Chapter 23
"GO GO GO!" A small group of drunk college kids chant as Santana downs a cup of beer.
"Oh yea!" She yells and slaps her hand against Mikes. "Fucking champs!"
Once again Santana finds herself at a back to school party. It's a Friday night and all of her friends agreed to go out tonight, even Puck. At first the father to be was going to stay at home with Sandy but they got into an argument, so Puck decided to go out in have some fun.
Santana and Mike have been dominating the flip cup table for about thirty minutes now. Rachel is leaning against the wall watching her girlfriend and friend giggle and talk trash to people they have beat since they teamed up for the game.
Santana is celebrating another victory when Quinn walks up and suggest that her and Mike take a break from the game. Santana knows that she's pretty wasted so she agrees. Santana looks over to where Rachel was standing and sees Rachel talking with some boy. Santana watches as Rachel throws her head back and laugh at something the boy says.
Santana starts to stubble her way over to where her girlfriend and the unknown boy are standing.
"Hi." She greets eyeing the boy.
"Hey, San." Rachel grins at Santana, grabbing Santana's arm to keep her from falling. "San, this is Jesse, Jesse this is my girlfriend, Santana."
"Nice to meet you." Jesse says with a smile. Santana just nods at him and tell Rachel that she and Mike are going to go with Quinn to the other side of the house.
"Okay," Rachel gives her a kiss on the cheek. "I'll be over as soon as I finish my conversation with Jesse." Santana just stares at Rachel. She wasn't expecting Rachel to stay in talk to Jesse.
"Come on, S. My head is spinning. I wanna sit down. "Mike steps up to them. Santana sighs and follow her friends out of the kitchen.
"Best. Party. Ever." Puck picks her up in a bear hug. Santana just nods and pats his back. Puck sits her back down and just grins. Santana's happy he decided to come out with them tonight instead of staying stuck up in the house with that witch. "Where's Rachel?"
"In the kitchen flirting with some douche." Santana says flopping down next to Tina. "Give me." Santana reaches a hand out for the bag of chips Quinn has in her hands. It's a new bag of Lay's that Quinn snagged on her trip to get them from the kitchen.
Quinn opens the bag and takes a handful out before tossing it carelessly to Santana. "She was not flirting dumb ass. You're just drunk."
"I know." Santana says around a mouth of food. "But I want her here. Go get her, Q. Tell her I miss her." Quinn roll her eyes and watch Santana pass off the chip bag to Tina.
"No. Hurry up and give me my chips back guys." Quinn says watching as the bag move from Tina, to Mike then to Puck.
"When are we leaving?" Santana is just noticing Mack, who has been standing behind the couch the whole time. Santana leans her head back to look up at her friend. "I smell like cheap Vodka."
Quinn is the DD tonight.
"I said I was sorry." Tina giggles. About an hour ago Tina had accidently spilt her drink on Mack.
"When Rachel gets back we'll go if everyone is ready." Quinn tells her and eagerly reaches for the bag of chips that had somehow managed to get back in Santana's hands. "Okay we are defiantly leaving when Rachel gets in here." Quinn says upset when she looks into an empty Lay's bag.
After another hour at the party, Quinn was able to usher all of her drunk friends out to Puck's truck. They went through a fast food joint before heading back to Rachel and Puck's apartment. Quinn thought about taking them to her and Santana's apartment so they wouldn't wake up Sandy, but changed her mind. Rachel's and Puck's has always been their go to place after parties. They have a pull out couch and a fully stalked fridge. While Quinn and Santana might have food at their place, they don't have the extra bed for their friends to sleep on. And her friends aren't sober enough to try blowing up the air mattresses.
When they get back to the apartment, Puck and Mike pull the couch out into a bed. Tina and Quinn and Mack lay down on it, while Mike takes the recliner. Puck goes into his bedroom and Santana follows Rachel to her bedroom.
Santana is too tired for sex, so they just cuddle up together and fall asleep.
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"What do you mean she cancelled dinner?" Quinn asks as she takes a seat on the living room couch with Santana.
"I mean…she called and said we could still come over but she's not cooking tonight." Santana tries to explain. "She's not even sure what time she'll be home."
"She can't cancel dinner."Santana wants to laugh at the devastated look on Quinn's face. The girl really does love food. "We always have dinner the night before classes. Where the hell will she be anyway?"
"She's in the studio or something with that Jesse kid." Santana mumbles.
Santana's not quite sure what Rachel said she would be doing. When Rachel called to tell her that she wasn't going to be able to cook tonight, Santana stopped listening soon as the name Jesse came out of Rachel's mouth.
Santana doesn't like the guy. The next day after the party, Rachel had told her all about her conversation with Jesse. Santana had to listen to hours and hours of Rachel talking about nothing but how talented Jesse is. Well…not hours but still. Rachel did manage to bring him up several times throughout the day.
"Well that's bullshit." Santana watches as Quinn takes her phone out. Quinn puts the phone on speaker. They listen to the phone ring three times before Rachel answer with a 'Hello Quinn'.
"What's this I hear about you bailing on dinner tonight?"
