Chapter 5- Tourists
The next couple of days were spent doing all of the tourist things. The kids were pretty much dragged around the whole of London, although they did enjoy themselves.
The Natural History Museum
On Wednesday morning, Mr Shue announced that he would be taking the kids to the Natural history museum, the London eye and the science museum if they had time. After about half an hour cuing to get in, the kids finally made it through the entrance of the natural history museum.
Mr Shue: ok guys, we've got three hours to spend in here, so I'm going to let you split up, and just meet me back here at 12 okay.
Britt: Mr Shue, is this safe?
The entire group looked at Brittany with puzzled expressions on their faces. None of them understood what she was talking about.
Mr Shue: I don't know what you mean Brittany
Britt: The dinosaurs! Are we safe in here?
A few people giggled at what the ditzy blonde just said. Santana looped her arm around her waist, pulling the girl in tighter. Mr Shue simply gave a sigh, before attempting to give her an answer.
Mr Shue: yes Brittany, these are just skeletons, they are not alive
Brittany seemed to take this as an acceptable answer, and before she knew it, she was being dragged away from the group by Santana. Once again the two girls were followed by Quinn and Rachel.
Quinn's pov:
Really, Rachel is following us again. What gives her the impression that we want her following us around. I suppose its ok, as long as she keeps quiet. I can hardly say that I would prefer to be with Kurt and Mercedes jabbering on about random crap that people don't care about, or with the boys who will probably be doing dinosaur impressions this very moment.
Quinn was exactly right. As the boys walked through the dinosaur section of the museum, they were each trying to make their best impression. It turns out; Sam could do a pretty mean T-rex growl.
Kurt, Mercedes, Tina and Lauren made their way through the evolution section of the museum. Between them, they took what must have been about a thousand pictures.
Whilst they were stood staring up at the massive dinosaur skeleton at the entrance of the museum, Santana pulled Quinn and Rachel to one side. Brittany seemed to be mentally calculating how tall the dinosaur stood.
San: listen, I don't know how we are going to do this, B will freak at the stupid dinosaurs, and we can't go near anything that is stuffed
Rachel: why not?
Quinn: are you kidding, Britt will cry if she sees any animals that have been stuffed.
San: shit, I can't believe we were forced to come here, I mean who cares about this stuff anyway
Quinn: actually it is pretty interesting
San: Not helping Q
Rachel: why don't we just tell her they are toy animals?
San: I guess we could, but if she doesn't buy it, I'm holding you responsible.
With that the girls made their way through the museum, avoiding the dinosaur area because none of them were prepared to deal with a terrified Brittany. Quinn and Rachel seemed to actually bond over some of the evolution exhibits, turns out they were actually both into their natural history. After looking around the museum most of the kids met up at the gift shop. Some of the boys brought dinosaur toys, which were clearly meant for actual children. Rachel decided to buy a massive book, and Quinn brought The Origin of Species. Brittany disappeared for a few minutes, only to be found by Santana looking up at the stuffed animals.
Britt: San I really want one!
San: well, what one do you want B, I'll get you one
Britt: all of them!
San: no, you have to pick just one
Britt: but they are all so cute, how do I pick
San: how about this one?
Santana held up a small duck soft toy, and Brittany's face lit up.
Britt: San that's perfect. But can I have just one more. There's one that I really want, it reminds me of you.
San: Fine B, just get it and meet me at the checkout.
In the end, Santana ended up paying for both a duck soft toy, and a dolphin. Obviously Brittany had decided that the dolphin reminded her of Santana; after all, dolphins are just gay sharks.
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Most of the glee kids took the opportunity to sit down when it came to their ride on the London eye. After all, they could see everything from the wooden bench in the middle of their pod. The only three people stood up, were Kurt, Brittany and Mr Shue. Kurt was snapping away on his camera, whilst Mr Shue was explaining what all of the buildings were to Brittany, who really was only interested in the fact that all of the people down there look really tiny, like ants.
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After their little adventure on the London eye, everybody followed Mr Shue to the Science Museum. Rachel once again held Santana back to have a little chat.
San: look dwarf, I don't know why you think you can keep grabbing my arm, but this has GOT TO stop, understand?
Rachel: sorry Santana, it's just, I have a plan.
San: go on
Rachel: I'm going to get you and Brittany evening tickets for the London eye. You saw how much Brittany enjoyed it. And I've heard that at night it's really romantic. You can talk to her then.
San: actually Berry, that's not a bad idea, you would do that, what do I have to do in return?
Rachel: well, simply using my name would be enough
San: right ok, Rachel, thanks, I guess
The afternoon was spent at the science museum. The boys really enjoyed themselves. Finn was mesmerised at the exhibit where you could watch water turn into ice. Most of the girls were pretty grossed out when they came across the brain in a jar.
San: Ok, I think I speak for everyone when I say, that is absolutely disgusting!
Britt: it's not real San
Quinn: erm , Britt it is real
Britt: no silly, you can't put a brain in a jar, how do they get them out of your head?
San: they cut someone's head open, and pull it out Britt
When Santana looked into Brittany's blue eyes she could see that tears were starting to fall and Brittany made a small whimpering sound. She quickly brought her into a tight hug, rubbing small, soothing circles against the taller girls back.
Rachel: maybe we should move away from this part of the museum
Elsewhere Kurt and Mercedes were busy making strange sounds using a massive tube that stretched across the room.