"Again…why do you have more bags than the girls?" Santana leans against the truck and listen to Mike and Puck bicker about how to arrange the truck so everyone things fits and leave room for them to be comfortable on their ride.
"Guys we were pose to be on the road two hours ago." Tina says coming out of Rachel's and Puck's apartment. "Just throw the stuff in so we can go."
"Where's Q and R?" Mike asks slapping Pucks hand away when he attempts to move another bag. Puck claims he couldn't leave his Xbox and games. His stuff is taking up to much space.
"Finishing up cleaning the kitchen, you know how Rachel can be about stuff like that."
And Santana does know. Rachel hates leaving the house with a dirty kitchen.
Santana watches the guys argue a little longer, while Tina snags the passenger seat, getting comfortable. She decides to go inside and see what's keeping Rachel and Quinn. When she walks into the apartment Quinn is sitting in lazy boy chair with a plate on her lap with a half eating BLT.
"You do know they are waiting on you guys to leave, right?" Quinn just shrugs her shoulders.
"They'll call when they are done trying to figure out how to get all of Pucks toys into the truck." Rachel says coming into the room.
"You'd think it wouldn't be a problem since you're not coming with us this year." Quinn points out. Santana and Rachel do the shrugging this time. Santana watches as Rachel picks up her purse and gets ready to leave the apartment.
"Whoa," Santana reaches out and lightly wraps her hand around Rachel's arm. "Can we talk?"
"San…" Rachel says glancing over at Quinn.
"Oh don't mind me Rach. I totally already know you guys are gay for each other." Quinn giggles and shoves more of the sandwich into her mouth. Rachel's eyes snap to Santana's.
"How…"
"Let's go to your room." She cuts Rachel off. Once they get into the room Santana sits on the bed while Rachel paces.
"When did you tell her and why didn't you think to let me know you did?" Rachel asks stopping in front of Santana.
"About a week ago and I needed someone to talk to." Santana sighs and pulls Rachel down to sit next to her. "Hey," Santana says taking one of Rachel's hands into hers.
"Hi," Rachel's says meeting her eyes.
"Yesterday was a bad day. I was really in my head and…it was just a bad day." She raises her hand to Rachel's cheek. "I'm sorry I took it out on you." She hesitantly leans in, they share a slow kiss.
"I'm not going to say its okay," Rachel pulls out of the kiss. "Because it's not." She searches Santana's eyes. "I understand you're going through a tough time. Plus this thing that we're doing…but I'm still your friend. Just talk to me. "
"I will." Santana sighs. "Are we good?" She plays with Rachel's fingers. Rachel kisses her cheek.
"We're a work in progress." Rachel stands, pulling them both up. "Let's just leave it at that." They share a shy smile. "Hey," Rachel says when Santana tries to leave the room. "I know lately you don't like to hear things like this, but…" Rachel throws her arms over Santana shoulders, linking her hands behind her neck. "I'm going to miss you."
"You'll see me soon enough." Is all Santana says, leaning down to kiss Rachel. "Come on, I'm sure even Quinn's ready to go now."
"Not before she cleans her plate."
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Santana doesn't remember the last time she was this bored. Her friends have been gone for three days now. All she's managed to do was raid Rachel's and Punk's refrigerator and watch movies. Before it was never this hard to keep her entertained. With five close friends with different personalities, there was always someone to go to for company. But with them gone she has to find away to entertain herself.
"Where's your date?" The girl at the ticket booth asks when she purchases tickets for the 7:40 movie.
"I'm flying solo tonight." Santana response eyeing the girl. She's knows she's seen her somewhere before.
"You're seriously going to the movies by yourself?" Santana shrugs.
"Why not?" I just had dinner by myself at a fancy restaurant full of people. " Santana watches as the girl gives her a once over. While she's getting stared down she takes the time to look at the girls name tag. "Mack? Have we met before?"
"Not formally. We've crossed paths before. I'm a friend of Brittany's." Then it clicks. The few times she had gone out with Brittany, Mack was at the club or the apartment Brittany shared with two other girls. They never really talked because Santana and Brittany were too busy feeling each other up and making out to pay too much attention to anyone else.
