Chapter 18

"So how do you fit in?" Santana is brought out of her daydream by the sound of Sandy's annoying voice.

They are at a rest stop. Mack really had to pee and Rachel refused to give Quinn a sandwich until she had washed her hands. Now Rachel, Santana, Mack, and Sandy are leaned against the truck waiting on the rest of their friends to come out of the restroom.

"Huh? What are you going on about, Sandra Dee? Ow!" Mack pushes off the car and away from Rachel who just pinched her arm. "What the fu…"

"Don't ever call her that again." Rachel growls. Mack looks over at Santana confused.

"Grease is one of Rachel's favorite musicals." Santana shrugs. Mack nod's with realization. She knows that Sandy is not one of Rachel's favorite people and probably just doesn't want to associate something she likes with the girl.

"Anyway…" Sandy cuts in. "While Puck and I've been dating for the past few months…these last two weeks is the most I've spent with his friends. Everyone in the group seems to have had some type of romantic past with at least one other person in the group. Who have you slept with?"

Santana just sighs and closes her eyes, Rachel huffs and Mack just stares at Sandy.

"I haven't slept with any of them. We're all just friends." Santana's happy that Mack just gives an easy, not so far from the truth, answer. Her past with Mack is really none of Sandy's business.

"Oh come on…" Sandy tries to prob.

"Why does it matter?" Rachel sounds annoyed when she speaks. "You're with Puck. The only person's past relationship history you may inquire about is Puck's."

"Oh…I already know that he had a long as hell high school relationship with Quinn." Sandy waves it off like it's no big deal. "I just thought I should get to know you guys better since I'm going to be sticking around…" Sandy smirks before turning abruptly and walking to the rest stop building where the restrooms our.

"Oookay…so show of hands of everyone who thinks she's creepy." Mack jokes.

"What do you think she meant by that?" Santana ignores Mack and turns to fully face Rachel.

"I don't know…she makes it seem like she just knows he's not going to dump her."

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"She seriously said that?" Tina asks with a frown.

They are back on the road and have just got done filling Tina in on their conversations with Sandy. Tina couldn't stand being in the car with Sandy anymore, so she begged for one of the girls to switch places with her. When no one offered to trade she forced herself in the car. Rachel complained about there not being enough space in the car and decided to just deal with Sandy's annoying voice and ride in the truck the rest of the way.

"Yeah. I doubt I'll be seeing much of Puck while we're home. I can't be around that bitch without wanting to slap her." Santana frowns. "She's going to fuck up our trip."

"True that." Tina agrees with Santana. "So that's it? You guys didn't tell her about that little thing you guys had?"

"No. I told her I was just you guy's friend. She didn't believe me but then Rachel stepped in and told her it was none of her business."

"Oh man." Tina pouts. "I missed bitchy Rachel." Everyone laughs.

"I just hope she doesn't bring it back up." Santana starts. "That shits old and Rachel and I are doing well right now."

"Even if she does…it won't change anything." Quinn adds. "Rachel's over whatever happened with you and Mack. Rachel and Mack are friends now. I doubt she even gives it a second thought."

"Yeah…Rachel's cool. We're like best buds now." Mack grins.

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It's almost three in the morning when they make it back to their hometown. Puck drops Mike and Rachel off at their parents houses before heading to his moms house with Sandy. Quinn decides that she doesn't want to hear her parents complain about being woken up in the middle of the night, so she just drops Tina home before going to Santana's house with the other two girls. Mack is staying with Santana for the duration of the trip.

In the morning all the girls get up and have breakfast with Santana's dad after he is introduced to Mack. Santana had talked to Mack before the trip about how she was going to come out to her dad and introduce Rachel to him as her girlfriend. Santana was relieved that Mack understood how nervous Santana was and didn't flirt with Quinn in front of her dad. Actually Mack was well behaved and Carmelo really seemed to like her.

After breakfast all the girls got cleaned up and Quinn left for her parent's house.

"Hey, San?" Carmelo pushes Santana door open when Santana says it's okay to enter. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to get today off. But I have tomorrow and a couple of other days off while you're here, so I can spend some time with you girls." Carmelo smiles at her.

"It's cool dad. I think today we're just going to relax, maybe show Mack some of the places I uses to hang out at. Then maybe have dinner with Rachel's family later." Santana says from her spot on the bed.

Rachel's dads called a few days before the trip to change their lunch meeting to dinner.

"Sounds like a plan." Santana watches her dad back out of the room. "I'll see you girls later tonight or in the morning."

"How does he not know your gay and fucking Rachel?" Mack laughs once they hear Carmelo going down the stairs.

"Shut up!" Santana says with wide eyes. "Gosh…" Her eyes look from Mack to her bedroom door as if her dad is going to come back through it demanding to know what Mack is talking about.

"Oh please, with the way these floors squeak…I'm sure he's downstairs now." Mack grabs a jacket. "Come on. Your rooms boring…. let's go somewhere."

"Wait." Santana stops Mack from opening her door. "What made you say that? You think he knows?"

