A/N: OMG YOU GUYS! YOUR REVIEWS HAVE BLOWN ME AWAY! I seriously love you guys! It's interesting, though, I had like four people telling me that the song Give Your Heart A Break would go really well with this fanfiction... and I dunno, I'll have to think about it, because I'm not sure I have a good place to slip that in where I'm at now...

Seriously, though, I love the reviews. Been having some people ask me to draw out the separation, others who want it over haha. Some who want Santana to chase Dani, others who want Dani to come back for Santana. It's interesting to read them all, since I just like finished chapter 36 lol.

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Five weeks. That's how long it had been since Dani got up and left. It was now a week into March, and here Santana was, still marching on. She was being good about keeping her game face on, not letting everyone see how broken she still was.

She was feeling as utterly depressed as always when she got home, but she suddenly got a phone call from Jason. Hoping he would be able to cheer her up, she answered the call.

"Hey cuz!" he exclaimed.

"Hey, Jason," she replied half heartedly.

"How're things? How's the girlfriend?" he asked.

Santana felt her heart drop. She hadn't told Jason. In fact, she had forgotten that he knew that she was gay now. "She uh—err. She moved back to LA last month and broke up with me."

She spent about ten minutes telling Jason about it. He listened carefully, and Santana guessed that he would have some advice for her when she was done.

"Wow. I'm so sorry, Tana," he said, using the nickname he'd used for her when they were kids. "So, all your friends know now?"

"Yep," Santana replied.

"What about your parents?"

Santana bit her lip. "No. I still don't know how they'll react."

"You... you have to tell them, Tana," Jason insisted.

"Why? It doesn't matter," Santana argued.

"One of the things Dani said to you when she broke up with you was that you couldn't be public with your relationship. So clearly, it was somewhat bothering her at least. Does she know that you came out to all of your friends?" Jason asked pointedly.

"No, and she won't find out, even if I told my parents. We haven't spoken since she left," Santana told him.

"Well, maybe you should call her and tell her. If you still love her, you might have to be the one to rekindle your relationship."

"What makes you think she even still likes me? She's probably forgotten all about me now that she's back in glamorous LA! She hasn't even texted me in the last five weeks!" Santana exclaimed.

"You haven't texted her either," Jason pointed out. "Look, Tana, maybe I'm playing devil's advocate here. But people do weird things when they're in love. Dani thought she was in a mostly one sided relationship, when it came to love at least, so she did what she thought was best for you. She didn't know that you loved her."

Santana found herself shaking her head. "So what? I should just tell my parents and then call up Dani and be like 'Hey so, I came out to my friends and family in hopes that you maybe still give a damn about me and will reconsider being in a relationship with me'?"

"Look, just think about it alright? You're like a sister to me, Tana, and I want you to be happier. And in that short time I saw you with Dani... well, that was the happiest I'd ever seen you. I gotta go. Talk later?" Jason asked.

"Sure. Thanks, Jason. Bye," Santana muttered, hanging up. She was grateful for her cousin looking out for her happiness, and he did have some good points.

She spent the rest of the day thinking about it, and she found herself staying up much later than normal. She heard her parents come home around one in the morning, talking quietly about something.

Santana replayed what Jason had said in her head. Maybe she should tell her parents. Her mom was always good at comforting her anyway, and maybe she could help some as Santana tried to heal herself.

She found herself going downstairs.

"Santanita! What are you doing up, mija?" her Papi asked her, giving her a confused look.

"Mami, Papi, I really need to talk to you about something," Santana whispered, her voice barely audible. She was physically shaking, and she was sure that her parents were having mental freak out sessions as they saw how broken she looked.

"Okay, let's all sit down. I'll make you some tea," her Mami suggested. Santana nodded.

Her and her Papi sat in the living room and waited for Maribel with the tea. Once the hot mug of the stuff was in Santana's hands, and she'd taken a sip, the young Latina began to speak, starting from the very beginning. "You guys remember Brittany, right?"

"Of course, you two were attached at the hip forever," her Mami answered.

