Luckily the shower rooms were quite clean and there was no-one else around as Santana entered, she took the cubicle at the further end and started the shower whilst she undressed and hung her clothes up, she tested the temperature as she unwrapped her shampoo and conditioner from her towel, the water was warm not hot, but Santana could work with it, as she seemed to be in better mood than usual.

As she massaged the shampoo into her hair her mind wandered back to Brittany, the girl only had to smile at her and her tummy trembled, she'd never had that before, also, Santana could never remember finding anything cute about anyone before, attractive sure, but never cute. There was just something about Brittany and it wasn't just her looks either, sure she was hot, possibly the most attractive person Santana had ever seen, including in magazines, but there was something more about her too, Santana wasn't sure what but she had a need inside her that wanted to find out more about her.

Remembering her smile again brought her own lips curving upwards, she wondered what her story was though, there was clearly something that brought worry or sadness into her life, although Santana felt overcome by her own fear and pressure, she wanted to make sure Brittany was ok too.

As she conditioned her hair Santana found herself humming the tune Brittany was earlier, although she couldn't put her finger on the title.

Once she had finished in the shower she grabbed her towel and began to dry herself off, as she reached for her clothes she realized she hadn't brought a clean set, that meant she either had to make a run for her hut in her towel or put her dirty set back on, cursing to herself she decided she could get back to her hut without anybody seeing her. She gathered up all her clothes and shampoo bottles but put her boots back on, she edged her way to the door to take a peek to make sure the coast was clear. It was, so she made a run for it.

As she was about half way to her hut, she heard laughter coming from the right of her, there in the doorway of a hut were 3 boys gathered around, one was freakishly tall with dark hair and a goofy stance, one had blonde hair and unnaturally large lips and the other was an Asian dude with a sculpted body, all had stopped what they were doing and were starring open mouthed at Santana as she ran past with nothing but a towel on. The blonde guy began to whistle while the others looked on, Santana tried to flip them off but she had her hands full, so falling back to her old ways, she fell back into the Santana she was trying to get away from.

"Like what you see do you? Well one of you boys might get lucky whilst we're here!" and with that she offered them a wink.

Hearing the cheers and high fives she realized what she had said and continued running as fast as she could, unlocking her hut and barging inside. Knowing that they now knew which hut she was staying in, made her even more angry with herself, 'why did I have to do that?' she thought.

Angrily unlocking her suitcase and picking out her jeans, a vest top and a cardigan, she got dressed and flung herself down on her bed, grabbing her journal out of her bag, not bothering to dry her hair, she brushed through it and tied it up in a messy bun and started writing.

Meanwhile on the other side of the camp…..

"What do you mean she's different?" Sugar queried, glancing at Brittany as they both colored in a picture Brittany had drawn of a unicorn.

Brittany sighed, "I don't know what it is about her yet, but I know I need to get to know more, she seems sad underneath all her unicorn awesomness."

"wait, wait, wait, wait, you think she's unicorn?" Sugar asked starring at Brittany this time.

"Yeah, like totally, but without confidence, but I'm going to help her find it," Brittany beamed.

"Are you sure that's all this is Britt."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I just feel like there is more to this than you're saying, are you into her or something,"

"What? No, why would you say that? Wait, why? Do you think she's into me, into girls?"

"Woah, slow down there tiger,"

Brittany jumped back looking around, "there's a tiger?" she shouted, whipping her head round to the trees.

"No, I mean you Britt, you slow down, I didn't mention anything about that, I asked if you liked her? Like, is that why you are being weird and jumpy?"

Brittany stayed quiet; her tongue poking out as she concentrated on her coloring.

"Oh my god, you do," Sugar squealed, "ah ha, I knew it."

"ssshhhh," Brittany shushed as she placed a hand over Sugar's mouth, "eww gross, stop licking me," Brittany moaned as she removed her hand, "I don't want you to say anything, or tease me, I don't know how I feel yet, just that I need to spend some more time with her, plus I bet she's not even into me, or girls for that matter, I don't know hardly anything about her."

