Santana hated Valentines Day. And not only because of Facebook’s 101 memes of lies stating V-day sucks instead the cold hard truth: you should have done a lot more sucking to enjoy this time of year. Or even everyone’s sudden enthusiasm for Leslie’s Knope’s non-existent teeth, and wax like skin preaching about Galentines. The fact, Galentines, sounded like Walmart’s answer to being ‘glamorously’ cake faced while still being ‘cheap’ was enough for Santana to hate it, but it was another reminder she didn’t even really have gals -- not one’s she actually liked, at least.
The holiday was a mess, and currently, as she sat in the stairways of the club she was suppose to be in with her ‘valentines’, she felt like the biggest mess of all.
Santana wore a pretty white dress, short as per usual, but basked in a sexy like innocence Cher herself embodied in her Calvin Klein frock, via Clueless. Her hair was straightened, pouring down her back like spilled black ink. There was a deep right part in her hair for not only the dramatic effect of sleek hair having a slightly Aaliyah aesthetic too it, but her cinnamon hues playing peek-a-boo with the slightest shift of her head. Her make up was simple, for once. Unmasking a beauty beneath that wasn’t the usual sizzling hot devil in red, but bright eyes, high cheek bones, and a purity, that yes, even Santana was capable of. It was all so perfect until her phone buzzed right as she got to the top step of the stairwell in preparation for her dramatic arrival with her date she had assumed was a tad late.
The buzz was an alert of a text that simply read, ‘I’m not coming, jetting off to Brazil with Gigi.’ She stood their frozen for a few seconds, then finally, her feet encased in six inch heels were able to produce a few measly steps so she could sit on one of the steps in a pile of despair. Then ten minutes later, there’s another vibration and it’s a flood of pictures of Q and Rachel showing up, thralled around their, hunky, hot, and totally ‘in love’ with them dates.
Then it hit her. Not even a fake date wanted to spend Valentines day with her. There she was, alone in a stair wail, with a rejection text, misty eyes, and one fat tear droplet reminding her how pathetic she was -- or felt, at least. Quickly she looks to her phone clutched between trembling hands. It’s a blur of colors shining from the screen; luckily though, days spent sending about a zillion text, tweets, snaps, and whatever else, she has the keyboard memorized.
She taps a message to Sam:
Decided I rather hit the funeral home then this lame event. I’m heading out, you’re off for night. Ttyl.
It’s all she could muster up in the moment. She had to much going on, like knocking her head back so tears would free fall back into her dome, a contoured nose rippling at the bridge so she could sniffle back tears, and the tip of her tongue ravishing the inside of her mouth in some vain attempt to sweep away the need to cry. “Get it together.” She whispered to herself. A few moments pass by, and nothing is together. “Goddamit!” Her voice raises a bit higher, as her head swings back in another attempt to get the tears away. “Stop acting like a child, and just get the heck out of here.” She whispered to herself again, head tipping back forward as the part of her (one without pity or time for such trivial acts of emotion) barraged her with one ill word after the other. But she couldn’t get up and go outside, the paparazzi. And seeing as she couldn’t quite shake off the domino effect of a God awful cry, she knew she couldn’t quite leave yet. Instead, she was left there, feeling pathetic, with misty eyes, a pretty dress, a clean face, and a mind sunk in sadness, while the other part of her mind did more damage to her self-esteem then a hundred tabloids could ever do.