''Where exactly are we?'' Santana asks curiously as she slides out of the truck after Brittany drove them up a hill for almost half an hour, she looks around after helping her son out of the truck and turns to the blonde as he immediately walks over to her with the flashlight she handed him.
''The look out over our town.'' Brittany replies with a small grin as she turns to look at her, she leads them up a path placing her hand on Mateo's shoulder as she feels his arm wrap around her thigh and bites her lip. ''The boys and Mercedes drove a bit higher up, we could follow them but we have to hike for about twenty minutes because the truck wouldn't survive the climb.''
Santana looks around and shakes her head. ''No I think this is high enough.''
''Afraid of heights?'' Brittany asks sheepishly, she groans softly as Santana just hums in stops in her tracks effectively halting Mateo in his steps too. ''I am so sorry, I forgot to ask beforehand once again.''
Santana shakes her head and chuckles. ''It's alright Brittany, I will be fine.'' She tells the blonde with a reassuring grin. ''Now what is so special about this trail?'' she smiles running her thumb over the back of her sons hand as she feels him grab her own and turns back to the blonde watching her eyes light up.
''Mateo can you turn your flashlight off?'' Brittany asks with a grin, she turns to Santana as he lifts it up to turn it off and bites her lip. ''This trail is pretty known around town, most people hike up here during sunrise but the best time is hiking up as soon as the sun sets and it's starting to get dark.''
She smiles as Mateo managed to turn the flashlight off and places her hand back on his shoulder. ''Just look up.'' She whispers to the both of them.
''Whoa.'' Mateo gasps out hearing his mami's soft gasp following. ''What are those?''
''Fireflies.'' Brittany replies just as softly. ''Lots of them.'' She crouches down after taking out the mason jar she brought with her and holds it up as he turns to her in amazement. ''You want to try and catch a few?''
''We can catch them?'' He gasps out with wide eyes, Brittany nods her head and chuckles softly.
''Yeah in this jar they will survive till tomorrow so you will have a nature nightlight, we will release them tomorrow and catch a few new ones if you want.'' She murmurs as she opens the jar, she slowly lifts the jar as a firefly flies above them and gently moves the jar over him. ''See, if you move slowly you can easily catch them.''
Santana just shakes her head in amazement as she watches Brittany gently guiding Mateo over to a bunch of fireflies once again showing him how to catch them slowly and snaps a picture of them knowing Brittany allows pictures as long as they don't land on social media without permission.
''I thought fireflies are only active during summer nights.'' She murmurs as Brittany joins her after telling Mateo to try it on his own.
''They are during the summer you see them everywhere, but around the late season they appear too sometimes, I drove down with my ATV yesterday to check.''
''You know you didn't have to go through all this trouble right?'' Santana asks softly. ''We would have loved a relaxing camping weekend too.''
''I know but it's my weekend off and the boys and I already planned going to the track like we do every time we have time, I didn't know what Mateo likes but I thought doing this would be amazing and I also just love standing here and watching them fly around.''
''Talking about track.'' Santana whispers softly. ''Exactly how much did you spend on just this weekend Brittany? You not only booked our tickets but now I also heard that you bought safety helmets for us and I know that those are not cheap.''
''Don't worry about it Santana.'' Brittany just replies softly, she turns on the flashlight as she notices the fireflies around her dim and watches them brighten up again allowing Mateo to see them properly again.
''Brittany..''
She turns the flashlight back off as she hears the tone in her voice and turns to look at her, she smiles slightly as she sees her pout and bites her lip. ''Okay, okay I will tell you.'' She gives in. ''Please stop pouting.''
She leans against a big tree as Santana just smiles triumphantly and shakes her head. ''Stop looking so pleased.''
''Hey I am glad my puppy look still functions, allow me some success here.'' Santana breaths out laughing softly, she leans beside her against the tree and nudges her softly. ''Now stop sulking and tell me please.''
''I only had to pay for one helmet.'' Brittany murmurs with a shrug. ''After ordering them in the shop here and well the website heard my name, they gave me a huge discount under condition that I will wear one of those helmets in my next video track related.''
