"Oh God, jeez, Britt!" Sam shouted, as his eyes fell onto her straddling Santana.
"Sam!" Brittany cried, pulling herself off the other girl.
"What the hell?" Santana cursed pulling her top back into position.
"What, what are you doing here?" Brittany stammered, as she turned her head to check if Santana was ok.
"Never mind that, what the hell is going on? You're back into girls now Brittany?" he questioned like he had a right to.
"Sam," Brittany spoke, closing her eyes to help steady her breathing, "don't talk to me like that, what are you doing here, how did you find us?"
His eyes fell over the both of them and Santana didn't like the look she saw in his eyes, almost like he realized what he had stumbled upon and that he thought it was funny.
Brittany raked her fingers through her hair, trying to get it under control. "Sam!" she spoke again, drawing his focus back to the conversation.
"I've always known about this place" he spoke as his gaze landed on the picture of the two; which Santana had placed on a cushion before. "Your dad told me about it years ago, said that if you ever felt down about your mom and disappeared, that I could find you here, I followed you here once." He finished.
"And now?" Santana questioned madly.
Sam turned to Brittany, "you were upset before and I didn't know why, now I think I have a pretty good idea, but I just wanted to check you were ok, I mean I had no idea about this," and he pointed to the both of them his eyebrows raised.
"Well it's none of your business." Brittany answered, her voice soft as she placed her hand over Santana's.
"No, I guess it's not," Sam spoke almost to himself, his forehead still wrinkled. "So you're into girls?" he questioned to Santana as if he couldn't believe it.
Santana raised her eyebrows at him in a way that told him he better stop talking and leave.
Sam dithered on the step of the ladder a little longer as he processed what he had seen. "Who else knows?" he asked.
"Just Sugar," Brittany spoke, "we're not telling people yet so keep it to yourself."
Sam looked troubled, "I can't tell Finn?"
"Why would you need to tell Finn?" Santana questioned, "Oh no, wait, I already know the answer to that, to tell him you'll have to call off your little bet," she answered, her eyes narrowing at him.
"Yeah, about that," Sam started, "we didn't mean anything by it, we'll stop now, obviously."
"Obviously." Brittany spoke.
"Well I'll leave you two to you know," he smirked, "get back to it."
Brittany felt Santana tense beside her and she placed her hand on her knee to keep her seated.
"Just leave Sam," Brittany spoke, "and keep it to yourself, remember you're not the only one who can reveal secrets," she replied as she watched Sam's eyes find hers and he nodded his understanding, Santana raised her eyebrows obviously oblivious to whatever secret Brittany could reveal about Sam.
Without another word, Sam left the two girls alone.
Brittany let out a long breath she didn't know she'd been holding as she turned her body to face Santana.
"You ok?" she asked, nervous about the answer.
"Yeah," Santana smiled, "it was easier than I thought it would be."
Brittany stroked her fingers along the bend in her knee, soothing out any tension and looked up to meet Santana's eyes.
"I'm sorry he knows about the tree house, I had no idea."
"It's not your fault Britt, I don't think he'll hurry back here anytime soon anyway."
Brittany laughed, "Yeah, you're probably right."
"Do you think he'll keep it to himself?" Santana pondered.
'I think he will, for the time being anyway," Brittany smiled smugly.
"You have something on him?" Santana questioned.
"Yeah," Brittany breathed, "but I'd never tell and he knows that, but if he has any part of his old self left, then I think he'll keep his word."
"I hope so," Santana answered, pulling Brittany in for a hug, "I mean I don't want him to take the chance away for us to tell people on our own terms, I think that would be worse."
"I know baby," Brittany spoke as she pressed kisses to Santana's temple, easing the worry away.
They lay down beside each other and pulled the blankets over them, Brittany wrapping her arm under Santana and scooting her closer to her.
"I'll do anything to protect you. You know that, right?" She spoke as her eyes darted up towards the chocolate brown ones in front of her.
Santana held her gaze as she nodded softly, "Yeah, I know, Britt."
"Good," Brittany smiled, "let's get some sleep now, pretty girl," she replied playfully kissing Santana on the end of her nose.
"Promise you'll cuddle me all night?" Santana asked.
"I promise," and she held up her pinky, "pinky promise," she whispered as Santana wrinkled her forehead but brought her own pinky up to link.
They fell asleep wrapped up in each other, molded together and that's the way they woke up the next morning.
