A/N: I hope some of this chapter cheers you guys up after the meh stuff last chapter and the chapter before :D I know a LOT of you were looking forward to this, because you guys kept asking me to update early lol.. sorry I didn't.

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Dani felt like shit. There was no other way to describe it. Santana had pretty much admitted that she was mad because someone else was flirting with Dani. Which didn't make any sense, even though at the same time, it did. Not only that, but because Santana was mad about it, she decided to go hookup with Puck. The Puck thing pissed Dani off.

She also felt really bad for calling Santana a slut, or at least pointing out that she had a "slut image". She couldn't tell whether she felt more confused, mad, or bad, and so the only way to describe what she was feeling was shit.

Dani went through her first period ignoring her teacher and her friends and just thinking. Not that it helped any, she felt just as shitty, if not more, afterward. Second period wasn't any better, because she pretty much sat there and dreaded third period, which she had with Santana.

When she did go to Spanish, and saw Santana walk in, she decided that she felt more mad than she did bad, since Santana had even called herself a slut. She still couldn't process that Santana was mad enough to go sleep with Puck, or how she did that when she didn't even like guys.

She didn't talk to the Latina throughout the entire period, and Santana did the same to her. It was agonizing, to say the least. Having that gorgeous girl sitting next to her, thinking about all of the good things about her, and then remembering that she's mad at her and can't talk to her.

Fourth period was a bore, and then came lunch. Lunch was her fourth favorite part of the day, after Glee, theater and Spanish, since she had those with the Latina. However now, it just made her feel super bad instead of mad. She saw Santana sulking at her lunch table, glancing in her direction a couple times, while Dani desperately tried to change the subject every time she realized that Sara was indeed flirting with her.

SSS

Santana sat down at her lunch table, feeling terribly depressed. She had totally screwed up letting Puck come over, even if they didn't do anything, and she had totally screwed up this morning, by averting the topic of Santana's feelings for Dani. Because now, Dani seemed to hate her.

It occurred to that Latina that she hadn't mentioned to Dani that she didn't end up having sex with Puck. If she had said something about it earlier, maybe Dani would be less pissed.

"Santana, you're starting to worry me. You look even more depressed than yesterday," Quinn told her, the worry in her voice easy to pick up.

Santana tried to sit up a little straighter, but her eyes moved over to Dani. The blue-haired girl looked like she felt really awkward, and Santana saw Sara giving Dani that weird flirty smile. Now that Dani noticed that Sara was indeed flirting, she didn't look happy or comfortable with it at all. That cheered Santana up a little bit.

"Who are you looking at? Danielle?" Quinn wondered.

Santana looked back at the blonde. "I guess. I don't know, I got lost in thought," she lied.

"That's weird, looks like that other chick is flirting with Danielle," Mercedes commented.

"I can't tell if she's flirting back," Tina returned, sounding disappointed. Of course, leave it to those two to start gossiping with each other about Dani's sexuality.

"She's straight. Isn't she?" Quinn asked, not specifying who she was talking to. But everyone at the table looked to Santana, since she knew her the best.

Santana shrugged. "I don't know," she lied. Her eyes flickered back over to Sara and Dani, but found that the blue-haired girl was walking out of the cafeteria. "Where's she going?"

"How should we know?" Rachel asked. She was watching Santana suspiciously. The Latina suddenly felt the need to follow Dani, since she was pretty sure she was going to the bathroom, and they always seemed to end up chasing each other there.

A couple minutes or so passed, and Dani didn't come back, so Santana muttered, "I have to go to the bathroom." She stood up and tried not to walk too quickly toward the bathroom, so that her friends wouldn't think anything weird of it.

She pushed the door open slowly, and she saw Dani washing her hands. Her dark eyes looked up and she turned her head, seeing Santana.

"Hi," Santana tried. Dani glanced at one of the stalls, and Santana saw that it was closed, which meant someone was in there.

Dani headed for the door, where Santana was standing, and gave her a look that said "follow me", so Santana did just that. They walked a ways across the school, to a different, empty bathroom. Santana hadn't even known that it was there, and she guessed that that was precisely the point. "Were you going to say something?" Dani asked her stiffly.

"On a scale of one to ten, how mad at me are you?" Santana asked weakly.

"Ten," Dani answered angrily. "Santana, I am pissed because when you got mad at me or whatever, you decided to go sleep with Puck! And I know you said that I shouldn't be surprised, but I am because I never actually thought that what people said about you were true, but I guess they are."

"They were," Santana corrected. "I'm not a slut anymore."

"Yeah, so what's Puck, your boyfriend?" Dani asked sarcastically, seething.

"I didn't sleep with Puck!" Santana exclaimed. Dani blinked.

"What?"

Santana crossed her arms. "I was really mad and upset about the Sara thing, so when Puck asked to come over, I agreed. But after I saw how upset you were about it, I felt really bad. He came over and we made out and it was gross and I stopped him and kicked him out."

Dani looked like she felt extremely bad. "I... I... I'm sorry. I didn't... I didn't know, I—"

"Don't be," Santana insisted, her voice coming out softer than she had expected.

They were silent for a moment, just standing there. Finally, Dani asked, "What made it gross this time? Haven't you slept with him and a bunch of the other guys already?"