''So you will be advertising for them?'' Santana asks, Brittany hums and smiles slightly.
''Yeah but I don't mind, all our gear comes from them, helmets, jackets, guards just everything that someone needs to drive a bike or ATV.''
''You drive bikes too?''
She nods her head and chuckles. ''I do but only track and with Ma's permission, during the winter months and muddy season she prefers that I drive around in a truck or on my ATV but during the summer I can lease a bike and cruise around.''
''Is there anything you don't drive?'' Santana asks laughing softly.
''I would drive everything.'' Brittany replies chuckling. ''But you will never see me on a horse again.'' She turns to look at her as she feels her move and bites her lip as she notices her just looking at her with an eyebrow raised. ''I fell off of one shortly before my tenth birthday and broke three ribs, never rode one again after that.''
Santana winces and nods her head. ''Yeah understandable.'' She whispers, she turns to her son as he squeals and chuckles as he runs over with the jar in his hands. ''Careful mijo.'' She warns as Brittany quickly turns the flashlight on so he can watch where he is running, she crouches down as he reaches them and looks at the jar smiling as she sees that he managed to catch two. ''Good job, think those will light up the tent?'' She asks as she sees how big the jar is.
''No.'' Mateo pouts. ''But they didn't want to join their friends in here.''
Brittany chuckles softly and crouches down beside Santana. ''Shall we watch your mami catch a few more?'' She smirks as Santana immediately shakes her head as they turn to her and gently takes the jar from Mateo to hold it out for her. ''Come on San.'' She teases. ''We both already caught a few, it's your turn.''
Santana bites her lip as she feels the fluttering in her stomach the second Brittany uses her nickname and gulps thickly as she notices the tips of her ears turn red the second she realized that she shortened her name too. ''Alright.'' She gives in slowly standing up, she holds her hand out for the blonde as Mateo squeaks in excitement and smirks. ''But you are showing me how Britt.'' She adds drawling the nickname out.
Brittany just nods her head with a shy grin and grabs the offered hand shivering as she feels Santana's fingertips grace her wrist, she stands up leading Santana over to the fireflies with Mateo after shining the flashlight towards the clearing once again and slides behind Santana as Mateo slides in front of his mami.
''Open the jar.'' She whispers softly leaning down so she can whisper in Santana's ear, she bites her lip as she hears her breathing hitch about to take a small step back but freezes as Santana turns to her after she opened it, deep chocolate eyes locking on her own.
''And now?'' Santana just asks softly as she gazes into alluring blue orbs, she bites her lip as she feels Mateo's arms wrap around her thigh and turns back to the jar as she feels Brittany's hand cover her own.
''Just slowly lift the jar and catch them, the slow movement won't scare them away.'' She just hums softly feeling cold fingers around her wrist slowly guiding her hands up and watches one of the fireflies enter the jar.
''You caught one mami.'' Mateo whispers with a grin as he looks up at his mami.
''You did.'' Brittany agrees the grin heard in her voice, she takes a step back as Santana continues moving the jar to catch more and takes out her phone knowing her mom added an app that allows her to take pictures in the dark.
She snaps a few pictures of Santana and Mateo as the little boy keeps looking up at his mami with a big grin while Santana just looks down at him with a loving smile jar still held up, she rolls her eyes as loud engines roaring ruins the cute mother and son moment and sighs as they turn to her in confusion. ''The boys and Mercedes are driving back down, they roared their engines to let us now.''
''What time is it?'' Santana asks as she closes the jar after managing to catch two more.
Brittany glances at the time on her phone and smiles slightly. ''8 pm, want to drive back down too?''
Santana hums walking over with Mateo and gently runs her hand through his hair. ''Yeah so he can warm up in front of the fire for a few minutes, I am sure he will fall asleep the second he calms down.''
Brittany hums as she takes the jar from her and leads them back to the truck after handing Mateo the flashlight again, she places the jar in the back making sure it's secured and unlocks the truck so Santana can help him climb inside.
She climbs behind the wheel as she hears Santana close the door the second she buckled Mateo in and puts on her seat belt. ''Everyone buckled in?'' She asks grinning as she hears Mateo giggle.
