CHAPTER 5

"Wow! You're so beautiful!" Holly exclaims as she observes her masterpiece. Santina's boy-next-door style.

William closes her mouth, "Stop saying she's beautiful! Others might hear you."

Santana smiles at them, "Do I really look good with this?" she said, fixing her collar.

"The best! And it's all because of me." Holly said proudly.

"Now let's go. The photographer is waiting." William said tugging Santana on her arms.

Santana walks inside the studio with Holly and William at her side. She's really nervous, and she knows why. She's not used to this celebrity thing. It's not her style.

"You can do it." Holly whispers at her, "Just try not to be too girly, and you're going to be fine."

Santana nod her head as she walks towards the photographer.

"Ms. Cohen-Chang, I'd like you to meet the newest A N JELL member, Santino Lopez." William said, and Santana offers her hand.

The photographer accepts Santana's hand, "You can call me Tina." she said directly towards Santana, "And it's nice to meet the controversial A N JELL member."

Santana swallows hard. "Well, yeah. It's nice to meet you too."

"Good. So let's get started." Tina said, as she fix her camera. "Go there and we'll start when you're ready."

Santana walks towards the center where the light is on. This is awkward, she thought.

Holly and William gives her a thumbs up. Alright, she can do this.

Tina starts taking pictures of her while she stands awkwardly facing the camera.

"Your face looks refreshing but do you have any other expressions that does not look completely afraid?" Tina comments.

Santana looks at William and he shows her how to be manly enough to touch her collar in a manly way. Holly rolls her eyes as Santana imitates William's ridiculous gesture.

Holly motions Santana to follow her as she gives her a sexy womanly pose. Santana's eyes went wide. Holly mouths, "Just kidding."

After series of shots and multiple poses from Holly and William, Santana became confident posing in front of the camera.

Her posed became natural and as the time flies by, with her changing into multiple outfits, she rocked it!

"Wow! I like this one!" Holly exclaims as they scan the pictures in Tina's computer.

"This is way better." William said, smiling proudly.

Santana looks over the pictures and smiles at herself. She really looks like her brother and she was proud of what she'd done for Santino.

After the photoshoot, they went straight to the studio for dance rehearsals. Santana looks at the amazing dancers before her. She wants to back out, there's no way she can follow their moves.

But she tries really hard even though she felt depressed.

On her way to the studio, there are lots of A N JELL fans protesting against her. They don't want her, or rather they don't want Santino. And it's her fault. Brittany doesn't like her. It's the first time someone hated her and she felt really bad.

So she really needs to give her best now, so she could show the world what she can do, for her brother.

"You seem to have lost your energy after being chewed out by hundred thousands of anti-fans." Holly said as she lean into her.

"No…" she said but Holly eyed her, "Uhm… yes." she said defeatedly. "This is the first time I've been hated by many people, so it's a little difficult."

Holly sits opposite her, "But you're being brave coz you're not running away."

"I can't run away. This is for my brother." Santana said. "Even though I'm a fake, when my brother comes, everything will go back to normal."

"Yeah it will. But wait… I noticed something." Holly said, looking down at Santana's pants. "What is that?"

"Huh?" Santana stands up and look down at her pants then she puts her hand inside and show Holly two small sized balls. "These? I was told to wear these there, so I did."

Holly looks at the two balls. "I'll show you how to wear this, the proper way." she said, smirking.

Brittany stares at her laptop and she reads all of the articles about A N JELL. She shakes her head. This new member is a real pain in the ass.

Sue calls her via FaceTime and she answers it.

"Yeah, I've read all of the articles about Santino. What do you want me to do about it?" she said, clearly annoyed.

"They're shooting the MTV music awards promotional videos and if you don't show up," Sue clenches her fist and lean towards the webcam, "Are you trying to add fire to the scandal?"

Brittany rolls her eyes, "Okay. I'll think about it."

"Think about it?" Sue glares at her. "The performance schedule was released, so read it carefully and check it. I sent it in the mail, so check it."

"Okay. I'll check it later." Brittany said, her voice bored.

"Do it while I'm watching. Read and open the file now." Sue orders, her voice filled with authority.

"Brittany rolls her eyes for the nth time.

Santana continues her dance rehearsals, and she can somewhat follows the dance routine now, little by little.

