"San." Santana turned around to see her girlfriend waiting for her by the locker room. It was still weird to her, playing basketball instead of soccer.
"Hey babe." she said, shooting a three pointer. "What's up?"
"Practice ended thirty minutes ago. You need to shower. We have plans, remember?" Rachel asked. Santana nodded. They were going to dinner with their friends and then going dancing. Everyone that would have been in the Glee Club was going.
"Yea. Sorry, I lost track of the time." she said, putting the ball up and running to get her stuff off. "Did you shower in here?"
"Yea. I didn't want to have wait for the shower in our room." Rachel said. Santana nodded and they went back to their room. While Santana showered, Rachel chose her outfit and got dressed before putting on her make up. Santana quickly dried and straightened her hair before getting dressed and putting on her make up. "You ready to go?" Rachel asked. Santana nodded.
"You look hot, Rach." she whispered, kissing the smaller girl.
"As do you, Santana. Let's go." she said, grabbing her girlfriend's hand and heading toward one of the nicer restaraunts near campus.
"What the hell is Brittany doing here?" Santana asked Quinn as they watched the blonde enter the teen club. The same teen club that the incident had occurred at.
"No idea. I didn't tell her about this." Quinn answered, taking a sip of her Coke. Santana sighed as Brittany was hugged by a guy. "But it looks like she's not alone."
"She'll never change will she?" Santana asked. Quinn smiled softly.
"You have Rachel now." she said. Santana nodded, her eyes immediately finding the girl on the dance floor with Kurt and Mercedes.
"Yea." she said, smiling. Finn walked up.
"Hey San. Wanna dance?" he asked. Santana smiled at him before looking at Rachel in a silent question. Smiling, the brunette nodded and Santana allowed Finn to lead her out on the dance floor. "I'm glad we're still friends." he said in her ear, so he could be heard.
"So am I." she said, dancing with her friend. Rachel watched with a smile on her face before she was turned around by a newly-arrived Mike. Santana smiled at Finn before she was pulled away. "What the hell?" she yelled, whipping around to find Brittany grinning at her. "What do you want?"
"I want you." the blonde said, kissing Santana.
"Stop, Brittany!" Santana said. Brittany sighed.
"Will you at least dance with me? For old time's sake?" she requested. Santana sighed.
"I guess." she said. Brittany grinned and turned her around before they started grinding. Rachel looked over to see Santana dancing not with Finn, but with Brittany. Hurt, she started to walk back to where Quinn was sitting when Noah stopped her.
"Don't let Brittany do that. Lopez is your girl, not hers." he said. Rachel looked up at him. "I know I was a jackass at the beginning, but you two really care about each other. I see that now. Don't let Brittany come in and start messing it up. Go get your girl." he said. Rachel nodded and headed toward her girlfriend and the girl that was in love with her.
"Santana?" she said, tapping the girl on the arm. Santana looked over before quickly pulling away from Brittany.
"Rach... That's... It wasn't what it looked like, I swear." she said quickly. Rachel nodded slowly.
"Yea, Rachel. We were just dancing. After we kissed I asked-"
"Wait. You kissed?" Rachel asked, glaring at Santana. Santana shook her head. "Santana." she hissed.
"She kissed me, I swear." Santana said, trying to grab Rachel's hand. "Rachel, don't shut me out like this, please." Santana begged.
"Just leave me alone." Rachel said, grabbing her stuff and walking out of the building.
"Rachel, wait. Damn it! I can't run in these shoes, please just wait." Santana said. Rachel sighed and kept walking toward campus. "Rachel!" Suddenly, a guy was in front of her.
"Hey sexy." he said. Rachel looked up at him with disgust.
"Leave me alone." she said, trying to push past him.
"Don't be like that." he said, trying to grab her. Suddenly he was on the ground in pain.
"She said back off douche bag." Santana said as he grabbed his crotch. "Run." she said, grabbing Rachel's hand and running off. Looking down, Rachel noticed she was barefoot. The pair didn't slow down until they were safely back on campus. "I'd stop to put on my shoes, but I'm afraid you'd walk off and leave me." Santana said. Rachel shook her head, not releasing Santana's hand.
"I'll wait." she said, allowing the Latina to sit down. "Thank you for doing that." she commented.
"You're my girlfriend. Of course I'd do that." Santana said, standing back up. She stared at Rachel's hand hesitantly and the brunette grabbed her girlfriend's hand, causing Santana to smile. "About Brittany... I was dancing with Finn and she came up and literally kissed me after pulling me away. Then she asked me to dance. I know I shouldn't have said yes, but I did. I'm sorry." Santana said. Rachel nodded.
"I believe you."
"I would have kicked her ass, but I wanted to go after you. I'm glad I did, considering what happened." Santana said as they reached their room. Rachel smiled softly and unlocked their door. After changing in their pajamas, they laid down on Santana's bed with Santana's arms around Rachel. "I love you, Rach. I'd never let anything happen to you. Rachel whipped around.
"You love me?" she whispered.
"I... I think so... But we don't have to like say it if you're not ready." Santana said. Rachel smiled.
"Can we take it slow? I think I love you too, but let's take it slow and figure it out together." she whispered, kissing Santana. The Latina smiled and nodded, resting her forehead on her girlfriend's. "Can I sleep over here?"
"Of course." Santana whispered, hugging the diva close to her.