''Si, you can drive Britty!''
She puts the truck in reverse looking over her shoulder and shoots him a wink. ''Perfect.'' She murmurs as she drives back down the narrow path, she places her injured hand behind Santana's headrest, easily steering the truck back one handed and turns the wheel in her hand as soon as she reaches the parking lot further down not noticing Santana just watching her.
Half an hour later.
Santana turns her head to look at her son as Brittany turns off the engine and chuckles softly. ''Well warming up with the heater helped too, he is out.''
''Is he warm enough or shall I leave it running a bit longer?'' Brittany asks softly as she glances at the sleeping boy in the back.
''I think he will be fine, I brought his cuddle blanket so he will be warm in the sleeping bag.'' Santana murmurs as she opens her door, she jumps out of the truck as she hears Brittany just hum and softly opens the back door reaching in to unbuckle her son.
''C can you unzip the tent?'' She asks as she feels her creeping up behind her, she looks over her shoulder as she hears her skid to a stop and chuckles as she just looks at her in surprise. ''I can smell you a mile away.'' She teases as she hears Brittany and the boys chuckle.
She laughs softly as Mercedes just scoffs and gently picks her son up, she tilts her head as he immediately nuzzles his face in her neck and rubs his back. ''Say good night mijo.'' She whispers.
''Night, night.'' Mateo just grunts out tiredly lifting his hand.
Brittany smiles adoringly as the boys chuckle and rubs his back as Santana walks past her. ''Night buddy.''
''Sleep tight little man.'' Santana hears both boys whisper as she walks to the tent, she crawls in noticing Mercedes sitting beside the inflated camp pad. She places Mateo down as Mercedes opens the sleeping bag and places the teddy he brought with him in his awaiting arms, she tucks his cuddle blanket around him and zips the sleeping bag up.
''Good night mijo, te amo.'' She murmurs sweetly as she leans down to kiss his head, she smiles as Mercedes leans down to wish him a good night and turns her head as she hears soft tapping on the tent.
She crawls back as she sees Brittany crouched down in front and smiles as she holds out the jar. ''He forgot his nightlight.'' Brittany just whispers with a grin, she takes it from her and nods her head.
''He would have complained tomorrow morning.'' She whispers with a soft chuckle. ''Thanks Britt.'' She crawls back over as Brittany just stands back up after shooting her a wink and places the jar beside Mateo so he can see it in case he wakes up, she turns to Mercedes as she pushes her softly and raises an eyebrow as she notices the shit eating grin on her face. ''What?''
''Britt?'' Mercedes just asks grinning. ''What happened down there babe?''
''We caught fireflies with Mat.'' Santana whispers pointedly looking at the jar.
''Mh and what else?''
''We talked.''
Mercedes rolls her eyes and pushes her again. ''Come on San.'' She whines.
Santana laughs as they crawl back towards the door so Mateo can sleep in peace and shrugs. ''We just talked a bit about how much she paid for just this weekend after that teamed up on me and forced me to catch a few fireflies.'' She tells her as they crawl out leaving the silent moment between herself and the blonde unspoken for now.
''And?''
''She only paid one helmet and they gave her the other two in return for a bit of advertising.'' Santana murmurs as they walk back to the three gathered around the camp fire, she walks around it to sit back down beside Brittany and takes one of the cups she holds out in her direction. ''What is this?''
''Crown and sprite.'' Brittany just replies with a small grin, she holds another cup out for Mercedes and winks. ''And rum and coke for you.''
''Awesome, thanks Britt!'' Mercedes breaths out with a grin. ''What are you drinking?'' She asks as she eyes the red cup Brittany lifts to her lips, Brittany chuckles as Santana also turns to her and smiles slightly.
''Just sprite.'' She replies, she nods her head to the boys and snickers. ''Better ask them.''
''Seriously B?'' Jake groans out as both women turn to them with an eyebrow raised, Santana laughs as Puck just avoids looking at them and shakes her head.
