Thanks for all the reviews last chapter. I'm glad that so many of you like the start of this story. I hope you all enjoy this chapter.
After the whole anniversary mess up Santana thought her and Dani would talk and things would go back to normal. Not only did they not talk, but Dani seemed to be pulling away even more.
"Dani," Santana groggily says at some ungodly hour.
"I'm just here for a change of clothes." Dani says heading into the closet as Santana starts to wake upmore.
"So you're just not coming home anymore?" Santana asks as this is the first time in the week since the campout that she has actually seen her wife.
"I come home to sleep," Dani says to defend herself. "I've just been very busy making us money so you can work part time and be there for Colin."
"Dani are we okay? Lately it feels like you don't want to be here with us at all." Santana says wishing she wasn't having this conversation at 4 am.
"I've been busy and when I do try to do something nice you shit on it." Dani says starting to get cross with her wife.
She's more than a little pissed that Santana left her alone on what she thought was their anniversary. So what if she was off by one day, it's the thought that counts.
"Is this still about the plans you made a day late for our anniversary?" Santana asks sighing. "If anyone should be angry it should be me." she points out.
"Whatever the fuck!" Dani shouts beyond frustrated and done with this conversation.
She leaves not wanting to argue with her wife anymore, she has better things to do.
"Mami," Colin says coming to the door.
"Come in honey," Santana says opening the blankets for her son.
He doesn't hesitate to jump in.
"Wasn't that mom, why didn't she come see me." Colin softly asks yawning.
"Because she had to go to work." Santana says.
"She didn't even come to see me." Colin pouts, sniffling.
"I know honey, your mom has been working very hard lately." Santana tells him, pulling him into her to give him comfort.
"Will she be at my game tomorrow?" Colin asks.
"I'll make sure she is." Santana says. "Now go to sleep." she says kissing him on the lips.
As Colin falls asleep, Santana sighs hoping that she can make it happen. She doubts that Dani will come, but still hopes. She's just falling asleep herself when she hears someone moving around outside her door. Assuming it's Dani back home for some reason she falls asleep.
When Dani left after her argument with her wife she completely forgot half the things she came home for. So here she is back home instead of out enjoying herself with a few girls from work who like to go clubbing. Sometimes she just needs a break from her wife who can be overbearing. Don't get her wrong, even though they are fighting, she still loves her wife very much. The thing that has sucked most about all of this thought is that she's missing a lot with her son.
"Awe," Dani whispers when she sees her wife and son snuggled together on their bed.
She misses things like this with all the work she's been doing. Instead of heading out like she was planning, she decides to get in her PJ's and get in bed with her family. Though she does send a text to the girls she was going to meet up with that she's not anymore.
To Unknown: Can't make it something came up
From Unknown: Too bad, I was looking forward to our time together
Dani is up before either her wife or son and heads back to work without her family even knowing she slept there.
Santana wakes up just as Dani is leaving, she tries to run down to catch her, but she's gone by the time Santana reaches the door.
"Mami," Colin says standing at the top of the stairs.
"Go get ready for school honey." Santana says turning for the kitchen.
Colin knows better than to argue with his mami before she has had her morning coffee. They both get ready.
"Honey do you want eggs or pancakes?" Santana asks when he comes down finally.
"Eggs," Colin says sitting down as Santana puts eggs on his plate.
He kisses her on the lips and she ruffles his hair.
"Your mom wants me to tell you to have a good day at school." Santana lies knowing that it's what Colin needs to hear.
"Are you picking me up after school?" Colin asks as he stuffs his mouth full of eggs.
"Anna is picking you up and taking you to basketball. I'll meet you there." Santana tells her son.
"And mom?" Colin asks hopeful.
"I'm going to go ask her after I drop you off." Santana says having cleared her morning so she can go talk with her wife.
"Okay," Colin softly says.
After her finishes eating, they head out. Colin stares out the window as they drive deep in thought. Something between his moms has changed over the last month. His mami is sad and his mom is hardly around always at work.
