Chapter 31:
A.N.: So, this is the last chapter guys. Enjoy!
One month later;
"Honey, we're home!" Alice exclaimed when I opened the door to our apartment, making me chuckle. That was what I was saying every day when we would come home but today Alice beat me to it.
"Hello, honeys." Brittany smiled as she stood up and came to us. She was sitting on the floor with Puck, helping him study mathematics and physics since Puck started at a night school, wanting to do something with his life. And I couldn't be more proud of my friend and grateful for my girlfriend because she was helping him. But at the moment I was surprised because I had forgotten that Puck would be there.
"Puck!" Little Alice gasped with wide eyes after she let Brittany kiss her forehead. The kid went to Puck and cupped his cheeks, studying his face. "Where's your pet?" She asked him, making Brittany and I chuckle because the kid meant the mohawk that Puck had on his head. The mohawk that he shaved before the trial started for Beth's case.
As it turned out, Beth's adoptive parents were already divorced and the father had her sole custody. And that made it easier to claim and win the custody, since he was abusive. It wasn't easy to convince Puck that Quinn was the only one who could claim Beth's custody but when I gave him my word that Quinn then would give him rights too, he agreed. And so Puck would have Beth on weekends while Quinn would have her for the rest of the week, until Puck would find a steady job. Then he would get the kid for three days a week.
"I lost it." He pouted and Alice pouted back at him.
"I'm sorry." She told him sadly and hugged him, making me smile at how compassionate she was.
"It's ok, baby girl." Puck patted her back. But then Brittany turned to me, effectively getting my full attention.
"Hey, baby." My girlfriend whispered then as she slid her arms around my waist and brought me in for a tight hug. Her hugs always calmed me and made the tension that work caused me to vanish. She kissed my neck before pulling back to smile at me. I couldn't help but smile back before grabbing her hand.
"We'll be right back." I said and tugged her towards our bedroom.
"Hey! Where are you going? You have a kid!" Puck shouted.
"Yeah, and you'll watch her for a minute." I answered over my shoulder before tugging Brittany in the bedroom and closing the door behind me. "I totally forgot that Puck would be here." I said, throwing my bag on a chair.
"Ok." Brittany said slowly, obviously not seeing any problem with that.
"Quinn's coming too." I looked at my watch on my wrist to see that my friend would be here any minute. "With Beth."
"San." Brittany whined and I looked up to see her frowning disapprovingly at me, making me wince. "You know you're busy, why don't you start using your phone for these things too and not just for your 'legal' appointments?"
"I know, baby. I'm sorry." I ran a hand through my hair and sighed as I took off my blazer as well. "You know what? They have a kid together, they have to learn how to be in the same room." I said pointedly. I didn't know why I was making a deal out of this. Puck and Quinn had fought a few times over the last month but after we won the trial, they were in a good place. Brittany sighed as her arms went around my waist again.
"You should still start using it. I know you're getting old and it's normal to forget." She told me teasingly, making me roll my eyes.
"Tomorrow we'll be the same age." I shrugged, thinking that the next day was my girlfriend's birthday. She would be twenty-eight, like me, because my birthday was in a month and I would be twenty-nine. My hands went on Brittany's exposed shoulder blades, where I knew that the wings of a newly-painted majestic bird were lying.
"No, you're still older." She whispered but I shushed her before leaning in to connect our lips. I was wearing heels but Brittany wasn't, and the fact that we were at the same height made it easier to deepen the kiss.
"I missed you today." I mumbled against her lips.
"You say that every day." She told me as she left my lips and started kissing my jaw line.
"But I miss you every day." I felt her smiling against my skin, making me sigh happily. I was happy and I thought that I couldn't be happier.
"I miss you too." She pecked my lips one last time before starting to unbutton my shirt. "So, how's the new intern?"
"She's annoying." I mumbled, remembering the new intern that had to be my shadow for the next month. I watched as my girlfriend's long fingers expertly worked my shirt. "And I'm sure that she's talking about me behind my back." I added as I took off my shirt and let it fall to the ground. Brittany crouched in front of me and I felt her hand on my calf and then on the other one as she took off my heels, freeing my feet that hurt so much, making me sigh.
