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Chapter Twenty Six: Red

As dawn broke the sun shone brightly through the window. The brightness of the sun woke me up. I slowly opened my eyes and was shocked by my surroundings. I looked around the room and saw a pale pink colour on the wall, stuffed toy animals scattered everywhere and a girl looking at me with a cute look on her face. It took me several minutes until I figured out where I was-Poppy's room.

My brain finally started to work and I remembered the events of yesterday. I recalled Brittany's parents finding out about us, I remember them listening Brittany telling them my dad's reaction, but most importantly I remember them accepting Brittany and I.

I must have fallen asleep after we read the book to Poppy. I thought as to why I was still at the Pierce's the next morning. I noticed that Poppy was still softly snoozing. She was in between me and Brittany but had hold of my hand. I smiled at this and heard a soft chuckle come from the other girl.

I looked at Brittany who was smiling and was staring lovingly into my eyes. I smiled back at her as our eyes locked on each other. It felt like we were the only two in the room and that her sister wasn't sleeping peacefully next to us.

"I think she likes you." Brittany said quietly whilst pointing to her younger sister.

"She's a great kid." I replied, never braking eye contact with Brittany.

Before I knew what was happening Brittany leaned forward and pressed a chaste kiss to my lips. She pulled back and grinned at my confused but happy expression. I turned a light shade of pink, slightly worried that Poppy might have woken up and seen us kiss.

"Why has Santana gone red?"Poppy asked innocently as she sat up and rubbed sleep from her eyes. Damn! I bet she saw us. I feel so embarrassed. I looked at Brittany and saw a smirk on her face. Oh no that look was not good. I know that look- trouble.

"I don't know." Brittany said looking at me with a devilish grin. "Why have you gone red?" Brittany asked although she already knew the answer.

"I-I-..."I stammered, not knowing what to say. I blushed again as I felt Brittany kiss my cheek. My mouth gaped open as Poppy was fully awake now and was looking at us questioningly.

"That's why she was red." Brittany told her sister with a smirk. I looked at Brittany with surprise and was about say something when Poppy spoke.

"Why did you get embarrassed that Brittany kissed your cheek?" The young girl asked me with curiosity in her eyes.

Well for starters, she kissed me on the lips. Not that its a bad thing. To add to that she kissed me when her sister was sleeping right next to us. I looked back at Poppy trying to think of something to say when Brittany spoke.

"I guess I have that effect on people." Brittany said still grinning. Poppy looked at both of us confused and obviously not knowing what we was going on.

"You two are weird." Poppy told us. Brittany laughed and I chuckled at the small girl who was still looking at us like we were from a different planet.

"Girls, time to get up!" I heard Mrs Pierce yell from downstairs.

I looked at Brittany slightly worried because I didn't know if Mrs Pierce knew that I had stayed over. My mind started burst with thoughts. Would she think something happened between us? Would she be annoyed that I didn't ask her permission to stay over? I was starting to full on panic now.

"Hey calm down." Brittany told me seeing my panic-stricken face. I instantly relaxed as she drew invisible patterns onto my hand.

I started to take deep breaths and calm down as Brittany continued to trace patterns on my hand. I noticed Poppy was staring at me with a worried look on her face.

"Are you okay?" The young Pierce asked me. I smiled at the girl's question.

"Yeah." I answered. But she didn't look convinced.

"When I don't feel okay, mommy gives me a hug." Poppy explained. "Can I give you a hug?" Poppy asked quietly. Brittany let go of my hand as her sister wrapped her arms around my neck. She squeezed me tight before she whispered "Is that better?" I nodded in response.

"Girls, you have an hour before you have to leave." Mrs Pierce said as she walked into Poppy's room. I was still hugging Poppy and didn't notice the elder Pierce smiling at me. I pulled back from the hug when another voice spoke.

"So cute." I turned towards the sound and saw that Brittany was standing next to her mom also looking at me and Poppy with a smile on her face. I blushed, forgetting my earlier panic. However, as I looked at Mrs Pierce my heart started to race at what she would say.

"I didn't mean to stay over. I think I must have fallen asleep once we had finished reading. I promise that I would have asked otherwise. I promise nothing happened between Brittany and me." I rambled on. I saw Brittany blush at the last few words and she directed her gaze from me.

