Hello, I've been busy these past few days and haven't had time to write but I got this chapter finished and hopefully it's okay. In other news, today was the first day back to school for me and I already miss summer! Anyway, please tell me what you think! Review/fav/follow :)
Ninety eight
Ninety nine
One hundred
Sitting up, I wipe the sweat from my forehead. Coach Sue has been making us do training drills all day to get in shape. Beside me, Santana takes a sip from her water while trying to catch her breath. It's been a few days since the whole jerk in the hallway situation and things have been pretty intense. Some of the Cheerio's have been making snide comments and calling Santana and me names, not that it bothers me, but I can see that it's having a bad effect on San. She keeps telling me that she's okay and that it doesn't matter what they think of her, though I know it hurts her. I just want her to be happy. I want to smack that smirk of Kitty's face, but if I do, it could make everything worse.
"Britt, are you listening to me?" Santana's soft voice pulls me from my thoughts.
I grab my water and unscrew the cap. "Sorry, I was daydreaming." I apologize. The water trickles down my throat and I wonder if I'm ever going to be able to control it like the fire.
"I asked you if we're all hanging out tonight." She replies, referring to the girl's night that Quinn and I had planned. Having all my friends know about San and me is amazing. I love being able to hold her hand in public and kiss her whenever or where ever I want. They all really like San. Well, all of them bar Kurt. He's taking his time in coming around to liking her, but ever since San gave him the latest Vogue magazine – one that he had yet to get – he's been slight better about the whole deal.
Standing up, I offer a hand to my girlfriend which she accepts and I pull her to her feet. "Yeah, it's going to be so much fun!" A rush of excitement runs through my body at the thought of all of us bonding together.
Santana opens her mouth to say something, but the sound of Sue's voice booming through her megaphone beats her. "Everyone grab a gun!" She yells. "Not you, Jewfro! You're out!" Sue shouts at Jacob and I watch him scamper of with tears in his eyes.
Grabbing two guns, Santana hands me one and we jog over to the targets. I see Rachel holding her gun on her shoulder to my other side as she shoots and hits the targets face, close to the bull's eye. I position my gun so that it's resting on my shoulder and bring it up so that I can aim. Taking a deep breath, I aim at the targets heart and pull the trigger, watching as it hits perfectly in the centre of the heart. My reactions have been getting with time which I guess is good if I don't want to die. Even the slight force that comes back when I shoot doesn't faze me anymore.
A few more shots later Sue calls us over, "Gather around ladies." She commands us. Everyone stands in a circle with Coach Sue in the middle. "The time for attach is drawing closer and I still have too many people on my team. So here's what's going to happen; I'm giving each of you a paintball gun and sometime – it could be day or night or even during school – you will hear a loud alarm and when you do, you grab your gun and fight each other. The last fifteen standing will be the going on the mission. Those who lose will be humiliated publicly. Do I make myself clear?" Each of us nods our head, slightly frightened of the look in her eyes. "Good, now back to training!" Sue yells.
The next part of training was working with our abilities. It's my favourite part. We are given things like knives or bow and arrows, but we have to use our powers alongside them. It's meant to make it feel more realistic because if we are faced with hunters we will probably have some kind of weapon.
Basically, you have to stand in the centre podium and all along the outside are targets that lay flat against the ground. When one of the targets fly up, you has to hit it as fast as you can before a different target appears. Fist size balls are thrown at you and if you get hit by one, then you lose.
I take my place in the middle while others do the same in different areas. When I flick my wrist, the top of the lighter flips open and a flame appears, spreading across to the palm of my hand. I can feel it tingle and try to imagine the pain, but it's just not there. On the other podiums, I see Rachel who has several knives in her hands. Her ability is more of a defence and not attack. The light catches of the force field she has built around her and it shimmies a little. On the podium next to her is Santana. I can't help but get distracted by the way she lazily flips the razor sharp knife in the air and grabs it perfectly each time. Santana's brown eyes catches mine and she grins at me before winking and turning her head to focus.
A smile takes hold of my face, but is soon wiped away when the whistle blows indicating that the training has started. None of the targets in front of me are up so I swing my body around, finding one. In a split second I create a fire ball and hurl it at the head of the large piece of metal, leaving a scorch mark in its place. The sound of movement behind me makes spin on my heals; only to find another metal target standing and I quickly hit it back down. Suddenly, a balls flies out of nowhere and I dodge it by an inch, mentally scolding myself for not paying better attention.
I slide my hand down to my belt and feel for the cold metal blade and wrapping my fingers around it. When the next target appears, I pull the knife from my belt and fling it towards the head, but I miss and hit the neck. I guess that doesn't really count as a fail, the person still would have died...
