Hey guys so sorry about the wait here, I had IB exams, now I have finals and my internet was down so I couldn't post. Thanks to everyone who favorited, alerted and reviewed the previous chapter! Enjoy this one!
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"Oh my god Santana, this pizza is amazing." Brittany said picking up yet another slice as the two sat in Santana's spacious kitchen.
"I know, New York pizza is the best." Santana said with a smile.
Santana finished her slice of pizza just as Brittany did, it had been a half hour since they had almost kissed. Santana had called Brittany into the kitchen and they had eaten in relative silence. They had eaten the entire pizza, Santana stood up and took the empty box, hers and Brittany's paper plates and threw them in the trash.
"Brittany?"
"Yes?" Brittany asked from her seat at the kitchen table.
"Will you stay with me tonight?" Santana asked in a shy voice, as if it were the first time in her life that she was asking Brittany to spend the night with her.
"Of course I will, but all of my stuff is in my hotel." Brittany said. When she had decided to come to New York she had no clue how Santana was going to react to her so she had booked a hotel.
"Okay well you can stay here, as long as you want." Santana said. "Why don't you go pick up your stuff from your hotel while I call Kyle and say goodnight and call my mother and apologize."
"Sure, I'll be back soon." Brittany said, she got up from her chair and made her way to the front door of Santana's apartment.
"Brittany wait." Santana said from behind her.
Brittany spun around and found that Santana was right behind her. Before she could say anything Santana threw her arms around Brittany's neck and placed her lips on Brittany's. She kissed her passionately, once again surprising Brittany. She didn't even have time to react before Santana pulled back leaving Brittany dazed.
"We got interrupted earlier." she said with a signature Santana Lopez smirk. "Now go get your stuff."
"Ya okay, I'll be back soon." Brittany said, still dazed as she walked out the door of the apartment.
As soon as Brittany was out the door Santana took her cellphone out and called her mother again.
"Hola?" her mother answered the phone.
"Hi Mami." she said.
"Santana? Are you feeling better now mija?"
"Yes, still angry but I'm calling to apologize. I shouldn't have yelled at you."
"Its okay mija, es bien. Did you tell her?" Lucy asked.
"About Kyle, sí."
"Did you tell her that you still love her?" Lucy asked bluntly. "Don't even try and deny it because I know that you still love her, that you never stopped loving her."
"I can't just be like 'Hey Brittany, even though you've been dead for the past six years and don't know anything about the past six years of my life I am still madly in love with you and want you to be with me forever'" she said sarcastically.
"Sounds good to me." Lucy said.
"Mami, of course I still love her but we can't just go back to they way we were in high school." Santana insisted.
"Sure you can, the two of you are meant to be together. I have known that since you two were nine. Just tell her that you still love her, introduce her to Kyle, have her move in with you!"
"Mami, that's a little bit fast don't you think?" Santana asked as her mother suggested that she ask Brittany to move in with her.
"For any other couple in the world maybe, but you two? No, for you two its been fifteen years in the making."
"I'll tell her how I feel and introduce her to Kyle and we'll so how it goes from there. Speaking of my son I need to call and wish him a good night. So goodbye Mami." Santana said and hung up, as she did she could have sworn she heard her mother laughing.
Santana dialed Mercedes' number then and waited for her or Sam to pick up the phone.
"Hey San!" Sam Evans said into the phone.
"He Trouty Mouth, I was just calling to say goodnight to Kyle, can you put him on for me?"
"Sure, KYLE!" he yelled. "So we'll bring him home at noon tomorrow, that sound good? Maybe we can hang out for a while."
"Ya thats fine."
"Cool, here's Kyle." Sam said and Santana could hear the phone being passed to her son.
"Hola mijo." she said.
"Hi Mami!" Kyle said in a sleepy voice.
"Are you being a good boy for Uncle Sam and Auntie Cedes?" she asked him playfully.
"Yes." he said, she could tell that he was tired because he was usually extremely talkative.
"Well, I think that its time for you to go to bed, but when you come home tomorrow you get to meet someone really special, what do you think about that baby boy?"
"Who?" the boy asked curiosity was obvious in his voice.
"You will see tomorrow, good night mijo, te amo."
"Te amo también Mami, buenas noches." he said in his cute little spanish accent.
