a/n: Once again you guys are great! I love the comments. I'm glad you guys like the playfulness but yet serious way I'm trying to write these characters. Rachel's family is kind of based of mines. My parents can be overbearing at times and I love my sister to pieces. I can laugh and talk with her for days.
I also just noticed that I didn't have my private messaging link available. If anyone is interested in sending me a message, that is now available as well as reviews from people who are not members of this site. I know I accidently turned those things off before so… forgive me. Um…hmm…that is all I have to say. Thanks again and please review.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee
"I'm so excited!" Santana laughs at the excited squeal that Marley releases before stuffing some pancakes into her mouth.
Santana decided to take the younger girl out to breakfast as a graduation gift. This breakfast date is the first time the two have ever hung out alone together. Usually Rachel or one of their friends is lurking around.
But Santana doesn't mind being alone with Marley. They actually get alone pretty well. Marley has a corky kind of attitude that just makes her so easy to get along with. And for some reason Marley thinks that Santana is good for her sister. Marley always compliments how well Rachel and Santana are together. So there is no way Santana couldn't do something for this girl who never judged her relationship with Rachel, even when she was being a jerk.
So here they are having breakfast.
"Did you cry at your college graduation?" Marley says after she has finished off her pancakes. "Dumb question." Marley interrupts Santana before you could reply. "You don't look like a crier."
Santana laughs. "I actually did."Santana laughs even harder when Marley's eyes widen. "I know, right?"
"Seriously?"
Santana shrugs. "High school…high school wasn't the best time of my life. College was amazing. I was free to do whatever I wanted and…I don't know. I loved my classes and I made some pretty great friends." Santana smiles at the memory of when she first met Quinn. "While I was sad it was ending, I was also happy to be moving on to new things."
"Yeah," Marley looks distracted. "That's kind of how I feel." Her eyes find Santana's again. "Maybe I can find a job and get out of my parents house sooner rather than later."
"I'm sure you'll do fine." Santana assures.
"Says the girl who hasn't met my parents yet." Marley laughs. "They're every bit of crazy Rachel makes them out to be."
Santana just laughs.
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After breakfast, Santana heads to Rachel's apartment. She knocks on the door and waits for her girlfriend to open the door.
"Hey!" Rachel pulls her in by the hand and shuts the door behind her. "How was breakfast?" Rachel inquires after giving Santana a quick kiss.
"Good. She's going to be a great teacher." Santana says with a nod.
"So…what's up?" Rachel moves away from the entrance and starts walking into her bedroom. Santana follows. "I thought you had to work."
True.
Santana didn't have any intentions of stopping by Rachel's. The reason she had breakfast with Marley and not lunch or dinner was because her schedule was pose to be pretty full. Santana suppose to be meeting up with her team and going over new contracts and spending time in the office trying to make designs. And later today she's suppose to take Beth to the movies.
"I don't know." Santana shrugs. "I called Quinn on my way over here. She's going to take the lead on the next project. She can handle the office today."
"Are you okay?" Rachel looks away from the dresser she's been going through. When a shirt goes sailing through the air and lands on Rachel's bed, that's when Santana notice the mess that is Rachel's bedroom.
"I'm fine."Santana dismisses her concern. "What are you doing?" Santana sits on the end of the bed and pick at some of the stuff Rachel has on the bed.
"You don't look fine." Rachel goes back to shuffling things around. "I'm packing. It'll be time for me to leave in no time."
"Right." Santana leans back on the bed and watches her girlfriend continue to destroy the room. "I think I'm going to go." Santana sits up.
The only reason she came over to being with is because she was in her feelings. Talking with Marley this morning about college and being excited about the world made her emotional for some reason. So she thought she'd come see Rachel and Rachel would do something to distracted her. But that's not the case at all. Rachel is too distracted with packing.
"Why?" Rachel turns to see Santana putting back on her shoes. "I thought we could hangout for awhile and then have lunch together."
"Yeah…um," Santana tries to think of an excuse to leave. Obviously she can't use work. Damn her big mouth. "I just…I think I'm going to go."
Rachel sighs. And with that sigh Santana knows that Rachel can tell that's something is bothering her. But Santana being Santana is not going to talk about it until she's ready.
"Are you sure that you have to?" Rachel moves over to the bed. "We could do something else. We don't have to go out for lunch. You could cook us something." Rachel smirks.
Santana laughs. "I could cook us something?"
"Yeah." Rachel moves to straddle Santana's legs. "What's wrong?"
