This is it guy's, it's that time. It's the date!
It had been four days since Brittany had hung out with Santana and her friends at the Karaoke bar and they had been texting avidly. Brittany had spent the weekend just relaxing with Quinn and getting over the slight hangover she had gotten from mixing too many cocktails. She'd been back at work fresh faced on the Sunday for a few sessions down at the gym, it was now Tuesday and she couldn't wait to see Santana again, but she wasn't sure what she was going to do for their date. Sure she had asked Santana to go for coffee, but that wasn't romantic in the slightest. Brittany saw Mike across the gym finishing up with his client, she decided to walk over and get some advice from him, he had a fiancée and he'd wooed Tina so she knew she could trust him.
"Hey Mike, can I ask you something?"
"Yeah sure Britt, what's up?" Mike was always up for helping anyone out in any way he could.
"I asked this girl on a date, to go for coffee as we don't really know each other very well but I'm starting to think that it's unimaginative and unromantic, but I don't know what to do." Brittany pouted, she was having a case of imagination block.
Mike looked thoughtful then his face lit up "Why don't you go to a restaurant or go for a picnic something cute and romantic but quiet so you can still get to know each other."
"That sounds so good... I've just had an idea but I'm going to need your help." Brittany grinned and clapped her hands excitedly.
"Let's go to the office and plan this out." Mike was happy to see Brittany this happy, she hadn't been this happy about a date in a long time, since Sam. But the less said about that the better. He hated that guy for what he did to Brittany, she didn't deserve that, no one did.
Brittany and Mike had been in the office for 20 minutes planning everything for Brittany's date when Santana walked past and saw them. She didn't like what she saw Brittany laughing and hugging the Asian guy, she figured they worked together but this looked different. There was this glint in Brittany's she'd never seen before, she looked truly happy. Her stomach knotted and she suddenly didn't feel like finishing her workout, so she walked out the gym grabbed her stuff and walked out without showering.
It was the end of Brittany's shift and she ran home to get showered and changed. She was just getting out the shower when Quinn came home.
"Hey Britt, what you up too?"
"Hey Quinny, I'm getting ready for my date with Santana, Mike and I came up with a perfect date." Brittany looked so happy and excited Quinn couldn't help but break into a big smile. Brittany told Quinn the plan whilst she finished getting ready. Quinn loved it; she wished that someone would put half that much effort into the dates she went on.
45 minutes later Brittany was back at work and in one of the dance studio's they had there. Herself, Tina and Mike were setting everything up. Tina had gone to collect the food, that left her and Mike setting up. They had put a table in the middle of the studio with a red and white chequered tablecloth on top, with a candle in the middle. There were lamps in each corner of the room turned down to give it a romantic feel as the studio lights were bright and cold like the light's in a hospital. There was wine and beer, Brittany wasn't sure which one Santana wanted to drink, she wanted to be prepared. There was a stereo playing some soft romantic music in the background, it looked perfect it was just missing one thing... Santana. Brittany had texted Santana as soon as she had arrived asking her to come and meet her in the dance studio. Brittany and Mike had finished setting up and were looking around the room to check everything was in place. Mike quickly ran to the office connected to the studio to grab the flowers that Brittany had got Santana. Brittany squealed with happiness and ran over to Mike taking the flowers from him and engulfing him in a massive hug, he grabbed on to her and spun her around neither of them had noticed that Santana had walked into the studio at this point.
"Thank you Mike, this means so much. I love you." Brittany leant in and kissed Mike on the cheek, except from where Santana stood it looked like she kissed him on the mouth. As Brittany drew back from the kiss and looked over Mike shoulder to see Santana standing there. She saw a few emotions flash across her face, hurt, anger and jealousy, she then realised how this looked, and sounded as she remembered what she'd said to Mike only seconds ago when Santana must have been stood there.
"This isn't how it looks Santana I promise." Brittany quickly detached herself from Mike who looked a little sheepish and walked over to Santana.
"Then would you care to explain this to me then, Brittany. As it looks like I've just walked in on you declaring your love for Spring Rolls over there! I thought I was coming here to see you, not to witness that, if you wanted to back out of our date all you had to do was say, it would have hurt a hell of a lot less than this right now." Santana turned to walk out on Brittany; she was so upset she thought her and Brittany had great chemistry. She looked back over her shoulder "You know Brittany, I actually thought that we would've had a great time together, we got on so easy when we first met and I felt like we connected on another level, I'd never felt like that before. But after seeing this and you and Peeking Duck in the office earlier today, you were smiling a smile I'd never seen before you looked so happy and it made me feel sad that it wasn't me that was making you smile like that.
