So I re-uploaded this chapter because I realized there were lots of spelling mistakes and stuff. Sorry, I'm like high on Advil cause I injured my knee and have been walking on crutches the whole day. I apologize for my mistakes, so here is the re-uploaded chapter and I also added some stuff. So enjoy!
Santana's Point of View
I woke up with a startle in the night. I kept my eyes tightly shut as I heard the crashing and erupting noises that came from outside, it sounded like giants banging their symbols together up in the sky. The noises make me this of all the weird stories my mami used to tell me when I was younger. She'd tell me all those stories to get me to feel better. Thunder used to be my biggest fear back then but as time went on I barley notice the storms.
The air inside was cold so I cuddled up into my covers, trying to block out the noises and focus on sleeping. Though my eyelids I could see the light flashing every now and then, and shortly after that a huge crack would go off shaking half of the room. This was a big storm, bigger then we've had in a long time. I try to tune out the sounds around me, they're all so loud causing a fucking racket. I wish they'd leave me alone so I could get my beauty sleep on, you know I need some sleep to look this good. There is a reason I like my sleep. I couldn't imagine how I'd look without it.
I breathe in and out and burry my head in my pillow, the volume has gone down but there is still one noise that stands out to me. I notice it's doesn't sound like the other noises that are going on outside, this ones soft almost like a whimper it's coming from inside. No, it's coming from right next to me. My eyes fly open only to witness Brittany curled up in a little ball with her face pressed into me.
Of course, how could I be so stupid to think that the thunder wouldn't wake her up? She's afraid of thunderstorms but obviously thought I was asleep and didn't want to wake me. The sight of her breaks my heart, I hate seeing Brittany afraid, she's such a strong person. Her breathing is heavy and I can feel her shaking against me. I run my hand along her arm catching her attention but her head is still buried into me.
"Britt, baby, it's ok you're safe," I say trying to comfort her but she shakes her head and nuzzles herself closer to me. I wrap my arms around her taking her hand in mine and kiss it softly. "Look it me babe, please."
Slowly her I can see her eyes, her noise, she slowly lifts up her face and looks at me with those sad scared eyes. I kiss her on the forehead telling her she will always be safe within my arms. Her breath is still heavy and her heart is racing against mine, I hate how the thunderstorm has the ability to do this to her. Another crack comes from outside rattling the room so Brittany squeezes me tight, holding onto me.
I feel like hundreds of rocks are hitting the window all at once, the rain it coming down in buckets it would be impossible to fall back asleep in this. The light that flashes outside happen gets stronger and quicker and the thunder is louder then before, I feel like my brain is getting rattled with all the noise. To be honest it's even started to scare me so I clutch Brittany closer to me and begin to stroke the back of her head. Her breath is soft against me but I still feel the shake that rests within her.
"Everything's gonna be alright," I tell her kissing her forehead while holding her close into me. I run my hand over her cheek and kiss it, I can see her face well enough to know that made her smile.
"I want it to stop, will it stop soon?" She whispers out so small I can barley hear her.
"I hope so," I want to tell her it will be over quickly, I want to comfort her but I also don't want to lie to her. I don't know if it will be over soon but I hope for her sake it will be.
I look out the window to see if the storm is letting up when I see a huge bolt of lighting shoot down from the sky hitting a near by tree, not even a second after that the boom from the thunder fills up the whole room, shaking it knocking a book off of my counter. I squeeze my eyes tight trying not to look. A little scream comes from Brittany so I hugged her tighter when I suddenly felt something most against my neck. She was crying, she was so scared she was crying. I needed to hold her tighter, kiss her all over, and make her feel safe.
"What happened?" I don't want to tell her that would only freak her out more.
"Nothing baby, it was just a big crack," she looks at me with an arched eyebrow. I was never the most convincing liar. I sign and kiss her lips. "A tree got struck."
"What?" She asks in a panicky voice.
"Don't worry, we're safe here, the tree was taller then us. It can't get us," that seems to make Brittany feel a little better because she nods her head furiously but something is telling me she's only doing that because she doesn't want to think of the other outcome.
"How are you not more afraid of the storm?" She asked me, I wanted to tell her that I was afraid but someone needed to be the calm one. I needed to be strong, for her.
"I just think of the positive and remember what my Mami used to tell me," I tell her.
"What's that?" She asks holding me tighter. I really like the closeness I am to Brittany even if it's under weird circumstances. With everything that's going on she still smells like fresh strawberries and the feel of her heart beating against mine feels so warm and comforting, if Brittany wasn't here with me I don't think I'd be this calm.
"She told me that it was the giants up in the clouds that were angry because they were hungry so they were banning pots together telling their mum they want food, that's the thunder," she laughed, it felt good to hear her laugh. It was refreshing in a situation like this.
"Where does the lighting come from?" She asks.
