These past two months Glee club has been practicing extra hard even having Saturday practices to get ready for National's which is a month away during Spring Break. Part of me really wishes these competitions wouldn't be during our breaks. The whole point of break is to get away from school but no here we are competing for the school. Yet the other part of me is saying stop complaining since we'll be in Hawaii. One week in paradise. Wait correction one week in paradise with Santana.

As I get to school and open the auditorium doors I see Brittany and Mike already on stage with Finn, Noah and Kurt. Since those three need a little more help with the dance routines they have to come to practice an hour earlier than the rest of us. To be honest I think the hour is mainly for Finn. Poor boy has no rhythm yet he can play the drums and keep in time with the music. It's kind of weird if you think about it.

"Hi Rachie" Brittany yells from the stage and then starts to wave to me like a hyper three year old.

"Good morning Brittany" I say as I wave back and smile.

"Hey princess watch this" Noah begins to show off his very awkward looking dance moves and all I do is laugh and shake my head.

"Looking good Noah" I tell him with two thumbs up.

"Where's your whipped girlfriend at?" He asks with a huge grin but all I do is shrug a disappointed shrug as I take a seat. I'm happy that everyone thinks we are together but the truth is we're not. We haven't even talked about it which I find weird, it's been two months. I just don't get it we act like a couple. We have our date nights on Fridays and our cuddle nights on Sundays. Which no one is allowed to know about or else I'll be slushied for the rest of the school year. God forbid anyone finds out Santana Lopez is a softy. I roll my eyes because I know she's bluffing. She wouldn't slushie me but when I think about it she did try before so...yeah my lips are sealed.

"Come on dude stop fooling around we have a few more minutes till regular practice starts" I hear Mike tell Noah as he pushes him back to the group. I laugh and then reach for my phone so I can call San. Knowing her she's probably still sleeping and if she sleeps through one more practice Mr. Schue isn't going to be happy. As I look down at my phone I see that I already have a message. Maybe Santana is awake and letting me know she's on her way. As I open the message I freeze.

Sara- "hi…" Am I seeing this right? Is Sara really texting me?

"Hey cutie" I feel lips press against my cheek and I instantly shove the phone back in my pocket. I know I have a scared look on my face and in return Santana's giving me a confused one. "Everything okay?" She asks and I lie.

"Yes"

"So... shoving your phone in your pocket is something you normally do?" I bite my bottom lip not sure what to do. "Rach? What's up? What's going on?"

"Sa…" I begin to say as my heart starts racing. "Saratextedme" I rush out.

"What?" I take a deep breath and then exhale.

"Sara texted me" I wait for Santana to get up and leave maybe even yell a bit but all she does is smile.

"Is that all?" I shake my head yes.

"I don't know why she's texting me. I swear I haven't talked to her since we broke up. I didn't even respond. I wasn't going too either. I can delete it if you want me too. We can pretend that..."

"Rachel stop" San says cutting me off. "It's okay"

"It is?" She nods her head yes.

"Yes. Like I said on our first date she's bound to come up. You're still best friends and I knew eventually you'd both start talking again" I just look at her dumbfounded. "I'm not Sara Rachel. I'm not going to keep her away from you. You want to talk to her go ahead"

"It doesn't bother you?"

"Honestly, yeah it does a little"

"Then I'm not going to talk to her. I don't want to make you think I'm going back to her or even want her back for that matter"

"Call her, text her, I know you miss her" Santana tells me.

"But..."

"But what, you told me the break up was mutual right?" I nod my head yes. "That you both agreed you weren't in love anymore" I nod my head yes again. "Then call her" Santana says with a shrug. "I trust you" I smile before she leans in to peck my lips. "Besides I don't want to seem like an overprotective girlfriend or anything"

"Girlfriend?" I question.

"Umm…yeah…I've been wanting to talk to you but…"

"Okay guys let's start rehearsing" I look over and see Mr. Schue and the rest of the club walking up to the stage.

"Just forget I said it. It's still a little early to make things official" Santana smiles but I can see the hurt in her eyes and I feel really bad. I didn't mean to make it seem like I didn't want to be her girlfriend. I do, god I do so bad I was just caught off guard. Santana gets up and grabs my hand pulling me up and leading me up to the stage to join the others.

"San" I begin to say but Mr. Schue waves me off to be quiet and I roll my eyes.

"Okay guys we're one month away from National's" Everyone cheers and high fives each other. "Thanks to Sugar we all are staying at one of the finest hotels Honolulu has to offer. So everyone thank Sugar" A group thank you is given and Sugar starts blowing kisses at all of us.

