Fourteen
"You know, you don't actually have to leave your room just so that you can get changed," Santana said, "I don't mind leaving for you." Santana started to push herself up from Dani's bed. She watched as the shorter girl gathered her work out clothes from her closet.
"No," Dani said, she turned around to face Santana, "honestly, I really don't mind. You can just stay in the bed." She said, "You just look all warm and cozy and comfy. I'd feel really horrible if I made you get out of bed." She admitted, "so I'll just go and get ready in the bathroom, just like usual. Honestly, it's no skin off of my nose." She said with a shrug.
Santana sighed and twisted her mouth in thought, "I'll tell you what," she said, "how about about we just find a way to compromise with each other on this one?" She said lying down once again in the queen-sized bed and pulling the covers up to her chin.
"Uh, okay then?" Dani said.
"Look, get changed in here, and I'll just stay in bed." She said with a shrug. She widened her eyes when she realised how that could possibly sound to Dani, "I mean, obviously I'll look away, I'm really not trying to-"
I didn't think that you were," Dani said shaking her head, "So you don't have to worry about that." She chuckled, "But, uh, yeah. We'll just do that." She said nodding her head slightly. "I'll tell you when it's safe to look at me again," she said, Santana nodded and rolled over so that she was facing the wall, she was only facing that way for a short amount of time before Dani spoke again, "Okay, it's safe now," she said, Santana rolled over quickly, "just ignore the underwear." she said.
Santana's eyes widened as she took in the sight of Dani's body, holy shit! Well I wasn't expecting that I mean, I knew she was hot, but Jesus! Dani bit her lip and smirked slightly, Shit, stop looking you look like a creep, Dani chuckled quietly, "If you see anything that you like, please just speak up." She said sending a quick wink in Santana's direction.
"Y-yeah, I will... if I see anything impressive." She joked with a small shrug.
Yeah, you definitely looked like a creep.
oOoOo
Dani decided to go for a longer run that day, to buy time more than anything, she just didn't want to be on her own for hours on end while she waited for Santana to be finished with her abuela's visit, they seemed to be getting longer and longer. Whenever Santana wasn't around, everything seemed to be increasingly more boring to the shorter girl, everything, no matter what it was, was just more fun with the brunette by her side. She hoped that one day she'd be able to convince Santana to go for a run with her.
She dropped herself down onto a park bench to catch her breath and to have a quick drink of water; she leaned her head back and soaked in the music that she was listening to. She felt the bench move slightly as more weight was added to the bowing wood, she lifted her head and looked to either side of her, to see that she was now situated in between two boys, who didn't look to be much older than she was.
She saw one of them moving their mouth, talking to her, she pulled out her ear-bud and quirked her eyebrow at him, "I'm really sorry," she said, "Did you say something?" she asked.
He nodded his head, "I sure did," he said, "I just said that my names Brad and that's my buddy, Jason."
Dani looked away from Brad to Jason, and then back to Brad again. Brad had tanned skin that reminded her of Santana's, though he was slightly darker, his jet black hair seemed to stand out at all angels and to Dani, it looked just a little greasy. Jason had ginger hair and a light covering of ginger stubble on his chin, his eyes were a bright green colour and seemed to look straight through Dani.
"Well hey there," Dani said uneasily.
"So, who are you?" Jason asked, leaning closer to Dani, she quirked her eyebrow at the boy.
"I'm Dani." She said, narrowing her eyes at the boy.
"You're pretty," Brad said, Dani turned her head to face the darker boy and shot him a questioning look, I've been running for almost an hour, no way do I look good, bitch you tripping, that or you just really wanna get some action, either way, it is not going to work out well for you.
"Ha. Okay then." Dani said sarcastically, it's times like now I need my phone on me, I really need to tell Santana about this, of course, she'd probably just tell me to 'get it'. Dani mused.
"I'm being serious." Brad said, "I've lived in Ohio for a long time, and I've not seen a girl like you before." He said. Jason nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah, they don't make 'em like you at Ohio State."
"Well you might wanna try harder, because honestly, totally not interested," she said.
"Why you got a boyfriend? Because, he totally doesn't have to know about anything that happens with the three of us."
Am I being propositioned for a three way?
"No I don't have a boyfriend," Dani said shaking her head slowly.
"Then what's the problem." Jason asked.
Dani rolled her eyes and sighed, she twisted her mouth in thought before an idea came to her mind, "I don't have a boyfriend, but I do have a girlfriend," she lied. Both of the boys widened their eyes slightly. Dani pushed herself up from the bench, "and trust me when I say that she can make me way 'happier' than the both of you could put together." She said, putting air quotations around the word happier. She knew they knew what she was getting at with that one.
"Seriously, you have a girlfriend?" Brad asked, Dani nodded her head slowly.
"Yeah, sorry." She said turning on her heel and putting her ear-buds back in jogging as quickly as she could to get away from the two boys so she could get home faster and tell Santana about what had just happened.
oOoOo
Santana was bored she had been bored ever since she went home. That was what it was like for her every Saturday now, she had been texting Dani through the day, and had loved the small story of the boys in the park, even if it had made her mildly jealous, not that she had any reason to be.