"That comes from the giants flicking the lights on and off to get the attention of their mum to make them food" she laughs out loud this time and it brings a smile to my face.
"What did they do that?" She asks while kissing my hand.
"Because they were bad little giants and liked to get all the attention," I told her and she sits up in bed, I join her and all I can do is get lost in her beautiful blue eyes. She leans close and kisses me, I feel a sea of emotions rush up into me. Her lips are so soft they feel like velvet. I kiss her back running my tongue on the bottom of her lip. She immediately grants me access and its nothing like I've ever experienced. I'm sucked in immediately, I can't get enough of her she makes me feel alive.
Suddenly another crack of thunder rattles the whole room and Brittany jumps back in fright. I'm starting to really hate this storm, it's such a cock block. I realize that Brittany's shaking again and I know there is no way anything will happen between us again tonight. An idea pops into my head that might get her mind off of this storm.
"Wanna bake some cookies?" Her eyes are wide as she looks at me surprised.
"At this hour?" She says.
"Yup," I say with a big smile on my face, she laughs and kisses me on the cheek.
"You're such a dork, but I would love to bake some cookies with you," I get out of bed and pull her up with me dragging her to the kitchen spinning her around as we enter. She laughs and I pull her in closer and kiss her on the lips. I taste strawberries again and it makes me smile.
I got out the flower and eggs while Brittany got out the chocolate chips, the sweet ones, not the healthy sugar free ones Quinn has. I don't know why she bothers having those things; every time she eats them she complains that they taste disgusting. It's only Puck that's supportive for her. I was so thankful they both weren't home tonight; they would have heard us making a big racket while making cookies.
Brittany starts to mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, it looks like she's having a little bit of trouble because she's doing her famous pout and it looks so adorable. I go stand next to her looking into the bowl, the dough looks really thick so I decide to add a little bit more water in the mix to help her out.
"Thanks," she tells me.
"You're cute," I say as I reach into the bowl and grab some cookie dough to eat. I love that stuff, I love anything when it's not baked. It's the best time to eat it. I take another bit and another.
"San stop it, there's not going to be any left," she says while she continues mixing the bowl.
"You need to lighten up a little," I say as I reach into the bowl again only to pull out more mix and this time I put it on Brittany's noise and a smile spreads across my face.
"San!" Brittany reaches into the bowl herself and smears some of the mix on my face.
"I did not put that much on you," I say, now I felt all sticky and gross. I like to eat the dough not wear it. I grab a little bit more and spread it on Brittany, she screams and gets more in her hand but this time I run away from her.
"Come back!" She tells me but I don't listen, I keep running.
Brittany chases after me with a big clump of cookie dough in her hand. I turn around to look at her coming after me not focusing on what's in front of me. The next thing I know I hit something hard. I hit a chair and lose my balance, I'm about to fall down when I feel strong arms wrap around me helping me stay up. I cry out in pain, it hurts like a fucking bitch. I end up sitting on the floor but sit with a softer landing because Brittany's there with me. She begins to kiss me on my jaw line which immediately makes me feel better.
"You okay?" She asks and I nod. "Good," she says and then smears the cookie dough that was on her hand onto my face and next.
"Britt!" I cry out but she only giggles. God I love it when she giggles.
"You've got something on your face," I can't help but kiss her. I kiss her everywhere eating the cookie dough off her face. It all tastes so good. I pull her close and run my hands down her back. Our kiss begins to get more heated as her tongue gilds on mine. She give me this energy inside that I feel like I'm on top of the world. Her hand become tangled in my hair as her other hand trails down my back to my butt sending goose bumps down my spine. She makes me feel so alive.
It seems like we both need air because we break the kiss at the same time. I smile at her and pull her into a hug just trying to enjoy the moment.
"Do you hear that?" I ask her.
"Hear what?" She asks me in confusion.
"Exactly. The storms over boo," Brittany listens carefully and then smiles back at me, I know that she's glad its over. So am I, it was really big and normally nothing scares me.
"What about the cookies?" I stand up pulling her up along with me and go back to look in the bowl, I laugh. It's completely empty, and here Brittany was telling me that I shouldn't waste the dough. She comes to my side and looks at the empty bowl and begins to laugh. I love her laugh, it could light up the whole world.
"I guess we're not making cookies anymore," she shakes her head. "Bed?"
"That's a good idea," she tells me while yawing. It's late, really late, like three in the morning late but I guess that could also be considered early.
I snuggle back up to Brittany and kiss her goodnight, we immediately fall into a good sleep tightly hugging each other. I could fall asleep like this forever.
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The last time I had seen Brittany was the night of the thunderstorm. She had a bunch of assignments to finish up so I decided to give her some space to finish them. As much as I didn't like staying away from her for that amount of time it gave me some time to think and catch up on the schoolwork I had fallen behind on.
