Artie chuckled as Mercedes yawned climbing out of the car with a coffee clutched in her hands, he couldn't believe she'd come along again but he knew why the second she lit up at the sight of the lineman "Good morning Miss Jones, may I walk you to the field?"
"Come on guys let's get set up." grabbing Artie's handles Matt pushed the younger, smaller teen to the unlocked gate leaving the duo alone, Tina and Kurt giggled following them.
Finn was helping Santana out of Quinn's car, Quinn handed Beth's jog stroller to Brittany catching the frown, Brittany had wanted to help Santana out of the car. "Thank you, the little shits have thrown my balance way the hell off."
"Just a little longer." Finn promised kissing her forehead, kneeling down Finn put his hands on both sides of her belly before he talked to it "Beans you gotta be nice to your mami, she can't have coffee or sweets, okay?" Finn smiled when he felt movement, Santana chuckled at the goofy expression, he always smiled and looked dazed when they moved for him. Standing up Finn glanced around, no Puck or Mike. "Do you need a hand?" he asked Quinn. Brittany didn't give her a chance to reply, the thin blonde pushed the stroller into Finn's hands before taking Santana's hand.
Santana caught the glint of jealousy in Brittany's eyes before the blonde was able to mask it with her normal smile, "Are you okay sweetie?"
"Of course." Brittany beamed, but Santana could not only hear it in the blonde's voice she could see the sadness in Brittany's eyes.
When they reached the field Santana tugged Brittany down on the bench next to her "You don't have to lie to me Britt, I know you're upset and I think I know why but I want you to tell me." reaching up Santana brushed Brittany's bangs to the side.
"I don't like him kissing you." Brittany pouted, Santana nodded it was exactly what she thought. "He has a girlfriend, why's he kissing mine?" Brittany muttered.
"He's just trying to make me feel better."
"That's my job." Brittany asserted.
"He's the Beans daddy sweetie, he feels guilty when I don't feel good." Santana had seen it when he thought Beth was his, any time Quinn had morning sickness Finn was miserable along with the blonde because he didn't know what to do "I'll tell him no more kisses," bumping her shoulder against Brittany's Santana added "I only want your sweet lady kisses. I love you Brittany not Finn, but he's going to be around and we're going to be nice to each other."
"No kisses." Brittany glared in Finn's direction.
"No kisses, but you know he's a hugger sweetie."
Brittany sighed agreeing "He gives good hugs, but no cuddles, that's my job."
"I'll tell him." Santana promised, tugging Brittany's shirt Santana asked "Now, do I get to see the abs or do I have to fantasize?"
"Eww stop talking." Tina pipped up, Brittany giggled. The two girls couldn't be more opposite, while Brittany was stripping down to her running shorts and sports bra Tina was making sure her arms and legs were covered by her black sweat pants and long sleeve light weight running shirt.
"You're jealous I gots a hottie." Santana smirked blowing kisses at Brittany as she took the clothes from her.
"That's Puck." Tina laughed.
"I'm not jealous, I just want to watch...ow!" Puck's leer turn to a look of pain as he covered his nipple asking Quinn "Why you gotta titty twist?"
"Because Brittany's too nice and Santana's not fast enough at the moment."
"It's like the Three Musketeers." Artie chuckled as Matt rolled him over to the bench.
"I mean they are The Unholy Trinity." Mike chuckled giving a wave to the blonde boy.
"Musketeers?" Puck whispered to Quinn.
"It's a book, but there's movies three guys who stick together, 'All for one, one for all' thing." Quinn whispered back promising "Sword fights you'd like it." Puck nodded.
Coach Beiste nodded and smiled at the group "Due to testing we have lost a few team members, with luck we'll be able to replace them tomorrow."
"Coach." Finn held up his hand.
"Hudson."
"I want to try out for a different position, it sucks to say it but Sam's a better quarterback." Finn admitted.
"Are you sure son, we can work on that arm." Beiste offered.
"Naw, I'm bigger than a lot of guys on the other teams, Santana's right I should be out here tackling them."
