A/N: Hey hey my loves! Forgot to add that the song in the last chapter was Lego House by Ed Sheeran :)
Ready for Sectionals? Funny, I just wrote the Regionals chapter haha.
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Santana's parents got home a few minutes after she did, and she immediately turned to them when they walked inside. "Hey, Dani said she actually can't make it tonight."
Her Mami frowned. "Oh, why not?"
"Turns out she has stuff to do for her aunt or something," Santana muttered her lie.
"That's unfortunate," her Papi said with a frown. "Any other friends you want to come over tonight? Me and your Mami were really looking forward to meeting some of them.
Santana just shook her head. "No. It's fine, I'd rather have dinner with just you guys anyway."
Maribel and Pablo exchanged a suspicious glance, and although Santana did notice it, she didn't say anything to address it. "Alright."
Santana had a million thoughts running through her head for the rest of the day. Should she be as mad as she was at Dani? Should she have run out like she did? Did she want to be Dani's girlfriend? Didn't she like the blue-haired girl? What was she going to do about school? How was she going to live without Dani, knowing that she lived just five houses down and while they had two classes and Glee together?
During dinner, her parents didn't seem to notice that she was out of sorts. Although, they hardly ever saw her, so they probably couldn't identify what was odd for the Latina and what was normal.
She actually didn't check her phone until that night, when she was curled up in her bed, about to go to sleep. She had two text messages. One was from Rachel, and the other was from Dani.
From Rachel- Hey Santana! Please don't forget that in one week on next Saturday, we have our Sectionals Show Choir competition! Also please remember that since you and Danielle have a duet, you will need to be practicing religiously! Have a good day!
From Dani- Hey. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked that. I already knew what was going to happen anyway. Please don't hate me. Text me back soon, alright? Also, Rachel just reminded met that we need to be practicing our duet for sectionals. Let me know when you want to do that.
Santana huffed. She had completely forgotten about sectionals, and her duet with Dani. They were singing Brave by Sara Bareilles, and really that song required a good amount of practice. They had practiced some in Glee, but really, they needed a few more outside of Glee practices before they were ready for sectionals. Which meant that Dani had chosen a horrible time to pop that question to Santana.
Or maybe, Santana had just chosen a horrible time to duck out when the going got rough.
Santana shook her head, setting her phone on the side table by her bed and wrapping herself tightly in her blankets. She inhaled deeply, smelling Dani's scent on her sheets and immediately feeling safe. What would it be like to be held in Dani's arms?
Maybe now, Santana would never know. Maybe she'd ruined all of her chances of ever being happy. Or maybe she hadn't. Maybe she'd saved herself from a horrible heartbreak.
Either way, she was feeling pretty shitty.
Taking one more inhalation of Dani's smell on her blankets, she closed her eyes and let herself be carried into a world of dreams.
When she woke up on Monday, her parents were gone already, as usual. Sighing, she dressed into her Cheerios uniform and did her hair and makeup. She felt as though she were in some sort of trance.
Quinn noticed her bad mood and immediately started to rant to Santana about how unhealthy her mood swings lately had to be, and that it wasn't helping her any by keeping whatever problems she was having to herself.
Santana, as usual, shrugged off her concerns. She went through the day in her same trance. She felt like a zombie. Like a sleepwalker that wouldn't wake up unless she had a really good reason. And right now, she couldn't think of any good enough reason.
She ignored Dani, who tried to talk to her a few times, and avoided going into any bathrooms when other people weren't in them. It was stressful, and she felt even more depressed at the end of the day.
The rest of the week went like that, except Dani finally stopped trying to communicate with her. They stayed after Glee Club a few days to practice their song, but they spoke of nothing other than the music and the performance. The only reason that Santana allowed that was because it was for Glee and she had to her part. She figured it was the same reason that Dani put up with it.
By Saturday, Santana felt exhausted. It was so much work ignoring the one person that made her truly happy. It was all her own fault, of course. She felt utterly depressed, but when she woke up, she plastered her best smile before Quinn picked her up and drove them to the school. A bus was waiting to take the Glee Club over to the school where Sectionals was at.
"Good morning, Santana," Rachel greeted her when she and Quinn got to the school. Apparently, they were the first three there. "Can I talk to you for a second?"