"Okay…cool. I guess." Santana says unsure. "I'm Santana." Mack just nods and smile at her. "Okay than…" Santana walks off to get some pop corn before going to her movie.
An hour and forty minutes later she comes out of the theater and Mack calls out her name when she walks pass.
"Sup?" She steps up to the booth after a couple of teens pay for their tickets.
"How was your movie?" Mack asks.
"Wonderful. Thanks for asking."
"Great." Mack bits her lip. "I'm going out tonight and I doubt you have plans since you've been doing everything by yourself today. How about you join me?" Santana is not put off by Mack's forwardness. It's actually refreshing. Since her mom's death, people have been dance around things with her. To concerned with her emotional state to just flat out tell her things.
"I don't know…you seem a little too wild for me." Santana smirks at her.
"Give me your number," Mack slides a piece of receipt paper and pen towards her. "I'll call you later and you can let me know then if you want to see just how wild I can be." Mack has a flirtatious smile dacning across her face.
Santana takes this time to really look Mack over. Mack has shoulder length black hair. She's about the same height has Santana, but with a little less body weight. She can stand to gain a few pounds…but even so she has to say Mack is certainly cute. No…not cute. Sexy. Yeah…Mack is sexy.
Santana writes her name and number down, gives Mack a flirty smile and leaves the theater.
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"I'm going out again with Mack." Santana says into the phone when Tina asks what her plans are for tonight. She still talks to her friends on a daily basis.
It's been two week since she first started hanging out with Mack. Tonight will be their fourth time going out. They have been hanging out at Mack's apartment when the girl doesn't have to work. The first night going out was all about getting to know each other with some light flirting thrown in. But the second time there was kissing and touching. Santana woke in Mack's bed with her shirt off. She remembers been drunk and horny. Mack was all up for taking it further but at the last minute Rachel popped into her head she couldn't go through with it. She couldn't have sex with Mack. At least not with Rachel consuming her thoughts at the time.
Santana and Rachel have been texting throughout the days Rachel has been gone. She's told Rachel about Mack. She hasn't really gotten into how they make out every now and then. She just told Rachel she's made a new friend. She also told her other friends about her new friend Mack.
"That's cool. Just be self." Tina says. "I worry about you being there by yourself. I can't wait until you come home."
"I'll be okay, T." Santana says while walking up to Mack's door. "I'm being extra careful since I don't have you guys to make sure I don't do anything stupid." She tries to calm her friend's worries.
"Good. I love you, butthead." Tina says affectionately. She tells Tina she loves her too and that she needs to get off the phone. "Hold on. Rachel's right here and she'd like to talk to you real quick."
"Um…okay sure." She sighs because she's just knocked on Mack's door thinking she was hanging up with Tina. Mack is sure to come to the door loud and she really didn't want to be on the phone with Rachel while Mack is around.
"You don't sound that thrilled about talk to me." Santana can hear the pout in Rachel's voice.
"It's not li…" Mack's apartment door swings open.
"Hey Sexy!" Mack yells into the empty hallway. Santana winces. "Get that fine ass in here. I've been waiting on you forever." Mack pulls her by the arm into the apartment. "Damn you look good in that dress. Maybe I can…" Her hand covers Mack's mouth and she shakes her head.
"Can I call you back, Rach?" She squeezes her eyes shut and says into the phone.
"I…who was that?"Rachel ignores her question, asking her own instead.
"Mack."
"Mack?" Rachel repeats. "Your new friend?"
"Yes." She sighs and makes a disgusted face when Mack licks her hand.
"Hurry the hell up. We have to leave soon and I still need to pick up Toni." Mack steps out of her space. She nods and Mack walks off to do…whatever she was doing before Santana showed up.
"Hello? Rachel?" When Rachel says she's still there she continues. "Look…I have to go. I'll text you once I'm situated."
"Sure." Is all she gets out of Rachel before the line goes dead.
"Fuck." She curses, pocketing her phone.
$&*^*&%*&
"Okay…you're killing my mood." Mack flops down into the booth with Santana. Santana hasn't really had anything to drink and only has danced a couple of times since they've been at this gay club Mack has introduced her too.
