What is Romance? Chapter 16: Regional's Part One, a glee fanfic

Regional's had finally arrived and the New Directions were prepared for it. They had their set list, they had their matching coloured clothes. The girls wore crimson red dresses with a black band around the waist with a pair of black kitten heels. The boys wore black trousers, crimson red shirts and a black tie with black leather shoes. They stood in the room in the back of the location of the Regional's. Mr Schuester walked through the door and clapped his hands together, they all gathered in a circle where Mr Schuester joined them.

"Tonight's the night," he told them, "We're gonna go out there and we're gonna smash it. We've been practising for months and the songs we've chosen are the best songs that we can come up. You guys understand them because of who you are, you're young and you're ready to live your lives."

They all nodded at Mr Schuester, Santana stood between Rachel and Brittany, whereas Sam stood next to Artie and Blaine to the opposite side to her. It had been a week since the last time Santana and Sebastian spoke to one another, she couldn't bear to see him, she knew that if she'd seen him then it would make her cry, the thought of never seeing him again made her cry so she carried on listening to what Mr Schuester had to say to them.

"I know that we're up against tough competition," he continued, "The Warbler's are a fantastic group, so are the Golden Goblets but our closest rivals are the Warbler's, no offence to the Golden Goblet's but that's the way that it is. So, we're gonna go out there and we're gonna kick some ass." He placed his hand in the centre of the circle, "Who's with me?"

They all placed their hands in the centre of the circle. "On three," Mr Schuester said, "One... two...three...A-MAZ-ZING!"

They all said it at the same time as they all raised their hands up in the air. They all cheered and clapped their hands together. They were ready to go and perform the songs that they'd prepared, the songs that they hoped would get them into the National's in Chicago. They were ready but it wasn't their time yet. The Golden Goblet's were to go first, following them would be the Warbler's and finally the New Directions were to perform their songs, their winning songs.

The Golden Goblet's had performed their songs, their classical songs as their music wasn't the best type of music. It wasn't what the rest would call the perfect song choices. They wore old fashioned clothes from the 16th Century, gold and royal blue satin robes with matching 16th Century hats. The exited the stage to the stage right and to stage left where were the Warbler's, they were getting ready to perform their routine. Sebastian peeked around the side of the curtain to look into the crowd, he was looking out for Santana, he couldn't see her however he could see the rest of the New Directions sitting their chairs. He frowned and searched the entire audience looking out for her but she was nowhere to be seen. There was then a tap on his shoulder, he turned around quickly to see her standing there and flashing a smile up at him.

"Santana?" He asked with surprise, "What are you doing here?"

"I just thought that I would come back here and wish you look," she informed him.

"But I thought that we weren't talking to one another?" He asked her with furrowed eyebrows of confusion, "I thought we agreed that we wouldn't see each other anymore?"

"No," she pointed out, "You're the one who said that we shouldn't see each other anymore, but, I thought that I would do what I do best," she shrugged, "Rebel."

"Yeah," he laughed, "That's something that you would do."

"I just wanted to come and wish you look," she told him, "But also, I wanted to come and talk to you before you performed."

"About what?" He asked her curiously.

"Sam and I broke up," she informed him.

"Oh my god," he replied in shock, "I hope that it doesn't have anything to do with me because I don't want to be the person who caused your pain."

"No," she responded shaking her head, "It's not because of you, it was actually a mutual decision," she nodded, "Yeah, we both decided that it would be best that we wouldn't see each other anymore."

"Why?" He questioned her.

"Well, honestly," she told him, "Sam still wasn't over Quinn, he said that he didn't want to be in a relationship of lies because he did had feelings for her and he didn't want to think that he was only with me to get over her and he didn't want to hurt me. And I told him that it was fine, that he didn't have to worry about it."

"Did you tell him why you fine with it?" He asked her.

"Yeah," she nodded as she took a step towards him, "I didn't want to be with him because I realised that there was somebody else that I actually had feelings for."

"Yeah?" He smiled, "Can I ask who this person is?"

"You can," she nodded, "The guy is really tall, he has short brown hair, blue eyes and he has massive horse teeth which by the way shows off a killer smile."

"Well," he laughed, "Yeah, I do have that."

"Who said that I was talking about you?" She teased.

"The horse teeth kinder gave it away," he admitted with a smile.

"What you said to me," she smiled, "It was the nicest thing that anybody has ever said to me. You did the nicest thing that a guy could ever do for me. You wanted me to be happy and that's the best thing that anybody could do for me."

"I'm not the best guy out there," he informed her, "Remember, I don't have a filter, I can't stop myself from saying stuff that I'm thinking."

"I don't care," she shrugged, "I want to be with you because of those flaws. You're may have that problem however, that's what I love about you."

He looked at her with widen eyes, "You love me?" He asked with shock.

"Don't be so surprised by that, horse mouth," she smiled.

He laughed and also took a step towards her. He leaned down to her and crashed his lips against hers. He placed his hand softly on her neck and caresses her skin with his thumb. She placed her hand on his neck also and kissed him back. He heard a clearing of a voice and pulled away from the kiss, he glanced over his shoulder noticing Trent standing behind him with his arms folded across his chest and tapping his foot on the ground.

"What?" He asked him.

"We're supposed to be going to perform now," Trent scowled, "And you're kissing the competition."

"What's it got to do with you?" She snarled.

"Uh," Trent replied bitchily, "Because you're our competition so it has something to do with me."

