''Please introduce yourself guys.''
Brittany turns to Santana after her friends all introduced themselves and smiles slightly. ''I am Brittany Pierce also seventeen years old and born and raised right in this city.''
Santana nods her head shooting her a kind grin and turns to Puck, Puck chuckles running a hand over his Mohawk and slightly nods his head to Brittany. ''I am Noah Puckerman and just like the nerd beside me, I was also born and raised here.''
Santana covers her mouth laughing as Brittany swiftly slaps the back of his head and shakes her head as she sees him wince. ''Ouch that gotta hurt.''
''I'll show you what this nerd can after class asshole.'' Brittany grumbles snickering, Quinn rolls her eyes kicking Brittany's and Puck's chairs before they can start bickering and leans aside to look at Santana.
''Don't mind them, Mrs C has a reason to call them clowns.''
''I sure do.'' Mrs C tells them chuckling. ''But this class is filled with a group of the nicest students I know, I am glad you started your first day with them Santana.'' She smiles as the bell rings and stands up. ''Alright go to your next classes guys.'' She turns to Brittany and raises an eyebrow. ''Brittany can you stay behind for a few minutes?''
Brittany sighs shoving her book in her bag and nods her head telling Puck to go to class and tell their teacher that she will come in a bit later, she stands up walking over to Mrs C as everyone walks out of the class and leans against the desk looking at her. ''Yes Mrs C?''
''How are you doing Brittany?'' Mrs C asks softly knowing the girl is struggling with something but avoids talking about it with adults.
''I am fine.'' Brittany replies shortly. ''Is that the reason why I had to stay behind?'' She asks frowning.
Mrs C quickly shakes her head and sighs. ''No, no it's not only because of that.'' She shuffles through the papers on her desk and holds one out for Brittany. ''I wanted to hand you the preparation sheet for the next test, everyone else already has it but you had to leave a bit earlier last time.''
Brittany takes it from her and nods her head. ''Yeah I know, thanks Mrs C.''
''Anytime Brittany, you can go to your next class now.''
Brittany nods her head shoving the piece of paper into her bag and shoulders it, she walks out of the classroom as other students start filling up the room and walks down the hall to her next class.
She growls inwardly as someone bumps into her right before she can enter the room and turns on her heels glaring at two jocks laughing while walking further down the hall. ''Watch where you are going asshole!'' She raises an eyebrow as they both turn around to glare at her and crosses her arms in front of her chest.
''What did you just call us?'' The bigger one of them asks while taking a step forward, Brittany tilts her head and smirks.
''Aw does the airhead need me to spell it out?'' She squeaks as someone yanks on her bag before one of them can reply and stumbles back into the classroom, she grunts as she falls flat on her ass and easily jumps back up turning on her heels ready to scream at the person that yanked her back. ''What the..'' She cuts herself off smiling sheepishly as her teacher Holly Holiday just looks at her with an eyebrow raised and scoffs softly. ''Never mind, good morning.'' She grumbles as she walks past her to her seat beside Puck.
''Really Brittany? Challenging the jocks again right after the weekend?'' Holly asks with a soft sigh.
''That douche bumped into me.'' Brittany defends frowning. ''You can't expect me to keep my mouth shut, like some nerds around here do Miss H!''
Holly Holiday just sighs with a slight shake of her head knowing that it will turn into a full blown discussion if she starts up the subject about the jocks around her class and hands Brittany a piece of paper. ''Puck already told me that you would be coming in a bit late so I gave everyone else already an assignment, please write down everything you know about love and what you think love would have to be like for you.''
''You kidding?'' Brittany asks raising an eyebrow, she bites back a scoff as Holly just raises an eyebrow and groans sliding down her seat after grabbing her pen out of her bag. She looks down at the paper shaking her head as nothing fills her mind and bites her lip. ''How the fuck does someone who never received any kind of love before, write about what love would be like?'' She whispers leaning closer to Puck.
Puck just smiles sadly and reaches out softly patting her hand. ''Don't write about the love H expects, write about Mason.'' He advises softly knowing his best friend loves her little brother to death.
''This paper is anonymous so place don't write a name on it!'' Holly suddenly calls out after watching the two teens in the back whisper with tenseness clear in the young blonde's posture.
Brittany smiles slightly hearing several friends groan and chuckles softly as she hears a lot of rustling knowing they are searching for an eraser, she turns back to the paper in front of her and leans forward covering it with her free arm as she starts writing.
What is love?
Love is an emotion that everyone longs to feel but not always receives, it often starts with a loving family, gradually adding friendly love the second someone enters kindergarten and meets friends but the biggest part of love is a significant other, the person or rather your person who makes you feel like you are worth every crazy little thing they do.
Not everyone receiving the gift of life gets to enjoy the family or parental love though, life isn't always fair but those who don't receive the parental love might have the greatest luck of having a sibling and enjoying the unique sibling love.
Sibling and friendly love are almost the same, you will walk through fire for friends you opt to call your family and you will let them in on the secrets you desperately try to hide for outsiders. Siblings and friends will always keep your biggest secrets a secret but also work their asses off to help you out, to make you feel safe and to show you that you are not alone.
How I imagine love?
I never imagined being in love, sure I have friends who will walk through fire for me but I never really thought about a relationship because well who would pick someone who is a pro in hiding her real life and acts like she is fine but secretly broken on the inside?
I can only describe a few feelings I would like to feel:
The feeling of being appreciated, the feeling that someone is finally listening to me but most of all the feeling of being safe. Also the feeling of knowing that I am not alone with certain struggles, just the thought of having someone standing behind me to catch me when things get rough is enough.
