Chapter 6 – Realization

"Hey sis. I missed you." Jason says sweetly as he engulfs her in a brotherly hug.

"You won't be saying that after a week." Santana says jokingly as they pull apart.

"Well if you bug me a lot I can always throw you out." Jason jokes as he picks his sister's bags and walks with her towards the exit of the airport.

Santana gasps and puts her hand on her heart in faux hurt. "You would leave your own sister homeless?"

"If that means keeping my sanity intact, then yes." Santana hits him in the arm playfully and they laugh all the way to the car.

The ride home is calm, with Jason and Santana catching up on what's been happening on each other's lives. Before they know it, Jason is parking his car in front of his apartment building. He walks towards the trunk to help his sister with her bags and locks the car after. They walk through the entrance of the building and towards the elevator. Jason hits the 2nd floor button and the doors close slowly. A few seconds after, the doors open once again and they exit the elevator and walk towards Jason's apartment. He opens the door and steps back so Santana can walk in first. The Latina looks around the apartment and senses that something's different about it since the last time she has been here.

"Did you do anything with the apartment? It seems kind of different." Santana says what's on her mind.

"Oh yeah… I forgot to tell you that…" He trails off when someone appears in the living room. Santana looks up and freezes up instantly. There, standing a few feet away from her, is Brittany clad in only a blue sports bra and some black tight short shorts with white sneakers. Her hair that's in a messy bun is a little disheveled, beads of sweat are coming down her body, passing the valley of her breasts and her taut amazing abs. This can't be happening right now, Santana groans internally. Of course Santana was expecting to bump into the blonde someday, because they both live in LA now, but what she didn't expect was to see her a few minutes after arriving at the city and, especially, seeing her like this… all sexy and making all Santana's coherent thoughts fly out the window.

"Hi. I-It's good to see you Santana. I… uh… I was just about to take a shower so…" Brittany stutters a little nervously as she turns around and walks away hastily. She wasn't surprised by Santana's presence, she knew she was coming, Jason had told her, she just wasn't prepared to see the Latina again after only a week of not seeing each other and wasn't prepared to all the feelings she has to deal with.

"Brittany is living with you?" Santana asks slowly, hoping to be wrong but already knowing she's right.

"Yeah. We've been living together for a month now." Jason says with a smile on his face.

"Great." Santana says sarcastically, but covers it up by forcing a smile out to her brother. "Well I'm gonna put my bags in the guest room and then I'm gonna go out and grab a cup of coffee." She informs her brother as she turns around and walks towards the room she's gonna be staying until she finds an apartment of her own.


Santana walks through the city aimlessly, looking at the different stores and buildings around her. She's trying to relax and forget about the fact that she's going to be living in the same apartment as the girl who's been confusing her and driving her crazy since they met and re-met.

The Latina finds a little coffee place, warming and relaxing, so she decides to get in. She walks towards the line, which consists of only two people, and waits for her turn to order. As she stands there she looks around the place, the round-shaped tables, the, what seems, really comfy chairs, and the light blue walls. Blue… the color of Brittany's eyes. Ugh! Why can't I stop thinking about her?, Santana asks herself, hitting herself in the head internally.

She's snapped out of her thoughts by the voice of the guy behind the counter. "What can I get you Miss?" He asks politely with what Santana notices is a forced smile on his face and bags under his eyes, showing that is trying his hardest to stay awake.

"A mocha latte, please." She requests and hands him a 5 dollar bill. "Keep the change." She says sympathetically and the guy gives her a grateful smile and turns away to go make her drink. She walks to the side and starts scrolling through her phone, reading once again the information about the law company her boss sent to her as she waits for her latte. She puts her phone back in her pocket when she hears the man put her drink on the counter. She picks it up and takes a sip from it, scrunching up her nose feeling that the drink lacks sugar. She picks up the sugar container and starts pouring it on her drink.

"That's my drink." She hears someone say with a soft voice behind her.

Santana turns around with the drink in hand and she looks at the girl in front of her questioningly. "Excuse me?"

"That's my drink." The girl with short blonde hair and hazel green eyes repeats. "The one you're holding and were way over sugaring just a few seconds ago." She adds amused. "That's a skinny latte, it says right there on the cup."

"No, this is a… Oh…" Santana trails off a little embarrassed at seeing that, in fact, it was written on the cup 'skinny latte'. "I'm sorry." She says apologetically as she hands the drink to the blonde girl.

"It's okay. I guess you just have to repay me somehow." The girl says with a smirk on her face. "How about a date?" She suggests as she takes a card from her purse and hands it to Santana. "Call me." She says seductively and winks at the Latina. She turns around and walks away, leaving Santana behind, completely speechless
and wondering what the hell just happened.


Santana arrives at her brother's apartment at 6:30 p.m. after she walked around the city all day. She walks towards the kitchen and sees Brittany setting up the table and Jason at the stove. "Good evening."

"Hey sis. Dinner is ready." Jason says with a smile on his face as he puts the food on the table.

"Smells really good Jason." Santana says, her mouth watering at all the food in front of her. She takes a seat at the table, Jason at one end and Brittany at the other, while she's in the middle, How ironic, she thinks to herself. She digs in right away and can't help the moan that leaves her mouth at the delicious food. "Thi so goo." She's able to get out with her mouth full.

