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Chapter 10: Same people, new life

Santana's POV

It's my first day on the TV show that I'm going to be working on and to say I am nervous would be a major understatement. I've never been so terrified in all my life before. I mean what if everyone hates me or I'm not even that good at acting. I've done a few things before but nothing like this where I would be in the main cast. Don't get me wrong I'm happy I'm doing something different with my life but I'm also scared I'll fail.

"Morning" Brittany smiles brightly while walking into the kitchen where I am.

"Morning" I reply nervously.

"I'm getting some breakfast, do you want me to make you some?" she asks.

"No thank you" I shake my head and Brittany nods in response. "I think I'm just going to go for a shower now" I say before leaving.

As soon as I finished up in the shower, I headed to my bedroom to do my hair and get changed. It took me ages to figure out the right thing to wear because I want to make a good impression today but I also don't want to seem like I'm trying too hard. I've eventually settled on something sophisticated yet hot. Once I'm ready, I head back to the kitchen where Brittany still is.

"Do I look ok do you think?" I ask Brittany.

"Yeah you look great" she smiles.

"Thanks" I say before taking a deep breath to try and relax. "I should go now but I'll see you later" I say.

"Ok" Brittany smiles before leaning over to kiss my cheek.

"Wish me luck" I chuckle nervously.

"You'll be fine, you don't need luck" Brittany says waving it off.

"Ok" I smile at her.

"I'll see you later anyway" she says.

"Yeah, see you later" I say before leaving.

I can feel my hands shaking on the steering wheel the whole drive there. I don't think I've been this nervous about a job before but I guess being nervous is a good thing. It's shows that I care about it I guess.

XXX

I'm finally home now after my first day on set and I've got to say I'm so relieved right now. Don't get me wrong I liked it, it's just I am so happy the first day is over and my nerves have settled somewhat. We've got another hard day tomorrow but I'm not as concerned because I met most of the cast and crew today and they all seem really nice.

I texted Brittany when I was leaving so being the awesome person she is, she had dinner ready for me coming home which I thought was so sweet. Not only that though, what else was really sweet was how she waited to eat with me so I wasn't alone.

"Dinner is really nice Britt" I say as we sit together eating dinner.

"I'm glad you like it" she replies quietly.

"Are you ok?" I ask realising she has been really quiet all day.

"I'm fine, it's nothing really" she says trying to wave it off.

"Talk to me Britt" I say putting my cutlery down so I can give her my full attention.

"This is awkward for you isn't it?" Brittany asks.

"What's that?" I ask slightly confused.

"You and me…it's awkward for you isn't it?" she replies.

"Of course it's not awkward" I smile while reassuringly squeezing her hand.

"It has to be with the way you're acting around me" she says. "I mean I know we decided last night we'd date first and stuff but I can tell it's a bit awkward and you're nervous around me."

"I'm not nervous around you" I frown in confusion. "I mean yes some things will take time to sink in but I'm content with where we are just now."

"But you were acting so weird this morning" she states.

"Oh no Britt, I was nervous about my first day at work today not about us" I reassure her. "Honestly I didn't mean to give you the impression it was you, I'm sorry."

"So we are good then?" she asks for clarification.

"Of course we are" I smile.

"Ok" she nods. "So moving on, how was your first day?" she asks.

"It was actually really good. I met most of the cast and crew and they all seem like great people too" I say. "It wasn't too hard a day, we basically just got to know one another and did a table read of the first episode. Tomorrow is going to be quite hectic though so I have no idea what time I will be home."

"That's ok, you can just text me when you're done" she replies.

"Yeah I will" I smile. "So what about yourself, what are your plans now?" I ask. I know Brittany is pregnant and everything right now but she's also not someone to sit around all day. I figured she might have something in the pipeline at the moment.

"I don't really have plans right now" Brittany sighs. "It's not what I want but I don't know what else I could do apart from dancing. I mean I do have some friends that want me to help them choreograph a show they're doing but when that's done and I'm really pregnant, what am I meant to do?"

"I don't know Britt" I say. I know it doesn't help but I honestly don't know what else she could do. It's like our lives have switched right now. I used to be the one unsure of everything while Brittany did well with her dancing but it's like I have this TV show now and Brittany is falling out of love with dance.

"I really haven't thought this through very well" she sighs in annoyance.

"Hey maybe you should think about acting" I suggest. "It doesn't have to be on a show or anything, you could do a commercial or something like that."

"Yeah I mean it is a possibility" she nods thinking about the idea.

"Like you say though, you're helping your friends choreograph something at the moment so that'll keep you going for a little bit" I say.

"Yeah exactly" she replies.

Brittany's POV

Santana and I are going on our first proper date tonight and I'm so excited. It's been about a week since we agreed to be together but tonight we've finally found some time to make things a little more official and have a proper date.

