Well, here I am again, I want to thank all the people who have reviewed and all of those who have me in their story alerts and favorites, I'm really happy that you guys like it. Last but not least I want to thank my beta who will stay anonymous because we're that cool, oh before I forget: the brownie points!
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Brittany got back to work that evening not knowing the events that were about to happen.
"Pierce! Karofsky wants to see you" said someone she didn't know.
She went to Dave's office and got in when he told her to come in.
"You wanted to see me?"
"You're interviewing Lopez tonight."
"Like the whole show?" she asked.
"Santana Lopez..." he clarified "so get ready and be there at seven."
"Seven? But it's like, five, that's a two hours wait" said Brittany.
"You can go wherever you want; I told her you'll be there then, so be there."
"Okay sir."
Brittany got out of the office and went to her table; she could write some good questions and then go to her place to get changed. So that's what she did and she was at Santana's by six forty. She was kidding no one; she was nervous and wanted to make it right. So she called and was buzzed in, Will took her to the floor and she entered the apartment.
"Good evening Brittany" greeted Santana smiling politely.
"Hi Santana, good to see you again."
"Did you dress up?" asked Santana taking a good look at her clothes.
"No... I was... Already dressed like this when Dave told me to come" Brittany lied.
"Okay then, well I thought that we could have dinner too, but if you have plans or something we can just go with the interview and I'll eat the delicious dinner I have planed" said Santana.
"Tell me what is it and I'll think about it" Brittany replied, she was pretty hungry so she was staying anyway but she wanted Santana to fight a little before giving in.
"Well we would have my famous homemade lasagna; some people like to call it the best lasagna in the entire world" Santana bragged with pride.
"Let me have my own opinion, I'll stay" said Brittany laughing.
"Good, what about this interview? I hope you have better questions than last time..."
"I only asked three last time..."
"I'm kidding Britt, they were good and I'm sure this time they will be as good or even better."
"Britt? Nicknames already? And you haven't even taken me on a date yet... You go fast woman."
Santana choked on the beer she was drinking and blushed for the first time since Brittany knew her.
"D-date? I, what? This, this isn't..."
"Calm down Santana, someone would say you're falling for me, I was only joking but I kind of like it, maybe I'll let you call me that permanently."
"Okay... Uh, let's sit, and start asking questions, I'll try to be honest."
"Here we go, you said in another interview that you already have a name for your album, could you tell us what will it be called?"
"Well, it's gonna be called love at first fight, I know it's kind of weird but it totally describes my current life, nobody likes me enough to stick around because my life is not easy and I have to fight to keep the ones I love by my side…" said Santana looking down.
"The ones you love, someone special out there we need to know of?"
"There might be someone, but I was talking about family and friends, I'm starting to feel some of them only stick up with me for the money and fame..."
"I'm sorry to hear that, will you tell us who this special person might be?"
"Nope, sorry, but I'm still struggling trying to understand it all, my feelings and all that... But don't worry, you'll be the first to know... I mean, I'll give you the exclusive... Y-yeah, that's it" stuttered Santana getting nervous and blushing again.
"Great, now, do you have news according to your album? Some date or something?"
"Actually I do, it's gonna come out in two months, give or take, if everything goes as planned."
"Great news for the fans, and how many songs were talking about?"
"It'll be 14 tracks in its normal edition and 16 in the deluxe one plus the video of the first single that will come out sometime this month."
"Can you tell us the name of the single?"
"No can do, sorry, they want it to be a surprise and all that."
"Okay, no problem, you produced and wrote the songs yourself right?"
"I wrote most of them and helped with the rest but the producing was not made by me."
She kept on asking and Santana answered until they reached the last one, the one that Dave had given her and had make her swear she'd ask.
"Uh, this one was given to me by Dave himself; it's a little embarrassing for me to ask..."
"Come on, it can't be that bad, ask away."
"How... Uh, how many hookers have you had over..."
"What! Oh the rudeness of that man, NONE, I swear Brittany, I'm not like that..." said Santana, first she was incredulous, then angry and lastly she was kind of sad, Brittany didn't know what to do.
"Enough questions... Uh I think the ones we have will be enough for the interview."
"Yeah, okay" Santana got up from the couch she was sitting in and went to the kitchen with her head down.
Brittany followed her and when they were there got concerned.
"What is it San?" said Brittany ducking her head to look into the other woman's eyes.
