Chapter 27 - The truth
"I couldn't take it anymore Brittany." Santana finally speaks. "You're right, you're always right. I was stupid." She says seriously.
Brittany just stares at Santana as if not believing that she's actually here, that she's back. When her brain finally starts working again a smile appears on Brittany's face. She walks towards Santana at a fast pace and crashes their lips together in a passionate kiss. All the people in the room stare at them shocked, and their parents just stand in their seats with blank expressions on their faces, not knowing what's going on or how to react to all of this.
Santana and Brittany don't notice any of this, it's like they're in their own little bubble. They just stand there kissing tenderly and massaging each other's tongues, reminiscing the feeling and the soft touches they longed for since Santana left. It's like everything that happened in the past has been completely erased and they're back to what they were. But as always everything that's good ends fast. They're little bubble is broken and they break apart at hearing their parents' voices.
"What's this?" Daniel asks in a stern voice as he and his wife walk towards Santana and Brittany.
"We can explain." Santana says seriously while holding Brittany's hand in her own and intertwining their fingers.
"What are you doing?" Brittany asks her, not knowing what Santana's plan is.
"What should have been done since the beginning. Stay with me." Santana says hopefully while looking at Brittany's bright blue eyes. The blonde gives her a sweet smile and that's all the reassurance that the Latina needed. Santana turns around and looks at their parents determined. "This wasn't supposed to be like this. I didn't know you would be here."
"What's going on Brittany? Santana?" Daniel asks a little angry.
"Calm down dad. This is not the best place for us to talk about this." Brittany points out nervously.
"But that can be resolved immediately." Maribel chimes in and then turns to the teacher. "I'm sorry, but Brittany and Santana have to go right now." And as she says this all of them go out the door without another word.
After Brittany got out of her character's clothes and was in normal clothes again, they all went to the car in silence. In the entire ride home no one spoke to anyone, Santana and Brittany didn't dare say anything to one another in case their parents' anger increased. Brittany glanced worried at Santana a few times and the Latina took her hand in her own and gave her a little squeeze in reassurance. Brittany seemed to visibly relax with this and throughout their ride home she didn't let go of Santana's hand.
When they arrive at home, Daniel parks the car and they get out of it. Before Santana can follow their parents and enter the house, she's stopped by Brittany.
"Why did you do all of this?" Brittany asks curiously.
"Do I really need to explain?"
"Yes. I've been here weeks without knowing anything about you, what you were feeling, what you were thinking…"
Santana takes one step closer to Brittany and looks her directly in the eyes. "I came back because of you Brittany." She confesses softly. "I love you. I wanna be with you. I'm done with all the lies, I wanna tell our parents everything." Seeing that Brittany isn't going to say anything Santana starts to get a little nervous and starts rambling. "Don't you wanna tell them? If not I'll die a little but I probably deserve that. Yeah it's oka-" She's cut off by the feeling of soft lips crashing with her own. Santana gasps in surprise at the unexpected action but soon kisses back tenderly.
"Santana! Brittany!" At the sound of their parents' voices they pull away abruptly. "Let's get inside now." Daniel says in a stern voice, causing chills to run down Santana's spine. They follow their parents inside without saying a word. This uncomfortable silence stays for a few minutes until, finally, Maribel speaks up.
"You two kissed." Maribel says, still incredulous.
"If you would let us explain that-" Santana tries to say but her mother interrupts her.
"As if it is possible to explain this." Maribel says, not knowing what to think of all of this.
"This doesn't make any sense." Daniel chimes in. "Unless it's part of the act we were seeing at school." He says while looking at Brittany and Santana for answers. "Is it?"
"No. No, it isn't." Brittany confesses while avoiding her dad's eyes.
"Santana you went to Argentina leaving me here worried about you, you returned without telling me anything and you kissed your sister out of nowhere." Maribel says astonished.
"She's not my sister." Santana replies exasperated.
"I want to know what's going in here." Maribel says in a stern voice while looking at her daughter.
"Mom, aren't you happy that I'm back?"
"I'll be happy when I don't have a thousand of questions in my head." Maribel says seriously. "You were dating Quinn." She states simply, trying to find something that makes sense in this whole situation.
"No mom." Santana confesses while looking at her in the eyes.
"But it was you who told me and you went to Argentina because she broke up with you." Maribel points out while expecting her daughter to explain further.
