Chapter 25 - Running away

When Santana arrives at Puck's house she gets out of her bike as fast as she can and runs to the front door. She knocks insistently and is surprised when she sees Puck's the one that opens the door. He's about to close it in her face but she stops him by putting her hands on the door.

"Puck you have to listen to me." Santana says in a pleading tone.

"Get out!" He says with no emotion in his voice.

"Puck please, it's not what you think." Santana tries once again.

"How could you do that to me? How could you?" He yells angrily at her.

"Puck just let me-"

"I don't want to hear anything that you have to say. I thought you were my best friend, but after all you were just fucking my girlfriend behind my back!" Puck yells, his eyes flaring with anger.

"Puck-"

He interrupts her once again. "Get out! I never want to see you again!" Puck yells at her but Santana stays rooted in her spot. "Fuck off Santana! NOW!" He shouts menacingly and Santana, with one last look at Puck, leaves and hears the door close behind her with a bang.

After riding for awhile, to let her frustrations out, Santana arrives home. She sees Brittany on the couch but decides to ignore the blonde and walks towards her room, but before she can get inside Brittany steps in her way.

"What happened?" Brittany asks worried.

"Not now!" Santana says loudly, clearly angry.

"Not now?" Brittany asks incredulously.

"I don't want to talk okay?!" Santana says irritated.

"No, it's not okay!" Brittany yells, feeling the anger starting to come to the surface. "We have to talk!"

"But I don't want to!" Santana says as she walks away from Brittany.

"Okay, I don't want to anymore." At this Santana stops in her tracks and turns around to look at Brittany.

"The kiss with Quinn was just for…" Santana trails off while avoiding Brittany's eyes.

"I don't care! I know perfectly well why you kissed her and I hate you more for that!" Brittany says seriously causing a pang of pain to shoot to Santana's heart. "You preferred to kiss her instead of telling our parents the truth, instead of telling them about me." Brittany says with sadness visible in her voice.

"Yes." Santana confirms ashamed.

"Yeah, I know it was, but don't worry because our parents believed in you." Brittany informs her. "But I can't be in this situation anymore." At this Santana looks at Brittany confused, so the blonde elaborates. "It was exactly what you heard. Now everything is how you wanted, our parents don't know anything because there's nothing to know anymore. This whole mess ends here." Brittany says with determination and then walks past Santana and towards her room.

"What?" Santana asks sadly.

"It's over Santana. I'm done with all your hesitations and fears." Brittany says seriously while looking at Santana in the eyes. "And I hated that whole thing you made with Quinn." Brittany confesses sadly as she goes to her room.

"Where are you going?" Santana asks desperately when she sees the blonde coming out of her room almost instantly.

"To school." Brittany replies simply without glancing at Santana and then she's out the door. Santana just stands there in the same spot, filled with regret and sadness, not knowing what to do from now on.

All day Brittany has been distant and distracted. She has been walking around the halls not knowing where she's going or where to go for that matter. She just feels that she has this hole in her heart since she saw Santana kissing Quinn. Thinking about it just makes her want to cry and yell in frustration. She hasn't talked to Quinn all day either, she saw her in the halls a few times but she never made a move to go talk to her. She knows that it isn't Quinn's fault that Santana kissed her, but Brittany, after what happened, can't speak to her. She's hurt and angry that Santana decided to kiss Quinn in order to hide the fact that they're dating, or were dating.

When the final bell rings Brittany sighs in relief that she doesn't have to be in school anymore. When she arrives home she notices her dad on the couch with a worried expression.

"What's wrong?" Brittany asks her dad.

"Do you know where Santana is?"

Pain shoots through her body at hearing her ex-girlfriend's name. "No, I haven't seen her since this morning. She didn't go to school."

At that moment Maribel comes out of Santana's room. "What? She didn't go to school?" She asks worried about her daughter's whereabouts. "The school should have called me. I could have done something sooner."

"What's going on?" Brittany asks exasperatedly.

"Santana's missing." Maribel says sadly while a tear escapes from her eyes.