Dani wasn't hers. But that didn't stop her from wanting the shorter girl.
She had also been texting Brittany, it had been the blonde who had started the conversation, and she had finished just as quickly, it only lasted around five minutes before she sent Santana a text saying 'gotta go, speak tomorrow'. Now she was sat on her living room floor, looking down at her chipped nail polish, only looking away from her hands when she heard her phone buzzing quietly from beside her.
From Daniellaaar
Santana, get your ass over here right now! I am bored senseless.
Santana couldn't help the smile from spreading across her face; she quickly glanced upwards to make sure that no one in the room was watching her. Her mom, dad and abuela all seemed far too preoccupied with gossiping about people in their neighbour hood to even notice the teenager that after noon. To Santana it was like she might as well not even be there, she was sure that none of them would actually miss her.
To Daniellaaar
You didn't have any sense to start with, so I highly doubt that you could be bored senseless ;)
Santana was use to the easy banter that she and Dani had with each other, though, now that she realised just how nice Dani actually was- and she was, well when she wanted to be- she was always worrying about offending the shorter girl. Like right now, a few months ago Santana would have said way worse to Dani than just a simple comment about her common sense, and she wouldn't have been worried, but now, all she could think about was how she hoped she hadn't pushed the girl too far, and she hated that.
Dani's reply didn't take long to come through and when it did Santana was more than pleased to see that Dani had in fact taken the joke well.
From Daniellaaar
Rude. Very, very rude… seriously though, I'm bored out of my mind, I need me some company in the form of you! So get over here right now!
Santana smiled at Dani's response before tapping out a message.
To Daniellaaar
So what, you thought that you'd just beg me? You only want me when no one else cares about you ;)… what's got you this bored anyway? You're not usually like this
Santana had no sooner placed her phone on her lap than it was buzzing again. That was a good thing about texting Dani, she never had to wait for replies, the girl always replied almost instantly.
From Daniellaaar
Well duh, I don't even like you all that much ;)... Jonah and Kyle are here, and they're just being all loud and obnoxious. I swear I am one step closer to committing mass murder every time one of them opens their mouth... Seriously San, come save me :(
Santana looked up at her abuela and sighed before typing out a message back to the girl next door.
To Daniellaaar
I can't really sorry. My abuela is still over here :( x
Before what she had written could even register in her mind she hit the send button. It was only when she looked down at the text that her eyes widened and she started to panic a little. She knew it was all down to that stupid little 'x'. She couldn't actually explain why the thought of her sending one at the end of a text to Dani made her panic so much, but it did, a lot of things about Dani and their conversations made Santana nervous. Her phone buzzed in her hand, she closed her eyes momentarily before she opened the text.
From Daniellaaar
Well that sucks...I guess you're just gonna have to ditch the old broad for me :) x
Santana let out a sigh of relief when she saw that Dani had replied adding a 'x' to the end of the message, she chuckled slightly at Dani's message, she could practically hear the smile in the girl's words.
To Daniellaaar
I whish I could, D. But that woman is fierce. She would probably make my life hell if I did that. And sorry, but I really don't think you're worth that x
From Daniellaaar
You're a liar, you know I'm sooo worth it xx
Santana bit her lip and started to type out a response. "Who are you texting?" Maribel's voice snapped Santana's attention away from her phone.
"No one." She lied weakly.
"Yeah, sure you're not." Her mom said rolling her eyes. "What you don't know is that I have been watching you for about five minutes now and you have the biggest grin that I have ever seen on your face. So, who is it?" Her mom said giving the girl a knowing look.
"Dani." Santana said with a slight shrug. Her abuela's eyes widened at the name.
"Ahh, so is this a new boy in you're life, already?" She asked, Santana's abuela had never actually heard Dani be called 'Dani', she only knew her as Danielle- that's what Santana had introduced her as, just to annoy the shorter girl for feeling her full name was far too formal, and since then her abuela had refused to call her anything else, saying that her parents had named her 'Danielle' so that's what she should be called. Of course, Dani didn't actually mind all that much that Alma knew her as Danielle.
Santana shook her head, "No. There is definitely no new boy in my life." She said, "and Dani and I are just friends."
"Hmm and I assume that you'll be going over to your 'friends' house later?" Her dad asked using air quotations. Santana's parents had been teasing her for a while about her relationship with Dani.
Her parents were not subtle people and would even make the jokes while Dani was around. Santana was unsure as to whether Dani ever caught onto the jokes. But either way, the blonde never said anything about them. Which, Santana was more than thankful for.
"Yeah." Santana said shrugging, "Maybe."
"Will you be staying over there again?"
Santana's abuela's eyes widened slightly at this, she looked at her granddaughter, waiting for her response. "If I'm asked to then yes." She admitted with a small shrug.
To Daniellaaar
Hmm. Don't kid yourself... I can come over later? xx
From Daniellaaar
*Sigh* I guess it will have to do. xxx
Santana could almost hear the sarcasm in Dani's words; she smiled down at the text before looking up at the adults in the room, sighing herself.
"So, what will you and Dani be doing then?" Her abuela asked, looking down into the contents of her cup, swilling the liquid around in it.
"Probably just watching movies, like usual." Santana said.