Santana heard the phone being shut off and she quickly ran around the apartment making sure that everything was clean, even though she just cleaned it in the morning. She walked into her office and sat at her desk. The photograph of the Glee Club from New Years Eve in senior year sat on the desk next to her office phone. Everyone was in the picture, she decided to take the picture and explain where they all were and what had happened to them over the past six years. She grabbed the picture and ran out to the door when she heard the knock.
"Hey, I'm back." Brittany said, she was carrying a duffle bag in her right hand and a grocery bag in her left. "I got some ice-cream." she said simply when Santana's gaze fell to the bag.
"I'll take your bag to my room." Santana said.
"Are you sure you want me sleeping with you?"
"Brittany, I want nothing more than to fall asleep in your arms again." Santana said. "Now scoop some of that ice-cream and meet me in the living room."
Santana quickly threw Brittany's bag on her bed and walked back to the living room. Brittany was already siting there two bowls on the coffee table. The bowls were joined by a bouquet of a dozen red roses. Santana sat down on the couch, as close to Brittany as she could be without being on top of her. Brittany wordlessly picked up the roses and handed them to Santana with a shy smile on her face.
"Thank you Brittany, they're beautiful." Santana said hugging Brittany.
"Just like you." Brittany said, the words just fell out of her mouth. Thankfully Santana just giggled and said she was going to put them in some water.
As Santana left she put the photo of the New Directions from New Years Eve on the table. Brittany picked it up and smiled as she looked at all the people. This was taken the same night as Brittany's favorite picture of her and Santana. This one was great though, it was all of the New Directions, Mike's mother had taken it just before midnight. Brittany, Santana, Sam, Mercedes, Quinn, Finn, Rachel, Mike, Tina, Artie, Sugar, Rory, Kurt, and Puck were all smiling in the picture.
"I thought you'd like to see that, I was gonna tell you where they all are now if you want to know." Santana said reentering the room with the roses in a vase.
"That would be great, do I get to hear your story too? Like how you have this huge ass apartment?" Brittany asked, ever since she had first stepped into the place this morning she had been curious about Santana's job.
"We'll save the best for last." Santana said with a wink. "Who do you want to start with?"
"Hmmm, how about Puck." Brittany said, a look of pain briefly flashed across Santana's face before she started talking.
"Well Puck graduated high school but he didn't want to go to college so he joined the Army. He's been in the Army for five years now, at the moment he is in Afghanistan. He almost died about two years ago and was offered and honorable discharge but he stuck with it. I still talk to him, well when I can, he doesn't get much time to talk. He still hasn't found the one yet either." Santana said. She picked up the bowl and smiled as she noticed that Brittany had gotten her favorite flavor of ice cream.
"Wow, Puck's in the Army." she said letting the words sink in. "Does he still have his mohawk?"
"No, he had to shave it." Santana said with a laugh. "Whose next?"
"Do you still talk to everyone?" Brittany asked.
"Yes, I still talk to all of them." Santana said.
"How about Artie."
"Do I still talk to him, or what is he up to?" Santana asked.
"Both."
"Well I still talk to him, not as much as the others, but yes. And at the moment he is in LA trying to get his big break as a director. He has done a few commercials here and there but nothing major yet. He just got married to a women named Ashley last year. She is pregnant now, I think they're having a boy."
"Quinn."
"Quinn, where do I start with Quinn. After Regionals in senior year, she got into a bad car accident and was in a wheelchair for a while. She went through some intense therapy and was able to walk again. She graduated from Yale two years ago and is now at Harvard Law. She's been dating this guy named Eric for almost a year now, he's nice, cute too, but I think she still has a thing for Puck because she doesn't seem one hundred percent into this relationship. She comes and visits as often as she can. I talk to her at least once a week on the phone, we text most days." Santana said.
"Quinn was in a wheelchair? Oh my god."
"Ya she was on her way to Finn and Rachel's wedding after Regionals and she was texting and a truck hit her. It was terrible she almost didn't make it, my dad was her doctor. I was a mess, it was so soon after you." Santana said frowning at the memories.
"Wow thats terrible, but she's up and walking now."
"Yes, she's a little bit clumsy now though." Santana said seriously.
"Wow."
"Next?" Santana asked, she was enjoying this for more than one reason but one of the main was putting off having to tell Brittany about her feelings.
"Hmm, I guess I have to go with Finn and Rachel since they apparently got married during senior year."
