"What's up Rachel?" Tina asked. The Jewish girl had asked them to meet in their room right after dinner. Brittany and Santana were on Brittany's bed, Tina and Rachel were on Rachel's.
"Well, I have a confession to make. I'm not actually gay."
Santana rolled her eyes. "Why are you here then, hobbit?"
"I'm a spy. I was raised by two dads. One of the guys at my school came here and after he came back, he…he killed himself. So we came up with an idea for me to come in as a spy, to show you all that this isn't the only way."
"Gee, you've been doing a great job of that, agreeing with every word Emma says." Tina said bluntly.
"I didn't like doing that, but I didn't want to get kicked out, okay?"
"So, why are you telling us now?" Brittany asked. "We're like, half-way through."
"They are going to be coming by tonight, to take us to a gay bar. I texted them a picture of us all and they got us fake IDs and everything. If you want to come, we're supposed to meet them outside at 11. If you don't want to come, I just hope you won't tell on us."
After talking to the girls, Rachel snuck into the boys' room to talk to them.
"Are you going to go?" Tina asked.
"Hell yeah I'm going. We haven't had fun in forever." Santana said.
"I don't know. What if we get caught?" Brittany worried.
"We're not gonna get caught." Santana said, stepping close to her.
"Okay, I'll go." She felt intoxicated with Santana standing so close and blurted it out, wanting to spend more time with the shorter girl.
Santana grinned.
All nine of the kids decided to go to the bar with Rachel's dads.
"Hi everyone! I'm so happy you decided to join us. We just want you to see that there is another way. Those New Directions people are going to tell you that you can never be happy if you are gay. Well, we are happy. We've been together for twenty-two years and we have a lovely daughter as you all know."
"Have you ever been to a gay bar?" Brittany whispered to Santana as they approached the entrance of the bar, with a rainbow sign announcing it as "The Cocksucker" out front.
Santana shook her head.
"I've never been to any kind of bar." Brittany admitted. She shuffled closer to Santana as they handed the bouncer their fake IDs.
Inside the bar was a relatively busy place. The dance floor was full but not packed, and some of the teens headed there immediately. Blaine, Sebastian, and Mike started busting their moves. Brittany was torn between joining them and spending time with Santana. Rachel had decided to hang out with her dads instead of coming in with the rest of the group, so Brittany, Santana, Tina, Kurt, and Dave headed to the bar to get drinks.
Brittany was just finishing her drink (a pineapple and vodka) and trying again to decide if she should join the boys on the dance floor when a slow song began. Most of the floor coupled up easily, and Sebastian boldly grabbed Blaine's hand and pulled their bodies together to dance. Mike stood next to them awkwardly for a moment before starting to leave the dance floor, but he was interrupted by a handsome man who looked only a few years older than he, and the Asian boy agreed to dance with him.
Brittany was musing about why Mike looked so uncomfortable while Sebastian and Blaine looked quite at ease, when a woman approached her.
"Do you want to dance?"
Brittany just blinked at her.
"Sure she does." Santana answered for her.
Brittany glared at her, but accepted the woman's hand and followed her to the dance floor. She'd danced with other girls before, but usually fast. She liked grinding on girls better than guys because they didn't get the idea that it meant she wanted to sleep with them. Well, that was what she HAD thought. In retrospect, it was probably because she actually did want to sleep with them.
Immediately after telling Brittany to dance with the other woman, Santana regretted it. She chugged the rest of her beer and turned back to the bar to get another.
"Why'd you do that?" Tina asked her.
"Do what?"
"Tell Britt to dance with that woman when you obviously want to dance with her yourself."
"What! I don't."
"Right. Okay. Then maybe I'll ask her to dance next time."
"Do you like her too?" Santana asked skeptically, leaning back against the bar and looking out at the dance floor. Brittany caught her eye and gave her a small smile.
Tina smiled. Santana had just admitted to liking the cheerleader. "Nope. I'm kind of into someone else right now. But you should totally ask her."