''We won't scold you.'' She reassures snickering, she turns to Brittany and shrugs as they just look at her in surprise. ''You all are going to high school, I am sure you already had your first experience with booze at the age of fourteen or fifteen.''
''Only beer and whiskey.'' Brittany mutters.
''Whiskey?'' Mercedes asks in surprise. ''Damn girl, normal people try vodka first.''
''Jack?'' Santana just asks chuckling.
''Country kids only down Jack.'' Puck replies before Brittany can. ''Nothing beats good ole Tennessee.''
''Cheers to that.'' Jake breaths out laughing as he raises his cup, Brittany shakes her head and laughs as Mercedes turns to him and Puck with an eyebrow raised silently asking if they are drinking whiskey now.
''Yes Jack.'' She replies turning to Santana. ''But I just took a painkiller for my hand, so I will stay sober this weekend.'' She adds lowering her voice as she notices Mercedes and the boys talking to each other.
''You still wanted to tell me what happened.'' Santana murmurs just as softly as she scoots closer after taking a sip of her drink, she hums as she notices that it's a perfect mix and leans back locking eyes with Brittany.
Brittany sighs and nods her head. ''Long story.'' She whispers with a sigh. ''It happened the day we had to fly back from the meet and greet because of ma, it was still a cast two weeks ago.''
''You broke your hand that day?'' Santana asks in shock.
''Two clean breaks.'' Brittany confirms forcing a small grin. ''But it's healed up now, the bandage is just to make sure I won't fully use my hand yet and for the bruises to completely fade.''
She bites her lip as Santana just looks at her and gulps thickly. ''My mom landed in the hospital because of my dad.'' She starts softly. ''They went through a messy divorce six years ago but my dad voluntarily gave up custody so my mom has it completely, he just visited her to tell her that he will pull her in front of court to fight it.''
''He hit her?'' Santana asks with wide eyes, Brittany shakes her head and bites her lip.
''We wouldn't be sitting here right now if he had.'' She breaths out not noticing the boys and Mercedes also listening to her. ''If he had touched her, the boys and I would be sitting behind bars right now.''
''Yep that's for sure.'' Puck confirms. ''Nobody touches our family and manages to walk away healthy.''
Brittany turns to them with a soft chuckles as Jake just chimes in his agreement and sighs leaning her head back as she notices Mercedes also watching her curiously. ''Ma can't handle stress well.'' She continues. ''So the day he stormed into her studio threatening to pull her to court and fight for custody, she fainted after a screaming match, the stress just got too much, I react the same but I am in luck and only have to fight dizziness.''
''Anyways after we landed and heard what the reason behind her fainting was, I pulled up the security camera app she has on her phone and watched it.'' She looks at the fire and shrugs. ''I saw how he fled the second she went down, I honestly don't even want to know how long it would have taken for someone to find her, if her boyfriend wasn't already outside waiting for her to go to their lunch date.''
''Are you serious?'' Mercedes asks with wide eyes. ''Damn what an asshole.''
''C!'' Santana warns even though she agrees with her, Brittany shakes her head and chuckles.
''No he is.'' She breaths out. ''I already had nothing in common with him and didn't want to spend time with him before everything happened, but now he is just dead to me, I only count three people to my family and two of them are sitting here with us.''
''So he is the reason you injured your hand?'' Santana asks carefully noticing Brittany clenching and relaxing her hand.
''Yeah kinda, after the recording I stormed out to go to him.'' Brittany replies softly. ''Ma send the boys to go after me, her intention was for them to bring me back but Puck just unlocked his truck and told me to jump in, instead of sprinting towards his house across town.''
''She would have visited him either way.'' Puck breaths out as Mercedes turns to him in surprise. ''Jake and I would never let her go alone, so we just joined her.''
''And thank god we did.'' Jake adds chuckling, Brittany shakes her head and laughs softly.
''After we arrived there and woke his bitch and him up in the middle of the night, it ended in him coming down to talk well scream and..'' She pauses and smiles sheepishly keeping her eyes locked on the flames of the campfire. ''Well after he tried to pull the boys into his trash talking, I just exploded and hit him.''