"Nothing it's just, he shouldn't have given you that question that's all... He knows I'm trying to... Never mind..."
"Trying to what?" asked Brittany putting her finger under Santana's chin to make her look up.
"Trying to impress you... I've being making a fool of myself lately and I wanted to change the way you see me from this cocky, flirty idiot to your, I don't know, friend? God knows I need a good one..."
"Oh San, I don't see you as an idiot, you're flirty yes, and a handful sometimes, but you're a good person... I do consider you an almost friend lately... Come here…" Brittany engulfed the Latina in a hug and just held her there for a while. Then she let go and smiled at her.
"Thanks Britt... I needed a hug since a long time; I was starting to forget how they felt..."
"Well anytime you need one you call me and I'll give it to you."
"You'd come here anytime day or night just to hug me? That's crazy..."
"Well it was a figure of speech, I'll rephrase, I'm here for you, if you need a good friend by your side."
"Thanks" accepted Santana smiling softly "well, what about the dinner, are you hungry?"
"Yeah actually, I didn't eat a lot today."
"Well let aunty Tana feed you, let's fix the table" said Santana reaching for everything and handing the things to Brittany to put on the table, then got the lasagna out of the oven and placed it in the table too, they both sat and put on their plates the amount of the dish they wanted "dig in."
They both ate the first forkful and Santana waited to see the blonde's impression of it.
"Wow Santana, this is really good!" said Brittany taking another forkful to her mouth.
"Told you it was good" Santana commented proudly.
They ate talking and joking and then moved back to the living room.
"Wanna watch a movie? I just got the miss congeniality pack and some more films, I'm sure you'll like some of them" said Santana hopefully.
"Well miss congeniality does sound good, its being so long since I've watched it."
"Gracie Lou Freebush is it" said Santana getting the DVD out of its box and putting it in the player.
They watched the first one and Brittany begged Santana to put the second on, it was already eleven so Santana asked her to make a decision, either they watch it and Brittany stays the night or they watch it other day and Santana takes Brittany home.
"I'll stay, but no funny business young lady."
"As if you were older than me, how old are you?"
"I just turned 22."
"Oh you're a year younger than me then, I'm about to turn 23, actually it's this weekend..."
"I'll remember to wish you a happy birthday."
"It won't be so don't bother, I don't even celebrate it anymore, it's not like I have people to celebrate it with anyway" confessed Santana with sadness in her voice and face.
"Well this year you'll have a happy birthday, I'll start working on it tomorrow you're gonna love it."
"Thanks Britt, well let's watch this movie, but before, you want to borrow some pajamas? To be comfortable and all, I'm going to put mine on so just ask."
"A shirt and some shorts would be good thank you."
"Come with me" Santana said grabbing Brittany's hand and bringing her to her room "you can change here; I'll change in the bathroom."
Each of them changed into the sleeping clothes and then went back to the living room to watch the other movie. Halfway thru it Santana looked at Brittany, she had fallen asleep on her side of the couch, Santana smiled and got up of the couch without waking the blonde, stopped the movie and turned the TV off, she then went to get a blanket and a pillow for the blonde from her room. She managed to put the pillow under Brittany's head and cover her without making much noise or moving the girl a lot, then she kissed her forehead and went to her room.
A couple of hours later she was woken up by movement in the room, she looked around and found Brittany at the foot of the bed.
"I can't really sleep alone, usually my cat sleeps with me, can I... Can I sleep with you? As I've already said no funny business though, okay?"
"Get in here" ordered Santana making space, even if it wasn't really necessary seeing as the bed was huge.
Brittany got in the bed and tried sleeping, five minutes later she got near the brunette, waking her.
"What now Britt..." mumbled Santana.
"Still can't sleep."
"What do you want me to do? Sing to you? Tell you a story? Get our cuddle on?" said Santana exasperated.
"Could you just hold me? The nightmares I get are bad... Lord Tubbington hardly gets them out of my head so I usually just sleep a couple of hours per day.
"What are the nightmares about?"
"My family... I..."
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to" said Santana sincerely.
"I want to... It's just hard" muttered Brittany sobbing softly.
"Well then don't tell me now, you'll find a moment when you'll be ready, and I'll be here to listen okay? Now come here and stop crying, beautiful" said Santana dragging Brittany closer to her body and holding her after drying her tears "hope the nightmares stay away."