Four
Santana looked between Dani, to her house and then back to the blonde girl beside her. "Dani, I really appreciate all of this, but I don't want to impose." Santana said, "what will your parents say? I am sure they don't want random people showing up at the house." Santana said. She was just making feeble excuses. Truthfully, Santana didn't actually care what Dani's parents would think or say. She just felt slightly awkward going anywhere with the other girl.
It wasn't like she didn't want to spend time with Dani, because she did. The girl had been nothing but nice to her last night and again that morning. But still, it felt strange to her.
"Don't be stupid, you're not imposing." Dani said, "besides, my parents aren't even home. It's still just me in there, so don't worry about anyone else being around." She said. She gave Santana's hand a light squeeze and smiled at he reassuringly.
"Okay."
Dani started to walk to her house, slowing her pace down to match Santana's. She ran her thumb over the taller girl's slowly. Santana looked down at their entwined hands. It felt strange to be holding anybody's hand that wasn't Brittany, but it wasn't an unpleasant feeling, just different.
Dani only let go of Santana's hand so that she could unlock the door to her house. The blonde girl held the door open for Santana, who walked into the house sheepishly. Dani closed the door behind them with a light click.
Santana's eyes darted along the pure white walls of the hallway. Hanging on one of the walls were three large photographs. There was one of just Dani's parents. It was easy for Santana to see where Dani got her looks. She was very similar to her mother, the only ways the differed were that Dani looked younger and had slightly softer features.
The next picture on the wall, was one of just the three Mitchell children. They were stood in age order, Dani being in the middle of her elder sister and younger brother. She was the smallest of her siblings, she came up to her sister's ear and her brother's shoulder. Her siblings were a strong mixture of both their parents, Dani's sister swayed more to looking like their father, while her brother held more of their mother.
The last picture in the line of three on the wall was of the five of them. Dani's parents were stood behind their three children, who were again stood in age order. Dani's mother and father both had proud smiles on their faces.
Dani came to stand behind Santana, her line of sight followed the taller girl's until she too was looking at the line of family portraits.
"God I hate those pictures of me."
Santana looked over her shoulder and furrowed her eyebrows at Dani, she turned her head so that she was once again looking at the photographs. "Why?"
Dani shrugged, "I just really don't like seeing pictures of myself, I never have." She admitted. "What makes it even worse is that we have to have new one's done every year." She said, she nodded in the direction of the picture of her parents, "master's orders." She said sarcastically. She sighed, "we had our new ones done a couple of weeks ago, when Adriana was back from college. We should get those in about a week and then the pictures will get switched and my dad will get rid of those ones." Dani looked at the picture of the five of them and paused momentarily before saying, "moving swiftly on."
She walked away from the photo's and led Santana up the stairs and towards her bedroom. Santana hadn't really known what she had been expecting to see in Dani's room, but it certainly wasn't what she was greeted with.
The first thing Santana noticed about Dani's bedroom was the size of it, it was a fairly big room, bigger than her own. All but one of Dani's walls had been painted from top to bottom in white, the other wall- the back wall of the room- was painted top to bottom in teal. Most of Dani furniture was against the back wall; her closest, two chests of drawers- one of which was next to her bed, serving as a bed-side table. The head board of her spacious bed was against the teal wall, her bed faced the door.
As Santana looked around, her eyes fell on the several instruments that Dani owned, she had two acoustic guitars (a blue one and a light brown one), she had a deep blue coloured electric guitar, a black ukulele, a keyboard and a white bass guitar that had a vine leaf pattern running up the fret board.
Santana could see all of this from where she stood in the doorway, she hadn't dared move yet. The brunette watched as Dani entered the bedroom first. She opened the top drawer on the set she was using as her bed-side table, she threw her phone into it and closed it again quickly.
She turned around and looked up to see Santana standing rigid in the doorway, watching her closely. "You can come in, you know?" Dani said smiling at the other girl, "I didn't invite you over here so you could just stand there."
Santana nodded slowly and walked into Dani's bedroom, she took another look around it, taking in all that she could. Dani had a small white vanity, that was pressed against the wall opposite the window, giving her the best lighting in the room for when she got ready on a morning.
She had various things placed neatly on the surface of the vanity, her perfumes, body sprays, lotions and her makeup among many other things.
Everything in Dani's bedroom seemed to be well organised, it was slightly different than how Santana had her own. Usually, Santana would just throw things down as she walked into her bedroom. But Dani seemed to have a place for everything that she owned, keeping everything neat and tidy.
The blonde moved around her bedroom quickly, she grabbed some clean clothes from her closet before she spun around on her heel so she could face Santana. "I'll be right back. I just really need to get a shower." She said, "feel free to look through my DVD collection, I have them all in a drawer under my bed. Just out anything on, I promise I won't be too long, but it just saves you from sitting in silence."
