Santana's Take on Things
Title: Moment's in Time: Santana's Take on Things
Author: AyLee Cambell
Rating: T
Pairing: Puck/Rachel, slight mentions of Santana/Matt and Brittney/Mike
Warning: Not beta'd
Summary: Santana's thoughts about glee and growing and things
Santana's Take on Things.
Okay this is from Santana’s POV. Has some small mentions Matt/Santana, Brittney/Mike.
And of course, mentions of Puck/Rachel.
I never really got the whole glee thing. Not until Quinn made me and Brittney join. Still, at first it was all about destroying this club of freaks and losers and making sure they knew their place. They were the bottom of the food chain and they needed to remember that.
Especially that Berry freak, throwing herself all over Quinn’s boyfriend.
So we were forced into joining glee by our “majestic” queen bee cheerleader captain. Quinn was a pain in the ass sometimes but that was expected. She was head bitch after all and we all tried to follow in her lead. Though I was known for being pretty bitchy myself. But that’s expected since I’m practically her right hand on the squad.
But not the point. So we were forced into joining the glee freaks and we so protested that but then Quinn threatened or spots on the spa day coming up and we gave in. Then after try outs both Brittney and I were sure that Coach Sylvester would put a stop to Quinn’s brain fart and make us quit the glee club.
Wrong.
Instead she praised us and that kind of made it worth it. Cause Coach Sylvester is pretty scary. Getting on her good side is pretty damn hard but if you can do it, well, she’s more likely to torture someone else then you. So we went along with it. But breaking up this little group of ground grubbers is harder then we thought it was going to be. They kept coming back and getting stronger. It was like some super freaky cockroach or something.
No matter how hard you try to stomp it dead it just skitters around and keeps coming. It’s enough to make you scream. And I did scream a couple of times. Just away from everyone else. Can’t let anyone see me loosing it. I already get enough crazy comments because of how I dumped Puck.
Was it really my fault his social security number was that easy to get a hold of? So what if he never left it out in the open and I had to go through some of his things. I’m a girl, and guys should expect that from us. We do crazy things all the time, most of the time they never know about it. But when they do find out they aren’t supposed to be all that surprised. It’s part of our jeans or something.
Duh.
Besides, who didn’t see that break up coming? Puck’s hot, but he’s not going anywhere fast and I’m getting out of this town if I have to do cartwheels and handoffs to do it.
Anyway, sidetracked again. After a couple of times we failed to destroy them Ms. Sylvester started punishing us. Taking away or tanning privileges, and that was just harsh - even if I probably really didn’t need it cause it’s not like I’m going to fade away - it was unnecessary. It made us want to crush them even more.
For a little while anyway.
Then something started happening. We’ve been having some fun. Mr. Schue is actually pretty nice and these freaks that we’ve tormented for years are being pretty nice and decent to us as well. They could have been rude or mean, we would have been, but they haven’t. And they haven’t treated Brittney and me like we’re just Quinn’s little lackeys. Like most of the school does. It’s been kinda nice. Sure, they’ve been a little nicer to Brittney, but that’s just cause she’s not as much as a bitch as I am.
At first I wanted nothing to do with these gleeks. And now, I’m singing and dancing with them and I’m hoping less and less that I’ll have to destroy them. Don’t get me wrong, I so totally will if Coach Sylvester tells me too or comes up with a plan, but secretly I’m hoping that they somehow get through it. I’m still going to pass on what I know but I might not pass on everything, you know? I actually want to try to get to regional’s. I think it might be fun.
But Coach Sylvester is scary, like I said earlier, and I’ll go along with anything she has planned even if I sorta don’t want to. She knows where I live, and I wouldn’t put it past her to try something if I said no, and I like being on the Cheerios. I like being on the top of the school food chain. But it’s mostly cause Coach Sylvester scares me. I know Brittney doesn’t want to either and who can tell with Quinn these days. Her days on the squad aren’t going to be much longer but I don’t know how I feel about that. A month ago I probably would have been jumping for joy cause that would have meant I probably would have been the new captain but now I’m not so sure.
Brittney, Quinn, and I are becoming real friends. I’m actually starting to care a little bit. Before or friendship was only half real. If she had tripped I would have walked all over her to get what I wanted. Now I’d probably hesitate and see if she was okay first.
She what those Gleeks are doing to me? And worse, it’s not just me but all of us. Quinn’s still psycho and bitchy sometimes. A lot towards Berry and Finn but that’s just cause of the whole eye sexing they keep having. Brittney’s hanging out with some of them on her free time, and she can deny it all she wants but please, she did not dress that good before Kurt got a hold of her. It had been a good thing they only wore their uniforms to school.
Mike and Matt were cool too, and they were relaxing and becoming people instead of just those two guys on the team. In fact both Brittney and I are starting to notice them, and we’re also flirting a little. I’ve claimed Matt and she’s going after Mike. We’re just waiting for them to ask us out so that they’ll think it was all their idea.
But I think the biggest change is with Puck.
At first he was still the same bad boy jerk loser that for some reason attracts girls. It was the abs I swear. The boy has a mighty fine body and I wanted to get up close and personal with it. And now that the president of the chastity club is pregnant I’m not afraid to say that I’m no virgin. Please, someone as hot as me? I lost that ages ago. Berry was right about one thing. Girls do want it as badly as boys, we just make them work for it.
So at first he’s still the same jerk we’ve all known for years and then suddenly he’s changing. I don’t know when it first started happening but I know when I suddenly noticed it. Sad to say, it wasn’t a very subtle moment.