"We're here," Santana says breaking him out of his musing.
"Bye mami," Colin says getting out of the car.
"Kiss," Santana shouts at her son.
He stops and goes back to the car. Santana opens her door, leaning down a little and kissing him on the lips.
"Have a good day." Santana says closing the door.
She watches as her son heads into the building. Once he's in, she drives off.
"Call mami," Santana says to her Bluetooth as she heads off towards Dani's place of work.
'Santana it's good to hear from you.' Maria says more than a little shocked to hear from her daughter when she's supposed to be at work.
'I need your advice.' Santana says trying to make sure that she keeps focused on the road.
'What's going on? You never ask for advice.' Maria asks worried now.
'Me and Dani are going through a rough patch. She's always working, going for a promotion and missing a lot of Colin's stuff. She's not kissing Colin on the lips anymore and the passion we used to have isn't there anymore.' Santana rambles glad to finally get it all out.
'You need to talk to her about this.' Maria advises her daughter.
'Every time I try we just start fighting.' Santana tells her.
'It sounds like the passion is still there, you two just aren't on the same page.' Maria tells her. 'You need to stay calm when you talk to her.'
'Thanks mami, I needed that.' Santana says pulling into Dani's office parking lot.
'Have a good day honey.'
Santana hangs up as she parks. It takes her a few minutes to mentally prepare what she is going to say to her wife.
"Okay Santana you've got this." she says to herself.
She gets out of the car slowly. She then straightens out her power suit before heading for the elevator. The ride up to the twentieth floor seems to take forever. Almost every floor there is a stop and the elevator is jammed packed. She has to push her way through when her floor is reached.
"Hey Santana," the secretary Becky says when she sees her.
"How's it's going Becky?" Santana asks high fiving Becky.
"Good, she's in her office." Becky says.
"Thanks," Santana says nodding at Becky.
She likes the secretary who is straight up a bitch, but has down syndrome so the company can't fire her. She heads back to Dani's office nodding at the employees she knows. When she reaches the door, she notices that there is another woman in the office with Dani who she doesn't recognize.
"Santana," Dani says shocked to see her wife here.
"Honey," Santana sweetly says smiling at her.
"Santana this is my new co-worker Mary who I'm showing the ropes." Dani quickly explains.
"Nice to meet you." Santana says holding out her hand.
"You're the wife." Mary says shaking her hand. "Dani has told me all about you and your son."
"All good things I hope." Santana sweetly syas.
"Of course, now if you don't mind I'll get back to my work." Mary says nodding to Santana before she leaves.
"She seems nice." Santana says turning her attention to Dani.
"She's a sweet girl." Dani agrees staring at her wife. "Why are you here?"
"We need to talk." Santana bluntly says.
"That's never good." Dani says fidgeting.
"We haven't been on the same page since you started going for this promotion." Santana starts.
Dani rolls her eyes. Every time it's all about how much she is working even though it's for them.
"You know-"
"Dani please let me finish." Santana says cutting her off. She waits for Dani to nod before continuing. "We've been arguing instead of listening to each other. You've missed a bunch of things in Colin's life. Our anniversary mix-up has hung over us for too long. Our sex life has been lacking along with our overall passion."
Dani sighs; she knows that her wife is right about everything. It's just so hard trying to balance work, home and time to herself. Lately her home and family potion has been lacking.
"Doesn't Colin have a basketball game tonight?" Dani asks after several moments of silence.
"Yes," Santana says.
"I'll be there." Dani promises.
"Great,"
Dani gives Santana a peck on the lips before shoeing her away.
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"Damn it Dani," Santana curses under her breath.
Her wife had promised that she'd be at the basketball game, but never showed up. Now Colin is upset and honestly Santana doesn't know what to do anymore.
"Mom's home," Colin says when they pull up.
"Colin wait!" Santana shouts as Colin runs in before Santana has even parked the car.