"You shouldn't care what people say behind your back. If they want they can as well beat you in your absence." Brittany told me as she stood up again. "Socrates said that." She added, placing her hands on her hips.
"I love you." I said, feeling proud of her at that moment. I was always proud of her but sometimes she would tell me something wise like that and she would have me fall for her all over again.
"I love you too." She smiled her perfect smile at me as she helped me take off my skirt and tights as well. She would always help me undress whenever she was home and it was one more thing that she did to make me love her even more, if that was possible. But she didn't let me get dressed this time, leaving me in my underwear.
"Baby, Puck and Ali are right outside the door." I mumbled as Brittany started kissing and sucking at my pulse point. Her hands went on my back as mine went on her strong arms.
"Yeah, we wouldn't want Puck seeing any of this." Her hands slid down my back and the fact that I was wearing a thong made it easier for her to grab my ass without an effort, making me completely lean my weight on her as my hands went on her shoulders to support myself.
"Nothing that he hasn't seen before." I mumbled, causing Brittany to pull back from my neck and fix me with a look that I hadn't seen before. A look that screamed possessiveness and at that moment I felt like she was making me hers just by looking in my eyes. I shivered and leaned in to kiss her because I honestly couldn't hold her intense gaze anymore. Her blue eyes were too expressive and I could feel my heart skipping several beats as I memorized those eyes in my mind. I thought that I would never forget those beautiful blue orbs.
Brittany knew that Puck and I had sex in the past but she chose to ignore my comment and respond to my kiss. But kissing Brittany didn't help calm my heart down, because she was kissing me forcefully and dominating as her hands were kneading my ass and it had me wanting more of her. And I knew that my body was reacting to my girlfriend's touch, because I could feel myself getting more wet than I already was.
"Don't get me all hot and bothered, Britt." I whined as I pulled back from her lips, my breaths coming out quick and uneven. She did that to me that morning too and I could feel my underwear sticking to me at work the whole day. Brittany kissed my lips again as I felt her finger going to my center from behind, making us both aware of how wet I really was. I moaned against her mouth, bucking my hips towards her hand so I could get more friction.
"I think it's too late." She whispered against my lips as her finger kept slowly exploring my wet folds. Our faces were so close that I could feel her hot breaths hitting my skin.
"Britt." I panted. Her blue eyes were looking straight at me, blue eyes that seemed to be darker. Seemed to be full of lust and desire. Beautiful blue eyes that always had me under their spell. Seductive blue eyes that always had me captivated. And so I frowned frustrated when I felt her finger leaving my heat. "Fuck." I watched as my girlfriend sucked her finger clean and felt myself getting more wet.
"God, San. I really need you right now." Brittany whispered as she leaned her forehead against mine.
"Baby, you're killing me." I connected our lips again but the kiss was interrupted by a knock on the door, which meant that Quinn and Beth were here. "This is your fault. I didn't even have time to take a shower." I whined and my girlfriend chuckled.
"It's ok."
"It's not. I smell like sex!" I exclaimed, pulling back from my girlfriend's embrace.
"You don't. Just get dressed and come out." She told me before pecking my lips and going to leave the bedroom. But I grabbed her arm before she could.
"You have to wash your hands." I frowned and she arched an eyebrow.
"This hand?" She asked as she held up her right hand, that teasing hand whose finger had me more than turned on at the moment.
"Yes, Brittany." I answered with a strong voice because I could see it in her eyes that she was going to tease me again.
"Ok." She chuckled and pecked my lips one last time before leaving me in the bedroom. I sighed, thinking that what I needed at that moment was a shower, a very cold shower, but I got over it and got dressed before going to find my friends in the living room.
…
Quinn and I were sitting at the table in our apartment's kitchen while Brittany, Puck, Beth and Alice were in the living room. Brittany had the kids occupied, having them doing mathematical stuff next to her, while she gave her full attention to Puck.
