"Q.."
"Go. Talk to her, call me back."
Quinn hung up the phone which left Santana and Brittany alone.
"What.. are you doing here Britt?"
Brittany walked in, with Caitlyn following behind her. "Isn't it obvious?"
An awkward silence filled the room. Caitlyn made her way around Brittany and walked over to Santana. Quietly she said, "Hey. I'll be in my room if you need me okay. I'm sorry. I tried to get her to leave."
"It's okay," Santana replied. "I'll be okay."
And with that, Caitlyn walked into her room and shut the door.
"I see you're wearing a Yale shirt, must be Quinn's." Brittany said as she sat down on the chair next to the couch. "I saw her post."
"I know, but that doesn't really explain why you're here, Britt." Santana sat on the couch, facing towards Brittany.
"I went to see you, you know. The night of the barbeque. But you were in the shower." Brittany wiped her eyes. She hadn't stopped crying. "She told me nothing was going on between you guys. Obviously I was naive to believe her."
"No she wasn't lying Britt, nothing was going on between us at the wedding." Santana replied. "And yeah, she told me after we got together that you came to the hotel room that night."
Brittany wasn't surprised, she did ask Quinn not to say anything to Santana but she only half believed that she would actually keep her word.
"Okay, so you found out that we're together and you just decided to make the three hour drive to Louisville?" Santana was confused. "I get that it was a surprise, but I mean-"
"A surprise? Yeah, it was. I came because I don't know how you could do this to me Santana."
Santana started to get upset. "How.. I could do this? To you?" She sat up straight. "You got in a relationship before I did. You were all over him at the wedding and the barbeque. I worked my ass off to get over you. And then you get engaged and I was a complete mess."
"And I bet Quinn was there for you."
"So what if she was Britt? You're missing the whole point here. I waited for you. We broke up, and I waited for you. But you chose Sam. Did you expect me to wait forever? To sit there and say, I hope their engagement doesn't work out?"
Brittany looked Santana directly in her eyes. "You broke up with me. And I waited for you. And you weren't ready. Don't twist this around."
"So I'm wrong for getting into a relationship? Brittany, do you realize how selfish you sound right now?"
"Forgive me for being selfish, my two best friends are now dating." Brittany scoffed. "I should've known from that weekend. Tell me, Santana. Did you sleep with her?"
"What the hell does it matter if I did? You're in a relationship Brittany. You're with Sam. Who I'm with shouldn't matter to you. I thought you wanted me to be happy? But here you are, upset that I'm dating Quinn?"
"I guess I got my answer." Brittany rolled her eyes. "I'm here because the engagement with Sam is over. We thought the world was ending, and all we had was each other. But that was when I realized that I didn't want to spend my last days with him. I wanted it to be with you."
Santana's heart ached. For months, all she wanted- was Brittany. Now here she was, in Catilyn's living room. Crying because she just found out that her two best friends are dating.
"I didn't know that."
"Of course you didn't, you think I wanted to call you to tell you that I made a huge mistake saying yes? I don't see a future with Sam, Santana. I can only see it with you. And I know you feel the same way." Brittany got up from her chair and sat next to Santana. "Tell me, how many of those days since the wedding did you spend talking to Quinn about me?"
She didn't know how to answer, cause truthfully- there weren't many. She had spent the days since that horrible weekend asking Quinn about her day, and nights talking to her until they both fell asleep. Quinn was the only person she had on her mind
"Britt, I like Q. She has been there for me when you were no where to be found."
"But I'm here now, San." Brittany grabbed her hands. "I'm here. I want you."
Santana took her hands back, "How about you tell me. How long has it been since you and Sam called off your 'engagement'?" Santana used her hands as quotation marks in the air.
"It's been a couple weeks." She answered. "But-"
"But you're still together."
Brittany put her head down. "Yeah, we are."
"Does he even know you're here Britt?" Santana asked. The anger was building inside of her.
"No, of course he doesn't."
"Brittany. Really think about what you're doing. You're in a relationship. Yet, you're sitting here telling me you want to be with me because what, because of Quinn's post?"