"Quinn," Rachel sighs. "I won't get home in an enough time to prepare anything. I'm over in Brookville."
"Brookville?" Both Quinn and Santana frown. "What the hell you doing over there?" Brookville is the next town over.
"Jesse introduced me to his friends Marc and Jane. Jane is Jesse's agent and Marc has a recording studio here. That's where I'm at right now."
"Well that's cool." Quinn nods even though Rachel can't see it. "We are still going to cook though, so you better get your ass home soon as possible."
"Don't mess up my kitchen, Quinn." Santana giggles. "Hi Santana."
"Hey." Santana says quietly. She doesn't know how she feels about Rachel just jumping up and going to the next town with a stranger.
"Make sure Quinn doesn't burn down my kitchen, San. And…" Rachel starts to say something else but a male voice calls her name. "Hey guys I have to go. I'll try not to be too late. Love you guys. Bye." In the line goes dead.
"Did you know she went to Brookville?"
Santana shakes her head. "Not a clue."
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Somehow Quinn was able to talk everyone into helping make dinner. Everyone had something that they were in charge of. Usually when they had these dinners, Rachel and at least one of the friends would help her cook. Never before had everyone pitched in at once. In the end it turned out well but Santana doubt that they would be doing it again. It was just too many people in the kitchen at once.
Rachel came in thirty minutes into dinner. Just in time for announcements. Santana got Rachel's plate together and they sat on the floor next to each other.
"So now that everyone is here," Tina glanced at Rachel. "We can start sharing. Who wants to start?"
"I will." Mike stands up. "Um…so I don't really have an announcement. I just wanted to say how glad I am that we still managed to pull this together tonight. I mean, I know we could have all came here in hung out but having dinner together like this just make it seems a little more special." Mike blushes when everyone starts awing. "No seriously. I'm so use to having these dinners that I sometimes take them for granted. They really do keep us together. I thought the world was ending when Santana texted in told me we wasn't going to have one tonight." They all laugh. "So I just want to say..." Mike turns to Rachel. "No cancelling dinner. And thanks for always cooking for us." Rachel and Mike hug and then Mack stands.
"I second all that good stuff Mike said. I think since I started hanging with you guys I've gained 20 pounds. But I'm still sexy as hell." Mack jokes.
"Mack." Quinn sighs.
"Anyway …I'm just going to says it." She pauses. "Lucy and I are officially dating." There is a round of congratulations.
"Who's Lucy?"
"No one." Quinn dismisses Sandy's question. Before the pregnant women has a chance to probe further, Rachel stands.
"First…I apologize for trying to cancel tonight." Rachel kicks Quinn shoe. The blonde just smiles. "Second…don't think that any of you are leaving before my kitchen is back to the way you found it." There are some groans. "And onto more exciting news," Rachel grins. "I'm going to be recording a song with my friend, Jesse!" Rachel squeals.
Rachel's news is followed up with congratulations and series of questions ranging from 'who the hell is Jesse' to 'what kind of song'.
After dinner and everyone has either crashed on the couch or went home, Santana and Rachel retire to Rachel's bedroom.
"Congratulations, baby." Santana says once she's changed and is sitting in the bed watching Rachel slip on a t-shirt.
"Thanks." Rachel grins and climbs onto the bed next to Santana. They share a kiss. "Now what's on your mind?" Rachel asks with a knowing look.
Santana was really trying not to bring it up because she didn't want to take away from the excitement of Rachel getting this gig.
"I don't…you didn't tell me you was going to Brookville." Santana might have been half listening but she's pretty sure that Rachel didn't mention anything about leaving town.
"That's because I wasn't planning to. I was just having lunch with Jesse and then next thing I know he wanted to introduce me to some people he know and then…hello Brookville." Rachel finishes up her explanation. Santana nods and plays with a lose string on the shirt she has on.
"Can you tell me next time before you do something like that? What if something would have happened?"
"Yes, of course. I'm sorry…I was just excited." Rachel rushes out. Santana just nods.
"So does this mean you're going to be driving to Brookville to record?"
"Most likely. We haven't scheduled anything yet."
"Okay." Santana lies down on her back. "I'll get my car fixed when I'm off on Tuesday." Santana honesty wasn't thinking about getting her tire fixed anytime soon until tonight. She and Rachel sharing a car was working out fine. But now that Rachel has added something else to her schedule, Santana think it's about time she starts using her own car and give Rachel her jeep back.
"I don't know…I like you driving my car." Rachel lies down and pushes her body into Santana's side. "Maybe the scheduling will work out so we can still share a car."
"Yeah," Santana says closing her eyes. She really wants to ask about Jesse but she's holding back because it might cause an argument if Rachel thinks she's just acting like a jealous girlfriend. Santana doesn't really know the guy so she needs to just see what happens.
TBC
a/n: You guys are awesome as always. Love all the story alerts and the reviews. Glad you guys like the Quinn and Mack interaction. SharkGirl10 I am thinking about putting a little story together about them after I finish this story and at least one of my other stories up. Idk. Momo0424, isn't Sandy just freaking annoying lol I might have to get rid of her lol
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