Santana nodded, "Oh, okay thanks." She said, Dani smiled at her weakly before she moved around her to leave the bedroom, she turned right on the landing of the stairs and headed towards the bathroom. Santana slowly made her way over to Dani's bed. She admired her duvet cover; a black and white picture of the New York Skyline taken at night.
Santana sat herself down slowly, she sank into the other girl's bed slightly and ran her hands over the soft sheets. It felt odd for her to be in Dani's house, let alone in her bedroom, sitting on her bed. Santana personally never thought she'd see the day where she would be here. She took another look around the room, feeling more like and intruder than anything else.
Even though Dani had granted her with the permission to find something to watch, Santana didn't feel comfortable looking through her DVD collection and dictating what the girl should watch on her own telly, especially since what she and Dani were building was a new thing. She was used to speaking to the girl, but not in the nice soft way Dani had spoken to her last night and that morning. She was more used to the conversations that were solely insults and jests.
She hadn't known that Dani had it in her to not be sarcastic.
Instead of searching through her DVD's, she stood slowly and made her way to the collection of instruments that Dani owned. She had known that Dani was a pretty musical person and that she could play the guitar. She had never heard Dani sing though, but she wanted to, just to see if the girl was any good and had a hidden talent. She certainly had a lot of talent given the instruments she could play. Santana would never had expected that Dani could also play the ukulele, the keyboard and the bass guitar.
Santana hadn't heard Dani enter the room again, she had been far to preoccupied making her way around the instruments, she played with each one of them as she passed it, she pressed random keys on the keyboard and plucked random strings on her string instruments.
Making flat sounding notes and grimacing at the sound. Dani smiled as she watched Santana, who was currently playing with the strings on Dani's electric guitar.
"You having fun there?" Dani asked, her voice startled the other girl, Santana stepped away from the guitar abruptly, almost knocking the guitar out of it's stand. She caught it just in time straightening it out again. Santana opened her mouth to say something but closed it again, panic filling her system. A small smile spread across the blonde's face. "Do you play?" She asked as she approached Santana.
The brunette shook her head and visibly relaxed when she saw that Dani wasn't annoyed with her. "No, no I don't, I was just admiring." She admitted. She turned back around and looked at the guitar once more.
"Oh." Dani said, she walked over to Santana and stood next to her, looking down at the guitar.
Santana took a deep breath, she could smell the scent of Dani's pomegranate soap and shampoo on the other girl, fresh from the shower. Her breathing seemed to hitch as Dani got closer to her. "W-what, make is it?" Santana asked, not really knowing what else to do.
"Oh, he's a Gibson Les Paul." Dani said moving away from Santana slightly.
"He?" Santana asked furrowing her eyebrows.
Dani nodded her head and screwed up her face slightly. "Yeah, he's a he." She said, "With a name like Steve, you'd expect that."
"Oh my god, you named it?"
Dani nodded her head slowly, "Yeah." She said.
"Do any of your other's have names?" She asked.
Dani shook her head, "Nope, just Steve." She admitted.
"You're such a dork." Santana said rolling her eyes slightly.
Dani nodded her head, a proud smile forming on her face, "Yes, I am." She agreed. "So, did you actually find anything for us to watch or were you too busy man handling all my stuff?" Dani asked.
Santana furrowed her eyebrows, "Okay, I was not man handling."
"Oh please, you man handled." Dani joked, Santana shook her head slowly and smiled at the other girl.
"No. I didn't find anything to watch."
"Okay then, sit down, we are gonna find the worst things we can on Netflix, we're having a movie day." Dani said.
"Why?" Santana asked.
Dani shrugged, "Why not?" She said.
"Well..." Santana said drawing out the word.
"Do you have anything better in mind?" Dani asked, Santana shook her head slowly, "well then." She said, Dani grabbed her laptop and set it up, she climbed onto her bed and rearranged some of her pillows, trying to make it comfier for both of them. Santana stood playing with her fingers by Dani's instruments. The blonde rolled her eyes. "Oh come on, it'll be fun." She said, she patted the space beside her for Santana to join her.
She slowly walked to where Dani was sat and joined her on the bed, sinking into it slightly. She leaned back against the pillows and smiled at Dani silently thanking her. The blonde returned the smile, before quickly looking away and loading up the Netflix page.
Dani shuffled closer to Santana so that they could both see the categories and movies easier. They scrolled through a lot of them, talking about films each of them had seen that weren't suitable for the 'picking the worst movie we can' idea Dani had had.
"How do you feel about comedies?" Dani asked.
"I honestly think that some of the worst films I have ever seen have been comedies." Santana replied chuckling slightly. Dani and Santana both looked though the movie choices in the comedy section, "I think we have a winner." Santana said.