Santana was working today but she's got the day off tomorrow and I was helping my friends for a little bit today and managed to take time off tomorrow. We're both currently in our rooms getting ready for the date. It's actually quite funny because even though we're together now we haven't discussed the sleeping situation. I mean maybe we should be sharing a room now, I don't know.

I'm in the middle of picking out what to wear tonight when I hear someone knock on the door. I'm not appropriately dressed right now to answer so I'm hoping Santana will get it.

"Santana there's someone at the door" I shout through. I go back to getting ready but after a few seconds there is another knock at the door. "Santana, the door!" I say louder while moving to the hall to see if I can hear Santana in her room. I wait for a second but whoever it is just keeps knocking. "I guess I'll answer it then" I say shaking my head before walking over to the door. As soon as I open it, my whole face lights up.

"Hi" Santana smiles while handing me a large bunch of flowers.

"Wow, these are lovely. What are they for?" I ask as she walks into the apartment.

"For you" she smiles. "It's only right I bring you some flowers before our second first date together and it seemed quite nice to make it out as if I've came here to pick you up for the date if I were to knock on the door" she tells me.

"You really didn't need to get me flowers though" I say honestly.

"I know but I wanted to" she smiles. "Don't get too used to it though because I don't know if I could keep up with buying you flowers and gifts all the time" she chuckles.

"That's ok, I don't expect you to do that" I say genuinely while smiling at her.

"Ok" she nods.

"By the way, I had no idea you even left the apartment. I was shouting on you to answer the door because I wasn't fully dressed yet" I tell her.

"I did think I heard you shouting on me" she points out laughing.

"Anyway I love the flowers so thank you again" I say while leaning in to kiss her cheek.

"You're welcome…again" she smiles.

"So when do we need to be at the restaurant because I'm not quite ready yet?" I ask.

"We don't need to be there for a while yet so take your time" she replies. "Why don't I put these flowers in water for you anyway and you can get ready?"

"Ok, thank you" I smile before going back to my room to finish getting ready. As soon as I am ready, I meet Santana in the living room and then we leave. Santana gets us a cab and then we head to the restaurant she has booked.

"So we haven't really been in LA long so I haven't worked out the best restaurants yet but the reviews for this one seemed good so hopefully we'll have a nice meal" Santana says as we walk into the restaurant.

"Even if the food is horrible, I'll still have a good time because I'll have good company" I smile at her.

"Well I am awesome so I'm not surprised" Santana jokes.

"I said you were good company, not awesome" I tease.

"You've said many times before that I'm awesome so there's no point pretending I'm not" she smirks.

"Ok" I smile.

"Good evening ladies" the host greets us.

"Hi" Santana smiles, "I reserved a table for two under Lopez."

"No problem" the hosts says while checking the reservations book. "Your table is over by the window here, just follow me."

"Thank you" Santana smiles politely before following the host over to our table. When we get there, Santana rushes over and pulls out one of the chair for me.

"Thanks" I smile at her while taking a seat. Santana then sits across from me.

"The waiter will be over in a second to take your drinks order" the host smiles before leaving.

"So what do you think of this place?" Santana asks as we look over the menus.

"It's really nice and that's a lovely view outside that we can see from the window" I reply. "The candles and the lighting in here are nice too, it makes it seem quite romantic actually" she smiles.

"Who knew I could be so romantic huh?" Santana chuckles.

"Oh come on, you've always been kinda romantic" I say honestly.

"I never really thought I was, I always found you to be the more romantic one of the two of us" she replies.

"Let's just say we're both a little romantic" I smile and Santana nods.

"Hi there, can I get you some drinks?" a waiter asks as he approaches our table.

"Yes please" Santana replies. "We'll take a bottle of your most expensive sparkling water please and two glasses."

"Would that be a fruity flavoured one or a different kind?" the waiter asks.

"Whichever is the most expensive" Santana replies and the waiter nods before leaving. "Sorry I should have asked you first, are you ok with fizzy water?"

"I'm good with whatever you decide" I say honestly.

"Ok" Santana smiles.

"So have you decided what you're going to eat?" I ask while looking up from my menu.

"I'm not sure yet, you?" she asks.

"I'm not sure either but I was thinking we could do what we used to do when we went to restaurants. We could order two dishes and share them both" I suggest.

"That sounds good, let's do that" Santana smiles. "So what are we thinking then?" she asks.

"Call me boring or unromantic but I did kinda want pizza" I say honestly.

"Pizza sounds good to me too" Santana smiles. "How about we just share pizza and get some kind of salad" she suggests.

"Yeah that sounds good" I nod. Once the waiter comes over with the water, we order our food and then sit back and relax to just talk while we wait.

"I was just thinking back the other day about how I used to love it when we went out on dates and stuff. We should totally make this a regular thing" Santana replies.

