Chapter 3
"He's so cute." Mercedes cooed to the baby in her arms. Now that school had ended for the day most of the Glee club met at Rachel's house. Now Puck, Mercedes, Kurt, Blaine, Mike, Tina, Sugar, and Mr. Schue were sitting in their living room along with Rachel and Santana.
"Thank you." Rachel smiled at her friend.
"I can't believe how much he looks like Lopez. I feel really bad." Puck laughed.
"Shut up Puckerman. Where's your daughter?" Santana asked.
"Quinn is bringing her now."
"Can we all just take a moment and realize that another two of our very own gave birth to a beautiful baby boy." Mr. Schue said to them. The entire club smiled at each other.
"Okay, someone say something funny or I'm going to start crying." Rachel said after a minute fanning her face.
"Oh Rachel, always the drama queen." Kurt laughed. The door burst open and a very flustered Quinn walked in the door.
"Sorry I'm late guys. Beth was fussy when she woke up from her nap and I couldn't get her to calm down." Quinn sighed and set the 16 month old baby on her feet. She had just recently learned how to walk.
"Dada!" Beth called and ran into Puck's waiting arms.
"Hey cutie. Did you have fun with grandma today?" He asked his daughter who nodded her head eagerly.
"Where is the baby?" Quinn asked with an excited look in her eyes. She scanned the room and her eyes fell on Mercedes who was cradling the baby to her chest. Quinn reached out for the small baby and Mercedes handed him carefully over to her.
"Oh my gosh guys. I'm so glad that Santana decided to stop being so rude to Rachel and get together with her. You guys make the cutest little baby ever." Quinn said not taking her eyes off of Mario.
"Can we not bring up the past, Q?" Santana said with a scowl.
"Well, she's right. If you hadn't wasted all this time being an asshole then-." Sugar started before she was cut off.
"Hey, watch the language. We have a 16 month old baby here that absorbs words like a sponge." Quinn scolded.
"Sorry. As I was saying, all that time that you wasted being mean to Rachel could've been a lot better." Sugar shrugged and Santana was instantly filled with guilt.
"Um, I'm gonna go start my homework." Santana whispered sadly before walking out of the room. Rachel tried to stop her but she gently got out of her grasp and kept walking.
"Sugar!" Rachel yelled. Luckily Mario wasn't asleep or that would have definitely woke him up.
"What? I was just telling the truth."
"You don't think Santana already knows about how much time she wasted. She doesn't need someone to come here and make her feel bad about it." Mercedes butted in.
"Yeah, not cool dude." Puck said. Blaine and Kurt nodded in agreement.
"Sugar who do you think you are?" Tina asked. Mike rubbed Tina's back to calm her down.
"I'm sorry. It's just that she needed to hear it." Sugar defended herself.
"Sugar, that was kinda rude. I think you should apologize." Mr. Schue stated.
"Apologize? For stating my opinion?"
"It's either you apologize or leave." Quinn said in her scary mom voice. Rachel wondered if she would develop one now. Without another word Sugar walked out the door.
"I'm gonna go check on her. If he starts crying can you just feed him? There are bottles in the fridge. Just heat them in microwave for thirty seconds." Rachel said before walking the way Santana did.
She walked up the stairs to her bedroom door and knocked lightly on it. After a minute of getting no reply she opened the door slowly only to find Santana sitting on the bed with her face buried in a pillow.
"Sanny?" Rachel called out carefully, testing the waters. Santana didn't answer so Rachel walked over to the bed and slowly began rubbing Santana's back with placing little kisses on any skin that wasn't covered by Santana's clothing.
"You wanna talk about it?" Rachel asked after another minute passed. Santana shook her head.
"Baby, look at me." Santana lifted her head slowly and looked into Rachel's eyes. Rachel could see the sadness in her girlfriend's eyes. She got off the bed and climbed onto Santana's lap now straddling her. Their faces were mere inches apart.
"Talk to me." Rachel whispered.
"It's stupid really." Santana shook her head and avoided Rachel's eyes.
"It's not stupid if you're all upset about it. Baby, don't listen to Sugar or anyone else when it comes to our relationship."
"I know, but it's kinda hard when they're right. I know I was a bitch, but I was only hiding behind it." Santana started trying to stop the tears that were coming to her eyes.
"I know that."