Love isn't all about being physical affection, love is more an emotional connection that connects two people.
Whenever people talk about love they always mention all the beautiful things and other sappy crap, but real love isn't always beautiful, love has it ups and downs and only if you found yourself a person who conquers every hurdle in life together with you, you found yourself someone for life.
She places her pen down after turning the paper around so the text is facing down and leans back in her seat, she pulls out her phone as she feels it buzz and opens the text she received from her mother.
From Birth Bitch: None of your damn business, did he go to school or is he home?
She bites her lip suppressing a growl and quickly types out a reply.
To Birth Bitch: Like I would leave him home alone, I am not you!
She angrily throws her phone in her bag cringing as she hears it hit the metal pencil box in it and blows out a breath, she turns her head slightly, shaking it as she sees Mercedes look at her in concern and turns back to face the front of the class not noticing Santana watching her curiously.
''Alright class time's up, I hope you all wrote something amazing!'' Holly exclaims clapping in her hands after looking at the time, she watches everyone drop their pens and smiles slightly. ''Now fold the paper four times, I will collect them, shuffle them and hand them out.''
''What?'' Quinn asks confused. ''Why?''
''I'll tell ya sweetcheeks.'' Holly tells her as she walks around collecting the papers from the students who already started folding it. ''Everyone will read the paper they got, it will give you an insight of how differently many people think of love.'' She walks back to her desk after collecting everything and drops them in a box, she shakes it while walking around so everyone can grab one and looks at them. ''Not everyone shares the same thought on love, not everyone is the same but everyone does have an own opinion and it will hopefully teach you to not judge too quickly.''
She walks back to her desk and leans against it grabbing the list with all names. ''I will run my finger down this list because everyone is here, Mercedes you can call stop first.''
Brittany watches Holly run her finger down the list and bites her lip as she hears Mercedes call stop, she sighs softly in relief as she sees Holly turn her head away from her and glances out of the window.
''Sam, you can go first.''
She turns to Sam as she hears him laugh and raises an eyebrow in amusement, Sam shakes his head laughing and leads the letter out loud. ''What is love? Sex, How do I imagine love? Mind blowing sex.''
She covers her face as she laughs and shakes her head. ''Fuck Noah.'' She breaths out knowing immediately it's him, Holly rolls her eyes and sighs.
''That was the one thing I didn't want to hear.'' She turns to Puck as the class continues laughing and raises an eyebrow. ''We will speak after class Mr Puckerman.''
''My pleasure Mrs H.'' Puck murmurs smirking, Holly just shakes her head with a sigh and trails her finger down the list again.
''Puck call stop.'' She orders.
''Stop.''
Brittany watches her look up after looking down at the name on her list and tilts her head as she turns her head to look at her, Holly smiles kindly and locks eyes with Santana. ''Santana, you may read the piece of paper you got!''
Santana nods her head unfolding the paper and skims her eyes over the beautifully written text, she raises an eyebrow as she notices the deeper meaning behind it and clears her throat. ''What is love? Love is an emotion that everyone longs to feel but not always receives.''
Brittany gulps softly hearing Santana's soft soothing voice recite every word she wrote down and blinks repeatedly trying to ignore the burning in her eyes, she looks around immediately noticing Mercedes gaze fixated on her and slightly shakes her head silently telling her to shut up.
''Damn that's deep B.'' Puck whispers shocked after hearing Santana read her paper, he reaches out squeezing her leg under the table and sighs. ''But you are wrong, you deserve all the love and other happy shit in this world because you already went through a lot of shit at a young age.''
Brittany just shrugs her shoulders and looks around once again as she hears nothing but the clock on the wall ticking, she allows herself to look at Holly and bites her lip as she sees her slowly nodding her head.
''Well.'' Holly starts her voice cracking a bit, she quickly clears it leaning back against her desk and looks around at her students. ''I know I told you all to write it anonymous but I don't care, whoever wrote this, if you feel the need to talk privately without anyone else around this school finding out my door is open.'' She locks eyes with each of her students seeing different emotions on ten different faces and runs her hand through her hair. ''This is not exactly what I expected for this assignment but it is really beautiful written, so whoever has those feelings I hope that life will brighten up soon and that you don't have to act happy but that you will be really happy.''
Brittany stands up as the bell rings and quickly grabs her bag ready to make a dash out of the room feeling the air grow thicker around her, Santana tilts her head watching the blonde practically sprint out of the room the second Holly tells them to go to lunch and raises an eyebrow.
''What are you thinking?'' Mercedes asks as she slides up beside her having promised the new girl to show her around, Santana turns to her and bites her lip.
''What is Brittany's deal? She leaves class really fast or she has to stay behind.''
Mercedes shrugs her shoulders and forces a chuckle. ''That is B, she will run for food but will love to stay back if the ringing of the bell means another hour of boring lectures.'' She tells her shrugging.
Santana hums unconvinced knowing Mercedes is hiding something and shoulders her bag. ''Well I am ready for some food too.'' She tells her with a small grin, she follows Mercedes and Sam out of the classroom and watches them walk beside her hand in hand with small happy smiles on their faces.
She looks in front of her watching Brittany enter the cafeteria a few feet in front of them and bites her lip hoping she will soon find out more about the mysterious blonde with beautiful bright blue eyes.
This story will sometimes switch from Brittany's view to Santana's view, it will always be told in third pov. I hope it won't confuse any of you.
Next chapter will be from Santana's view.