Brittany is currently at home going through some work emails on her laptop when her doorbell rings. She really could be doing with no interruptions tonight because she has a fair amount of paperwork to catch up on but at the same time, she doesn't like not answering the door in case there in an emergency. "Hey it's you" she says opening the front door and finding Quinn standing there.
"Yeah it's me babe" Quinn says before stepping inside.
"So what's up?" Brittany asks while leading Quinn through to the living room where they take a seat. "Anything new happening?" Brittany wonders.
"Not much just checking in" Quinn replies. "So did you manage to get a present today?" she asks.
"I did and hopefully she'll appreciate it" Brittany replies, talking about the present she was buying at the department store today. "It's not exactly a glamorous present but it was on the gift list."
"I am sure she will like it no matter what it is" Quinn smiles. "So anyways what are you up to, watching TV?" she asks.
"Yeah but I'm also checking through some work emails…oh wait how was the date?" Brittany asks suddenly just remembering that Quinn had a date the night before.
"Don't even go there" Quinn replies shaking her head. "The guy was an absolute ass, no joke" she frowns at the memory.
"Oh dear, that's a shame" Brittany says sympathetically.
"That will be the last time I ever let my sister set me up on a blind date" Quinn states. "Every guy she has set me up with has been an absolute tool so I do not wish to be set up with anymore idiots" she tells Brittany.
"How about I set you up then?" Brittany asks. "I'm good with people and I like to think I can flirt a little bit. Oh and let's not forget I am a good judge of character so I'll be able to pick some great guys for you" she says.
"No it's quite alright I will find someone myself" Quinn assures her.
"Ok well you could be waiting a while then" Brittany jokes.
"Hey" Quinn says while playfully hitting Brittany's arm. "What's that supposed to mean? Do you not think I can find someone myself?" she asks.
"Not really otherwise you'd be with someone now wouldn't you?" Brittany states.
"I guess" Quinn sighs.
"I'm sure you'll find someone soon enough though, don't get worried" Brittany reassures Quinn. "Hey Quinn do you mind if I just quickly text someone before it's too late, I just remembered I had to ask someone something?" she asks.
"No go ahead, I'm just going to help myself to a drink" Quinn says while heading for the kitchen.
"Ok cool" Brittany says while pulling out her phone. She then starts to text Santana.
To Santana: hey it's Brittany. I have another question for you.
From Santana: hey, ok hit me with the question.
To Santana: if a girl wanted a chat with a really successful wedding planner where would be the best place to go to talk to her over coffee?
From Santana: well in my personal opinion it would be 'Sugar Cane Cafe' but again it depends on the person that you want to meet up with.
To Santana: how about you and I have a chat at 'Sugar Cane Cafe' the next morning you're free?
From Santana: Let me check my diary and I'll get back to you on the best day.
To Santana: ok but don't take too long, good things can't wait forever :)
From Santana: I won't, I promise :)
To Santana: good. Anyway I will let you go and check your diary just now and you can let me know.
From Santana: ok, speak to you soon.
Brittany and Santana stop texting and no longer than a minute later Quinn joins Brittany in the living room again. "I brought you a bottle of water in case you wanted a drink" Quinn says while sitting down next to Brittany. "Did you manage to get a hold of the person you wanted to ask a question to?" she asks.
"Thanks" Brittany replies while taking the bottle. "Yeah I did so we're meeting for coffee soon so we can talk" she says and Quinn nods. "So what are your plans now, are you just heading home?"
"Yeah pretty much" Quinn replies. "Actually I probably should shoot off just now because I promised I'd call my mom about something" she says while standing up. "It's my father's birthday soon so I want to ask her if there is anything he wants or needs, he's so hard to buy for sometimes so I usually just see if he needs anything and if he does I get that for his birthday."
"It's better that than buying something he doesn't like or won't ever use" Brittany states. "Anyway I guess I will see you in the morning then" she says while walking Quinn to the door.
"Yeah you will" Quinn smiles. "See you."
"Yeah, bye Quinn" Brittany says before closing the door once Quinn walks down the hall. She then proceeds to the living room and she sits down on the couch while putting her feet up on the coffee table to watch some TV. It's about ten minutes later and Brittany's phones buzzes indicating an incoming text from Santana.
From Santana: hey, I'm free Friday morning at 10am, what about you?
To Santana: Friday morning at 10am seems perfect to me, see you there.
From Santana: cool, can't wait.
To Santana: me neither. I'll be heading to bed soon so goodnight Santana.
From Santana: goodnight Brittany.
