Her feet have a mind of their own. Before she knows it she's pulling on the library door. The college library is huge. Two stories filled with books, and computers spread through it. Her eyes scan the library before zeroing in on the service desk, still not finding what she was looking for. Are better yet who.
She starts to leave the library when she hears that familiar laugh. And she wonders how someone with such a loud laugh can work in a library. A cute but loud laugh.
She looks back over at the service desk. Her eyes lock onto the laughing brunettes and watch as the laugh dies down but a shy smile stays in place.
Santana watches as Rachel whisper something to the lady standing next to her. They exchange smiles and then Rachel is making her way over to Santana who has taking up a seat at an empty table.
"Hi." Rachel beams down at her. Santana smiles and pats the chair next to hers. Rachel rolls her eyes. "I can't. I'm working."
"Well…I have questions? Help?" Santana tugs on Rachel hand, getting her to sit down.
"How are you?" Rachel asks after a minute of silence passes between them.
"I've been better," Santana sighs. "Okay…back to my question. How mad would you be if I said I couldn't come over tonight?"
"I guess I would understand. Can I ask why though?"
"My Dads coming to visit this afternoon, we're having dinner tonight." She explains. "He just called this morning. He's not too happy with my decision to stay home during break."
"Understandably so, he'll miss you. We all will. I…"
"Please don't." Santana cuts her off. "Bad enough I have to hear that shit from my dad. I don't need it from you too." Rachel just rolls her eyes.
"Whatever. Have a nice night with you father." Rachel says standing.
Santana watches as Rachel walks over to another student who actually needs help. She doesn't remember when she started watching the way Rachel walks. But she can't help blushing when she finds herself staring at Rachel's ass in the middle of the library.
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She's surprised at how much she's missed her dad. Not because she doesn't care about him just as much as she cared about her mom. It's just that she's use to not seeing him. Even when she was living at home her dad was always at work. So when she went to college it was like that same thing. She saw him when she saw him. But now with her mom dead his absence seems to hold more weight. Seeing him helps her remember that she hasn't lost him too.
"I'm not going to force you to come home." Her dad says over a piece of chocolate cake. She nods and he continues. "But it would be nice if you could come home for one of the weekends during your break. I can request that time off and we can spend it together." He reaches across the table, taking one of her small hands into one of his big ones. "I know I haven't been the most attentive father, but Santana you're still my little girl."
She realizes now while sitting across from her dad, that by not going home she's being selfish. She might not have to give him all of her time, but some is better than none. Her father lost his wife. She needs to remember that. This is him saying that he doesn't want to lose her too.
"I'll come home the weekend before Christmas and stay until after New Years."
"Good."
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"Santana!" Rachel yelps when Santana jumps on her bed, tackling her to the mattress.
Santana finished dinner with her dad earlier than what she planned. After they hugged goodbye, she got into the car deciding it's not too late to stop by Rachel's. Puck had answered the door and went back to watching ESPN2 with Mike and some of his other guy friends.
Now she finds herself once again cuddled up with Rachel in bed.
"Mmmm you smell good." She says moving hair away from Rachel's face. Rachel is on her back, with Santana half lying on her. The covers were kicked to the floor during their play fight, and their legs are tangled.
"Thanks." Rachel pulls Santana head down for a kiss. "Wait…how did you get here? I thought your car was in the shop."
"It is. At least for a couple of more days. I have Quinn's right now." Santana runs her hand down Rachel sides. "What have you been doing since you got off of work?"
"Studying. Tomorrow morning I have one more final and then I'm free until January." Rachel grins.
"Are you okay?" Rachel asks after a couple of minutes of silence pass between them. She notices that Santana has this far away look on her face. "How was dinner with your dad?"
"Okay." Rachel gives her this look that says more please. "Can we not talk about it?"
"Yeah…okay." Rachel nods and than their lips are back on each others. But only after a couple of pecks, Rachel pulls away again. "Wait…you do know that you can talk to me…about whatever, right?"
"I know, Rachel." Santana huffs out. "Can we…I came here because I didn't want to go home and think about tonight or whatever. I just…I came here to be with you. So can we just focus on us for a little?"
"Yeah,"
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Santana has had a sucky day. She has determined that working at a retail store during the holiday season sucks ass. People are rude, inconsiderate, loud bastards. And it didn't help that she was late because Quinn got drunk last night and knocked the alarm clock out of the socket during her drunken stagger to the bed. Something told her to set her alarm on her phone, but she didn't listen. She may not like that job all that much, but she needs it and being late doesn't look that great if she's trying to keep the job passed the holiday season. On top of being late, Tina was late picking her up from work. Santana could have sworn she told the Asian girl that she got off at 4 at least three times. Plus she sent her a text message while on her last break. But Tina was still ten minutes late. Santana cannot wait to until her car is out of the shop.
Now she finds herself over Rachel's and Puck's apartment waiting on Rachel to finish getting dressed so they can go shopping. The group of friends head home tomorrow morning for winter break. The girls decided last night that it would be a good idea to hit the mall with Santana before going home. They usually go shopping over break with each other while back home, but since Santana won't be there until the weekend before Christmas this seemed like a better time.
"What the fuck is she doing in there?" Santana says while glaring at Quinn when she enters the living room with a bag of chips.
"Who knows." Tina says, putting her hands out for the bag of chips. Quinn grabs a hand full out before tossing the bag at Tina who is kicked back in the lazy boy chair.
Santana gets tired of waiting and gets up to get Rachel. She barely makes it down the hall before Rachel emerges with a bright smile from her room.
"About fucking time." She barks out. Rachel smile vanishes.
"Whoa," Rachel puts her hands up. "What's your problem?" Santana ignores the question. Instead she walks back into the living room and heads to the door.
"Let's go." She calls over her shoulder before disappearing out into the hall.
The car ride to the mall is silent. Once in the mall Santana kind of lightens up but still gets an attitude when Quinn changes her mind about a purse she likes and goes back into the store to look for it. She gets irritated because they were about to go but know they have to wait on Quinn now.
"It's only going to take her a minute, San." Rachel says stepping up to where Santana is leaning against the wall outside of the store that Quinn went back into. "Relax." Santana moves away when Rachel reaches out to touch her arm.
"Whatever." She mutters and walks away.
Santana knows she's being a bitch. But she has a lot on her mind and it seems like her friends are doing nothing but contributing to her bad day.
On the ride from the mall Santana gets into an argument with Rachel. Rachel doesn't like the song that is playing and turns the station. Santana barks at her that she was listening to that. And when Rachel ignores her, she then tries to reach between Rachel's and Tina's car seat to turn it back. Rachel slaps her hand away and asks what her problem is. Santana responds with you. And she watches as Rachel stares at her for a second before turning around in her seat and not speaking for the rest of the car ride. When they pull up outside Rachel's apartment building, she only say's see you later to Tina and Quinn. She doesn't even look at Santana.
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