Mack looks at Santana's frowning face and decides to not be a jackass about this. "I don't…he doesn't know. I mean, he doesn't seem like he pays that much attention to everything that comes out of your mouth. But if he did give it some thought he could easily put two in two together." Mack starts to explain. "I mean…you say you're dating someone new. Someone. You didn't say a new guy or boy but someone. And then at breakfast you somehow managed to fit Rachel's name into every conversation." Mack laughs. "And then dinner with Rachel's family? Seriously, with all that…it's just too easy to put together."

"But you don't think he did?" Santana robs at her forehead. This conversation giving her a headache.

"No. He hasn't seen you in like…a month and he's a doctor. He probably has a lot of shit on his mind."

"Okay." Santana takes Mack's words in. "Do I really talk about her that much?"

"Yes. Let's go."

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"What did you do to her?"

"Nothing."

"She looks sick." Mike sits down next to Santana on Quinn's bed and pats Santana's back.

"She's fine." Mack waves him off. "Just a little on the dramatic side."

"Damn…Rachel is really rubbing off on her." Quinn laughs from her seat at her desk.

Santana took the rest of the morning showing Mack some places in town. After stopping and getting some lunch they headed over to Quinn's. Quinn's parents are both at work so she has the house to herself. Rachel texted her and asked when she was going to come over. Santana's no stranger to the Berry house, but her past time spend there was only as a friend. Thinking about being at the house with Rachel's dad as the girlfriend is kind of freaking her out. She's seen how protective Leroy and Hiram can be when it comes to Rachel dating. She remembers the couple of times she's witness them interacted with the few guys Rachel has dated. It can get scary.

"Rachel's dads love you. Stop acting stupid."Mike tries to kill her worries.

"Yeah, San." Quinn leaves her spot at the desk and takes the seat on the other side of Santana. "I'm sure Rachel talks to them about you as much as you talk about her to us. They see how happy you make her. That's all that matters."

Quinn and Mike sandwich her in a hug.

"Awww….you guys are so cute!" Mack pretends to whip tears from under her eye.

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Santana doesn't know why she was so stressed about going over to Rachel's. When Leroy answer the door he pulled her into a hug just like her always did whenever she saw him. Hiram greets her the same way. The only thing that changed was the fact they knew that she had sex with Rachel. Rachel had gone to them many times for advice, even before they became a couple. When they were just sleeping together they knew. Knowing that they had that information, made it awkward whenever she touched Rachel's arm or hand during dinner. Or whenever she caught one of their eye's for too long.

After dinner Leroy and Hiram asks Rachel to leave the room so they can have a chat with Santana.

"Santana we've known you for quite some time," Hiram starts. He's moved to sit on the arm of the couch closes to the loveseat Santana is sitting on. "You know how protective we are of Rachel." She nods even though he's not asking a question. "So…we are not going to waste time threaten you about hurting her and all that good jazz."

"Things happen in relationships." Leroy joins into the conversation. "You'll both do things…say things and what not that might hurt each other. It happens." He moves from his spot standing next to the entertainment system, moving to stand next to Hiram, putting an arm around the man. "Just do us a favorite and remember that you guys were friend's way before you were lovers and that you mean something to each other. Just keep that and mind."

"Um…oookay?" Santana is a little confused. "Uh…"

"What Leroy is trying to say is…we love the both of you. We don't know what will happen in your relationship…you guys could break up tomorrow for all any of us know. Or you guys could be with each other forever…Who knows." Hiram tell it how it is. "But that's just how life is. Anything can happen. But what is important is making sure we treat people right. Our biggest concern with you and Rachel's relationship is the affects it will have on both of you if it doesn't work." Santana opens her mouth to defend their relationships, but Hiram pushes on. "Hey now…remember…I'm not saying it won't continue to be as amazing as it is right now. I'm saying that you should keep in mind that Rachel is one of your best friends and being in a romantic relationship with a best friend can be easy but also difficult. Rachel only really has five friends that she really trusts. Mike, Tina, Quinn, Puck and you…losing a lover hurts. But if she loses that friendship…well sometimes that hurts even worse."

"Okay…I get what you're saying." Santana nods. "Thanks."

Each man takes a turn hugging her before sending her up the stairs to Rachel.

"You okay?" Rachel sits up on her bed when Santana pushes the door open.

"Yeah…they were cool." Santana sits next to Rachel on the bed.

"What did they say?"

"They just don't want us to forget that we are friends and even if we don't work out we should try to keep our friendship intact." Santana sums up the conversation in that one sentence.

"They took ten minutes just to tell you that." Rachel shakes her head and leans into Santana. "What a waste."

"Yeah…but they're right." Santana says kissing Rachel's forehead. "If we break up I would still want to be your friend. I mean…it would just suck if we couldn't be friends, right?"

"Of course. We both know that." Rachel grabs Santana's face. "But breaking up is not something we should be talking about. Ever." Rachel pecks Santana's lips.

"Can I convince you into going back to my house with me to have sex?" Santana tries.

"Wow…that's one way to change the subject." Rachel laughs.

"Please…I'm stressed and I would really just like some alone time with you." Santana pulls Rachel into a kiss. "We can just cuddle at my house if you want. No sex. I just want you alone."

"Where's Mack?"

"Quinn is babysitting her."

"Is that safe."

"Probably not." Santana shrugs. "So?"

"Let me tell my dad's and then we can go."

TBC