"She lied to me!" Brittany's voice started to get louder. "She lied to me and said nothing was going on."
"And that makes it okay for all of this?" She waved her hands around in the air. "She didn't lie to you!"
"I love you Santana!" She yelled as tears fell. "Is that what you want to hear? I love you. And it hurts knowing that you're with someone else. Especially Quinn."
"No." Santana stood up. "You're here because you're jealous. If it had been anyone else, would you be here right now? Or are you only here because I'm dating Quinn now."
Brittany got off the couch and started walking towards the door. "It's not that! It isn't."
"Then what it is Brittany? Literally everyone is happy for us. Even Sam left a comment on Q's post. Why does this bother you so much?"
"I don't know okay. I don't."
Santana ran her hands through her hair. "Look Britt. I'm happy you're with Sam. It took me a long time to get over you, and I'm finally happy now."
Brittany didn't say anything, her tears just began to fall harder.
"Now you don't have anything to say?"
"I was there Santana. I went to Daytona to see your competition."
Caitlyn had gone into her room and shut the door. Her conversation with Brittany wasn't good to say the least, but she knew she needed to call Quinn.
"Hey. What's going on? When did Britt show up?"
"Not too long ago. Someone knocked on the door when Santana was laying on the couch and when I opened, it was Brittany." Caitlyn replied. "She's basically here because she wants Santana back. But I asked her if she's still with her boyfriend and she told me yeah."
Quinn knew that this would happen. She knew that Brittany was being selfish the night she came up to the hotel room and she was hoping that would've been the end of it. But what surprised her was that she didn't think she'd stoop this low.
"Are they talking now?"
Caitlyn walked up to her door and put her ear against it. "Yeah. I can hear them talking. Santana sounds mad."
Quinn felt bad. Santana knew that Brittany finding out without them telling her themselves would end badly. And that's exactly what happened. But Santana was the one that told her to post. But only because she posted the selfie on snapchat that morning.
"Santana is telling her that it's basically not fair that she's here and that she worked her ass off to get over her."
That was somethin Caitlyn knew all well. She had to cover for her when she took a flight to New York to be around her friend when they first broke up. When she came back, Santana didn't say a word at first. But eventually she opened up and Santana told her everything.
Caitlyn knew the obstacles Santana had to go through, processing that her and Brittany weren't together anymore. They were first loves. High school sweethearts. Brittany was part of the reason she was at Louisville in the first place. Santana had gone back and forth, blaming herself for the hurt she was going through. All the late nights of reassuring Santana that it wasn't her fault had paid off because she started getting better by the day. Then she went off to the wedding, and Quinn got back into her life.
"She did that. She worked hard to get to where she is. And now that she's happy Brittany happens to show up?"
"Brittany's being selfish." Quinn replied. Her adrenaline was pumping. She had left her roommates in the living room and had gone outside to smoke a cigarette. "What else are they saying?"
"Not much. Oh no fucking way. Brittany was in Daytona."
Quinn was taken aback. Daytona? Neither of them had seen her there. She really didn't expect Brittany to show up either, but she was wrong.
Beep. Quinn looked at her phone to see Mercedes calling.
"Hey, keep an eye out for Santana okay? I got another call."
"I will."
Quinn clicked answer. "Hey Mercedes what's up?"
"I wanna start with, I'm happy for you girl! You and San? I never saw it coming, but you guys are so cute together!"
Quinn laughed, "Thanks Mercedes."
"Okay. So.. I think we both knew there would be drama with this. Brittany apparently lost her shit during Glee practice and walked out and no one has heard from her since."
"Yeah, she's in Louisville right now." She replied. "Her and San are talking right now."
"Alright. Cause the Glee Club has been hitting everyone up. You didn't see the group chat?"
After her senior year, the Glee Club decided to make a group chat with the alumni's that helped win their first Nationals. A few weeks before the wedding, Quinn had to put the chat on silent because the amount of texts coming through at all hours of the night was ridiculous. She put Mercedes on pause and went to check the thread. Sam was asking if anyone had seen where Brittany had taken off to, and he was getting replies from everyone. Even Rachel and Kurt.
