Santana stands in line at Muff Mania tapping away on her cellphone as she waits to order. It's Monday morning and like usual the place is packed to the brim of people waiting to get their caffeine fix.
She scoffs the minute she opens up her calendar knowing that today will be one of those days where she is so busy that she won't be getting out until the overnight janitor tells her it's time to lock up.
She jumps a little when she feels someone press up behind her but like magic her body relaxes knowing exactly who it is, "Good Morning" she says at the corners of her mouth lift when she hears the heavenly giggle that makes her stomach flip.
A nose nuzzles into the back of her ear and a small kiss is placed behind it, "Good Morning gorgeous" she whispers, " fancy meeting you here."
Santana laughs and turns to face sparking blue eyes, "We always meet for coffee on Monday mornings B, it's not much of a surprise"
Brittany tugs her closer and hums, " it might not be a surprise but it's a nice little present to start the week with"
"Are you saying I'm a gift?" Santana playfully banters as her own tan arms snake around a pale waist. Brittany is wearing her usual dance clothes so Santana teasingly slips her hands underneath her oversized sweater and gently scratched at her lower spine. Brittany shuffles closer until she can wrap her arms further around the brunette.
"Nope" she says teasingly as she lets her lips linger around the shell of Santana's ear, "But if you were" she says in a sultry voice, "I wouldn't wait till I get to unwrap you" she then giggles, a low throaty giggle that instead of making her stomach flip it causes other mayhem much much lower.
It's been so long since she's had sex she barely remembers the last time she got off without the help of her hand. Since her break-up with Ivey she's been adamant about doing things right with Brittany and one of those things is taking things slowly and not jumping the girl. It's been so long and she literally can't handle anything the blonde does because she's trying to do the right thing and the right thing is not ripping off Brittany's clothes in the middle of a coffee shop.
But Brittany oozes sex appeal so when she leans back and takes her bottom lip between her teeth Santana finds herself clenching her thighs.
Because she really wants to have sex.
Sex with Brittany.
"You're bad"
Brittany puckers her lips, Santana smiles leaning in extending her neck only a little to reach pink lips silently thanking herself for deciding to wear her 5 inch black pumps. She pecks once, twice, three times and pulls away but Brittany shakes her head and tightens her hold around her waist pulling her in closer.
"Can I take your order?"
Santana giggles at the little huff that espaces thin lips and turns around to greet Kylie.
"Morning Ky" Brittany chirps, "Can I have a banana nut muffin and a large hot chocolate" Kylie nods as she taps on the screen and takes out a cup to write down the drink. Brittany turns to Santana and squints her eyes at her, "And she will have a ham and cheese panini with a salted caramel latte"
"Great, that'll be $12.70. Shall I put it on your tab Britt?"
"No that's okay" Santana interjects pulling out a $10 and $5 dollar bill out of her purse, "This one is on me. Keep the change" She turns back around and smiles at the blonde.
" that's not fair" Brittany pouts, "you always pay"
"Put that pout away before someone gets hurt" she says leaning up and placing a gentle kiss on Brittany's lower lip.
Santana's phone dings and she lowers her gaze to the screen and clicks on the incoming email her boss sent regarding the upcoming cases she needs to have ready by this week. She pouts a little knowing she's going to have to work overtime to get all this done. She clicks on her assistant's number and brings the phone to her ear.
"Good Morning Ms. Lopez"
" Hello Rebecca. I need you to push the Lestor meeting up an hour and reschedule my afternoon 3 and 4 o'clocks until tomorrow, also, can you have the files for Birmingham v. State and Brown v. McCallister ready for me when I arrive. We need to go over those cases one more time before trial so I'm going to need all previous case notes as well as any document pertaining to those cases. Make sure to not forward any calls for me" She turns and glances at the blonde tapping away on her own phone. Blue eyes snap up to her and Santana just smiles in return, "Unless if it's or Ms. Pierce calling."
"Yes , I will have everything ready for your arrival"
"Thank you Becca, see you in a few" she hangs up just in time as Janice, the other barista, puts a sleeve on her cup and hands it over to Brittany. Brittany smiles and thanks her turning around and picking up a few napkins, "Sorry about that, my boss has been on my ass about some cases."
"It's okay" Brittany coos as she hands her her cup of coffee and a black that she assumes is holding her breakfast, "I had the girls pack it up to-go since it seems like you need to be at work already."
"Yeah, it's better if I start heading out" Santana says with a little pout, "I guess I'll text you later?"
Brittany sends her a dazzling smile and leans forward to kiss her but frowns when Santana puckers her lips for a quick kiss and is turning on her heels without another glance.
"B, what gives?" Ashley huffs as she misses yet another turn, "you've been distracted all day and we've worked all day and we haven't even finished the routine!"
Brittany bites her lip in frustration knowing that this routine would've been finished a long time ago if she her mind wasn't so occupied with other things, " I'm sorry" she sighs, "let's hit it from the top one more time"
Ashley turns and shuts off the radio and slides the mirrored wall facing her best friend, "spill it" she says taking a sip of her water bottle and staring at the blonde expectantly.
