Side Effects
Chapter 6
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Brittany walks out of her classroom and makes her way down the hallway to her locker. She passes Mike in the hallway talking to some of his football buddies and offers him a smile and wave as she passes. She feels the Mohawk kids eyes on her backside as she continues to walk down the hallway, and just rolls her eyes. She had heard his name was Puck, and that he was a huge player, and he probably looked at any girl that breathed. She continues her journey down the hallway where she finally approaches her locker. Dialing in the combination she successfully opens up her locker. She places her books inside and grabs a couple more out that she would need for homework tonight, and places it in her backpack.
Brittany closes her locker back, and turns on her heel walking back down the hallway headed for the front door. She passes Santana who was currently standing at her locker and stops. "Hey." She replies, making the brunette look up at her.
"Hey you." Santana replies with a smile, glancing over at the blonde. She pull her lip gloss out of her locker and turns to look in her mirror as she applies it to her pouty lips.
"I was just wondering when you wanted to get together." Brittany asks, making Santana look over at with a smirk. "I mean to study." Brittany quickly adds as a blush creeps it's way onto her cheeks. "I was going to ask you in Math, but you weren't there." She wanted to ask where the Latina had been, but she decided against it; it wasn't her business.
Santana lets a smile play on her lips as she watches the nervous blonde in front of her. She places the cap on her lip gloss and places it in her locker before turning to Brittany who had her eyes on her old converse. "I'm free tomorrow after cheerio's practice." She suggests, making Brittany look back up at her.
"Yeah, okay sounds good. Do you want to come over to my house, or do you want me coming over to yours?" Brittany asks nervously, "Or we could just go to the library…" She adds to her rambling as Santana just watches her with an amused look on her face.
"I'll just come to your house if that's okay. I already know where you live and everything." She says with a shrug. Brittany quickly nods her head in confirmation and Santana smiles. Before Santana could get out a reply a certain blonde catches her attention as she walks behind Brittany. Santana's eyes follow the girl and a sexy smirk appears on her lips as the blonde cheerio bites her lip. "Great." Santana quickly says, shaking her head, looking back at Brittany. Brittany turns her head slightly to see what had captured the Latina's attention and sees Quinn retreating down the hallway. "I have to go. I'll see you later." Santana says closing her locker, pulling Brittany's eyes away from the blonde cheerio. Brittany just nods in response as she watches Santana follow Quinn down the hallway.
Brittany quirks an eyebrow at the two girls, and watches until they're out of sight. She had a nagging feeling to follow them, but she decided against it. Santana had seemed completely sincere in her actions towards Rachel, and she needed to trust her. It wasn't as if the Latina could just stop hanging out with Quinn considering she was a cheerio. She lets out a sigh and turns in the opposite direction headed towards Chemistry.
Brittany walks into the chemistry room and sees Mike sitting at their table, looking over something in his book. She looks at the clock on the wall, making sure she wasn't late and the class hadn't already started, but sees she still had two minutes. She makes her way to the table, and sits down next to him, gazing over at him. "What are you doing?" She asks curiously, making him almost jump, unaware of her presence as Brittany giggles. "What's up?" She asks with amusement on her face as he glares over at her.
He doesn't say anything but glances over at Tina who was sitting on top of the lab table across the room talking to her lab partner; Artie. He looks back over at me, and I quickly realize what he was looking at. "I wanted to talk to her, but I didn't know what to say." He points out, making the blonde continue her confused stare. "But I didn't want to be rude, and just come sit down and not say anything to her." He adds, and Brittany just waits patiently for him to explain more. "She said hi to me and I told her I needed to finish my homework before the class started." he says, looking down ashamed.
Brittany slowly nods her head as a smirk appears on her lips, "You're such a pussy." She says with a laugh, making him glare at her. "She's a human being. You have no problem talking to me." She points out.
"Yeah, but you're you." He deadpans, making her gasp feigning hurt. "You know what I mean." He adds rolling his eyes at the blonde. "I just get so nervous around her. I have everything planned in my head and then I get within a couple feet of her and my mind goes blank." He says with a sigh, and Brittany can't help but smile at him.
"I know how you feel." She adds with her own sigh. Mike looks over at her curiously, but she quickly decides to take the subject off of herself, not wanting to get into things with Santana. "But seriously Mike, just man up and ask her out. If she does say no, you're in the same boat you are right now, so what could it hurt?" She asks with a shrug.
Mike looks over at her as he contemplates her statement, and just shrugs, "I'll try." He says with a firm nod. "But not now." He quickly adds, cowering his head back down, looking at his book. Brittany just laughs at him, and the teacher comes in ready to start the lesson.
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Brittany walks into glee and sits next to Tina on the front row. She looks over at her friend, and can't help but notice the girl shaking as she rings her hands together in her lap. "You'll do fine." Brittany whispers leaning over towards the girl. Tina looks over at her and offers her a small smile that Brittany quickly returns, but much brighter.
