Chapter 24 - Caught... lying again
"What is Brittany doing here?" Maribel is the first to break the silence.
"I came here to ask her for something but she's not going to help me obviously." Brittany says with faux annoyance while looking at Santana.
"Not even if you begged blondie."
"You're a jerk!" Brittany yells angrily at her.
"And you're annoying!" Santana yells back.
"Stop!" Maribel shouts, successfully getting the girls' attention. "I want to know what's going on in here."
"It's what I was explaining to you." Brittany says nervously.
"No, you weren't explaining anything. I want to know what is really happening." Maribel says, emphasizing the word really.
"What?" Brittany asks trying her hardest to seem calm.
"What that girl said about you two isn't true, is it?" Maribel asks seriously while looking at them. Santana shakes her head no, trying to be as nonchalant as possible due to the situation.
"I want to know too, and fast." Daniel says in a stern voice and looks at Santana pointedly, which makes the Latina uncomfortable under his piercing stare.
"What? Don't you think if we were doing something we would have locked the door?" Brittany asks pointedly.
"You had already thought about that, hadn't you? That's why you had the answer in the tip of your tongue." Maribel says seriously.
"Believe in what you want." Brittany says while storming out of the room.
"She's like this every time we fight, you know that." Santana says as she too goes out the room.
"What's going on right now?" Maribel asks exasperated.
"I don't know, but I don't like any of this." Daniel replies to his wife. Maribel with her head ready to explode at any minute goes out of Santana's room and approaches Brittany and Santana that are in the kitchen having a serious conversation. Daniel appears right behind his wife with a stern look on his face. "What's going on?"
"Nothing is going on. I went to Santana's room to ask her for a few notes from English class, but once again she didn't give them." Brittany explains.
"Yes, that was all what happened." Santana says clearly nervous.
"Was it?" Both Maribel and Daniel question them.
"Yes. Do you mind if I talk with Santana in private?" Without waiting for the answer she grabs Santana's wrist and takes her to the Latina's room.
"I don't like this." Daniel says seriously.
"I'm gonna go there." Maribel says a little angry and when she's about to storm into Santana's room her husband stops her.
"Let them talk." He says more calmly and they both wait impatiently for their daughters return. "Santana it's best if you come out of there with a good excuse and it's not enough the 'We were only fighting'!" Daniel says loudly.
"And we don't want any more lies!" Maribel shouts while pacing the living room.
"We can't tell them Brittany. They are pissed." Santana points out while she puts a shirt on.
"I don't care Santana. We're going to tell them." Brittany says with certainty.
"No no no, they're not prepared to deal with this." Santana tries to reason.
"And do you think they're ever going to be?!" Brittany says, now angry. "If we think like that we're never going to tell them!"
"You saw my mom, you saw how she reacted. Not to mention your dad that is ready to kill me." Santana points out. "This is not the best way for us to tell them, do you understand?" She says more calmly.
"I understand that you don't want to tell them now nor ever." Brittany says disappointment visible on her face.
"It's not that. I just think they have to be prepared. We're not gonna tell them after we've been almost caught." Santana says as she approaches the blonde but Brittany pushes her away.
"It's time for them to know." Brittany says with her back turned to Santana.
"It will not go well. You know I love you but this is not the moment to tell them." Santana says seriously while looking Brittany in the eyes.
"That is your opinion." Brittany says as she storms out of Santana's room, followed right behind by the Latina. "We have something to tell you." Brittany says determined.
"No!" Santana says trying to stop Brittany from dropping the bomb on their parents.
"Say what you have to say Brittany." Maribel says, not knowing what to think at this point.
At that moment, when Brittany is about to tell their parents the truth, the door bell rings.
"I'll go." Santana says, and before anyone can object she opens the door and a distraught Quinn appears into view. "Quinn it's you." She says while pulling the girl into the living room where her parents could see her. "I'm sorry about this." And before Quinn can say anything she feels Santana's lips on her own. Puck, who followed Quinn there, sees the kiss and freezes in his spot at the door. When Santana pulls away Quinn just stands frozen not knowing what to do or what happened a few seconds ago. "You took longer than I expected." She says while grabbing Quinn's waist. "This is my girlfriend." She says to her parents with a forced smile.
Brittany just stands there holding back the tears that are threatening to fall and looking at Santana disappointed. The Latina glances around the room and when she catches Puck's hurt eyes she freezes. Quinn snapping out of her frozen state looks in the direction Santana is staring and sees Puck. Feeling betrayed and hurt Puck runs out of the house towards his car and rides off. Santana runs after him, followed right behind by Quinn, but arrives too late. "Fuck! This is all messed up!" Santana yells, angry at herself.
"Calm down." Quinn says surprisingly calm.
"I have to follow him. I have to tell him the truth."
"No! Let him think that what he saw is true." Quinn almost pleads Santana.
"Are you crazy?" Santana yells angrily while mounting her bike.
"You're gonna go like that?" Quinn says while gesturing to Santana's not totally covered body. At realizing this Santana jumps out of her bike and runs as fast as she can towards her room. Quinn follows her and without saying anything to the people in the living room she enters Santana's room. Brittany just sits there on the couch with a vast of emotions running through her face, sadness, disappointment, anger, hurt. Her parents just stand there confused as hell on what happened and on what exactly is going on.
"Let me explain Santana." Quinn pleads her while the Latina puts some pants on as fast as she can.
"I can't let Puck think that we're… I can't even say it."
"I broke up with Puck. I don't want to hold him back, I don't want to be the reason he doesn't accept the proposal of going to play football in Europe. It's his dream." Quinn says with tears threatening to fall.
"That's not right, what you did it's not right." Santana says seriously. "I have to solve this." She says as she walks out of her room and goes out the door without even a word to her parents or Brittany.
Quinn returns to the living room a few minutes later with her makeup smudged, an indication that she was crying. "I broke up with Puck." She says when she feels Brittany's questioning eyes on her.
"That explains a lot of things." Maribel says as an afterthought.
"I'm sorry for intruding but that means that you were dating the two of them at the same time." Daniel says carefully.
Seeing Quinn's distraught look Brittany leads her to her room without saying anything to her parents. Quinn explains everything that happened to Brittany, how she broke up with Puck because she didn't want to hold him back on his dreams.
"You should have told me." Brittany says seriously.
"Why?" Quinn asks weakly.
"For me to put some sense in your head and not let you do this." Brittany says feeling the anger starting to come to the surface.
"You think what I did was wrong?"
"Yes. It was wrong. You shouldn't have broken up with Puck."
"I thought it was the only thing I could do for him to decide if he wants or not to go to Europe." Quinn confesses weakly.
Brittany shakes her head. "What you did to him was wrong."
"I don't need a lecture right now okay?" Quinn says frustrated with herself. "I'm suffering with all of this."
"And don't you think I am too? Don't you think I'm hurt?" Brittany says loudly, angry at the whole situation she's in.
"Maybe it's best if I go." Quinn says while looking at Brittany's hurt and angry eyes.
"Yeah, maybe it is." Brittany says while looking away from Quinn and turning her back to her. Quinn looks at her best friend one more time then, without saying anything more, goes out the door. Brittany, not controlling her emotions anymore, breaks down and cries all the pain that's in her body.
What a mess... I know you probably hate me right now and you'll probably hate me in the next two or three chapters but I promise I'll make it up to you ;) Till next chapter :D