"But I can't take back all the horrible things I said and did to you. I was a horrible person to the one person I loved more than anything in the world. Now we have a baby and I love him more than anything. I can't live without you now and people just make me feel so guilty about the past. I know I messed up and I beat myself up over it every day. You think I don't know that I don't deserve you or Mario? I know that clearly, but I'm trying. I love you so much, and I'll give anything up to show you that." Santana whispered back successfully stopping her tears. Rachel now had tears running down her face.
"Baby, I love you too. Don't listen to what other people say. This is our love and our family, not theirs. There is no other person I'd rather be with."
"I'm so lucky to have you." Santana said brushing her nose against Rachel's and placing her hand on the back of Rachel's thighs so she didn't fall.
"I'm the lucky one." Rachel laughed through her tears.
"Not even close." Santana managed to crack a smile. In an instant their lips were connected. The kisses were sloppy and eager, but to Rachel and Santana they were perfect.
"Let's go back downstairs." Rachel smiled pulling away from the kiss. Santana nodded and stood up. They made their way back downstairs hand in hand. When the Glee club caught sight of them they all smiled.
"Are you okay Santana?" Tina asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Santana answered and gave a big smile to her friends. She looked around the room and noticed that Blaine was now holding her son.
"Good, don't let Sugar get to you. She's just a bit-…I mean a meanie." Quinn said sparing a glance at her daughter who was playing with Mike and Kurt.
"It's not about Sugar, it's just that the whole time before Rachel and I were together is a really hard thing for me to think about without feeling really guilty. I mean I was so mean to the most amazing woman in the world. It hurts when someone brings it up."
"Like Quinn said, she's a big fat meanie." Mercedes said earning a thumbs up from Quinn for not using any bad words.
"Uh guys, I think he needs a diaper change." Blaine made a face of disgust.
"I got it." Santana said before getting up and taking Mario from Blaine and walking to Rachel's room.
"Sorry to cut this short, but I have to get going. Don't forget the assignment this week is to find a song that describes the emotion you've felt most lately." Mr. Schue reminded before leaving.
"That is going to be hard considering I've been moody for a while. I mean just this morning I cried because there was a bird that ate a worm outside the window this morning. It took Santana singing 'Walking on Sunshine' to me for me to stop crying." Rachel said.
"I remember the moody part of having Beth. I was always angry though." Quinn shrugged.
"Trust me, I remember. She punched me for laughing at a funny commercial." Puck told them. Mercedes and Tina couldn't help but to start laughing.
"It's not funny. I hurt." Puck pouted.
"Where are Artie and Brittany?" Rachel asked randomly.
"Artie had a date. I don't know where Brittany is." Mike answered.
"She said something about a dance class that she's teaching." Tina added.
"San was excited to see her today." Rachel said sadly. After the break up Santana and Brittany stayed best friends, but ever since the pregnancy Brittany hasn't spent much time with Santana.
"I bet she was. Why do you think Britt has been dodging her lately?" Quinn asked.
"I think it's because she still has feelings for her." Kurt shrugged. Rachel couldn't help but to feel jealous.
"That's stupid. Wasn't it Brittany that said they should be just friends?" Mercedes asked.
"I think she regrets it." Kurt shrugged again.
"I think you're being silly Kurt. They agreed to just be friends." Rachel added.
"Do you have a better reason as to why Brittany is avoiding her best friend?" Kurt asked. Blaine gave him a look that said 'Be nice'.
"Yes, maybe she's actually busy."
"Rachel, you're are so naïve." Kurt huffed.
"What am I so 'naïve' about?" Rachel argued. Mercedes and Tina looked at each other with a knowing look.
"Guys let not start. This is supposed to be about Mario." Quinn said desperately not wanting an argument to break loose.
"No Quinn, it's time that Rachel knows what we've been talking about." Kurt started.
"What do you mean? You guys talk about my relationship with Santana?" Rachel accused.
"Rachel, calm down."
"No, tell me." Rachel huffed. Just then Santana walked back with Mario in her arms talking to him in a baby voice. When she walked into the living room she could feel the tension in the room.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" She asked putting Mario in the bassinette by the couch.
"Apparently they've been having discussions about our relationship." Rachel told her girlfriend walking over to stand next to her.
"What kind of discussions?" Santana asked to no one in particular.
"All we say is that we don't think you and Brittany are truly over." Puck shrugged trying to avoid an argument.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Santana asked now offended.
"We think Brittany still has feelings for you." Quinn said picking up a whining Beth off the floor.
"What makes you think that Britt has feelings for me, and how does that mean Britt and I will ever be in a relationship ever again?"