"San" I whisper and she just looks over at me. "I want…" I start to say but once again Mr. Schue silences me.

"Rachel just give me a few more minutes" I throw Mr. Schue an annoyed look. "Okay one more thing guys. Your rooms can't be co-ed. Boys will room with boys. Girls with girls."

"Mr. Schue!" Kurt protest.

"I'm sorry Kurt school rules. I can't allow you to room with the girls"

"This isn't fair" Kurt whines.

"Hey wait don't hotel rooms usually have two beds? Does this mean I'm going to have to share a bed with another dude?" Noah asks. "Because I'm not going if we do. There's no way I'm sleeping next to another dude"

"Aww come on Puckerman I thought you and dough boy love cuddling together" I roll my eyes at Santana's statement. Here they go.

"Shut it Lopez" Noah points his finger at Santana as he says that.

"How'd she know we cuddled?" Everyone's eyes turned to Finn and I can see Quinn rubbing her temples as she mouths idiot.

"Dude just shut up and I'm not sharing a bed with another guy"

"I can't believe you guys are fussing over rooms. We should be focusing on our competition at Nationals not who's rooming with who" Mr. Schue says and everyone starts talking well more like arguing.

"Santana" I say again trying to get her attention before Mr. Schue makes everyone be quiet.

"Yeah?" The glee club decides right then and there to get louder making it hard to hear anything at all.

"I want to be your girlfriend" I tell her.

"What?" She yells as she's unable to hear what I said.

"ENOUGH!" Mr. Schue shouts at the same time I decided to yell I WANT TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND. Everyone goes silent and I can hear the muffled giggles and everyone's eyes burning a hole through me. I can't believe that just happened. I'm turning red with embarrassment.

"You didn't have to yell. Of course you can be my girlfriend" Santana says with a cocky smirk. She gives me a sweet and loving kiss and that's when I hear the whistles and applause and I hide my face in her shoulder.

"Okay, okay. Can we all get back to what we actually came here to do?" Mr. Schue says but it takes another round of complaining and bickering and for Sugar to finally share with us that she is getting everyone their own rooms in Hawaii so no one has to share to finally rehearse like planned.

When practice finally ends a couple hours later we all just sort of stick around and hang out for a bit. Everything was going great that's until my phone started to vibrate and I saw that it was Sara calling me.

"Answer it" Santana tell me and I hesitate a bit. "Answer her" I shake my head no but she presses the answer button for me anyways. I glare at her and she just kisses my cheek before turning around to talk to Brittany.

"Hello"

"Hey" I can tell Sara is nervous. Her voice sounds a bit shaky.

"Can I call you back in a bit?" I ask Sara and Santana turns around and looks at me with curious eyes.

"Yeah…sure" Sara sounds disappointed and I frown. I know she thinks I'm not going to call her back.

"Sara I'll call you back, promise" I reassure her.

"Yeah okay, Bye"

"Bye" I say as I hang up the phone.

"Why didn't you talk to her?" Santana asks me.

"I will I just don't want to do it with everyone here. Kurt has like five ears and hears everything and will gossip it to Tina and Mercedes"

"She's right I will" Kurt shouts from three rows away.

"See" Santana laughs.

"You ready to go then?" I nod my head yes and grab my things. Both Santana and I say our goodbyes and head out.

The car ride is pretty silent. There really isn't enough time to talk to each other when I only live a few blocks away. As we reach my house Santana puts her car in park and looks over at me.

"Call you later?"

"You're not coming in?" I ask a bit surprised. We usually hang out after Saturday's practices.

"You sure you want me to come in?"

"Yes why wouldn't I? We always hang out"

"I know. I just figured you'd want some privacy for when you call Sara back"

"I don't want to call her if you're not around"

"Why?"

"Because I don't trust myself" I tell her honestly.

"What do you mean you don't trust yourself? Are…are you not over Sara?" Santana asks me with worried written all over her face.

"I am. I'm completely over her" I reassure her as I place my hand on top of hers. "But I just...I don't want to say or do something and it come back to you all wrong and you leave me for it, I don't want to lose you" Santana smiles at me.

"You're such a worry wart" She tells me as she hits my nose with her finger. "I want you to do and say whatever you want okay. I don't want you to feel like you have to walk on eggshells when it comes to me. I trust you" Santana leans over and gives me a kiss but it's not her normally kisses. This kiss made everything in my body turn into jelly. I felt my heart expand with what I think was her love and all I can do is just sigh.

