Dani walked the halls with no purpose, just to walk, until she heard a light weeping coming from the girls bathroom. Dani's instinct told her to check it out so she did.
"Hello..?" Dani asked. The weeping stopped with a "Oh, sorry." Dani recognized that voice. Dani walked slowly to the door of the weeper and knocked. "San, what's wrong?" Santana sniffed a little between her words, trying to stop crying. "Nothing, I'm fine."
Dani leaned against the bathroom stall door, putting her head against it also.
"We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to but, I will listen." The sniffing stopped but Santana's voice was a bit raspy from crying.
"Brittany's moving... and I've seen long distance relationships not work." Dani wanted to be sincere.
"Well, I think, love is love no matter the distance. If you don't think it will work then it wouldn't have worked in the first place. Make it work, or don't make it."
It was quiet for what seemed forever, but in reality was a minute and a half. Santana then broke the silence, "You're right Dani. Make it work or don't make it. I'll give it a try, why not?" Santana then busted out the door, causing Dani to get hit in the face from leaning on it. Dani let out an 'ow' and Santana covered her mouth with her hands in shock.
"Well I am very disappointed in both of you." Principal Sue said. Dani held toilet paper to her bloody nose.
"Principal Sue, it was an accident we weren't fighting!" Principal Sue raised her hand, along with her voice. "Enough! You both have cleaning duty for two weeks." Dani and Santana looked at each other with "I'm sorry" faces. "Now get out of my office." Dani walked out with her head slightly tilted while Santana helped her walk.
"San, I'm not helpless. Ya gave me a bloody nose, not a broken leg." Santana didn't smile, she was really serious and looked guilty. "Are you sure? I didn't mean for this to happen, and after you gave me advice-" Dani cut her off. "It's cool, I've had worse." Santana still didn't look like herself.
"Seriously, you didn't intend to give me a bloody nose. It will stop eventually and then it will be in the past." Dani smiled at Santana, trying to cheer her up. Santana then gave in and gave a small smile.
Dani walked to the bench, still holding toilet paper to her nose. Naomi then came over by Dani. "What happened?" Naomi tried to look around for other injuries. "I'm fine, just an accident. you should of seen the other guy." Naomi laughed a little. Then Santana came back over, "Hey Dani!" Dani turned and saw Santana coming over. Dani then looked to see Naomi still sitting there.
"Hey San." Santana smiled and saw the girl on her phone sitting next to Dani. Dani looked over at her also.
"Um, Santana this is Naomi-" Naomi then cut Dani off. "Her ex-girlfriend." Naomi then smiled and held out her hand. Santana shook it with a smile too. "Naomi, Santana." They then released from the shake and Santana pulled out a cookie from her bag. "Sorry for giving you a bloody nose." Naomi's smile faded fast, and she put her phone in her pocket. "Wait, Dani, she gave you that bloody nose?" Dani then got up to calm down Naomi. "Naomi, it was an accident. I ran into a door she opened is all." Naomi calmed down because she knows Dani doesn't lie. "Okay..." Dani said she had to go and then walked away leaving the two. Naomi and Santana smiled and waved goodbye as Dani walked away.
Naomi gave Santana the "I got my eyes on you" signal and then continued at her phone.
After School...
Dani set her bag down in principal Sue's office while Santana pulled out two feather dusters from the cleaning cart.
"I can't believe she doesn't believe us. And she's making us clean her trophies!" Dani said while she dusted. Santana shrugged and raised her eyebrows.
"It could be worse." Dani just sighed and continued to dust the trophies. Once the girls were done dusting, they took a break. Dani pulled out a journal from her bag that read, "Dani's Story". Dani clicked her pen and began to write. Santana looked over and watched the blue haired girl write.
"What's that?" Santana asked while she snacked on crackers. Dani smiled.
"Well, it's me. My life since I was thirteen all in this journal. Quite a read actually." Santana had a look of curiosity in her eyes.
"Why don't you read me a page?" Dani grinned. "Alright, tell me when to stop." Dani then flipped the pages with her thumb, like a flip-book.
"Stop." Dani stopped around the middle section. "Ah..." Santana noticed Dani's fake smile. "This one's a bit depressing. Got most of my lyrics done around this time." Dani took a deep breath, and started to read.
"December twenty first. Fifteen years old-" Santana looked at Dani read and could tell that already, Dani was hiding her emotions.
"It's almost Christmas, shouldn't I feel excited? What's there to be excited about in this cruel world? Dad's gone and Mom's found her substitution love with a bottle of vodka. I also have these feelings that I am suppressing, it's scary. I wish Alex was here..." Dani stopped and closed the journal, not making eye contact with Santana. Santana touched Dani's hand trying to comfort her, but failing to do so. Dani jumped up and wiped the loose tears from her face and smiled.
"Well that was a downer. I'm going to uh, go get cleaned up." Dani's voice was shaky. Santana thought about stopping Dani but decided not to.
"Okay." Santana watched Dani walk quickly out of the office.
Dani wiped her face with water which took off her makeup. She heard the door open and saw Santana standing with a box of tissues.
"Just in case." Santana said with an understanding smile. Santana looked at Dani, noticing how naturally beautiful she is without her makeup, don't get her wrong, she likes the makeup but this was warming. Dani sat on the bathroom's counter and kicked her hanging feet below her.
"Want to talk about it?" Dani then replied quickly and sternly, but not in a harsh way. "No." Santana set the tissues on the counter next to Dani. "Come on Dani, It's okay to cry every once in a while. And especially being a girl, if we don't cry at least once a month, we go crazy." Dani laughed. "I know it wasn't intended San, but that sounded like a period joke." Santana thinks for a second and then playfully punches Dani. "I'm serious!" A few seconds passed by.
"Alex... He was my only other brother, besides Marc. He was the first one I came out to and, he didn't take it good. He was on his way home from an argument we had and he got in a car accident." Santana sat on the counter beside Dani. "I'm sorry Dani." Dani looked at the ceiling and bit her lip trying to hold back from sobbing. "Last thing he said to me was, "I can't accept this right now", and then he stormed out. I just feel horrible, leaving things with him like that. I feel horrible everyday."
"Let it out Dani." Santana then let Dani cry in her arms.