More Brittana coming up soon, I am just stuck on how to make sure their relationship will develop. Any tips or wishes?
''Ask away Mercedes.''
''You are definitely rising up the ladder of fame, will you still continue going to high school?''
Santana turns to Brittany also curious about her answer and tilts her head as she just nods hers. ''How do you want to do that when everyone finds out where you are really from?''
''I will try to graduate earlier as planned.'' Brittany explains, she nods her head to Jake and smiles. ''I want to try to graduate the same year Jake graduates, it does mean studying more while still focusing on recording and such but I hope I can combine it without stressing myself out.''
''And you think you can do that?'' Mercedes asks curiously.
''I sure hope so.'' Brittany breaths out. ''I am not sure how stressful it will get but I want to succeed somehow, if I need tutors I will just look at the best possibilities the school offers so I can study as much as I can.''
''Well damn, you definitely show that you want it.'' Santana compliments with a chuckle. ''C and I were glad the second we graduated high school and found a job until we had enough money to start our dreams.''
''I think B and I will be glad too.'' Jake breaths out chuckling, he nods his head to his brother and frowns. ''Puck will be done in about two months.''
Puck laughs and nods his head. ''Sure will be, that doesn't mean that I can drop everything high school related though.'' He raises an eyebrow as Jake turns to him in confusion and rolls his eyes. ''You and B are still going to high school and I will still drive the two of you until B managed to finish fixing her truck, besides I will still help the both of you with homework and such.''
''Finish fixing your truck?'' Santana asks curiously turning to the blonde, Mercedes laughs and locks eyes with Puck.
''You don't look like a nerd to me.''
Brittany breaths out a laugh as she sees Puck's face and pats his shoulder. ''He isn't, he just doesn't want to repeat a year so he tries his best to keep up his GPA same goes for him trying his best to keep Jake's up.''
She turns to Santana and smiles slightly. ''And yes fixing my truck.'' She replies with a grin. ''Mom bought me one for my sixteenth birthday and we spend most summers fixing it, it's almost done but we didn't find the time to continue yet.''
''What are your GPA'S?'' Mercedes asks grinning teasingly.
Brittany sucks in her lips as Jake immediately groans and laughs softly. ''Oh J.''
''Not good?'' Santana asks in amusement, Jake shakes his head and sighs.
''Currently around 2.8.'' Jake grumbles, Puck pats his back and smiles.
''We will pull you up to 3.0 before graduating bro, B and I will both make you suffer.'' He turns to Mercedes and smiles slightly. ''I have enough to graduate, last I checked it was 3.1.''
''What about you Brittany?'' Santana asks curiously, Brittany rubs the back of her neck as the boys chuckle and smiles shyly.
''Uh 3.8?''
''Talk about nerd.'' Mercedes whistles lowly laughing as the blonde blushes. ''You keeping that up?''
Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly. ''Trying my hardest to keep it there or go higher.''
''So graduate with honors like S.'' Mercedes breaths out chuckling as Santana groans. ''She was the nerd of our group.''
''Heck no, Lucy was the nerd with her 4.0 throughout the years.'' Santana scoffs out. ''I just managed to keep up 3.8 since the beginning.''
''Yeah just like I said.'' Mercedes mutters. ''Nerd.''
Brittany laughs softly as they start bickering and looks down at Mateo still contently sitting against her front. ''Are they always like this?'' She asks in amusement as he just shakes his head giggling.
''Yes.'' Mateo breaths out giggling. ''They are crazy.''
''Crazy?''
He squeaks as they both turn to him and squeaks as they slowly stand up with smirks. ''Noo!'' He squeals out laughing quickly climbing over Brittany to slide between her and the back of the couch. ''No tickling!''
''You really think Brittany can fight the tickle monster?'' Mercedes asks in amusement as she walks around the couch to reach him, Brittany glances at the boys beside her shaking her head as they just jump up and sighs. ''Cowards.''
''Mateo.'' She whispers making sure Mercedes and Santana still need to take a few steps, she looks over her shoulder and reaches behind her wiggling her fingers. ''Come here.'' She smiles as he immediately reaches for her hands and slides them down his arms, she hooks her arms around his armpits making sure she won't hurt him and stands up in a flash as the two women reach them.
Mateo squeaks as Brittany hoists him up onto her shoulders, immediately wrapping his arms around her head and giggles loudly as he sees his mami looking at them with wide eyes. ''Hola mami!''
''That's unfair.'' Santana whines as Mercedes burst out laughing, she looks up at her son and shakes her head. ''That's cheating mijo.''