''She broke her hand on his jaw.'' Puck adds as Santana and Mercedes just blink in surprise.
''But she broke his jaw too.'' Jake breaths out in amusement. ''So he suffers longer and he had to sit behind bars for a week or something.''
Mercedes locks eyes with Santana and raises an eyebrow, she turns to Brittany as Santana just slightly shakes her head knowing the both of them are thinking back to the night she came down to book their tickets for the weekend and smiles slightly. ''Well you defended your family.'' She breaths out shrugging.
''You did what we all would have done, well all of us except C, she would be scared to break her nails.'' Santana teases with a grin, she smiles as Brittany laughs and shoots her a wink as sparkling blue orbs lock on her own. ''Defending family is priority number one, sure it sucks that you broke your hand but it looks like you don't mind it at all.''
''Not really.'' Brittany replies chuckling. ''I still did everything what I normally do to aside from diving into mud, I still did my homework but had the permission to do it online and I still recorded songs, rehearsed for CMA and wrote a few.''
''Hold up, rehearsed for CMA?'' Mercedes asks in surprise, Brittany drops her head as Santana's eyes also widen in surprise and shakes her head as the boys snicker.
''Fuck.'' She breaths out.
Santana bites her lip as she notices the tenseness entering the blonde's body and turns to her best friend. ''Hey C?'' She smirks as she just turns to her in confusion and slightly nods her head to the blonde. ''What happens here, stays here right?''
''Yeah nothing will leave this camp side.'' Mercedes agrees as she immediately catches on.
Santana just hums turning to the blonde and smiles as they immediately lock eyes. ''Whatever you tell us or accidentally spill, won't reach anyone else.'' She promises.
Brittany nods her head after a few seconds as she sees nothing but pure honesty in Santana's eyes and bites her lip. ''Well everyone will officially find out this Sunday, but I got nominated for two awards and an invite to join a few country women on stage to sing before the nominees get revealed.''
''Two times nominated?'' Mercedes asks grinning. ''Damn that's huge, congratulations Britt.''
''It really is, congrats Britt.'' Santana agrees.
''Thanks.'' Brittany murmurs blushing as she takes a sip of her sprite, she pulls her legs up in her chair and bites her lip. ''Knowing I got nominated shocked me but I am more nervous to join some big names on that stage to sing.''
''You will kill it, be more concerned about understanding Miranda's drawl.'' Puck teases chuckling.
''Nah that's easy.'' Brittany replies chuckling. ''She still speaks slowly so everyone can understand it, Carrie is more easy to understand though.''
''Drawl?'' Mercedes asks in confusion.
''Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood?'' Santana asks for clarification, Brittany nods her head and smiles slightly.
''Yeah I will join them on stage and later on Kane and I will perform our song, we rehearsed a lot the last few days.''
''Dinner at your place next week Snixx.'' Mercedes breaths out chuckling. ''We gotta watch it.'' She turns to Puck and huffs. ''The both of you are lucky, you can watch her live.''
''You did during Kane's concert.'' Jake points out snickering, Brittany laughs as Mercedes throws the beer cap Puck just dropped to him and shakes her head.
''They will watch it on TV too, Ma is my plus one for that night.''
''To make sure you won't be too overwhelmed?'' Santana asks grinning.
''Yeah for that and because I would have never dreamed of all of this without her supporting me the whole way.'' She nods her head to the boys and smiles slightly. ''They do too, but..''
''With Ma it's different.'' Puck just breaths out. ''She is still a parent and the one parent who believes in all of us.''
''Yeah that.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''And they are my band, they experience other amazing things with me.''
Santana smiles as the boys just agree and turns to Brittany. ''How many newcomers are there this year?''
''Only two, well three but the second nominees form a duo.'' Brittany answers shrugging. ''They got signed after going viral on TikTok, I feel kinda bad that I had to google them after Kane told me about it.''
''What are they called?''
''B&J.'' Jake answers chuckling. ''If you google it, the first thing showing up is how to properly give head.''
Brittany covers her face as they burst out laughing and shakes her head. ''You forgot the And.'' She tells him laughing. ''They do show up but further down, they signed to some label called Syco.''