Colin wants to know why his mom broke her promise of coming to his game.
"Colin," Dani says when she sees her son who has come running into their room. "What's going on?"
She was home to get some clubbing clothes before her family got home. Now she guesses that she'll have to stay home tonight.
"You promised that you'd be at my game." Colin says staring at his mom.
Dani closes her eyes trying hard not to get angry at her son, but is losing the battle.
"What the fuck are you whining about?" Dani shouts causing Colin to back away.
"You weren't at my game." Colin weakly says.
"I didn't want to be at your damn game!" Dani shouts at him.
Santana hears her wife shouting and runs in to find her son cowering as her wife curses at him.
"Dani!" Santana shouts.
Colin runs into his mami's arms, hiding his head.
"Santana-" Dani starts.
"You can sleep on the couch." Santana sternly says.
Before Dani can do anything Santana has Colin ushered upstairs and into her room. She doesn't want her son yelled at like that ever. He's a well behaved boy who doesn't deserve to be yelled at.
"Why is mom angry?" Colin sniffles.
"I don't know buddy, but I will find out and make sure it doesn't happen again." Santana says setting him up to watch some TV.
"Dani," Santana harshly says when she heads downstairs. "You'd better go apologize to him."
"I know," Dani says looking down at the ground. "I'm sorry I lost my temper."
"You're still sleeping on the couch." Santana says.
Dani just nods before heading upstairs to apologize.
"Colin honey, I'm so sorry for yelling and cursing." Dani softly says sitting next to him.
"You yelled at me." Colin says turning to face his mom.
"And I'm very sorry for it." Dani says. "Will you forgive me?"
Colin nods instead of saying anything. Dani gives him a kiss on the lips before heading back downstairs.
After that things don't get better like both women had hoped they would. Instead things continue to go downhill for the couple. Santana feels neglected by her wife who has seemed to be working even more. Dani can't even make it to anything of Colin's despite making multiple promises that she will. Dani ranges between pissed at her wife and sad that they are not getting along. It just depends on the hour. They end up going almost two weeks without seeing each other.
"Santana," Dani shouts coming home at six pm for the first time in nearly three months.
"What?!" Santana shouts from the kitchen.
"I want to take you out for dinner." Dani says giving her a peck on the lips.
"Well Colin is at a friend's house. I guess I could as if he could have dinner there." Santana says glad that her wife is trying.
"Great, we'll leave in an hour." Dani says heading upstairs to get ready.
Santana waits until Dani finishes getting ready before she heads up. She's more than ecstatic that her wife suggested this dinner for the two of them. It's something that they desperately need to get back on the same page. Neither of them talks on the drive to the restaurant. Instead Santana watches Dani as she drives. She's still just as beautiful as she was the day they met. When they park, Santana thinks that Dani will open the door for her, but she doesn't and she also doesn't hold the door open going into the restaurant. Though she decides not to make a big deal out of it.
"You got us a reservation at Salt." Santana says very impressed as they wait for their table.
"Well I wanted to take you somewhere nice." Dani softly says smiling at her wife.
They're seated and order a bottle of wine before Santana brings up their issues.
"We've been on different pages for months, now." she says just jumping in.
"That's why I wanted to take you out." Dani says.
"So what do you think we need to change?" Santana asks her wife not wanting to be the one to bring it up.
"Well…." Dani says frowning.
Honestly, she doesn't think that they're that bad. It's just whenever she tries to put in effort their son seems to be in the way. Maybe she could work a little less, but her wife knows that this is her dream job and she needs to put in the extra work to insure she doesn't get fired. Plus over the last few years it seems that Santana has lost her will to party and go clubbing which is something she enjoys.
"Well what?" Santana asks after a minute sadness.
"We both need to make time for each other." Dani starts. "I know I've been absent too much and need to be there more for Colin and you. But then I have tried, you've been too busy." she points out.