Santana walks into the room a few minutes later and smiles at Brittany before sitting in the empty seat next to Tina. A few seconds later Rachel makes her way into the room with a goofy grin on her face as he hands run down her skirt smoothing it out. Brittany looks between her and Santana, and puts two and two together. She can't help but feel the jealously creeping up inside her, but she quickly pushes it back down as Rachel smiles at her and sits behind her.
"Alright guys!" Mr. Shue says, closing the door. He claps his hands together and makes his way into the middle of the room, looking out at the group, "Our newest member has a song prepared for us today." He says, smiling down at Tina, "You ready?" He asks, and just merely nods at him, "Alright take it away." He says, motioning to the floor as he steps off to the side, sitting next to the piano.
Tina slowly stands up from her chair and walks over to Brad, the pianist and hands him the sheet music. She whispers something in his ear and he nods at her with a smile. She turns around and makes her way back to the middle of the floor and stares at everyone; her legs trembling. The music begins to play, and she takes a deep breath before singing the first line.
During the performance, everyone had gotten out of their seats, dancing around Tina as she continued to sing. She had definitely loosened up throughout the song and was dancing around with us as she belted out the last few lines.
Everyone else stops singing and their movements still as Tina sings the last line of the song. The music continues playing for a second after, and everyone breaks out into cheers, praising her. "Wow!" Mr. Shue says, walking over to the girl, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Give it up for Tina everyone!" He shouts as everyone continues with their cheering.
Everyone starts to make their way back to their seats and Brittany sees Mike staring at Tina with a love struck expression making her smile. She walks up and sits down next to him and leans over to him, "Ask her now." She says, making his head snap around to look at her; his eyes wide. He mouths the words now, and Brittany quickly nods her head, making him swallow a lump in his throat. We both look down to Tina and see her talking to Santana, and I look back at him, and he looks pale as a ghost. "Come on!" She says pushing the back of his shoulder, "Do it!" She adds, successfully pushing him out of the chair.
He glances down at Brittany before slowly making his way over to the girl, just as Santana was walking away from her. Brittany can't help but giggle as she watches his legs trembling about ready to collapse as he approaches her. "What are you laughing at?" She hears, getting thrown from her thoughts. The blonde looks up and sees Santana standing in front of her with an amused look on her face, and her arms folded over her chest.
Brittany quickly straightens up in her chair, and swallows as she looks down embarrassed, "Nothing." She mumbles quickly. She stands up and starts gathering up her books, but still feels the Latina's eyes on her.
She turns back to the girl who was just smiling at her in amusement, "You're odd." She says with a smile, making Brittany's cheeks turn red. With that Santana turns around and picks up her bag, before making her way out of the classroom.
Brittany lets out a loud sigh and rubs her face with her hands, frustrated with herself. She always managed to make a complete fool of herself around the Latina. Shaking her had from her thoughts and her embarrassment she looks over to where Mike and Tina were, but sees them both gone. Confused she quickly gathers her things and walks out of the room, but sees no sign of them. Deciding to talk to him later, she makes her way down the hallway, but just as she turns the corner she collides with Tina, sending the girls books tumbling to the floor. "Oh I'm sorry!" The blonde quickly says, bending down to help her with her books.
Tina just shakes her head as the blonde hands her the books, "It's no problem. I wasn't watching where I was going." She says, holding out her text phone, waving it in the air, signaling she was texting while she was walking. Brittany just smiles at the girl and nods knowingly as they stand back up. "I'll see you tomorrow." She says, before walking past the blonde as she once again starts tapping away on her cell phone with a smile on her face. Brittany couldn't help but hope she was texting Mike, meaning things had gone in his favor.
"Hey Tina wait!" Brittany yells, making the dark hair girl turn around, looking at the blonde, waiting on her to say something else. Brittany looks down at the ground as she suddenly looses the confidence in what she was going to ask. She wanted to ask Tina about Mike, but she wasn't sure exactly how to approach the subject. Although she would consider herself friendly with Tina; she wasn't sure if they were friends, and this wasn't really her business. "I was just wondering…" She says, only shutting her mouth back, not knowing how to finish the statement.
"You want to know about Mike?" She asks with a knowing smile. Brittany looks up at her; shock written on her face as her mouth hung open slightly. She looks at the girl for a moment, but just nods her head as a blush creeps over her face. "He's really sweet, but I'm kind of dating someone." She says, making Brittany's face turn into a frown. "I know. I felt bad. He's a really good guy." She adds, and Brittany shakes her head.
"No, don't worry about it. He'll be fine." She reaffirms with a nod. Tina just smiles at her, before turning around to walk back down the hallway. Brittany can't help but sigh as she watches Tina turn the corner. She felt bad for Mike, because she had known how much he liked her, but she couldn't be angry with Tina. She just wished she would have found out that piece of information before she pressured Mike into asking her out.
Brittany walks out to the parking lot and pulls her cell phone out, quickly sending Mike a text message telling him she heard the news, and wanted to see if he was okay. She gets into her car, and almost immediately receives a text back from the boy.