''Nooo.'' Mateo singsongs giggling as he leans his chin on Brittany's head, no one noticing Puck snapping pictures of them.
''It isn't.'' Brittany teases smirking. ''It's the easiest escape.''
''Mat just climbed the ladder.'' Mercedes muses, she laughs as Brittany turns to her in amusement, hearing the boys laugh loudly and shrugs. ''You told us before that only your mom can.''
''I will make an exception to safe adorable little cowboys for the tickle monster.'' Brittany replies shrugging, she chuckles as Mateo bounces up with the movement his happy giggles bouncing off of the walls and gently taps his thigh. ''You okay up there?''
She turns to the door as a knock sounds through before he can reply and clears her throat. ''Come in!'' She raises an eyebrow as Katelyn walks in worrying her bottom lip between her teeth and quickly takes Mateo off of her shoulders, she places him in Santana's arms after she ruffled his hair and walks over to her. ''Kate?''
''I have no idea what's going on.'' Katelyn whispers holding her phone out for Brittany. ''It's someone calling with your moms phone.''
Brittany frowns in confusion as she takes the phone and holds it up to her ear. ''Hello?''
''Brittany?'' She hears a strangers voice ask over the speaker.
''Yeah that's me, who are you and why are you calling from my moms phone?'' She replies in confusion as she walks over to the corner of the room thankful for Kate distracting the boys, the two women and Mateo with small talk.
''My name is Carl, I am your mothers…'' She raises an eyebrow as he pauses and raises an eyebrow as she hears his soft whisper. ''Boyfriend?''
''I knew she was dating someone.'' She breaths out chuckling. ''I don't…''
''Brittany.'' Carl interrupts. ''I wish I was calling you for just a chat, but I am not.''
''What happened? And where is ma?'' Brittany breaths out as she walks over to the couch to grab her stuff.
''She is at the hospital, I am calling you because they need some details.'' She stops in her tracks almost bumping into Santana as almost slips and gulps thickly.
''She what?'' She croaks out her tear filled voice immediately pulling the attention of everyone in the room to her. ''What happened?'' She whispers dropping back against Puck and Jake the second she feels them near.
''She fainted at work and we don't know the cause.'' Carl explains sadly. ''Do you have any chance to come here now?''
''I am almost five hours away.'' Brittany breaths out as she closes her eyes. ''I will catch the next best flight, one second.'' She turns to Katelyn as she covers the speaker of the phone and swallows thickly trying to keep her tears in. ''I need to go home, now.''
''What happened B?'' Puck asks as Katelyn just nods her head and turns on her heels to run back to the stage where she left Kane to wrap up the show.
Brittany just shakes her head holding up one finger as she notices Santana and Mercedes also looking at her in concern after they managed to distract Mateo with something playing on the TV and lifts the phone back up to her ear. ''Carl?''
She bites her lip as she hears his soft hum and sniffles. ''Is a doctor around?''
''Yes one second.''
She turns to Puck as she hears him call for a doctor and bites her lip. ''Ma fainted at work and they don't know what caused it.'' She explains her voice trembling, she turns back to her phone as she hears Carl explain something and clears her throat as a strange voice fills her ear.
''Ms Pierce? I am Dr Clyde, the attending physician for your mother.''
''Dr Clyde, what is going on?''
''I can't quite tell you what happened just yet, we are waiting for some results to come back.'' She hears his soft sigh and closes her eyes. ''I am glad Mr Howell reached you though, does your mom have any allergies?''
''As far as I know only against penicillin.'' Brittany replies softly as she notices Kane and Katelyn rush in, she leans over looking at the phone Kane holds out for her and nods her head as she sees that he booked a flight for the three of them departing in an hour. ''I just booked a flight back home, I will be there in six hours.''
She runs a hand through her hair and gulps thickly. ''Can you please ask Mr Howell to stay with my mom until we arrive? I don't want her to be alone in that room.''
''I will, thank you for the information Ms Pierce.''
She just hums ending the call as soon as he wished her a nice flight and turns to the boys. ''Grab your stuff please.'' She whispers as she wipes her eyes, she turns to the two women and forces a smile. ''I am so sorry.''
Santana shakes her head as Mercedes just clicks her tongue and smiles sadly. ''Don't apologize, I hope your mom will be alright.''
''Definitely never apologize for things like this girl.'' Mercedes breaths out. ''Go home and go make sure your mom will be fine.''
