This story is based very very loosely on the movie 'Raising Helen' with Kate Hudson.
I don't own anything. Hope people like ;]
Santana Lopez was used to people leaving her. She was used to the heartbreak and the disappointment. Her father left when she was just three leaving her mother to raise three daughters by herself. That same mother dove head first into a lifestyle filled with partying, drugs and alcohol.
Santana was basically raised by her sister Maria, who was just about 10 years older than her.
Despite the absence of an actual mother or father, her childhood wasn't always terrible. Sure, there wasn't any magical and memorable trips to Disney World or anything but all things considered it could have been so much worse. However, it was the lessons learned from her parents that caused Santana to put up a wall in an effort to prevent future heartbreak and disappointment.
The first layer of that same wall was ripped down when Santana was around 8 years old. She was in school and met Brittany Pierce for the first time. All it took was a simple smile from the blonde haired, blue eyed girl. From then on, Santana found the one person she knew wouldn't disappoint her. Or so she thought.
From the time they were 8 to the time in high school, Brittany and Santana were a packaged deal. They were inseparable and shared a lot of moments with each other. In the 7th grade, the girls shared their first kiss. Brittany initiated it one day while the two were at the park. She simply leaned in, quickly pressed their lips together, and then smiled while commenting on tasting Santana's chapstick. Santana didn't think anything of it and just smiled and hugged her best friend.
When they started high school, the two rose to the top of the food chain alongside Quinn Fabray. They kept up a good front in the halls of the high school but stayed true to their old selves when they were alone together. One night after a party, Santana and Brittany had sex for the first time. The next morning the two shook it off as a result of too much alcohol and linked pinkies like nothing ever happened.
Slowly over time, less and less alcohol was involved when it came to them having sex. It became a regular occurrence and somewhere along the line, it changed everything for Santana. She realized that she was in love with Brittany at the end of her junior year and spent the whole summer with her. She had an extremely hard time coming out yet pushed everything the fears aside for Brittany. Their fellow members of their high school glee club welcomed them with open arms after the announcement but the rest of the school wasn't as friendly.
As graduation came closer, life was beginning to become more real for Santana. She was going off to New York and Brittany was staying in McKinely one more year in hopes of raising her grades and getting into a school in New York.
Despite the distance, Santana and Brittany kept in contact during the first year. That was until about February. Brittany started to get busier and Santana didn't know why. It wasn't until a few weeks later when Santana got a call from Noah, who had also stayed in Lima. He told her that he saw Brittany fooling around with some guy. Santana couldn't believe it.
She finally confronted Brittany who didn't deny it. She stated that the long distance wasn't working for her and she just couldn't do it anymore.
And that was what broke Santana. The one person she thought was different ended up disappointing her just like everyone else.
Santana made an effort to distance herself as far as possible from anything related to her past in Lima, Ohio. She still spoke to Maria and ignored her other sister. And the only people she talked to from high school was Kurt, Blaine and Rachel because they were in New York, too, and Noah.
After college, she found almost no problem finding a job at a local newspaper and pretty soon she was working for the New York Times. She was pretty damn proud of herself. She wrote amazing articles and got to attend some of the hottest parties in the city. The hottest parties also equated to having the hottest people and it was almost impossible for Santana not to bring home a girl for the night after one of them. The very next morning the same girl was gone and Santana went on with her life as normal. It was the perfect life.
One night changed all of that.
Santana had just made it back to her apartment with some girl who she really had no intention of caring enough to ask her name. They were in the process of ripping each other's clothes off when Santana phone rang. She looked at the clock and saw that it was almost 2:30 in the morning. The girl mentioned that many she should take the call.
Santana would always be haunted by that phone call.
"Hello?" She said in a very frustrated tone.
"Santana." It was her other sister, Alexis. She wasn't someone that Santana expected to hear from and she immediately knew that something was wrong.
"What is it?" Santana said trying to cut the small talk.
"It's um….Maria. She and John…." She trailed on as Santana could hear that she was struggling.
"They what, Alexis?"
"They were in an accident, San. They didn't make it."
Santana went on autopilot after hearing that. She actually apologized to her one night stand before she kicked her out for the night. Alexis gave her all the details and Santana began planning the trip back home. The trip she never wanted to make again for a reason that she never thought would happen.
Also, I'm kind of torn as to whether I want this to be a Brittana story or a Quinntana story. So for whoever reviews, if you want let me know what you want to see.
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