Chapter 2

I wake up and immediately reach for the painkillers that I know are waiting for me with a glass of water on the bedside table. I swallow the pills then chug the water. I slowly make my way out of bed and into the kitchen where I know another 'apology breakfast' is waiting for me.

Costa is at the table cutting up his pancakes as neatly as possible while Callie is stuffing her face with as much food as she possibly can.

"Slow down angel, your food isn't going anywhere." I hear Adrian tell her. "Good morning beautiful." He says to me but I don't look at him. I keep my eyes focused on the kids.

"Good morning." I smile at the kids. "Good morning babies."

"Morning mami." Costa looks up at me with a toothy smile.

"I'm not a baby mami!" Callie pouts.

"Oh you're not?" Adrian asks. She shakes her head in response because her mouth is too full to speak. "That's too bad because I had a surprise for my babies today but I guess it's just for Costa now."

"No daddy! I want a surprise! I want a surprise! I'm still a baby, look!" She starts sucking her thumb.

"Callie don't suck your thumb." I try to say sternly but I can't help but smile at her antics.

"What's the surprise daddy?" Costa asks.

"Well, since daddy gets to stay home with you and mami today, I was thinking we could all go do something fun." Adrian looks over to me. "What do you think sweetheart?"

"Umm well Sarah and I planned on taking the kids to the park today. I didn't know you would be home. I-I'll just call her to reschedule." I reply looking down at my plate. Sarah is our neighbor. It's been a while since I spent time with her. She and her husband Sam have a 4 year old son named Jackson. They're a nice enough couple but Adrian isn't too fond of Sam. Sam is one of the agents at the firm and he thinks he stares at me too long whenever we see them. He also thinks Sarah talks too much.

"No it's fine. I'll just join you." He says as I hear him get up from the table.

"Yay! We gonna go to the park!" Callie cheers and Costa smiles but it falters as he seems to notice something.

"What happened to your lip mami? You fell?" My eyes widen at the question. The kids aren't ever supposed to see any of my cuts and bruises.

"Santana, can you help me find something in the basement." Adrian says as he walks out of the kitchen.

"C-coming." I reply nervously. I look over to the kids and say "When you're finished go up to room and play until it's time to get dressed ok?" They both nod and I kiss them on top of their heads as I leave.

Adrian was upset that I made plans with Sarah without his permission and the fact that the kids noticed my lip didn't help the situation. He yelled at me for a while and promised that he would deal with me when we get back from the park.

"Get the kids ready." He tells me. I nod and head towards the stairs. Before I can reach the bottom step he grabs me by my stomach where he knows it's bruised and squeezes hard. I whimper as he turns me around and pulls me into a rough kiss.

When he lets go, I walk up the stairs as fast as I possibly can without running. I look for the twins and find them in Costa's room coloring.

"Costa pick out what you want to where while I bathe your sister." They both look up at me with a confused expression on their faces. Costa nods and Callie and I go through the door that connects their rooms. I let her pick an outfit for the day and we head to the bathroom.

"Mami your eyes are raining! Did you get a boo boo?" Callie asks me with a worried look. My eyes widen as I reach up and touch my cheek and realize that I am in fact crying.

"No mija. I'm just really happy. It's happy rain baby." I reply with what I hope is a smile. The kids are never supposed to see me cry. Ever. My response seems to excite her and she starts to splash around in the bath. "Calmate sweetie."

"Sorry. Why are you happy mami?"

"Because I have the best and cutest kids ever!" I say while tickling her, this time with a genuine smile on my face.

Once I finished bathing the twins I hopped in the shower. I must have forgotten to lock the door because I heard the door open and then the shower door. Adrian gets in behind me and starts kissing down my neck and back. I try to keep myself from trembling while he runs his hands up and down my sides. They eventually end on my breasts and he squeezes them hard.

"W-what about the kids?" I ask hoping that he'll stop.

"They're fine. I told them to stay in their rooms and play until it's time to go. Don't worry about them." He says as he brings his right hand down to my clit and rubs it slowly. "I know you want me baby. Are you ready for me?" He asks as he rubs himself against my ass.

He doesn't wait for an answer. He pushes me against the shower wall and slams himself inside of me. I hiss in pain but I know not to make more noise than that. He continues thrusting into me fast and hard. He grabs my hair and yanks my head back hard. His thrusts become more frantic and uneven so I know he's almost done.

After one long and hard thrust, he empties himself inside of me. He pulls out panting and places a kiss on my shoulder and then my cheek. He turns me around to look at him.

"You know I love you right baby? More than anything." I just nod and he places a soft kiss on my lips and gets out of the shower. "We're leaving soon."

We meet Sarah and Jackson at the park at around 11:30. She was already there pushing Jackson in one of the swings. He's got the biggest smile I've ever seen on a kid. It takes up nearly half of his face. He definitely got that from Sam. He has the biggest mouth I've ever seen on a human being. It's actually pretty distracting whenever I talked to him.

Jackson's attention is on us when he hears Costa call his name. His smile got even bigger if that's at all possible. Sarah looked over and smiled as well. She took Jackson off the swing and walked over to us. She gives me a hug and I flinch a little when her forearm presses on the side of my stomach where Adrian kicked me. If she noticed she doesn't show it. She greets Adrian politely.

