Freckles ➳ Santana Lopez (re-writing)

2x18 Born This Way - Bully Whips and Minnie Mouse

Angry chatter filled the choir room as Julia simply crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, leaning back in her chair.

"Quiet! Quiet!" Figgins yelled from the front of the room, standing beside the boy the glee club hated the most.

"We don't care what he has to say!" Finn yelled for the rest of the students.

"Shh, now I know David has had some issues in the past, but I have great respect for what he's doing right now, and I ask you to hear him out.  Thank you," Figgins sighed.

"How about we punch is face out," Sam said as Julia nodded with the blond, but secretly thought that Sam was nowhere near menacing, but was just an adorable cinnamon roll instead.

"That's enough guys, everyone listen up!" Mr. Schue told his class, abruptly silencing them.

"First, I just wanna say how sorry I am for what I did to Kurt," Karofsky started, rocking back and forth on his heels.

Julia squinted her eyes and carefully studied the boy, trying to see if there was any truth behind his words.

"And for what I've done to a lot of you.  I think I've slushied all of you...well, maybe except for Julia," Karofsky added, knowing that Julia could give him some serious payback if he ever did that to her.

Suddenly all eyes were on Julia who sulked back into her seat, not really caring for the attention.  She was basically the HBIC at McKinley, but still managed to be an outcast in the club of outcasts.

"I treated Kurt the worst," Karofsky said as Julia turned to Santana for her reaction.  "And I'm really ashamed of who I am."

Julia furrowed her eyebrows when she saw Santana mouth the words as they came out of Karofsky's mouth.  Now she knew something definitely was up but she couldn't place her finger on it.

"Of what I did," Karofsky finished.

"Why should we believe you?" Puck asked the question they were all wondering.

"You don't have to.  I know I'll need to earn your trust.  All I can say is that Santana has really helped me to see the light," Karofsky said.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, all heads turned to the Latina as Julia immediately buried her face in her hands.

"Oh my god," she whispered in disbelief and disgust, already knowing what was coming.

"She showed me all these stories online about kids jumping off of bridges and hanging themselves because they were being bullied so bad.  I couldn't believe someone could make another person feel so awful.  But, she helped me accept that I was one of those people," Karofsky said.

"This is not happening," Julia mumbled into her hands, refusing to open her eyes and look up at her best friend.

"And I don't want to be that anymore," Karofsky added.

"Wait, Santana?" Quinn pointed over at the Latina in disbelief.

"Yeah, Santana?" Julia repeated the question, finally taking her face out of her hands to look up at Karofsky, still refusing to look at Santana.

"This glee club is not complete," Santana started, getting up from her chair and placing a hand on Julia's shoulder in the process.

Santana couldn't say that it didn't hurt when Julia cringed away from her touch.

"Not without Kurt.  So I've taken it upon myself to rehabilitate Dave," Santana said as Brittany simply wrapped an arm around Julia's shoulders, hugging the slightly shorter girl into her side for comfort.  "To see if maybe Kurt would consider coming back," Santana stood beside Karofsky.  "And help us win Nationals.  I did this for us.  Then something funny happened."