Brittany nods her head reaching out to shake both of their hands and turns to the little boy sitting on the couch, she walks over as she sees him wearing headphones not noticing Santana, Mercedes, Katelyn and Kane just watching her curiously and gently taps the hat he still wears.
She smiles slightly as he takes off his headphones with a childlike grin and bites her lip. ''Hey buddy.'' She murmurs. ''I have to cut out meeting short and go home because my mom is sick, but I will contact your mami whenever I am in LA so you can continue asking your questions alright?''
''Will you be back soon?'' He asks pouting.
''I don't know.'' She replies tapping his knees softly. ''But the second I know I will be flying to LA, I will make sure to write your mami alright?'' She glances at the door as she hears it open and smiles as the boys walk back in carrying their and her bags, she grabs a piece of paper as she notices them distracting everyone with their entrance and quickly writes her phone number down.
She holds it out for Mateo and smiles as he takes it. ''If you have a question you want to know the answer of immediately, ask your mami to send it to this number.'' She whispers. ''That is my private number and I will reply immediately okay?''
''Really?'' He asks with wide eyes, she nods her head and smiles kindly.
''Really.'' She confirms with a kind grin, she slowly stands up as he slides it into his jeans pocket and sighs. ''I really have to go now, enjoy your weekend alright?''
Mateo slides off of the couch to hug her around her legs and looks up at her with a childlike grin. ''Thank you for today Britty, I had a lot of fun and I hope your mommy will feel better soon.''
She crouches back down to hug him properly and smiles sadly. ''Thank you for joining us on stage, you really have talent.'' She compliments as she pulls back. ''Enjoy your evening.'' She whispers as she taps his hat gently.
She stands back up as he nods his head and walks over to the two women smiling as he just grabs his hand until she reaches them, she shakes their hands again and tips her hat. ''It was nice to meet the two of you, enjoy your weekend.''
''Have a safe flight.'' Santana replies as Mercedes just wishes her the best. ''Thank you again.''
''Stop thanking me.'' Brittany breaths out with a wink, she looks down at Mateo not noticing Santana's blush and taps his hat. ''Talk to you soon buddy.''
''Ready?'' Katelyn asks as she walks over to her, she grabs Kane's rental car keys as she nods her head and turns to the boys. ''Let's go, we already called the airport and told them that you want to be boarded immediately.''
Brittany thanks her softly as she takes her bag from Puck and follows Katelyn out of the room after wishing everyone a nice night and promising Kane to text him as soon as they land and know more, she walks through the long corridors to the emergency exit and turns to the boys as she feels two warm hands on her shoulder.
''She will be fine B.'' Jake breaths out.
''She will be.'' Puck promises.
Brittany just nods her head knowing the three of them need to keep that up as a mantra and slides into the car as soon as Kate unlocked it and puts on her seat belt, she turns to look out of the window as the boys and Kate talk about LA and the things they will do next time and just leans her head back with a soft sigh wishing that her mom will be fine.
Seven hours later.
Brittany sprints into the hospital with the boys hot on her heels and slides up to the front desk. ''Hi I am searching for my mom, Susan Pierce.''
''Brittany?'' She turns her head as she hears someone call her name before the woman can start typing on the computer and nods her head as she sees a man walking over to her, she turns to him and bites her lip.
''Carl?''
Carl nods his head reaching out to shake her hand and smiles kindly. ''Come on I will lead you to her, the doctor wants to speak to you beforehand.''
''Is she okay?'' Jake asks as they all follow him, he smiles sheepishly as Carl turns to him in confusion and clears his throat. ''Sorry I am Jake and this is my brother Noah.''
''They are like Ma's sons.'' Brittany explains. ''They belong to our family.'' She whispers as they walk down the long hall, she adjusts her hat as Carl just nods his head while waving over a doctor and looks at him as he jogs over.
''Ms Pierce?'' The doctor smiles as Brittany once again nods her head and grabs his clipboard. ''Your mom is fine.'' He tells her smiling kindly as he notices the three teens in front of him immediately relax. ''She gave Mr Howell quite a scare and he reacted the right way by calling us in, but she woke up about two hours ago and her blood pressure is back to normal.''
''What caused it?''
''We don't know for sure, all tests we did came back negative so I think it was just stress.'' The doctor explains. ''Stress causes many of us to faint if it's continuously and after a while our body just shuts off for a while to calm down, we asked her but she didn't give us an real answer.''
''But she did say something?''
''She just told us that it's something she can deal with alone.'' Carl replies before the doctor can, Brittany shakes her head and scoffs.
