''That was Brittany, performing her new song Somebody's hero!'' Ellen exclaims grinning into the camera as the audience applaud and cheer, she turns to Brittany as she sits back down in one of the red chairs and smiles. ''So Brittany.''
''Yes?'' Brittany asks grinning.
''I heard you just graduated at the top of the class, one year early.'' Ellen tells her impressed. ''Congratulations.''
''Thank you.'' Brittany breaths out with a smile.
''So now that you graduated, can we find out more about your life?'' Ellen asks curiously, Brittany shrugs her shoulders and smiles teasingly.
''Ask away and find out Ellen.''
''Where are you from?''
''Born and raised in Springville.'' Brittany replies with a grin. ''About two hours away from Nashville.''
''Last name?''
Brittany chuckles leaning back in her seat and folds her hands in her lap. ''Pierce, but I will still only go by Brittany unless I am attending a show or interview.''
''What do you like to do in your free time?''
''Spend time with my mom and her boyfriend.'' Brittany replies. ''Or hanging out with my friends and go camping, driving around track or just relax.''
Ellen nods her head and smiles slightly. ''Now the question everyone is waiting for, are you single?''
''They want to know if I'm single?'' Brittany just asks in amusement, Ellen laughs and nods her head.
''We all do after you and Carrie released Heartbeat, we know Carrie sang it for her husband, but did you sing it for someone special?''
''I did yes.'' Brittany just breaths out grinning, Ellen raises an eyebrow and tilts her head.
''That is your answer?'' She whines, Brittany laughs and shrugs.
''There is someone special in my life and the idea behind the song was to open up about how I feel because singing about my feelings function better than talking.'' She explains, she glances at the audience licking her lips as she sees Mateo fast asleep in Santana's lap and turns back to Ellen. ''But she isn't someone from the music industry or any other career that brings her into the public eye, so I won't go into detail.''
''Understandable.'' Ellen breaths out. ''So you're in a relationship?''
Brittany nods her head and smiles. ''I am.'' Brittany confirms.
''How long are the two of you together?'' Brittany rubs the back of her neck and smiles slightly.
''Well I know her for a bit over a year now, but we started dating five months ago.'' She answers truthfully. ''Officially in a relationship for about two weeks now.''
''So you dated five months before asking her?'' Ellen asks in surprise.
''Long distance relationship.'' Brittany explains. ''We didn't see each other much after New Years Eve and we both didn't want to ask the other over the phone so we just waited until we saw each other again.''
''What do you call long distance?'' Ellen asks curiously.
''1800 miles?'' Brittany asks chuckling, she snickers as Ellen's eyes widen and nods her head. ''Yeah not really around the corner but that makes the time that we do spend together even more special.''
''How often do you see each other?'' Ellen asks curiously.
''It really depends on how busy we both are.'' Brittany breaths out. ''We didn't see each other for three months because we were both busy and I was focusing on school, but we try to make sure that we will see each other more now that I graduated and I can write songs from everywhere I just need to be in Nashville to record.''
Ellen nods her head and smiles. ''Alright one last question.'' She folds her hands in her lap as Brittany just nods her head and glances down at the little card with notes on the arm rest of her chair. ''What are your plans for the coming months?''
''Mostly write and record.'' Brittany replies grinning. ''My second album is in the making but.'' She glances at Katelyn backstage smiling as she just nods her head and turns back to Ellen. ''Kane has a three week long America tour planned, I will join him as his opening act.''
''Really?''
''Yeah that is why I will focus on writing the next few months so I will have enough songs to perform those three weeks.''
''Any spoilers about your next Album?''
''I thought that was your last question.'' Brittany teases, she laughs as Ellen just raises an eyebrow and shrugs. ''I won't spoil much because I like to surprise everyone, but it will be a bit different as my first album and with wide variation of songs.''
''Will Noah and Jake join you on tour?''
