ᴜɴᴄᴏᴠᴇʀᴇᴅ | ꜱᴀɴᴛᴀɴᴀ ʟᴏᴘᴇᴢ

𝐓𝐞𝐧, 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐝

I sat in Glee Club zoned out, I had my legs drapped over Mike's seat who sat in front of me. I snapped out of thoughts when Mr Schue started talking.

"Ballad, who knows what it means?" He asks.

"A male duck!"
Brittany replies confidently and I give her a smile.

"A ballad is a love song." Kurt answers.

"Sometimes, they don't always express love. Ballads are stories set to music- they are the perfect form of self-expression. Our assignment for the week, I'm going to pair you off and you have to pick a ballad to sing to your partner. Look them in the eye and find the emotion you want to express."
Schue explains and my eyes drift to Santana who was sitting next to me, her beautiful brown eyes staring up at Mr Schue.

"I pick Quinn." Finn says quickly.

"No no. Too easy, your partners will be chosen by fate. I put all your names in this hat, whoever you choose is your partner."
Will shuffles the pieces of paper in the hat.

"But Matt's out sick today. He had to go to the hospital cause they found a spider in his ear."
Santana says with a laugh.

"I guess I'll just have to put my name in the hat for now."
Will beckons Puck to the front and everyone creates a drumroll as he picks a name. 

"Mercedes." He says and Mercedes groans.

Artie gets Quinn, Finn gets Kurt, Tina gets Mike.
Puck drags Thomas over and he picks one before rolling his eyes.

"Brittany." 

Brittany gives him a small smile and I shoot him a glare, I'll be warning him to be nice.
Santana skips up to the front, she smiles brightly as she picks the paper.

"Madeleine!" 

I clap loudly and she skips back to give me a high-five.

"Guess I'm with you Mr Schue!" Rachel announces.

"Oh.. maybe we should wait till Matt gets back-"
Schue splutters.

"The fates talked Mr Schue!"
I say happily getting laughs from everyone.

I shoot concerned looks at Santana and Kurt after the performance.

"That was horrifyingly disturbing."
I mutter under my breath.

The bell rings and I feel Santana's pinkie reach for mine as we walk out the room, I join it immediately.

"So, how about you come round mine tonight? My parents aren't around and we can work on our ballad." Santana says with a wink.

"Yeah! Sure!" I reply flustered.
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The bell rang to end the school day and as I walked out of English, Santana was waiting leaned up against a locker, we locked pinkies and made our way out to her red car. I spotted Charlotte walking through the carpark.

"Charl! I'm heading to Tana's, tell Mom would you?" I call out and she gives me a thumbs up.
We jumped in the car and I turned on the radio before relaxing comfortably in the passenger seat.

"Oh my god! High School Musical!"
I exclaim as my secret favourite song comes on the radio. I catch Santana's eye who had her eyebrows raised and was smirking.

"Izzie- she loveess those movies. So I watch them with her sometimes." I mutter.

Santana laughs and her hands skims along my thigh, the skirt of my cheerios uniform riding up my leg further. She doesn't seem to notice so I brush off the butterflies in my stomach.