Santana stops herself from rolling her eyes. Of course her wife wouldn't accept that their problems are all her fault for working too hard. But as for the theme of the night of holding her tongue, she continues it. If she were to point this out, they would just start fighting again and that's not what she wants.
"We should set a date night, once a week where we can do some of the things we used to do before our lives started pushing us apart." Santana suggests.
She just wants life to go back to how it used to be.
"That sounds like a good plan." Dani agrees smiling at her wife.
Her phone goes off and she looks down to see who is texting her. She tries not to smile as she reads the text and replies.
From Unknown: I miss you, come clubbing with us tonight. We need your sexiness.
To Unknown: I can't, you know I'm trying to patch things up with the wife.
From Unknown: Then bring her.
To Unknown: She hates clubbing.
"Dani" Santana says causing Dani to look up from her phone. "Is there something really that interesting on your phone?" she asks.
"Sorry babe, just a few friends from work who want to hangout. I had to tell them that I'm busy or they'd keep blowing up my phone." Dani lies at least partial.
"I was asking you if you could maybe cut back a little at work to spend more time with our son." Santana says not hopeful that anything will change after all they've been over this before.
"I can try, but you know-"
"I understand," Santana says cutting her off before she can rant more about the promotion.
In Santana's eyes this promotion can't come fast enough. Hopeful after Dani gets this promotion, she can take time to insure she's at all of Colin's stuff.
"I think this talk was productive." Dani says some time later after they have finished eating.
"Yeah," Santana agrees even though she doesn't agree. "We need to get home. Julie is dropping Colin off in twenty." she says after reading her text.
"Who is Julie?" Dani asks.
"Colin's best friend Jackson's mom." Santana says shaking her head.
"Great," Dani says calling for the check.
"This dinner was really good D." Santana softly says reaching across the table to grab her hand.
"It was wasn't it." Dani says all smiles.
When they get home and Colin is dropped off, Dani ends up having to spend two hours playing a board game that Colin wanted to play. While she enjoys spending time with her son, she really wants to be out clubbing right now. Thankfully she might end up lucky tonight if the looks that Santana keep throwing her way means anything.
"Come on little man, it's time for bed." Santana says when she looks at the clock and sees that it's after eleven.
"Can't we finish this game?" Colin whines happy that his mom is here.
"I'm sorry buddy, but its bed time." Santana says giving Dani a look of agree with me.
"We can finish up tomorrow." Dani tells him.
"Promise," Colin says staring at his mom.
"Yes, I promise." Dani says ruffling his hair.
"Okay," Colin says, giving his mami a kiss on the lips. When he turns to him mom to give her a kiss on the lips, she turns and he kisses her cheek.
"Goodnight," Dani says not noticing the hurt look on her son's face.
As soon as Colin is upstairs, Santana wheels around to face her wife.
"Dani," Santana sternly says.
"What did I do wrong this time?" Dani asks rolling her eyes.
Santana gives her a look that could stop hearts. "You didn't kiss Colin on the lips, in fact you turned your cheek."
"Isn't he getting a little old for us to kiss him on the lips?" Dani asks voicing something she's been thinking about lately.
"Dani," Santana says shaking her head.
"Whatever, let's go to bed." Dani says heading upstairs.
Once in bed even though Santana is still upset with her wife she is also very turned on.
"Dani," she whispers, wrapping her arms around her and grinding her hard on into her.
"Fuck San really?" Dani says pulling away.
"No matter what we're fighting about your sexy as hell to me." Santana moans. "And it's been too long."
"San you know how I feel about that." Dani says motioning to her crotch. "I'll go sleep on the couch." she says getting up.
Santana holds back her tears until Dani leaves. She's always been self-conscious about her penis and for many years she made the Latina feel accepted, but the last six months it's been the exact opposite. Dani has been making her feel like a freak whenever she wants to be intimate. Sure sometimes they have sex, but not very often and only when Dani is very horny.