"Brittany why don't you take Poppy downstairs and get some breakfast." Mrs Pierce said looking at her daughter. Oh no this can't be good, if she wants to speak to me alone.

"But mom-" Brittany started to speak but got interrupted by Mrs Pierce staring at her with a stern look on her face. "Poppy lets go." Brittany held her little sisters hand and walked with her to the door. Before they disappeared Brittany looked back with an encouraging but worried smile on her face.

"Don't worry I just want to talk to you." Mrs Pierce assured me as she took a seat on the bed. I nodded still worried about what she was going to say.

"Okay." I voiced, whilst trying to calm down.

"You seem like a lovely girl, Santana." Mrs Pierce started. "I can see how much Brittany likes you and equally how much you like her." The woman said in a knowing tone.

"I do, I mean like her a lot. She's such a unique and special person." I added, almost instinctively. I saw a sparkle in the elder woman's eyes as she looked at me.

"I can see that you care a great deal about my daughter and that you won't hurt her." I nodded along, although it wasn't a question it was just a statement. "I have no doubt that she feels the same about you. I just want to ask you one thing." But what? I thought.

"What do you want to ask me?" I questioned, giving her permission to continue.

"Do you love her?" The question struck me. I wasn't expecting that question. I knew the answer, but I hadn't said it out loud yet. I looked at Mrs Pierce and I knew that I couldn't lie.

"I do." I spoke quietly. Mrs Pierce smiled at me and pulled into a hug. I hugged her back at partly because of her reaction and because she was such a nice person.

I can't believe I just said it aloud. I thought. Alright I didn't exactly say those words, but it was near enough. But I do love her and I couldn't lie about something that makes me feel so happy.

"I knew you stayed last night." Mrs Pierce spoke after we pulled back from the embrace. I quirked an eyebrow at her and she chuckled lightly. "I came to check on Poppy and saw all of you asleep. I phoned your mom and asked if it was alright if you stayed over. She told me it was fine." I sighed relieved.

"That's great, I was so worried." I replied. I hadn't even thought about my mom.

"Come on you better go downstairs before all of the food has gone!" Mrs Pierce joked. She stood up and I followed her to the door.

"Thanks." I spoke with sincerity. She raised her eyebrow in confusion, so I continued. "For being so cool about all of this." I referred to her acceptance of Brittany and me. Mrs Pierce smiled at me in response.

Half an hour later I was waiting for Brittany to finish getting ready. Brittany's parents had left ten minutes ago as they had work and they asked if Brittany could drop her sister of at school. So I was sitting with Poppy in front of the TV.

Me and Poppy were both dressed and showered. It was just Brittany that was taking so long. My mom had popped round last night and dropped me some fresh clothes. I smiled when I read the note that was attached to a small backpack.

Santana,

Brittany's mom phoned and told me everything that happened yesterday. I'm so proud of you mija, for having the courage to tell her parents that you and Brittany are dating. Anyway I brought you some clothes. I'll see you tomorrow.

All my love,

Mom

Xxx

I was wearing purple jeans, black converse and a black hoodie that had a picture of a dolphin on it. What can I say I love dolphins!

"I like your hoodie." The youngest pierce spoke breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Thank you." I replied. Brittany was taking ages in the bathroom; I wondered what she was doing in there. No not like that, mind out of gutter people! "Does your sister always take this long getting ready?" I asked Poppy. The young girl smirked before she answered.

"It's only because you're here. She wants to look pretty for you." Poppy said in a sweet voice. I blushed at the girls words. I wondered how much the girl really knew.

I hadn't talked to Brittany about telling her sister about us yet. Probably because we didn't know that Brittany's parents would find out so soon. But the more Poppy said the more I thought she knew about us.

I could see Poppy was starting to get impatient. She had a slightly annoyed look on her face and was a little red.

"Hurry up Brittany!" Poppy shouted hoping her sister would hear her. The bathroom was upstairs so it would be hard to hear from down here, but that little girl had a set of lungs on her.

"Five more minutes!" Brittany shouted. I looked at Poppy and saw her huff in annoyance.

"Why don't we go and wait in the car." I suggested to the younger girl. We both stood up and grabbed our bags, before finding Brittany's car keys and opening the front door.

About ten minutes later Brittany came bouncing towards the car and got in. I stopped listening to what Poppy was saying when I looked at Brittany.

