A week later, Dani is released from the hospital and with a promise to Kelly, everyday after school, Dani would visit her.
Hearing a knock on her hospital door, Dani rolls over in her bed and opens her eyes to see Sue come in.
"Mom?" Dani croaks out still tired.
"It's time to get up honey. I signed you out and they said you can take a shower and get ready for school now." Sue whispers loud enough for Dani to hear her and understand but soft enough for it's not loud.
"Okay." Crawling out of bed, Dani grabs the bag Sue brought her and jumps into the shower. After the shower, getting dressed and brushing her teeth, Dani and Sue heads down to the cafeteria and Sue orders breakfast for Dani as Dani grabs the first seat she can have, since she is still weak.
After eating, Sue looks at her watch to see it is ten minutes before Dani's first class and it's only a five minute drive to school.
"Let's go."
Arriving to the school, Sue walks Dani to her Art class and Dani takes her seat just as the bell rings.
"Mom, where are my books?" Dani asks in a whisper with Santana next to her.
"Shoot, I forgot to grab them." Sue curses in her mind.
"They are in my locker, Coach." Santana jumps in, "I'll ask Ms. Harp if I could run and get them."
After Ms. Harp sets the lesson, Santana walks over to her and immediately rushes out of the room as Sue kneels down next to Dani.
"Would you like me to stay?" Sue whispers.
"Don't you have to get ready for tryouts?"
"Yes, but Dani, you are more important."
"I'll be okay. I'll keep to myself like normal."
"Okay. Just walk into my office anytime. Even if you are skipping class."
"I will." Watching Sue leave as Santana walks in, Santana slides her books onto her desk as she takes her seat, "Thank you."
"No problem." Immediately getting to work, Dani stays after class getting handouts from the passed week's work which Ms. Harp tells Dani that Santana is to help her with and will meet her at lunch in the library with.
In Drama, Dani has five skits to learn alone while everyone else had partners. When the teacher isn't looking, Dani gathers her things and storms out furiously. Her teacher is always harsh to her and never treats her with respect. How can you have five scripts memorized for the next class and present them to the class without help? It's impossible!
Storming into Sue's office, Dani slams the door and throws her books to the ground before collapsing to the ground. Breaking down and crying, Sue immediately gathers Dani into her arms and lets her cry.
After explaining everything to Sue, Sue and Dani sit on the floor and read the skits together to find the ones that Dani can do and the ones she can't. Walking to the Drama room, Sue carries Dani's books and shields her from curious eyes. Slamming the door open, Sue rubs Dani's arm calmly, in her own way saying sorry for making her jump. Walking into the room, Sue waits for Dani to sit down before walking up to the teacher with the scripts/skits in hand.
"My daughter and I have been dealing with your nasty attitude all year and we are done." Sue starts, "Giving everyone else partners this passed week while she was in the hospital and the day she comes back and making her do the same assignment without a partner is overwhelming for her and caused her to have a breakdown for over twenty minutes. As a compromise, she and I have chosen three for her to do tomorrow for class, but the other two she won't do. You can take it or leave it, but you have no say in the matter."
Putting the two scripts on her desk that Dani isn't doing on her desk, Sue shows her the three that Dani is doing.
"These are the three that Dani will be doing. The balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, the part where Ronnie comes home late in The Last Song, and the scene where Bella realizes Jacob imprinted on Bella's baby in Breaking Dawn Part Two." The teacher notices they are the longest so she nods.
"Fine, your daughter always gets her way so she is a spoiled little brat anyways."
"Dani isn't actually if you must know. She earns her way by doing work. Now don't call my daughter a brat."
Hearing the bell ring, Sue walks toward Dani and helps her up before they head to the choir room. In the choir room, Sue slips the scripts in Dani's folder before putting the folder in Dani's binder that's for Science.
"Here is the money for your lunch." Sue hands her the money and Dani slips it in her pocket, "Do you feel okay?"
"Just tired and a little hungry." Dani answers.
"I'll get you something to eat. Don't perform without me." Kissing Dani's hair, Sue leaves to the cafeteria to get Dani something to eat.
In the choir room, Dani freezes seeing Santana storm into the room with Brittney following.
"But Santana," Brittney starts.
"No Brittney!" Santana shouts turning to her, "It's over. Finished."
Hearing a whimper, both girls look over to see Dani curled up in a ball on her chair.
"Aww poor baby." Brittney laughs, "She's scared."
"Back off, Brittney." Santana snaps before walking over to Dani slowly. Kneeling down besides her, Santana sighs, "I'm sorry Dani, are you okay?"
"I want mom." Dani whispers into her knees.
"I know you do. May I sit next to you?"
"Okay." Santana sits down next to Dani and tickles her neck gently earning giggles from the younger girl. Gently taking Dani's hand in her own, Santana holds Dani's hand in her lap.
Just as the bell rings, Will walks in with Sue and Sue opens Dani's chocolate chip cookie and hands it to her.
"Good morning everyone, and welcome back Brittney and Dani." Will greets as Dani eats her cookie, "This week's lesson is boys sing female country singers and girls sing male country singers, does anyone want to start us off or give us a demo?"
Dani raises her hand as Sue gets us and hands her an acoustic guitar.
"Go ahead Dani." Dani stands up and takes the guitar.
"I actually have two by the same artist so I'm going to sing them back-to-back."
"Go ahead, no one else has anything." Will approves.
"Suck up." Brittney fake-coughs.
"Brittney." Will snaps.
"What, she is!"
"No she isn't. Now I want to speak to you in Will's office." Sue steps in. Watching Sue close the door softly for Dani's sake, Dani pulls up a stool before adjusting the strap.
"Sorry Dani, please play for us." Will apologizes.
Nodding, Dani bites her lip, "The first song is The Trouble With Girls by Scotty McCreery. The second song is I Love You This Big also by Scotty McCreery."
"I have a question first." Kurt asks as Dani places her fingers for the chords. Dani looks at him waiting, "Are you a lesbian?"
"KURT!" Santana gasps shocked that he found out.
"I wasn't hiding, but yes."
"Who do you like?"
"She's in this room, but I know she knows because a certain drawing of mine is missing and she is the only one who had my books. So I know she knows I like her."
"Plus you just admitted it."
"Exactly."
"Okay, you guys can talk about crushes after, Dani, the songs?" Will smiles.
"Right."
Playing the opening chords as everyone goes silent and Santana blushes, Dani stares straight at her.
Immediately changing the chords, Dani switches to I Love You This Big, surprising everyone how fast she can switch songs midway.
Playing the last few notes, Dani stares straight at Santana like she has since the beginning, and walks over to her. Putting the guitar on the stand, Dani takes Santana's hand.
"I fell in love with you when I first met you, Santana. When I first saw you in Art class when you sat next to me I knew I wanted to be more than friends and I was terrified of that. But I moved on from that and realized that I rather have you in my life than not at all."
Noticing tears in Santana's eyes, Dani wipes the fallen ones away.
"I thought it was just a crush." Santana whispers looking down. Dani goes onto her knees and makes eyes contact.
"That was back in September. I know you might not be over Brittney but I can wait, Santana. I don't want to be your rebound girl."
"I graduate this year, Dani. I don't even know if I'm going to college or not."
"Do you want to be a cheerleader all your life?"
"No. I love music, I might go to college, I don't even know."
"Why not take a year off?"
"Maybe."