"And that's all you and this Dani do?"
Santana shook her head, "That's not all we do, I'll go over we'll watch a movie, probably in Dani's room away from Will, and we talk a little." Santana admitted, "Then we'll most likely go to sleep." She said, "And then we usually spend all day Sunday together, I think we're supposed to be going to Columbus tomorrow."
"Do you share a bed?" Her abuela asked, Santana felt like the three of them were interrogating her.
She nodded her head slowly. She wanted to tell her abuela that Dani was in fact short for 'Danielle' she just knew that the older woman wouldn't believe her.
oOoOo
That afternoon seemed to drag, her abuela wouldn't stop asking questions about Dani, and as soon as Santana opened her mouth to answer one of the questions, she was cut off by either one of her parents, in the end she just gave up on trying to explain herself. As soon as her abuela had left their house and had reached the bottom of the street, she ran into her bedroom, packed an over night bag, said a quick goodbye to her parents and ran across the yards to Dani's house.
Santana knocked on the door, she couldn't help but smiling; her weekly Saturday-Terrible-Movie competition had fast become her favourite day of the week. They were only on their forth, but already Santana loved them, but that was mainly because she was winning by a landslide. When the door swung open she was surprised to be greeted by the sight of Dani's younger brother, Will. "Hey."
"Er, hey, Will." Santana said, she waved her hand once and gave the younger boy a nervous smile. "Is, uh, is Dani here?" She asked tilting her head to the side. It was always Dani who answered the door. Santana had started to panic slightly, thinking that the girl had found something better to do than spend the rest of the night with her watching cheesy movies.
She had been bored that afternoon after all, it wasn't an impossible thought that she had contacted one of her other friends and had gone somewhere with them instead.
"Yeah." He said, he sighed and walked to the bottom of the stairs, "Dani!" He yelled. Santana could hear music filtering down the stairs; there was little need to wonder why Dani hadn't heard him shout her when the volume of her music was as loud as it was. He looked over his shoulder at Santana and rolled his eyes good naturedly making the older girl chuckle. "Danielle!" He tried again.
"What!" She yelled back, a small amount of annoyance could be heard in her tone of voice. Santana suppressed a laugh, she'd never heard that tone from Dani before, and even though she was annoyed with her brother, Santana couldn't help but find it adorable, she seemed to find everything that Dani adorable these days.
"That girl from next door is here." He said, "You know the one that you think is sooo..." Dani flew down the stairs, her mouth open slightly she clamped her hand over his mouth stopping him from speaking.
"Hey." Dani said, she had to stand on her tiptoes to cover his mouth and struggled to stay balanced, she gave Will's side a quick nip with her free hand, making him grunt slightly in pain.
"Hi." Santana said furrowing her eyebrows at what she saw in front of her. Dani had a slight blush to her cheeks, which was something Santana had never seen before. Usually Dani exude confidence and was rarely embarrassed, if ever.
Dani felt Will lick her hand, she pulled it back and looked at him disgusted. "Ewww!" She said, before rubbing her palm on his shoulder.
Will looked between the two girls and grinned widely, "Well, I guess I'll leave you two ladies alone." He sent a wink in Santana and Dani's direction. Dani's jaw tensed slightly as she watched him walk away in the direction of the den.
"I-ignore him." Dani said, "He's a little bit of an ass." Dani shook her head, "He thinks that because we're both gay that we're hooking up." She explained her eyes widened slightly, "I've told him that we're not though." She said a slight amount of panic edging it's way into her voice. "So honestly, j-just ignore him."
Santana took in the sound of Dani's panicked voice, Jesus Christ have I been Friendzoned? She asked herself, it had never happened to her before, she'd put people in the illusive 'friendzone' but she'd never been there herself. "Okay, I will." She said, "Though, I am very curious as to what I am sooo..." She trailed off.
"Hmm, well let me think, annoying, obnoxious, vain." Dani said ticking off the traits on her fingers. "Seriously, San, the list goes on and on." She joked.
"Oh please, you know I am by far the best person that you know."
"Ahh, modest, that could be added to the list too." She said sarcastically.
"You're an ass."
Dani nodded, "At least I admit to my short comings."
Santana rolled her eyes, "Whatever, you only admit to them if they're pointed out to you. You wouldn't just admit to them off of your own accord." Santana said, Dani shook her head slightly, "Oh by the way, while it's still pretty fresh in my mind, my abuela thinks you're a dude."
"She met me last week!" Dani said feeling quite offended.
Santana shook her head, "No, not like that." She said quickly, "She knows, Danielle is a girl. But when I mentioned I was going to Dani's house, she thought I meant a boy." Santana said.
"You couldn't have corrected her?"
Santana shook her head quickly, "No… it's not my fault you've got a boy name." Santana said once she reached the top of the stairs, she quickly pushed the door open making her way into Dani's bedroom, heading straight for the queen-sized bed.
"Still, you could have explained, that you among many others call me Dani." The shorter girl said. "But that doesn't mean that she has to."