Four days later (Friday 10th October 2014)
Friday morning has arrived and Santana is sitting waiting in the Sugar Cane Café for Brittany. She's probably earlier then she needed to be but she wanted to make sure she got there first so she could find a good table for them to sit at and talk. It's another fifteen minutes before Brittany arrives and goes straight over to the table Santana is sitting at.
"Hey" Santana says smiling brightly when Brittany approaches the table.
"Good morning" Brittany says smiling back before sitting down on a chair across from Santana.
"How are you?" Santana asks.
"Good, you?" Brittany replies.
"I'm really good too" Santana smiles.
"Glad to hear it" Brittany responds. "So have you had a chance to look at the menu yet?" she asks.
"Yeah I have and I already know what I'm having so I'm just waiting on you" Santana replies before sliding the menu over to Brittany.
"Cool" Brittany says while opening the menu. "I've never been here before so I'm not sure what to have. What's good here?" she asks.
"It's all really good so whatever you pick I can guarantee you'll like it" Santana states before quickly backtracking. "Oh apart from the cinnamon toast actually, it's not that nice or the cheesecake but on the whole though everything is good."
"Ok well I might just have coffee and a pastry of some sort" Brittany replies while putting the menu down. "Do we go over and order or will a waitress come over to us and take the order" she asks.
"The waitress will come over so we'll just need to wait just now until she's available" Santana replies.
"Ok cool" Brittany nods. "So what has been going on since I last saw you?" she asks while leaning back on her chair.
"Well I've not met any crazy women on bikes with their dogs recently so that's a plus" Santana jokes while leaning her arms on the table.
"Good-good" Brittany smiles.
"What about you, have you saved anyone lately?" Santana asks smirking slightly.
"Nope" Brittany replies.
"Oh well, I guess your heroine acts are just reserved for me" Santana smiles.
"I guess you're right" Brittany smiles back just as the waitress approaches the table.
"What can I get for you ladies?" the waitress asks and Brittany tells her what she wants first.
"And can I get a white coffee with cream instead of milk please?" Santana asks. "And also a mini cupcake."
"No problem, is that all ladies?" the waitress asks and they both nod. "Ok your order won't be long" she tells them before leaving.
"So tell me about yourself" Santana says while leaning forward on the table to be able to hear Brittany.
"Well what would you like to know?" Brittany asks.
"Anything" Santana replies.
"Ok well first of all, my name is Brittany" Brittany states with a slight smirk.
"Yeah I got that" Santana smiles. "So what else?"
"I like to help people as evidenced by my actions when I saved a girl from getting run over by a woman on a bike a few weeks ago" Brittany responds.
"That's not really what I meant about tell me about yourself" Santana states.
"Well you said anything so that was a couple of random points about me" Brittany answers.
"I meant what do you do for a living, how old are you, where do you live, that kind of thing" Santana tells her.
"Oh you never ask a woman her age" Brittany states.
"Ok fine, what is your profession then?" Santana asks.
"Its top secret" Brittany replies.
"And I'm guessing where you live is top secret too, right?" Santana asks.
"That's right" Brittany smirks.
"Ok" Santana says while sitting back on her chair. They seem to fall into a silence for a while and then the coffee and food comes over. After a few sips of her coffee, Santana speaks up. "I think I am going to go now" she says feeling slightly awkward.
"What? Why?" Brittany asks.
"Because you don't seem like you want to tell me anything about yourself so what's the point in even talking?" Santana sighs.
"I'm only messing with you so can you please just stay. I have a stupid habit of messing with people or joking around when I get nervous" Brittany tells Santana.
"Ok fine I'll stay" Santana states. "What are you nervous about though?" she asks.
"Being around you. You just exude this confidence and seem really successful so it's sort of intimidating and makes me nervous" Brittany replies.
"Hey you don't have to be nervous around me, I'm just a normal down to earth person outside of work" Santana tells her. "I'm sure you're successful too in whatever it is you do. You know what I do so why don't you tell me more about you, I promise I'm not a judging person" she says. Santana doesn't want Brittany to feel insecure about what she does because everyone has different career paths.
"Well I run my own dance company" Brittany states earning a gentle tap on the arm from Santana. "Hey what was that for?" Brittany whines.
"You made it seem like you didn't have a good job or anything and then you turn around and say you have your own company. How is that not being successful?" Santana asks. She assumed the way Brittany was talking that she had a low paid job and she wasn't doing that well career wise.
"Sorry" Brittany replies. "You didn't need to hit me though."
"I barely touched you, it was a light tap" Santana tells her. "Anyway back to your company, would I know it" she asks.
"I'm not sure, it's called Dance Craze" Brittany replies. "It's got a cool motto actually" she tells Santana.