"Well... she was my best friend. I loved her. But after a while, I realized that I loved her a l-lot more than just as a friend," Santana admitted, deciding to get straight to the pint. "And w-well I thought she felt the same way, and then somehow, we slept together. Then I told her how I felt, and she told me that she didn't feel the same way, and then she moved."

Her parents were looking at her with stunned, baffled looks by now, but Santana tried to ignore them. She needed to finish talking.

"It took me some time to realize what it all meant, though. Once I'd sorted through all of my feelings, I realized that there was only one logical situation with how I felt. I had to be different than everyone else. I had to be a lesbian. It took me a long time to accept, but I was too scared to tell anyone.

"Then I met Dani. From the minute I saw her, I knew she was something special. She was having problems with her mom. Her mom doesn't like who she is, she nearly kicked her out and disowned her when she found out that she's gay. I was too scared to tell you guys what was going on, because I didn't want something like that to happen to me.

"Dani and I got really close really fast, and we had a lot of ups and downs. But by the end of November, we were officially together. She knew more about me than anyone. Only two people knew about us, my friends Rachel and Kurt. At Christmas, Jason found out as well.

"I fell in love with her. I shouldn't have, but I did. And then, when she told me that she was going back to LA, she broke up with me. N-not because she didn't want to be with me anymore, but because she thought I didn't love her. She thought she was doing the right thing by letting me go, and maybe she was. It broke me, I'm still broken.

"But enough abut Dani. Mami, Papi, I love girls the way I'm supposed to feel about boys. I don't and I can't love boys. It's just not me. And I know this all is probably a shock to you, but I hope you can still love me the same way that you always have. Because I'm the same person I was just a moment ago, you just know a little more about that person now," Santana finished.

The first thing that Santana felt after that speech was her mother's arms wrapped around her. That got her to break down, and she felt tears begin to fall from her eyes. "Mija, I don't want you to ever be afraid to talk to me and your Papi about things like that. We love you unconditionally no matter what. You could've just told me that you were half alien and I still would love you just as much as I always have."

Her mother pulled back from her, and Santana wiped at her eyes. She heard her Papi begin to speak. "Santanita, your Mami is right. We love you more than anything. Maybe we don't always have the time to express that, but we want to still know you. You know what? Starting today, I'm going to tell the head surgeon of my department to cut me some slack. A lot of the work I'm doing can be done by interns anyway. I need to see my daughter more."

"I agree," Maribel said with a nod. "I'll speak to the nurses as well. We make plenty enough money to cut down on our hours."

Santana felt herself tearing up again. "I love you both so much."

She felt her parents wrap her up in their arms.

An hour later, Santana was finally starting to go to bed. It was Friday night, or technically Saturday morning now, so she didn't have to be worried about school.

As she laid down though, she heard her door open, and her mom snuck in quietly. "Mija?"

"I'm awake," Santana said, sitting up as her mom came over and sat on her bed next to her.

"I just realized something you said before. You're broken," Maribel said, her voice faltering when she said the last part. Santana swallowed hard.

"I love her, Mami. I love her more than I've ever loved anyone, even Brittany, who I knew for years and years. I know she loves me too, or at least that she did," the young Latina told her mom, her voice shaking.

"Princesa... just wait. If she still loves you as much as you still love her, then she'll realize it sooner or later. And she's the one who's about to have the freedom to go wherever she wants. If she truly loves you, she will come back. I promise." Santana smiled at her Mami thankfully.

"Gracias, Mami."

"De nada, mi amor," her Mami replied, giving her daughter another hug. "Just keep your hopes up a little bit, mija. If she doesn't come back, I know that someone will come into your life and make you happy. You are something special, Santana. You will find that special girl."

As Santana laid down to finally go to sleep, she realized that her mom saying that to her, that she would find a special girl, made her believe it. After Brittany and Dani, Santana had been convinced that there was no hope for her. But after that one sentence from her mom, she believed otherwise.

Sometimes, a girl just needs her mom.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have parents who accept them fully and completely. I'm lucky enough to have two loving parents who couldn't care less what my sexuality is. I wish everyone was that lucky.

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