"Hmm, maybe next time." Santana said with a small shrug. "Dani, why is your bed so comfy?" Santana asked, she laid herself down on the bed and snuggled into one of the Dani's pillows, the one on the side of the bed that Dani usually had whenever Santana stayed the night. Santana breathed in, subtly taking in the smell of the shorter girl. It was something that she did a lot, she couldn't explain why, but the smell of Dani was comforting to her now, the pillow held the distinct smell of Dani's pomegranate shampoo, with a mix of the perfume she used.
Dani shrugged and moved around her bedroom, straightening out some of her belongings, not that is needed to be done, as usual, Dani's bedroom was spotless nothing was ever out of place. "Well." She said, "I suppose that I could tell you, but it's kind of a secret." She joked with a wink, making Santana's heart flutter as she did so.
Santana quickly regained some of her composure and said, "Wait let me guess then." Dani nodded once, allowing Santana to have her guesses. "You gots a whole bunch of porn stashed under your mattress and it pads it out?"
Dani's jaw dropped slightly and a breathy laugh escaped her mouth. "No. It's not that." She said shaking her head slightly. A cheeky smirk spread across her face and with it, Santana knew that she had her comeback. "I keep all of my porn in the middle drawer." She said devilishly.
Santana smiled at the girl, "So what is it then, Daniellaaar?" She said, prolonging the name like she always did. "Please, enlighten me."
Dani rolled her eyes and said, "Get up and I'll show you." Usually Santana would scoff and sink down further into Dani's bed, the shorter girl was utterly surprised when Santana obeyed and moved from her bed. Dani pulled her duvet back and then pulled her sheet that covered her mattress back, revealing two more, thin duvet covers one laid on top of the other, they had both been laid over the mattress to pad out the bed. "This is why it's so comfy." She said.
"Well, that seems a little excessive, I won't lie." The taller girl said from beside Dani.
"No, what's excessive is the amount of time that you spend in my bed or on my bed when you're here." Dani said in joking tone. "Another thing that is excessive is the amount of room you take up in my bed." She smiled, "Seriously, you're so thin, how do you take up so much room?"
"I don't take up that much room. You always drape your legs over me, because you sleep all diagonally and shit." She defended.
"San, whenever you stay here I am always perched on the end of my bed." Dani said, sorry if I want to be comfortable, good forbid I feel comfort in my own bed." She said sardonically. "I'm getting sick of being perched."
Santana shrugged, "Well then, I guess if you don't want to be on the edge of your bed, you'll just have to spoon me." She joked, she smirked at Dani thinking that she had won.
"That's fine by me." Dani replied. Santana eye's widened slightly.
"I-I was kidding."
"Well I wasn't." She shrugged, "You offered, I accepted, it's happening."
Santana's breathing seemed to hitch in her chest at the thought of being that close to Dani, they had hugged before, a lot, they also held hands a lot and passed flirtatious comments with each other. But still, all of those things usually turned Santana into a nervous wreck.
"Dani..."
"In fact..." Dani said, climbing on to the bed, "Get your ass in this bed and spoon me." She smiled. Santana took a deep breath and made her way to the other side of the bed, she laid down slowly. Dani pressed her back up against Santana's front, the taller girl's breathing hitched in her chest as Dani tried to make herself comfy. "You're not real friends until you have spooned." She joked.
"Hmm, guess I've never had any real friends then."
"Well yeah, I could have told you that." Dani replied sarcastically.
Santana smiled and wrapped her arms around Dani's waist pulling she shorter girl closer to her. Dani placed her hand over Santana's and entwined their fingers the best that she could.
They were quiet for a while, both of them lying in that position on Dani's bed before Santana spoke breaking the silence.
"So, what are we actually doing then?"
"Oh right." Dani quietly. She moved Santana's arm from around her waist and let go of her hand. Santana missed the contact immediately. "I do believe it is my turn to pick our weekly terrible movie, am I correct?" Dani said.
Santana sat up slowly and nodded her head. "Yeah, it's your turn."
"Good."
They sat on Dani's bed, looking through the list of movies on Netflix, trying to find one that sounded truly terrible. Santana was winning so far, but Dani was determined to gain the lead.
"Okay, I think I've found one." Dani said clicking on a film called Just One Of The Guys.
Santana sighed, "What's it about?" She asked.
Dani read the synopsis of the movie in her head and smiled slightly. "By the looks of things, it's an 80's version of She's The Man." Dani said, her smile only growing.
oOoOo
"Oh my god." Dani said shaking her head slowly, "I am actually regretting this, sooo much." She said.
Santana nodded her head "Yeah. Me, too." She said, "I think you're definitely winning now." Santana said, Dani nodded her head slightly, "I don't think this is going to be an easy one to beat."
Dani chuckled "Yeah. I really have." She said she saw Santana shiver slightly out of the corner of her eye. It was much colder in Dani's room that night than either of them were used to. "Do you want me to get you a sweater?" She asked.
"Could you?" Santana asked, "Your bedroom is freezing right now." Santana said.
Dani jumped out of her bed and rushed over to her closet, pulling out two over sized sweaters, she threw the red hooded one to Santana and kept the black hooded one for herself.
"Hope that's okay for you." She said.
