(aerin's pov)

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I didn't think they'd react like this,

they're all acting like I just confessed to a murder or I announced that I wanted to run for president.

I can feel my heart racing, and my palms are slightly sweating, am I having a panic attack ?

- this is so surreal, I've dreamt about this moment for months, this should feel special

why doesn't this feel special ?

𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐐𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 | 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟐 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 6

𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 , looks of confusion and bewilderment filled the faces of all the guys as they stared in disbelief at the blonde. Coach rubbed the top of her forehead slightly as she took in a sharp in take of breath, "are you pulling my leg or are you actually serious sweet heart ?"

Santana stepped forward towards Coach Beiste as she crossed her arms, "I didn't hear her stutter, did you coach ?"

Aerin pushed Santana back slightly, she appreciated her coming to her defence but this was her battle to fight. Azimio Adams snickered from the back, he whispers into the ears of a couple of his teammates and soon everyone around him started to go into an uproar of laughter.

"Hey, what's so funny ?" Aerin interjected, the laughter died down but the callous expressions of all the guys  still remained. Karofsky stepped up as he held his helmet, " Listen here Gay Cline, we don't let girls on our team, we've never let girls on our team, so why should we make an acception for you ?"

"Yeah, cooking clubs that way-" Azimio interrupted, as he pointed towards the school entrance.

They all begin to laugh again, some chant sexist chorus's towards the defenceless girl as she stood on the pitch in shame. Santana's blood began to boil, she felt like round house kicking all the boys right in their nutsacks. She tightens her fist, trying to control her anger, she began to curse repeatedly to herself in Spanish. Coach Bieste finally intervenes as she blows her whistle, "hey, hey settle down, that's enough !"

"Get to the locker room, right now. All your attitudes have been appalling and I'm disgusted with each and every one of you," Coach Bieste barked loudly, Karofsky throws his hands up in annoyance as he threw his helmet on the floor.

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 as they all excited the football pitch. Atticus stays behind, "I'll take her home coach-" he grabs Aerin's hand as he addressed Coach Bieste, but she instantly pushed him away.

"No, leave me alone. You just stood there and let all those guys basically bully me, you're supposed to be my brother, my flesh and blood," Aerin inches closer to her twin, the two glared viciously at one another.

Atticus bit the bottom of his lip guiltily, he knew he was a bad brother, he was just too much of a coward to admit it. Family meant the world to the boy but in some sick way his reputation meant even more. He didn't want to loose his status, being a hierarchy jock meant that you were basically royalty. Everyone feared you, and you were untouchable.

Santana pushed a loose strand of hair out of her eye, she moved swiftly towards the fighting siblings and she stood in the middle of them, she turned to face Atticus. "Listen here Frumpy Lumpkins, I don't like you, I've never liked you. You are literally the definition of male toxicity and you're a horrible brother", she paused in her rant to take in a sharp intake of breath, a sly smirk suddenly formed on her lips. Aerin looked at Santana, she raised an eyebrow, the blonde grew slightly concerned at what the latina was thinking off doing to her brother.

"Make it up to us," Santana  proudly as she put her hands on her waist.

Atticus looked at the girl with major confusion, he furrowed his eyebrows, "Make it up to you, how ?"

Santana steps closer, she pursed her lips as she began to think. "We need a ride, to the Lima Bean, I'm all out of bus money. If you take us in your old, musty Toyota pick-up, Aerin will promise to forgive you, won't you Aerin"

Santana turned to Aerin and winked, she had finally caught on to Santana's ruse. Aerin nodded her head in agreement, "Yeah, definitely"

Atticus looked at both girls, he scratched his head, "Fine, I'll be out in a couple minutes, meet me at the parking lot"

He lets out passive aggressive sigh, the clueless teen had no idea what he had just been roped in too. Atticus turns to walk away and Santana blows him an air kiss from behind.

"How did you trick him like that ?" Aerin beamed

Santana turned around, she smiled as she linked arms with her new other half. "I've just got that Tana magic, princess"

"𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐒," Santana reassured the blonde sitting across from her, the two had been at the Lima Bean for about 2 hours now. They had spent their time there talking about anything and everything, they had gotten to know eachother alot better. Aerin looked down, the after-effect of her confrontation with the football team still stung deep within her. She could shake most things off sometimes, but this time she had felt different, she felt defeated. Santana was slightly concerned for her new friend, she could see that she was visabley upset about something.

Aerin let out a small sigh before she took a bite out of her scone, "I felt like a dimwhit, I was stupid for thinking they would actually accept me-"

Santana grabs Aerin's hand, this shocked the girl to her core. She leans in closer, " I sound like a cliche when I say this but, don't give up on your dreams. Don't let those misogonystic sexist losers stop you from being who you are, I believe in you" she pulls back as she smiles, Aerin firms her grip on the latina's hand.

