Note From The Author: Hey guys! Sorry for the inactivity, I've been busy! This is a short chapter but we leave it on a bit of a cliffhanger mwahhahahahah! I hope you enjoy it. This will be the last update till next week though, I want to see 5x02 before I write more so I can see what Dani is like and stuff and check if I need to change anything. Happy reading!
It had been a few days since Dani had been in the loft. She wasn't avoiding anyone, well not Santana at least. After last Friday she really didn't want to spend any time with Rachel unless she had no choice.
Tonight Santana had invited her over to watch a movie and she promised that Kurt and Rachel would be away at some Broadway show. It sounded like the perfect night, Dani couldn't say no.
Shifting on the couch as the movie started Dani was very aware of her body. She had been ever since Santana invited her to cuddle with her under the covers. Dani was never really nervous around people, she was a performer after all so it wasn't really something she ever let be of her, but when it came to Santana she was like a blubbering mess a lot of the time. She tried her hardest to focus on the screen whilst keeping her hands tightly clasped under the covers. Her mind was going insane with thought, what if she moved her hands and accidently felt Santana up or she fell asleep and drooled, what if someone tried to rob the apartment and she couldn't stop them! Okay, now she was just being silly. Looking at Santana from the corner of her eye she could see the older girl was already looking at her. "What?" Dani was too concentrated on her thoughts to even take what her face might look like right now into consideration.
"We're watching Bridesmaids, Dani. Your face looks like you're trying to work out math or something." Santana asked confused and slightly concerned. Something was obviously bothering her friend. "What's wrong?"
Shaking her head Dani had to laugh at herself. "No, no I'm fine! Honest!" She assured. Turning to Santana she sighed. "I was just thinking and stuff." Leaning her head on her hand as she turned Dani looked into Santana's eyes for the first time all night. "Tell me about you." She said simply.
One eyebrow bouncing up Santana scratched her head. "Why?"
Dani shrugged and smiled. "I don't know, I just want to know more about you. You and the other two are from Lima right? How did you end up here?" Dani explained.
Taking a deep breath Santana looked off into the distance, trying to think of where to start. "I'll shorten it down, can't give you everything right now. You can read the rest when I make my autobiography one day, or just a documentary on my life." Santana replied. Bringing her legs up to her chest Santana began her story. "Well, I was born in Lima Heights, that's in Lima, Ohio, obviously. I went to thee worst high school I think this country has ever seen… Not even kidding. It was called William McKinley High School and it pretty much sucked." She started laughing at the memories already. "I started off as a little bitch that hated everyone and wanted to be head cheerleader more than Berry wants to be Barbara's secret long lost daughter…"
Looking between Santana's eyes and her mouth Dani already found it very comforting just to hear Santana talking, it was oddly soothing.
"Then I found the Glee Club… and my life changed forever. I started being open about singing. Letting all the crap out that I couldn't say, through song… I spent three years with Berry and Lady-Hummel in there too and I somehow survived." She chuckled. "Then… I was outed by this guy, we're friends now but I hated him and wanted someone to punch him so hard his whale of a body would concave with force." Santana didn't talk about her coming out story very often, mostly because it wasn't exactly a pleasant one and it made her now friend Finn, look bad. She also didn't like the feelings it brought back, the feelings of being broken, ashamed and so scared that she could barely breathe. "I was sort of forced out the closet kicking and screaming but you know how those things go, 'things get better' and all that." She explained moving past the topic as quickly as possible. "The whole club were amazing, they took me under their wing, accepted and protected me when no one else would, unlike my Abuela, but we don't need to get into that." Santana still cried sometimes thinking about how things were left with that specific family member but it was in the past, she couldn't dwell on it. "I fell in love, lust and found some of the best people ever there, it was amazing and so crap at the same time." Santana could feel her eyes slowly moving down to Dani's lips. She hadn't really looked the girl over before, or not in so much detail. The intense eye contact made Santana notice just how amazing Dani's eyes were. Her lips were really nice too, and she was biting them and…. Was she moving her head in? Or was Santana doing it herself? Watching as Dani's eyes slowly shut when the two were impossibly close Santana shut her own eyes and moved in further to close the gap just as the iron door slid open.
"We're home!" Kurt sang as he twirled in with Rachel, obviously feeling the buzz from some dinner theatre.