Santana quickly pulled it over her head and pulled the hood up. "This is perfect, thank you." Dani smiled and pulled her own sweater on, copying Santana and pulling her own hood up. She climbed back into her bed and got under the covers, feeling warmer instantly. She laid her head on Santana shoulder and snuggled up against her. "What 'cha doing?" Santana asked quietly.
"Oh, I'm still a little cold." She admitted, "You don't mind, right?" She asked, Santana shook her head but kept her eyes on the screen. "Good." Dani said.
Santana rested her head on top of Dani's and continued to watch the film. She wrapped her arms around Dani's waist and pulled her closer to her.
oOoOo
They had watched three films on Netflix, all of them bad but none as bad as Just One Of The Guys, Dani was proud to say that she had found that film and was now winning.
"I think I have watched enough shit with you for one night." Santana said.
"Oh so what do you just want to stop watching stuff now?"
Santana shook her head, "No. I just want to watch something good." She admitted, "I can't watch anymore terrible movies, three is definitely enough for one night."
"Okay." Dani said smiling, "So what do you want to watch then?"
"Did we ever finish that season of RuPaul's Drag Race?"
Dani shook her head, "I know I didn't. I don't know if you watched it at your house alone or not."
Santana shook her head, "No. Why would I watch it without you?" Santana asked. Dani shrugged.
"I don't know. We watch a lot of stuff without each other, like Dexter and…" Dani trailed off trying to find another example of something they watch separately, "Dexter."
"Dani shut up and put the drag queens on."
oOoOo
"Okay I'm sorry, but if Rebecca doesn't win this I am gonna be so pissed." Dani said as she took a sip of her coffee, it had taken her a lot of persuading but, she had made Santana get out of the bed and make them both a cup of coffee that night, at first it had been a joke, she had expected the girl to say something biting in return, however, the more Dani pushed, the more Santana caved. It had surprised Dani beyond belief when Santana actually got up out of the bed and headed down the stairs for the kitchen.
Santana furrowed her eyebrows at the girl, "Rebecca, seriously, Rebecca?!" Santana said. "Rebecca is a bitch, okay? She is just as big a bitch as Shannel was, and you hated her. Hypocritical." Santana said with a small shrug.
"My baby Rebecca is not a bitch." Dani said defending her favourite contestant.
"I'm surprised that you're not in love with Nina." Santana said with a shrug, "She seems more your type, and she's got a Spanish accent. I know how you loves those."
"Oh I do like Nina," Dani said, "And yeah she's got the accent and whatever, but I mean, Becky's just, look at her, she's amazing!" She said. "I mean, she is soo pretty."
"Oh so she's Becky now?"
"Shut up." Dani said, "Anyway who do you want to win?"
"Nina. I've been saying this since around the girl group challenge," she said, "She looks amazing, she makes amazing outfits, and she just seems really nice."
"Not as nice as my Rebecca."
oOoOo
Dani froze, her laughter died down instantly and her dark eyes widened. "What?" Santana asked, panic flashed over her face as she watched Dani closely. In all the time they had spent together over the past few weeks, she had never seen this look cross Dani's face. Her eyes were focused on something behind the taller girl. "What is it?" She asked, waving her hand in front of Dani's face. The shorter girl remained silent and instead pointed to the wall behind Santana and gave a small nod in the same direction. It was fairly dark in Dani's bedroom, all of the lights had been turned off and the only source of light they had was the dim glow emitting from the TV screen. Santana turned her head to look at the wall behind her. She studied it for a moment before turning back to face the blonde saying, "Seriously, Dan, what am I supposed to be looking at?"
"That fucking huge spider on the wall behind you." Dani said, her voice shaking slightly as she spoke, her eyes were still fixed on the wall behind the other girl.
"What where?" Santana asked, she subconsciously moved closer to Dani, trying to distance herself as much as she could from the spider.
"It's right there." Dani said, her voice straining slightly. "Seriously, how can you not see it?"
Santana turned her head again, "Dani where the fuck is it?" She asked, panic creeping into her own voice. Dani rolled her eyes and grabbed Santana's chin in her hand and gently tilted her head until Santana was too looking at the spider. "Holy shit!"
Dani nodded her head in agreement as Santana snapped her head back to look at her. "Get it." Dani whispered.
"You get it!" She said, looking back to the spider that was slowly inching it's way further down the wall, getting closer and closer to the bed.
"Nuh uh. No way." The shorter girl said shaking her head, "I found the thing, but you can get rid of it."
"That's exactly why you should get it; had you not seen the fucker we wouldn't be in this mess."
"Nope." Dani said, rolling away from the other girl and climbing out of her bed.
"Why?"
"Because, I am terrified." She said, "And... Oh my god, it's so close to you." Dani said, she winced slightly at the sight. Santana jumped up from Dani's bed and rushed over to the other girl. She grabbed Dani's hand lacing their fingers together, she could feel Dani's hand shaking against her own slightly. "San, please get rid of it for me."
"No. It's your house, we're in your bedroom and you found it, so you my dear, can get rid of it."
"San, I am seriously not past running out of this bedroom and barricading you in here with it. I'll just go stay in Adriana's room and if you somehow get out of here, I won't let you in." She said with a shrug. Santana shook her head. Dani pouted and gave Santana her best puppy dog look, "I like having my bed buddy, please get it." She pleaded.
