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"Her... ex?"
"It's no big deal really, San dated her during, what? Sophomore year yeah Jen?"
Jen nodded, as she continued the conversation she was having with Kalei.
"Yeah, well they dated for about a year I think. She cheated on Santana, and she was so heartbroken over it." Rachel was getting out of the van now, followed by Brittany. "It took us a long time to help her get over it. That song was like, the theme song for the summer after sophomore year. She wouldn't quit playing it."
"Kehau! (Ke-how)" A Konawaena girl was calling Santana's ex over to their dugout.
"That's her name, Kehau." Brittany continued looking at the girl who was now running over to the rest of her team. She wondered how a person could hurt Santana the way she did. She knew that she would never do that to her, Santana is an amazing person and she would never want to see her hurt.
"What did she do? I mean, did she break up with Santana because of the distance?"
"Distance? No no, it was nothing like that. Or so Kehau claims. It was super dumb, something like she said that she would never see Santana even though she came out to Kona almost every weekend. She ended up leaving her for some girl that lived in Oahu, which meant that she was foreal not gonna see her cause they lived on different islands."
"That is really dumb, actually." Brittany placed her bag down on the bench in the dugout and walked over to where Santana was standing with Angel and Wehi. "Babe?"
"Yeah? Whatsup B?" Brittany leaned in and kissed her. Santana smiled halfway through the kiss. "What's that for?"
"Just to let you know that I love you."
The team got ready to warm up and made their way onto the field. Konawaena's field was similar to Pahoa's, just without the buildings. The field was open and there wasn't anything to stop it once it got past you. As the game was about to start, the sun came out from behind the clouds and shone down onto the field. Honoka'a was up to bat first. Rachel started the game off great with a liner that became a triple off of a Konawaena error. As Brittany stepped into the batters box, she surveyed the field to see who was playing where. She looked at the pitcher, who she realized was Santana's ex.
She wasn't the fastest, but her accuracy was on point. The first pitch was a slider, which put her ahead in the count 0-1. The second was a fastball on the outside corner, which were Brittany's favorite types of pitches. She swung and hit a hard grounder to the second baseman who just missed it. She made it on to first base safely, while bringing Rachel home.
Nalani stepped up to the plate and was very quickly behind in the count, 0-2. On the next strike she swung and hit a grounder that caused the second baseman to fumble and Brittany got by her safely, although Nalani was called out at first. Santana stepped up and looked super eager to hit. She never waved her bat around when she was about to hit but today she was. She was well aware that her ex was pitching, and so of course she had to hit. There was no way she was going to let Kehau strike her out.
The first pitch was a ball. Second was way too outside. Kehau was trying to make adjustments, but it wasn't working because on the third pitch she hit Santana on her side. Santana dropped her bat and hunched over in pain, trying to catch her breath. Brittany wanted to step off of second base to help her girlfriend but Coach Sue signaled for her to stay put. Rachel ran out of the dugout to check on Santana, with Coach Sue making her way from where was standing by third base.
A couple of the Konawaena girls were snickering, like Kehau had done it on purpose. And if she did, then that would be fucked up and Brittany wasn't going to have any of that. Santana walked it off and ran over to first base, with the crowd clapping. Brittany glanced over at her hoping that their eyes would meet but Santana was still rubbing her side.
By the time the inning was over, Honoka'a was up 4-0. They took the field and Rachel put in a couple warm up pitches before the first Konawaena player stepped into the batters box. Rachel struck her out with the first three pitches and the Konawaena crowd was quiet.
As the sixth inning came to a close, Honoka'a was leading 9-7. They didn't get any runs in the top of the seventh, which left the score what it was. All they needed to do was hold them off and they'd have it in the bag.
There were two outs and the bases were loaded. Rachel was ahead in the count quickly, pulling off 0-2. The next pitch was a low strike and the girl swung and the ball came bouncing hard up the center of the field. Brittany ran forward, knowing that the infielders wouldn't bet able to get it.
As the ball got closer, Brittany put her glove out. It hit a knick in the ground and bounced to the right of her and got by. Brittany turned and bolted for it. The ball was traveling fast and she knew that if she didn't get to it in time, then all three runners that were on base would score and they'd lose.
The crowd was going crazy, which only made Brittany's adrenaline pump even more. She finally got to the ball and grabbed it and threw it in to Wehi. But by the time she got the ball, the runners had come home and the batter was on third.
The game was over, and they had lost by one. Brittany was taking it the hardest, being that it was because she missed the grounder that brought three runs home. The team kept trying to reassure her that it wasn't her fault but she couldn't shake the feeling. They were walking towards the van when Rachel ran up to Brittany and walked along side of her.
"Britt come on, don't even worry about it." Rachel was struggling to get her bag on her shoulder. Her ice pack was huge today, and she was trying not to have it slip off. Brittany grabbed it from her and threw it on her shoulder instead. "Thanks."