"Tomorrow I won't leave your girlfriend alone, I hope you don't get jealous." Quinn whispered, making me roll my eyes. "I'll 'keep her company' until she leaves the studio and then I'll tell her that I want to talk to her about Beth or something and take her somewhere until Anna opens the studio so everybody can come in and when you get there as well and prepare your birthday cake and stuff, you'll text me and I'll tell her that I forgot something at the studio and we'll come there too and then 'surprise!'. Ok?" I still felt bad that I had to work on my girlfriend's birthday.
"Sounds good. I told everybody already to be there at eight and Maribel will pick up Ali from kindergarten. I hope I won't be late."
"Everything's gonna be fine." Quinn said reassuringly and I sighed as I turned to look at my girlfriend again.
"I don't know how to feel about that love triangle." I mumbled. Alice was trying to get Beth's attention and Beth was ignoring her, trying to get Brittany's attention.
"I don't know how to feel about that love triangle." Quinn said back.
"It's more like a square or a rectangle because I'm in love with Brittany, so I'm in the equation too." I said and Quinn arched an eyebrow at me. "What?"
"That was really mathematical. Brittany's definitely rubbing off on you." She told me and I rolled my eyes again. Definitely not, I thought, having in my mind dirtier thoughts, considering that I was still frustrated and wet. "But seriously, look at my daughter. It's like her mother is Brittany." Quinn frowned but I could see the sadness in her hazel eyes.
"Are you crazy? Just watch Beth for a minute. She turns to see what you're doing every ten seconds and then she checks up on Puck before returning her attention to Brittany. I think Brittany just fascinates her. Maybe it's her tattoos." I told my friend reassuringly as I put my arm around her shoulders. I couldn't really blame Beth, I was fascinated with Brittany's tattoos too.
"You think so?" Quinn asked me, her eyes glued on her daughter.
"I know so. I can practically see your bond, Q. She knows you're her parents, she just needs time to understand that whenever you're lifting your hand, it's to scratch your head, not to hit her. Things we'll get better." I kissed her temple, making her sigh. "So, how's Mike gonna react when he comes back and finds out that his girlfriend got a daughter?" I asked then, making Quinn smile. "Why are you smiling like that?" I asked, nudging her so she would tell me.
"I told him already and he's coming to New York for the weekend before going back to Connecticut." She told me, making me arch my eyebrows in surprise.
"Really?" I smiled.
"Yeah, I thought that this would be the final push that would bring my relationship tumbling down, but it was like it brought us closer and now he's coming and I'm so happy because I haven't seen him in over a month." She told me and I could see the love in her eyes.
"I'm so happy for you, Q."
"Thanks." She told me, her gaze going on Puck and her face fell a little. "What about Puck?" She whispered then and I sighed. Those two had history and they had a kid together, so they had to be in each other's lives. And although Quinn was in love with Mike, she still cared about Puck and it made sense that she worried about him. Besides, he was the father of her child.
"Puck is doing great. He has Beth and now he's studying to get his school certificate. Look at him he's never been so happy."
"And then you just connect the dots like this." Brittany said as she kept drawing on a piece of paper, Puck was watching her closely. "Up and down and up and down…"
"Yeah right, do that to me later." Puck mumbled, causing Brittany to hit him on the back of his head. I thought that if Puck told her that five months ago, she would punch him in the face. But those two came closer.
"Focus." She snapped and Puck rolled his eyes as he repeated what Brittany did. My girlfriend was obviously not only a strict mother but a strict teacher as well. I tried to ignore the fact that it was fucking hot and I concentrated on the fact that with me, she was always soft.
"It's correct, isn't it?" Puck asked and Brittany nodded making him fist-pump the air. "Just tell me that I'm the best!" He exclaimed, making me roll my eyes as I reassuringly patted Quinn's shoulder and stood up to go to my girlfriend. She was sitting on the floor and so I sat on the couch behind her.
But just when I sat down her phone buzzed on the coffee table, signaling that she got a message. She looked hesitant for a few seconds because I was right behind her but she finally decided to stand up and grab her phone before turning to me. I couldn't see what she was doing but I could hear that she was typing, and I figured that she was replying to the text. And when she finished and placed her phone back on the coffee table, I arched an eyebrow at her.