"Can you please still come inside?" I ask with a pout once we break a part.

"Sure let's go" We both exit the car and head inside. To Santana's relief neither one of my dads are home. Even though I explained to her that my daddy was just joking around San's still a little intimidated by him. It's like the minute he comes home she finds a reason to leave and leaves fast.

When we get into my room Santana kicks off her shoes and flops on my bed like she always does. I set my bag down on the floor and make my way to my side of the bed and just as I'm about the lay down Santana rolls over. "You can't lay down till you call her?" I just glare at her. "I'm serious"

"Fine" I go back in a huff to my bag and grab my cell. I start dialing Sara's number and after a few rings she answers.

"Hello"

"Hey" I say and the line goes silent for a bit. "How are you?" She still doesn't say anything. "Sara?"

"I'm alright I guess" I finally hear her say.

"That's good" The line goes silent again and I'm not sure what else to say to keep the conversation going.

"Sorry if I interrupted something important earlier" She tells me.

"You didn't. I was just at glee practice and didn't want everyone to listen in to my conversation"

"Everyone like Santana?" I sigh at her comment. "I'm sorry that was stupid to say. How is Santana by the way?"

"Good. Would you like to say hi? She's right here" Santana throws a pillow at me and I hear Sara let out a small laugh.

"No thanks I'll pass"

"You sure?"

"Yeah I'm sure. So…I know me calling is probably weird but I just…I wanted to…and I know this is short notice…well not really because this happens every year but…I wanted to invite you to my birthday party I'm having later tonight"

"Birthday party?" I say really confused. I quickly walk over to my calendar and look at the date. CRAP! Today is Sara's birthday. I totally forgot. How can I forget? I've never forgotten her birthday before.

"Forgot already?" I can hear the sadness in her voice and I feel like utter crap.

"I'm so sorry Sara I didn't mean too. Happy Birthday"

"Anyways" Sara says ignoring my Happy Birthday. I know she's a little mad and I don't blame her. I can't believe I forgot. "I just thought I'd invite you since you haven't missed any of my parties. Bring whoever just not Santana"

"Sara" I whine.

"I'm kidding" She says with a chuckle. "Bring her and whoever else. You guys can even crash here if you want"

"I...I don't know" I say a little conflicted.

"I was kind of hoping you'd say you'd come but I part of me knew you wouldn't" The sadness in her voice is killing me. "It would mean a lot if you did though" I don't know what to tell her. I walk back over to my bed and to my relief Santana moves over and lets me sit down. "What if I said please? Please Rach will you come?" Sara is practically begging me and I can't find it in me to say no.

"I...Okay" I look over at Santana and she's just looking at me.

"Thank you. Thank you. Okay I have to go. I need to finish getting things ready. I'll see you later tonight"

"Okay. Bye"

"Bye" I hang up the phone and set it on my nightstand. When I look at Santana I give her a 'you're not going to like what I just did' smile.

"What did you agree to do?" She tells me and my smile widens. "What did you agree to do?" She asks again and I sigh.

"I forgot her birthday"

"I heard that part. So what did you agree to do to make it up to her?"

"I…I sort of…kind of… agreed to go to her birthday party tonight" I look down and don't hear Santana say anything. "She invited you to come too" I add.

"Yeah right" I hear Santana say with a laugh as she lifts my head up with her finger.

"She did. She said to bring you and whoever else and she even said we could crash at her house"

"Good. I'll call Brittany and Puck but we're not staying at her house. I can always rent us a hotel room or something"

"Are you mad?" I ask a little worried but San shakes her head no. "I can always call her back and tell her I can't come" Santana pulls me into her and gives me a kiss.

"We're going. Now I better get home and figure out what I'm going to wear tonight" She gets off the bed and puts her shoes back on. "I'll call Britt and Puck when I get home and let you know if they're coming or not. I can already tell you Puck will say yes. It's hard for him to turn down a party"

"Are you sure about this?" Part of me is wishing she would tell me I can't go because I'm sort of nervous about seeing Sara.

"Yes. I'll be back here to get you in about two hours so be ready" I walk Santana downstairs and out the door. "Two hours" She shouts as she walks to her car.

"Okay" I yell back. I watch her drive away and that's when I start to freak out a bit. This is too soon? I shouldn't go to Sara's party? What if she isn't doing great and I come in with Santana and throw my happiness in her face? What if she is going great though? That's good. I want her to be happy. I sigh to myself and head upstairs to figure out what to wear because whether I'm ready or not I'm headed to Sara's birthday party tonight.