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Santana looked down at her phone as she flopped down into her bed. Dani's contact was glaring back at her, daring her to call or send a text. Dani had said that she would text her, right? So Santana should wait. Right?

Lopez, you shouldn't even be this excited over something like having her phone number. Nothing is going to come from this. She told herself, following it with a sigh. But Dani's name was taunting her, and she finally couldn't resist.

To Dani- Hey!

Santana didn't receive an immediate reply, but she tried not to let that bother her. Dani was probably calling her mom or her friends from LA or something like that. It wasn't like she had no life and could just text Santana whenever. And even if she did see the text, Santana probably wasn't very high on her priority list either.

It was just a couple minutes later that her phone beeped. She scrambled for it and opened the text immediately, feeling a little too nervous and excited for this text message.

From Dani- Hey there! I saw Quinn driving you home, you live like five houses away from my aunt!

Santana widened her eyes. She hadn't noticed that. She glanced at her window, wondering if she could see Dani's house from it. Looking back at her phone, she typed out a response.

To Dani- Really? Wow, what a coincidence. Piece of advice, don't head into Lima Heights from here. It's deadly there.

From Dani- Thanks for the tip ;) What're you up to, junior?

Santana bit back a grin. That winky face practically killed her emotions. However, she quickly removed the grin from her face. This was bad, like really bad. She couldn't like Dani. Even if somehow their relationship ended up happening or even working, Dani would graduate a year before Santana. No matter what happened between them, however amazing it could be, it wouldn't end well. That was a fact, and Santana wasn't going into a relationship that was doomed to fail.

To Dani- Nothing much. Putting off homework. What about you?

Keeping it simple. No winky faces, or smiley faces. Maybe this whole crush and flirting thing could die down and they could be friends. However, as Santana thought that, her mind flashed back to Brittany, and she shuddered. That never died down, not until the blonde had entirely rejected her of course.

From Dani- You know, just laying in my bed... ;)

Holy shit. How could Santana keep it simple when the girl was saying things like that? Santana couldn't even tell if it was supposed to just be dirty or flirty and dirty or... Stop over thinking everything, Santana.

To Dani- Lol, sounds like fun. ;)

No, no, no that wasn't simple enough! Her mind screamed at her, but she pressed the send button anyway. She took a deep breath. She was getting way too invested in this texting conversation with a girl she just met. Although, she felt like she'd known her for a least a week. Which was insane. Since she just met her that morning.

From Dani- Hah. Hey, I'll text you back later. My aunt's going all crazy at me to call my mom.

To Dani- Why don't you just call her then?

Santana, you just crossed the line. You just met her. Stop getting in her space, her inner self told her fingers, but they still pressed the send button. Seriously, the Latina didn't know what the hell was up with her.

Luckily, Dani didn't seem to feel as though Santana had crossed the line.

From Dani- Let's just say we don't get on so well. I've always been closer to my dad. They just divorced, which is why I'm here. Things got kind of crazy with the court shit... I'm not eighteen yet so they're still battling custody. I know it'll end up being my mom, which annoys the shit out of me. Luckily, though, their issues will probably stretch out for most of my senior year, so I won't be stuck with her for long.

From Dani- Sorry for that long text and unloading that on you. I shouldn't have said more than you asked for.

Santana felt something in her chest like a warmth. It felt good to know that Dani trust her with something personal like that. But then again, maybe Dani was always open about that kind of stuff.

On the other hand, Santana had noticed that no one else seemed to call Dani by her nickname. She told Rachel and Kurt her name was Danielle, and same for Mr. Shue and the rest of Glee Club. If Santana had to guess, she'd say that there were very few people that got to call Dani by her nickname. But... why Santana?

To Dani- It's no problem, really. It sucks that all that shit is going in your life. I wish I could help somehow, but I don't know what it's like at all.

From Dani- Don't worry about it. Be right back, calling her now.

DDD

Dani clicked the home button on her phone and moved to the call app.

"Are you calling her?" came Becca's voice from downstairs.

"Yes!" Dani yelled back. She was tired of hearing Becca go on and on about how she needed to call her mom and "check in with her". Dani was here specifically to get away from her mom. She was beginning to rethink her decision of letting her aunt call her Dani.

Also, the blue-haired girl didn't want to stop texting Santana. Santana, who she had just let in on a big detail of her present life. Granted, she didn't tell her all of the stuff that had happened between her and her mom, but that was a completely different story.

She clicked the "Mother" contact and held the phone to her ear, willing the phone to go to voice message. But no, her mom answered with a, "Hello honey!"

"Hey. Was just calling to 'check in' with you," Dani muttered.

"How was you first day of school in Lima?" her mom asked, curious. Her mom had really wanted her to stay in LA, even with the divorce going on, but Dani had managed to convince her that she needed to be somewhere else for it or it would drive her insane.

"It was good," Dani answered simply. Don't you have work or something, mom? Is what she wanted to ask.

"Good, make any new friends?"

"Sure."

"Meet any cute boys?"