It's at this point that Santana would lie and say it's nothing. And Rachel would either let it go or keep pushing and Santana would blow up.
But today it's different.
Santana watches Rachel's eyes trace her face, and the feel of Rachel's fingers playing with the hairs on the back of her neck, and all she can think about is how she loves this girl. How Rachel is always patient with her. How Rachel has somehow managed to make Santana Lopez fall in love.
"I guess," Santana sighs and buries her face in Rachel's neck. "I don't know...some stuff your sister said at breakfast got me thinking about some things."
"Like?" Santana feel Rachel trying to pull away so she can see her face, but Santana refuses to move.
"High school, my family…shit like that."
Rachel slaps her arm. "Language." Santana just chuckles. "Care to share?"
"Not really."
"What if we both shared?" Santana leans back to look at Rachel now. Rachel takes that as her cue to continue to explain. "I tell you something from my past and you tell me something about yours. I mean, we should be talking about this stuff anyway right? Nice healthy relationship and all that jazz." Santana smiles and aggress to go along with Rachel's plan. But only if Rachel goes first. "Okay…um…I broke my big toe when I was ten."
Santana laughs and asks her how she did that. Rachel explains how she's afraid of dogs and how she and Marley were playing in the backyard when a stray wonder in and she broke her toe in her haste to get away.
"I cheated on a math test when I was in the ninth grade." Santana admits. "I felt so guilty afterwards that I never cheated on anything again. And I made sure to put in extra effort to do well in math."
"Hmmm did that have anything to do with you becoming an architect?" Santana nods.
They spend the next thirty minutes admitting stupid things they did as kids, sharing good and bad memories from child hood. The conversation stays light until Santana shares with Rachel about how her dad left the family and how angry she was about it. About how sometime she still gets pissed about it even though she barley even talks to either of her parents.
"I'm sorry baby." Rachel kisses her forehead and holds her tighter.
"Amanda." Rachel whispers into her ear. Santana opens her mouth to ask who the hell Amanda is, but Rachel continues. "Amanda was my first."
"First what?" Santana asks softly. For some reason she can feel that this is something big for Rachel.
Rachel shrugs. "Everything." She says with a defeated tone.
"Okay?" Santana probe when Rachel doesn't go on.
"I think we should save this talk for another day." Rachel gives a weak smile and tries to move off of Santana's lap. Santana holds her in place.
"Should I be worried about this Amanda chick?" Rachel huffs.
"God no."
Santana searches her face before letting go of Rachel's hips. "Good."
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"Babe…please stop crying." They are huddled up outside of the building that Marley's graduation ceremony was just held in. Puck is standing off to the side, looking for Marley and Rachel's parents.
Rachel was worried about her parents saying something stupid and ruining her mood. So she made sure that her, Puck and Santana arrived after her parents. That way they could sit away from them. But now there is no escaping them.
"I'm just so proud of her!" Rachel wipes the tears from her eyes... She can't help it. She's always been emotional.
"Hey! Over here!" Rachel hears Puck call out. She rolls her eyes at the loud boy. He always has to make a scene. "My girl got a degree!" Puck pulls Marley into a hug.
Puck is like a brother to them. His parents only stay a couple of blocks from Rachel's parents. They grew up together. So no doubt he would be here for this wonderful occasion.
"Not so loud Noah." Rachel's mom steps into view. "Hey Rach!"
"Mom." Rachel lets herself be pulled into a hug. Her dad just nods. "Sister!" Rachel jumps on Marley as soon as Puck puts the girl down.
"Congratulations Marley!" Santana smiles and waves at the girl over Rachel's shoulder.
"Hi!" Rachel releases Marley to see her mom holding her hand out to Santana. "My names Shelby. I'm Rachel's and Marley's mom. Did you go to school with Marley? Marley is this your friend?"
Rachel rolls her eyes when Marley chuckles and tells her parents that Santana is indeed her friend.
"Mom," Rachel moves back over to Santana's side. "Dad…this is Santana. My girlfriend."
"Girlfriend?" Kevin steps closer to the group. "So you're the one who has been hogging all of my little girls time." Rachel blushes and try to cut in but Shelby beats her to it.
"Kevin." Shelby pats his back. "Nice to meet you Santana."
Santana nods. "You too." Rachel can tell that Santana is starting to get uncomfortable. Santana has started tapping her foot and she's not holding eye contact with anyone for very long.