Brittany couldn't hold back any longer she needed Santana to understand, she could see in the sadness in Santana's eyes and she wanted to make it go away. She made Santana face her "It was you that was causing me to smile like that." Brittany pointed out. "Not you directly, but talking about you and planning this date for you. I didn't want to have just coffee with you; I wanted something more romantic but in a place where we could still talk and get to know each other, because I want to get to know you. Mike was helping me to set it up and his fiancée Tina has gone to fetch our food as I couldn't manage it all at the same time on short a short amount of time, but I wanted to do it now as I couldn't wait any longer." Santana looked deep into Brittany's eyes to see if she was lying, but all she saw was hope.
"I'm so sorry Santana, can we start again?" Brittany pleaded.
Just as Santana was about to answer the door swung open and Tina walked in, she looked round the room and could feel the tension in the room.
"Is everything ok?" She looked over at Mike who looked a little uncomfortable.
Brittany took this opportunity to explain to Tina what had happened, Tina nodded as Brittany told her story then turned to Santana. "I understand exactly how you feel Santana, When I first started to work here I met Mike and I instantly liked him, but for the first few months I worked here I thought they were a couple. They are so close they have known each other forever, it was only when I met S.. erm when I became closer friends with them that I realised they weren't together." Santana listened to Tina and understood where she was coming from, as from what she had seen it did look like Brittany and Mike were close like a couple.
"Thanks Tina, I'm sorry Santana, please we can start again."
Santana looked at Brittany and saw all the hurt and sadness in Brittany's eyes. "Yes."
That was all Brittany needed to hear, she swept Santana into a massive hug. She pushed her face into her necked and breathed in her smell, her hair smelt like coconuts and her skin like cocoa moisturiser, it smelt delicious she never wanted to let go, but she knew she had too so she pulled back, only to look into Santana's eyes to see happiness. Brittany couldn't help but smile, which was infectious and soon Santana was smiling too staring deep into Brittany's eyes the two were lost in each other when Tina coughed snapping them out of their daze.
"Well guys, this has been fun. You're food is out and we're going to leave you two to your date." Tina made her way over to Brittany to say good bye followed by Mike, Santana saw this as her only opportunity to apologise to Mike and to try to make a better impression, as she knew Mike opinion of her would be important if her and Brittany started dating, plus he seemed like a really good guy to go out of his way to help Brittany plan this date and then help to set it up.
"Hey Mike, I just wanted to um.. to apologise for earlier, when I get really pissed off, Santana gets taken over by my other evil personality. I call her Snix, her wrath of words is called Snix juice. But anyway I digress, I'm sorry Mike for being a bitch to you."
Mike laughed and smiled at Santana "It's ok Santana, I understand. I just felt bad that I almost ruined your first date with each other. I'm glad you guys could work it out. Have fun tonight and you too Britt."
"Thanks for all your help Mikey." Brittany smiled and hugged Mike and watch him and Tina walk out hand in hand.
Brittany turned to Santana and smiled. "So let's get this date under way the." She handed Santana the bunch of flowers she had got her. "These are for you."
Santana looked down at the flowers Brittany had given her, they were beautiful, white flowers with six petals each that were long and curled upwards, in the centre where the petals meet it looked like there was almost another flower there where the stigma's grew and in the very centre of that there was a green part that was shaped like a star. "They're beautiful Brittany, thank you."
"There Star of Bethlehem flowers, they mean hope. When I think of you I have hope that we can make it together, I know this might be too soon but it's how I feel and I just hope that you feel the same way."
"It's so strange we barely even know each other, but I too have the same feeling. It feels like I've know you forever, it just clicked when we met. I've never had that with anyone else ever." Santana smiled at Brittany now knowing that Brittany felt the same way she did. She felt it too, hope.
"You look so beautiful tonight." Brittany said honestly, being able to fully appreciate her beauty.
Santana blushed "So do you Britt." What she said couldn't be more true, Brittany was dressed in skinny black jeans and top with a cardigan. Santana was wearing leggings and an over sized t-shirt and her leather jacket.
"Let's sit and eat and we can get to know each other more. I like what I know already, but I'm greedy for more." Brittany walked Santana over to the table and pulled the chair out for her, then sat herself opposite Santana.