"Damn they're going all out in there." Quinn said as she lit another cigarette.
"Oh no. Another cig. You're stressed." Mercedes sat back in her chair. "Tell me about her, Quinn. How did this happen? The wedding?"
"I mean, yeah. The wedding started it. But the feelings weren't there until after. They kind of grew over time. She's so, fantastic Mercedes. I see now why Brittany was so in love with her all in high school. She's a different Santana. It's crazy."
"We all knew that deep down inside, that was the real Santana. She showed that side of her sometimes to us but mostly to Brittany."
"She's perfect. I haven't been this happy like- ever. If I really think about it. You don't think Brittany is gonna try and ruin that do you?"
"Honestly? I feel like Brittany is capable of a lot of things. But that isn't one of them. Santana is loyal. If she's with you, she's with you." Mercedes got up form her chair and brought her over to the kitchen.
The surroundings looked familiar, Mercedes was in Rachel's apartment.
Kurt was cooking dinner and Mercedes walked over to allow Kurt to say hello.
"Hey Kurt."
"Hey Q. Congrats on the new relationship!"
"Thank you. I really love how supportive you guys are. I sometimes forget that." Quinn placed her cigarette butt in the astray but remained on the chair on the patio. "Are you all caught up on what's going on?"
"Yeah, so Brittany is in Louisville right now?" Kurt asked.
"Mhmm. Her and San are talking right now. Her roommate is there too so if it gets too crazy she'll step in."
"I'm sorry this is happening to you guys. Everyone deserves to be happy." Kurt turns towards Mercedes. "Especially Santana. She was a mess when she came up here."
"Wait what?"
"She didn't tell you?" Kurt took the phone from Mercedes and sat at the island countertop in the kitchen. Mercedes followed. "Well, when Brittany and Santana first broke up, Santana flew up here. She left school and showed up on our front door step. She was a mess, Quinn. Santana didn't sleep, she didn't eat. She couldn't go home to Lima because it was just too hard and she had no where else to go. She wanted to be around people she knew."
"San was drinking heavily, drunk most nights and crying during the day. Brittany broke her. Rachel and I didn't know how we were going to get her back on track. We had to call Mercedes to come up here because we didn't know what else to do."
"Why didn't you guys call me?" Quinn asked. "I would've came."
"You were MIA at the time, Q. We had no idea what you were up to." Mercedes told her.
Quinn knew they were right. She had lost touch with them for a while, and so she understood why they didn't call her.
"One day she just, woke up and was herself again. It was strange. But, she got her shit together and then went back to Louisville and everything was fine after that. Maybe she just needed to be around people she knew or needed a break from Louisville but either way, she got better after that." Kurt said.
"Hey, where's Rach?"
"Oh- she uh, left a while ago honestly. Said she had to go and take a walk."
Quinn sat silently, knowing that Brittany wasn't the only person who seemed affected by their new relationship.
"Hey I'll catch up with you guys later okay? I'm gonna call San's roommate back and see what's going on."
"Alright. Love you Q." They said.
"Love you guys. Talk to you later."
Quinn grabbed yet another cigarette out from her pack and lit it. She only chain smoked when she was incredibly stressed and even with finals upon her she hadn't done this yet. She was worried about Santana, because this was a lot all at once. Especially with Brittany wanting her back.
She really liked Santana.
Quinn clicked on Caitlyn's name and pressed call. When she answered, her phone was facing towards the ground. Caitlyn had answered it but was now outside in the living room. Quinn put herself on mute so she wouldn't give away that she was on the phone. She listened as Caitlyn tried to moderate what was a screaming match between Santana and Brittany.
"Choose Santana. It's Quinn, or me."
Almost immediately, Santana said "Quinn. You going behind Sam's back today like this Britt, show's me that you aren't the same person I was dating before."
Quinn was absolutely silent. Her cigarette still burning, the ashes falling and hitting the ground.
Brittany didn't say anything, all that was heard was the opening of the front door and then it closing.
"You okay San?" Caitlyn finally asked, breaking the silence. "I know that Brittany showing up was unexpected."
"Yeah; I'm good. I just wanna talk to Q."