Chapter 12: Forgiveness

It was Sunday night and Rachel was on the phone with Santana. She was trying to find an outfit for tomorrow. Her phone was on the bed and Santana was on speaker, "San, should I go with purple argyle or my maroon knee length dress? Either way I'll be wearing my black small heeled shoes with me knee high socks."

Santana groaned on the other end, "Rach, you should totally go with neither."

"Santana," Rachel warned.

"I don't mean to go naked, I just meant that you should go with that short red dress that really shows off your legs and chest," you could practically hear Santana's smirk.

"Oh yeah, then all the guys will be dragging their jaws as they follow me around," Rachel teased.

Santana clenched her teeth and hissed, "Argyle and your longest skirt."

Rachel laughed, "Who would have thought that Santana Lopez would be telling me, Rachel Berry, to wear argyle?"

"Well when Rachel Berry is dating Santana Lopez, Santana will be the only one allowed to stare at Rachel Berry's body," Santana said casually.

Rachel smiled as she pulled out the outfit, "Santana Lopez should know she sounds funny talking in 3rd person. Besides, you are the only one I want looking at my body."

"Wanky," Santana added.

"With clothes on," Rachel shot back.

"But that's no fun," Santana whined.

"I'm sorry, but you know how I work," Rachel said then she plopped onto the bed, on her stomach, taking the phone off speaker.

Santana answered, "Yes I know, I was joking. I will not make you do something you don't want to."

Rachel couldn't help but laugh, "I know you were joking Sweetie. But it's nice to know that you are OK with that."

"Well I always have other people," Santana trailed off in a teasing tone.

"Then I would have to kick someone's butt for touching my girl," Rachel said in all seriousness.

Santana poked fun at her, "Do my ears deceive me or is that Rachel Berry jealous?"

"For your information Santana, it is not jealousy. I just want you to know that no one else is allowed to have sexual relations with you but me when I'm ready," Rachel answered.

"OK so until you are ready to have sex with me I can fuck other people?" Santana joked.

"Santana Lopez don't make me regret agreeing to be in a romantic relationship with you," Rachel warned before she started a rant. "If you are dating me you will be no more than friendly with anyone. Also you should watch your profanity. Not only is it vulgar, it also sounds unintelligible. You are a bright, beautiful young lady and that language is not show casing that. If you want to be successful in your adult hood and in life in general, you will learn more respectable language."

Santana put in before Rachel could continue, "Rach. Honey, a) I was just joking, I know that I have to be totally monogamous if I am with you. B) I know the language I use and I use it to express myself in a more teen friendly way."

Rachel grinned, "Honey?"

Santana couldn't see the grin, could only hear the question so she worried, "Do you not like it? Is it too soon?"

"San, I like it, it's cute," Rachel smiled.

Santana smiled also, "OK, well then Honey, it is."

"Alright, well we both should go to bed, it's 9 o'clock," Rachel said.

"Good night Honey. I'll see you tomorrow," Santana answered with a smiled.

"Remember pick me up at 7," Rachel reminded.

"I know."

"Good night San."

"Good night Rach."

Santana pulled up outside of Rachel's house at 6:59 and gave her horn a quick beep to let Rachel know she was there. Rachel came down a few moments later and got in the car, "Good morning San."

"Morning Rach," Santana smiled and gave her a quick kiss. She smiled at what Rachel was wearing. She was wearing a purple, black, and gray argyle sweater and a long black and gray plaid skirt. "Ready to go?"

Rachel smiled and nodded, "Yeah."

Santana started driving to the school. She pulled up twenty minutes later and got out of the car before going to Rachel's side. She grabbed the diva's hand and started to lead her inside. Rachel smiled and followed Santana into the school.

Everyone stared as they walked hand in hand, but no one dared to say anything. As they got to Rachel's locker, Kurt and Mercedes walked up, grins on their faces. Kurt spoke first, "So am I right to assume you are McKinley's newest and cutest lesbian couple."

"We are the only lesbian couple here Kurt," Rachel said.

"And we aren't cute, we are hot," Santana smirked.

Mercedes rolled her eyes, "And how come you didn't tell us that you two started dating?"

"Because it just happened Saturday night and we decided that we wanted to tell everyone together," Rachel answered.

"But you could have called us with an update on the date, was it fun? Where did she take you? Was she nice? Did you kiss?" Kurt looked at her.

Rachel blushed and Santana answered, "Yes, it was fun. I took her to that indoor amusement thing on Industrial Road, then the lake for dinner. Yes, I was nice and yes we kissed. Twice."

Kurt and Mercedes gushed, "That is so cute."

Rachel laughed, "She was very cute."

"Santana Lopez doesn't do cute," Santana grumbled as she wrapped an arm over Rachel's shoulders.

"Of course not San," Rachel reached up and kissed her cheek.

Both of her friends in front of them grinned, "You two are like the cutest couple we have had in Glee so far."

"Other than me and Blaine of course," Kurt added.

"Blaine and I," Rachel corrected.

Santana laughed and kissed Rachel's head, "We should get to class Honey, we are going to be late."