"Ok so what's the motto?" Santana asks, genuinely interested in Brittany's company.
"The motto is 'B a star' but it has two meanings to it" Brittany replies. "One is basically for clients and it means come and be a star, you know be really successful at dancing and the other meaning is me, B as in Brittany and a star as in I'm a star" she states.
"That's pretty cool, I don't really have a motto or anything like that for my business" Santana says. "But anyway you sound like you have a good company there" she tells Brittany honestly.
"It is a good company and we have plenty of clients and stuff. We also run classes for people who just want to dance for a hobby so we get a diversity so to speak of people. Some for pleasure and some for business" Brittany replies. "Actually speaking of wedding planning, we work quite a lot with Perfection Wedding Planning."
"Ok now you should leave" Santana states.
"Aw come on don't be bitter about your competition" Brittany laughs.
"Well I guess that is a fall down my company has because we don't work with a big dancing agency, I mean we only have one dancer working for me" Santana tells Brittany. "Mike Chang, he is an excellent dancer but it is hard for only one dancer to teach all different couples how to dance for their wedding" Santana states and Brittany nods understanding.
"You should work alongside a company that can help you then" Brittany states while taking a sip of her drink.
"I know but all the dancing facilities I know of have their own business and enough to do" Santana replies.
"Well what about my company?" Brittany suggests.
"Hah, good one" Santana laughs off the suggestion thinking Brittany is only joking.
"I'm serious, we should like come together and my dancers could help you out" Brittany tells her.
"But you work with Perfection Wedding Planning" Santana frowns not seeing how Brittany could work with both companies.
"Yes but the contract with them is finishing soon because they're moving away so there would be a position if you guys wanted us to help out" Brittany states.
"Hmm…I don't know" Santana says pondering the thought.
"Like I say just an option and I mean it wouldn't be soon anyway so have a think if maybe you'd like to do something like that or even if you just wanted a trial run or something" Brittany replies.
"I will think about it and since it's not soon we can talk another time" Santana says. "I'd probably need to talk to some of my staff as well."
"Yeah I mean take your time, there's no rush since the current contract hasn't finished yet" Brittany tells Santana. "So anyway shall we get back to finding out all about me and how wonderful I am?" Brittany jokes.
"Yeah, tell me more about you" Santana smiles.
"Well I'm 23 just now so I guess I'm still technically young" Brittany replies. "How old are you?" she curiously asks.
"You never ask a woman her age" Santana smirks.
"Are you just saying that because I said that earlier?" Brittany laughs.
"Yeah but I'm only messing, I don't mind sharing my age" she tells Brittany. "I'm 24 by the way."
"Cool" Brittany smiles and nods.
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"So I better head to work now but it was good chatting to you again" Santana tells Brittany honestly. "I had fun" she smiles.
"Yeah me too, we should totally do it again sometime" Brittany suggests.
"Yeah definitely" Santana agrees.
"I'll call you, ok" Brittany says as they stand outside of the café. They are about to leave in different directions in a second so they're saying their goodbyes.
"Cool, I will look forward to your call" Santana laughs.
"Are you making fun of me or something?" Brittany asks noticing Santana laughing.
"No I was laughing at myself, I've never actually said that before but a lot of people do so I thought it would be funny" Santana states. "Seriously though, I will look forward to hanging out with you again" she says before quickly regretting it. She doesn't want to seem too strong but she's not really used to hanging out with a lot of people who aren't colleagues or friends so she's not sure how to act.
"I see well I do really want to see you again too so I guess I'm looking forward to calling you" Brittany says.
"Cool" Santana smiles. "I really should go, bye."
"See you later Santana" Brittany says waving slightly when Santana turns around to face her after walking away. Santana shyly waves back and then they both head off to work in different directions.
A couple of days later (Sunday 12th October 2014)
Santana is sitting at dinner with her parents at their house. "So how is work these days?" her mom Maribel asks her.
"Oh it's fine, definitely keeping me busy that's for sure" Santana replies.
"As long as you're not working too hard and making yourself ill" her dad George tells her.
"No I am fine dad, I can cope" Santana reassures her father.
"Ok I am just making sure you're doing ok" George nods. He is happy that his daughter has her own business and is doing well in her career but he just worries that she will work too hard and miss out on a lot of things in life or end up making herself stressed.
"So do we know any weddings you're planning?" Maribel asks genuinely interested.
"I doubt it mom" Santana laughs finding it funny that her mom asked her that.
"Ok I am just asking" her mom replies. "You know I like a good wedding so I'm interested in what you have planned for people especially if I know them" she tells Santana.
"I see" Santana nods understanding.
"So in other news any young men in your life at the moment?" Santana's mom asks her.