Mike (3:53 p.m) - Pride is a little wounded, but I'll survive I guess. Maybe go home and eat some ice cream and wallow in my own self pitty?
Brittany sighs as she debates on what to text the boy back. She couldn't help but smirk at his response though as one thought kept floating through her mind.
Sent (3:54pm) - You're such a girl ! ;)
Satisfied with her response she throws her phone in the passengers seat and starts the car. She puts it in to drive and pulls out of the parking lot headed towards her house. Within a few minutes she pulls into her driveway, and shuts off the engine. She grabs her phone from the passenger seat and opens the text message she had gotten a few minutes ago.
Mike (3:55pm) - It was a joke…sort of…
Brittany smiles at the response, and pulls her lip in between her teeth as she thinks of her response.
Sent (4:01pm) - Come over tonight. We can share a tub of ice cream and watch movies.
Brittany looks at her message for a few moments before hitting send. She wasn't sure if that was being too forward of not. They hadn't been friends long, and she had definitely never had friends come over to her house. But she felt for the boy, and she also couldn't help but feel this was sort of her fault. She gets out of her car and pulls her backpack out as she makes her way into the house. Throwing the bag down by the front door she walks into the kitchen where she sees her mom cutting up some fruit. "Hey honey." Ashley says sweetly, looking up from her apple she was currently chopping up.
Brittany was about to respond when she feels her phone go off. She pulls it out of her pocket and reads it over, completely forgetting the fact that she had just ignored her mother.
Mike (4:03) - Okay cool. Text me the address, and I'll be there after practice
Brittany smiles and quickly texts him back their home address before looking up at her mother who was watching her with an amused look on her face, "Hey mom." Brittany finally says with a guilty smile. Ashley just shakes her head and smiles before looking down at her fruit. "Is it okay if I have someone come over tonight?" She asks, looking at her mom pleadingly. She hoped it was okay, considering she had already invited him.
Ashley looks up at her daughter and smiles, "Of course it's fine. Who is it?" She asks, scooping the chopped up fruit into a bowl.
"His name is Mike." Brittany replies, reaching over to steal a grape out of the bowl her mother had in her hand.
"A boy?" Her mother asks with a smirk, making Brittany roll her eyes, and internally groan. "Is he cute?" She asks sitting down next to Brittany, giving her a look that was too enthusiastic for Brittany.
Brittany just shrugs her shoulders and steals a piece of apple out of the bowl as her mother swats at her hand. The blonde successfully steals it and pops it in her mouth thought before Ashley could stop her.
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Mike had come over, and after a grueling five minutes of talking to her mother, they had managed to escape upstairs to her bedroom. They had brought out two tubs of ice cream, and a few bowls of popcorn along with different types of chips.
They were about halfway into the first movie, and Brittany looked over at him, "Do you know who she is dating?" She asks suddenly, before stuffing a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth. He looks over at her and just shakes his head sadly, looking back down at the ground. "Here. Eat more." She says, handing him the tub of ice cream she had previously been eating from. He smiles at her and takes it, dipping his spoon in getting a big scoop.
They turn their attention back to the movie, but after a few moments it's Mike who turns to Brittany. "What about you?" He says, making her look over at him confused. "You've been here a couple of weeks, there has to be someone you have your eye on." He says with a smirk. Her cheeks turn deep red at the question and he hopes that in the dark he couldn't see, but no such luck. "Tell me." He prompts with a grin.
Brittany grabs the other tub of ice cream and begin picking at it with my spoon. "No." She says, shaking her head with a smile on her face that said he was crazy. "There really isn't." She adds, trying her best to convince him she was telling the truth so that he would drop the subject.
"Fine." He finally says with a sigh, after eyeing her for a moment.
"Watch the movie." She commands with a smile, and he rolls his eyes but does as he is told.
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Brittany walks into the school the next morning and walks down the hallway as she lets out a yawn. Mike had stayed over until really late, much to her parents disliking. They had fallen asleep and soon forgotten about the boy in their daughters room. He had ended up leaving around 2 in the morning, and it had been fun at the time, but Brittany was now regretting it, considering how tired she was.
She approaches her locker and turns the dial opening the metal door. She places her books into her locker and grabs the ones needed for her first couple of classes. She closes the door and slowly drags her way down the hallway towards her class. She walks past the choir room and stops short when she hears someone playing the piano in the room.
Curiosity getting the best of her she looks in with tired eyes and sees Santana playing with Tina sitting next to her; a smile on her lips. She tilts her head to the side in confusion, wondering why they would be in there alone together, but she soon recognizes the song was the one they were performing as a group, and figures they were just practicing more for it.
Just as she was about to turn away she sees Tina lean in closer to the Latina, and place a soft kiss on her neck, making Santana giggle. She misses a few notes on the keys before she stops playing completely and turns towards the Asian girl, pulling her into a heated kiss. "You've got to be fucking kidding me…" Brittany says, clearly annoyed with finding herself in this situation.
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