"No." Came her short response, it was taking everything in her to not let her voice quiver.
"Please come dance with me." Brittany tried again moving closer to the girl in front of her.
Santana shook her head. "Look Brittany I don't want to dance it just took everything in me to tell you how I feel and you want to dance? Well I want to run out of here and hide. Wait the only problem with that is we share an apartment." She looked down at her feet and tried to walk away, she didn't know why but it hurt that the other girl didn't feel the same way when she was so sure she did.
"I asked you to dance with me because I was speechless and I wanted to be close to you because I really like you too. As more than a friend, although you're a great friend but I really truly like you." The slightly taller girl looked into her roommate's eyes so that the other girl could see that she was serious.
"Would you mind horribly if I did this then?" She looked into the blue eyes that were looking at her curiously before she slowly cupped the girl's cheek in her hand and leaned forward. Ever so lightly brushing her lips against the other girls and it was as if the world stopped and everything around her was gone.
For her part Brittany instantly wrapped her arms around Santana's neck as she felt the girl lightly suck on her bottom lip before taking it between her teeth and pulling it back before letting go with a smile on her face. They leaned their foreheads together, both with enormously large grins on their faces. "Want to get some air?" Santana asked just loud enough for Brittany to hear. She nodded and Santana took her hand and led her outside where they found an empty bench, the music could still be heard but was not nearly as loud.
"You're to far away, come here." Santana pulled Brittany onto her lap and smiled. For the second time that night Santana kissed her roommate, this time slower and with less urgency than before. After a few minutes Brittany whispered something in Santana's ear and the two got up. They found their respective parties who smiled and nodded at them before they went back outside and got into a limo.
Apartment
"I'm positive Quinn and Rachel set us up tonight." Brittany said from her bathroom as Santana came into her room.
She wrapped her arms around the taller girl as she was trying to brush her teeth. "I agree with you on that, but we still had to make the final move and I'm pretty sure we did." Brittany nodded in agreement, her mouth full of toothpaste. Santana kissed the back of Brittany's neck. "My room when you're done? My bed's better." She winked causing Brittany to laugh a little as she walked out of the room.
Five minutes later the brunette walked into her roommates room and went to crawl under the blankets next to her. "Nope, you know the rules."
"Come on San, I'm cold as it is." The other girl shook her head and smiled.
Rolling her eyes Brittany took off her boxers and tank top and crawled into bed and laid her head on the other girls chest. "You know what they say about red underwear right." Santana winked at her, which made Brittany run her thumb over the other girl's hip. "Hey you know that tickles."
The other girl laughed. "I know, why do you think I do it, you know you like it though."
"Baby I like everything you do."
"Do you have to always be so smooth?" Brittany smiled and tangled their legs together.
Santana shrugged. "I don't try, it just comes naturally, and you make it easy."
Next Morning
Both girls woke up around the same time and decided to get out of bed, which lasted about as long as it took them to get to the couch. Santana grabbed the remote for the tv, "Scooby Doo?" she asked and smiled when Brittany nodded. She pulled the girl down and wrapped her arms around Brittany. "Lying is better than sitting, always remember that."
The girls had stayed quiet in between little outbursts of laughter while they watched the cartoon. Looking over the blondes shoulder during the commercial break Santana noticed her eyes were closed. "Hey you still with me drunkie?" she asked softly.
"Yeah just thinking." Brittany smiled, her eyes still closed.
"About what?" Santana gently ran her fingers up and down the girl's side.
Brittany smiled and gave a little chuckle. "The day I came home after I first moved in and you and Marley were laying on the couch watching this. I was never trying to interrupt you two just so you know but I feel like she ran out of here pretty fast."
"As bad as it sounds I think I really only wanted to be watching it with one person, even then. Her and I were just better as friends or well are just better as friends, with no extra benefits. This, laying here with you is perfect, I wouldn't want to be watching Scooby Doo on a Sunday morning with anyone but you, it wouldn't feel right. You didn't run her out of here, believe me if I wanted her to stay I would have fought for it. Instead I let her go because she wasn't you. "
Turning her head a little Brittany kissed Santana's nose and smiled. "I'm glad because I like hanging out with you like this. One tiny problem though, I'm hungry and I don't want to get up."
