"I feel guilty, she's still in the hospital and I'm here hanging out with everyone." Finn said handing Brittany a small bag with two mini chocolate muffins, he knew she couldn't finish a full sized one it was why she shared with Santana.
"Thank you." Brittany weakly smiled.
"You'll be okay sweetie, you can text her all through the day and we can go see her after school today, Sue canceled practice." Quinn hugged Brittany.
"Okay." Brittany nodded.
"It's too cold in the morning for this crap." Tina grumbled walking over to Finn's truck with Artie and Mercedes.
"Sounds like you picked up Santana and not Tina." Artie chuckled, Tina growled at the boy in the wheelchair, holding up his hands in surrender Artie rolled quickly had gotten a ride to school from Mercedes, both girls were wearing their Cheerios uniforms, Mercedes however still had her jacket and was wearing pants, with Sue out for the day it was the best way to keep safe from the popular kids that weren't jocks or cheerleader.
"One more day and you'll have your jacket till then you got Puck's." Mercedes promised grinning and waving at Shane as he walked over to them.
Finn handed Shane a bag which the big teen handed straight to Mercedes "Good morning Miss Jones."
"Good morning, thank you."
Puck smacked Tina in the arm with the bag he took from Finn's extended hand "Somethin' different." Tina peaked in the bag.
"A churro?"
"Yea, I mean, they're good, Abulea's are better but these are a close second." Puck shrugged shoving his hands in his pockets. "Hey Finn, after you visit with Santana you wanna come work on the chair with me?"
"Yea, we're going to do homework while I'm there and then she wants me to turn it in for her." Finn nodded.
"Aren't you the cutest." Blaine gushed seeing Kurt in his Cheerios uniform.
"I do my best with what I've been forced to wear." Kurt smiled letting Blaine wrap around him for a hug.
"I'm gonna be sick." Mercedes shook her head "Please tone down the cuteness overload."
"There's my honey." Quinn grinned spotting Mike and Matt walking with the new girls and Sam.
"Knights in shining armor." Tina teased knowing why Mike and Matt were with the new Glee kids.
"Matt's single, and he's a nice boy." Quinn poked at Tina.
"I am not interested in dating right now." Tina shook her head before tugging the churro partly out of the bag so she could take a bite without getting the seasoning all over her hands.
"Hi." Mike wrapped around both Quinn and Brittany, kissing Quinn's temple he leaned kissing the top of Brittany's head, Brittany snuggled close to the duo.
"Is she okay?" Marley whispered to Matt.
"Just lonely without Santana, we'll keep her occupied today." Matt whispered.
"Okay." Marley nodded.
Finn held out a bag to Mike and Matt. "Thanks." Matt took both since Mike still had his arms around both girls "For you guys, I mean the others have their boyfriends buying them breakfast." Matt held the little brown bag out to Unique and Marley who shook her head.
"I...I get free breakfast."
"Darling the handsome boy bought us food, we accept and thank him." Unique said taking the bag "Thank you sir."
"Thank you." Marley murmured, Matt smiled at them both.
Rachel squealed at the sight of the remaining bag in Finn's hand. "Vegan bagel, I didn't know it was a thing, but they had one and I know you like vegan stuff." Finn handed Rachel the bag, Rachel gasped more excited that he'd remembered she was eating vegan than the fact he'd bought her breakfast.
"Thank you." Bouncing up she tried to kiss his cheek, once he understood he ducked his head so she could reach.
Finn followed Puck into the class, smiling he waved at Tina who waved back, she was talking to Kurt "See it's not just you that ditched out on Schue's Spanish class." Puck laughed "You're soon to be brother did as well." Finn rolled his eyes, it was true that his mom and Kurt's dad had begun seeing one another, but he wasn't sure how serious it was.
"Kurt said he'd partner with you if you're okay with it." Tina said smiling at both boys.
"Okay." Finn nodded before telling Kurt "I can't cook."
"That's alright, I can follow a recipe." Kurt nodded, gesturing to the table next to Tina's, Finn and Puck took the aisle seats next to one another.
"Good morning." the teacher called as the bell to start class rang "We'll call roll and then get started, as we have new students we will be going over the safety guidelines in class, there is a test to take for you new students and then we will move on."
"It's an easy test dude, common sense." Puck promised right as the teacher began to take roll.
They were making eggs, omelets. Puck would admit his omelet looked like hell but it tasted good to the teacher and that was all that mattered, she told him he would eventually be able to make the omelets look pretty too.
Finn's looked like scrambled eggs and was a bit heavy on the pepper, Tina was best in class. "You'll get there." Tina promised as they gathered their things to head to the next class "I've been cooking and baking with my mom ever since I can remember."
"No offense, why are you in here if you already know how to do this stuff?" Finn asked.
"Easy A." Puck coughed walking by them, laughing Tina hit his arm.
"I might learn something my mom didn't teach me."
"Keep telling yourself that." Puck laughed before pushing Finn's shoulder "See you in English man." nodding Finn headed for his next class.
"I don't understand," Blaine shook his head walking with Mike and Kurt to the lunch table "can he even speak Spanish?"
"Some phrases he knows really well , like he's practiced them and others it's like... Santana said it's like talking to a toddler that's learning Spanish and English." Mike explained stopping when he saw Quinn approaching with her own tray.
