Sitting close to the side of the track Artie yelled as the boys jogged by "Lap one!"
"Is this what you do?" Rachel asked looking up from her book.
"For the most part." Artie shrugged, "They're actually working on a chair for me so I can join them on the track."
"Really?"
"Yea, Puck and Finn started it but the rest of the guys joined in to help." Rachel knew when Artie said guys he meant the boys from Glee. "I mean the girls too, Quinn, Santana and Brittany, and Tina." Tina had been Puck's buddy on the idea from the beginning. "Sam wants me to start training for marathon's with him, I told him the bleach from his dye job has fried his brain." Rachel chuckled "I don't mind going around the track with them or the park to keep Puck company, but I don't think I want to race."
"You have..."
"Please don't say I have an obligation." Artie looked at Rachel.
"No," Rachel shook her head. "I wasn't, my therapist is helping me to see that everyone needs to do what is best for them and not what is best for everyone else." Rachel repeated almost word for word what the woman had said to her "You're only obligation is to yourself." Artie nodded still not sure of what to say, she could just be pretending to be nice and understanding to get him on her side for something at a later date.
"I'm dying." Mercedes shook her head resting her hands on her thighs as she leaned over to catch her breath.
"I agree, it's bad enough we had to run in PE earlier today." Tina groaned resting in the same position as Mercedes.
"Don't have PE anymore." Mercedes exhaled straightening up.
"Warm ups and anthem." Sue barked, Mercedes offered a thumbs up slowly walking to the bench.
"I hate you." Tina called out.
"You love me." Mercedes laughed.
"Tina." Brittany called her over, groaning Tina jogged over to Brittany "We get to catch you."
"Yay!" Tina cheered sarcastically.
Santana grinned seeing Marley shyly bring up the rear as the group stepped into the dinning room, holding her stomach Santana gestured to the table with her other hand "Grab your seats boys and girls." Quinn grinned seeing Brittany give Santana's butt a light pinch as she moved to her usual seat, Santana quickly and lightly swatted the blonde's butt before she sat down. Brittany giggled while Santana smirked. "Now I know you're all on different levels but that's okay."
"Are you okay?" Finn whispered when Santana walked behind him still holding her stomach.
Dropping down so her mouth was next to his ear she whispered "Shh." she wasn't going to tell him yes because he already knew she was in pain. "I'll manage." straightening up she patted his shoulder before continuing her walk around the table. "Bring out the notes I'll look them over while you do the homework and then we'll work on different phrases." Unique lifted her hand. "Yes."
"What kind of phrases?"
"Anything from movies to food to sports." Santana watched Finn head in the direction of the bathroom. "I try to start with things that interest you so it makes learning fun."
"Swear words." Puck grinned.
"Why are you here? You don't take Spanish." Santana eyed him.
"So I know if someone's talking sh...crap about me." Puck caught himself, Alma was in the living room with the twins watching her novelas, Mercedes and Kurt headed into the living room after saying hi to Santana.
"Fine write a bunch of words you know and what they mean." Santana gestured to his backpack knowing he had a pencil and paper in it. "I'll be right back." heading for the living room Santana tugged Mercedes arm "On commercial go grab random snacks from the pantry and put them on the table with the others please."
"Oookay." Mercedes looked confused but since the show hadn't started she excused herself from Alma and Kurt while Santana headed upstairs.
Marley watched as Mercedes set a bag of chips, cookies and a bunch of other random snacks onto the table, Finn grinned , he knew what was going on. Brittany happily grabbed her favorite snack, the Dots from the group. It was a few more minutes before Santana returned with an arm full of clothes and a sticky note pad. "So this is my teaching technique, Finn and Puck like food and sports and will most likely be using those words and phrases over most so I focused on them for them. Mike and Matt need more in-depth help for college and Quinn and Britt just like being able to talk to me and it's an easy A. So ladies, I have clothes, snacks and movies." she held up her hand that was obscured by the clothes revealing four movies in her hand.
"That's mine." Quinn pointed at a pair of leggings.
"Possession is 9/10 of the law." Santana said draping the clothes over the back of an empty chair, she placed the movies by Brittany. Unique held up her hand "Yes."
"Will we be learning to flirt?"
"I can teach that." Santana chuckled.
"You wouldn't teach me but you'll teach her?" Puck scoffed scowling at Santana "I call BS."
"Why would I teach my, then boy toy, how to flirt with other girls?" Santana asked.
"Can I learn now?" Puck asked getting a chuckle from the group.
"Yes, because you are single, idiot." Santana rolled her eyes chuckling and holding her belly, Brittany and Finn both watching her.
"Cool." Puck grinned ignoring the fact that she'd called him an idiot.
"Alright let's begin." Santana leaned against the back of Brittany's chair, like always she'd checked their notes while they did their homework fixing their notes where needed before writing on her sticky notes and attaching them to the food, clothes and movies. Walking by Puck she patted his chest leaving a sticky note behind as she did the same to Finn, Quinn she handed the sticky note to once she was finished with that she set them with her notes and prepared to check their homework. "Copy and move these around the table." Santana handed a card to each person at the table "Please change the channel." she placed the card in front of Matt "Por favor, cambie el canal."