/
The sound of the birds singing and the shine from the morning sunrise brought Santana out of the deepest sleep she'd ever had, she had slept so soundly, she had dreamt of her and Brittany running in the fields, they were both laughing and holding hands as they skipped together, the wind was ruffling through Brittany's golden hair, making it shine even brighter, Santana liked the way Brittany threw her head back laughing, showing her pearly white teeth in the dream, they both looked so care free, it brought a smile to Santana's face as she remembered it.
She was still facing Brittany. Brittany's arm was under Santana's neck and her hand lay flat against her skin there, her other arm thrown over Santana's waist cuddling her like she had promised.
Santana let her eyes trail over Brittany's face, she was glad she had woken up first and was able to witness the angel like way Brittany slept. Her breathing was calming, even in her sleep, it was soft and warm; she blew air from a tiny gap between her lips and occasionally her nose twitched in the cutest way.
Her hair was scattered across the pillow in all directions making Santana smile widely. She had the blanket pulled up to her chin, but Santana could still watch the way her chest raised and fell beneath it.
Santana tried to count the number of freckles on her cheeks but each time she started, she got distracted when she came to the ones that sat just above her lips. Brittany's lips were perfect, she would often swipe her tongue out and lick the length, wetting them and making it so hard for Santana to stop herself from attaching herself to them. She loved that they were plump enough that they would massage hers when they were pressed together.
She let herself watch Brittany for a long time, she just gazed at her trying to ingrain her onto her brain so that when she closed her eyes, this was the image of Brittany she saw. This is what she was doing when Brittany finally opened her eyes.
She saw Santana with her eyes squeezed shut but with a big smile on her face.
"You look creepy," Brittany laughed at her, "what are you doing?"
Santana opened her eyes and mentally kicked herself for being caught in that way.
"Good morning beautiful," she replied squeezing her tighter.
"Good morning to you too, but don't change the subject," Brittany teased, "tell me what you were doing."
"No, you're right, it's creepy," Santana pouted.
"Now I definitely want to know," Brittany smiled, pulling her arm out from under Santana's neck so she could stretch.
"I was trying to memorize the way you looked," she whispered quietly, clearly embarrassed as her cheeks quickly colored.
"Awww, you're just too cute," Brittany laughed, climbing on top of her and placing her hands either side of her head and her legs fell between Santana's.
"Whatever," Santana rolled her eyes, "just come here and give me a good morning kiss please, I've been waiting patiently."
"Is that so?" Brittany smiled leaning down to join their lips. "So how long exactly were you watching me for?" she asked playfully.
"Just long enough to know that you snore so loudly you woke the birds." Santana deadpanned.
"I do not," Brittany replied exasperated.
"I know, I'm just kidding," Santana laughed as Brittany poked her in her ribs.
The girls spent the next ten minutes kissing, both adamant they needed to make up for the time they had been asleep and not kissing.
"We should get up," Brittany suggested as she pulled back to kiss down Santana's jaw.
"Nuh uh," Santana groaned, "this feels too good!"
Brittany smiled into her skin as she continued her kisses. "But don't you want to go and see Finn and Sam's reaction to the tricks we played?"
Santana pulled her head back, "do you think they're going to know it's us that did them now?" she asked worryingly.
"Only one way to find out," Brittany answered giving her one last kiss.
/
As the girls walked back into camp, they sadly dropped their hands, giving each other a small pout.
It was still early but the first sounds of noise were coming from the showers, Santana made her way to her hut as Brittany sat down on the grass outside.
After brushing her teeth and combing her hair, she pulled on her workout clothes and stepped out of the hut.
Brittany raised her eyebrows as she looked at her; she was wearing very tiny shorts and a skimpy workout top that sat over her sports bra but not her abs.
"And where do you think you're going dressed like that?" Brittany deadpanned.
Santana smirked and blew her a kiss as she sat down beside her and began to stretch her legs out.
Brittany watched almost like a bodyguard, her eyes peeled for anyone else that may be watching too.
"Babe," Santana laughed as she watched Brittany watch her, "you are going to give us a way, the way you're looking at me."
Brittany stood up and turned towards her own hut without a word.
Santana watched her go as she continued to stretch.
A few minutes later as she was in her yoga pose, a perfect pair of pale toned legs came into view, her hands gave way and she slumped down to the ground as her eyes followed the length of the legs up to a pair of small shorts and then to the most perfect toned abs and then up to a dark blue sports bra and then Brittany's dazzling smile.
