Brittany feels weird.
At first she's too worried about Santana to really pay attention, but when Kurt drops her off she begins to notice that she's moving differently. Her steps feel lighter. Like the air used to be heavy, and now it's not. She twirls in her room. It's incredibly easy to move. She marvels at the ease with which her body responds.
Brittany spends the night doing tricks in her room. Handstands, flips, one-handed push ups. Anything acrobatic she can manage in her room. She barely realizes her alarm goes off, but dutifully goes to shower. Santana had expressed the importance of being clean for their lady kisses and Brittany doesn't know what she wants more. To show Santana all the new wonderful things her body can do, or kiss her senseless. If she's lucky, maybe she can do both. The lack of sleep doesn't even bother her, she doesn't feel tired at all.
Kurt is there to pick her up just like yesterday. But he's different on the ride over. Not a good different, like she is, but twitchy, the way Lord Tubbington gets when he's had too much coffee. He's also really quiet. Kurt's usually not, especially not when they're in a car together. Usually the radio gets turned on and they sing all the way to wherever they're going, or Kurt tells her about some fashion thing, listens to her tell him about what she watched on TV. It's weird. Brittany tries to talk a few times, but Kurt just stares straight ahead. Knuckles white from the grip he has on the wheel.
She asks him to turn off the AC because she's getting cold and he flinches so hard he almost drives them off the road. She stops trying to talk after that. Kurt doesn't touch any buttons, but Brittany thinks the car gets even colder after that.
By the time they get to the center, Kurt is paler than she's ever seen him before. He looks sick. He looks even worse when they pass the wall of graffiti they were supposed to wash off that day. Brittany doesn't blame him, someone one really mean wrote 'ILL KILL YOU' in bright red letters. Puck tries to take a picture and their probation worker takes all of their phones. They head inside to get changed and Brittany begins to wonder is she's bleeding. She takes the magic pills that keep it from happening everyday, and she doesn't have sex with boys that one week when she can have a baby. She doesn't want to be sad like Quinn, she's pretty sure her parents wouldn't let her keep it either. She's not supposed to bleed anymore this month, but the smell of blood is really strong.
Santana flinches away when Brittany tries to kiss her, even though there's no one else around. They're alone inside the girls locker room. She tries not to feel bad. Maybe Santana is the one that's bleeding. It doesn't usually bother the other girl. Santana says that toys were made for when touching yourself got a little gross like that. The smell of blood is really strong though. Maybe Santana's scared because she's never bled so much before.
Brittany always finds it hard to stay away from Santana. Something about the other girl pulls her close. The same way you fall when you're trying to fly no matter how high you jump. Brittany knows she can jump higher now than ever before. But she still falls. So she ends up standing next to Santana, even if the other girl wont let her close enough to touch. They all scrub away at the wall, quietly.
The cloudy sky doesn't help any. It looks like it's going to start to cry.
The short guy who's name she can't remember, but who's eyebrows look like triangles, is the one to break the silence."Do any of you feel...different, after yesterday? Have you noticed anything strange?"
Kurt drops his scrubbing brush. Brittany watches Santana go perfectly still.
"NO," She says forcefully."I feel fine. Nothing weird is going on."
"Nothing." Kurt agrees, tone hard.
Brittany doesn't agree with them. She feels amazing. And she can do so many new things so easily now. Plus Santana and Kurt are acting weird. Nothing like their usual selves at all. Kurt bends to pick up the brush, and she notices a wet spot on the ground. Wonders if it already started to rain and she just hasn't felt any drops yet.
"Wasn't the freaky storm yesterday weird enough?" Puck asks."But nah, nothing else unless you count Santana being bitchier than usual."
Triangles frowns at them, "I have."
"Well keep it to yourself Frodo."Santana snarls. Kurt starts scrapping harder against the wall. Brittany frowns, Triangles looks really sad. She want's to make him feel better, but she likes Santana and Kurt too much to make them mad at her the way they look mad at triangles. She also feels a bit like she's lying even though she hasn't said anything at all. It's so quiet. She wonders what happened. Painting benches had been fun yesterday. They had all sung and had a blast. She doesn't get why it's so quiet, or why the air feels all weird.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Brittany blurts. Even though she doesn't. She just want's to get away from the weird air, and the frowns on Kurt and Santana's faces. At least Puck is his usual self. No one says anything when she leaves. She finally starts to feel some raindrops though.
Brittany get's lost looking for the bathroom. The smell of blood is still really strong, and she guesses that Santana wasn't the one bleeding after all because it's stronger inside and Santana is still scrapping at the walls outside. She hears a crash and turns a corner. Steps back when she sees their probation worker lifting a desk over his head and then smashing it on the ground.
She's pretty far away from him, but she hears him like he's right next to her.
"I'll kill them all."
Brittany is frozen with fear. He looks so scary, absolutely crazy. And then his eyes meet hers and she knows he is. They both stand perfectly still for a moment before he takes a step towards her. Brittany doesn't think about it, she turns around and runs. She has to warn the others.