"Honey? That's adorable," Kurt grinned.

"Yeah and you tell anyone that I have a cutesy name like that for my girlfriend I will kick you so hard-" Santana started.

"Santana," Rachel warned.

Santana groaned and started walking, "Come on."

Rachel called back to her friends as Santana led her to her class. They stopped outside of Rachel's first period class, "I will meet you at lunch OK?"

"Alright, I'll see you at lunch," Rachel reached up and gave her a kiss. Santana returned it with a smile before turning and going to class.

They met up at lunch with Kurt, Blaine, and Mercedes, doing their normal thing,

When they were in Glee club, waiting for it to start, Santana had an arm around her shoulder, tickling her neck with kisses. She was whispering playful words in her ear every once in a while before going back to the kisses, causing Rachel to giggle.

Finn walked in to see them together. He was immediately crushed but didn't say anything as he walked quietly to his seat. Rachel saw him and looked over, "Finn?"

Santana pulled away from her and looked over at the slouching boy, who looked up and hummed in response.

"Are you OK?" Rachel asked. He didn't have much from the punch from Santana but a small cut on his lip with a tiny bruise around it.

Finn nodded silently and looked down again, "Look Finn, I am sorry for hitting you last week."

Finn looked up and spoke this time, "It's fine Santana. To be honest I deserved it. I shouldn't have said what I did what and I am sorry."

Santana nodded, "It's OK Finn, but I think it's Brittany you should be apologizing to."

Finn nodded, "As long as you take care of her Lopez. If I can't have her at least she will have a feisty Latina to protect her."

Santana nodded and pulled her closer, "I will do my best."

Rachel smiled up at her girlfriend as Finn walked to Brittany who was sitting on Artie's lap, "Thank you San."

"For what?" Santana looked down at her.

"For being nice to Finn and for promising to protect me," Rachel smiled.

"Anything for you," Santana smiled and gave her a kiss as Mr. Shue walked in.

"OK for to- Did I miss another couple happening?" Mr. Shue asked.

Santana pulled away and rolled her eyes, "You are kind of late Shue. You saw my performance, hear my speech."

"Yeah but I didn't think you two would start dating," Mr. Shue said.

"This is high school, relationships move fast," Rachel said.

Mr. Shue nodded, "Well anyways we need to start looking for our musical this year."

Santana raised her hand, "Mr. Shue, I think we should do 'Hello Dolly.'"

Mr. Shue raised an eyebrow, "I'm surprised you would know that one."

Santana shrugged, "I do watch some musicals."

"You don't watch musicals, I showed you that Saturday night," Rachel cut in.

"But I remembered that you said it was your favorite Barbra Streisand musical other than Funny Girl. Plus, Finn can be that really tall guy, Ambrose Kemper, and Tina can be Ermangarde. And of course Rachel would be Dolly Levi. I could figure you out the whole cast," Santana smiled.

"Well if Artie is OK with you casting it then that would be fine with me," Mr. Shue said, impressed by Santana's initiative attitude.

"Sure, that's cool. I trust Santana," Artie said. "I can work with whoever she gives me."

Santana stood and looked at everyone before naming them off, "Blaine would be Horace. Mike would be Cornelius because we need a good dancer, I could be Irene, Rory can be Barnaby, Brittany can be Minnie, Quinn as Gussie Granger, Kurt can be Rudolf, Puck can be the orchestra leader, and the rest are minor roles, I'm sorry Sam and Mercedes."

"It's OK, I will be a float girl," Mercedes smiled.

Sam shrugged, "I'll be an extra."

Mr. Shue grinned, "Alright, we have our musical and our cast, give it up for Santana."

Everyone clapped and Rachel grinned at her girlfriend. When Santana sat Rachel kissed her cheek, "Thank you."

"Well I figured that if they never redo 'Funny Girl' on Broadway, I can at least let you fill Barbra's shoes once," Santana smiled.

Rachel grinned and Artie wheeled to the front to start thinking of ideas for the musical and talking about getting his promptbook done. He said that they would be ready to start next week.

When Glee was over, Santana and Rachel headed back to Rachel's place, originally to watch some movies, but Rachel ended up wanting to already start rehearsing with Santana. They worked for an hour before Santana asked to stop, pulling Rachel in for a kiss before she could argue.

They ended the night kissing and cuddling before Santana had to go home. Santana was surprisingly pleased with how easy it was dating Rachel. She thought it was going to be a lot more difficult, but she actually found the gestures and faces Rachel made when she ranted was kind of cute.

Santana also didn't mind the making out. Though she did start to slide her hand up her skirt once but when Rachel knocked her hand away, she moved it to her hip and didn't move it.

Santana could definitely get used to dating Rachel.

Sorry it is short again, I ran out of time, not that I had a lot to begin with. School started this week and APUSH is kicking my ass and so is Expository reading and writing, and drama, and human phys, and tech theater, and Algebra 2 pre AP. So basically every one of my classes. Anyway, I will try to make Saturday long again. Thank you for the reviews, favorites, and follows, keep them coming. I love you always, see you Saturday. The title is "Forgiveness" by Mathew West.