"No mom. I went to Argentina because…" Santana trails off as she looks at Brittany. This is the moment, the moment they're supposed to tell their parents the truth, the moment that their lies stop.
As Santana opens her mouth to tell them the truth about her departure, Brittany, not containing herself anymore, blurts it out rapidly. "Because I broke up with her."
At this confession Daniel looks at Brittany in shock and with his mouth wide open. "You? So that means you two…?" He trails off, dumbfounded about the revelation.
"Yes dad, we were dating." Brittany says strongly while looking her dad in the eyes.
"But how?" Maribel says, not knowing what to think about this whole situation.
"We started to like each other." Santana confesses as she looks at Brittany and gives her a small smile. "And when we realized we were already together."
"But we wanted to see if it was serious and how much we liked each other, that's why we didn't say anything." Brittany explains while looking between Maribel and Daniel, whose faces were drained of any emotion. "But then I started to feel uncomfortable in this whole situation and wanted to tell you the truth."
"And I was stupid and couldn't do it." Santana admits ashamed.
"And then that whole thing with Quinn happened…" Brittany trails off sadly as she remembers Santana kissing Quinn.
"Which was only to disguise our relationship, for you not to suspect of us." Santana says immediately when she sees the sad look on Brittany's face.
"That's why we argued a lot." Brittany confesses.
"Insulted each other all the time, just for you don't notice the difference and think that we hated each other like in the beginning." Then Santana looks at Brittany and a loving smile appears on her face and she utters her next words. "But then… we fell in love."
"How long?" Maribel asks in a stern voice as she looks between Brittany and Santana.
"What?" Santana asks her mom confused.
"How long has this been going on?" Maribel clarifies.
"Two months." Brittany confesses quietly while avoiding her dad's disappointed eyes.
"Two months?!" Maribel says loudly, not believing in what she's hearing.
"Yes, it was more time than we had liked it to be but…" Brittany trails off unsure of what to say.
"But the alternative was this." Santana cuts in completing Brittany's sentence.
"This? This what?" Maribel asks with an angry look plastered on her face.
"You finding out. The idea of you finding out was so terrifying that when you caught us the last time…"
"We lied again." Brittany finishes. "I mean Santana lied, I didn't correct her."
"So you two lied to us all this time." Daniel states with anger and disappointment visible in his voice.
"We're sorry, really. But it was very difficult for us too to deal with this whole situation." Brittany says defensively.
"We didn't know what to do and we thought that if we didn't tell you we would hurt you less." Santana says seriously and Maribel just shakes her head in disappointment.
"We really didn't know what to do." Brittany says in hopes that their parents would see and understand their point of view.
"And if things happened this way it's because we really liked each other." Santana chooses to say 'liked' instead of 'loved' to not piss off their parents even more.
"It's because we like each other." Brittany says strongly as she looks at Santana, who gives her a sweet smile in return.
"How did this happen?" Maribel asks astonished, not believing just yet on what's happening in front of her.
"I really would like to know." Daniel says seriously while looking between Brittany and Santana for answers.
"They made us like fools." Maribel points out as she looks at Santana with disappointment, and the Latina avoids her mother's eyes and stares at the ground ashamed.
"Me they made, you can be sure of that." Daniel says with certainty.
"What do you mean by that? Do you think I knew about all of this?" Maribel asks incredulously.
"No, no." He answers calmly but then looks at her suspiciously. "You really didn't know?"
"You think so? Don't you think that if I knew I wouldn't have told you already?" Maribel asks pointedly. "At some point I thought something wasn't right but I didn't think… I can't believe this." She says indignantly, not liking her husband's accusations.
"Your daughter diverting my daughter in my own home." Daniel says angrily and both Brittany and Santana look at each other nervously, not liking what they're hearing.
"What? My daughter diverting your daughter?" Maribel asks shocked and dumbfounded at this accusation. "You can't be serious."
"Of course I'm serious. Do you think I would joke with a matter like this?" Daniel states seriously.
"My daughter was almost about to emigrate to Argentina because of your daughter." Maribel says accusingly to her husband.
"Now it's Brittany's fault?" Daniel asks incredulously.
"Well it's not mine." Maribel replies defensively.
"It is, it's our fault!" Daniel says loudly.
"Calm down." Santana says trying to stop them from fighting.