"What?" Dani asked. Santana pointed to the screen, "You really wanna watch a movie called The Pill?" She asked.
"Yes." Santana said, "you said we were going to find the worst film that we could," Santana pointed out. "The title alone suggests that that film is terrible."
Dani sighed, "Okay then." She said, she clicked on the movie and read the synopsis aloud to Santana.
"Yeah, I still really want to watch it."
Dani shook her head before clicking on the small play icon. She moved down into her bed, making herself comfy. She placed her laptop near the foot of the bed in a position where they both could see it.
Santana had been right with her movie choice, both girls did find themselves thoroughly enjoying the movie, though they weren't sure if they were enjoying it for the right reasons.
"This movie is so bad it's good." Dani said laughing.
"See what did I tell you?" Santana said, "you're looking for a bad movie, you see one called The Pill and you've gotta go for it."
Dani chuckled and turned her attention back to the screen. "Seriously, what is wrong with this girl?" Dani asked, pointing to the leading lady on the screen. "I would be out of there so fast."
"I would have left first thing the next morning." Santana said.
Dani chuckled, "So you're a nail and bail type of girl?" Dani asked.
Santana rolled her eyes and laughed "Like you wouldn't have been out that early."
Dani gave Santana a look of mock offense, "Excuse me, I am a good girl." She said. "I wouldn't have even gone back to her house." She said.
Santana smiled and turned back to the screen to watch the movie. Dani moved closer to Santana as the movie progressed, Santana could feel Dani's hand against her own. It was all she could do to not lace their fingers together again.
Halfway though the movie, Santana felt her phone buzz in her back pocket. She shifted where she was sat and pulled her phone from her pocket. The small icon at the bottom of her screen notified her that she had a new text. Santana moved towards the end of the bed and paused the film.
"Hey, are you okay?" Dani asked.
Santana nodded her head slowly, "Yeah, I'm fine." She said, "it's just a text."
"Oh okay." Dani said, she tried to read Santana's expression.
"It's from Brittany." Santana said, she moved back up the bed to sit beside Dani again, she rested her head on the other girls shoulder, showing her the text, not fully understanding why.
From Brittany:
Good morning, Sanny I miss you already. Love you. xx
"Morning?" Dani asked quirking her eyebrow at the other girl, Dani reached into the drawer next to her and pulled out her own phone. "She does realise it's almost noon, right?"
"Well yeah, of course she does, but I always... Wait, it's already nearly noon?" Dani nodded her head slowly. Santana jumped up from where she was sitting on Dani's bed.
"Whoa, where's the fire?"
Santana chuckled dryly, "My abuela is coming today, very very soon actually." Santana said. "She might commit murder if I'm not there, she's like that." She continued, "and if she doesn't murder me, then my mami probably will."
"Why?"
"Because I told her that I was only going out to get some air, that was at like, nine-thirty. So just a little over two hours ago and I'm still not back yet. Plus, my abuela just expects everyone to be there- if they can be- when she visits and if I'm not she'll make it hell for everyone." She turned her mouth down.
"Well then, I guess I'd better let you get going." Dani said, she pushed herself up and moved to the edge of her bed, shutting down her laptop, before she climbed off of her bed and stretched out her limbs.
"Yeah, probably."
Dani walked Santana to the door in silence, Santana turned to face Dani and smiled at her. "I'm really sorry for putting an end to the movie day." Santana said.
"It's fine." Dani said shaking her head. "You didn't put an end to it, not really anyway."
Santana smiled at the shorter girl, "I do really wanna know how that movie ends though."
"Yeah, I wanna know if she ever takes pill number two or not." Dani smiled.
"Guess you'll have to watch it and get back to me."
"Or you could come back over later and watch it with me?" Dani said.
"Are you sure, you don't have to..."
"Shut up." Dani said laughing slightly.
"Okay," Santana said, she furrowed her brow when she realised that that's all she seemed to be saying of late to the girl. Since when did she only have one word in her vocabulary?
Dani smiled "My brother will be back by then but, he'll probably just be in the den playing on his Xbox with his friends. So I might as well be alone again." She rolled her eyes.
"Okay, so I guess I'll see you later then?" Santana said, a small amount of uncertainty resided in her voice.
Dani nodded and smiled, "Yeah you will." She said, Santana turned on her heel quickly and walked across Dani's garden in the direction of her own house, she turned around and gave Dani a small wave by jiggling her fingers.
Dani waved back before retreating into her own house, spending the rest of the afternoon alone.
Friendship has been sort of been established here, so, things will start progressing from now onward, I hope you liked this chapter. Thanks for the reviews, follows and or favourites. So, do you like it? Love it? Hate it? Let me know.