Wow! Was all I thought.

I stared at Brittany and saw a smirk appear on her face as she turned the engine on and started to drive. She was obviously pleased with my reaction. She was wearing her cheerio's uniform and today, unlike yesterday, had her blond hair down. She had applied light make-up to her face and she looked truly beautiful.

"It worked." Poppy told her older sister. I looked back at the young girl in confusion as to what she was saying.

I was trying to think what she meant and hadn't realised that we had stopped and were at Poppy's school already. I looked at Brittany who also looked confused.

"What worked?" Brittany asked her sister as she got out of the car, opened her sister's door and waited for her to get out. I could still hear them as the window was down.

"You were taking ages in the bathroom. I mean Santana's impressed. She couldn't take her eyes of you on the way here. I think she thinks you're pretty." Poppy explained as she pointed to me. I blushed deep at the little girl's words.

"I did not take ages in the bathroom. Stop embarrassing me Poppy, you do know Santana can hear you." Brittany told her sister. The little girl looked at me and smiled.

"I know." Poppy grinned as she skipped off into school with her bag swinging from side to side as she moved.

We spent the drive to school in silence. I took glances at Brittany and smiled every time.

"Poppy has a school play this week- she's the main part. I was wondering if you'd like to come with us." Brittany asked once we had pulled into the school parking lot.

"I'd love to." I replied. Brittany smiled and leaned in to kiss my cheek. I momentarily freaked out that someone could have seen it, but I couldn't see anybody looking our way and we were in the car.

"See you at lunch!" Brittany said as we walked our separate ways to our classrooms.

So far my second day back at school had gone really quickly. The lessons had flown by and now I was sitting in English waiting for the lesson to start.

"Hi Santana!" I looked up and saw Rachel sitting down in the chair next to me. I smiled at her.

The lesson started and Miss Pillsbury talked about the importance of good structure in essays. I was packing away my stuff once the bell had gone. It was lunch time and I couldn't wait to go see Brittany. I felt someone's eyes on me and looked up.

"I heard some rumours going around." Rachel spoke up, by now most students were out of the classroom.

"What rumours?" I asked, not knowing where she was going with this.

"Well a girl on the cheerio's apparently had a run in with Brittany. Apparently this girl, Kelly I think her name was, she started saying mean stuff about and Brittany told her to back off." Rachel spoke passionately, she really did love gossip.

"Yeah that's true." I replied. I didn't know that other people knew about the confrontation in the cafeteria but it looks like news travels fast around this place.

"So you two are friends?" Rachel asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes." I replied. Not wanting to tell her about us as I didn't know if she could keep a secret.

"Just friends?" Rachel questioned with a smirk on her face. I blushed and avoided eye contact with her.

"Yes." I spoke but this time my voice rose as most people's do when they are lying. But Rachel didn't say anything she just smiled at me and walked out of the classroom.

I walked towards the cafeteria, grabbed a sandwich from the food line and looked for Brittany. I saw her sitting at a table on her own again. As soon as she saw me she smiled and waved me over.

"Hi!" She greeted. I sat opposite her and greeted her. We sat in silence for most of lunch, just eating our food and stealing glances at each other.

The bell rang signalling the end of lunch. Brittany and I put our rubbish in the bin and started to walk out of the cafeteria. As I turned the corner I felt something freezing cold hit my face. It stung my eyes and as it dripped down my face into my mouth it tasted syrupy. I wiped the liquid out of my eyes and saw it was one of those red slushies. I had noticed that slushy machines that were located around McKinley, but I didn't know people threw them at each other.

"See Pierce, you're little friend is a bit of a freak and that's what happens to freaks. So if you don't want that to happen to you stop hanging around with that psycho."A person warned Brittany. It was that Kelly, that girl from the cheerio's who I had seen yesterday.

She walked away and left me and Brittany standing in the hallway with slushy seeping into my clothes.

"That bitch is going to pay for this." Brittany hissed angrily. I looked at her and she instantly softened as she looked at me. "Let's go clean you up." Brittany said as walked with me towards the girl's bathroom.

I knew that this was only the start of something much bigger. I knew that girl would not stop until Brittany was at the bottom of the social ladder. I knew that just by Brittany having lunch with me that she would be seen as a freak. I couldn't help but feel like I was holding Brittany back.

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