes and I got them done." Brittany batted her eyes as Santana.

"I love it, I really do."

She walked back into the house going upstairs to unload all her luggage and also take a shower, but as she passed through the living room where Valerie was still reading to Angel she said.

"Lashes, its true….i love em." She winked.