"No problem. And trust me, I'm trying to shake it okay but I can't." Brittany placed her bag on her seat in the van and threw Rachel's next to hers. "Why aren't we leaving yet again?"
"Konawaena always has a potluck after the game. Coach Sue is really good friends with their coach so we always stay because she wants to talk story with her."
It wasn't really what Brittany wanted to hear. All she wanted to go was go home and lay on her bed and sulk in her own misery. She was very upset about the way she performed during the game.
Kalei came over to where Brittany and Rachel were talking and grabbed onto both of them and started to drag them towards where the food was lined up on the tables. "I'm hungry you guys. Come on. No one wants to go up with me and I don't want to go by myself."
"You could've just asked, we'll go with you."
Brittany was looking around for Santana now, and she found her sitting with Angel and Tash. As they grabbed the first plates, everyone started to line up behind them. Once she made her plate, Brittany sat down with her friends and began to eat her food. She was feeling a little better now, and hopefully she'd be able to shake off the feeling that she had disappointed her team.
Santana was standing in line with Angel and Tash waiting to get food when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Can we talk?" It was Kehau.
"I don't know, can we?" Santana really didn't want to talk to her.
"Come on, San. Don't be like that. Please? Give me five minutes." She turned to Angel, who was giving her a disapproving look. "Five minutes. That's all I want."
Santana scanned the group of people to look for Britt. She was sitting with the rest of the team, laughing and looking like she was having a good time. Santana didn't want to ruin that, knowing that she was very upset about the game. The last thing she wanted was for Brittany to see something and misinterpret what was going on.
"Can you take my plate to the table. I won't be long." She handed her plate to Tash and she took it over to the table. She turned back to Kehau. "Five minutes. That's all you get."
They walked to the empty table that was beside them and sat down facing each other.
"Okay so first off, I'm sorry about beaming you. I didn't do it on purpose, I was just nervous." She was twiddling her thumbs, looking down at them. "I saw you and I just, I don't know. I got nervous. I mean, I haven't seen you in a while. But I've been thinking about you."
"Thinking about me? Seriously?"
"Yeah. I found our old letters to each other and it got me thinking, that I made a mistake when I left you." Kehau looked up at Santana and gave her a sympathetic look. "Please. I still love you, Santana. I do."
Santana sat there, not knowing what to say. "Don't. Don't think that you can just break my heart, come back and expect me to be waiting for you?"
"I figured it was worth a shot. I mean, we had something special." Kehau reached out to grab Santana's hand but she snatched it away.
"No. I have Brittany now and she treats me a million times better than you ever did." Santana was raging on the inside.
"What can that hauole give you that I can't?!" And within the two seconds after she said the sentence, Santana stood up and Kehau knew she had made a huge mistake.
"Excuse me? The fuck did you just say?" Her voice carried over to the table where the rest of the girls were sitting and immediately caught their attention. Rachel got up from her seat but Brittany held her back, telling her to see how Santana handles it.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that."
"Sure you didn't. If you're done trying to win me back with your oh so touching words, I'd like to join my girlfriend and the rest of my team." She walked back to the table and sat next to Brittany who was swatting the flies away from her plate.
Brittany placed her hand on Santana's leg under the table, and squeezing gently. "I'm proud of you," She whispered. "I could see it from here. You wanted to hurt her."
"Yeah. But I know it wasn't worth it." She smiled and leaned over to kiss Brittany. "Plus, why use my energy to beat her ass when I should be using it to make you feel better?"
"I feel fine. After seeing that? I feel much better."
Everyone continued eating their food and finally loaded back into the van after about a hour. They thanked the Konawaena girls and waved bye from the van. Santana looked out the window and saw Kehau staring back at her with sad eyes.
"Looks like you broke her heart, San." Wehi was trying her best to hold back her laughter.
"Oh well!" And everyone started laughing. "Alright alright nuff already. All that shit is in the past. It doesn't matter anymore."
"But what about Kayla? Once Kehau talks to her, she's just gonna be in your face more." Brittany turned to Kama.
"What does Kayla have to do with this?"
"She's Kehau's cousin, babe. But don't worry, she won't do anything." Santana was taking her hair out of her ponytail and laid her head back. She put her arm around Brittany she got comfortable by cuddling up next to her girlfriend. "And if she does, then I'll take care of it. Without getting in trouble. I promise."
About a half an hour into the ride home, Brittany slowly started to fall asleep, while Santana was still up having a conversation with Rachel about what Kehau was telling her.
"And she thinks that she can jus come back and you'd be ready and waiting for her?" She started to laugh, knowing that it was such a ridiculous thought. "I'm so fuckin glad that you aren't with her anymore. I mean, of course I'm not happy with the way it went down but I'm glad that you are in a much better place in your life."
"Way better. Can you imagine how everything would be if we was still together?" Santana scoffed. "I'd be in hell probably, to be honest."
"You don't need her. And when Kayla comes up to you again, we'll take care of it. It won't even be if she does. Cause you know how she was after you guys broke up."