"Uh…it was no one." She mumbled nervously as she sat next to me. But I didn't have too much time to think about it because little Alice spoke up.
"Mommy." She called and I turned to see that she was looking at me. Although it had been a month, I still wasn't used to the fact that she was calling me 'mommy', and it always made my heart melt.
"What's up, Ali girl?" I replied and Little Alice immediately stood up and came to me. She tugged my hand and I leaned towards her so she could whisper in my ear.
"Can we play in my room?" She asked me quietly and looked at Beth and I smiled because everybody had the amusing suspicion that little Alice was infatuated with the older girl.
"Sure, baby." I kissed her hand that was still holding mine and she smiled before turning to Beth.
"Do you want to play with me in my room?" She asked and the brunette girl turned to see Puck and Quinn. Both of her parents nodded at her reassuringly, making her sigh and stand up.
"Watch Ali, Beth. She's a baby." Brittany said then.
My girlfriend didn't really need to give that responsibility to Beth, but I could see it in the kid's eyes how important it was to her. Not only because Brittany gave her some attention, but also because she made her feel important and needed. It was obvious that Brittany knew what to say to her, she knew how to be around her, and it made me sad to realize that my girlfriend probably knew how Beth felt. Abused, hurt, damaged. But if Brittany could smile then I knew that Beth would smile as well eventually. She would when she would feel how strong her parents' love was for her.
Brittany put her arm around me and pulled so I would lean on her as her fingers started going up and down my exposed arm.
"I can't express how happy it makes me to be able to close my eyes and know that if something happens to Ali you'll be there for her. It's just such a big relief and I love you." She whispered in my ear, making me close my eyes and sigh as I felt my heart melt inside my chest. I knew that she trusted me with Alice, I had the kid's custody after all, but it always had me looking at her lovingly whenever she was telling me something like that.
"I love you too, baby." I kissed her pierced lips but before my girlfriend could respond to my kiss, we were rudely interrupted.
"That's enough, guys. We all know how lesbian sex works, no need for a reminder." Quinn mumbled as she stood up and came to sit on the other couch.
"How do you know though?" I smirked. She knew because she had caught me a lot of times having sex in the past but she was always the one getting embarrassed about it. Quinn rolled her eyes as Puck seemed to get more and more interested in the conversation.
"Wait a second, I thought you guys didn't have sex that night." Puck said, referring to the night that Will and Emma got married.
"We didn't." I shrugged.
"You're really pushing your luck tonight, baby. If I have to think about you with someone else one more time I'll fucking explode." Brittany whispered in my ear, making me shiver at the possessive tone that clearly showed desire and want. But I didn't have time to respond because Puck spoke up.
"Quinn just wanted to." He said teasingly, making my blonde friend hit him on his arm.
"I was drunk!" She exclaimed and then looked at Brittany. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it, I can't really blame you." Brittany said and I took her hand in mine and brought it up to my lips and kissed her knuckles gently one by one, trying to convey my love for her. She was the one, the only one, and she knew it. Otherwise she wouldn't look at me with blue eyes full of love.
Just then Puck's phone buzzed and he immediately took it from the coffee table.
"She's asking when my birthday is, algebro. She's asking me when my birthday is!" He was obviously excited and I frowned confused.
"Who texted you? Angelina Jolie?" Quinn wondered.
"No, Sugar. My algebro introduced us the other day." He mumbled, making both Quinn and I arch our eyebrows in surprise.
"Sugar?" I asked and looked at my girlfriend questioningly.
"She's crazy enough to put up with Puck." She whispered in my ear, making me chuckle. Brittany was joking but the truth was that I had never seen Puck being so happy for getting a text from a woman. He usually didn't care. Of course Sugar wasn't Quinn, but I still thought that Puck could settle with her, if Sugar wanted to settle as well. "Tell her February 30th." Brittany said and Puck frowned confused.
"But it's not then." He said dumbly, making me roll my eyes.
