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Chapter Eighteen

No One's POV

Matthew arrives home around four o'clock that afternoon after meeting his daughter for lunch. He walks into the dining room with a huge smile on his face and finds his wife sitting with stacks of paper.

"Good afternoon sweetheart," he happily greets his wife and places a kiss on her cheek.

"Good afternoon. How was your meeting in the city?" she asks without looking up. At the time Matthew lied to his wife, saying he had a work related meeting.

Matthew takes a seat at the table and sighs. He really can't lie to his wife. "I didn't have a meeting. I had lunch with Brittany."

Rebecca stops what she is doing and looks up at her husband. "Oh, you did?"

"Yes."

"Did that girl join you?" she says with a tad disgust.

"No Santana did not join us," Matthew says making sure to mention Santana's name and not refer to her as 'that girl.'

"Has our daughter come to her senses and dump her?"

"No she is still with Santana."

"Well then I don't understand the point of your lunch. She cut us off and chooses to live with someone who is going to use her."

"You don't even know Santana," he says with a little frustration.

"And neither do you," Rebecca snaps.

Matthew sighs. "I have to tell you something. I met with Santana two weeks ago begging her to let me see Brittany. If you gave her a chance you would really like Santana. She's smart, sweet, and loves our daughter. Isn't that what we have always wanted for our children?"

The heaviness of Matthew's words sink into the silent room. He looks at his wife, praying, hoping she'll say something, but she doesn't. He shakes his head in disappointment and makes his way to leave the room.

But he stops in the doorway and says, "I wouldn't be surprised if Brittany comes to us in a year saying she's going to marry Santana and I will be there for our daughter's wedding, watching proudly."

Rebecca has her back to Matthew, so he can't see the tears that begin to roll down her face.

Santana's POV

I've been nervously cooking and cleaning for the last two hours. I shouldn't be nervous, but I am. Today Brittany's dad is coming for dinner. Maybe I'm nervous because he is seeing the apartment for the first time and I don't know what he expects. Does he expect his daughter to be living in a penthouse like she did? I mean he must know we can't afford something like that. What if he hates this place? Okay now I'm being crazy. Of course, he'll like our place because it's Brittany's apartment; Brittany's apartment with me. I just need to relax. I turn on the radio and Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" is on. This is exactly what I need. I start moving around the kitchen, singing and dancing while cooking.

I hear the door open. I had sent Nina and Brittany to the store down the street because I had forgotten an ingredient.

Oh I wanna dance with somebody

I wanna feel the heat with somebody.

I sing and point to Brittany. Brittany points to herself and mouths, "me?"

Yeah I wanna dance with somebody

With somebody who loves me

I sing and motion to her with my finger. She sets down her keys and grabs my hands and begins dancing with me. I continue to sing and laugh as she twirls me around the kitchen. Brittany is an amazing dancer; even goofing off she manages to have such grace to her movements that it's breathtaking.

I've been in love and lost my senses

Spinning through the town

Sooner or later the fever ends

And I wind up feeling down

I need a woman who'll take a chance

On a love that burns hot enough to last

So when the night falls

My lonely heart calls

I giggle as she does a little shimmy and then spins me. Brittany pulls away and picks up Nina as she spins around the apartment. Nina laughs the whole time and I can't help but to laugh as well. As the song comes to an end Brittany comes back to me and holds me tightly.

"I love you," she whispers in my ear.

"I love you too," I sigh and lean in to kiss her.

When I pull away she rests her forehand on mine. "It's nice to see you a little more relaxed."

I laugh a little. "Yeah I was going a little crazy wasn't I?"

"Just a little," she places a kiss on my forehead. I reluctantly pull away so I can finish dinner.

"Let's set the table Nina," Brittany says.

This is there ritual. Brittany will grab all the plates and silver ware and place it on the table. Since Nina is still too small to fully reach the table, Brittany picks her up and holds her as she puts everything in place. It really is the cutest thing.

"Good job munchkin," Brittany says as she sets Nina down once they're done.

Brittany rejoins me in the kitchen putting her arms around my waist from behind and pulling me into her.

"It smells wonderful," she whispers into my ear and then places a kiss on the side of my neck.

"You're distracting me," I say.

"I'm relaxing you. You're too tense," she says.

"Well you're doing more than relaxing me."

"Good," she kisses my neck again and nibbles at my pulse point.

I let her continue because truth is it is relaxing me, but five minutes later our buzzer goes off. Brittany goes to the intercom and it's her father. She buzzes him up and my nerves are back. It only takes her father a few minutes before he's knocking on our door.

Brittany's POV

I practically run to the door when I hear the knock. I've been excited all day. My dad has always been my idol and his opinion matters so much to me.

I open the door and give my dad a huge hug. "Hey dad."

"Hi, Brittany," he places a kiss on the top of my forehead.