"What like weekly date nights?" I ask.

"Yeah, why not?" she smiles.

"As much as I would like that, I don't know how much time we'll get in the beginning when the baby comes" I point out.

"Yeah I suppose" Santana replies quietly.

"It doesn't mean we can't make up for it before then though" I smirk.

"That's true" she shrugs.

"Here we go ladies" the waiter says as he places our food down on the table in front of us. "Can I get either of you anything else?" he asks.

"Do you want any dressing for the salad or any spice for the pizza?" Santana asks me while looking over at me.

"I'm not too bothered about anything but if you want something then go ahead" I reply.

"No we're fine thank you" Santana replies to the waiter and then he leaves.

"I guess we should dig in then" I smile at Santana before cutting two slices of pizza and putting them on our plates.

"Thank you" she smiles back at me and we begin eating. We're relatively quiet to begin with because we're both hungry but we eventually start talking again.

"Hey can you remember much about our first first date?" I ask.

"Yeah I can remember everything about it" Santana replies, blushing slightly.

"Me too" I reply smiling. "I think I probably remember everything about us. From first dates to falling in love to every time you made my heart melt."

"I don't think I have forget anything either" Santana says thinking about it.

"Hey do I get a kiss at the end of this date like I did at our first first date?" I ask teasingly.

"Maybe, it's depends if you're good for the remainder of the date" Santana smirks.

"I'll be on my best behaviour, don't you worry" I assure her.

"Then I guess you'll get a kiss" she smiles.

XXX

As soon as we finished dinner, we decided to just head back to the apartment and hang out. We were thinking about going somewhere else but we figured since this was the first night in a while where we could relax together then we might as well do it in comfort at home.

We've just finished watching a movie so now we're deciding what to do next. I had suggested another movie but Santana was getting a little bit bored with that.

"Why don't we just talk, catch up you know" Santana suggests.

"Ok" I shrug. "What shall we talk about?" I ask.

"I don't know, anything" Santana replies.

"Well maybe we should talk about us" I say. "We've had our first date again so where do we go from here?" I ask.

"Its kind of hard to say because we already live together which isn't normal for a couple when they've just had a first date" she replies. "At the same time though I want us to live together, I mean I couldn't imagine you not being here right now."

"Yeah I feel the same" I say agreeing with her. "I did want to ask though, are we staying in separate rooms for the time being or do you think we should share?" I ask.

"I hadn't actually given that a thought so I don't know" she admits.

"I know we've just started dating again but like you say I already live here plus we've been together before. It's not exactly foreign territory right now since we both love each other and have been a couple before" I tell her.

"I know but we want things to work this time so we want to do things the right way" she points out.

"We will though" I say. "I just think we could maybe step things up a little more because we haven't even kissed properly yet."

"Well we could change that" Santana smirks at me while moving closer.

"I think that's a good idea" I smirk back.

"Good" Santana smiles before leaning in to kiss me. I just love the feeling of Santana's lips on mine and I've missed it so much. As the kiss heats up, my hands start wandering under her shirt and I begin caressing her back.

"This feels so good" I mumble into the kiss.

"Wait a second…" Santana says pulling away and shaking her head.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"I think we should take things slow because we don't want to rush this because it means a lot to both of us. Plus we're committed to each other so we have loads of time to just enjoy taking things at a nice pace" Santana replies.

"Ok" I nod. I don't necessarily agree that we need to go quite that slow but I'll do anything to be with Santana so if we need to go slow then fine.

"It's getting late now actually so I might just head to bed" Santana says.

"Yeah I suppose I should too" I reply.

"We should do something nice together tomorrow though since we both have the day off" Santana suggests while standing up.

"Yeah I'd like that" I smile.

"We can decide in the morning what we do" she smiles back.

"Ok" I nod.

"So goodnight Britt" Santana says leaning down to kiss my cheek.

"Night Santana" I smile and then she heads to bed. I spend a little more time watching TV before going to bed.

I'm having one of the best dreams I've ever had right now where I'm filthy rich, living in a mansion and Santana and I are married with 4 children and we couldn't be happier. Just as I'm about to take a nice romantic stroll along our private beach with Santana, I'm awoken by a loud bang in the apartment. I jolt up in bed at the noise before looking around to make sure it's not something in my bedroom. When I realise it isn't, I get out of bed and make my way to find Santana.

"I'm so sorry, did I wake you?" Santana says apologetically as she notices me walking into the kitchen.

"Yeah but it's ok" I smile at her.

"I was trying to make breakfast for us and I was looking for the spatula and couldn't find it. I clearly haven't unpacked properly because things aren't where they're supposed to be" she sighs. "Anyway that's not the point, what is though is that I couldn't find it so I started raking through the cupboards and ended up knocking over a bunch of pots and pans causing a loud bang."

