CaTS

Chapter 9

Day 4: Leap of Faith

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A/n Sorry for taking me this long to update. I think the long hiatus made me rusty.

Santana's POV

Friday

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." ~Unknown

It has been 4 days and 3 nights, I was halfway through in Quinn and I's agreement, and will be back to my old life; to my quiet life away from Quinn "Dopey Smile" Fabray and that just seem wrong in every way. God, I hate myself for being attached to a person in just so little time!

In just a few days of living in the same roof together, Quinn and I had this silent arrangement about our nightly routine, because I was ironically uncomfortable in her cosy guest room and Quinn taking up her non-drowse med, we always end up in the couch tangled up together.

I like Quinn. I had been repeatedly saying that line for a millionth times and it's still unbelievable. I wasn't expecting I would feel like this to someone I hated the first time I saw her smile. But Quinn's different, she's… she's just different.

"What's for breakfast?" Quinn's voice pulled me out my reverie, I was seated at the kitchen counter, I was supposed to cook breakfast but my thoughts led me somewhere and got me a little distracted.

"I haven't decided yet." I replied with a tight lip smile.

"Great! Let me take care of it then." She offered and immediately went to the stove to cook. She seemed to be in a very good mood, but she's always in the good mood so I just didn't dwell on it too much.

"I'll just take a shower."

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Morning's for me and my cup of coffee, but lately it's me, my coffee, and Quinn. And I should say that it's an unexpected combo, but I like it.

"Here take this." Quinn raised her car keys and jingled it infront of me.

"What's that?" I deadpanned.

"My car keys, duh!"

"I know, thanks for stating the obvious, duh!" I countered with an eye roll. "What I mean to say is, what will I do with your car keys?"

"I want you to take the car and go home."

"You're sending me home?" her statement caught me off-guard, my voice came out a little panicked.

"Yes and don't come back too early, I want you to pick me up around 8." Quinn replied with her signature dopey smile.

"Go home? Pick you up? Can you please explain this very vague conversation that we're having?" I asked and she put some coffee in my mug and pushed towards me.

"Here, drink your magic potion and stop being a kill joy, this is a happy day."

"So?" I asked immediately after taking a sip of my coffee.

"I hope you haven't forgot that you asked me to be your date on your friend's party." She looked down at her plate like she's shy or something. "Since this will be our first official date, it's just customary that you pick me up for our date."

"Customary? Where did you even get that idea? A book entitled dating 101?"

"You asked me out though." She said as she batted her eyes which I responded with an eye roll.

"Fine… Fine... Whatever!" One thing I've learned about Quinn was that she's very manipulative. This bitch knows how to turn every situation in her favor. And sometimes I just have to give up and let her win.

"You're going to pick me up?" Quinn clapped excitedly like a 5 year old kid.

"YES."

"Take the keys."

"You want me around 8, right?"

"I want you forever, but if we're talking about our date, yes, 8:00 would be great. And don't forget to bring flowers, lilacs are my favorite."

"I wonder what came into my head and asked you to be my date. I am beginning to have second thoughts."

"You asked me out because you like me, but don't worry I'll make every second of that party worth remembering."

"Oh god! Can we cancel this date?"

"Touch move Lopez! I'll be expecting you at my door at 8:00 pm." She stood up and walked away.

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After breakfast, Quinn threw me out of her place, like literally threw me out, that girl's a nut-head. Luckily, I got a text message from Kurt that he needed my expert cooking skills for the party and since I don't want to be alone in my apartment, I took a few things I needed in my apartment and went straight to Kurt's.

"I'm sorry for the short notice, Blaine requested baked macaroni and you're the only person who I know can make a fabulous baked mac."

"It's no bother, I live to be a life saver!" I said making me realize that Quinn's cheekiness was rubbing on me.

"You seem happy!" Kurt said, but I know him so well, I know where he wanted our conversation to go. Gossip King only wants one thing and that's information for him to spread to our friends.

"Spill it out porcelain, please stop beating around the bush and cut to the chase, what to do you want to know? She's not my girlfriend, if that's what you're going to ask." I said sternly.

"Ooooooooohhhh.. Why are you so defensive? You know being defensive is a sign of lying." He teased me. "So, tell me about this Quinn and how did you became her not-girlfriend-but-we-live-together-temporarily kind of thing?"

"It just happened."

"What?" He scrunched his face in confusion.

"It just happened alright!"

"What are you saying? That one day she just popped in into your life and it was like there's a superior or overpowering force that brought you together."

"Exactly, it's just that the overpowering force is Quinn herself." I shrugged.

"OH MY GOD!" Kurt exclaimed and covered his mouth.

"What?!"

"You're into her! Now I really can't wait to meet her!" he said giggling in excitement. I rolled my eyes and asked myself how I found such weird friends.

My phone vibrated and I raised my hand to stop Kurt for saying anything annoying. I rolled my eyes when I saw that the message was from Quinn, talk about the devil.

Dopey Smile: I miss you.

Me: I don't.

Dopey Smile: You're such a meanie!

Me: I know.

"You're smiling like an idiot!" Kurt exclaimed making me looked at him.

"I never look anything near like an idiot." I turned my back from Kurt and found a new message from Quinn.