Brittany pinches the bridge of her nose and exhales, "it's Santana"
"Fuck, what did she do this time?" Ashley bites making Brittany shake her head. She knows that Ashley wasn't a fan of her and Santana rekindling, if you could call it that.
Truth is Brittany has no idea what to call it. It's been almost two months since what happened at the beach and the days that pass Brittany finds wondering where she stands win Santana.
She knows that she hasn't seen Ivey in months.
She knows Santana wanted to take things slow but Brittany never thought it would be this slow.
She feels like turtles are racing past her at this point.
"that's the thing" Brittany sighs, "she hasn't done anything, it's been months and we haven't even taken a single step in any direction" Brittany drops her hand to her hips and walks over to the wall and let's her body slide down until she's sitting with her knees pulled into her chest, "I don't even know why to do, sometimes I think I'm more attracted to her than she is to me and hasn't realized that maybe what she felt in high school was just temporary"
"That's bull Britt" Ashley interjects, "I might not be completely on board with all of this and Santana might not me on my good list but I've seen the way she looks at you, there are hearts practically popping out of her eyes with just the mention of your name. That girl is so in love with you she doesn't know what to do with herself"
"If she's so in love with me then why hasn't she done anything. It's been months and we're still taking it slow"
"Wait is this about sex?"
"Yes-no" Brittany huffs and brings her hand to rub her face, "Santana and I have always been intimate, even when we were friends we were always intimate, and it's not about sex."she says, "it's about her and I connecting so deeply and so profoundly that our relationship becomes deeper" Brittany's eyes snap up when she hears Ashley scoff, "okay fine it's about the sex too. Have you seen her Ash, she's literally the epitome of sex, she just glances at me and I'm fired up."
"Well don't sit here and mope about it" Ashley says as she stands up and walks over to her duffel bag that happens to be next to her best friend, "it's late and were definitely not going to get this routine done, go talk to a her and sort this out" Ashley leans down and and places a soft kiss on her forehead, "stop thinking and just talk to her Britt"
It's late.
Santana pulls her black rimmed glasses from her face and rubs the burn out of her eyes. She's been looking over case files for 7 hours straight and as she blinks the tiredness away she picks up another files and flips it open.
Her secretary and the rest of her firm left hours ago and she knows she should've left to but she feels that as the newest partner of the firm she needs to prove herself.
Her firm is the biggest in New York and she's the not only the youngest lawyer but she is the only woman which makes her think she needs to extra extra prove herself.
She lets out a yawn and reaches over for her mug and decides to pick up some coffee before the janitors clean up for the night. She heads out at smiles over at Alejandro, the overnight custodian as she walks past him. Ever since she made partner and has had to stay late Alejandro always waits until she grabs another cup of coffee before cleaning up.
It's their silent ritual; she smiles as she walks by and he always nods.
She reaches the coffee stands and pours herself a cup mixing in the right amount of cream and sugar before turning on her heels and walking back to her office.
She slumps back down in her chair and leans back closing her eyes for a bit thinking about how much longer she has to stay in order to finish. Tomorrow her firm is handling minor cases in the court in midtown so since all her cases are much bigger she isn't required to come in which she's glad about because she is looking forward to spending her day lounging and hopefully hanging around with Britt.
Brittany. Just thinking about the girl brings a smile to her face.
She reaches for her phone at the same time she brings the mugs to her lips and takes a sip, humming at the warm liquid. Quickly scrolling through her contacts she lands on the one she was looking for and clicks wedging the phone between her shoulder and ear as she begins to look through her files again.
It only takes a few seconds of loud honking and noise but when she hears a soft "Hello" she finds her lips tugging upwards.
"Hey"
"Hi, I was just thinking about you"
Santana finds herself smiling a little bit more at that, "Great minds think alike then?"
"Yeah I guess so, what's up?"
"Nothing much" she says resting her head on her chair and closing her eyes, "taking a little break from these files and decided to call you, I missed you"
It's quiet for a moment and Santana notices that the honking and the noise that she was hearing in the background stopped, so she assumes that Brittany has made it inside her house "I'm really glad to hear that. I missed you too"
"I was calling you for a reason though" she says biting her lip, "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"
"Not really, I was supposed to have rehearsal but I decided to let the dancers have the day off considering Ashley and I haven't finished the routine. I'll probably be in the studio in the morning finishing that off, why?"
"Tomorrow I have the day off and was wondering is maybe, if you weren't busy, and obviously want you-you know hang out with me?"
She hears Brittany let out a little giggle, "You're cute when you ramble"
Her cheeks warm up and she finds herself tugging on the hem of her skirt, "I wasn't rambling" she mumbles and grunts when Brittany giggles out a "you tottally were"
"But yes I'd love too, how about we meet up at Sance around 10 and we can head out to my beach house and spend the day there?"