Mike, the choreographer, starts to count, "Okay. One two. yeah, Right there. One two." he said and the rest follows even Santana.

The music stops and the dancers grins widely.

"You're getting better shorty." Mike said, patting her shoulder.

"Really? I did well?" she said and then she jumps and shows their last move with pride. But little did she know, one ball fell out from her jogging pants.

Holly sees this and immediately picks it up to the ground.

"You're fine! Good job!" Mike said as he rummages Santana's hair. Santana smiles widely.

Holly's eyes are wide now, "Is this the other side? Oh shit!"

"Are you reading it now?" Sue asks.

"Yeah, I'm reading it." Brittany said, then she narrows her eyes, "Are you dating Director Beiste?" she asks.

"What?" Sue falls from her chair.

Brittany lean towards her laptop, "She said she'll pick you up later at…"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't read that!" Sue yells. "I might have sent the wrong file. Close that. And wait for a minute. I'll come back to get the other USB." she said, clearly panicking.

Brittany tries to hide her smile.

"Don't close this. I'll be right back." Sue said.

"Okay." Brittany said. She pour herself a glass of water while waiting for Sue.

As she was about to drink, she heard someone's footsteps from the video. She shrugged it off. Sue was really fast enough.

But then she saw Santino and… Holly?

Holly presses Santino towards the wall and her eyes went wide as she anticipates what's going to happened next. "What's this?" she asks.

"Here." Holly said as she presses Santino against the wall. "There is absolutely nobody here."

"Would it be okay here?" Santino asks, her voice filled with worries.

Brittany leans towards her laptop as she watches carefully.

"This is urgent!" Holly said in a desperate higher voice.

"But this place is a bit…" Santana protests.

"What are those two doing?" Brittany asks as she drinks.

"This is urgent! Hurry up and put your pants down!" Holly said as she kneels in front of Santino.

Brittany nearly chokes as she sees Holly kneeling in front of Santino.

"But this is a little bit.." Santana protests again.

"I told you, no one is here." Holly said as she unzip Santino's pants.

"Oh god!" Brittany's eyes went wide as saucers.

"Stay still!" Holly said, catching her breath. "Wait, we should turn off the lights. Somebody might see us from the outside."

She stands up and walk towards the switch and then she turned it off.

And the video goes black.

Brittany panics. "What's going on? What are those two doing?"

Brittany can only hear voices.

"Just a moment. It's not working too well." Santana said, catching her breath.

Brittany's eyes went wide.

"That! That!" Brittany can't form coherent words.

Silence.

"Oh." Santana whimpers.

"Stay still." Holly said.

"See. I picked this up when you dropped it. You have to be careful next time."

Brittany's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

Then the lights are on.

"I told you to wrap it firmly so that it won't fall. What are you going to do when someone sees it?" Holly said, her hands on her hips.

"It's fine now. Right?" Santana asks.

"I think next time, I should sew it in so it won't fall down your pants." Holly suggests then she pushes Santana on her chest, "Hmmm. you're all set now."

"I'll wrap it tightly next time." Santana said, smiling, "Thanks."

Holly eyed her up and down, "When you wrapped your breasts, it really looks like you don't have boobs." she said that made Santana blushed. "Even though you're a girl."

Santana smiles. She doesn't have to worry to be find out though. "Thanks to you, nobody will think that I'm a girl."

"Let's go." Holly said, her arms on Santana's shoulders.

Brittany's eyes narrows, "She's a girl?" she said through clenched teeth.

Without thinking, Brittany left her hotel room and headed towards the studio. She calls Sue while she's driving, "Sue, I'm coming there. Everyone is at the studio right?" she said through voicemail. "There's something important I need to confirm." then she hung up.

She speeds up and she arrives at the building in record time.

She goes straight to the studio without acknowledging everyone.

"Hey Brittany, you came." Sugar said as she stands up.

She ignores Sugar and then she made a brief eye contact to Quinn who eyed her curiously.

She ignores Quinn nevertheless and goes to find Santino sitting around the corner.

"Brittany?"

Brittany looks at Santino, straight into his eyes.

Santana blinks. "It's been a while." she said awkwardly. "It's nice to see you."

Brittany grabs his shoulders and surprisingly, she hugs him tightly.

Santana's eyes went wide at the sudden gesture.

Quinn drops her towel.

Sugar's jaw drops.