"I'll be right back, Quinn," Santana said to the blonde, before following Rachel away from the road where the bus was. "What?"
"I was trying to stay out of it all week, but today is sectionals and it's really important that everyone is on their A game. And you and Danielle are most definitely not on your A games. What the hell is going on between you two? You were so happy last Friday," Rachel asked.
Santana just shrugged. "Shit happens, Berry. We'll be fine, alright? We won't—or at least, I won't—ruin sectionals, okay?"
Rachel gave the Latina skeptical look. "I believe you. But still, what happened? Everything was good last weekend, wasn't it?"
"It was," Santana agreed. "Now, it's not."
"Well? What happened?"
"Does it matter?"
Rachel frowned. "Santana, I'm trying to be a friend to you here."
Santana crossed her arms. "If I tell you, you're not allowed to comment on it, alright?'
Rachel nodded.
"She asked me to be her girlfriend, and I ran out. Alright? Now let's get on the bus, everyone else is showing up," Santana muttered, turning and heading back to the bus.
She sat next to Quinn, turned on her phone and stuffed her earphones into her ears. She blasted music for the whole bus ride, which wasn't actually that long, ignoring everyone else on the bus.
When they got there, they rushed into bathrooms to change into their outfits for the performance. Purple and black dresses for the girls, black slacks and button up shirts with purple ties for the guys.
They had the first slot, which everyone called the death slot. Santana liked to think of it more as the slot for setting the stage. If they did amazing enough, then the judges would be comparing the other two groups to them, which would put the other groups at a disadvantage. If they sucked... well, then the slot would live up to its name.
They were all backstage, fixing their makeup and preparing themselves for going out on stage. It wasn't Santana's first time performing, so she wasn't worried. But when she happened to glance in Dani's direction, she saw that the girl looked terrified out of her skin.
Feeling really bad for the senior, she found herself standing and approaching her. Dani froze when she saw her approaching. "Hey," she muttered, looking at Santana carefully.
"Don't be nervous, alright?" Santana asked, getting straight to the point. "You sound amazing. We sound amazing. We're going to blow the socks off of those judges, right?"
Dani managed a small smiled. "Right."
The lights backstage flickered, letting them know that they had to be out on stage in just a minute. Well, not Dani and Santana, yet. Rachel had her solo first, then Dani and Santana had their duet, and then there was the big group number.
Never the less, Mr. Shue called them all over and they all huddled in a circle. Santana stood next to Dani, feeling less awkward now, which was good.
"I'm so proud of how hard you all have worked in the past couple of weeks. This year is our year, you guys. We're going to go to New York for Nationals, and we're going to own this competition. Do your best, and I know we can do it," he said, giving his usual pep talk.
Everyone put their hands in the middle and cheered "New Directions!" before the next set of flashing lights occurred. Everyone gave Rachel assuring smiles, and Finn gave her a good luck kiss to everyone else's disgust. Well, at least to Santana's disgust. Then she stepped out to the middle of the stage and began to sing.
The more Rachel sang, the more nervous Dani looked. Finally, when there was just another thirty seconds or so of the song, Santana grabbed one of Dani's hands and pulled her away from the others.
When they were out of sight, she grabbed the sides of Dani's face and smashed their lips together. Dani tensed, and then relaxed. As she did, Santana released her face and pulled back. Before she could look at Dani's eyes, though, she grabbed her in a hug. "You're going to do fine, alright? Stop being so nervous."
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Dani was surprised as hell at that kiss. She was not expecting it at all. Also, she had no idea what to make of it. Santana had obviously kissed her to calm her down, but was there more meaning behind it? Was she getting over her fear?
Rachel's song finished, and the two girls broke apart and hurried out to the sides of the stage that they were entering from, opposite sides.
The music started almost as soon as they got there, and Santana started by stepping out onto the stage from the other side.
"You can be amazing,
You can turn a phrase into,
A weapon or a drug.
You can be the outcast,
Or be the backlash,
Of somebody's lack of love."
Dani stepped out, walking onto stage singing her part and burying all of her nerves.
"Or you can start speaking up,
Nothing's gonna hurt you,
The way that words do,
And they settle 'neath your skin.
Kept on the inside,
And no sunlight,
Sometimes a shadow wins.
But I wonder what would happen if you..."