"I didn't know what kind of food you like so I just went with Italian, Plus there is the best Italian restaurant here in LA so I went with that as it tastes really good. I got a few small portions of a few things so we could share, there's spaghetti and meatballs, chicken alfredo and a cherry tomato, kale, ricotta and pesto pasta. Then for pudding there is Tiramisu and chocolate, pistachio and nougat semi-freddo."
"That sounds so good Brittany, I can't wait." Santana was impressed by the thought that Brittany had put into this and she felt special, like she was worth all the effort.
"What would you like to drink Santana, I've got beer, red wine and white wine?"
"I'll have a beer please Britt." Brittany went to fetch two beers, she handed Santana a beer and they tucked into the food. They chatted casually while eating getting to know each other, they almost played a game of twenty questions, but there were way more than twenty questions asked as they both wanted to know everything about each other. The date was drawing to an end as they had finished most of the food, the things Brittany knew about Santana were; she was 22, her birthday was January 12th, she has lived in California all her life, but her parents were both from Puerto Rico and she spoke fluent Spanish, her favourite colour is red, she has a dog called Lucy, her best friends from high school is called Kevin, they were still in touch but he lived in New York and had just got a job in an advertising company, so they didn't see each other much but they skyped. She was an aspiring singer songwriter and had recently got herself an agent and was in talks with record labels. Santana had a great relationship with her parents, they knew she was gay, but she'd had a rocky past with her abuela who didn't speak to her for a few years after she came out, but they are talking again. She also knew that Santana had 1 older brother Miguel and lots of cousins who she was close with. Everything that Brittany learnt about Santana blew her away the girl got more amazing with everything she learnt, she wasn't surprised that Santana was being scouted by record label as anyone would be lucky to have her.
Santana had learned that Brittany was also 22, her birthday was February 1st, she had 2 older sisters, Hannah and Freya, her parents also knew she was bi-sexual and didn't mind, her father was American and her mother was Dutch and she spoke fluent Dutch. She had grown up in Arizona with Quinn they had been best friends since 5th grade and they had both moved out to LA to pursue their dreams, Brittany wanted to be a dancer and Quinn a writer. Her favourite colour is blue as it matches her eyes, she had a cat when she was younger called Lord Tubbington and he was very fat as his favourite food was fondue. Brittany had even shown Santana a few pictures of him on her phone and she had to agree he was very fat. Santana also learnt that Brittany used to pretend to be dumb in high school, because she knew she was smart but didn't want to rub it in everyone's faces or get bullied for being clever and that it surprised everyone (except Quinn who knew the truth) when she graduated at the top of her classes. But her pretending to be dumb had given people the opportunity to use that to bully her with, but she ignored it as she knew the truth. A lot of the boys at her school had tried to sleep with her because she was 'a dumb blonde' but she never had. As they were cleaning up the dance studio putting everything away Santana asked Brittany the question she had been dreading. "What was your last relationship?" Brittany dropped the wine glass she was holding and Santana snapped her head up to look where the noise came from. She noticed the look on Brittany's face and instantly knew something wasn't right. "Britt are you ok?" Brittany didn't answer and Santana carefully walked over to where Brittany was standing and put her hand on her arm, Brittany flinched at the touch. It snapped her from her state.
Brittany cleared her throat "erm... Santana I... It's difficult, I don't know if I'm ready to share that with you yet, it's not that I don't think you'll understand it's just that I'm not the person I used to be."
"It's okay Britt, you just tell me whenever you're ready to and I'll just listen, no judgements." She pulled Brittany into a hug to let her know that she was there for her.
"Thanks San." They stayed in the hug for a few minutes until Brittany was ready and she pulled away and they fished clearing up. Once it was all done they locked up and headed out.
"Do you live far from here?" Brittany asked Santana, hoping it was nearby as she wanted to walk her home.
"Just round the corner from hear actually, this is my local gym."
"Can I walk you home?" Brittany asked shyly.
"I'd love that Britt." They set off in the direction of Santana's apartment and Brittany reached over and took Santana's hand, they both smiled at the feeling of being close to one another. They walked for about 5 minutes when Santana turned to Brittany "This is me, would you like to come in for a coffee, it's not that late and I don't want you to go just yet"
"Yeah I'd like that, I'm not quite ready for the date to end yet. Plus I owe you an explanation."
Brittany looked Santana in the eye and Santana saw pain. "Britt are you sure you want to, I don't want you to feel pressured into it."
"I'm ready."
That's it for this chapter guys, leaving you on a cliffhanger. Hope you enjoyed it leave a review if you want. Who is excited to find out what's in Brittany's past! How will Santana cope with the news.
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