Dopey Smile: Just don't forget the flowers.

Me: Fuckin' Lilacs. Yeah. I know.

"Hey Kurt!"

"Yeah?"

"You know any flower shop near here?"

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Well, the night didn't go as planned, 2 hours before I was supposed to pick up Quinn, she texted me that she would just carpool with Puck, the diner was busy and she can't leave just yet. It was kind of a bummer because she threw me out of her house in an early morning because she want me to pick her up, but it turned out differently, we could have spent the day together. Damn, I'm beginning to be a little clingy, what's wrong with me?

"So where's your girlfriend?" Kurt asked again, it was the 10th time she asked where Quinn was.

"She's not my girlfriend, and she's not yet here."

"Is she still coming or did she chickened out?"

"Well, she said that she's not a party person, but I'm sure she'll be here." I walked out to go from the conversation to go to the powder room. It's supposed to be our first date so she needs to come or else I'll kill her.

When I went back from the powder room, the room was silent, the music system was turned down and everybody was frozen into place. Something was happening and I had to know what was going on. So I walked to the door where everyone seemed to be looking at. The first thing I noticed was Kurt was speaking with someone, as I advanced my steps, it became clearer that there was a cop at the door, as I advance more I heard Kurt apologizing about the noise; as I advance further a familiar sight.

"Noah?!"

"Oh! There you are!" Noah aka my baby sitter, greeted me with too much enthusiasm, no wander he's Quinn's best friend.

"What's going on and why are you in your uniform?"

"For a grand entrance babe." I heard Quinn speak behind Noah. She made herself visible and walked inside the room. "HI!" She walked closer to me and kissed my cheeks.

There was a synchronized sigh from the room, releasing them from the tension that built in when a cop knocked on the door.

"I guessed we scared everyone." She said dopily, Noah and her high-fived for a successful prank that they did.

"You're such a dork!" I said as I hit her arm.

"So, this is the girlfriend?" Blaine asked.

"Quinn Fabray." Quinn as she shook hands with Blaine.

"Blaine and this is my boyfriend Kurt."

"Nice to meet you and happy birthday."

"Cops scares me." Kurt remarked.

"Don't worry he's harmless." I assured them.

"He's hot!" Rachel commented.

"I told you they'll get along." Quinn whispered besides me and gave Noah two thumbs up.

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After an hour in the party, Quinn excused herself to get some food, but it's been half an hour and she hasn't come back yet, so I decided to look for her. I tried to look for her in all the rooms, but I wasn't able to find her in any of them. She said she's not a party person so if she needs some peace and quiet, there's only one place in the building I'm sure I could find her and it's the rooftop.

And I was right, I found Quinn overlooking the city, wearing the same serene face she has every time she's in her veranda. It made me remember my mission to know her, but until now I still know a little about her.

The mysterious Quinn Fabray gets me, the Dopey face irritates me, but the whole package was definitely something to like. I like her and I'm freaking out a bit because I know little about her, I just met her, I don't even know when her birthday is. Before I freaked out more and overthink things, I decided to approach her.

"Hey!" I called her out while walking towards her. She turned to me and smiled. "Here's for you." I brought to view the flowers I was hiding at my back.

"Lilacs." Quinn gasped in surprise.

"Don't act surprise, you asked for it."

"Yeah, but I wasn't expecting you to really buy me one."

"You're so unpredictable Fabray!"

"Thanks! I think that's a compliment."

"Can I be honest with you?" I blurted out and her face change immediately to a serious one, it was a rhetorical question, but she decided to nod anyway. "Are we moving too fast? Because I know nothing about you and you're just a girl I met in a diner, and you stalked me and somehow manipulated me to live with you, and now for a little span of time I am starting to like you, but..." I was interrupted by Quinn's index finger on my lips.

"You love coffee, you call it your magic potion and it's kinda cute for a sexy Latina who's façade is a bad ass. All I know about you is that you're grumpy in the morning, no scratch that, you're always grumpy. You have this cute dimples which I seldom see because you don't smile a lot, but let me just emphasize that that dimples always leaves me breathless. Fact is, I know little about you too, but I am willing to take a leap of faith because you make my heart skip a beat, and deny it or not you can't get enough of me."

"Fabray, you are so cheesy, maybe you're right, and if we give this thing a chance we can have time to know more of each other."

"So will you take a leap of faith with me?" she asked as she intertwined both of our hands.

"Yes."

"So? You're my girlfriend?" she beamed. Yeah, it's already confirmed she's a five year old trapped in a woman's body.

"Isn't that what we are talking about?"

"I want to make sure that we're in the same page. So?"

"Fine, yes! I am you're girlfriend." I confirmed and with that she sighed happily gave me a bone crashing hug.

Quinn and I are two different people brought together by faith, funny thing, however, was that we're two intertwining forces and life's too short and far too precious to focus on things like fear of the unknown and playing safe to dwell into, so I choose to take this leap of faith with her, atleast I am with her, atleast we're together.

A/n Another chapter done! someone called me a bitch for not updating soon, well I guess I deserve that. I know it took me 4 months to update this story and I am really sorry for that! thanks to all the support I've been receiving in this story, for the follows, favorites and reviews.

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