''I won't go without them.'' Brittany breaths out chuckling. ''They belong to my band and I want to experience it with them, without them, my mom, Kane and Kate I would have never dreamed of all of this so I will enjoy everything with them.''
''Alright that was really my last question.'' Ellen breaths out chuckling as her earpiece beeps knowing Brittany heard the same thing. ''Thank you so much for joining my interview and for that amazing performance, it was a pleasure to meet you and hopefully we will see you soon again Brittany.''
''I am sure we will, thank you the invitation.'' Brittany replies, she turns to the audience as Ellen announces the end of the show and waves at the camera until the lights turn off. She stands up shaking Ellen's hand as she walks over to her and smiles slightly as she hears several people calling her name, she catches the permanent marker one of the stagehands throws in her direction and follows Ellen to the audience knowing she will give them autographs too.
She signs a few pictures people holds out in her direction thanking them with a kind smile as they congratulate her and walks through the rows. ''Brit'ny can I get one pwease?!'' She looks around hearing a cute voice squeal her name and walks over to a little girl jumping on her seat, she crouches down in front of her smiling kindly as she sees her holding one of the albums Ellen handed out before she walked out onto the stage and looks at her.
''What is your name sweetie?''
''Emma.'' The girl whispers shyly as she cuddles into her mothers side.
She smiles signing the album after writing an encouraging sentence on the cover and holds it out for the little girl. ''Here you go cutie.'' She stands back up shaking the mothers hand smiling as she thanks her with a big smile and chuckles inwardly as she sees Mercedes holding out a piece of paper with a big grin.
She locks eyes with her as she signs it and chuckles. ''Seriously C?''
''Gotta catch up with the superstar.'' Mercedes breaths out laughing as Santana just shakes her head in amusement.
''C and I will drive home.'' Santana murmurs as Brittany takes the time signing Mercedes's paper. ''Meet you there?''
Brittany nods her head running her hand down Mateo's back and squeezes Santana's hand placed on the small of his back softly. ''I will ask Kate to distract the paps.'' She whispers softly, she smiles as Santana nods her head stepping back so they can walk towards the stairs and walks over to a few teens screaming her name.
Three hours later.
Santana looks up from her laptop as she hears the front door click shut and smiles slightly as Brittany walks into the kitchen yawning. ''Hey you, they didn't want to let you go?''
''The paps were hell.'' Brittany grumbles with a soft sigh, she walks over to peck her lips and chuckles. ''They didn't follow Kate so I had to wait till Ellen left the building, thankfully they thought I was in the car she was in and chased her.''
''It's only beginning Britt-Britt.'' Santana murmurs chuckling as she turns her laptop so she can see it. ''Everyone is asking if someone wants to sell tickets to Kane's concert knowing that you are the opening act, you also have a few fan pages.''
''But the biggest question according to the trendings is who I am dating.'' Brittany murmurs sheepishly as she sees the trending top one. ''Fuck.''
Santana shakes her head grabbing her hand as she tries to walk away and pulls her close. ''They don't know anything about me babe.'' She whispers reasuringly as she wraps her arms around her waist, she tilts her head up, her chin leaning on her abs as she gazes up at her and smiles reasuringly. ''We don't have each other tagged in anything but the meet and greet or the video I shared in the beginning, but even if they do manage to connect the dots we will handle it together.''
''I just don't want the paps or anyone else annoying you or Mat.'' Brittany murmurs. ''That is really the only stressful part of my career choice, everyone will be pictured the second the paps spot us together.''
''I don't mind as long as they blur Mat's face out, I want him to decide himself later on if he wants his pictures posted or not but until then I don't want any pictures of him out in the open.''
''Yeah I don't think they will do it immediately.'' Brittany sighs out. ''But the second they try to publish it, Kate already promised to threaten them with a lawsuit.'' She bites her lip as Santana's eyebrows raise in surprise and shrugs. ''The both of you, Ma, Carl and Cedes didn't choose to be in the public eye so they don't need to post anything about any of you, Puck, J and I will be pictured more often but that is all part of the job.''