"There is actually" Santana says causing her mom to raise her eyebrow in interest.
"Oh right so what's he like" Maribel asks slightly excitedly.
"Well he's got dark hair and he's the sweetest person ever" Santana says smirking.
"What's his name?" Maribel beams, so excited her daughter is now with someone.
"Jamie and he's also my nephew" Santana states causing her mom to glare at her. "Well he is a young man in my life at the moment" she says.
"I don't quite think that is what your mother meant Santana" her dad says seriously.
"Well like I have said before I am not interested in guys, not now and probably not ever" Santana tells her parents.
"Ok well have you met anyone new then?" George asks.
"Not really" Santana shrugs. "I don't have time for love to be honest."
"I know you're a career woman but surely you want to find someone" Maribel says. "Don't you want to settle down and be happy?" she asks.
"Of course I do eventually but I'm too busy right now for a relationship" Santana tells her mom.
"Well don't wait too long darling because we want more grandchildren" Maribel states.
"Mom" Santana groans. She doesn't want to talk about this just now.
"What?" Maribel asks not seeing what was so wrong about her statement.
"Look I am happily single at the moment so can we leave it at that please" Santana tells her parents.
"Ok sweetheart" George says realising his daughter is getting annoyed with the conversation. After dinner is done, Santana heads straight back home as she has to go over a few last minute things before work tomorrow. As soon as she gets into her apartment she leaves her keys in the bowl in the hall and kicks her shoes off before throwing herself to the sofa and putting the TV on. She leans her head back on the couch and thinks for a moment, sighing in relief that dinner with her parents are over. It's not that she doesn't like catching up with them, it's just she knew they'd press her about dating or whatever and she's not in the dating mood just now.
Just as she is about to check on a few things for work tomorrow, her phone rings indicating an incoming call. As soon as she sees who has called her, her whole face lights up and she quickly accepts the call. "Hey" she cheerfully says.
"Hey you, what are you up to?" Brittany asks while smiling at the other end of the phone.
"Not much, I was just thinking about you" Santana replies just as cheerfully as before.
"Me too, I can't stop thinking about you" Brittany tells Santana.
"That's nice to hear" Santana smiles. "So apart from thinking about me, what are you up to, anything exciting?" she asks.
"Not really, I'm just at home and I remembered I promised I'd call you so that's what I've done" Brittany states. "I've actually got something to ask you."
"Sounds interesting, fire away" Santana tells her.
"Well…" Brittany starts off while taking a pause. "Would you like to have dinner with me on Saturday night?" she asks.
"Dinner with you on Saturday night…hmm" Santana says pretending she has to think about it. "I'm going to have to check my diary I think to see what I have on next weekend."
"I thought you didn't usually work on a Sunday so wouldn't you be free for Saturday night since you could stay out as late as you want?" Brittany asks.
"Well I don't usually work a Sunday but who says I've not already got my Saturday night booked" Santana teases.
"Are you playing hard to get?" Brittany smirks.
"Is it working?" Santana asks smiling.
"Well you do usually have a busy schedule so I would say you're normally hard to get anyway" Brittany states.
"Ok" is all Santana says as a response.
"Is that ok I understand the point you've made Brittany…or ok I will come to dinner with you?" Brittany asks hoping it's the latter.
"It's both" Santana shrugs.
"Awesome, that's settled then" Brittany says happily. "Actually I have another question for you, if someone was asked to pick flowers for a wedding then what should they pick?" she asks.
"Well as I've said before, it really depends on the couple getting married and what kind of flowers they like. There's no set kind someone should have, it's just a matter of people's personal taste although I will say there are a few kinds you want to steer clear of. I wouldn't pick any you might find at a funeral; that could really kill the vibe" Santana replies.
"Ok thank you" Brittany nods, not that Santana can see her but she nods anyway.
"So have you to pick someone's flowers for them?" Santana asks.
"Yeah, I mean what the hell? What happened to just turning up and watching the ceremony but no, Brittany has to pick out the damn flowers for her" Brittany says annoyed.
"Who is it you've to pick flowers for?" Santana wonders. "Is it the friend you bought the toaster for?" she queries.
"Well…"
"Brittany, are you there honey?" A voice shouts through while rattling keys. "I've got the food we ordered and I managed to get the wine you really like, oh and the…"
"Listen Santana, I have to go. I'll speak to you soon about Saturday, ok bye" Brittany says abruptly hanging up the phone before rushing through to the hall. Meanwhile Santana is sitting bewildered at the other end of the phone not sure why Brittany had to go so quickly.
Hope you liked the chapter. Any ideas who just arrived at Brittany's apartment?