"Sorry." She says not really meaning it, distracted by reading the text Rachel sent her.
Berry: Can we not talk about this through text message?
Santana: I told you I can't talk on the phone right now.
"I didn't know you had a girlfriend?" Santana looks up at that. "Rachel right?"
"She's not my girlfriend." Santana looks down when her phone vibrates again.
Berry: We won't talk about it until you come home next weekend.
Santana: If thats what you want. But we'll talk all week until I get home. Right
Santana is perfectly fine not talking about whatever it is going on with her and Mack and whatever it is going on with Rachel. It's just too much right now and she can use the week to get her thoughts together.
Berry: Yes. Have a good night
Santana sighs at the message. She knows Rachel is a little mad or something because usually when she says good night she sends a smiley face with the message. Every now and then a kiss.
But tonight she gets nothing.
"Oh and let me guess. That's not Rachel, your non-girlfriend; you have been texting all night."
"She's not my girlfriend." Mack just stares at her. "Do you honestly think I would be hanging out with you if I had a girlfriend?"
"Well of course." Mack says seriously. "I'm hot. Maybe you just want to play while your girlfriend is away. It happens." Santana opens her mouth to speak but Mack cuts her off. "But if you say your single. I believe you. So…what is up with you in this Rachel chick? She has to mean something to you to put that depressed look on your face."
"I…she's one of my best friends." Santana decides to tell Mack about her situation with Rachel.
"Don't feel guilty about feeling me up." Mack says once she's explained everything that has happened with Rachel. "Like you said you guys are not together and it's not like you agreed to just fool around with her. I'm hot. You couldn't resist." Mack reasons. "When you go home for Christmas, she'll see your little cute face, get wet, and forget all about what she was pose to be mad about." They both laugh at that.
Too bad Mack doesn't know Rachel like she does.
It's never that easy with that girl.
#%^%$%#
"Thanks again for dropping me off." Santana says looking over at Mack in the driver seat.
"Oh no problem. Couldn't have my favorite make out buddy taking a cab to the Greyhound, could I?" Mack grins. Santana knows right now that she's going to miss the other girl even though they've only known each other for a short amount of time.
"You really should work on getting over yourself." She jokes.
"You like it." Santana doesn't say anything. Because she knows it's true. If she wasn't caught up in her feelings with Rachel she knows her and Mack would have some kind of relationship. Mack's a charmer.
"Okay I have to go." They stare at each other awkwardly before laughter breaks out into the car.
"Get over here." Make pulls Santana's face towards hers and they share a short goodbye kiss. "Don't forget my lips, bitch. Call me when you get to your dads."
"Sure thing."
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Santana can't stop her knee from bouncing. It's a nervous habit. She's currently at her house with Mike and Quinn watching some old black and white film Quinn insisted on them watching. She's been home for a day and has seen all her friends but Rachel.
When she first got home it was late so she slept all day and in the morning Quinn and Puck was sitting in her kitchen having breakfast with her dad. When she had some alone time with Quinn, the blonde told her how Rachel called her asking about what she knows about Mack. Quinn couldn't tell her much because Santana never even told Quinn about her make out sessions with Mack.
Tina and Mike came over around noon. They all hangout together, Puck and Tina left around seven. When she texted Rachel asking where she was the girl said she was spending time at her grandparents and would stop by before going home if it wasn't too late.
When the movie ends, Quinn and Rachel decide to go home.
''Damn Rach, where have you been?" Mike asks bumping into Rachel just as him and Quinn steps onto Santana's front porch to leave.
"Family stuff." She shrugs.
"Okay well…I'm cold. Let's go Mike." Quinn says hugging Rachel and throwing another wave back at Santana who is standing in the doorway.
Rachel and Santana just stand in stare at each other.
"Come in." Santana breaks the staring contest. She leads them to her room.
"Sorry I couldn't come see you earlier. I know your dad…" Santana cuts her off by pulling Rachel into her.
"I thought you missed me." She's surprised when Rachel lets her pull her face down into a kiss.
"I did." Rachel breaks the kiss and hugs her. "So…about this Mack girl…"
TBC
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