''That's the label from Simon Cowell.'' Mercedes breaths out with wide eyes. ''Since when does he sign country?''
''Well maybe he is trying to broaden his horizon.'' Santana breaths out shrugging. ''He already did some major female voices dirty, so why not try it with a duo?''
''He did?'' Brittany asks in surprise turning to look at Santana.
''In my eyes he did.'' Santana tells her with a shrug. ''Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke and many more have such strong voices and won singing shows for a reason. But the second he signed them, their music was still good but didn't reach the expectations of several fans.''
''I agree.'' Mercedes breaths out. ''Leona, Alexandra and god knows how many more, would have kicked several people off of their thrones with a good label.''
''All you hear is bad shit about record labels, somehow nobody heard bad stuff from Kane's though.'' Jake breaths out shrugging.
''That is because Kane doesn't give the standard advance a label normally does.'' Brittany explains. ''Hell he gave me a small amount and if he wasn't so popular himself he would have put himself in debt, he just trusted me enough to bring in more than he gave me and I did within two songs and the streams they received.''
''That is what a label normally should do.'' Santana breaths out. ''But most are so commercial that they only do it for the fame and the artist needs years to sing out of that debt.''
Brittany nods her head and smiles sadly. ''Yeah that is why I was against meeting up with Kane at first, ma just told me that she would join and that we would read over the contract together.''
''You didn't want to sign at first?'' Mercedes asks in surprise, Brittany shakes her head and sighs softly.
''No because I only read bad shit about labels, I love writing and singing but doing it to work myself out of debt would have caused me to lose interest fairly quick.'' She explains. ''Kane's offer was just too good to be true and I only thought one night about it before telling Ma that I wanted to sign it, she agreed so we did.''
''He offered me the freedom to pick out my own manager, social media manager, band and songwriter.'' She nods her head to the boys and chuckles. ''My band was pretty clear the second he offered me that option, J and Puck are signed to his label now too and will join a newcomer if needed.''
''I write my own songs, so songwriter wasn't necessary but we still write Kane down too whenever he helps me out.''
''And your manager?'' Santana asks curiously.
''Katelyn, Kane's wife is my manager and we both take care of social media for now.'' Brittany replies with a small grin. ''She does this beside finishing her college degree, the second it gets too much we will search someone else though.''
''I don't think she will let you go B.'' Puck breaths out chuckling. ''She always gushes about how easy to handle you are and she still has enough time to be home with her husband and daughter, you do most things yourself and give her the freedom to decide herself if you will attend to an interview or not.''
''I am new to this world and she is new to being a manager.'' Brittany breaths out shrugging. ''I know her uncle helps her in the background and as long as none of us gets too stressed, we will be fine.''
''Girl I will say it now and I know I will be right, but one year from now, you will be touring the world.'' Mercedes breaths out chuckling.
''Nah maybe the States during summer break, but not the world.'' Brittany replies chuckling. ''It could happen that I will join Kane on one of his tours for a few days if he is touring international, but my own tour will happen somewhere next year during summer and only for two weeks during summer break as long as I am still going to school too.''
''Let us know if you will perform in LA too, I am sure Mat will love to watch you.'' Mercedes breaths out chuckling. ''That boy only listens to your music now.''
Brittany laughs and nods her head. ''I will.'' She promises with a grin, she turns to Jake as he yawns loudly and raises an eyebrow as he stretches. ''You really need to scare everyone with that yawn?'' She asks after she noticed Santana jumping at the noise.
''Shut up, I am tired.'' Jake grumbles as he stands up. ''I will retreat for the night, night all.''
''Night J.'' Brittany replies laughing as Puck just shakes his head in amusement, she reaches into her pocket to grab her phone and taps the screen slowly blinking as she sees the time. ''Hey how late do you all think it is?'' She asks chuckling.
''I don't know, midnight?'' Puck asks shrugging.
''Try two in the morning.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling, she laughs as Puck's eyebrows raise in surprise and snickers as Mercedes yawns. ''I think it's time for all of us to retreat for the night.''
