Santana walks into her house after school dropping her bag behind the door and drops her keys into the bowl beside the door with a soft tired sigh, she walks into the kitchen smiling lovingly as she sees her mami standing behind the stove stirring something in a pot and walks over to her kissing her cheek. ''Hola mami.''
''Hola mi corazón.'' Maribel Lopez murmurs turning her head to kiss her daughters forehead. ''How was school?''
''It was alright.'' Santana replies with a small smile walking over to the fridge to grab a bottle of water, Maribel raises an eyebrow turning around to look at her and chuckles.
''Really mija?'' She tilts her head as she turns to look at her in confusion and clicks her tongue. ''We just moved here, you attend to a much bigger school now and all I get was an it was alright?''
Santana laughs taking a sip of her water and shoots her mother a small smile. ''I had a few lessons I already had in Lima so I could sit those out, but I met most of the people out of all of my classes and they are nice.''
''So you made some friends?''
She slowly nods her head and shrugs. ''Yeah they are already a tight group of friends but Mercedes, one of the girls in that group pulled me along and told me that I can eat lunch with them.''
''How big is that group?'' Maribel asks curiously, Santana blows out a breath quickly counting and chuckles.
''I don't know seven or eight.''
Maribel tilts her head and raises an eyebrow. ''What was that look?''
''What do you mean?'' Santana asks in confusion.
''You had a small frown mija, did something happen?''
Santana shakes her head thinking about the letter she read out loud during Holly's class and bites her lip. ''No well yes, I don't know.''
''Talk to me baby.'' Maribel murmurs as she sits down at the table after turning the stove off, she pats the spot beside her and frowns in confusion as she watches her daughter walk out of the kitchen telling her to wait a second.
Santana sighs grabbing the letter out of her bag and walks back into the kitchen, she holds it out for her mami and bites her lip. ''During our last period before lunch we had an assignment to write down what we thought love is and what we expect love to be, we had to fold it together and our teacher randomly handed us the replies back this is the one I got and had to read out loud.'' She explains as she watches her mami read the paper.
She sees the emotions on her mothers face changing into one full of concern and hums softly. ''Yeah that was exactly the same emotion that filled my gut the second I read it.''
''Do you know who wrote it?'' Maribel asks softly, Santana shrugs her shoulders and sighs.
''I have an idea who it could be but I am not quite sure.''
''Why?''
''Her name is Brittany, the second we interacted I noticed that she isn't completely focused on the things happening around her.'' Santana explains with a soft sigh. ''She jokes around with her friends and the teachers to distract herself but I noticed her smile never reaching her eyes, she is known as one of the class clowns at school but whenever she thinks no one is watching you can see her shoulders drop and her mind wandering.''
''What do you think?'' Maribel asks softly, she smiles slightly as she turns to her in confusion and chuckles. ''I may be the one working for child protective service, but you have the same intuition I have because you joined me a lot before high school started Santanita.''
''I am really not sure, I don't want to take a wild guess but if the letter is really from her I will try showing her that she can talk to me if she wants.''
''Yeah you can try that but don't push her, I think pushing her will only make her push you away.'' Maribel advises. ''You are still the new student and if nobody knows, I don't think she will open up to you that fast either.'' She continues with a soft sigh. ''The letter sounds like something big is going on, but let's not jump to conclusions without knowing her alright?''
''I won't mami, she is fun to be around and together with Puck her best friend she really is a clown.''
Maribel chuckles as she hears her daughter giggle and pats her leg. ''I am glad you like your new school and class mija, go freshen up dinner will be ready soon.''
Santana nods her head and stands up after kissing her mami's cheek, she grabs the paper off of the table and jogs up the stairs to her room placing it in the first drawer of her desk. She drops down on her bed after grabbing her phone out of her bag and collapses down on her bed, she tilts her head as she sees several messages waiting for her and opens them smiling as she sees that Mercedes added her into a group chat called Cowboys and Cowgirls.
From Mercedes: Hey San I added you into our group, you really fit right in girl.
She smiles as she sees that Quinn, Tina and Rachel agreed and types out a message.
To Cowboys & Cowgirls: Hey y'all thank you for adding me into this group and for allowing me to hang out with your friend group today. Normally it's quite difficult to make friends during the first day but y'all were really friendly and made me feel welcomed.
She chuckles as she sees Rachel immediately typing and slowly stands up to change into comfortable clothes, she strips out of her jeans glancing at her phone as it beeps and smiles as she reads Rachel's reply.
From Rachel: Just like Cedes just said, you really fit into our group with your sass Santana. You have any plans for tonight?
She sits back down on her bed after changing into a pair of sweats and pulls on her favorite Linkin Park hoodie, she grabs her phone and quickly types out a reply.
To Cowboys & Cowgirls: Nah not really, will eat dinner with my mom in a few and after that probably binge watching Netflix till it's time to go to bed.
From Puck: Need a Netflix and chill partner?
She crunches up her nose and types out a reply pausing as she sees that Brittany beat her too it.
From Brittany: Fucking behave Noah, not every girl is desperate as fuck to dive in bed with you on their first day joining our school!
From Puck: Well I can give you a few names.
She laughs as she sees that Brittany just send him a middle finger emoji and shakes her head typing out her reply.
To Cowboys & Cowgirls: No offense but one you are not my type, that skunk on your head is a natural turn off Puck.
''Mija dinner!'' She stands up after telling her mother that she will be down in a minute and plugs her phone in leaving it on the nightstand, she ignored Puck's reply opting to answer later and walks out of her room to join her mother to eat dinner.
Two hours later
After she helped her mother with the dishes and deciding to watch an episode of chopped with her, Santana walks back into her room after brushing her teeth and dives into her bed. She grabs her phone after crawling under her blanket and unlocks it raising an eyebrow as she sees six messages waiting for her.
From Puck: Ouch that hurt.
From Brittany: Lmao she has bite, I like it. Good call C, she really does fit right in.
From Mercedes: Told ya girl, sometimes you have to allow new people to enter your life. Some may be a mistake but sometimes you are in luck too, Santana is awesome.
From Quinn: Well she didn't hesitate to put Puck in his place, he needs that.
She shakes her head in amusement and types out a reply.
To Cowboys & Cowgirls: Yeah sorry not sorry Puck and girls I think y'all are awesome too.
She leaves the group chat noticing that only five messages were in that one and raises an eyebrow as she sees a private message from Brittany, she taps it and smiles slightly as she reads her message.
From Brittany: Hey I don't really know why I feel the need but I want to apologize for Puck's behavior, he is harmless but sometimes thinks with anything but his tiny brain. If it gets too much just tell him and if he doesn't stop, tell me I'll make sure he will stop. Good night Santana.
She smiles slightly replying that she can handle him and places her phone down after wishing her a good night, she places her phone back on her nightstand after turning her alarm on and wraps her blanket tighter around her after turning her light off.
''Good night mi corazón.'' Maribel murmurs walking over to her daughter to kiss her head.
''Good night mami, te amo.'' Santana whispers kissing her cheek.
''I love you too baby girl.''