The whole group repeated "Por favor, cambie el canal." with Marley and Unique slightly behind because they didn't know they needed to.
"What are we watching?" she dropped the card next to Tina. "¿Qué estamos viendo?"
"¿Qué estamos viendo?" the group repeated.
"Let's get some coffee." Santana dropped the card by Quinn.
"Tomemos un poco de café." Quinn chuckled, taking the card Quinn began writing.
"Tomemos un poco de café."
"My mom said yes." Santana placed the card next to Brittany "Mi mamá dijo que sí."
"Mi mamá dijo que sí." the group repeated as Santana continued to circle the table.
"This dress is pretty, how much is it?" Santana dropped the card next to Unique. "Este vestido es bonito, ¿cuánto cuesta?"
"Este vestido es bonito, ¿cuánto cuesta?" the girls repeated.
"Who is your favorite superhero?" the boys chuckled when Santana gave them their own question dropping the card next to Mike. "¿Quién es tu superhéroe favorito?"
"¿Quién es tu superhéroe favorito?"
"Wonder Woman, she's hot." Brittany piped up sliding her card to Quinn.
"She's not wrong." Puck shrugged.
"Good afternoon, could you show me where the nearest restaurant is?" Santana placed the card with Finn "Buenas tardes, ¿podría indicarme dónde está el restaurante más cercano?"
With the exception of Brittany they were all slower when they repeated "Buenas tardes, ¿podría indicarme dónde está el restaurante más cercano?"
"We all know how to say thank you and you're welcome so we'll move on."
"I mean kinda." Unique admitted. "Mr. Shcue has told us but did he pronounce it correctly?"
"Good point." Santana nodded "Gracias."
"Yea, so not quite." Unique nodded.
"De nada." Santana handed the last card to Marley. "Last one." Marley glanced at the card. "I know Santana Lopez."
"That one will help at school." Tina admitted.
"Conozco a Santana López." Santana smirked.
"Conozco a Santana López." they repeated.
"Still a feared badass." Puck nodded.
"Hand me your homework, I will check it while you deal with those." Santana held her hand out circling the table.
"What about the sticky notes?" Marley quietly asked.
"After the cards." Quinn spoke up.
"But what do they say?" Tina asked trying to read the one on Puck's chest since he was sitting next to her.
"Paisajista, landscaper." Santana responded before pointing at Finn "Mecánico, mechanic." Quinn was squinting at hers.
"Chocolate?"
"True," Santana admitted "but bombón also translates to hot girl."
"Coach says we can't call you hot, we have to call you pretty or beautiful, that hot demeans you." Finn shifted in his seat.
"Seriously?" Santana looked to the other boys who nodded. "Well shit."
"Santana!"
"Shit." Santana whispered before calling out to Alma "Sorry Abuela."
"I can feel the glare from in here." Puck cringed.
"Why must she use such vulgar language?" Alma sighed "We do not need their first words being that."
"I say after Mama or Dada it's going to be coffee." Mercedes admitted.
"I say churro, she craved those a lot." Kurt reminded.
"So," Alma turned her attention to the thin pale boy "who is this boy Santana mentioned, bow ties and hair gel?"
"Oh...uh..." Kurt stuttered "His name is Blaine, I met him at the Warbler Academy."
"He wears bow ties and a lot of hair gel." Mercedes chuckled poking at her phone to find a picture of Kurt and Blaine together..
"Is he a nice boy or..."
"He's nice." Kurt said interrupting Alma's threat. "I promise, and I think Santana already threatened him."
Mercedes chuckled "She did," before showing Alma the photo "something about huevos, cortando huevos. He looked scared." Alma smirked.
Rachel frowned at her football book, "This is so confusing."
"Think of it like a dance," Hiram suggested, "each play has a different set of steps, do them correctly and things work out." Rachel arched her eyebrow at him. "Maybe if I showed you." he said seeing the skepticism in her eyes. Heading for the game closet he pulled out the plastic chess and checkers game board. "I'll use the pieces to show you what the plays look like." he said opening the box on his return to the table.
"Okay."
Marley perked up hearing her mother's voice, checking her watch "Don't worry about it," Santana shook her head continuing to check the homework "she's just meeting my parents." Santana knew her mother was going to discuss Marley's eating disorder with Mrs. Rose, seeing if she knew about it or not, and helping her to find a therapist that could help either way. "Okay pass these around," Santana didn't want to get up from her seat, "just try again on the ones I've erased, use the book, I wrote down the pages they're on. If you need more help or don't understand it let me know."
Brittany frowned at hers but Santana opened the book to the first page with the answer and began quietly helping her girlfriend. "Thank you." Brittany gave Santana's cheek a quick peck before following along where Santana was pointing.
Puck and Finn just continued copying the different phrases that Santana wrote while snacking on the items that Mercedes brought out.