Chapter 3- Singing Rats

Brittany sat with her earphones in, mindlessly filling popcorn cups. She had spent some time thinking about Santana and Taylie. She was trying not to get her hopes up about them coming again today. No matter how much Brittany tried, she couldn't get those gorgeous chocolate eyes out of her head.

"Britts.. Britts? Brittany? BRITTANY SUSAN PIERCE!" Quinn yelled to the whole cinema to bring her blonde bestfriend out of her daze.

"Huh? What? I was just day dreaming about Santana.." Brittany mumbled.

"Excuse me?" Quinn asked suggestively raising a perfectly shaped eyebrow.

"I mean, I was just day dreaming about.. Gay sharks. Did you know that they're actually dolphins?" Brittany tried her best to seem convincing to hide her slip up.

"Oh, yeah.. Whatever you say, Britts." Quinn muttered rolling her eyes at the childish blonde.

"Phew, watch yourself Britt. You can't be giving anything away about Santana. I mean, you've only seen her once!" Brittany mentally scolded herself and tried to focus on her extremely draining task.

She proceeded to getting lost in the beat and lyrics of whatever song was playing, the rhythm coursing through her veins.

"Hopefully, Tay will want to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie and they'll show up before my shift ends." Brittany thought as she glanced at her iPod time. It read 11:36am. She sighed and blew the bangs out of her eyes. This was going to be a long shift.

"Taylie! Your Aunt's here!" Tina, the Asian pre-school teacher smiled across the room to Taylie who was sitting on a lady bug rug. "She's always so excited on Tuesdays. It's a really good to see such a close relationship between you two." Tina turned to Santana who gave her a blinding smile and turned to see Taylie running as fast as her little legs would allow.

The little girl ran to her locker to grab her bag and was waving about yet another crayon drawing. Taylie jumped into Santana's awaiting arms and squealed in delight when her Aunt spun her around.

"Ready to go munchkin? What's that? Did you draw another prize worthy picture?" Santana asked Taylie with a surprised look on her face.

"Yeah, I drawed it for you!" Taylie stated cutely.

"Tay, it's drew and thank you! Can I see it?" Santana corrected Taylie and smiled at her niece.

"Okays, I drewed his for you! Do you likes it?" Taylie questioned and shoved the paper under the Latina's nose.

Santana looked at the picture and instantly blushed. It was unrealistic but still embarrassing. It was a picture of her and Brittany watching Tay dance on-stage with the Chipmunks. Brittany and Santana were holding hands and a heart was drawn above their heads.

Tina, who was watching the interaction raised an eyebrow when she noticed the older Latina blush and looked at the drawing herself. Her eyes scanned over the crayon mess and noticed the words 'Aunty Tana' and 'Brittnee' under two stick figures. One blonde and one brunette. Then she saw the heart and smiled. She had no problems with gays. She simply wished the two a fun time and went to look after a wailing baby.

"Well? Do you likes it, Aunty Tana?" Taylie looked up to her blushing Aunt with hopeful eyes.

"Yeah, Tay! I love it! But that's not how you spell 'Brittany'. But, it's very nice! Are those squirrels?" Santana asked playfully, pretending to be confused.

"Hey! That's the Chipmunks! I can't wait to see them! Can we go now?" But before Santana could reply, Taylie was already dragging her Aunt out of the pre-school.

"Yeah, hi. Can I please get one child and..." Santana suddenly stopped talking to the pimply teen at the ticket booth. "What is it, Tay?"

Taylie was tugging on the taller brunettes mini skirt trying to get her attention. Taylie then proceeded onto giving her Aunt her best puppy dog eyes and that only meant one thing. Candy. Santana quickly fished out a $10 note, gave it to Taylie and looked over to the candy bar. She noticed that a certain attractive blonde was staring at her. She sent a smile and a nod at Brittany and sent Taylie over to the snack bar by herself. She turned back to the ticket booth, apologized and finished her order.

"Thank you and enjoy the movie." The teenager handed Santana her tickets which she took and smiled in return.

She made her way over to the snack bar where there were only three people. Brittany, Quinn and Taylie. She looked over to Taylie who was sitting on the counter and having a chat with Quinn and Brittany. Santana smiled and walked over.

".. And then Aunty Tana fell on her bottom and it got purple!" Santana arrived just in time to hear the end of Taylie's story and to see Quinn and Brittany burst into laughter.

"Tay! Did you just tell them the story about my ice skating accident?" Santana flushed such a deep red, it matched her tight red singlet.

Quinn calmed down and formally introduced herself with a bright smile. "Hi, I'm Quinn Fabray. I think you might've heard my loud whistle and voice last week. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, right. Santana Lopez. Nice to meet you, too. This is Tay, my niece." Santana pointed to the 4 year old who was sitting on the counter, tackling a box of Dots.

"Hey! What did I tell you last time about Dots?" Santana lightly scolded Taylie who looked at Brittany and grinned.

Santana turned to the taller blonde and raised an eyebrow. Brittany just smirked at Santana and sent her a wink which sent tingles throughout the brunette's body. The whole exchange didn't go unnoticed by Quinn but she kept silent but was not successful in hiding the smile that played on the lips.

Brittany seemed to notice the tension so she plucked the packet of Dots from a temporarily devastated Taylie. Brittany looked at Santana expectantly, shaking the Dots in her hand. Santana, who was distracted by Brittany's candy striper outfit, looked up and nodded understanding what Brittany wanted. Brittany then ripped the top off the packet and handed it back to a beaming Taylie.

"So, what movie are you two seeing today?" Brittany stole a green Dot from Taylie's hands. Santana grinned at Brittany and her child like action.

"We're seeing Adam and the Rats." Santana replied seriously, secretly testing her niece.

Brittany's eyebrows scrunched up in confusion but sensing what Santana was up to, nodded playing along. "Oh, yeah! I love that movie!"

"Hey! It's Alvin and the Chipmunks, Aunty Tana!" Taylie exclaimed in all seriousness.

The three women all just laughed at the little girl. Santana then checked her phone for the time. It read 2:15pm. The movie was starting in 5 minutes.

"Come on, Tay. Those singing mole rats are going to start in 5!" Santana lifted Taylie back off the counter. She noticed Brittany's demeanour drop and without thinking, leaned over the counter towards the blonde and quickly kissed her on the cheek.

"Say bye, Tay." Santana grabbed Taylie's hand in her own.

"Bye Quinn! Bye Brittany!" The little girl was bouncing on the balls of her feet, shaking the box of Dots around.

"Bye sweetie. I'll see you and Santana soon!" The shorter blonde gave a friendly wave and started stacking the candy boxes behind her.

"Definitely. Bye Brittany." Santana added sweetly and flashed Brittany a huge smile and started to head towards the area of the cinemas. Brittany, still dazed by Santana's previous actions just smiled faintly and waved.

Quinn turned back to face the frozen Brittany and gently nudged her friend in the ribs.

"Huh? Oh, right. Pash boxes. I mean Candy lips. Uhhh.." Brittany snapped out of her own little world and hurriedly started stacking candy boxes.

"She's nice, Britt. You should ask her to see a movie or something." Quinn casually stated.

Brittany just blushed, her cheek still tingling.