One moment I know him as the jerk and lima loser and the next he’s singing to Rachel Berry. The look on my face can only be called shock and disbelief. One, he’s singing to Rachel Berry, gleek head freak, two, he’s actually really good, and three and the most shocking, he’s actually smiling. Like an real honest to god smile.
I have never seen him smile. Not even when we were having sex. It was all baby this and baby that, but no smile, nothing. So seeing him smiling at her that way is just, well, it’s eye opening. They have freaking changed us, all of us. It’s becoming more and more obvious too, especially with this slushy war going on. (And if anyone comes near me with one of those things I will make sure they never have children and they all know it. Crazy comes in handy sometimes.)
But they do slushy Puck, and what I find surprising is that there isn’t a trail of blood. He’s not exactly known for his self control I was so expecting to find a group of injured guys when I heard he’d had his moment of slush.
But nothing. He let them go, and I heard Rachel helped clean him up and that was it.
Standing here in a group and staring up at the clock waiting for it to be 3:30 has never been more nerve racking. It’s almost like having Sue standing over you when your having a bad day or the day after you pulled something, only a little less terrifying. I don’t want this glee thing to be over. It may be changing me and everyone else but I’m starting to have more fun then I’ve ever had. And I’m also starting to make some real friends, even if I wont acknowledge them anywhere but in this room.
And I don’t want Matt and Mike to let us down. We can maybe find or force another two guys into this club but four is going to be hard to do, and if Sue finds out we’re trying to save glee and not destroy it she’ll probably shove our pom-poms up our asses. Matt better not choose football over me, but if he doesn’t choose football will he be popular enough to date me? There’s a problem. If he chooses football over me I don’t want him but if he chooses glee will I threaten my status to date him if he asks?
But when he walks in with Mike I’m too relieved to care. Me and Brittney run over to hug them and I’m thinking that if he does ask I’ll say yes, even if all he is now is a gleek.
Damn them all, I’m growing. I’m not sure I like it. I might have to do something bitchy later to make up for it but right now I’m pretty happy.
We aren’t really expecting anyone else, but we’re hoping for it. We expect that the final person walking through that door will be Finn, but we’re all so surprised when it’s not and instead it’s Puck.
I never thought I’d see the day when Puck picked Glee and a girl over football and popularity. He’s changed, but we all have, and I’m starting to think it’s a good thing. At least for him. He’s been nicer the past few days, more relaxed. I think that has to do with Rachel, and as much as I don’t want to admit this, I think they might be good for each other.
He’s hugging her and said that he’s staying in glee even if it means a slushy everyday and all of us can’t help but awe over it. They are surprisingly cute together.
Then someone asks where Finn is and we find out he choose football. Well, he always was kind of dumb.
It shouldn’t be too hard to convince one guy from the school to join the team right? Okay, they were probably going to have to threaten him, but it’s not like they couldn’t do that. But before we start breaking out the yearbook and start to circle it like it’s lunch time and we’re sharks, everything works itself out.
Finn comes back, the guys are allowed to play football again, and we’re a glee team again. Only now Quinn is no longer a cheerleader. I’m not sure how to feel about that. Now Sue is going to be riding my ass and it’s not a fun thing to think about, and you know, Quinn’s hurting and all and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Do I still let her be seen with us or do I shun her? What is the protocol for a fall from grace like that? Quinn helped me out when I first joined the squad and she helped me be a better cheerleader, so I guess now isn’t the time to just drop her. Besides, it’d be kinda awkward in glee and I’m not quitting unless Sue makes me. (Like I said, she knows where I sleep.)
So things are changing, and not just within us. Or all that crap. Glee isn’t as terrible as I thought it would be, it’s actually kinda nice. And we just got to slushy Mr. Schue and he let us, because of team bonding or whatever. You wont see me opening my mouth to say I haven’t ever been slushied. But it’s cool that we’re all back to being a team.
Matt asked me out and I think Brittney’s got a date with Mike so we’re pretty happy with that. Quinn is sad, but she’s still got us, the glee club, and Finn so she’ll make it. And Puck’s got Rachel. His arm is around her waist and they sit together and it’s almost nauseating how much they are now around each other and constantly touching in little ways and mostly it’s all innocent touches. He’s being a person I’ve never seen him be and if any of this is too much too fast for him he’s not letting anyone know and it’s all so damn cute that while I’d like to be throwing up in the nearest bathroom I kinda find it sweet.
Like I might have to go a little crazy on whoever tries to break them up or gives them problems, kind of sweet.
Hey, I’ve grown, I’m not so afraid to admit that. But I will so not be the only one who is growing and I will not let someone else interfere with it either. I think if Puck’s with Miss Gleek Queen he might actually have a shot of getting out of here. She’s already changed him, made him put more effort into getting her then I’ve ever seen him put into anything, and he’s actually happy.
I may not have loved him or anything, but I did date him and we have a lot in common. We both want to get out of here like nothing else and don’t come from the best of families. People would probably be calling me a crazy lima loser if I wasn’t on the Cheerios and too afraid of me to say it. I’m not going to let anyone stop me from getting out of here and maybe I can help someone else escape too, someone I really didn’t think was going to make it.
It’ll be my good deed for the year. God knows I probably need the good karma.
But this doesn’t mean I have to be nice to them, I can just help out without anyone knowing. Cause this crazy bitch thing? It kinda comes in handy.
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