"So irraz yeah, I hate that shit. Oh well. We'll deal with it later."
Brittany was snoring now, exhausted from the game. She had worked hard, Konawaena had a couple good hits to her and they made her hustle. But that game was in the past, and now all she was thinking about was the next game against HPA.
The next day at school, word had gotten around that the girls lost their first game. No one really cared. In reality, the softball team had never been the best. The school usually paid more attention to baseball and boys volleyball since they were all in the same season.
The team was all sitting on the stairs, looking at the newspaper article that was written about the game.
"Don't even trip about the article, Sooner. It means nothing, we'll just get them back next time around when we play them at home." Nalani was crumpling the paper up into a ball.
The first line read, Konawaena Sophomore Honey Tillman brought in the winning run with a liner to center field that got by Honoka'a Senior Brittany Pierce on Wednesday at Konawaena's field.
"No practice today, right?"
"Nope. Coach Sue never has practice the day after a game." The bell rang and everyone started walking to class.
Santana turned to Brittany, who was following her to Hunts class. "Babe you didn't have to follow me."
"You always take me to class, I figured I could do the same for you." She grabbed Santana by the hips and pulled her closer. "I'll see you after?"
And with a kiss, Brittany left Santana and she walked into her class.
Brittany walked down the hallway and was cornered by Kayla and her friends.
"Hauole. Just the person I was looking for!" She was close to Brittany now, forcing her into the corner as if she were a child being picked on by some bullies.
"Aww, Kayla I think she's scared."
Brittany scoffed. "Why the fuck should I be afraid of any of you?"
"Because right now, you're outnumbered three to one." Kayla stepped closer. "And your girlfriend broke my cousins heart. So the way I see it, she hurt my cousin- so I'll hurt you."
She started laughing.
"Oh so you think it's funny?" Kayla shoved Brittany up against the wall. "I'll show you fuckin funny, hauole."
Brittany stood up tall, looking down at Kayla who was a couple inches shorter than she was. "How about you get out of my face. Tell your cousin to fight her own battles because last time I checked, she was a big girl."
Santana came walking up after she heard what was going on, with Rachel coming from the opposite direction.
"Seriously? So you go this low and gang up on my girlfriend? You really are a little bitch." Santana stepped in front of Brittany, and found her waist with her hand.
"And what the fuck are you going to do about it? Get held back by you friends again?"
"You don't see anyone holding me back do you?" She dropped her hand and provoked Kayla a little.
"San-" Brittany was pleading with her. Santana pushed her to the side, so that she wasn't standing directly behind her anymore. "Don't."
"No, I got it."
Rachel was standing a little down the hallway, as she secretly waved someone over without anyone seeing.
"Finally. I get to kick your ass, Lopez. Because I had to listen to my cousin crying on the phone last night about how you hurt her feelings. And trust me, I ain't having none of that."
"Well maybe if she hadn't acted like a idiot, she would've had a chance." Kayla's eyes widened, balling her hand into a fist. "Actually, she never stood a chance at all. I mean, she is related to your fuckin dumb ass."
As Kayla threw a punch, Santana ducked and she missed. She pushed her and Kayla fell backwards, quickly standing back up and heading straight for Santana. She went to tackle Santana but she dodged it and pushed her into the wall, making her more upset. Santana connected with a right hook to the stomach and she doubled over. Before she had the chance to hit her again, Brittany intervened and the security guard that had ran over grabbed Kayla.
"That's enough. You're coming with me." He was grabbing Kayla by the arms and basically lifted her off of the ground.
"What? She fuckin started it!"
"I saw the whole thing. She was only defending herself." They walked off in the direction of the office, with Kayla's friends dispersing.
Brittany was pushing Santana back, hoping that she would be able to calm her down. But to her surprise, she was smiling.
"You're smiling? Did that feel good? You could've got suspended San!"
Rachel came walking over and high fived Santana.
"What is this?"
"We had this planned, in a way. I was actually just gonna kick her ass up at the oval but figured this way she wouldn't fuck with us anymore." They all walked towards the parking lot. "You alright babe? I should've told you. I knew what they were planning, Jen overheard them when she was on her way to class and texted me."
"I'm fine, don't worry." Santana found Brittany's hands and they interlocked.
"Come on, let's go grab some food and get out of here. I have a place I want to show you babe. You're coming right Rach?"
"You going down the valley?" They were at Santana's truck now. "Cause if you are, I'm down."
"Yup. We are. I haven't taken Brittany down there yet. I might as well, cause there's gonna be a lot of talk and I just wanna chill."
"The valley?" Brittany was always asking questions, which was understandable.
"Yup. Waipio (Why-Pea-Oh) Valley. You'll love it, don't worry."
Brittany and Sanana kissed, then climbed into the truck and headed down the road.
Words used in this chapter:
Irraz - Pronounced (ear-raz) meaning irritating.