Santana felt her cheeks get hot, and she imagined that they were bright red. Dani quirked up an eyebrow, noticing this. Santana hesitated for a long time, but then she gave into her feelings, which she had only done one other time. "Because I couldn't stop realizing how gross Puck tastes and how rough his hands are. And I couldn't stop remembering how sweet your lips taste and how smooth your hands are."

Dani actually looked surprised at that answer. "Oh."

Santana felt extremely vulnerable right now, but in a way, it felt kind of good. Knowing that she had someone she could feel vulnerable around, and not feel like she had to put on a bitch face all of the time around them. "And I know I shouldn't have been mad about Sara, because I don't have any claim over you, but I really like you."

Dani swallowed. "I... I like you, too."

The bell rang suddenly and Santana looked down at her hands. She'd been wringing them together due to her nerves.

"We should... probably go to theater," Dani suggested, and Santana nodded her agreement.

"Yeah. I gotta, uh, stop at my locker," Santana told her.

Dani smiled slightly, probably trying to ease the tension. "I'll walk with you if you want."

"Okay," Santana replied, smiling back and finding it effortless.

Dani walked with Santana to her locker, and then Santana walked with Dani to her locker. The whole time, they were unspeaking.

"I'm sorry," Santana suddenly found herself say. Dani gave her a confused look as she pulled some stuff out of her locker.

"For what?" Dani questioned.

"For kissing you twice, and then pretending like it never happen for two weeks. And for getting mad about Sara. And for upsetting you by the almost hookup I had with Puck," Santana rambled.

"It's fine, Santana," Dani insisted softly. They started towards the theater classroom. "I'm sorry I called you a slut."

Santana let out a light laugh. "It's okay. I'm used to it."

Dani gave her a concerned look. "Isn't that a pretty shitty reputation?"

"I guess," Santana answered with a shrug. "But the losers here look for anything to define you as cool or lame, and for some reason sleeping around is cool. I even used to think it was. And anyway, my main reputation is just as a badass. Not a slut."

"Honestly, Lima is shaping up to a pretty crappy place to live," Dani muttered. Santana laughed at that, nodding.

"Tell me about it. I'm sure LA was a hell of a lot nicer than this dump," Santana commented.

"Yes, yes it was," Dani agreed thoughtfully, before both of them laughed and entered the theater classroom. They went and took their seats by Rachel and Kurt. They were invested in their own conversation, but Santana could have sworn she saw Rachel looking in between Santana and Dani, which made the former uncomfortable.

Theater was a big improvement from Spanish, since Dani and Santana actually talked to each other. They didn't bring up anything about feelings, since they were in a public place, and they evidently only did that in bathrooms.

When they left theater, Santana was saying something about Glee when something thick and blue and freezing slammed her in the face and she gasped. She dropped her books, wiped the slushy from her eyes and spun around to look at who'd done it. It was a group of football players, of course. Karofsky and a bunch of other stupid guys. No doubt they were just carrying out Puck's bidding.

"Are you okay?" Dani asked, her eyes wide.

People were staring at the Latina, and she was pissed off. She looked around at the gawkers, and yelled, "Go back to whatever the hell you people were doing!" They immediately obeyed, seeing how angry Santana was.

Santana groaned, and Dani crouched and picked up her stuff. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up."

They made their way back to that empty bathroom, and Dani set Santana's stuff on the floor before wetting a paper towel and carefully wiping the blue slush out of Santana's face. They were silent as she did so. When Dani tossed that towel and got a new one, Dani commented in a really soft voice, "I thought only the losers here got slushied."

Santana closed her eyes and let Dani's soft voice wrap around her and make her feel better, before answering with. "All of us Glee kids have gotten slushied."

"Except for me," Dani commented with a smirk, which Santana saw as she opened her eyes.

"You better hope it stays that way. This stuff burns," Santana muttered, whimpering slightly as Dani pressed the towel back on her skin, which now felt sort of raw.

"Why did you get slushied today?" Dani wondered, now getting a dry towel and gently patting Santana's face dry.

"Puck," Santana answered with an eye roll. "The man whore can't stand being rejected."

Dani frowned. "Asshole."

"Agreed."

The bell for sixth period rang, but neither of them moved. Santana honestly didn't want to be away from Dani right now. Dani finished drying Santana's face and tossed the towel in the garbage. "There, now you're just as pretty as you were before," she commented with a smile.

Santana looked in the mirror and noted that Dani was right, all of the blue was gone. Santana was just grateful that none of it had gotten on her uniform. "I really don't want to go back to class," Santana muttered. "Or Glee."

Dani gave her a sympathetic look. "We can ditch the rest if you want?"

Santana raised an eyebrow and smirked. "Danielle Taylor is going to ditch two classes? I thought you were the 'school is cool' person."

Dani raised an eyebrow now. "Why'd you think that?"

"Because you took a physics class that wasn't required! That just screams 'nerd!'," Santana teased. Dani laughed and rolled her eyes.

"Come on, we can get ice cream or something," she suggested. Santana grinned and didn't argue. Today was shaping up to be not so bad after all.

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Ice cream is yummy.

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