We walk further into the apartment and Santana steps out of the kitchen to greet us.

"Hi Mr. Pierce it's so nice to see you again," she says as she extends her hand, but my father doesn't take it.

"Come on now I think we can hug now," my dad says and pulls Santana in for a hug, which she happily obliges. "This is for you two," he hands me a bottle of red wine.

"Thank you Mr. Pierce," Santana says and goes back into the kitchen.

"Let me give you the grand tour," I tell him.

I show him the bedrooms and family room where Nina is playing. He thought Nina's room was cute. So far he seems impressed with the apartment. We sit down in the family room on the couch and watch Nina play with Rex.

"They're absolutely adorable together," my dad says.

"I know. Rex loves that little girl so much."

"And so do you," he says giving me that knowingly father look.

"I do. I love both my girls," I say. "I'm going to check on dinner real quick."

I walk into the kitchen and pull out two glasses of wine. I uncork the bottle of wine and pour half a glass of wine into one.

"Here," I hand the glass to Santana.

"Oh no you drink tonight," she insists.

"I think it'll relax you. So you drink tonight," I say.

We have a rule. When we're in apartment with Nina only one of us can drink because sometimes you just need a glass of wine at the end of the day. Neither one of us will be drinking at the same time when Nina's around.

"Thank you," she says and takes the glass from my hand, but places a kiss on my lips before taking a sip from the glass.

I help Santana put the food on the table and call everyone to the table.

"Santana everything smells amazing," dad says as we sit down.

"Thank you. I hope you like it. It's an old family recipe," Santana says.

"No wine tonight Brittany? It's your favorite," dad asks.

"I have to dance early in the morning and I don't want to be sluggish," I say quickly, but I saw the guilty look on Santana's face.

"Oh good point. How is work going?"

"Well almost have the whole thing put together."

"I want tickets to the first show."

"Of course, daddy," I smile at him.

"And how are classes Santana?" he asks.

"Hard, but I'm loving them," she says.

"And how is Columbia treating you?"

"Great! The school is amazing."

"I think if Santana could she would live in the library," I joke.

"It's an amazing library," she defends.

"It's true," dad says. "They did a wonderful job with it."

We continue eating. Dad talks with Nina a bit, which I love more than anything that my dad likes Nina and she likes him. Dinner is going great and Santana has relaxed even more. I also think the two glasses of wine have helped. Santana gets Nina ready for bed as I clean off the table and put the dishes away.

Santana's POV

After putting Nina to bed I walk down the hall to the main room where I can hear Brittany and her father talking. I stop to listen and yes I know eavesdropping is wrong, but it is not going to hurt anyone right now.

"I'm so proud of you princess," Mr. Pierce says, "your family is lovely."

My heart swells when he says that. I'm so happy that he likes us.

"Thanks dad. It means a lot to hear you say that," Brittany says. "I have a future with them."

I hear Brittany take a deep breath before she continues. "I have never really pictured my future before, but with Santana I see it all. I see us getting married, having another kid, I think Nina should have a little brother or sister, maybe two. I see us growing old together and having grandkids. I'm going to marry her one day dad."

My heart is racing in my chest and I've never been so happy to hear Brittany say those things. That she pictures a future for us because since falling in love with Brittany I have seen all those things as well. I want to marry Brittany. I want to become Mrs. Pierce.

Brittany's POV

My dad chuckles. "I had a feeling you were going to say that. I was talking with your mother the other day."

"Dad," I warn.

"No I was telling her how much Santana loves you and how much you love her and that I wouldn't be surprised if you said you wanted to marry her."

"And what did mom say?" I ask.

He looks at me sadly. "Nothing. I'm sorry princess I'm really trying with her."

I just nod my head because I really don't want to talk about it anymore. A few minutes later Santana walks into the room.

"Well she just knocked out the second her little head hit the pillow."

"She's had a long day," I say as Santana takes a seat next to me.

"Well I better be going. Thank you so much for having me over. Dinner was amazing Santana," dad compliments.

"Thank you Mr. Pierce. I'm glad you enjoyed it," Santana says.

I walk my dad to the door. He gives me a hug and a kiss to the forehead. "You have a beautiful home Brittany. I'll talk to you soon. Love you."

"Love you too dad," I close the door behind him.

I walk back to the couch and sit down. Santana pulls herself onto my lap.

"Dinner went well," she says.

"Yeah," I say.

She runs her fingers through my hair. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Dad just said that my mom is still being well my mom," I say sadly.

"Oh sweetie I'm sorry," she says and hugs me. "But hey you're father came around, maybe your mom will too."

"Maybe," I say.

Santana gets up and pulls me by my hand. "Come on we're both exhausted let's go to bed."

I do as I'm told and follow her into the bedroom. I just hope my mom will get to be apart of my family someday.

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