"Easy there sis. You're gonna choke if you don't slow down." Jason says as he laughs at his sister's antics. "So what did you do all day?"

"Nothing much, just walked around the city." Santana shrugs. "Oh… And I had this strange episode on a coffee shop."

"What happened?" Jason asks curiously.

"I picked up the wrong drink and the owner of said drink totally flirted with me and gave me her card to call her and ask her out." Santana says amused at the whole thing. She hears cutlery hitting the floor and looks at her side to see Brittany picking up her fork from the ground with an annoyed expression on her face. The blonde cleans her fork and then continues eating her food in silence, the annoyance still plastered on her face.

"So are you gonna call her?" Jason asks with a cheeky grin on his face.

Santana diverts her eyes from the blonde and looks back at her brother. "I don't know. Maybe."

"You shouldn't." She hears Brittany say under her breath and looks at the blonde questioningly.

"Why not?" Santana asks with a smirk on her face, sensing that Brittany is kind of… jealous? Don't be ridiculous. She's not jealous. Why would she be?, Santana thinks to herself.

"W-Well… uhm…" Brittany stutters a little, not knowing what to say. "You don't know anything about her." She settles for and pats herself on the back internally for coming up with something credible.

"That's what the date is for, get to know each other." Santana counters, looking at the blonde with an amused expression.

"She could be a serial killer." Brittany says and as soon as the words leave her mouth she chastises herself internally. "You don't even know her name."

"Oh wait." Santana says as she pulls a card from her pocket. "Quinn Fabray." She reads the name on the card. "And guess what? She's not a serial killer, she's a pediatrician." She says with a smug look on her face.

Brittany looks down at her plate annoyed. "Well it's your choice." She says quietly and Santana smirks, knowing she won.

Jason looks at the two acting strange, especially Brittany, but decides to shrug it off. "I think you should go for it and have fun." And that was it. No one said anything for the rest of the dinner. Brittany kept avoiding looking at Santana and had a scowl on her face, which the Latina found really cute.


After cleaning up the kitchen, Brittany said she was tired and went to bed early, though Santana knew she was lying. Something was going on with the blonde, Santana noticed, and it happened after the Latina talked about the girl from the coffee shop.

Jason's voice is what breaks her from her thoughts. He announces is going to bed too and gives Santana a sweet kiss on the forehead before walking to his bedroom.

After thinking about it for a few minutes, she decides to call Quinn. After the second ring the blonde picks up. "Hello?"

"Hey… Quinn. It's Santana, the girl who stole your drink today." She hears the blonde girl laugh at this.

"I was wondering when you would call." Quinn says seductively. "Tomorrow night." She simply says.

"What?" Santana asks confused.

"The date. I'm free tomorrow night, so you can take me out then." Quinn explains in that seductive voice again. "See you tomorrow Santana. I'll text you my address." And with that the girl hangs up.

"Wow… this girl is forward." Santana chuckles to herself as she walks towards her room to get a good night sleep.


The next day passes in a blur for Santana. She spent all day at the company, making sure everything is working and that everyone is doing their jobs. Now, she's at the restaurant having a conversation with Quinn. Santana has to admit the girl is pretty funny and really flirty as well. She could see herself in a relationship with Quinn, but just… not that kind of relationship.

Every time Quinn says something or does something, she imagines Brittany doing those things. She imagines Brittany in front of her. Everywhere she looks, the blonde blue eyed girl is all she sees. So when Quinn asks her, when Santana takes her home, if she wants to go inside, the Latina knows that she shouldn't be doing this.

"Quinn I had a really great time with you tonight. You're an amazing person and you're funny, confident and have just as much snarky comments as I have." They both chuckle at this last part. "But… I have feelings for someone else."

"I know." It's the response she gets from the blonde.

"What?" Santana asks surprised and slightly confused.

"I knew you weren't into me. You had this look on your face all night, like you were thinking about someone, like you wanted them there instead of me." Quinn says with a sympathetic smile on her face.

"I'm that obvious huh?" Santana says in a joking tone.

"Yeah, you kind of are." Quinn teases her and Santana hits her in the arm playfully. "We can still be friends right? You're really cool Santana and I really would like to hear about this girl you like."

"I would like that." Santana says sincerely. "Well I'm gonna go now. I'll call you tomorrow to grab a cup of coffee, and I promise not to steal yours this time." Santana says and Quinn laughs at her antics. They share a hug and, after waving goodbye, Santana enters her car and drives home.

She arrives a few minutes later and slumps on the couch. She's about to doze off when the words Quinn said to her pop into her mind and she jolts up. 'I really would like to hear about this girl you like', 'this girl you like', 'girl you like', 'like'. And then her own words appear in her mind. 'I have feelings for someone'. And that's when she finally understands what all these feelings she has for the blonde are. The happiness she feels every time she's around the dancer, the jealousy when she sees Brittany and Jason together, the butterflies and the electricity in her body when they kissed. She finally came to the realization. I like Brittany.


Santana FINALLY admited that she likes Brittany! Yay! :D And there was also some jealous Brittany, did you like that? ;)

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