A Love Like Infinity

Chapter 1

My alarm clock goes off forcing me to roll out of my best friend Brittany's embrace. It's not unusual for us to cuddle when we sleep or through out the day. She's still sleeping, her long blonde locks cascading around her head on my pillow. Her creamy pale skin seems to glow as she sleeps. She looks so beautiful right now and I know that if I just leaned in a few centimeters my lips would be on hers. I can't do it. I can't think of her like that. Sure we've kissed before when we were younger but we didn't know what we were doing. Did we? No. No. No. We didn't and we can't.

I nudge Brittany's shoulder to wake her up. "Good morning sleepy head." I smile at her as she begins to wake up.

"San. Do we really have to get up? Can't we just stay home, watch sweet valley high and get our cuddle on?" Brittany tries to roll away from me and pulls the bed sheet over her head. I laugh softly but really do consider it. I would love to stay home with Brittany all day and cuddle but it's the first day of school.

"Britt, I promise we can stay home some day next week but today's our first day back to school. Come on, get dressed" I roll off the bed and start changing. I feel like I'm being watched but I'm sure that I'm being paranoid. I just shrug it off and walk into the bathroom to apply my makeup, brush my teeth and pull my hair back. Pretty soon Brittany joins me in her matching cheer leading outfit. I take a few seconds to admire those never ending legs. Wait- snap out of it. I can't do that. I'm thankful there isn't really any talking, it's still too early for Brittany to be her normally bubbly self so she won't notice me internally beating myself up. We don't have time for breakfast so we just grab a bannana, sling our matching bookbags over our shoulders and walk out my door. The walk is short, really just a few blocks. We're still silent until we walk up to the front door of our high school.

"Okay Britt-Britt. Once we walk through those doors we'll finally be sophomores." I turn to Brittany who should be in her normal happy mood by now. As soon as I look up, I'm met with a pair of piercing blue eyes for the first time today. I could get lost in them for days, I could stare at her all day and never once get bored- wait... I can't think like that. She's my best friend. JUST my best friend. Nothing else. Okay, breathe.

"San? Are you okay? You look kind of like you spaced out on me." Brittany looks at me with worry clearly in her eyes. I would know, I've been staring in them for the better part of five minutes.

I shake me head, "I'm fine. Just thinking about how amazing this year is going to be." Brittany smiles at me. Her smile is just another thing that I can stare at for days. It's like her smile lights up any room we're in, every one can't help but stare.

"Well duh! Of course it is. Every year since we met has been amazing." My stomach flutters and I'm pretty sure the blush is evident on my face. "Shall we?" Brittany holds out her pinkie and wiggles her eyebrows. I can't help but laugh at how much of a dork she is and I link my pinkie around hers and walk through the doors of McKinley high school. It's not even five seconds later until I hear my second closest friends voice call out to us forcing us to separate so Quinn can fit between us. I immediately miss the contact. It's okay for me to miss my best friends touch right? I mean, it was innocent.

"Santana, Brittany! Wait up!" Quinn jogs down the hall to meet us.

"Hey Quinn! I can't believe its our second year of high school! This year is gonna be awesome. I can just tell." Brittany can't seem to contain her excitement. I can't help but get excited too. She really has a big impact on me that I wish she didn't have. We start walking to our first class.
"It def will be! But don't forget that it's our second year of being cheerios. Now that I'm captain I'm at the top of the social pyramid. But of course I can't forget the other members of the unholy trinity" Quinn smirks and loops her arms through ours. The cheerios are McKinley's goddesses. We're worshiped. The only bad thing about being a cheerio is our cheer coach Sue Sylvester. She's way too intense and crazy. You don't want to get on her bad side.

"Just think of all the popularity being cheerios will bring us. Boys, parties, everything we've ever wanted." I smirk along with Quinn and we step into our first class of the day. Boys are normal, boys are safe. I know exactly which boy that will distract me from all these thoughts of Brittany.