A Note From The Author: This is mostly just to clear anything up for readers that don't follow the show closely or haven't come from my Tumblr page. The character Dani is to be portrayed by Demi Lovato in the 5th season and is to be Santana's new love interest. Just clearing that up! :) I would also like to add that Brittany Pierce will feature in this story a little later on and Brittana is going to play a big part.
Opening the heavy iron door into the loft Dani huffed and puffed as she forced it open. "You should really call the super about this door. I think it starts to freeze up in the winter." Finally getting the door open enough to walk inside Dani looked around and could see no one was in the apartment. Or at least not the living room/kitchen area. "Guys?" She called out with no response. "Kurt? Rachel? ….Santana?" She called out and again, no response.
Walking further into the apartment Dani dumped her handbag on the dinning table and moved over to where the large room was split into three bedrooms. Opening the first curtain which led to Kurt's room Dani peaked in and couldn't see the boy inside. 'I guess he's out.' She thought. Moving over to Rachel's partition Dani moved the fabric back but couldn't see Rachel inside. 'NYADA class maybe?' Finally walking over to the cloth that made up Santana's room Dani was about to move it to look in when suddenly Rachel came bursting out of the room with earphones in.
"Dani!" Rachel jumped taking her earphones out. "You scared me! What are you doing here?" Rachel asked looking a little worried. It looked like she was standing in the way of the entrance to the Latinas room on purpose too.
"Santana has a shift in like two hours, she's always late. I figured I would stop by and pick her up?" Dani answered, Rachel's odd behaviour making her slightly nervous. Just as she was about to ask what Rachel was doing in Santana's bedroom she heard a voice.
"Hey Rachel you can't just leave halfway through you know! Get back in here and finish what you started!" Was that…Santana? Trying to peek over Rachel's shoulder Dani could just see Santana. She was lay face down on her bed with sweatpants on and..no shirt or bra?
"W-What's going on in there?" Dani asked feeling jealously strike inside her. Her feelings for Santana over the past few weeks had really grown but it was hard to try and do anything about it with Rachel constantly in the way of them.
"She's just r-resting!" Rachel snapped. Who would have thought Rachel Berry would have a crush on Santana Lopez. Sure the two were at each other's throats for most of high school but things were different now. They had both grown as people and learned to live with each other, literally. Rachel learned to live with Santana's need to go through all of her drawers and let out her sarcasm on herself and Kurt. Santana had learned to live with Rachel's insane ego and need to practice her singing at 5AM. But even so Rachel would never have thought of herself as bisexual. Sure she may have had a thing for Quinn Fabray back in high school but she was convinced that was just a phase. She certainly didn't think it was going to happen again. Yup, Rachel Berry was most definitely crushing on Santana Lopez.
"Rachel! Hurry your ass up I'm cold now." Santana shouted from her room.
"Hey San!" Dani shouted over Rachel's shoulder. Maybe letting the girl know she was here would mean she would get to go inside her room.
"Dani? Is that you?" Standing up from her bed Santana wrapped herself in her dressing gown and walked over to the make shift door. "Oh hey!" She added, her face instantly brightening when she saw the blonde. "Come in!" She motioned. "Berry would you move! I didn't ask for a body guard I asked for a freaking massage." Santana ordered.
Moving out of Dani's way Rachel huffed and retreated to the kitchen where she saw Dani's handbag on the table.
"Yeah, I thought I would stop by and pick you up before our shift. You're going to end up getting fired if you keep coming in late y'know.." Sitting down on the edge of Santana's bed Dani looked around and took the room in. This was the first time she had been inside the girls room, she found it to be oddly exciting and slightly nerve-wracking at the same time.
Santana sat down next to Dani and scoffed. "Are you kidding me? There's no way they would ever dream of firing me. The guys love me at that place. I'm sure I've boosted their customer count just by being there." She bragged.
Rolling her eyes Dani nudged Santana with her shoulder. "Stop being so cocky misses. Gunther was being serious last week when he said you were on your last chance so just please, get changed and let's get there early, maybe you will impress him or something!"
Shrugging her shoulders Santana stood up from the bed and moved towards her closet. "Yeah, fair enough." Opening it up she looked over all her clothes, most of which were tight fitting dresses until she found her uniform. She actually didn't mind working at the diner, she just liked lying in bed in the morning better. The uniform made her look like a hot bitch from the 50's and working with Dani was always fun. Turning round Santana was about to untie her robe when she looked over to Dani. "So I'm getting changed…this is usually the part where you leave?" She asked a little confused as to why Dani was just staring.
Shaking her head Dani snapped from her thoughts of Santana being naked and quickly stumbled up to her feet. "Right! Yeah, because you're getting naked I-I mean changed and stuff, yeah. I'll be in the kitchen.." She answered awkwardly shuffling herself out of Santana's room.
Hearing footsteps from another part of the loft Rachel panicked and quickly shoved the stuff she had taken from Dani's bag back in before she came into view. When Rachel saw the blonde smiling at her she instantly felt horrible and guilty. 'I can't believe how childish I am!' she thought. 'It's just a stupid crush!'. Walking over to sit on the couch Rachel couldn't take her eyes off of Dani's bag. Everyone and their grandma knew Rachel was bad when it came to relationships. She got sort of jealous but this time she was getting jealous of someone and something she wasn't even really involved with. She was so jealous that Santana pretty much asked her to leave so she could spend time with Dani that she ransacked the poor girls purse and found two lunches Dani must have prepared, guessed which was Santana's and stuffed pickles in the sandwich. Santana hates pickles.
Smiling at Rachel when she saw her Dani had never felt so fake. She liked Kurt and all the other friends of Santana's but she just wasn't sure about Rachel yet. She couldn't quite put her finger on what it was about the girl but there was definitely something turning her off. Maybe it was the weird looks she got from her or the scoffs she could hear at times. Or maybe it was the fact she could tell that Rachel definitely liked Santana like she liked Santana.
Taking a seat at the table Dani pulled out her phone and pretended to text people when in fact she was just scrolling down old texts, anything to make things seem not awkward now it was just Rachel and herself, alone.
It wasn't long before Santana was out and ready. Standing up from her seat Dani tried to stop the smile spreading across her face but it was impossible, Santana just always looked so damn cute in her work uniform. Especially with her hair up like she had done today. "Ready to go?" Dani asked briefly breaking eye contact to look over at Rachel who had the same do-eyed grin on her face that she did.
"As ready as I'll ever be to work I guess." Santana replied in a tired tone. Walking to where her leather jacket was hanging up she grabbed it from the hook and quickly put it on along with some gloves. "See you later Rach. Since you don't have classes today you're on recording duty for the shows we all watch, that's a lot by the way. Kurt wants the new episode of Orange Is The New Black recorded and Dancing With The Stars. I hate that dancing show but record X Factor or I'll personally destroy your Babs poster." Looking back to Rachel with a 'have you got that?' type look Santana smiled before exiting the loft with Dani.