"Santana says he knows enough to fluently ask for a beer and the bathroom." Puck laughed before holding up his tray "I got extra mac and cheese, hey did you know you can bake this stuff? I mean I thought it was a box to stove kinda deal." he admitted.
"You're really getting into this food thing." Quinn commented as they all took their seats "I'm proud of you."
"He's disappointed all the girls in class because he pays attention to what we're actually supposed to be learning." Tina laughed.
"Cupcakes are next week." Puck informed the table as the others were slowly filling in the spots.
"We are not repeating that mess from the bake sale." Tina shook her head, the group that knew chuckled and laughed.
"Are we going to see Santana today?" Matt asked.
"No Cheerios practice today but you guys still have football practice." Quinn reminded suggesting "Maybe let Coach Beiste know you want to visit Santana?"
"Actually she cancelled our practice too, pretty sure it's so we can see Santana, she likes her." Matt said before he started eating.
"We can go as a group, a couple of us go in at a time." Blaine glanced at Finn for confirmation.
"Sounds like a plan." Mercedes said seeing Finn look a little confused. "Obviously I get to go in first."
"What about Brittany?" Tina pipped up.
"Finn and Brittany don't count, they're not leaving the room." Mercedes shook her head "It's the rest of us that will rotate in and out, Quinn and I go in first, Matt and Mike and then the rest of you."
Standing Quinn cleared her throat, the table watched as a trio of who they knew to be freshman Cheerios scattered, well all but one who sneered at Quinn, Bree's smirk disappeared when Quinn followed by Brittany and Mercedes stepped away from the table and towards her and the two girls that had been getting messed with. Mercedes blocked the skinny black girl's escape. Brittany cheerfully tugged the girls over to the table careful of their lunch trays. "They're off limits, you know it, I'll let Coach know you violated the order." Quinn informed her "You and your minions will learn to follow orders." Quinn jerked her chin in the direction of the other girls letting Bree know she was dismissed.
"I can take her out." Mercedes offered.
"I'm saving her for Santana." Quinn smirked "But we can run the shit out of her tomorrow."
"That new girl's a bitch." Tina shook her head.
"It's fine." Marley murmured shaking her head not looking up from her tray.
"It is not." Quinn scowled sitting down "They were told to leave you alone."
"Some people are just not bright, she obviously has no idea idea who she's messing with." Mercedes snorted.
"She does." a small blonde cheerleader pipped up from behind Marley and Unique. "We heard all about The Unholy Trinity at Cheer Camp, she just doesn't believe it's true."
Quinn arched her eyebrow at the younger girl "Kitty right?"
"Yes." she beamed at Quinn, Quinn nodded "And I'm a huge fan."
"Good to know." Quinn nodded, she was small enough Sue was contemplating using her for a flyer instead of Santana. "If you catch her messing with these two, you tell me immediately."
"Of course." she bounced away happy with her assignment.
"Who's riding with who," Tina asked "because a few of us don't have cars "
"Obviously I got your ass since I brought you to school." Mercedes reminded.
"I got Artie." Puck held up his finger before shoveling the mac and cheese into his mouth.
"I'll bring you two." Quinn nodded to Marley and Unique.
"Umm.." Marley looked up from the food she was pushing around on her tray "She doesn't know me..."
Swallowing the food Puck chuckled "You're going."
"Bu...but..." Marley stuttered.
"The second Santana told you to sit at the table, you became the responsibility of The Unholy Trinity," Quinn gestured to herself and Brittany "Santana is our third. When Puck upset you she went after you, nicely, Santana doesn't do that for anyone other than Brittany and occasionally myself."
"Me." Matt held up his fork.
"Okay Matt and Mike, but we've been together since freshman year," Quinn amended "the rest of this group she's kind of an ass about it if she goes to talk to them."
"But..."
"San will want to see you." Brittany assured Marley, Unique wasn't going to argue, she had trouble making friends and these people were accepting her no question.
He hadn't been able to get Santana's homework because the teachers said someone else had already gathered it for the week, they didn't bother to tell him who. Rachel was excited to see the babies but was too bouncy at the moment, Mercedes an Quinn followed Finn and Brittany into Santana's room, "I'll go last." Rachel told the others "Finn's my ride so it just makes sense." the others nodded in agreement, plus it would give Rachel time to mellow.
Softly knocking Finn peaked his head in the room whispering "Can we come in?"
"Yes, they're sleeping at the moment." Santana responded just as quietly, smiling when Quinn and Mercedes walked in the door behind Finn and Brittany. "Hi sweetie." tilting her head up she tenderly smiled at the blonde accepting the kiss to her lips.
"So skinny with hair, wow they took after neither one of you." Mercedes chuckled.
"I had hair." Finn reminded them "I was just big."
"Ginormous." Santana corrected, Carole had shown her Finn's baby pictures. "This one is Lily Christine and that one is Lyla Anne." she gestured to the babies, Quinn and Mercedes instantly and gently picked them up. "So who's all here?" Santana asked as they all took their seats.
"Glee club," Finn answered. "including the new kids."
"Warbler?" Santana wrinkled her nose knowing he would come in with Kurt.
"Yep." Quinn nodded without looking up from the baby.