"I'll make breakfast, problem solved." Santana smiled and went to get up but her roommate held her back.
"I was implying I didn't want either of us to move."
Santana looked at the girl for a second. "You have an idea don't you?"
Brittany nodded. "Phone please." Reaching over the side of the couch Santana grabbed the cordless phone and handed it over. "Since we were the center of a game last night we are owed, don't you think?" Getting her drift the slightly shorter girl smiled and winked. "Hey Rach, yeah I had a good time, too bad my best friend decided she was going to set me up...Don't act dumb with me, nice try though. So to pay me or well us back, you and Quinn can bring us breakfast...I'll rage black out you... A half hour sounds perfect." She smiled and hung up the phone. "Problem solved."
"Damn, you're good. I knew I liked you for more than your stomach." Both girls laughed and got comfortable again as the cartoon had come back on. It was easy for them to have a somewhat serious conversation while remaining in their blissful bubble.
A half-hour later Quinn and Rachel walked into their best friends apartment and called out for either of them. Rounding the corner into the living room, both women shook their heads as they saw the two roommates cuddled up on the couch. "You two made us bring you breakfast because neither of your lazy asses wanted to get up!" Quinn spat as she tried not to laugh shaking her head.
"Payback is a bitch." Santana smiled as Brittany reached her hand out for the back Rachel was holding.
Handing it over Brittany looked at the contents in the bag before showing Santana. "Okay you guys can leave now, thanks for breakfast." Brittany laughed as she winked at her friends.
"Seriously, you're making us leave now? We just got here!" Rachel stood with a hand on her hip furrowing her brows at the two girls lying on the couch.
"That's what we're implying yes, it was pretty clear when Britt Britt said you can leave now. Leave being the operative word."
After another two minutes of staring Quinn and Rachel finally left, both women mumbling under their breath as they did so.
One Week Later
Since the night at the club, nothing had really changed between the two girls except real kisses now and again. They were exactly how they had been before their admissions except now they were a little more relieved that they didn't have to hold back.
Stepping off the elevator Santana heard the strange sound of country music coming from her apartment. Setting her surfboard against the wall she quietly opened the front door and walked in closing it the same way behind her. Walking up the stairs she held back her laughter as Brittany was dancing around her room singing while trying to pack. To her own amazement Santana knew the song and walked up behind Brittany and wrapped her arms around the girl. Smiling she whispered a line of the song to her. "Girl you're beautiful, your 'bout near perfect but I bet somebody's already told you that."
There was an instant smile on her face. "Maybe, but what they said doesn't matter, what you say on the other hand, that matters a lot."
"If I hold on tight enough will you not go?" Brittany turned around in Santana's arms.
"Tempting but it's Sugar birthday and she's a really good friend so I have to go. Plus I need to beat some sense into her boyfriend or sort of boyfriend Damian. It's only two weeks, you'll be fine you still have Quinn and your other friends."
"Argh! Fine, leave me, break my heart, I still how it is."
"You're too cute, but I promise we'll still talk as much as we can. I normally don't have a lot of reception up there but I will try."
Santana pouted. "It's a house, in the Hamptons and there isn't reception? What kind of bogus crap is that!"
"Easy killer, and I don't know, just the area I guess but I'll be home before you know it."
"Yeah sure." There was more than a hint of sadness in her voice and the pout that crossed her features was beyond cute. "I'm really going to miss you."
Brittany pecked the girl on the lips. "I'm going to miss you too, but for now will you please help me pack? My flight is in a few hours and I'm way behind schedule."
"Ha, no way am I helping but I will sit here and keep you company."
"Good enough for me." With that said Santana flopped down onto Brittany's bed and smiled as the girl rushed around her room trying to find everything. She really was going to miss the girl and two weeks seemed like a life sentence.