Santana smiles tugging her so she is sitting in her lap and pecks her lips. ''You are overthinking babe, it didn't happen yet and we are careful whenever we are out, if they do spot us together and snap a picture we will deal with it together but I won't and don't want to hide our relationship.''
''I don't want to hide our relationship either but I also don't want to stress you out.'' Brittany murmurs as she wraps her arms around her shoulders just moving to sit more comfortably on her lap. ''Topic change, were you stalking me on Twitter?'' She teases.
Santana shakes her head and laughs. ''No I was checking the orders for tomorrow and if I have to prepare something tonight, I just checked the trendings after C texted me.''
''Do you have to prepare something?''
''No I will just get up an hour earlier so I will finish on time.'' Santana murmurs against her cheek after nuzzling her nose against it. ''You look amazing by the way, did you bring this with you?'' She asks softly tugging on the dark blue denim button up she wears.
''No Kate brought it with her.'' Brittany murmurs chuckling. ''I asked ma to pick something out and ask Kate to bring it with her.'' She turns her head to kiss her softly and glances at the time. ''It's almost midnight, let's go to bed and I will stand up with you in a few hours and help you out.''
''Babe..''
Brittany chuckles as she cuts herself off with a yelp the second she pulls her up with her and pecks her lip. ''Nope I won't take a no, I can sleep on the flight back tomorrow evening.'' She intertwines their hands after Santana turned off her laptop and tugs her down the hall turning all the lights off on their way to the bedroom.
They both stop as they reach Mateo's room, peaking into the room and smile lovingly as his soft snores reach their ears. ''He is so adorable.'' Brittany murmurs with a cute grin as she sees the little boy spread out like a starfish on his bed holding tightly onto the teddy bear she gave him for his birthday, she follows Santana to the bedroom as she hums softly and unbuttons her shirt as she walks in.
She slides into the bed after they both changed and turns on her side smiling lovingly as Santana immediately scoots closer nuzzling her face in her chest, she kisses the top of her head as she feels her arms wrap around her waist and hums softly. ''Good night San.''
''Mh.'' Santana just hums softly as she feels long slender fingers massage her scalp. ''Good night Britt-Britt.'' She whispers on the verge of falling asleep. ''Te amo.'' She tenses slowly realizing she voiced her thoughts out loud as she feels Brittany's fingers immediately stop and slowly pulls back as she hears her breathing hitch. ''Fuck, I mea…''
She hums as Brittany cuts her off with a soft kiss and tightens her hold around her waist, she licks her lips as Brittany pulls back and gulps thickly. ''Bri..''
''I love you too Santana.'' She blinks as Brittany's soft sweet voice cuts her off before she can think of what to say and leans back. ''I was fighting so hard to keep those words in the past few days.'' She whispers softly. ''But each day made me realize just why I love you.''
Santana smiles as she leans in to kiss her softly again and cups the back of her neck. ''I had the same trouble.'' She muses as she leans their foreheads together. ''But why?''
''I don't know, maybe we both thought that it's too early?''
''But is it?'' Santana asks curiously. ''It doesn't feel like it's too early for me.''
Brittany laughs softly and softly kisses her nose. ''We both voice our thoughts unless we think it's too early or that we don't want to say it over the phone babe.'' She whispers in amusement. ''We really need to stop thinking that it would be too early for the other because somehow we both think the same unbeknownst to the other.''
Santana chuckles nuzzling her face in her chest and sighs contently as she feels long slender arms wrap around her shoulders. ''Yeah we definitely have to try that.'' She whispers in amusement, she kisses her throat softly and smiles against the hot skin. ''Good night baby.''
''Good night San.'' Brittany murmurs against the top of her head, she pulls the cover over them and nuzzles in dark locks. She smiles lovingly as she scoots even closer feeling the arms wrap around her waist slide under her shirt hands splaying on her naked back and closes her eyes as she hears her soft content sigh.