Six minutes later, another whistle goes off, telling us that we're done. I hop of the podium and see Santana making her way to me. Scanning her targets, I laugh lightly to myself. She literally destroyed it. One of the targets is even cut in half!
"Hey, baby." Santana says while linking her arm through mine. My smile widens at the word 'baby'.
"Hey, you we're so good! How did you cut the metal in half?" I ask. Santana gives me a sly grin, but doesn't reply which makes me slightly concerned by how she actually done it.
Sue raises her megaphone to her lips and says, "Mediocre." You would think that that means we weren't good, but coming from Sue, it means a lot. "Don't forget to take a gun." She adds, pointing to large bucket with the guns from training in it. San and I grab one each and take a few gun magazines filled with ammo.
"I need to get a shower and pick up some things for tonight, so meet you back at your place soon?" I nod my head and Santana grabs my hand to come closer to me and kisses my cheek. My heart flutters. San isn't that comfortable with PDA and it makes my heart beat slightly faster when she does things like that.
"Yeah, I'll see you later."
"...uby...unn...ie..." I clutch my stomach as tears roll down my cheeks from laughter. Tina tries to chew and swallow the ungodly amount of marshmallows in her mouth. All the girls in my house as well as Kurt and Santana are sitting in a circle in the living room playing 'chubby bunnies' while telling funny stories.
I lay my head on Santana's shoulder, still giggling. "I think one of the funniest things I've even seen was," Quinn starts. I immediately know what she going to say and bury my face in my hands, groaning "...was when Brittany here decided-"
"I didn't want to go, Jamie made me."
"- was made to go to a house party. She had so much to drink, it was hilarious! Did you know she turns into a striper drunk?" I felt Santana's body shaking with laughter beside me as Quinn continued. "So she takes of her top and then vomits on herself, forgets that she's covered in sick and hugs this bitch Jessica! I mean it, you should have saw Jessica's face, she was so pissed at you!"
Heat spreads across my face in embarrassment. "I wasn't that bad."
Raising one eyebrows, Quinn says, "Oh really, so you can remember that whole night?" I sigh in defeat.
"Aww, don't worry Britt, I turn into a weepy drunk." Santana comments, "Come on, let's go get more food." She says, grabbing my hands and pulling me up. San's hand laces around mine and we walk to the kitchen with smiles on our faces.
Santana grabs a bowl of chips of the counter, but before she can move back, I wrap my arms around her from behind and leave light kisses along her neck and jaw. "I love you so much." I whisper softly in her ear. I feel her shiver below me and take it as a good sign.
Forgetting the bowl, Santana turns to face me and slides her arms around my neck. "Brittany, I don't think 'love' is a strong enough word to describe how I feel about you." She talks in a hushed tone. My heart misses a beat. I lean into her and press my lips to her soft ones. Our lips are perfect for each other; I can't imagine kissing someone else and it feeling this amazing. Our kiss is sweet, not rushed or hungry, just full of love. My hands dropped down to her hips and I squeezed them causing San to pull me in closer to her.
"What do you say if we ditch girl's night and have a girl's night of our own?" I breathe against Santana's lips and she lets out a breath.
Giving me a small push, Santana creates space between us. "As much as I'd love to – and I really would love to – we can't." With that she grabs the bowl and heads back to the others, but not before looking over her shoulder and saying, "Maybe later," and winking making me legs turn to jelly.
"Shh this is my favourite part!" Rachel announces into the dark room in which no one is talking. Her and Kurt are surrounded by used tissues and are mouthing the words to the movie – musical? – that's playing on the TV. I would be paying attention if I wasn't comfortably nested in-between Santana's legs while we lie on the couch. Tina and Mercedes are both bundled up on beanbags on the ground and Quinn is sitting on the love seat watching whatever was on TV. The others might not be able to tell, but I can easily see that she is crying silently along with Rachel and Kurt.
Santana's head is propped on my shoulder and her arms are around my waist. I run my fingers up and down her arms under the blanket that we took from Tina. San's breath tickles my neck and she makes small shapes with the thumbs on the skin under my top that has risen up slightly. Dipping her hands down lower, she plays with the waist band of the sleep shorts I'm wearing. I stop the movement of my fingers on her arms and feel her smirk against my shoulder. Travelling lower, Santana reaches my underwear and my body tenses. As much as we shouldn't be doing this right here, I'm so turned on. I grip the blankets in attempt to control my breathing, but I lose it when she puts pressure on my damp centre.
"You okay, Britt?" Mercedes asks from her place on the floor. My eyes snap opens and I quickly nod my head.