"So I'm ready to stretch out too, my thighs are all tight and stiff," Brittany spoke in a tone that made Santana close her eyes.
The glint in her eyes told Santana that Brittany was playing her at her own game.
Brittany sat down innocently next to her as she opened her legs and proceeded to bend her body so she could reach her toes. She made a moaning sound as she did it causing Santana's eyes to bulge and her body temperature to rise.
"You think you're funny don't you!" Santana stated as Brittany turned her head to look at her, still in the stretch.
"I have no idea what you mean," Brittany smiled sweetly, "I'm merely just getting my stretch on." Speaking in the way that Santana usually would.
Once Brittany had stretched her legs and arms out she stood up and started squatting, the muscles in her thighs hard and pulsing, Santana watched the way her abs twisted when she swung her arms round.
"Sweet Jesus," she muttered to herself as she watched Brittany.
"Babe," Brittany spoke, "you're going to give us a way, with the way you're looking at me," she echoed as she laughed her teeth showing, like the way they had in Santana's dream.
Santana shook her head and eyed her girl carefully, "you know exactly how hot you are right now, don't you?" She smirked.
"You started this," Brittany reasoned playfully as she came down into a crab position, her shorts barely covering what they were supposed too.
"Britt!" Santana squeaked as her eyes fell onto the girl's crotch.
Brittany laughed, loving how high-pitched Santana's voice was right now.
The banter between them continued as they both stretched and worked through some yoga poses that Brittany knew, it was hard for both girls to concentrate, especially when on two occasions Brittany stood up and moved Santana's body into the next position, her hands on Santana's bare abs and thighs.
After about 30 minutes of this, both girls had built up a sweat and had collapsed on the ground doing leg raises and sit ups, Sugar and Rachel had come out to join them; Rachel having already been for a morning run proceeded to cool down.
Sugar gave a running commentary of how many push-ups Brittany could do and then challenged Santana to beat her. Not one to back down from a challenge, Santana got into position, as she started to lower to the ground, Finn flung open the door to his and Sam's hut.
"What the hell man? What have you done with them?" he questioned angrily as he stepped out in just a pair of shorts.
"Dude, what are you talking about? I haven't done anything, mine are missing too." Sam answered, stepping out to join Finn as he paced up and down.
"What so someone's come into our hut and stole all our underwear?" Finn questioned, clearly irritated.
Brittany, Santana and Sugar all looked at each other, a small smirk on their faces as they listened.
"What do you think's going on?" Rachel asked the three girls obliviously as she walked over to the boys.
"Dude, I have no idea," Sam spoke back to Finn, "are you sure you didn't put them somewhere?"
Finn looked at him carefully, "Of course I'm sure, why would you think that?"
"Well you think that about me," Sam retaliated.
"Well I just thought, that, you know, after the other day when I came back and you were wearing some of my clothes….."
"Dude, keep your voice down, I explained about that, I was just seeing if the colors looked good on me."
Sugar burst out laughing turning to the other two girls, "this is genius!" she whispered.
"Hey guys," they heard Rachel say to the boys, "you guys ok?" she looked from Finn to Sam and then back to Finn, "what's going on?"
"Ask him," Finn pointed at Sam as he stormed back into the hut.
"Our underwear has gone missing!" Sam explained, "all of it" he clarified.
Rachel wrinkled her nose, "was it clean?" she asked.
"What? Yes," Sam answered, "it was all in our draws and now they're empty, it just doesn't make sense."
Rachel stood there frowning at him as she processed what he said, "how can you loose your underwear?" she asked.
Sam swallowed a huge sigh as he ran his hand through his hair, "I don't know," he frowned as Finn walked back out, now wearing a t shirt with his shorts and a pair of socks, he held the pair of shoes in his hand that Brittany had molded the tissue inside.
"This is crazy," Finn spoke to Sam as he dropped the shoes onto the floor and tried to place his foot inside.
The girls watched, trying to hide their giggles and not draw attention to themselves.
They saw Finn stuffing his foot in, then bending down, sticking his finger in the back of his shoe to try and get it on his foot, his brow furrowing as he pushed his foot in further, "what the hell?" he questioned as he tried harder.
Sam and Rachel both looked at him as he struggled to get the shoe on; soon he gave up and tried the other one but again failed to get his foot in.
"What the hell is happening to me today?" he shouted.
Rachel moved over to try and help him get the shoes on. "Did your feet swell overnight?" she questioned, looking up at Finn.