Brittany felt it. The softness of his body, the little cushioned she felt on the 'supposed to be boy's chest, the scent that differs compared to a man. The heartbeat.

And then it made sense. Santino is a she, not a he!

She pulls out from the hug, "Santino! You!" she said through clenched teeth.

Santana swallows nervously.

Then a flash of the camera distracts Brittany.

"Oh, Brittany!" Sue greets.

Brittany looks at them and she sees the reporter, Artie Abrams, handling a camera.

"See, I told you they're not fighting. There's just a misunderstanding." Sue said as she smiles widely at the reporter.

"The two of you, one more time. Do a friendly pose." Artie encourages.

Brittany rolls her eyes.

Santana stands awkwardly.

"Wait, I want all of the A N JELL member." Artie said again.

Quinn walk towards the side of Santana and possessively she wraps her arms around her.

Brittany looks at Quinn and the latter stares back.

Sugar looks at them curiously. She doesn't have any idea on what's going on.

"I really thought she's going to hit you." William said, "But then she ends up hugging you. Isn't that weird?"

"Yeah. Really weird. Although she scared me with her eyes." Santana answers, still thinking of what had just happened.

"Brittany is the type of person that can put a lot of energy in her eyes. Anyway, you have to wash up now. I know you're exhausted. The shower upstairs is empty so you can wash up there." William said.

Santana nods her head.

"Where is Santino? I don't see him taking a shower with the boys." Sugar said.

"And why would you want to see him taking a shower? I thought you're only into girls?" Quinn said, trying to hide her smile.

"Stop teasing. I don't like him in that way." Sugar said, crossing her arms. "I just think that he's disgusting if he's not taking a shower after practice."

Quinn rolls her eyes, "Don't mind him. They have different routines than we have."

"Yeah, right. Anyway, the first floor shower are not working so the boys go upstairs." Sugar said as she enters the girl's locker room.

Quinn's eyes went wide. She knows that she's taking a shower there alone. Oh fuck. Trouble.

She run as fast as she can to catch her.

Feeling refreshed, Santana put on her clean clothes after taking a shower when she heard the boys outside the locker room. She stiffens.

"Hey, the water here is ok." Mike said and as a cue, the boys removes their clothes.

Santana shuts her eyes closed as she hides behind the lockers.

"What do I do?" Santana mentally asks herself.

"Hey." Jake taps her shoulder, "You finished?"

"Yeah." Santana said as she avoids looking at him.

"You sure are fast." Jake comments. "Are you not leaving?"

"I am actually."

Jake leaves her. Santana doesn't know what to do, she just can't go pass them. They were all naked for god's sake!

Then she heard someone's voice. "Where is Santino?"

It's Quinn.

Santana takes a peek, and she sees Quinn at the door, her hands on her hips. "I want to see him."

The boys automatically grab their towel, they don't want to mess around with an A N JELL member. Even if they had a crush on them, they know they can't act on it coz it's not a secret that they were all lesbians and besides they need their job. One word from an A N JELL member could lose their job in an instant.

"He's there." Jakes croaks.

"Good." Quinn walk towards her. "Are you done? It's getting crowded here. If you're done, let's get out of here." she said as she puts the towel on Santana's head to hide her face.

Santana is grateful that Quinn showed up. Both of them leave the shower room.

"Thanks." Santana said.

Quinn winks at her, "You're welcome. I'll go take a shower now."

Santana nods her head as she walks away, towel on her head.

Then she takes a deep breath. "It's good that I wasn't found out." she said to herself.

"You've been found out."

Santana turn around to see Brittany crossing her arms.

"Huh?" she asks.

Brittany walk towards her. "You have been completely found out by me." she said.

Santana gulps nervously as Brittany looks at her with those eyes.

They stare at each other for so long that Santana nearly hurts her eyes.

"I saw you with Holly this afternoon. You're fixing things." Brittany looks at her pants that made Santana blushed, "You have to be very careful next time. IF there would be a next time."

"What do you mean?" Santana asks, her eyes wide.

"I'm going to tell Sue about this. And you are my proof." Brittany said, this time her eyes flew on Santana's chest. "I'm going to remove that binder of yours." she said, smirking.

Santana was speechless.

"Santino Lopez. Now you're done." Brittany hisses before walking away.