"Alright, we'll try you out in a few spots tomorrow." Beiste nodded, Finn smiled and nodded.
"Are we running some time today princess?" Puck called over to Finn who chuckled.
"Do you need me to push the stroller so you can keep up." Finn teased jogging over to the group on the track.
"You're drooling Wheezy," Santana smirked as the curvy black girl joined her and Artie on the side-lines "little drool, right there." Santana pointed at the corner of her own mouth earning a glare from the other girl.
"And what are you doing?" Mercedes pointed out.
"Leering and fantasizing." Santana smirked looking back at the track.
"TMI." Mercedes held up her hand to stop Santana from speaking.
"To be fair you did ask." Artie chuckled before calling out "Earn that breakfast guys! And girls!" Artie amended seeing the slow head turn from Quinn.
"She's gonna beat your ass." Santana chuckled.
"She's gonna make him change a nasty diaper." Mercedes laughed.
Puck pushed the stroller as they started to run around the track, Quinn had the rain cover on it knowing if they kicked up any dirt as they ran it would protect Beth. "Sorry I didn't get back to you, I was hanging out with Rachel, she was asking about the comics." Finn apologized and explained. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh, Tina came up with an idea, a chair so we can jog with Artie that way he's not stuck on the sidelines."
"What like go in on one?"
"No like build one, cause they're crazy expensive." Tina called from the back of the pack.
"We get plans and you and me can build it and I'm sure if we run into problems Kurt's dad would help us."
"Oh, yea" Finn nodded "I can do that." Finn nodded.
"I know dad will help." Kurt called from his spot next to Tina.
"So we work up a sketch and get a parts list and we go from there."
"Count us in." Quinn spoke for Brittany and herself, she knew it wasn't going to be cheap but they had some Cheerio money they could throw their way.
"I can handle the cushions." Sam offered "My mom's really into sewing and stuff."
"My dad own a hardware store, I can see if I can get you the material cheaper." Shane offered from behind Kurt and Tina.
Puck glanced back "Seriously?"
"He's part of the team isn't he, team sticks together." Shane said slightly breathless, he was used to short sprints of speed. Sensing Shane's preference Puck slowed down causing the others to do the same until they were at a light jog. "You guys don't have to slow down." Shane shook his head.
"Team sticks together." Puck threw the big teen's words back at him getting a chuckle. "We'll do one lap then hit the weights."
"Now that I can get behind." he chuckled.
"That's just because you want to show off to Mercedes." Sam teased, Shane shoved the smaller boy's shoulder making Sam laugh.
"She totally thinks you're cute." Brittany giggled.
"It's the only reason she's here." Quinn agreed.
The emails had been sent out to all students, including incoming freshman, football tryouts. Beiste was going through the email responses while the group worked out. Santana was once again in Beiste's spare office chair filing her nails and flirting with Brittany, who decided to pair up with Matt instead of Finn, Santana would explain the reason to the confused boy later. Tina paired up with him instead, sitting on his feet she watched the others. Matt and Brittany playing pattycake, Artie reading a novel out loud to Puck, the one that got her chuckling was Quinn kissing Mike every time he came up while doing his sit up. "Don't look Beth, you won't be doing that until you're thirty." Santana told the baby in Mercedes arms.
Mercedes chuckled continuing to rock the baby and watch Shane which got her a shoulder bump and grin from Santana, the big teen was holding Sam's feet as he did his sit ups.
"We doing breakfast right?" Puck asked as he sat up.
"It's one of the two reasons I'm here." Santana winked at Brittany, Brittany smiled.
It was the weights that Shane excelled at, he could lift more than any of them, "Damn." Santana elbowed Mercedes as Shane lifted what she thought was an insane amount of weight, Finn being the second biggest boy was spotting him. Tina stayed with Brittany and Quinn as they lifted the smaller hand weights more for tone than strength, Puck had Artie at the pully weights spotting him while Matt and Mike were doing curls. "Looking sexy Matty." Santana blew kisses at him making Brittany giggle, just as Santana had never seen Mike as a threat Brittany never saw Matt as one either.