Santana found it hard to deny Dani of anything and she didn't like that, even now she couldn't not agree to doing what the girl was asking her. "Urgh, fine!" Santana said, "But you have got to help me. I will catch it, but you have to open the door for me so I can let it out. I'm not killing it."
Dani nodded, "Okay, deal." She said.
Santana took a deep breath and started walking over to the light switch, Dani let go of her hand quickly, only for Santana to stop and frown. "Are you not coming with me?"
Dani shook her head, "No I'm good here." She said, "I want to keep an eye on it."
Santana turned the light on and quickly moved back to Dani's side. "Jesus Christ, it's even bigger with the light on."
Dani nodded her head. "Yeah good luck." She said.
Santana grabbed the empty glass that Dani had had a drink of water in. She took a deep breath. She climbed on to the bed, and leaned back slightly. She let out a small whimper as she came face to face with the spider. Santana placed the glass over it and froze. "Can you get me some card, or some paper?"
Dani nodded her head slowly and went to grab a piece of paper. "Here." She said, stepping closer to Santana.
The taller girl turned around and looked over her shoulder, being sure to keep the glass still over the large black spider. "Too thin, you're gonna have to fold it in half, it'll make it a bit stronger."
Dani followed the instruction set for her, she never took her eyes off of the glass. The spider had dared to enter it slightly and had stopped. "Okay, here." She said, handing Santana the paper.
"Thanks." She said in a slightly whiny voice.
"That's okay." Dani said, her voice slightly higher pitched with the fear.
Dani's eyes never left Santana's hand as she quickly lifted the glass ever so slightly to slide the paper under it. Santana moved the paper from the wall, and quickly tipped the glass so that the paper was lying on top of it. She started at the spider running around the bottom of the glass. She climbed off of Dani's bed, keeping a close eye on what the spider was doing. Dani smiled slightly at the other girl.
"Go, go, go!" Santana said, keeping her hand firmly onto of the piece of paper, she cringed slightly as she kept looking back down at the spider running around the bottom of the glass, trying to climb up the sides of it.
Dani started to leave the room, looking back at Santana every once in a while, just to make sure that she still had the spider contained, "You still got it, right?" She asked, Santana nodded her head, Dani let out a breath of relief, "Good." She said.
Santana continued to follow Dani, "Seriously, Dan, if you could just walk slower, that would be great." Santana said sarcastically.
"Do you actually want me to walk slower? Because I definitely can." Dani said, she quirked her eyebrow at the taller girl, Santana shook her head quickly. "Didn't think so." Dani said.
Dani and Santana both made their way down the stairs as quickly and as quietly as they could, Santana letting out high pitched choked squeals every few seconds.
"Okay open the door, open the door Dan, open the goddamn door!" Santana said, the blonde girl rushed to open the door, Santana speed walked past her and moved the paper from on top of the glass and tipped it upside down. "And the spider is... Gone." Santana said, shaking the glass to be extra sure that the spider had fallen out of it.
She rushed back into the hose and shut the door quickly, making sure that the spider hadn't gotten back in.
"Aww, you're my hero." Dani said in a mocking tone. She smiled and wrapped her arms around Santana's neck, pulling her into a tight hug. Santana wrapped her arms around Dani's waste, and turned her head to burrow it in Dani's neck.
She breathed in the smell of Dani subtly, smiling when she caught the familiar smell of pomegranate. "It was nothing." She said sarcastically.
Dani moved away from her and chuckled, Santana already missed the contact she had had with the smaller girl. She didn't like the way she had started feeling about Dani. It seemed to have suddenly happened out of nowhere. But she found herself loving all of the little touches she would give her, all of the friendly gestures like the hugs and the hand holding. She especially loved the flirty comments that Dani would aim at her.
"Well still, I thank you for saving me from, Shelob." Dani said, she took Santana's hand in her own, lacing their fingers together, she swung their hands slightly.
Santana furrowed her eyebrows, "Do you seriously, just name everything?" She asked, Dani tilted her head to the side and gave the taller girl a questioning look, "I mean, Shelob, where the fuck did that even come from?"
Dani laughed, "Y'know, Shelob." A confused look spread across Santana's face. "Please tell me that this is a joke." She said, Santana shook her head slowly. "Shelob. Lord of The Rings?"
Santana shrugged, "Sorry. I've never seen that." She sighed, "Aragog, I totally would have got, but not this."
"Get out of my house." Dani deadpanned. Santana chuckled at the shorter girl. "No, I mean it, seriously just leave." She shook her head slightly. "How have you gone almost eighteen years and not have seen LOTR?"
"Err, maybe because I'm not a giant nerd?"
"Oh but I am?"
"Dan, you literally just made a reference to the thing... Yeah, you're a little bit of a nerd."
"I'm not a nerd, Lord of The Rings is amazing and you really need to watch it."
Santana sighed and rolled her eyes, "Y'know, you are being awfully loud right now. It's almost two in the morning. I think you need to bring it down a notch bugle horn."
"Bugle horn?" Dani asked, "And I'm the nerd?"
"Seriously. Shut up."