"Think." Brittany snapped as she reached forward and hit the back of his head again before settling by my side again. February had twenty-eight days, or twenty-nine, and my friend after a few seconds of thinking about it, seemed to realize it too. "If she calls you out on it then marry her." My girlfriend added but then seemed like she regretted what she said. I sighed and ignored it.
"Oh good one." Puck mumbled as he started typing on his phone.
"Sugar." Quinn mused, making Puck turn to her. He stood up and went to sit by her side on the other couch and started showing her his conversation with Sugar. I was glad to see them being friends, it was important for Beth that her parents were getting along so well and I was even more happy to see that my friends were happy too.
I felt Brittany's fingers cupping my jaw and turning my head so I would look at her. She was biting her pierced bottom lip as she studied my face for a few seconds. But I could see the question in her eyes. I shifted so I was fully facing her and took her hand that wasn't around me and brought it on my lap.
"Baby." I whispered, wanting her to tell me what she was thinking. I was aware of Puck and Quinn talking behind me, not giving us attention and so I focused on my girlfriend.
"I just want you to answer to one question." Brittany whispered.
"Ok."
"Are you happy in your life?" She asked me quietly so only I could hear, making me smile.
"I am." I breathed and I couldn't mean it more.
…
"Happy birthday, baby." It was morning and we were in bed with Brittany lying on her stomach and my lips worshipping every single inch of her bare back. Her new tattoo was the biggest she had, starting from the back of her neck and ending up a couple inches above the two that angels she had on her lower back. It was really, really beautiful and I couldn't help but admire the work Jenna did, although she kept teasing me that she had to had her hands on my girlfriend.
"You said that already." Brittany mumbled and I smiled against her skin.
"It's because I really want it to be a happy day." I said, making her smile as well. "So, what do you want to do today?" I asked, although everything was planned already.
"Whatever Ali wants. Besides you'll be working all day." Brittany replied and I sighed.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize for having a job, honey." Brittany immediately told me and I leaned down to kiss her shoulder blade one last time before getting up from bed. I had to get ready for work.
"I'll try to leave as early as I can." I said and Brittany hummed. I bent down to pick up the clothes and underwear that I was wearing last night, frowning when I felt my muscles protesting.
I was sore from the night before because apparently when it was my girlfriend's birthday I had to do whatever she wanted. And I definitely didn't have a problem with that. Especially when what she wanted meant orgasms. So many orgasms.
"These are ruined." I mumbled and Brittany turned to look at the clothes that I was holding. "You're so fucking expensive to be with. Needing new underwear every single day." I added as I threw the clothes away and she huffed.
"Oh please! You make more money than me." She said back and I snorted.
"Yeah, I make more money annually than what you make monthly." I said sarcastically.
"You always have more money than me by the end of every month." She told me pointedly and I shrugged.
"It doesn't mean that I make more than you. And I still don't want to spend it on underwear." I turned to start getting ready for work and I heard Brittany standing up from the bed.
"Well, if the result of my teasing for a whole day is you squirting then…" She trailed off and I felt her arms sliding around my waist from behind as her lips kissed my neck gently. I shivered when I remembered the last night and that she finally made me squirt.
"Not again." I groaned, thinking that now that I had finally taken a shower and managed to not smell like sex anymore, I wanted to keep it that way and not be uncomfortable at work again. It wasn't that difficult to turn me on, Brittany had that effect on me.
"Ok, although it's my birthday and I can do whatever I want." She told me and I rolled my eyes. "You get ready and I'm going to wake up Ali." She kissed my cheek before throwing on shorts and a tank top and leaving the bedroom.
After I got ready I went in the kitchen to find little Alice sitting at the table, eating cereal.
"Good morning, baby." I said softly and she turned to me. She pointed to her cheek, while kept chewing, and so I smiled as I bent down to kiss her cheek. She knew that we don't eat and talk at the same time. She was such a smart kid, she made me proud by doing little things. Just like Brittany. "Where's mommy?" I asked and she frowned as she pointed at me, making me chuckle. "Where's your other mommy?" I asked and she shrugged while going back to her cereal.