Just when she's about to respond there's a knock on the door. "Hold on B" she says and "Come in" she says and Alejandro steps in making his way inside.
"Ms. Santana there is someone looking for you in the lobby, Carson tried paging you but I think your secretary forgot to take out the 'block' out of the intercom before she left. He wanted to know if it was okay if they let them up?"
Santana places her hand over the phone, "Did they give you a name?" Alejandro sheepishly shakes his head, "It's okay tell Carson I'll head downstairs in 5 minutes"
"Is everything okay?"
"Yeah" you sigh, "Can I call you back in five minutes? I have to go handle something downstairs."
"Okay Bye"
"Bye"
She hops on the elevator and taps on the lobby button and begins to fix her blouse tucking it in neatly in her skirt before the door opens. She figures it's probably Quinn downstairs, that girl always leaves in a frenzy when she's working too many shifts and tends to forget her house keys from time to time. The doors open and she makes her way out and towards the lobby walking past Carson who happens to be lurking by his desk. "Hello Ms. Lopez"
"Hey Carson" she greets as she rounds the corner and doesn't even bother looking up as she walks towards who she assumes is Quinn standing facing the large windows leading to the inside garden her building has, "Am I going to have to glue house keys to your scrubs Fabray?"
She stops abruptly when the person turns and her breath hitches a little because she could've sworn it was Quinn, except it isn't.
It's Brittany.
"Sorry, I know you said you were busy but I assumed you probably haven't had dinner yet so I was wondering if maybe you wanted to have dinner, unless if you have had dinner then maybe you want to have coffee, but if you're too busy I can totally go to the Starbucks-"
Santana leans forwards and kisses Brittany and smiles when the blonde's tense shoulders relax, she pulls back and can't stop the smile that forms on her lips when blue eyes flutter open, "You're cute when you ramble" Brittany's cheeks flush and she does that cute little thing where she points her toes and does a little circle like if she doesn't know how to handle the compliment Santana just gave her. "I haven't had dinner yet so how about we head out and grab a bite, I know this diner not to far from here that serves the best burger and milkshake in all of Manhattan."
Brittany smiles and happily follows you towards the elevators, "You sure you don't want me to pick something up so you can continue working?"
Santana taps on the elevator button and turns around to face Brittany and smiles and shakes her head, "I'm just going to call it a night. I won't be able to concentrate knowing that you're around"
"You weren't kidding when you said those were the best milkshakes in all of Manhattan" Brittany says tapping her now full belly. Santana chuckles as she signals the waiter down to bring her the check, "I can't believe I had three" The waiter comes back and he leaves the bill on the table and Brittany quickly picks it up and brings it to her chest and lifts her eyebrows when Santana is about to protest, "You paid this morning" she says as she pulls some cash out of her purse and places it on the table. She slides out of the table and reaches over to grab Santana's hand once the brunette is on her feet and leads them both outside.
"Do you want to share a cab?" Santana asks and Brittany nods. She wants to spend a little more time with Santana. She watches as the brunette begins looking for an available cab and she can't help but think about the previous conversation she had with Ashley earlier today.
She knows she wants to be with Santana. But Santana recently broke of her engagement and no matter how much she wants to give her the space she needs she really wants to be with her.
But she knows Santana, she knows that even though she might be the smartest person she's ever known she also needs her space when it comes to "relationship stuff". She gets broken out of her thoughts when Santana tells her that the cab is there. She lets Santana get in first then follows suit smiling when Santana gives out directions to their respective apartments.
They arrive to Santana's house first so Brittany steps out of the cab and tells the driver to leave the meter running while she walks Santana up to her apartment. Santana smiles bashfully at the gesture and Brittany just shrugs her shoulder casually and guides them both up the stairs. " You never answered me earlier on the phone, about spending the day in Long Island?" Brittany asks as they reach the entrance to Santana's apartment building.
"I'd love to Britt" she says, "I love spending time there" she says and when Brittany smiles and stares down at her feet, Santana can't help herself and squeezes at pale hands until blue eyes lock with her brown, "-and I really like spending time with you"
"You do?" Brittany asks, her heart squeezing in her chest. Santana just smiles and leans forward and plants a kiss on pale lips. Brittany kisses her as she slips her arms around Santana's waist to deepen the kiss and breathes in sharply when Santana opens her mouth to deepen the kiss. It's been weeks since Santana has kissed her like this so she greedily pushes her body against the brunette and slips her tongue in and nearly dies when Santana lets out a little moan.
She nearly jumps out of her shoes when the cab driver impatiently honks making Santana pull away softly panting against her mouth, "I guess I'll see you tomorrow" she says breathlessly.
"I guess so, goodnight Santana"
"Goodnight Brittany" she smiles and slowly lets go of Brittany's hand as she descends down the stairs and climbs into the cab. They keep they eyes locked on each other and when the cab begins to pull away Santana blows a kiss in her direction causing Brittany's heart to flutter so she leans back with her eyes closed and a giant smile on her face knowing that she although things might be going slow she would take it all because Santana is worth the wait.