Both of them sang the next part as they faced the audience and began to perform their small amount of choreography.
"Say what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out.
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
With what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out!
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!"
The Glee girls, who had just moved onto stage behind them, began to sing.
"I just wanna see you,
I just wanna see you,
I just wanna see you!"
Dani belted out the next line.
"I wanna see you be brave!"
And she found her eyes landing right on a certain Latina on stage as she sang it out, and Santana was looking at her too, in that moment. The message was sent now, whether Dani wanted it to be or not. The message that Santana needed to be brave.
They sang that part over again, like the song did, and Santana belted the line out instead of Dani, avoiding her eye contact while doing so.
Santana sang the next verse.
"Everybody's been there,
Everybody's been stared down,
By the enemy.
Fallen for the fear,
And done some disappearing,
Bow down to the mighty.
Don't run,
Stop holding your tongue..."
Then Dani.
"Maybe there's a way out,
Of the cage where you live,
Maybe one of these days,
You can let the light in
Show me how big your brave is!"
Now both of them.
"Say what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out.
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
With what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out!
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!"
Dani sang the bridge, not helping that she looked away from the audience and over at the girl that she was willing to be brave.
"Innocence, your history of silence,
Won't do you any good,
Did you think it would?
Let your words be,
Anything but empty.
Why don't you tell them the truth?"
Santana sang the next part of the chorus.
"Say what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out.
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!
With what you wanna say!
And let the words fall out!
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!"
The rest of the song was Dani and Santana taking turns belting out that one line while the girls in the background echoed their part. As the song drew to a close, Dani knew that despite her nerves, she and Santana had done brilliantly.
The lights went off, and Santana and Dani rushed to their places for the group number as the Glee guys ran out to take their places as well.
Their last number went even better than their first too, and they all bowed and rushed off stage afterward. Dani felt a sort of exhilaration that she honestly had never felt before. It felt amazing.
They went out the backstage doors as the next group got ready to perform. Although they were supposed to be going into the auditorium to sit down, Dani found herself grabbing Santana's wrist and pulling her off around a corner and into an empty class room.
Neither of them said anything for a moment as they stood there. Finally, Dani looked at Santana and their eyes met. "Santana, I can't do this. I'm tired of us acting like we don't care about each other. And I don't know, maybe I care about you a lot more than you care about me, but can we please just forget about what happened last week?"
Santana didn't lower her gaze, which was a start. "Dani..."
Dani broke their locked gaze and turned around. She brought her hands up to her hair, running her fingers through it nervously. She felt Santana eyes on her, just watching. When she'd gathered her thoughts, she spoke again. "Santana, I totally understand why you would've said no. There are so many things that could go wrong between us, and you're scared. I've known that from the beginning. With what happened with Brittany, you're really scared. I was pretty much expecting the no, actually, and I'm not sure why I even asked you. But you know, a simple 'no' would have saved us a lot of stress."
"I know... but..."
Dani turned to look at the Latina. What? But what? She waited patiently for Santana to finish, and when she didn't, she said, "Whatever, Santana."
She moved to walk past her, but Santana caught her wrist. Dani turned back to her slowly, not sure what to expect. "You're right. I'm really scared, Dani. There are so many things that could go wrong."
"I know, I just said that," Dani said impatiently, feeling as though this conversation was now just a waste of time.
"Yes."
Dani furrowed her eyebrows. "Yes? Yes what?"
"Yes."
Dani blinked, still not understanding.
Santana gave her a small smile. "Yes, Dani, I will be your girlfriend."
Brave by Sara Bareilles obviously, as I said. The amazing (Twitter) grubb_kendra suggested that song to me, and it turned out to be so totally perfect for what's going on. Kenny you are psychic or something.
SHE SAID YES.
You know me, can't keep those little drama spikes up for too long. This chapter marks the beginning of a series of fluffier chapters (although with some drama-ish stuff but not much), until the real stuff starts happening. But ooh I'm not gonna spoil it for you!
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Tomorrow I'm going to my Choir Solo Competition :) Wish me luck? I have to sing my solo in front of a judge, who will then rate me a 1, 2, or 3. 1 being the best, 3 being the worst. I have to get a 1 to qualify for the next level of singing my solo next year, so wish me luck please! I won't find out my score until Monday, poo :P
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