"I can't. I am finding this truly shocking." Dani said shaking her head. "You haven't seen Lord of The Rings?" She asked again.
"No. What aren't you getting about that?"
"I-I just can't believe it." She said, "Seriously!" She shook her head, "We have got to watch at least one of them tomorrow."
"But I thought you said we were gonna go down to Columbus tomorrow."
"Nope, sorry, I'm giving you a lesson in culture tomorrow, I mean…" she trailed off shaking her head, leading both herself and Santana up the stairs, their fingers still laced together.
oOoOo
Santana and Dani had spent the best part of the day watching the first The Lord of The Rings movie, "Seriously, Dan I am begging you; you have got to remind me to call Rachel Berry hobbit." She said with a small smile on her face.
Dani quirked her eyebrow at the girl, "Why?" She asked.
"Well she's short." She said, "And so are hobbits," she explained with a small shrug.
"Yeah but I'm short." Dani said, "Or so you always say."
"You are short, but I can handle your shortness. I like you, I don't like Rachel." She said, "Besides, I've already pegged you as tiny." Santana said, she sighed, "Dani as my best friend, you are more than obligated to do something like this for me, so once again, I am begging you; PLEASE remind me to call her; hobbit."
Dani sighed, "Okay, I will." Dani said, "But when we finally watch the second one, with the way you work, I think you'll find something better to call her, I promise you that." Dani said smiling, she pushed herself up from the couch and walked over to the DVD player, she leaned over to eject the disc, Santana allowed her eyes to scan Dani's body, they stopped on her ass.
Now I know what's under her clothes I can't not look, I just wanna see more. Dani stood up and started to turn around, Santana quickly looked down at her hands and started to play with her fingers, "So when will we actually watch that one, I hate to say it, but I kind of want to know what's happening." Santana said, she felt slightly ashamed to admit that she had actually enjoyed the movie.
"Well we can watch that one later if you want, but it's another three hours long, maybe more, because I think Will and I got the special edition ones, and they're longer," Dani said turning her mouth down, "So I guess it really depends on if you can handle sitting with me for another three, maybe four hours?" She asked.
Santana nodded, "I definitely think that I could handle that," she said, "So tiny you might as well just put it on now."
"I don't know..." Dani said she twisted her mouth slightly, Santana gave her a questioning look, "it's just that, I kind of wanna do some baking." She admitted, "Like, I just feel like making some spur of the moment cupcakes."
"Why?" Santana asked, "So you can do me against the counter?" she joked. No seriously, please do me against the counter!
Dani's mouth dropped open, "I told you that in confidence!" She said, "You can't throw something like that back in my face." She said, "Don't use the stories I've told you against me." She was yelling, but she had a beaming smile on her face. It was the same smile that Santana had to return whenever she saw it.
"Okay," she said, "I'm sorry." She smirked slightly.
Dani narrowed her eyes jokingly, "You'd better be." She said.
oOoOo
"Hey, Dan?" Santana said, Dani turned her head just in time to be hit square in the face with a light amount of flour that Santana had flicked in her direction. Dani laughed lightly before grabbing a handful of flour and throwing it at the taller girl. "That is so not fair," Santana said, "a handful, really?" Dani bit her lip and smiled, "You are so dead Mitchell."
Dani hissed in a joking manner before Santana filled one of the measuring cups with flour, she tried to pour it on the shorter girl, Dani managed to avoid getting covered with it, by holding Santana's wrist and moving her arm slightly, causing a small amount to fall onto her head, while the rest hit the floor.
Dani glared at the other girl before grabbing one of the eggs and smashing it on Santana's head, the taller girl let out a high-pitched squeal, "I can't believe you did that!" Santana said.
Santana grabbed another egg, sending Dani running to the other side of the kitchen island, she watched Santana closely; both girls narrowed their eyes jokingly as they watched the other. Santana faked running left, and then right, leaving Dani second-guessing what her next move was going to be, finally Santana decided to run to the right.
Dani ran in the opposite direction, trying to escape the taller girl, she just dodged the egg as Santana threw it at her; it smashed against the fridge instead.
Santana caught up to the blonde girl and backed her up against the fridge; she held one of Dani's wrists in her hand and an egg in the other, while Dani held a jug full of cupcake batter in her free hand.
"I dare you, Danielle." Santana said in a low voice that seemed to turn Dani into jelly, the shorter girl felt a shiver run up her spine.
"O-okay," She stuttered, she took a deep breath "I won't do it, I promise," she said, "just please let go of my wrist, I'm not a fan of being restricted." She said, Santana narrowed her eyes at Dani, not quite trusting the shorter girl, "I swear. I won't do it, just let go?" Santana sighed, but complied with Dani's wish, the shorter girl smiled before dipping her index finger into the batter and bopping Santana on the nose.
"So. Not. Cool." Santana said she moved her body closer to Dani's until the shorter girl was trapped, the fridge pressing up against Dani's back, while Santana was pressed against her front.
She nudged Dani's nose with her own, leaving some of the batter on the tip of Dani's nose as well as her own.
Dani felt Santana's soft lips brush past her own, and suddenly her mind seemed to fog over, she swallowed hard, and was just about to lean up to close the miniscule gap between them, when the kitchen door clicked open, and Will and his friends walked into the room snapping the girls' attentions away from each other.