"Hey Sarah." Adrian nods to her. "I'm gonna watch the kids play." He tells me before kissing my cheek and walking towards the playground after the kids.

"We haven't done this in so long. Have you been avoiding me because of what happened last time?" She jokes with a playful smirk that quickly turns into a frown when I don't answer. "Come on San that was like 3 months ago." I look over at the kids and she follows my line of vision then she starts to panic. "Oh my God! Did you tell Adrian? Is that why he's here? He doesn't want me alone with you anymore? Is he gonna tell Sam? Shit shit shit shit shit!" She mutters under her breath.

"What? No! I didn't tell Adrian. He'd k-…" I stop myself before it's too late.

"He'd what San?"

"Umm nothing. He'd be so upset and hurt."

"Right." She says eying me suspiciously. "Look, I'm sorry that I kissed you. I was a little bit drunk and mad at Sam." She grabs my hand and looks me in the eyes. I tried to look away and focus on something else but I just couldn't. "And you were just there for me. I didn't mean to freak you out or anything. I'm really sorry." She finishes with a sad smile.

I get this weird feeling in my stomach. It's the same feeling I got the night she kissed me.

Flashback

I had just finished putting the kids to bed and decided I wanted to watch a movie. I looked through my DVD collection and picked out Sweeney Todd. I love singing along with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. I popped the DVD in and plopped on the couch. As soon as I pressed play I heard a knock at the door. It couldn't be Adrian, he was supposed to be gone the whole week, I thought to myself. As I got closer to the door I heard what sounded like sobs. I checked the peephole and saw Sarah standing there crying her eyes out.

"Sarah, what's wrong? Are you ok? Where's Jackson?" I ask as I open the door and pull her inside. "Where's Sam? What happened?"

She just kept crying so I pulled her into the living room and down on the couch with me. I just sat there and held her until she calmed down enough to speak.

"Sam is an asshole." She mumbles. Her voice muffled by my shoulder.

"Why do you say that love?"

"I asked him if he could cut back his hours at the office so that he could spend more time with me and his son and he got all pissy. Telling me that he has to work so many hours to support my ridiculous shopping habits. Then he insulted my cooking. A-and he said I'm a bad mother!" She started crying again.

"Hey shhh. It's ok. You know you're not a bad mother. Jackson loves you so much. You're practically raising him yourself."

"San I think he's cheating on me." She said while sniffling. "What's wrong with me? Am I not pretty enough? Didn't I shed enough weight after I had Jackson?"

"Hey, look at me." I said lifting her chin up to look at me. "You are an amazing mother. You're smart and funny. And you're beautiful Sarah. I doubt that there is anyone who disagrees with me on that. And if Sam can't see that then you don't nee-"

I was cut off by her lips crashing into mine. I sat that there unmoving and in shock before I closed my eyes and started kissing her back. The kiss was so much more passionate and gentle than what I was used to. Adrian never kissed me like this. It felt like my stomach was doing somersaults and backflips. It was an amazing feeling.

I snapped back to reality when I felt her hands in my hair. I pulled back from the kiss and just stared at her. She smiled at me and I pushed her off of me and ran into the bathroom.

"Santana..." She called after me. She knocked on the bathroom door. "San. Please come out. I'm s-"

"I-I think you should go Sarah."

"San"

"Just go!" I shouted, then continued barely above a whisper. "Please."

"Sarah its fine. I've just been spending a lot of time with the kids because they start school next month and I wanted to spend as much time as I can with them." I return her smile. "I'm over it." I lied. "So we don't need to discuss it anymore."

She nods in response and turns to watch Jackson play.

"Mami! Daddy says we gonna get pizza!" Callie runs over and tells me excitedly.

"That's great baby. Where's your brother?"

"He's inside the big slide. He doesn't wanna come out. He didn't even listen to daddy." My head snaps to the slide immediately. I see Adrian at the bottom of the slide probably telling Costa to come down.

As I approach them I can hear Adrian raising his voice.

"Costica, come down right now!"

"I can get him." I say timidly. He turns around to glare at me. "It scares him when you yell."

"Whatever." He huffs and takes Callie to the car.

"Hey mijo it's mami." I say quietly so I don't frighten him. "Come on slide down so we can get pizza. I bet daddy will let you get your favorite kind." I hear a sniffle and immediately start to worry. "Baby are you ok? Are you hurt?"

"N-no." He replies. "I'm scared mami. It's too high." He starts to cry harder now and it breaks my heart.

"Ok baby, what if I come up and go down with you? Will you go down then?"

"I dunno."

"Come on baby I'll protect you and keep you safe. It'll be fun."

"You p-promise?"

"I promise baby." I say as climb the ladder to the slide and Costa is sitting there with his knees against his chest. "Come on. Sit in my lap and we'll go down."

He does as I say and I count to three and we slide down. He starts to laugh when he feels the butterflies in his stomach.

"See it wasn't so bad huh?"

"No it was fun!" He exclaims.

"I told you. Now come on let's go get pizza." I pick him up and carry him to the car where Callie and Adrian are waiting.

After I got the kids settled in the car, I moved to get in car myself. Adrian grabbed my arm, stopping me in my tracks.

"You need to stop babying him Santana. My son will not be a sissy." He growled in my ear through gritted teeth. I nodded my head quickly and got in the car as soon as he let go.