"Santana, look at the facts. She's been avoiding you and she's not here now to see her best friend's first baby. She's still in love with you." Kurt said.
"Guys can we change the subject? I don't want to ruin this day." Mike chuckled nervously.
"I agree." Blaine nodded.
"No, I just want to know why all of you think that it's any of your business about my relationships." Santana quipped. Her true bitchy side coming out.
"Don't be like that Santana. We are just trying to help figure this out." Quinn tried to calm the other third of the unholy trinity.
"Okay, let's calm down." Rachel sighed letting her anger leave her body.
"Thank you. Let's just talk about this like normal people." Kurt said.
"Fine, so let's talk about this. Why do you think that I would leave Rachel, who just had my baby by the way, for my best friend? That's stupid."
"Because you and Britt have such a history. I mean, you've basically been together since birth." Mercedes shrugged.
"But I don't think you all understand so I'm gonna break it down real slowly, okay? Brittany and I ended things on a mutual level. I told her about my feelings for Rachel and she told me that she only loved me as a friend. I know we haven't exactly been acting like we usually did, but we are still the same Santana and Brittany we've always been." Santana set straight. Rachel nodded along with Santana's words.
"Okay, we'll let this go, but we are going to be watching you two." Kurt replied with a raised eyebrow. Mario began to fuss from lack of attention in his bassinette.
"Babe, I think he's hungry." Santana said grabbing her son from the bassinette.
"I have a few bottles of my breast milk in the fridge. Can you heat one up for me?" Rachel asked taking the baby into her arms.
"Yeah, but Mario doesn't want some stupid bottle when he can have the actual Rachel Berry boob." Santana smirked.
"Santana Lopez if you do not get in that kitchen and heat up that bottle for our son, I won't kiss you for the entire day." Rachel said in a voice that she or Santana had never heard before. Santana hurried into the kitchen without a second glance.
"Whoa! I have a scary mom voice!" Rachel cheered.
"And I have to say, it's scarier than my baby momma's" Puck smirked.
"Excuse me Puckerman?" Quinn raised her eyebrows.
"Oh crap. I don't think having two moms in Glee club is going to be a good thing." Puck muttered to himself.
"Yes Noah, I realize that this will be hard, but as long as we reach an understanding and you don't make me angry, we won't have any issues." Rachel said while trying to calm a now crying Mario.
"Gotcha." Santana walked back into the room with a heated bottle and a burping cloth.
"You want me to feed him?" She asked her girlfriend.
"Sure, you feed him and I'll go start dinner so I can feed you. You are all more than welcome to stay." Rachel handed Mario to Santana and stood from her seat.
"No thanks, Kurt's parents want us to help them move the rest of Finn's stuff into the basement. That's why Finn couldn't make it. He's loading it all in my truck now." Puck said.
"Quinn, Tina, Kurt, and Mercedes are going to help move? That sounds hilarious. Someone please get that on video." Santana chuckled making sure Mario was secure in her arms.
"Well, no. I think Quinn, Tina, Mercedes, and I are going to go sneak out and go get pedicures while they work. It's gonna be fun." Kurt stated making the girls nod their heads.
"Well, have fun." Rachel smiled genuinely at them before walking into the kitchen.
"Alright Lopez, we're gonna head over to Finn's place. I hope you and Rachel enjoy your alone time." Puck wiggled his eyebrows and made his way to the door with the rest of her friends following. Mercedes and Tina whipped back around to kiss Mario on his head and Quinn walked Beth over to say bye to her aunt Tana.
"Bye guys." Quinn smiled her million dollar smile and followed after the rest of her friends.
"So we're all alone huh?" Santana asked her son who was sucking happily on his bottle. Santana giggled and kissed his forehead as well. Rachel walked in the living room to see her girlfriend looking at her son as if he was God himself. She couldn't help but to tear up at the sight.
"Te Quiero, mi hijo." Santana whispered.
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Okay so guys I want to make Santana and Rachel intimate in this story, but I CANNOT write a love scene to save my life. So please, if you could, write a love scene and send it to me. NO matter how many I get, I PROMISE all of them will be used throughout the series. So please, please, please send me one. I will use all of them.
Also I think I'll be skipping around a little in the beginning so I can make Mario a little bit older and send Pezberry back to school. I also know all of you want to know what's going down with Brittany. You'll find out soon! So please give this story a chance! I love it more than any other I've written.
Until next time,
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