"Can that happen?" he asked totally freaking out at the prospect, before he waited for a response he dropped his head into his hands and looked down at his feet. "Oh god, my feet have swollen, like overnight, this can't be good can it?" he questioned looking at Sam and Rachel.
Sam just shrugged his shoulders unsure of what was happening.
"I've heard of this happening before," Rachel declared.
Finn lifted his head, relief showing on his face, "you have? So it's normal?" he asked moving over to her.
"Yeah, sure," she answered and then looked puzzled, "if you're pregnant."
Santana laughed out loud, this couldn't of gone any better if they'd tried.
Finn looked panicked again and like he was about to cry.
Brittany moved her hand over to Santana's and gave it a light squeeze as they watched the drama unfold further.
Sam stood with his brow furrowed as Rachel's words hung in the air.
All eyes were on Finn as he stared at Rachel who was clearly deep in thought.
"Any other reasons your feet swell?" he asked again "as that is clearly not the case."
"Not that I've heard of," she muttered.
"This is crazy," Finn blinked, "I just wanna go back to bed and start the day over." He declared, kicking the shoes away from him.
Both boys headed back inside the hut and Rachel wandered back over to the girls who were all quiet, trying to hold in their giggles and not congratulate each other with high 5's.
"I have no idea what just happened." Rachel spoke, sliding down to create a circle with the other three girls.
Santana and Brittany looked at each and seemed to have a private conversation with each other, which ended with Brittany nodding and Santana smiling widely.
"So we have something we wanna tell you," Santana started, "but it's a secret, so you've gotta promise not to tell anyone."
Rachel sat forward and listed off 36 reasons of how she could keep a secret.
Santana looked back to Brittany about to tell her maybe this wasn't a good idea when Rachel fell quiet.
Brittany nodded and Santana continued. Brittany was nervous about how Santana would explain it; she had no idea what she was going to say and how she would word it as they hadn't talked about it this morning.
Santana moved closer, making the circle smaller and the other girls did the same.
Santana smiled at Brittany and placed her hand over hers on the grass.
"Brittany is my girlfriend," she spoke proudly.
Rachel sat open mouthed as she looked at both the girls and down to their hands.
"OMG," Rachel declared happily, clapping along, "this is amazing!"
"Like we said," Brittany jumped in, "this is a secret, only Sugar knows, it's new for Santana, we are not ready to tell everyone yet and listen to people's opinions who think it's wrong."
Rachel nodded along, "I get it, but congratulations you guys," she whispered excitedly, "I think it's great."
"Thanks Rachel," Santana spoke, genuinely grateful for her reaction. "Like Britt said, it's new for me, no one back home knows this about me and I'm still dealing with a few things."
"Sure," Rachel smiled, "honestly I get it, I won't tell anyone."
"Thanks," Brittany smiled, glad that it had gone so well.
"So how long has this been going on?" she questioned, "tell me everything."
And they did, they filled her in on what had happened between them, how it had progressed and with what had happened between them last night, which was obviously new to Sugar too.
"Wow," Rachel spoke, "you guys have been through so much already." She acknowledged.
The girls nodded smiling at each other, "We might as well tell you what else has been going on too." And all three girls explained about the bet Sam and Finn had and how Brittany had gotten so upset and how they had come up with the idea of playing tricks on the boys.
"So that was you guys?" she laughed, "You stole their underwear and shrunk Finns shoes?"
"Well actually that bit was Britt's idea and she didn't shrink them she put paper tissue inside and molded it to the front and sides to make him think that his feet had swelled." Santana explained.
"That is hilarious," Rachel laughed as her phone beeped and she pulled her phone out of her shorts and pulled the head phones which were wrapped around it from when she was running out of the way.
Brittany and Santana went back to smiling at each other as Sugar lay back down on the grass.
After a minute Rachel spoke up, "why the hell has Sam just texted me asking me what size boxers he wears and can I buy and send him some more?"
Sugar shot off the floor and Santana and Brittany turned to Rachel quickly, all looking guilty.
"Let's see." Sugar asked as Rachel turned the phone to them so they could read it.
What size underwear do I wear? Am I still a small or have I moved up to mediums? Anyway can you buy and send me some more over please, mine all got mixed up in the machines here. Kisses to you and dad xx
Santana literally screamed out in delight as she read the message again, Sugar clutched her ribs from laughing so hard and Brittany's eyes were watering because she was laughing so much.
"Oh yeah," Brittany finally managed to speak, "we have one more thing to tell you."
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