I frowned confused because Brittany would sit with Alice every morning until I would get ready for work. But she wasn't there at the moment so I turned to make coffee. And after a couple of minutes Brittany came in the kitchen as well, giving me her phone.
"It's your mom." She mouthed at me and I took the phone to talk to Maribel.
"Hello?"
"Good morning, mija. I just wanted to remind you that you have to let Ali's teacher know that I'd be picking her up today." I sighed and nodded although she couldn't see me. I arched an eyebrow at my girlfriend because she was waiting for me impatiently to give her her phone back.
"I'll take care of that right now, ok?"
"Yes. Well, I'll see you tonight." Maribel said and we exchanged goodbyes before hanging up. But before I had time to take the phone away from my ear, Brittany took it from me. She was acting weirdly, like she was nervous, and it made me frown. She was cryptic with her phone the day before too, and now again, like I couldn't see anything on it.
"Are you cheating on me?" I wondered, although I knew that she wasn't. She was too loving and caring and fully into our relationship, and I could practically feel her love from a mile away. So that wasn't the case.
"No!" She exclaimed with wide eyes.
"Well, ok." I said slowly but before either of us could say anything else, little Alice spoke up.
"I'm ready!" She squealed as she picked up her backpack.
"Let's go." I said and threw one last weird look at my girlfriend. "I'll see you tonight." I said and she swallowed thickly before nodding.
…
The only think I could hear in the empty corridor of the dance studio was the clack of my heels on the marble floor as I was almost running. I was fifteen minutes late because Sugar kept asking me questions that didn't make any sense at all. She was supposed to be here too but she was ready and I wasn't. I had to go home first before coming to the studio.
I tried calling Maribel, Quinn and Brittany but no one answered and the fact that it was silent had me confused. Maybe they were ready for the surprise, I couldn't be later than Brittany, I was sure that she would call me.
And when I finally reached the door of Brittany's room, I frowned because it was closed and it was silent. I sighed and opened the door to see that the lights were off and the only light in the room was coming from the lit candles that were around the perimeter.
"You're late." A melodic voice that I knew very well said. I turned to see Brittany sitting on a chair at the desk, being all dressed up and having her long smooth legs crossed. The candle lights made her look even more beautiful, like an angel. She had her hair held up high in a ponytail, showing off her gorgeous facial features. The fact that her black strapless tight dress that exposed her defined shoulders and flower tattoo on her chest, had risen up and practically revealed her whole tiger tattoo as well, had me momentarily distracted.
"What…" I had no idea what was going on. Brittany wasn't supposed to be there and she wasn't supposed to be dressed up and our friends and family were missing. "Where is everybody?"
"I thought you were here for me." She answered. She obviously knew that I had a surprise for her. And that was why she was acting weird these days.
"I am. I'm just confused. Are you trying to seduce me? Because that'd be mean, you could at least pretend that you were surprised and make me feel like I'm at least a decent girlfriend." I caused Brittany to chuckle and shake her head. "I honestly thought that you had no idea." I mumbled but Brittany turned serious again and looked away from me.
"Have you ever wondered what logic really is? Who decides reason?" She asked me as she watched her finger that started drawing random patterns on the desk. She bit her pierced bottom lip but not before I saw it trembling. I frowned and closed the door behind me as I took a couple hesitant steps towards her.
"Why are you asking me these things? Are you breaking up with me?" I asked, because I really didn't know what else might be going on. My question caused Brittany to quickly look up at me.
"No." She shook her head before returning her attention to her finger. "I just think that any logical reasons can be found only in the mysterious equations of love." She sucked her pierced bottom lip inside her mouth as she looked at me again. I didn't know what to say, I didn't know what she really wanted to say, so I stayed silent. "I kissed you in here for the first time." She added then looking around.
"No-" I went to correct her, to remind her that the first time she kissed me was the day that we pleaded at the court. The day that she was sure that they would take Alice away from her.
"That wasn't a real kiss, that was just a teaser. But here I kissed you for real. I never thought that a kiss could make that to me. I felt like all the walls that I had built up to keep you away from me came tumbling down. With just a touch, you made me yours forever that day." Her hands were shaky as she stood up and smoothed down her dress on her thighs. She turned to the desk for a second before turning to me again.