Santana thought for a minute to try and figure out who Tina might like. It wasn't Brittany. It didn't seem to be her.
"Um, do you like Rachel, because she's straight, you know." She pointed out.
Tina shook her head.
Santana followed her gaze and realized she was staring at Mike, who still looked awkward as hell. She turned to Tina and raised her eyebrow.
Tina sighed. "You know how I said the first day that I thought everyone was bisexual? I don't think that anymore. Like Kurt. Come on. That boy is never going to be attracted to a woman. We both know it, Emma and Sue and Will know it, and he knows it."
"Yeah, of course. So what? You are bi, that makes it easy to hide. You like Mike?" She had forgotten that Tina had identified herself as bi at the first session.
"I'm not so sure I have anything to hide, actually."
"Wait, are you saying those freaks 'fixed' you?" Santana said sarcastically, with finger quotes.
"No, of course not. I don't think they can. That's why I'm sad that I like Mike, because I don't think they can fix him. I think I just wanted to be bi because it was like, edgy. A lot of goths are. But I like guys."
Santana rolled her eyes. "There are so many of us who want so badly not to be gay, you know? And you girls who think it's all 'edgy' to be bisexual. Jesus Christ."
The slow song ended, and Brittany headed back towards them.
"Don't tell anyone yet, okay? I think I might just finish out the course and tell my parents they fixed me." Tina said quickly.
"Whatever." Santana set her second empty beer bottle on the bar and headed out to meet Brittany halfway. "Hey Britts, lets get our dance on."
The song shifted to a faster beat, and Brittany grabbed Santana and pulled her into her body, moving in perfect time with the music.
By the time the next slow song came on, the entire group was on the dance floor. Tina had been the last to join, but Kurt had finally grabbed her hand and pulled her out. Brittany and Santana had never separated since starting to dance, so when the slow song came on, it was easy for Santana to put her arms around the blond girl's neck and shift close to her. She grinned at how natural it seemed, how well they fit together. The song caused a rift for the boys, though. Blaine turned to Kurt and asked him to dance, causing grimaces from both Sebastian and Dave, who had never gotten along well, and who appeared to have crushes on Blaine and Kurt, respectively. Both boys stalked off the dance floor to get another drink. Tina was about to join them when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Do you want to dance?" Mike asked shyly.
Santana grinned at Tina as she happily accepted.
Santana and Brittany danced for another few songs before Santana had to call quits.
"You have too much energy. I'm dying of heat stroke here, come with me to get some air?" she said into Brittany's ear. The blond girl tentatively slipped her hand into Santana's and followed her outside.
"Ah, much better." Santana said, leaning against the wall. Brittany joined her.
"You're an even better dancer than I was imagining, cheerleader." Santana admitted.
"You're not bad yourself, Gleek." Brittany retorted, bumping Santana with her shoulder. Suddenly she realized just how close she was to Santana. Her heart started beating faster as she turned her head and saw the shorter girl looking at her. Their eyes met, and Santana moved slightly, tilting her head up and capturing Brittany's lips in a kiss. The cheerleader kissed back eagerly for a moment before remembering she was supposed to be suppressing the gay feelings. Santana felt her hesitation and pulled back slightly, looking at her.
"I'm not supposed to like you." Brittany said softly.
"But?"
"I wanna do that again."
"Bye dads, see you in a few weeks!" Rachel said, following the rest of the teens out of the van. They crept back to their rooms, but heard a noise just as they were reaching their door.
"Shit, Sue's coming!" Santana whispered. The girls rushed inside and leapt into their beds, covering themselves up just in time as the door creaked open and Sue's flashlight beamed onto each of their beds in turn. Satisfied there was nothing inappropriate going on, she shut the door again and all four girls breathed a sigh of relief. Santana hopped out of her bed and quickly kissed Brittany.
"Night."
"Night." Brittany responded with a giant grin.