"I can't be calm on a time like this!" Maribel yells while looking at her daughter, who gulps and starts getting nervous all over again.
"You two lied to us all this time!" Daniel shouts, fuming with anger.
"Go to your rooms." Maribel says more calmly.
"Me and Maribel need to talk, so go."
"To our rooms? But-" Santana tries to protest but is cut off by Brittany's father.
"Go to your rooms, now!" He says sternly and Santana huffs in annoyance. Santana and Brittany glance at each other one more time before going to their rooms reluctantly. All Santana wants to do is sneak into Brittany's room and hold the blonde in her arms, but instead she stays in her room listening to her parents fight and yell at each other in the living room. She sighs exasperatedly and puts her earpieces on with the goal of blocking her parents' voices by listening to loud music.
Brittany just keeps pacing around in her room nervously and all the screaming that's happening in the living room it's not helping calm her nerves. It was unfair of them to send them to their rooms. Brittany wasn't able to talk to Santana since she came back and the two of them really need to have a serious talk. Her train of thought is interrupted when her dad barges in her room and tells her to come to the living room.
When she arrives Santana is already there sitting on the couch so Brittany decides to take a seat on the armchair not wanting their parents to be more pissed off than they are now.
"We are very disappointed with you two." Maribel confesses sadly. "We thought we could trust you but after all…"
"You betrayed us." Daniel finishes while looking at his daughter, disappointment written all over his face.
"Santana I thought this would be a day of happiness, you came back and I would give you kisses and hugs and after all I'm having one of the saddest days of my life." Maribel admits, upset by her daughter's behavior.
"Mom, don't dramatize." Santana says nonchalantly.
"Santana this is serious!" Maribel chastises her daughter. "You lied to us all this time."
"We had a really good reason for that Maribel. Your reaction it's the proof of that." Brittany chimes in the conversation.
"Be quiet Brittany! You should be ashamed of yourself." Daniel says in a condescending tone.
"Tell us what you wanted to say to us." Santana cuts in when she sees Brittany's face fall at Daniel's comment.
"I don't know." Maribel sighs. "We haven't decided what we want to do with you two yet."
"The only thing we concluded is that at home there is no dating." Daniel states seriously.
"There is no kissing, no hand holding and no secret encounters in one another's rooms. Are we clear?" Maribel says sternly.
"But mom that's ridiculous. Do you know the century we are in?" Santana says incredulously.
"Are we clear Santana?" Daniel says strictly while looking Santana in the eyes.
"Yes, we are dad." Brittany cuts in and Santana sends her an incredulous look. "It's better this way Santana."
"Santana?" Daniel inquires again.
"Okay, fine." Santana gives in.
"If there aren't any doubts, excuse me." Daniel says as he picks his jacket from the couch. "I will not be back for dinner." And with this he goes out the door, leaving a confused Brittany and Santana behind.
"What was that?" Santana asks dumbfounded as she looks at her mom for answers.
"What does it look like? Did you think your actions wouldn't affect other people's lives?" Maribel says accusingly and then storms off towards her bedroom, leaving Brittany and Santana behind to think about the events that occurred today.
"I never thought it would be so… I don't even know how to describe it." Santana confesses as she gets up from the couch. At that moment Maribel reappears in the living room with a book in hand and sits on the couch. "Weren't you going to your room?"
"I changed my mind." Maribel replies simply.
"Are you kidding mom? You're going to stay here just to watch us?" Santana says frustrated at her mom's actions.
"Yes, you two are not trustworthy." At this Brittany gets up from her seat and goes to her room without a word. Santana huffs in frustration and walks to her room as well.
"I'm very disappointed with you Santana." This makes Santana stop in her tracks.
"I know." She whispers and looks back at her mother. She sighs sadly at seeing her mother's back turned towards her and, without saying anything else, goes to her room.
She lays in her bed and, like the blonde that's in her own room a few meters away from her, thinks how messed up everything became just because to people fell in love.
The parents FINALLY know! It was hard to write this chapter, but in the end I'm happy with it. I know some of you won't like it but I'll promise to make you happy again ;) Till next chapter :D
P.S.1. Just because Brittany and Santana kissed and told their parents about them doesn't mean they are back together. They still have to talk and stuff...
P.S.2. Thank you so much for all your reviews, I can't believe this fic has already 291 reviews! You guys are AWESOME! :D