A/N: Short chapter. Kinda fluffy, filler-y.
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Dani was a little nervous. Sure, she'd already met Santana's mom, but it was brief. And even if the older Latina wouldn't have any idea of Dani's real relationship with Santana, she still felt like she had to make some sort of amazing impression. If Santana's mom didn't like her, Dani would probably be devastated.
"Hi, Mrs. Lopez," Dani greeted with a smile.
"Ay, call me Maribel please. Do you go by Danielle or Dani?" Maribel asked as she bustled through the kitchen grabbing foods. Santana came into the room, seating herself in a barstool at the edge of the kitchen.
"Dani is fine," Dani answered with a smile, sitting in the barstool next to Santana's.
"I recall Santana saying a little bit about you. You're a senior, si?" Maribel asked. Dani nodded her confirmation. "And you're in that Glee Club with her?"
"Yes, I am."
"I wish I could have come to see your sectionals performance, mija. Some of the other nurses said they saw it and it was amazing. When is your regionals?" Maribel asked.
"Um, I think it's in January," Santana answered. "After Christmas Break."
"Maybe me and your Papi can take a day off and come see it," Maribel suggested.
"Well if you're gonna do that, you might as well wait and take a day off for nationals, because they're going to be in New York and we are going to kill it. We're going to beat Vocal Adrenaline this year," Santana promised her mom with a grin.
Dani had heard all about Vocal Adrenaline in Glee Club. Everyone was always ranting about how stupid they were or something. All Dani knew was that they were an amazing show choir from Carmel High that apparently had like six nationals wins in a row, and had crushed the New Directions their regionals last year. This year, though, they weren't zoned for the same regionals, so Glee had extra time to prepare to beat them.
"Too bad you lost a few members last year. Brittany, for one, she was a beautiful dancer," Maribel commented.
Dani's eyes immediately snapped over to Santana, who flinched. "Mami," she muttered, before saying a few other things in Spanish that Dani didn't understand. Maribel gave Santana was sounded like an apology.
"Well nonetheless," Maribel piped up in English, "I'm sure you all will win at nationals this year!"
"Yeah, because we have Dani. She's the best singer in there," Santana commented, flashing Dani a sweet smile that Dani couldn't help but return.
"No, we'll win because everyone is going to work their butts off for it," Dani argued, partly to be modest, but she was also worried that she might not be in Lima for nationals. There was a very good chance that she'd be back in LA, and she didn't have to heart to say it to Santana in front of her mom.
They made polite conversation while Santana's mom cooked. Then they sat around the table to eat, and Dani had no idea what the hell she was eating, but it tasted like heaven, so she was good with it. "This is really good," Dani commented, before stuffing her face with more of the food.
"Pig," Santana joked. Dani glared at her, but found their eyes locking. She quickly tore them away. No way was it going to be Dani's fault if Santana's mom found out that they were together and did something horrible like kick Santana out. That was not going to be on her conscious.
"So, Dani, do you have a boyfriend?" Maribel asked in a chit-chat sort of way. Dani tried not to choke on her food as she awkwardly swallowed it.
"Uh, no," she answered.
"Why not? There are plenty of nice boys at McKinley," Maribel commented. Dani's eyes were a little wide as she glanced at Santana, who unhelpfully shrugged. In about two seconds, Dani used her eyes to ask Santana if she could tell her mom that she was gay, and the response she got from Santana's eyes seemed like a "go for it".
"I uh, I'm not into guys," Dani told the older Latina carefully.
Maribel looked surprised. "Oh really? Huh. Well alright, to each their own, I guess."
Dani and Santana exchanged another quick glance, before they both looked down at their food and began to suddenly have too much in their mouths for conversation.
After the dinner, Dani thanked Maribel, but said she had to go. Santana walked her outside, and once they were both outside of the house with the door closed, Dani finally let out her shaky breath. "That was horrifying."
"Babe, it actually went well," Santana insisted.
"I was still scared out of my wits," Dani grumbled. Santana stepped forward and carefully wrapped her arms around the other girl. Dani sighed and relaxed into the Latina's arms. This was comfortable. Almost too comfortable, actually. Dani had a feeling that she should be more careful in this relationship, keep her heart safer and whatnot, but she couldn't. Not when Santana smelled so intoxicating, and not when she gave hugs like this.