"But you do know some stuff right?" Brittany felt her face flush, "spit it out Pierce! Come on spill."

Brittany could feel the smile on her face spread as she thought back to what she knew about Santana, "I know she's clumsy when she's nervous, I know she has this whole cover going on, like she tries to act cool and not show her emotions but I see them, even though they're brief, I have seen them flit across her face, I know she's never had people actually understand her, also like she's been let down by lots of people in her life, I know she has a dimple in her right cheek and she has the cutest beauty spot three quarters of the way up her right arm, I know her hands are soft, and I know the way she looks down at the ground when she blushes, I also know….."

"Woah, woah woah, Britt, have you heard yourself?"

"What?" Brittany asked blushing

"Girl you have it bad…."

"Bad for who?" a voice called from their left, the girls looked over finding Finn, Mike and Sam walking towards them.

"None of your business," Brittany quickened as she stuck her tongue out at Sugar, who just smirked at her best friend, trying to change the conversation, she continued, "so what have you guys been up too?"

The boys sat down on the picnic bench opposite the girls, Sam's dog came running from trees and slowed his legs and came to lie down beside them, Sam got up to sit on the grass and stroke him.

Finn piped up, "Well we have just seen the new piece of talent, strutting her semi naked body across the camp in just a towel," he high fived Mike as Brittany's head shot up, knowing he must be talking about Santana.

Sensing an unusual outburst from Brittany, Sugar jumped in before she could, "oh yeah, that must be Santana you're talking about, yeah she's hot, but I think she's taken," smirking at Brittany.

"Oh I doubt that, or that it matters to her, as she pretty much stated one of us would be getting lucky with her at some point," Mike remarked.

"She said that?" Brittany enquired quietly, Finn nodded, Sugar saw Brittany's shoulders slump so again stepped in to stop any questions about Brittany's weird behavior.

"I bet you guys totally took it out of context,"

"How can you take, 'Like what you see do you? Well one of you boys might get lucky whilst we're here!' out of context?" Sam said, "she is totally up for it," Brittany lifted her head to look over at Sam, he had changed so much over the last year, he had lost his innocence and started being a jerk and following Finn around, it had been 3 months since Brittany had split up with him, but she stopped loving him a while before that.

"I might go and knock for her," Finn said as he stood.

"No way man, she was looking at me, if anyone should go and knock for her it should be me," Sam said as he also stood.

"Will you leave the poor girl alone, she just got here, I'm sure she doesn't want to be hounded by you three losers,"

"Jeez Sugar, what is your problem?" Finn argued.

"Nothing, I'm just saying, you know nothing about her and you want to go and harass her, she's been at the camp for just over two hours, I just think you're being creepy."

Brittany was glad for Sugar's insistence that the boys leave Santana alone but it was now clear to her that Santana wasn't in to her like she had hoped.

"Come on guys, Sugar is right, let's go and toss the Frisbee whilst we wait for dinner," Mike offered.

The guys all stood up and Sam's dog, Jake followed them too. Once they were out of earshot, Sugar began speaking again.

"Forget what they said Britt, you need to find out from her who she likes and the only way you are going to do that is if you spend time with her, now go and see if she wants to hang out,"

"I don't know Sugar, I said I'd knock for her for dinner and I told her to bring a jacket because I wanted to show her something after dinner."

Sugar raised her eyebrows, amused.

Shaking her head Brittany replied, "I wanted to take her up to the lookout, I think she'd really like it, it's secluded, quiet and the view is amazing, just what she described she wanted."

Meeting Brittany's eye Sugar confirmed, "it's also romantic up there and the perfect place for you to find out a bit more about her."

"I don't know now though, if she started dating Finn or worse Sam, I don't know what I'd do, she's too good for them, but obviously I can't demand she doesn't, ergh why do I feel like this?"