"Well…I think we are going to head out." Rachel grabs Santana's hand. "Congratulation's again Mar. I'll see you at dinner tomorrow night. "Rachel says over her shoulder as she pulls Santana away.
"Well she defiantly doesn't have a type. She loves sleeping outside of the box." Rachel hears her parent's conversation as she and Santana stop a few feet away to wait on Puck. They can't leave him since he drove them there.
"Shelby." Kevin laughs at his wife's joke.
"What? I'm just saying she's not shy to diversity." Shelby continues. "She looks nothing like Amanda," Shelby starts referring to Santana. "Amanda was a little pale kid. Santana is what…Latina?"
"Oh yeah and that April girl sounded black. Was she black Marley?"
"Dad." Marley shakes her head at the ridiculousness that is her parents.
"Doesn't matter. Rachel also dated Jessica and Mandy. To lovely black women. Hmmm…whatever happened to Jessica? I was rather fond of her."
"Seriously." Rachel decides to cut in. "We are still standing here."
"Oh Rach, it's not a bad thing." Shelby steps over to her daughter. "I'm sure Santana is lovely." Shelby sends a smile Santana's way.
"Yes. She's managed to still a lot of your time. She has to be something special." Kevin says dryly. Rachel's hand tightens around Santana's. "Maybe you'll come to dinner tomorrow night?" This time Kevin has a smile on his face as, directed towards Santana.
"Um…"Santana looks to Rachel for what she should do. Rachel just shrugs. "I um…I already have plans. Maybe another night?"
"Puck!" Rachel slaps the back of the boys head. "Let's go. You guys can catch up later."
Rachel doesn't even look behind her to make sure he's following. She too upset and embarrassed by her parents behavior to even stand there a second longer.
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Rachel watches as Santana heads to the bar for another Long Island. After Puck dropped them off at Rachel's they changed clothes and went over to Quinn's to hangout with the blonde and her daughter. Around seven they ate dinner and then left. Rachel had every intention of just going home and crawling in bed but Santana kept bugging her to go out for a drink with her and the guys.
So here they are, sitting in the booth with Matt and Finn. Santana is on her third drink, plus she did a couple of shots with Finn when they first arrived. Rachel's not worried about the alcohol. Santana's knows how to hold her alcohol, hell they met in a bar. It's the silence that has Rachel worried.
Santana's been quite ever since they left the graduation ceremony. She hasn't really engaged Rachel in that much conversation just little comments and questions here and there. Rachel hopes her parents didn't offend Santana. They were just joking about the diversity thing. I mean yea Rachel has dated all kind of races but her parents don't have anything against those races. They just like to say things to irritate and embarrass Rachel. Her parents have always been very accepting of her sexuality. It's her music career that they refuse to acknowledge and support.
"Oh this is my shit!" Matt grabs Rachel hand when he stands up to dance to the song that just came on. "Come on, girl. Let's see those hips move." Rachel laughs and allows Matt to drag her out to the dance floor. Out of all of Santana's guy friends, Rachel likes Matt the most. He's sweet, he doesn't say disrespect things about woman in front of Rachel, Quinn and Santana (Finn does) and he is funny and playful. Rachel loves when people don't take everything in life so serious.
Rachel dances with Matt for the next half hour before Santana and Finn join them for one last dance before they leave to go home.
"Bye guys!" Rachel waves at Matt and Finn from the driver's seat of Santana's truck."Drive safely!"
"So are you dropping me off at home and keeping the truck or…"
"Or?" Rachel frowns. "Are you not spending the night? I thought that was the plan." Rachel bits her bottom lip and waits for a response that never comes. Santana just sighs so Rachel just continues to drive.
Rachel tries not to let it bother her. They've been doing so well. Santana has been letting her in more and…it's just been great. But sometimes Rachel has to remind herself that Santana doesn't wear her feelings on her sleeve like she does. Santana can go from being super sweet to moody within minutes.
"I guess I shouldn't come up?" Rachel says when she pulls into a parking spot down the street from Santana's apartment building.
"Don't be ridiculous." Santana says leaning over to kiss Rachel on the cheek. "I'm sorry. Please stay."
Rachel giggles when Santana starts to kiss along her face and down to her neck. "You're just backpedaling because you're horny."
"Not true." Santana sucks on Rachel's neck before moving back to her lips. "I can have you anytime I want."
"Oh really?" Rachel raises an eyebrow at Santana's cocky tone.
"Really."Santana nods and pulls Rachel into a deep kiss. "Come up."
TBC