"Well they ended up not getting in senior year because of Quinn's accident. Rachel got into NYADA, she and Finn moved to New York. Finn worked some odd jobs before he got an acting part, I'm surprised you didn't see him. He was on Grey's Anatomy for six episodes. Rachel is currently between plays on Broadway. They got married four years ago right before I had Kyle, he turns four soon, and they still live here."
"Finn was on Grey's Anatomy?" Brittany said. "I stopped watching a few years ago, damn how did I miss it."
"Ya he played a patient with cancer, it was a really good story, he ended up dying in the end, but Finn did an awesome job acting. He really shocked us all, even Rachel." she said with a laugh.
"Wow, that's crazy, I wish I had still been watching." Brittany said.
"Ya, like everyone who watched the show fell in love with his character, people were devastated when the character died."
"Oh my god, a friend of mine in San Francisco was talking about that, she was freaking about how this guy died on Grey's and how hot he was." Brittany said and she started laughing.
"Thats funny."
"Ya, ha, well what can you tell me about Kurt."
"Well Kurt is Kyle's godfather. I see him all the time, he lives in the city too, he also got into NYADA, he is on Broadway right now in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. I actually went to see it with everyone last month, it was the last time we were all together, well except for Puck. He and Blaine are still together, they haven't gotten married but they are still together and Blaine is just out of college, he works as a waiter right now but he really wants to be a teacher." Santana said with a smile.
"Thats great! If Kurt is Kyle's godfather who is his godmother?" Brittany asked curiously.
"Mercedes." she said.
"Oh, well tell me about Cedes and Sam then." Brittany said, she was really enjoying this, she had always been curious as to what had become of her friends, but she really wanted to get to Santana's.
"Well they broke up after graduation and then realized that they were still both going to the same college and started dating again in sophomore year. They got married senior year of college. They moved to New York after Kyle was born. Mercedes just got a job as a music teacher this year at a performing arts high school and Sam is a NYPD officer. He's working his way up to be a detective."
"Sam's a cop? He doesn't seem like the type." Brittany said.
"That's what I thought too, but he is."
"Mike and Tina? You said that they got married right?"
"Yes, they got married after Tina graduated from McKinley. Mike owns a dance studio back in Lima and Tina helps Mr. Schue with the New Directions, she gets paid a teachers salary, she says that its the same as it was when we were there, slushies, insults, and Sue. They are so happy, sometimes they are so cute that its sickening. Mike makes really good money at his dance studio. They are talking about having kids soon." Santana said. "They are actually supposed to be coming to visit me and Kyle next week."
"That's great! What about Sugar what is she up to?"
"Sugar is a senior at Ohio State, she is majoring in musical theater, I don't know how her dad got her into that one but he did. She has like five boy toys but no real boyfriend. She still can't sing, and still has no filter whatsoever. I talk to her no and then too, she's still hilarious, she sends Kyle the best birthday presents."
"Ha, I bet that she does, when is his birthday?"
"Next month, and everyone is coming."
"He'll be four?"
"Ya, oh god he's getting so big."
"I can't wait to meet him, now I believe Rory is the only one left. I know a little about him I mean I found out that my parents adopted him but I don't know much more than that, he was at school when I came home." Brittany said.
"Ya, Rory's story is sad. His family were coming to visit him the end of my senior year and there plane crashed, they were all killed. Your parents adopted him and he has lived there for the past six years. I saw him a lot when I would go visit my parents and yours and your little brother. He and I both went to Kevin's graduation last year, he loves Kyle. He taught Kyle something in gaelic and he won't tell me what it means and I know its something bad. He is a senior in college this year, he's at NYU. Its funny how a lot of us ended up in New York City."
"It is weird, poor Rory." Brittany said.
"It was really sad, I tried to be there as much as I could. I think we both helped each other, he is more a brother to me than all the rest, I talk to him every day, I meet him for lunch at least once a week." Santana said.
"And to think at the beginning of senior year you hated him." Brittany laughed.
"Well he was putting the moves on my girlfriend." Santana said looking away from Brittany.
"Its your turn San, you have spent the last hour telling me about everyone but yourself, I still know you well enough to be able to tell when you are stalling." Brittany said.
"I am not stalling."
"Santana."
"Fine, what do you want to know?" Santana asked and quickly added, "Don't say everything." when she saw the look on Brittany's face.
"Okay, how the hell do you have this huge ass apartment, because I know that it isn't your parents money because you always said that you wouldn't take that unless you were desperate."