"Yeah... I just... um really like this part."
I hear Rachel gasp and know we've been caught. "You're right! This part is outstanding!" I let out a sigh of relief which instantly turns into a moan when Santana runs her fingers through my wet folds. Biting my lip, I pray to God that no one heard me.
"Something wrong?" Santana hotly purred in my ear. My eyes roll to the back of my head. The door to the room suddenly flies open and Puck walks in.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt; I just need to talk to Quinn for a second." Quinn stands up and walks out with Puck, just as the credits begin to roll meaning the end of the movie. Everyone gets up to stretch and Santana removes her hand. I don't know if I should be thankful or if I should miss is. Either way, I roll of San and onto my feet, but almost fall back down when I see her sucking on the fingers that had just been down my pants. My mouth hangs open and San just gives me a sly smirk.
"You know what, it's getting late and I should probably be getting back before Sue kills me." Santana lies perfectly. I know she's just doing this so that as soon as she walks out the front door, she'll just teleport up to my room and be waiting for me. "Tonight was really fun," She say's to all of us, "Thanks for inviting me."
San gives everyone a hug, even Kurt who is still a bit iffy on our relationship. When she finally gets to me, I hug her tightly whispering 'I love you in her ear' and grinning when she say's it back. Ten minutes later when the rest of us go to bed, I find her sitting in my room waiting for me, just as I thought.
Next day in school.
Santana slams her locker shut and shoots daggers from her eyes at the Cheerios standing a few meters away from her. I give her shoulder a gentle squeeze.
"Don't worry about them," I say in a hushed tone, "It doesn't matter what they think of us." San's eyes meet mine and I can see that she's hurting. I ball my fists up with anger. Why can't they just leave us alone? I know it's Kitty who is behind the entire name calling. If she would stop then the rest of her dumb flock would.
"They're just jealous of what we have." Santana say, well more like reassures herself and takes hold of my hand, leading me through the lockers and past the girls.
We almost make it out, but just as San reaches for the door, Kitty shouts out, "Hey! Santana Lezpez!" And that's when something inside me snaps.
I drop Santana's hand, turn back and march up to Kitty. "What is your problem!?" I yell at her. To be honest, she looks kind of surprised I even said anything. "Why are you always picking on us?"
I feel San's hand trying to pull me away by my arm, but I yank it back. "No, Santana. I'm so sick of her treating us and my house like this!"
Kitty takes a step forward so she is right up in my face. "Maybe I don't like the way you shove your disgusting relationship in my face. I don't like the way you hold hands with your girlfriend in the hallways where I have to walk."
I roll my eyes at her. "Don't you get it? No one cares what you think! No one cares that I'm gay except you" I reply in a frustrated tone because she is the cause of why people like Santana, Kurt and I get bullied, because she doesn't like it. I can feel my hands begin to tingle and decide to leave before I make an even bigger scene. "Let's go. She's not worth it. " I say to San.
Kitty sniggers. "Look girls, she's turned Lezpez in to a little bitch."
I clench my eyes shut, begging that my body drags me away before I do something stupid. But the way Kitty laughs just pushes me over the edge. "Screw it." I go back over to her and shove her into the lockers.
"Britt, don't-" Before Santana can even finish her sentence, Kitty has gotten back up and pushed me onto the floor. I flick the lighter open and watch the flame appear, but that's all that happens. It doesn't move to the palm of my hand like it normally does. I can still feel the tingling sensation that is always there when this happens, but it's different somehow.
"Looks like you're not so brave now, huh?" Kitty smirks. She takes a step closer and looms over my body, about to do something, but Santana kicks her to the ground. All the other girls just watch with wide eyes. The shock of not being able to use the fire still has me on the floor, although we I see Kitty speeding towards Santana, my brain finally works again. I jump to my feet and use my training to protect me against the punches that she is throwing at me. Kitty lands on the ground with a thud and I see that Santana hit her square in the jaw. It's probably going to bruise.
Picking up her bag, San acts as though nothing happened and begins walking to the door. "Coming?" She asks. I'm about to reply when I catch her staring at something with a strange look on her face. "Your hand..."
I scrunch my eyebrows up, unsure of what she means until I feel coldness. I lift my hand up to my face. In the middle where there would normally be a flame, there is a ball of water.
Santana pulls me into an empty classroom to get away from the Cheerios and inspects my hand. "Where is it coming from?" She questions.
Shrugging my shoulders, I lift up my right hand, flick the lighter and watch as the flame finally spreads to the middle of my hand like normal. In my lift hand is water and in my right is a flame. I curl my fingers into fists and they both disappear. I guess I really haven't learnt how to control this after all.
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