"Did you find it eventually?" I ask while helping her tidy up.

"I did so as long as the pancakes haven't burned already then we'll be able to have a nice breakfast" she smiles before going over to the cooker.

"Oh did you make pancakes for us?" I ask getting excited since they're one of my favourite things to have for breakfast.

"I did because I knew you loved them" she smiles.

"What are we having with them?" I ask.

"Whatever you want" she smiles. "I can make some bacon if you want that and some maple syrup or you can have something else."

"I'll just have whatever you want" I reply.

"Ok" she shrugs before going back to make the pancakes.

Once the pancakes are ready, we sit down to eat together. Santana did want to tidy up a little first but I managed to persuade her to eat first.

"So what are our plans for today then?" Santana asks looking over at me.

"I don't know, what do you want to do?" I ask.

"It's a nice morning so we could go for a walk or we could treat ourselves and do some shopping" she suggests.

"I think a walk might be nice because we haven't actually explored the area all that much since we moved here" I say.

"Sounds good" Santana smiles. "I might just tidy up the dishes and then take a quick shower and then we can head out" she says while lifting our plates over to the sink.

"Ok but let me help you" I say while going over to the sink. I wrap my arms around her waist and kiss her cheek. "Or we could just leave them and tidy up later" I suggest.

"No it's probably best we just tidy up just now" she replies.

"Um…ok" I shrug. I don't want to overanalyse anything but I am getting a slight feeling something is off with Santana. Don't get me wrong she's perfectly pleasant to me but whenever I go near her she seems to get a little bit awkward. I mean this just now and then yesterday after we kissed.

"You can go and get ready if you want. There really isn't much to tidy up" she says turning around to look at me.

"Ok, sure" I say before making my way to my room to get ready.

Santana's POV

The last few days at work have been quite busy so I'm looking forward to this afternoon so Brittany and I can just hang out. I've really missed her the last few days because I leave early in the morning for work and then Brittany is out pretty late helping her friends with their new show. Initially I thought she was just doing a favour for her friends but it seems she's actually getting paid to help.

I'm thinking of cooking a nice dinner tonight for the two of us and I might light a few candles and make it really romantic but right now I just want to hang out with her.

"Britt, where are you?" I shout through the apartment when I can't seem to find her.

"Living room" she quietly replies so I make my way there.

"Hey you ok?" I ask walking into the room. There was something slightly odd about the way she spoke.

"Not really actually" Brittany sighs in response.

"Why what's wrong?" I ask in concern while sitting down on the couch next to her.

"I have this really weird stomach cramp and I'm beginning to get really worried about it now. I had some light bleeding earlier but I read that was common in early pregnancy but now I'm not so sure" she admits worriedly.

"Let's go to the hospital then and get it checked out" I suggest.

"Ok" she nods. I stand up and then lean down to help Brittany get up.

"Is it really sore?" I ask.

"Not excruciating but enough to annoy me" she replies.

"Ok well we'll still get it checked out anyway" I say while taking her arm and helping her through to the door. "Do you need a sweater or anything before we go?" I ask.

"No thank you" she replies quietly.

"Ok let's go then" I say while we leave the apartment. As soon as we get in the car, I drive off quickly. I mean not quickly enough to get caught speeding but a decent speed so we get to the hospital as soon as we can.

"Do you think I'm losing the baby?" she asks looking at me worriedly. I want to reassure her so bad right now but at the same time things aren't looking too good. I can't give her false hope and say it'll be ok in case it won't but I also hate seeing Brittany upset.

"Um…" I don't know what to say.

"If you think I am then I'd rather you tell me so I can prepare myself" she states.

"Look…Britt, I really don't know but what I will say is that this situation is slightly alarming so there is a possibility you could lose the baby" I admit.

"I thought that too" she replies nodding in agreement.

XXX

We're finally seeing Brittany's doctor now and she's going to check Brittany over. I thought I was nervous when I started my job for the first time but god nothing compares to this right now. What the hell is going to happen if we lose this baby? I can't bear to see Brittany so upset but that's going to happen if we lose the baby and it's going to tear me apart.

"I'm losing my baby aren't I?" Brittany asks worriedly while looking at the doctor.

"Let's not jump to conclusions and take a look at the scan first" the doctor says taking a seat near Brittany. "So if you just want to lift your shirt up a bit and have your pants pushed down so I can do your scan. I'm going to insert the probe into you now, it might be a little uncomfortable but it won't hurt" she says to her.

"Ok" Brittany nods while rolling up her shirt.

"Should I leave?" I ask in case Brittany wants some privacy.

"You can if you want to" she replies quietly.

"Do you want me to stay?" I ask.

"I did" she nods while replying quietly again.

"Ok I'll stay then" I smile while walking back over to stand next to Brittany.