Mine Again

Chapter 2

No-one's POV

"Alright, the reason I came to see you is...I just...really missed you. Yeah, I just couldn't get you out of my head. Aria breaks out into yet another grin.

"Really? And what is so depressing about that Lopez?" A mock glare is thrown at Santana taking her back to all the good times they had together when they were young, how their relationship has always been full of love, laughter and support. Santana refuses to ruin that now, she can't tell her the truth.

"What's wrong with that? Are you kidding? I'm too badass to be spending my time moping and staring at photos of your annoyingly lovable face." 

"Oh, so you stare at pictures of my lovable face now?" Santana holds a hand up in a stop sign motion.

"Hold up now Lil' Snixx. I said, and I quote, 'annoyingly lovable' so don't get any ideas. I still can't stand you 90% of the time but I do kind of love you...sometimes." She makes air quotes as she restates the adjectives she used. "Now I wants to hear some more about this teacher guy you dated."

Aria rolls her eyes and takes one of Santana's hands in her own two to stop her fidgeting while recounting her car wreck of a relationship. 

"Alright then, we'll change the subject but I just want you to know that I will be bringing this up again in the future." If we even even have a future. Santana can't help but think spitefully.  "So you know how we went to Iceland for a year?" She waits for her to nod in confirmation before continuing although she knows that Santana knows because they made regular phone calls and texts to each other, they always have. "When i came back I went to some pub thing, I was grabbing something to eat since I was waiting for Mike to finish some kind of try-outs because I was his ride. I was bored out of my mind and some guy started talking to me, it was all innocent. We spoke about music and literature, cliche right?" Aria pauses and chuckles at her naivety and Santana watches glumly as she can tell how much she is kicking herself in this moment. 

Santana's POV

I watch as Aria avoids all eye contact with me, I'm trying my best to send her a telepathic message for her to look at me but she either isn't receiving the message or she's ignoring me. 

"Somehow, we ended up in the bathroom making out, I was that stupid, I didn't even know the guy besides his name. Ezra Fitz." I can see how much she is struggling with this story and how much this random guy has hurt her and I haven't even heard all of the story yet. I just want to rip his throat out for hurting her, she's my Pookie, no matter how long we've been apart she will always be my best friend and I don't let anyone hurt the people that I care about. 

"It's okay Ari, you don't have to tell me if you don't wan to baby." |I reassure her, gripping her hands tighter and stilling her fingers that were playing with mine distractedly. 

"It's alright San, I want you to know." She takes a deep breath and continues. "The next day we had a new English teacher and you'll never guess who it was. Good ol' Mr Fitz. We ended up getting into a relationship, it wasn't serious at first but when it started to I freaked. There was a lot to lose and I will always pick my family over some guy I met a few weeks before so I tried to break it off with him." There are tears in her eyes now and all I want to do is find a way to make them stop. Instead I simply shuffle closer to her and soothingly begin to rub my thumbs over the back of her hands. "He tried to get me to stay with him by threatening to make my friends flunk his class. I almost did it but then Spencer found out somehow and instead we had to make a deal with him, he leaves the grades and me alone and I won't report him to the dean for having relations with a student. I'm not even mad that we broke up, I just feel stupid because I thought he was a semi-decent human being. I guess we all don't have a psychic Mexican third eye like you."