"Have you ever read any Lea Riley books before?" Santana asked.
"Really, that was an easy one and your already changing the subject! What are you a drug dealer or something?"
"I'm serious have you ever read any of her books or heard of her?"
"Santana, everyone has heard of her, I've read all of her books, seen all the movies, and guessed who she is just like everyone else in the world, now please answer my question." Brittany said annoyed.
"I am Lea Riley." Santana said with a smirk.
"Don't screw with me Santana."
"I'm dead serious. Have you ever read the dedications page?" Santana asked.
"No..."
Santana got up and ran into her office, she grabbed her three novels. She quickly walked back into the living room noticing on her way by that it was 12:02 in the morning. She put the books down in front of Brittany and flipped each to the dedication page. The first one read:
To BSP, I will love you forever, SML
Brittany gasped as Santana pointed to the second one which read:
To BSP, I wish you were around for this, its for you, SML
Brittany turned to the newest novel, that Brittany had read just three weeks prior, and glanced at the dedication page.
Siempre estás en mi corazón, To BSP, love SML.
"Holy shit San! You are Lea Riley! Those are so sweet! What does the last one say?" Brittany asked, there were tears in her eyes. She now finally understood how Santana had the apartment.
"You are always in my heart." Santana stated simply. "Siempre estás en mi corazón."
"I can't believe that you wrote those books! They are like my favorites of all time, and I love the movies they are amazing! I can't wait for this one to be a movie." Brittany said holding up Santana's third novel.
"Ya, I found comfort in writing and Mercedes and Tina convinced me to try and get them published. I had no idea that they were going to be so big." Santana said.
"Ya they are like my favorites! So besides being a closeted famous author what else have you been up to, what is it like having a son?" Brittany asked, she wanted to know everything that had happened to Santana over the past six years, but most of all she wanted to see if she still loved her, though she was pretty sure she did she needed to hear Santana say the words again.
"He's amazing, he really is. I love him so much, I didn't think it was possible to feel the way that he makes me feel, and he is all mine. Being a mother was something that I was definitely not ready for when I got pregnant but once I saw his little face I knew, I knew I could do it. He has a nanny, her name is Ella she's sweet, she takes care of him during the weekdays when I am working." Santana said, Brittany noticed the smile that had formed as Santana spoke of her son, it was a very special smile that Brittany recognized as one of pure undiluted love.
"I can't wait to meet him." Brittany said.
"I can't wait for you to meet him, I'm sure you'll love him, he is very talkative, but not at first, you have to give him some time to get to know you first. He loves Spongebob, you are guaranteed to get him to talk if you mention that." Santana said with a laugh.
"Sounds like my kind of kid, I still watch Spongebob." Brittany said smiling.
"Of course you do." Santana said.
The two fell into a comfortable silence, they were sitting very close together, Brittany's hand was on Santana's knee and she was rubbing circles on it with her thumb. Santana was staring at Brittany's face, she knew it was now or never, she had to tell her how she felt, she had to see where they stood. Now that Santana knew Brittany was still alive she wanted nothing more than to kiss her until her lips fell off.
"Brittany..." Santana began.
"San..." Brittany said at the same time. "No you first." she said then with a little giggle.
"Okay well I just need you to know something. I never, ever stopped loving you. My heart was never really in any of the other relationships I've been in over the last six years, I haven't even had that many. I guess what I am trying to say to you is that I love you, I still love you and I think that I am still in love with you, I don't think that I ever fell out of love with you." Santana said releasing a breath as she finished babbling.
Brittany's heart melted at Santana's words. She couldn't take her eyes off of her face, which was now turning into a frown because Brittany hadn't responded to her words. Brittany knew Santana well enough to realize that if she didn't do something soon Santana would freak out and pull her walls back up. Brittany put both of her hands on Santana's face, one on either side and stared into her eyes. She didn't say anything she just leaned in and kissed Santana deeply. Santana responded almost immediately and Brittany could feel tears flowing from both of their eyes. After a minute Brittany pulled away because she needed air, she placed her hands back on either side of Santana's face as she spoke.
"I love you too, I always have and I always will, the six years without you was the worst six years of my life." Brittany said wiping the tears off of Santana's face.
"Say it again." Santana said, more tears flowing over her flushed cheeks.
"I love you, I love you, I love you." Brittany repeated the phrase over and over again until Santana stopped crying.
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