"You're the best, Lopez," Aerin replied softly

Placing his hand firmly on their table,  Atticus was able to gather the attention of both girls. Santana quickly let's go of Aerin's hand, she tucks it back down to her side, whilst Aerin felt her heart break. Their moment , once again, had been ruined. Atticus takes a seat next to Santana, the latina looked over at him with a scowl, " Did I invite you to sit with us, Frumps ?"

Atticus returned her scowl with a smirk, he was quick to reach across the table to swipe a large portion of the cronut that Santana had ordered for Aerin, he stuffs it into his mouth, and then he wipes his hands.  Aerin looked down at her empty plate with a  slight pout, she was excited to try that cronut, "You're such a parasite"

" love you too, sis" Atticus sneered, as he licked some reamning icing off of his dirty fingers.

Santana hands her cinnamon roll to the girl,  A smile of appreciation formed on Aerin's face, "You didn't have to do that," Santana sat back in her chair, seeing Aerin happy made her feel good.  She shakes her head slightly, "It's fine, I don't like cinnamon anyways, the after-taste is really unappealing"

Aerin scoffed jokingly, "I'm offended that you hate cinnamon, San. Like, how could you ? - it's literally the best flavour ever !"

Santana chuckled slightly,  " Cinnamon is boujee, there's no kick to it. it's literally just sugary spice with an kick of pizazz," the two soon bursted into an uproar of laughter, their joyful cackling caused everyone in the Lima Bean to stare at them awkwardly. Atticus nudged Santana's elbow, " Quit it, will you"

Santana snapped her head round to look at Atticus, her eyes narrowed  as her laughter died down.

"God, lighten up,  you're such a buzzkill," she groaned, as she began to drink from her coffee cup. Atticus stands to his feet, he had given up on the both of them.  He puts on his lettermen jacket and straps his bag around his shoulder,  he turns to face Aerin.

" Find your own way back, I'm going home, I have a date at 6-"

"With who ?" Aerin questioned with a snicker

Atticus's eyes wandered for a minute, he pressed his lips in a straight line, "Nobody, just some girl-"

Santana puts down her coffee cup, "Some girl ? give us a clue at least, Sherlock-"

Atticus pursed his lips, a slight furrow formed in between the boys eyebrows as he stared pointedly at Santana, he hesitates, but he gives in eventually. "She's head cheerio, I've been trying to score her since freshman year-"

Aerin sat up in her seat, "Please don't tell me you're talking about Quinn ?"

Atticus proudly nodded his head, a sleezy smirk formed on his face, " Wish me luck" he bragged jokingly as he crossed his fingers.

Aerin scoffed inwardly to herself as she tapped her fingers on the table in a continuous motion. Santana placed her hand on to of Aerin's, their eyes connect, " that noise makes my ears burn"

Aerin stopped instantly, she crossed her arms as she leaned back on her chair. She turned her head as she watched her brother pull out of the parking lot, and speed down the road.

"I can't believe she wouldn't tell me," Aerin sighed

Santana raised an eyebrow as she took another sip from her slightly scolding coffee, "are you two joined at the hip  ?"

Aerin turned to face Santana again, she quickly shook her head in response to her question. Aerin knew she couldn't control Quinn, but to her girl code meant something.

Santana put down her coffee cup in frustration as she crossed her arms on her chest area, "then why are you so butt hurt about her going out with your oaf of a twin ?"

Aerin sent the Latina a glare from across the table as she put on her coat, "I'm not butt hurt"

Santana let out a sarcastic chuckle as she stood to her feet, "Oh please you are so butthurt. Are you afraid they're going to get married and have a bunch of blonde headed, green eyed demon babies ?"

Aerin rolled her eyes, she obviously knew that Quinn and Atticus wouldn't get to that point. The two blondes didn't even know each other, at least not well enough to be in a serious relationship.

"her and Sam Evans were cute," Aerin shyly commented

Santana looked over in slight disgust, "Fabray and trouts ? those two were so boring, they were like marshmallows and graham crackers, dry and totally lame"

" didn't you and Sam date though, how was that relationship ?" Aerin added jokingly, knowing it would piss Santana off.

Santana snarled as she linked arms with the blonde, "Please don't remind me about that, i'm still trying to recover from it -"

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hope you enjoyed new chapter angels <3

the next chapter will probably be out in 2 weeks, school is taking over my life  :/
also if there is any spelling errors or weird

dialogue i sincerely apologise I rushed the ending lmao-

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