I had been at the library all day writing up a story for my creative writing class. It took me a hell of a long time but it was officially done, all edited and written to my level. It was a love romance about a boy and girl and how they had met each other in the worst of times but still managed to stay strong and fall in love with each other. I based that off Brittany's relationship with me, she inspires me.
Since it was late I figured I'd check my phone to see if I missed anything important, there was a missed text from Brittany telling me she was in the writers help center getting her essay checked and wouldn't be able to meet me tonight, she added many sad faces to that. I could only imagine her little pout when she sent the text, just that thought alone made me smile. It's funny how Brittany has that affect on me, I would have never thought that I'd find someone as perfect as her.
My house was a little far to walk to at this time of the night so I decided it would be best if I were to take the us back to my place. Normally I'd call Puck or Quinn to pick me up but they were on a date tonight and I really didn't want to disturb them. They had spent forever trying to pretend they didn't have feelings for each other and I'm happy they finally decided to admit it and are now dating.
A man rubbing his noise and sniffing up his snot sat on the bench waiting for the bus to come, at the moment he was the only company I had. I would much rather be alone then listening to some old guy with hair coming out his ears sniff and cough his mucus up. I was so disgusted by this it was making me gag.
While I waited for the bus to come I saw a little figure off in the distance coming towards the bus stop. They were short and had long dark hair from what I could make out. The light flickered above them and their footsteps were loud and obnoxious. I looked harder at the person and slowly their facial detail came into view. Tina, fucking Tina was coming towards me. This night just got a whole lot worse.
"Well this is a nice surprise," Tina said to me sarcastically giving me one of her sly smiles. I really don't know why Brittany bothers with this bitch, she's nothing but evil. I can see the evil radiating off of her. I guess she's Brittany's 'friend' but she honestly could do much better.
"You don't talk to me and I won't talk to you and we'll get along fine," I tell her. I really don't feel like having a battle with her tonight, I'm tired and cold and just want to get back home and snuggle in my bed.
"But I want to talk to you," I look at her with a surprised unamuzed expression on my face. I seeing into the future and I know that this was not going to turn out good.
"That's great," she smiles at me again; it's a creepy smile. I hate how her face looks.
"I don't like you hanging out with Brittany, it's bad for her and you don't deserve to have a friendship with her. You're rude, bitchy, snobby and a slut. I don't want you're ways influencing her in any way," was this bitch serious! I really didn't want to get started with her but now she was leaving me no choice.
"Listen here bitch, my friendship with Brittany is none of your concern. If anyone should not be hanging out with Brittany it's you but I am a decent enough person to let Brittany pick her friends for herself. That's her decision even though I think she's making a horrible one with you. She is old enough to make her own choices and if you ever call me a slut again I will ends you! Understand that fucker?" I was on a role, I felt all fired up inside ready to pounce. I'm from Lima Heights Adjacent and over there we do not do things nicely.
"I'm only calling you a slut because you are one! There you were sleeping with the whole school while your poor boyfriend is clueless," Tina was getting on my last nerve.
"You don't know shit! You know what went on back then, rumors and I've you're too stupid to actually listen to them then that's not my problem," the weird sick coughing guy was looking at us intensely interested in what we had to say, it was the only thing I found amusing about this conversation.
"Fucking stop staring at us!" Tina snapped at the man.
"Leave him alone, he's only staring cause we're causing a scene," she doesn't look too impressed but the man smiles as I stick up for him.
"You're the one causing the scene!" Now she's really making me lose it.
"Right, everything's always my fault," I say sarcastically.
"Exactly, so if you could be kind for once, even though I know that's so hard for you I want you to stop hanging out with Brittany," Tina said getting really close to me trying to make her point.
"Brittany is my friend, she can hang out with whoever she wants and a bitch like you isn't going to stop her and I should be the one to tell you to stop. Stop setting her up on dates she doesn't want to go on. Stop setting her up with ass holes! She will date on her own time, let her be!" I want to tell her everything, I want to say that she's already taken with someone that cares about her so much but I can't. I care too much about Brittany, she will tell her on her own time.
Brittany deserves the best, after everything she's been though in her high school years she only deserves the best, someone who will take care of her and listen to her every word. Sometimes I don't even think I'm good for her. She makes me a better person and means everything to me. She's so smart and beautiful; I'm so lucky to have her in my life.
She doesn't deserve someone like Tina making up her life for her. She's everything that's good in this world and if Tina doesn't see that then there's something seriously wrong with her. The way Brittany's eyes light up when she laughs or when her noise scrunches up when she's in deep thought is the cutest things in the world that could brighten up anyone's day. She's perfect in everyway and doesn't deserve to go through what Tina is throwing at her.