"Brittany wait!" Santana yells. "Please listen to me."

"I don't want to listen." Brittany said as she continues to walk away.

"Just please, you have to know my feelings toward this."

"I don't want to know. It's not my business." the blonde said.

"Please don't go like this." Santana begs, her hands on the blonde's wrist.

Brittany pushes her hands away.

"Brittany… I'm…"

"Sorry? You're sorry? No."

"Please…"

"Forgive you? Please forgive you? Nuh uh, it won't happened." Brittany said. "I don't want to deal with you anymore. I will talk to Sue and you can explain everything to Sue. Then we can't meet anymore. Bye bye Miss Santino?" she mocks.

"Santana." the brunette said.

"Huh?"

"It's Santana. Santino is my twin brother." Santana said, defeatedly.

"You have a twin brother?"

Santana nod her head. "I'm doing this for him."

Brittany doesn't want to listen but she thinks she needs to.

"He will come back after a month and then I'm leaving." Santana said. "There's just a little accident that he needs to recover from it. And then I promise that I'm going back to the convent."

"Convent?" Brittany raises her eyebrows.

"I am going to be a nun soon." Santana said proudly.

Brittany didn't know why that little detail bothers her. "A nun?"

"Yeah. It's a long story though why I ended up being here." she said.

Brittany takes a deep breath. She thinks over and over if she will let this pass or not. Then she smirks, Santana will be the one to surrender, she's sure of that. "Ok, I will not be involved anymore. It's up to you if you can handle not getting caught." she said as she starts to walk away from her.

Santana smiles and run towards her then she wraps her arms around the blonde's body. "Thank you. Thank you so much."

Brittany stiffens. She doesn't know what to do. Her heart beats faster than it should. She felt something strange.

Santana pulls away and she already misses the contact.

Santana smiles at her and her heart melts.

This is insane.

Brittany avoids Santana's eyes and walks away.

She can't be involve with her, right? She's going to be a nun meaning she's straight!

She stops when she heard Quinn's voice. "Hey San, I was looking for you. Where did you go?"

She looks at them and she felt something like… she can't explain.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I was just talking to…" Santana said as she looks at Brittany.

Quinn looks at Brittany and then they stare at each other for a while. They acknowledge each other with their eyes.

Then Quinn wrap her arms around Santana's shoulders, "Let's go home." she said. Santana smiles at Quinn and it made Brittany feels something she can't describe.

Without thinking, Brittany walk towards them and said, "Yeah, right. Let's go home. I'm coming home now."

Santana's smile widen as she pulls away from Quinn, "Really Brittany? You're coming home with us?"

Brittany leans into her and whispers, "Don't get too excited. I'm coming home to watch your every move." then she smiles at Quinn, "I miss you Q."

Quinn smiles at Brittany, "Me too, Britt. Welcome back."

Sugar walk towards them, "Hey, Is this for real? We're complete now?"

"Yup." Brittany said as she looks at Santana.

Quinn grabs Santana's wrist and Brittany stares at the gesture. Again, that feeling.

"What do you want to eat?" Quinn asks Santana. "Do you want pizza?"

"Yeah. I'd love that." Santana smiles widely.

"Then pizza it is." Quinn said.

"How about you Brittany? Do you like pizza?" Santana asks Brittany as she move towards her side, thus pulling away from Quinn.

"Whatever." Brittany said, then walks fast to avoid Santana. She's annoyed and she doesn't know why. Maybe because of Quinn and Santana's too-close-for-comfort gesture? Well, like she said, whatever!

Santana's smile falters. Seems like Brittany still didn't like her.

She felt sad, she really wants to be close to Brittany now that the blonde knows her secret. Atleast she can't hide from her anymore.

Sugar looks at her. "Hey, are you okay?"

She gives Sugar a fake smile. "Yup."

Quinn extends her hand once again and Santana takes it.

Sugar eyes the gesture curiously. This is the first time she sees Quinn holding hands with a guy, and it feels different. Quinn is a lesbian, they all are. None of them are bisexual so it's impossible for Quinn to like him right? Then she looks at Santino, his eyes, his nose, his smooth face… there's something about this guy. She can't pinpoint it though.

Then he smiles at her, that heart-warming smile. And Sugar's heart beats fast and suddenly she feels butterflies inside her stomach. Oh no! It's impossible!