It is July 17th 2014, and it is Kelly's fifth birthday. Dani is putting up the decorations as Kelly is sleeping at five in the morning and Sue has gone for her morning jog with the cake is baking. Kelly's daycare friends are to arrive at ten, and Sue allowed Dani to pick one friend for her to invite over for herself so she picked Santana. Santana is to arrive between nine and ten.
At nine, Dani gets into the same dress she wore for the dinner at her dad's and zips up Kelly's purple dress. Kelly takes off into the bathroom to Sue who is doing her hair.
Following Dani chuckles seeing Kelly sitting on the bathtub's edge getting her hair in the same braid that Dani has.
"I'm sorry, Kelly, I can't do it. What about you ask Dani?" Sue asks passing Kelly the hair tie.
Frowning Kelly looks up at Dani, "Dani, braid?"
"Sure, meet me in the kitchen?" Dani smiles. Excited, Kelly runs into the kitchen and when Dani gets there, is already sitting in her seat waiting. Dani starts to braid Kelly's hair when there is a knock on the door, "Hold on a minute." Dani calls out to the person quickly finishing up. Once finished, Dani rushes to the door and opens it to see Santana standing there patiently, "Thank you for waiting."
"What were you doing?" Santana asks stepping into the clean house with Kelly's present in hand when Dani lets her pass.
"Braiding my hair!" Kelly jumps up and down, "Is that for me?" Kelly catches sight of a big box is Santana's hands.
"Yes it is." Santana nods.
"But you can't open it yet, you have to wait until it is present time." Dani kneels down and fixes Kelly's bangs as Santana kisses Kelly's cheek.
"It's okay, Shorty. Time will fly past fast. You will find out what it is before you know it." Kelly nods pouting.
"But it's big." Kelly whispers in wonder, "What could it be?"
Taking the present gently from Santana, Dani puts it on the table at the door where Dani's and Sue's gifts are already sitting.
As kids begin to arrive, Dani leads them into the living room where they are painting in their paint clothes that their parents were told to bring over. Kelly rushes over to Dani and steps into her paint covered jeans and t-shirt before going to paint with her friends.
"We will need t-shirts, want to borrow one of mine?" Dani asks Santana.
"Sure." Leading Santana to her's and Kelly's room it's the biggest bedroom in the house and Santana sees and tiny bed in the corner and knows it's Kelly's and a queen size bed and knows it's Dani's. Sitting down on Dani's bed, Santana sees Dani's laptop open and Facebook up to see French words screaming at her.
"Non ma fille est lesbienne. Vous êtes juste une salope et n'arrive pas à admettre que vous, aucun homme ne vous aimera jamais. Vous allez mourir seul." Santana knows lesbienne is lesbian.
"Dani, what does this say?" Santana asks when Dani returns with the two worn down shirts. Dani reads the message and tears form in her eyes.
"Uhm, could you get my mom first?" Dani stares at the screen as tears start to fall. When Santana returns, Sue reads the message not understanding a word but reads who it's from. Seeing it's from Paul, she deletes it and blocks him off Dani's Facebook. Pulling Dani into a hug after she sits down, Sue lets Dani cry before Dani explains what it said, "It said 'No daughter of mine is a lesbian. You are just a slut and can't seem to admit to yourself that no man will ever love you. You will die alone.'"
"Don't listen to him, Dani. You have Santana, and even I know you can't change the fact that you are a lesbian." Sue whispers kissing her forehead, "Now I'm going to let you and Santana talk and kiss for a few minutes. But when this alarm goes off come out okay?"
"Okay mom." Setting the clock for ten minutes, Sue closes the door and lets the two girls talk. After talking for six minutes, Santana and Dani put on the t-shirts before they being to kiss. Lying on the bed kissing the alarm goes off and they both groan. Getting up, Dani shuts off the alarm and they join the five-year-olds.
After cake, the five-year-olds sit in a circle and the adults, Dani and Santana sit on the couch and chairs as the kids pass Kelly their presents. Receiving toys and colouring books. Kelly gives all of her friends hugs before watching them leave. Soon it's just Dani, Sue, Kelly and Santana.
"You got three presents left." Sue points out bringing them over to Kelly who is now sitting on Santana's lap.
"The big present!" Kelly claps remembering Santana's gift earning laughter from the other three. Opening Sue's gift first, Kelly squeals pulling out her own mini guitar and case, "Dani, now you can teach me to play!"
"You're right, I can." Dani agrees smiling.
When Kelly starts to open Dani's gift, Kelly lifts out a purple bear and tears fill her eyes. It's the same bear that Kelly saw two weeks ago when they ran into Paul and Paul ripped the bear out of her arms and pushed her into the fountain at the mall.
Dani saw everything that day and followed Paul back into the store and bought it with her babysitting money she got for babysitting Will's ex-wife's kids.
"You got her." Kelly whispers hugging the purple bear close looking up at Dani as tears fall, "How?"
"Dad doesn't need a purple bear. You do." Dani answers kissing Kelly's nose before wiping her tears away.
"Thank you." Kelly stuffs her face into her bear's fur hugging the life out of it.
"Here is that last gift." Sue interrupts. Looking up, Kelly asks Santana to hold the bear before opening the big present. Letting out a shocked squeal, Kelly lifts it up and shows it to Dani and Sue excitedly. It's a group of three Barbie dolls that Santana wrapped together.
"Santana, you shouldn't have." Dani whispers.
"I wanted to." Santana smiles kissing Dani lightly on the lips, "Besides, I have no siblings to spoil, so I'm spoiling yours."
~S&D~
Santana and Dani are lying out on the grass watching the fireworks hand-in-hand. It is August 11th, and in a week is Dani's fifteenth birthday. Finn and Rachel are a few feet away sitting on a blanket.
"I love you." Dani turns to Santana.
"I love you too, Dani." Santana leans down and kisses her. Hearing the fireworks boom above them, the couple ignores them just enjoying the kiss. Santana feels Dani's hand in her hair holding her there so they deepen the kiss.
"I love you two as a couple, but please stop making out." Pulling away, they look up to see Puck have joined them. Santana is now on top of Dani and Santana sighs rolling off of the younger girl and sits up.
"Great way to destroy the mood, Puck." Santana groans.
"I know, but I've joined the New Yorkers."
"Really? You joined Kurt and Rachel to go to New York?"
"Yep. I'm going to go to school there."
"That's amazing of you." Dani smiles, "You turned your life around."
"Yes I have." Puck agrees thinking back to when he was a rebel to where he is now.