Tina's noise is flaring up, it's not a pretty sight. I can now remember why I used to pick on her in high school I could always tell who the mean people would turn out to be, that's why I picked on them, except for Brittany. If I could take back everything I did to her then I would. I was stupid back then, stupid for holding back my feelings and letting my anger get the better of me. I hate how I hid my emotions and bitched at Brittany just because I was to scared to face my feelings for her.
Maybe if I hadn't been so stupid in high school I could have started dating her sooner but I'm happy that she's in my life now. I'm happy Brittany has Rachel, as annoying as she is I'd munch rather be around her then Tina and Rachel does seem to take good care of Brittany. I should thank her for that. I'm glad that Rachel came to the school after I left, I don't want anyone else to remember me for who I used to be. I changed a lot and I'm happy for that.
I hate who I used to be, I was a bitch, I still am a bitch but I've learnt to control myself better now. I hated how I lied to myself and kept everything inside me, I should have just accepted who I was but what I will admit is that I'm better then Tina. I would have given Tina a second chance if she didn't do all that shit to Brittany. I don't know how she puts up with her but that's what's great about Brittany, she see's the good inside of people even when the rest of the world can't.
She's great about that but I just wish she could see who Tina really is, she's hurting Brittany and I don't like it. Who knows what that guy would have done to B if I wasn't there to send him away. I don't want her to get hurt, she's innocent and doesn't deserve any of that.
The old guy sitting on the bench blew his noise in his sleeve which was a sight I did not want to see, I looked at his pocket and saw he had a tissue hanging out of it so I really don't know why he didn't use that. He was still watching us intensely, but I guess I don't blame him, we are causing quiet a scene and what else do you do while waiting for the bus.
"Brittany needs someone in her life! You know her, you know how stupid she is and clearly can't take care of herself, she's an idiot and she..." Tina didn't get to finish her sentence; my hand met her face leaving a giant red mark on it. I was pleased with myself. Tina held her face crying out in pain.
"Never call Brittany an idiot or stupid! She's not and if you think that then you clearly don't know anything about her," I was fuming with anger, the nerve of this bitch calling Brittany stupid.
"Oh fuck you," she says to me but thankfully the bus pulls up then preventing her from saying anything more. I feel that I would have completely lost it.
I decide that I don't want to be on the bus with Tina, which would be too risky, I would probably start something up with her. I decided to walk home instead or take a cab or something. Anything would be better then sitting in a tiny space with that bitch. I couldn't believe what she said about Brittany, that girl doesn't deserve her as a friend.
"Watch out Lopez, you'll get fucked over so hard one day," she calls back too me so I hold up my hand and flip her off, I hear her scoff in the background and I can't help but smile because I know I got to her.
That night was a ruff one, I kept tossing and turning in my bed un able to sleep. The time seemed to be going by buy really fast and here I was lying in my bed un able to sleep. I decided to give up on trying to sleep so I got up and went to the kitchen to get some water. Water always helped me fall asleep when I was little so I figured I might as well try it again and maybe something good will come out of it.
I got a glass from the counter and poured me some water chugging it down. Suddenly I heard something fall on the floor across from me and I looked up startled. Quinn stood in front of me with a weird expression on her face. I stared at her.
"What are you doing up?" I asked her.
"I needed to pee," I laugh, leave it to Quinn to give me the most straight forward answer.
"How was your date," but I immediately knew the answer once I saw the big smile that spreads across her face . I'm happy for her she deserves it. "If it went that good then why did you have a weird look on your face before?"
"I have to meet with some freshmen tomorrow, and I was just thinking about it. I need to help her with some musical thing in order to pass my class," she looks totally unamuzed to be helping this person.
"You know not all freshmen are bad," I tell her.
"I'm pretty sure Brittany's the only exception," Quinn says with a smirk on her face. I blush at her comment, just the mention of her name can make me blush. "You're so whipped." It was true, I am.
"What's her name?" I ask trying to change the subject from causing me more embarrassment.
"Rachel," Rachel as is Brittany's friend Rachel? I wonder, but I know there are probably many freshmen named Rachel that go to this school, there's no way it's the same Rachel. I'll ask Brittany about it tomorrow, it would be funny if she was help out man hands.
"Well try and be nice," I know Quinn will be, if anything's it's her who's usually telling me to be nice.
"Yeah, I'm going to sleep though, good night," she says as she heads back to the bedroom, then I notice something... that's not her bedroom.
"Isn't that your bedroom," I point to the bedroom down at the end of the hall, she smiles at me and I know exactly what is happening here. She's going to Pucks bedroom, she's spending the night there. They are so cute together but I'm glad that I didn't hear anything that happened that night.
"Yup," she gives me one more smile back and heads into his bedroom.
I suddenly get a text from Brittany.
Brittany: Are you up? I need u.
Santana: What's wrong babe? B there soon.
Brittany: Everything
And just like that my heart dropped.
So what did you think? What's wrong with Brittany? Let me know what you thought.