She downs her sprite as she hears the women hum and slowly stands up, she glances at the fire and turns to Puck. ''Let it die down?''
''Yeah it's small enough to be safe.'' Puck replies as he walks over to kiss her forehead. ''Night B.''
''Good night Noah.'' She murmurs with a grin as he steps back, she watches him walk to the tent knowing Mercedes will follow after she came back from the bathroom the town offers for hikers a few feet away from their campsite.
She grabs their empty cups throwing them all in the trash and walks over to the truck to change into comfortable clothes making sure her body is hidden, she shivers as she slides on her oversized hoodie noticing the temperature drop as soon as she is further away from the fire and rubs her hands together.
''Cold?''
She jumps as Santana's voice breaks through the silence and twirls around blushing as Mercedes just doubles over laughing and Santana sucks in her lips to hide her amusement.
''Girl your face!'' Mercedes laughs out. ''Thought a bear was checking up on you?''
''Bit tiny for a bear.'' Brittany teases as she eyes Santana up and down.
Santana shivers as she feels Brittany's eyes check her out and scoffs as Mercedes covers her mouth to silence her laughter. ''Fuck you, giant.'' She grumbles cracking a grin.
Brittany just laughs and shrugs. ''Hey she compared you to a bear, you are more like a Cub.''
Mercedes shakes her head and chuckles. ''Alright I will leave before Snixx needs an alibi.'' She breaths out, she turns to Brittany after kissing Santana's cheek and snickers. ''Run as long as I am still walking to the tent Britt, good night.''
Santana shakes her head in amusement as Mercedes jogs to the tent and turns to Brittany with an eyebrow raised. ''Height jokes, really?''
Brittany rubs the back of her neck and chuckles. ''I just replied to what Mercedes said, don't blame me now.''
''You compared me to a Cub.'' Santana breaths out with a shake of her head unable to hide her amusement. ''She didn't.''
''No she called you a bear.'' Brittany points out chuckling. ''I am sure you can turn into a mama bear but I don't see you as some 350 pound huge animal, a Cub fits more.''
''And why's that?'' Santana asks curiously as they slowly walk towards her tent, she crouches down to unzip it and looks up at the blonde as she stays silent. ''Britt?'' She asks with an eyebrow raised as she notices her sheepish grin and slight blush.
Brittany clears her throat and shrugs her blush deepening. ''Well tiny and cute immediately entered my mind.'' She confesses while rubbing the back of her neck, she smiles shyly as Santana's eyebrows just raise in surprise and bites her lip. ''Good night San.''
She turns on her heels to walk over to the tent she shares with Jake and crouches down. ''Hey Britt?'' She turns her head as Santana calls her name and raises an eyebrow as she sees her still sitting in the same position this time with the tent zipped open.
''Yes?''
''Tiny doesn't fit you.'' Santana tells her with a grin. ''But cute does.'' She adds as she hears her soft chuckle.
Brittany just blinks as she watches her disappear into the tent right after and bites her lip. ''Oh I am so screwed.'' She whispers as she feels her stomach flutter, she zips the tent open and crawls in.
She leans over Jake to turn the small light on and groans as she notices that he takes up the whole mattress. ''Seriously J, scoot your ass over.'' She grumbles hitting him softly, she rolls her eyes as he just growls in his sleep attempting to kick her and drops her head. ''J scoot.'' She repeats this time a bit louder.
She drops her head as he doesn't butch and shakes it, she grabs her sleeping bag and pillow knowing she has no chance to wake his snoring ass and crawls out of the tent. ''Truck it is.'' She grumbles to herself, she walks over to the truck opening the back and throws her sleeping bag onto it.
She pulls herself up and crawls into it after kicking her shoes off, she lays down after slipping on her beanie so her ears will stay warm and zips up her sleeping bag. She looks up at the sky crossing her arms behind her head and sighs softly as she feels her body immediately adjusting to the hard surface of the truck, she leans up to look at the tree tents smiling as she only sees dim light coming from Santana's tent and lays back down allowing her eyes to slip close with the small smile still playing on her lips.