"I'll show you something that'll have something to do with you," she snapped as she stepped away from Sebastian and stepping towards him quickly with her hand clenched into a tight fist. Sebastian noticed her fist and grabbed her arm softly, stopping her from hitting his fellow Warbler, he pulled her back and stepped in front of her.

"I'll be there," he told Trent. Trent huffed and turned on his heels walking towards the rest of the Warblers. Sebastian turned around and faced her.

"I could've taken him," she snarled.

"And I'm not doubting that," he told her, "But I don't you to ruin your chances of winning because of him and his bitchiness. So, I'm gonna go on stage now and I'm gonna perform. I'll be cheering you from the audience, can I say the same about you?"

"Yeah," she smiled, "I'll be cheering you on, and I'll get the rest of them to cheer you on too."

"Good," he smiled, "I'll do the same thing." He leaned down to her and pecked her lips softly. Stepping away from her, he smiled at her and headed towards the rest of the Warbler's, he turned around and faced her, "Oh," he called, "By the way, the songs that we're singing, I got my inspiration from you."

"From me?" She smiled, "Wow, I feel so blessed that you got your inspiration from me."

"You should be," he smiled, "Break a leg."

"You too," she smiled again. He flashed a final smile at her before turning back around and heading towards the Warbler's. She turned on her heels and headed back into the audience, she shuffled back to her seat next to Rachel, she sat down beside her and Rachel turned her head to look at her.

"Did you see him?" Rachel asked her.

"I did," she nodded, "And I told him."

"Good," Rachel smiled, "So, are you two all good now?"

"Oh yeah," she smiled, "We're very good."

The lights in the audience dimmed and the curtains started to open, the stage lights lit up the stage where the Dalton Academy Warbler's were standing with their hands behind their backs.

[Sebastian]

It feels like we've been livin' in fast forward
Another moment passing by
The party's ending but it's now or never
Nobody's going home tonight

Katy Perry's on replay
She's on replay
DJ got the floor to shake, the floor to shake
People going all the way
Yeah, all the way
I'm still wide awake

I wanna stay up all night
And jump around until we see the sun
I wanna stay up all night
And find a girl and tell her she's the one
Hold on to the feeling
And don't let it go
'Cause we got the floor now
Get out of control
I wanna stay up all night
And do it all with you

Up, up, up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night

Don't even care about the table breaking
We only wanna have a laugh
I'm only thinking 'bout this girl I'm seeing
I hope she'll wanna kiss me back

Katy Perry's on replay
She's on replay
DJ got the floor to shake, the floor to shake
People going all the way
Yeah, all the way
I'm still wide awake

Up, up, up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night

Katy Perry's on replay
She's on replay
(We're gonna wanna stay up all night)
DJ got the floor to shake, the floor to shake
(We're gonna wanna stay up all night)
Up all night, up all night
(We're gonna wanna stay up all night)

I wanna stay up all night
And jump around until we see the sun
I wanna stay up all night
And find a girl and tell her she's the one (she's the one)
Hold on to the feeling
And don't let it go
'Cause we got the floor now
Get out of control
I wanna stay up all night
And do it all with you (do it all with you)

Up, up, up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night
Like this, all night, hey
Up all night

The lights fade as the song finishes with the audience cheering and clapping their hands together, all of the audience were standing on their feet due to Santana and the New Directions, during the middle of the song Santana looked at Rachel and smiled at her, she too returned the smile and they both stood up together, swaying from side to side and clapping their hands to the music, this caused the rest of the New Directions to stand up, starting with Blaine and then followed by the rest of them.

The stage lights lit up the stage once more with the Warbler's standing in the same position as the finished. The spot light shone on Sebastian as he sung his first line of his solo of the next song.

If you, love somebody
Better tell them while they're here cause
They just may run away from you

You'll never know quite went well
Then again it just depends on
How long of time is left for you

I've had the highest mountains
I've had the deepest rivers
You can have it all but life keeps moving

I take it in but don't look down

'Cause I'm on top of the world, eh
I'm on top of the world, eh
Been waiting on this for a while now
Paying my dues to the dirt
I've been waiting to smile, eh
Been holding it in for a while, eh
Take you with me if I can
Been dreaming of this since a child
I'm on top of the world.

I've tried to cut these corners
Try to take the easy way out
I kept on falling short of something

I coulda gave up then but
Then again I couldn't have cause
I've traveled all this way for something

I take it in but don't look down

And I know it's hard when you're falling down
And it's a long way up when you hit the ground
Get up now,
Get up,
Get up now.

'Cause I'm on top of the world, eh
I'm on top of the world, eh
Been waiting on this for a while now,
Paying my dues to the dirt
I've been waiting to smile, eh
Been holding it in for a while, eh
Take you with me if I can
Been dreaming of this since a child
I'm on top of the world

The audience again cheered and clapped their hands together. The music had finished and Santana was smiling at him, she punched her fist into the air and whooped him. She was proud of him as she carried on cheering him on with the rest of the audience. Sebastian smiled into the audience into the direction where Santana was sitting, he gave her a cheeky little wink before exiting to stage right.

It was now time for the New Directions to perform, they left their seats and headed towards backstage. They did have tough competition with the Warblers but they wanted to go to National's and the set list that they had were the songs that give them a good shot at winning and going onto National's, they just had to make the audience feel their performance but they were the New Directions, and this year was their year to shine at National's.