"Don't worry about it," Santana whispered out, before pulling back. She placed a quick, chaste kiss on her lips. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye," Dani returned with a sweet smile.
SSS
Santana watched as Dani walked down to her car and then got in to drive it the short distance to her house. Sighing, a dreamy smile on her face, she walked back inside. As soon as she saw her mom doing dishes though, she wiped the look off of her face entirely.
"So, she's a lesbian?" Maribel asked instantly.
"Yeah," Santana answered with a shrug, before adding defensively, "Brittany was bi."
"Don't get defensive, Santana, it was just a question. Like I said to Dani, to each their own. If they choose to—"
"It's not a choice," Santana snapped, a little too quickly.
Maribel quirked an eyebrow up at her daughter. "What do you mean, mija?"
"Dani and my friend Kurt are both gay, Mami. It's not something they chose, they were born that way. Alright?" Santana asked. When she eventually came out, she didn't want her mom to think it was something she chose.
"Alright," Maribel agreed, giving her daughter a weird look.
"I'm gonna go take a shower, Mami," Santana said. Her mom nodded, and the younger girl hurried upstairs. Inside her room, she stripped off her clothes and turned the shower on. Stepping under the hot water, she sighed. How much easier would life be if she knew how her family would react to the information that she was gay? A lot easier.
She pushed thoughts of that problem away, though, and let thoughts of her gorgeous girlfriend creep up on her instead. It wasn't an question if Dani was sweet and beautiful and funny and well... amazing. It also wasn't a question that Santana was falling for Dani, fast and hard. She knew that she shouldn't be. It should at least be slower. But every time she merely looked at the girl, she fell a little bit more. But she knew what was happening at the end of the school year. She didn't need to be reminded of the fact that her girlfriend was currently the subject of a custody battle and that whichever way the battle fell, she would be going back to LA. She didn't need to be reminded that after that, it was unlikely that they'd live in the same location until after Santana's senior year. That was a long time to ask someone to wait for you.
When Santana realized that she had begun to cry in the shower, she turned off the water and toweled off. She needed to stop thinking of such depressing things. She was dating a beautiful, perfect girl who she was falling in love with. That in itself was a good thing, so why should she have to focus on the bad things as well?
Sighing, she dressed and went back into her room. She only just then noticed Dani's stack of songs on her bed. Carefully, the Latina gathered them up and texted her girlfriend.
To Dani- Babe, you left all your songs here ):
From Dani- I'll pick them up from you tomorrow or something (: I'm really tired, babe, I think I'm going to head to bed. Goodnight! Xx
To Dani- Good night, baby. Xoxo
Santana carefully moved the stack of paper to her side table and then turned off her light before falling into her soft bed. Wrapping herself tightly in the blankets, she let the scent that could only be described as Dani wrap around her as well and lull her into a surprisingly peaceful sleep.
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Wanna hear a funny story?! I'll tell you one, and you all should tell me some, because I'm in the mood to hear some funny stories hehe.
One of my friends a few months back needed to get a ride home from school after her rehearsal or something, so she needed to call a cab, right? So after lunch, she calls the cab place so that it would be at the school at the end of the day, but after lunch, we all go to the bathroom and like fix our hair and makeup because yeah we weird.
So we're all in the bathroom, and she's on the phone with some lady, trying to get her ride set up. And like she walks into a stall, and then she like starts going to the bathroom. And she puts the cab place on speaker phone, because she had to get the school address. So then she comes out of the stall, with the phone on speaker, and flushes the toilet.
Meanwhile, like five of us have just been standing there talking in hushed voices and laughing because like what the heck? And then, right she's standing at the sink now and the toilet just flushed, and we hear the lady at the other end of the line just like "Umm are you in a bathroom?" and we all just started laughing like so hard omg and my friend took the lady off speaker and finished the call all quickly or whatever but omg it was so funny
Okay maybe that wasn't as funny as I thought but whateves. Your turn. Tell me funny stories :P :D
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