"Have you called her?"

"A thousand times, she has her phone turned off." Daniel informs her. "And half of her clothes are gone and her laptop too."

"Where's my daughter?" Maribel asks exasperatedly while tears run down her face. "I have to call the police."

"Calm down honey. She's going to come back." Daniel says reassuringly.

At that moment Maribel's phone goes off signaling a new text message. She hurries towards her phone and picks it up. She relaxes a little at seeing it's from Santana.

From Santana: I'm gonna go visit dad. I'm okay, don't worry about me.

With this news Brittany's world comes crashing down and all she wants to do is cry. But most of all she feels anger towards Santana, because she shouldn't have just left without thinking how her mother would feel or how she would feel.

Without saying anything to her parents she locks herself in her room, just sulking around. And when her dad calls her for dinner she comes up with the excuse she is not feeling well and her dad lets it slide. She just stays there, on her bed clutching a pillow in her arms, trying to forget about everything that happened today.

After hours and hours of thinking, Brittany sighs frustrated with her lack of tiredness. She just wants to sleep and forget that this whole day happened, but not everything we want happens so she finds herself getting out of bed and before she knows it she is in Santana's room.

She turns the lights on and looks around remembering all the times she would sneak into Santana's bed at night. She walks towards her desk and sits down on the chair, brushing her fingers on the things there. She stops when she sees a frame with Santana's picture in it. She holds it in her hands, brushing her fingers on Santana's face, and before she knows it a tear is escaping from her eyes and is falling on the picture in her hands.

"Why did you left?" She asks angrily while putting the picture back in its place with more force than it was needed. She storms out of Santana's room and goes to her room, and as soon as she gets there she slumps onto her bed and lets the tears fall freely down her face.

The next day Brittany is walking aimlessly through school when she notices Santana's mom talking to Quinn in the cafeteria. Brittany approaches them to hear what they're saying but is careful to stay out of sight.

"As you're Santana's girlfriend I thought you might know something about her." Maribel says hopefully.

"I…I'm not her girlfriend." Quinn informs her.

"You're not?" Maribel asks surprised and Quinn just shakes her head no to confirm what she just said. "You two broke up?" She pauses for a minute and then continues. "Now I understand everything."

"Everything?" Quinn asks confused.

"Santana was ready to admit your relationship to everyone, but you didn't want to and broke up with her, and then she ran away to Argentina." Maribel explains, now knowing the (false) reason why her daughter left.

"To Argentina?" Quinn asks shocked.

"Yes, Santana went to her dad in Argentina, and now I know why." Maribel says sadly.

"I'm so sorry." Quinn says apologetically.

Maribel gives her a small smile. "Now I need to talk to Noah and see if Santana talked to him."

"Puck is not here. He accepted the football proposal and he's now in Europe." Quinn confesses sadly.

"She lost her best friend too. I can't imagine how my daughter is right now." Maribel sighs and gives a small smile to Quinn. "Thanks for the conversation." Then she gets up and walks away.

At that moment Quinn notices Brittany standing there and walks towards her.

"Can we talk?" Quinn asks hopefully.

"I really don't feel like talking right now." Brittany answers simply.

"Brittany we can't stay like this. We're best friends." Quinn says looking at Brittany with hopeful eyes.

"Are we really?" Brittany asks sarcastically. "Because I don't think best friends kiss each other's girlfriends."

"I'm sorry for that Britt, but I didn't do anything, Santana was the one that kissed me." Quinn points out. "Please, let's just forget about this and return to what we were." She pleads.

"I don't think I can Quinn, I don't think I can forget." Brittany says, and with one last glance back at Quinn, she walks away leaving a hurt Quinn behind. When Brittany arrives at the girls' bathroom she slumps down on the floor and, not being able to hold back the tears anymore, she lets them flow down her face.

They broke up and Santana went to Argentina... I'm just going to hide and return tomorrow to give you guys another chapter ;) Thanks for all your reviews :) Till next chapter :D