"Britt." My voice trembled as well as I watched my girlfriend coming to me. She put her arms around me and hugged me tightly against her. I was lost in her aroma that it took me a few seconds to put my arms around her neck too. I couldn't even understand why she was telling me these things.
"I didn't lose but instead I found myself in that kiss, Santana." She pulled back from my neck to reveal her beautiful blue eyes that now were filled with tears. "Your strength made me stronger, you fought for me when I couldn't and you loved me even when I didn't love myself. You are the reason that I can smile and you are the reason that I can cry." She bit her bottom lip as a tear made its way down her cheek, her nostrils flared in her effort to not cry. I wiped her tear away with my thumb before returning my arm around her neck and leaned in to connect our lips.
The fact that I didn't know why she was confessing her love to me didn't mean that I couldn't understand what she was telling me. I knew that Brittany thought crying was a weakness before me, but I was there to hold her while she cried many times. Because of her parents, because of Alice, because of exhaustion but also because of happiness, like I was doing at that moment.
"You are the reason that I am, Santana. You are all my reasons." She sniffled as one hand wiped away more tears that fell from her cheeks and it caused my eyes to water as well. "And so I want to apologize to you for pushing you away from me, for being distant and defensive and I want to thank you." Her voice was shaky as she leaned her forehead against mine.
I was feeling Brittany's whole body against mine and I could feel her breaths hitting my skin and the words that were falling from her lips, made my heartbeats increase and my knees to weaken at the sensation.
"Baby." I breathed but she placed a finger in front of my lips. I started thinking that she might be proposing to me but I knew that she didn't want us to get married so I tried blocking that out of my mind.
"Let me finish." She whispered before taking a deep breath and taking her finger away from my lips. "I want to thank for being there for me, for not giving up on me, for fighting for me and with me, for loving me and for showing that. And I promise that I'll always be there for you, I'll always love you and show it to you and I'll never, ever push you away from me again. Because I'm sure I can't live without you." She kissed my lips for a wet, salty and soft kiss before pulling back again. "And with that promise, I want to ask you one more thing."
"Brittany." My voice was deep because I was actually crying, and my girlfriend was crying too. I could feel my heart beating so fast that I feared it might get out of my chest any moment.
"With that promise I want to ask you to never give up on me, to never stop being there for me and our daughter. I want to ask you to never stop loving me." She took a step away from me, dropping her arms from around me and kneeling on bended knee in front of me, making me widen my eyes. "I want to ask you to spend the rest of your life with me, to make me yours and to be mine. Legally. Forever."
Although I had a suspicion, it still surprised me that she was proposing to me, and so my hands immediately went to hide my face as I felt myself starting to sob. Even when I felt my girlfriend's hand grabbing my arm, I still refused to reveal my face. I just kept crying, relieving myself from the tension that the last month caused me, thinking that the love of my life didn't want to marry me. And so my happy tears kept falling for a couple more minutes. I had felt my girlfriend's hand caressing my arm, soothing me, before finally I took a deep breath and dropped my hands. I looked at the ceiling and chuckled disbelievingly while shaking my head before looking down at Brittany to see that she had a watery smile on her beautiful face while holding a box with a ring in it towards me.
"Santana Lopez, will you marry me?"
"Pierce." I answered and she frowned confused before realizing what I really told her. "Santana Pierce."
"God, Santana. That was the best gift you could ever give me, honey. I love you so much." She took the ring out of the box and took my hand to put it on.
"I love you too." I told her as she kissed my knuckles before dropping my hand, falling completely on both her knees and wrapping her arms around my waist. I tried to tug her up but she refused to move as she cried, hiding her face on my stomach. It caused me to start crying again as well.
"Thank you so much." Her voice was deep because she was fully crying. I could feel her tears going through the material of my dress and wetting my skin.
"Baby, please." I sniffled. I wanted her to get up and hug me but she stayed there, crying her love out to me.