''It's my dad.'' She growls out, she locks eyes with the doctor and sighs. ''You might want to be in the room, I think her blood pressure will spike the second I enter.'' She turns to Carl as the doctor nods his head and raises an eyebrow. ''Did you tell her that you called me?''
''No not yet.''
''Good.'' Brittany whispers as she turns on her heels, she locks eyes with the boys forcing a smile as they just nod their heads with sad smiles and walks over to the closed door knocking three times.
She walks in as soon as she hears her moms soft call and bites her lip as she sees her eyebrows raise in surprise the second she watches the three of them enter. ''Sweetheart, boys.'' Susan croaks out.
''Ma.'' Brittany just breaths out walking over to the bed as she sees how pale she is, she leans down to kiss her head as the boys walk around the bed to also greet her and grabs onto her hand. ''What happened?'' She asks the same time Susan asks.
''What are you doing here?'' Susan just smiles sheepishly as they look at her with an eyebrow raised and clears her throat. ''I am fine.''
''Fine my ass.'' Brittany breaths out. ''What did he do this time?''
''Britt…''
Brittany just shakes her head as she hears the blood pressure monitor beep, a clear sign that there is a rise and sighs. ''Ma you never faint unless he tried something, please don't try to handle his shit alone.''
Susan drops back down as she feels dizziness hit her and closes her eyes. ''He came to the studio yesterday.''
''He what?'' Brittany asks with her eyebrows raised in surprise. ''He never went there before.''
''He came with papers, after I read them through it ended in a screaming match and well that's all I remember.''
Brittany turns to Carl and holds out her hand. ''Can you give me Ma's phone?'' She takes it as soon as he holds it out for her and easily unlocks the device, she scrolls through the apps tapping the security app which contain recordings of the camera and taps the recorded ones from the day before. ''Around what time Ma?''
''Sweetheart..'' Susan tries, Brittany shakes her head and sighs.
''What time?''
''Twelve.'' She whispers softly knowing her daughter won't allow her to prevent her from watching the recordings.
Brittany scrolls down to the recording around that time and taps it, she watches the recording feeling the boys, Carl and the doctor slide up behind her and raises an eyebrow as she watches her mother faint and her dad leave. ''That fucking asshole fled the second you fainted.'' She growls out as she hears the boys also growl.
''When did you get there?'' The doctor asks Carl.
''Around twelve-thirty.'' Carl replies. ''We wanted to go out for lunch and I sat outside in my car waiting for her, Susan is never late so I decided to walk in and wait for her.''
''And thank god you did.'' Brittany breaths out as she lowers the phone, she turns to Carl and forces a smile. ''Thank you for calling the emergency.'' She turns back to her mom as Carl just shakes his head with a small smile and raises an eyebrow. ''What did he want ma?''
''Brittany..''
''No ma please, don't try to protect me for his shit again.'' She breaths out as her mom once again tries to deflect the question. ''You did that during the divorce and tried to allow me to have a daughter and dad relationship but I don't want him in my life, what I do want is to know what shit he pulled off that caused your boyfriend to call me up in distress because you are laying here and the doctors needed info.''
''He wants to fight me for full custody.''
Brittany freezes the second she hears her moms soft murmur through her rambling and turns to her, her eyes flashing. ''He what?''
''He wants full custody sweetheart, he wants to pull me to court and fight it.'' Susan breaths out sadly.
''Like hell he will!'' She growls out turning on her heels.
''Brittany!'' Susan yells as her daughter sprints out of the room, she turns to the boys and points to the hall. ''Go after her!''
She covers her face as she hears both boys immediately sprint after her daughter and shakes her head. ''Shit!''
''Babe.'' Carl breaths out quickly walking over as the monitor beeps again. ''I know it's hard but please try to calm down.''
''She will drive to him.'' Susan whispers through her hands, she shakes her head as tears spring in her eyes and sniffles. ''I don't want anything happening to her!''
''I am sure the boys will follow and make sure nothing will happen.'' Carl whispers soothingly as he rubs her back. ''Please calm down Susan.'' He climbs onto the bed as she just shakes her head and pulls her against his chest thankful that the doctor doesn't say anything, he runs his hand through her blonde locks and kisses her head. ''Nothing will happen to her.'' He promises softly.
''Do you have his address?'' Dr Clyde asks. ''I will send police over, he left you while you fainted so he already broke one law.'' He nods his head as Susan gives him the address and locks eyes with Carl. ''Please make sure she calms down, I will be back shortly.''