Dani bit her tongue to hold back the remark she wanted to spit out. "I have to go. Bye."

"Oh. Bye, Danielle!" her mom managed to squeeze in before Dani hung up. She wanted to talk to someone about her mom, but she couldn't call her best friend who was in LA, because it was three hours behind there, and they were still in school. And she sure as hell wasn't going to talk to Becca. Dani's aunt was way too defensive for her sister.

That left one person. Santana. But talking about her mother and her issues with her mother with Santana meant opening up a whole 'nother discussion about things that she wasn't sure Santana wanted to discuss. But she had to try, right? She needed to talk to someone before she exploded.

To Santana- Are you a good listener?

SSS

Santana glanced down at the text and hesitated. Sure, she could listen. She wasn't used it really. She tuned out people a lot, but she felt like she could really listen to Dani. Her voice was sort of hypnotizing.

To Dani- Depends on what I'm listening to.

From Dani- I really need to talk to someone about my mom. I'm sorry, I know you barely know me, but my friends in LA are still in school, and I don't trust my aunt to talk to about this... and well, really, I trust you more than I probably should.

Santana felt herself blush, and she cursed herself. Lopez, stop being such a softie. You can't like this girl. Remember, she's likely straight, and she's graduating at the end of this year.

To Dani- I can listen.

Her phone rang just seconds later, and Santana answered nervously. "Hey," she said, keeping the nerves out of her voice and sounding softer than she had ever spoken before.

"Hey," Dani returned. She sounded really unstable, which was a huge change from how she seemed at school. It worried Santana. She knew that a lot of the times, people who seemed stable were often not. That included herself as well. Even Santana had problems that made her stay up and cry herself to sleep every now and then. Just... no one knew about them.

Santana waited patiently for Dani to start talking. Her job was to listen, not to push the older girl for information.

"Santana, can I ask you a really personal question?"

Santana felt her stomach tie up into knots. So much for listening. Although she felt the word "no" on the tip of her tongue, and her brain knew that's what she should say, some other part of her body forced out the word, "Sure."

"Are you gay?"

The question hit Santana like a slap in the face. Never once had someone asked her that, although the question had played through her own mind so many times. She hadn't ever answered it with "yes I am gay" in her mind, but she knew she was different.

"You... you don't have to answer that, if you don't want to," Dani insisted. "Really, I shouldn't be asking. I just... I—"

"It's fine," Santana answered, once again surprised at the softness in her voice. "I... I don't know what I am. I... I like girls, I g-guess." Her dark eyes darted around the room, as though something in there would hear her and somehow relay those words to everyone else in the town.

"Oh," Dani breathed out, sounding surprised almost. "O-okay. Well, I'm gay. And not that many people know. My best friend in LA, my dad and m-my mom. But see, a few years back, I told my parents together, and it didn't go all too well."

Santana didn't say anything. This was where she just got to listen, and she knew that she would never be able to tune something so important out.

"My mom was outraged, and she practically kicked me out. For two days I slept at my best friend's house, before my dad knocked some sense into my mom. It wasn't ever the same after that. She's always distant, she doesn't act like she cares about me, not usually, anyway. When she does, she pretends like she has no idea that I'm gay, even though I know she knows by the way that she talks to me when she's not caring," Dani ranted.

Santana bit her lip.

"And now that they're getting a divorce, my mom wants custody of me, and it's horrible. She hates me, and she wants to force me to live with her until I turn eighteen? What the hell, I seriously don't understand. I'm just... I'm so mad at her that sometimes if I don't rant it out, I feel like I'm going to explode," Dani explained. "You know?"

"Yeah, I guess," Santana answered, not sure that she actually knew that feeling. She kept a lot of things locked inside.

"Do... do your parents...?"

"No," Santana answered. "No one really knows besides me. And you. And I guess... one other person, but..."

"Quinn?" Dani guessed.

"No. This girl, she used to be my best friend, but I fell in love with her. And one night she slept with me, and then proceeded to tell me that she was just experimenting and that she didn't like me like that. Then, coincidentally, she moved for her parents' jobs like a month later," Santana explained. For some reason, it felt really good to finally say that out loud. She had been in love with Brittany. "I guess you could say that I'm still kind of affected by it. I haven't told anyone."

"Oh," Dani breathed out. "Well, thank you for listening, Santana."

"Anytime," Santana replied sincerely. They were silent for a moment.

"Would it be okay if I came over? I really don't want to just sit around for the next few hours. It builds on my stress," Dani explained in a rush after asking the question.

"Of course, do you know which house it is?' Santana asked, moving to her window and looking out it. She saw the head of blue hair leave a house five houses down and across the street from her own house. The sight made her smile.

"Yep," Dani answered, looking over at the house.

"Great. See you in a minute, then," Santana piped up, smiling.

Wait. Holy shit. Dani is coming to my house.

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My apologies, the " - " doesn't work on FF. When switchin to Dani "POV" there is a DDD and when switching to Santana "POV" there is a SSS. Hope that's simple enough :)

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