"What the fuck?" Jonah said, as he looked around the room and then back to the two girls, who had now separated themselves from each other slightly.
Fuck, there went my chance
"We, uh w-we wanted to do some baking, so we did." Dani stuttered, her heart rate increasing by the second.
"What did you wanna bake, each other?" Will asked.
"We-well, this is actually my fault, I mean Monica over here wouldn't have started this, what with the neatness thing. She just retaliated and it got out of hand." Santana said.
"I don't care who started it, but I'm glad I came in and finished when I did." Yeah well, I'm not… seriously you couldn't have waited like half a minute longer? Not cool bro!
"God you sound like mom." Dani said looking down at the floor, she moved her head slightly, flipping her hair out of her eyes.
"Speaking of her, it's a real good job she and dad aren't here, other wise you'd be dead."
"Yeah well, I'll clean it up, don't worry about it."
Will nodded his head, "Good." He studied them both carefully, before quirking his eyebrow at his sister, Dani looked away from the boy before grabbing a cloth to start wiping down the sides.
Santana sighed and grabbed a sponge starting to help Dani with the cleaning, "What are you doing?" She asked Santana couldn't help but detect something in Dani's tone of voice. It was something that wasn't usually there, she couldn't explain what it was, but she just sounded 'off'.
"I'm helping you." Santana said.
"Don't worry about this okay?" She said, "I can clean it up myself, it's really not that bad, plus, you'd probably do it wrong anyway." Dani said with a small shrug and a weak smile, one that didn't quite reach her eyes.
"Dani I don't mind helping you." Santana said, "I helped make the mess. Heck, it was me that started the fight that lead to the mess."
"Seriously, I'll do it." Dani said, "You just go get the egg out of your hair and the flour and batter off of your nose, I'll be up in a few minutes," she said, Santana could hear the girl getting increasingly more stressed the more time she spent there that day, she couldn't help but think it had something to do with the almost kiss.
"Are you sure?" Santana asked, Dani tilted her head to the side.
"Yes." Dani hissed.
"Okay, I get it." Santana snapped, she threw the sponge down onto the floor next to Dani and stood up slowly, "Thank you," she said before flashing a weak smile at the shorter girl and turning on her heel to walk away.
Jesus Christ! Why didn't she kiss me? I'm hot, right? Urgh! More to the point, why didn't I just kiss her, it's definitely not like me to not make a move; I made the first move with Puck, our whole arrangement had been my idea initially. Brittany and me happening was also down to me making the first move. So why is it so scary for me to even contemplate kissing Dani, seriously, what the fuck is this? Of course, I'm not entirely to blame, she just stood there and did absolutely nothing! And now she's mad at me? If anyone here should be mad it should be me! What right does she have to turn that cold on me in a matter of minutes! Though at least now I know for sure how she feels about me, like she said, she's told people nothing's happening between us, and that we're just friends... oh Go, I am in the friendzone. Well way to lead a girl on Dan! Seriously, if you don't like me why flirt with me? Wait, has there even been flirting? I know there's been hugging, there's been a lot of that, and hand holding we do that a lot, too. But maybe that's just what she's like with people! Was the flirting all in my head? Have I just been making assumptions because she's called me pretty a couple of times? I really shouldn't make assumptions, no one should! When you make assumptions all you do is make and as out of you and me. And I guess that's what I've just done with me and Dani.
-o-
For fuck sake! All I had to do was lean up and kiss her, it would have been a quick thing, just a simple, quick chaste kiss just to put my feelings out there, the gap wasn't even big, our lips were touching. I mean, she probably wouldn't have wanted me to kiss her anyway, but at least then I'd know how she felt and it'd make this thing easier, I'd know to just leave it and move on... but no! I'm just too chicken shit to put myself on the line and make a move. Why do I always wait for them to make the move? Why should it always be on the other person? I know what I want, I want her! So why didn't I go for her when I had the chance? I am an absolute moron! Jesus I really am a piece of work! And... oh no... and now there is just this big awkward thing between us, how could there not be? we both know it happened. There was definitely something there, like this weird sort of tension, and now that moments gone, but we know we felt it... or at least, I know I felt something... and now I fucked everything up, because I got mad at her for nothing! I know I'm more mad at myself, but I took it out on her because I'm an ass. Is this going to ruin everything? Are we friends still or is that it? Has me being an idiot ruined everything? Jesus Christ I should have just kissed her when I had the chance, at least then if I have fucked it all up, I'd have fucked it up for a reason.
So a shorter chapter this time around. I wrote this at about four AM, I couldn't sleep, so I got a chapter written for you, I just uploaded it later on in the day after I had managed to have some form of sleep. So sorry if this chapter is a little poor, but I was sleep deprived. As always, thank you to those of you who have read and reviewed this story, I really really appreciate it. And thank you to those of you who have added this story to your favourites and or alerts. Hopefully the next chapter won't be too far away for you but, I have these things called friends that are wanting to spend time with me, so they are making it difficult to find time to write.
P.S: I hope you all had a cracking New Year. Let's make 2015 a good one :D
Thank you once again beautiful people!