"Because you like her Britt, that's obvious, you owe it to yourself to find out! Go! There is 30 minutes until dinner, plenty of time to show her around here."

Sighing, "yeah, you're right, ok I'm going, I'll just see if she wants to hang out, yeah, I can do that." And with that Brittany set off back towards hut 124, she was earlier than she said but she figured Santana would just be unpacking anyway, maybe she could help her.

As she approached the hut, she could hear music playing inside Santana's hut, Brittany stopped and listened, it was a Kelly Clarkson song, she could hear the intro starting and then Santana's voice began singing along, and wow, it was beautiful.

There's a place that I know

It's not pretty there and few have ever gone

If I show it to you now

Will it make you run away?

Santana sang with such feeling, she could hear her voice tremble on a few of the words. Brittany realized how personal this moment was to Santana and wanted to step away and not intrude, but she couldn't, her voice was drawing her in and Brittany found herself smiling, even though it was a sad song,

Or will you stay

Even if it hurts

Even if I try to push you out

Will you return?

And remind me who I really am

Please remind me who I really am

As the chorus was about to start Brittany made her way to the window, she had to see Santana, she wanted to hug her again and tell her how pretty she was, but she couldn't.

Everybody's got a dark side

Do you love me?

Can you love mine?

Nobody's a picture perfect

But we're worth it

You know that we're worth it

Will you love me?

Even with my dark side?

Brittany watched the scene as Santana lay back on her bed, eyes closed and her arms hugging herself. She looked sad, in pain almost and it hurt Brittany to see her like that. As she continued singing Brittany quietly made her way back round to the front of the hut and knocked the door, Santana stopped singing and got up to turn the music down as she made her way to the door.

"Hey," Brittany started once Santana's head peeped around the door.

"Oh great, it's you," Santana answered with a smile as she held the door open for Brittany to walk in.

Brittany's heart beat that little bit faster, "were you expecting anyone else?" she enquired.

"No, only you, but I thought it might have been the boys that I met earlier," she paused when she saw Brittany freeze slightly.

"Oh yeah, Finn, Sam and Mike, yeah, they mentioned they'd seen you and from what you said to them, they are all quite keen to get to know you." Brittany rambled, her eyes focused on the blank wall in front of her.

Santana took in Brittany's appearance and went to sit down on the bed and brought her knees up to her chest.

"Yeah, I was stupid, I made a comment I would of made back home, to cover up what I was really thinking and said it out of habit," she whispered as her breath caught in her mouth. "I'm so stupid.' She repeated.

Brittany turned to look at her, "hey, you are not stupid, don't ever say that! But what do you mean, a comment you would of made at home?"

Santana didn't speak for a short while as she caught her breath and steadied her voice, "I'm not attracted to boy's Britt, not at all, but no one knows, except my best friend at home, but I didn't tell her, she found out and I'm still getting to grips with it myself, so to cover it all up, I flirt with boys because I don't know what else to do." And with that her tears started to fall.

"Hey, shh, that's alright San, you don't have to keep that part of yourself a secret, that just adds to how amazing you are," Brittany responded sitting down next to her on the bed.

"You are the first person I've ever said those words out loud to Brit," she sniffled, "it's a massive part of me that I keep hidden everyday, but I'm always reminded of it and it makes me lash out and be a bitch to people, I'm just so angry all the time, you know?"

"What can I do to help Santana?" Brittany asked.

Santana looked up at her and got lost in her eyes, "I don't know Britt, I guess I need to help myself first, try to be the me I really am, and not fall back into my old ways."

"Moving forwards is a good start." Brittany said, "well I am here for you as your friend, you can talk to me anytime you want," she smiled and shifted on the bed. "How about we go and get dinner and if any of those boys bother you, I'll kick their butts."

With that Santana smiled briefly, looking at Brittany, "thanks Britt, I don't know what I did to deserve a friend like you."