"I love you, Santana. I love you so much." She said between her heavy breathing making me smile as I cupped her cheeks and turned her face up so she would look at me.
"Kiss me, please." I said pleadingly and she wiped her face with her hands before finally standing up. She slid her hands around my waist and brought our bodies completely against each other's before connecting our lips for a soft, loving kiss. A kiss that said everything. A kiss that held a promise, to spend the rest of our lives together, being there for each other and loving each other.
"Do you think our parents are happy for us?" Brittany asked me when she pulled back from my lips. She wiped her cheeks one more time as I did the same.
"I want to believe so, Britt. I want to believe that they're happy because we are happy." I said quietly and Brittany let out a long breath while nodding. "We are, aren't we?" I asked, just to make sure and Brittany smiled.
"Yeah, we are." I smiled too and kissed her lips one more time.
"So, everybody knew that you would propose to me?" I asked when I pulled back from her lips.
"Oh! Wait." She said and pecked my lips one last time before turning away from me, giving me a perfect view of her ass in that tight dress and her long legs in those high heels. She ran to the door and opened it. "Guys, she said yes!" She shouted but then her eyes widened and she quickly turned to me. "You didn't say yes." She told me frowning and I chuckled.
"Of course I'll marry you, baby." She smiled and came to me. She took my hand in both of hers and brought it up to her lips as she started leaving adoring kisses on my knuckles and the back of my hand.
"I love you so much." She whispered against my skin, making me smile.
"I love you too." I thought that I would never get bored of telling her that.
"Did you say yes? Did you say yes?" Alice asked as she came running in the room. I chuckled as Brittany reluctantly let my hand go before I bent down to pick up my daughter.
"Yes."
"I knew it!" She squealed before hugging my neck tightly, making me smile happily. I felt Brittany coming by my side and sliding her arm around my waist as our friends and family came in the room as well. And first of all was Maribel. I let little Alice down before letting my mother hug me properly.
"Maribel wanted to kill me for a whole month, just so you know." Brittany said making me chuckle and Maribel pulled back and rolled her eyes.
"My baby was suffering."
"I know and I was suffering too whenever I saw the uncertainty in her eyes, but I think tonight was a success. She was definitely surprised and she said yes as well so…" Brittany shrugged.
"Oh mija, come here." Maribel said softly and hugged my girlfriend as well. No, not girlfriend. Fiancée. Just then Quinn joined us and I narrowed my eyes at her.
"You bitch!" I exclaimed quietly, making her laugh. I was sure that she was behind all of this.
"I have no idea why you're attacking me." She said while holding up her hands defensively, making me roll my eyes and pull her in my arms.
"Thank you so much, Q." I whispered in her ear and she patted my back.
"Take care of each other." She said and pulled back smiling at me. Just then loud music filled the room and I turned to see Puck at the stereo. He winked at me, making me laugh while shaking my head.
People kept coming to congratulate us through the night. Brittany's surprise was that Linda came from Chicago, so I was somehow proud that I had managed to surprise her as well on her birthday.
I just couldn't contain my smile anymore. I honestly had thought that I was happy, but Brittany proved me wrong by proposing to me and making me feel ecstatic.
"Your dimples are showing." That familiar melodic voice whispered in my ear, making my smile grow even bigger. I felt her arms going around my waist from behind while she started kissing my exposed neck and shoulder.
"That's because I'm happy." And I was. I was probably the happiest person on earth. I remembered Maribel telling me that everything would be as they should be. And she was once again right. Because everything felt right. I was engaged to the love of my life and I had the custody of my child. This time I was sure that I couldn't be happier, that things couldn't get better. But I didn't bet too much on it, because things always got better.
But things could get worse as well. But I had Brittany by my side. I had her for life. And I just knew that with her holding my hand we would get through everything. And our story proved that to me. That we were perfect for each other.
The end.
A.N.: I know I'm not completely done with this story, but for now this is the end. Writing this story had its ups and downs for me but I can honestly say that it was a great experience. Thank you for all your reviews, favorites and follows and spEcial thanks to you, my love.
Until next time.