L. O. V. E.

Jae

Jae wasn't expecting Aston to hit him up in all honesty, but he was glad that she did. He didn't want to push, but he could tell that it was all overwhelming for her. He remembered that feeling when he first arrived and was determined to help her out as much as he could. After classes, he skated to the library, where he told her he would meet her. Plus, there were computers there and he didn't want to explain to her why he didn't have his own lap top like everyone else there did. He saw her in far corner and picked up his board before making his way over. "Hey, Aston. I'm Jae." Of course she knew who he was. "Sorry, hey."

Aston

Aston wasn’t anywhere near through unpacking. She had at least convinced her parents to give her some space and keep to town and their hotel while she tried to get settled. They would return after the weekend for parents week, despite Aston’s attempts to talk them out of it. She stuffed some supplies and her laptop into a backpack and shucked it onto her shoulders, eager to meet people in the place she was about to call home for a while. “Hey” she tossed out, when Jae approached, winning a smile for his awkwardness. “Don’t worry about it. As long as you can make sure I don’t miss a class or accidentally unenroll from the Academy...”

Jae

Jae relaxed a little bit, relieved that she didn’t seem to bothered by his awkwardness. He took a seat then leaned his board against the seat next to them. “Cool. I might fuck up on other shit, but I can promise I got you in that area. This is my third semester. So I’m kind of a pro.” Jae returned the smiled and pulled his phone out so he could open up his class list. “If you need the website, I can airdrop it to you. I mean if you have a MacBook. I guess I shouldn’t assume.”

Aston

“Nah I got it.” Aston replied, tipping open her laptop. She could get herself that far at least. “I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything.” She said, stroking over a few keys and pulling up the school page. “And pointing me in the right direction for team signups is deeply essential.”

Jae

"Team sign ups for?" Jae asked, letting the question hang in the air as he tried to search for the club sign up. "Here. It's all the sports and clubs and shit. I'm in Nerd Club... No, it's called Fandom club." He laughed and showed her his phone so she could copy the url. "Then we can do the classes, which can be found here."

Aston

Aston scrunched her face and leaned over to have a look. "Fandom club..." She was trying to imagine what they'd do in a club like that but all that was coming to mind was a dungeons and dragons type deal. Not really her style. "Basketball." She said, pulling up team sports before classes. "But..." I probably should look at some other clubs too..." Aston mumbled, pouring over the list after pinning her name to Basketball sign ups. She'd never really gotten into anything else, and now with classes and trying to stay in shape and maintain her switch roll. She changed her mind and clicked into classes. "Does this class title really say owies..?"

Jae

Santana

Santana hated that she’d been crying, she hadn’t like properly cried since Abulea had told her that she was cutting Teo out of her life and even then it had only been a few tears. Where as now she was red faced, and little sobs kept leaving her chest. All because of that stupid bitch Quinn Fabray, everything had been fine before her. She hadn’t known where to go, and somehow that had lead to her knocking on the door of the one person she actually liked. Jae.

Jae

Jae still had some time after leaving Noelle's place and heading out with his brother when he was in his room just cooling it for a minute when he heard a knock at his door. He didn't ever get visitors so it was a little alarming and it set him on edge as he approached the door, but he instantly relaxed when he saw Santana's face on the other side. At least until he opened the door to see the state she was in. "Santana?" He questioned before pulling her in and closing the door behind her. "What's going on, you good?" He asked, leading her to the couch so they could both relax.

Santana

Santana had no idea what to say when Jae opened his door, and instead of words at first she let out a wet little hiccup. The brunette let him pull her inside, her heart racing. Could she say it? Could she actually say something out allowed. “Quinn..” Was all she could start with. “I saw Quinn.. fucking bitch.”

Jae

Jae hadn’t known Santana for that long, but he knew her long enough to know something was really wrong. He recognized that look on her face - the fear in her eyes. He didn’t want to come on too strong but he wanted her to know he was there. So he placed a hand in her knee. “Quinn? What did she do? Did she fuck with you?” Jae didn’t say the last part but he thought it. That the Fabrays looked like people who purposely fucked with everyone around them.

Santana

Santana let out another pathetic little sob, and then promptly hated herself for it. She was acting like a weak little bitch, and she needed to stomp out this part of herself as soon as possible. “She was fucking boring Chang in the locker rooms.. I saw them.. and she just kept on screwing him.” Santana gulped out, wiping her tears with her sleeve. “It’s so fucking stupid.. I.. fuck her.”

Jae

It was no secret that Jae was more on the shy side when it came to sex. He was only comfortable with Noelle. And while he preferred not to see other people in the act, he wasn’t sure if he would even have such a negative reaction from it. And he definitely didn’t expect a badass like Santana to be. “It upset you that she wouldn’t stop? Or like because you just didn’t want to see them? I mean I get it, public sex makes me uncomfortable too.”

Santana

Santana took a deep shaky breath, and then shook her head. “I’m pissed because.. because I.” She stopped herself, she’d never said it aloud before. She’d never even let herself think it, not really. She’d always maintained that the girls she slept with were just something to pass the time, just so she didn’t get pregnant. “I like Quinn.. because I’m a-“ The word lesbian wouldn’t come out, so she just stared at her sleeve.

Jae

Jae listened patiently, understanding that these things took time. And it seemed like whatever Santana was trying to say, she was truly struggling with. He sat and waited and kept his hand on her knee to let her know he was still there. “Because you’re a what?” He asked, getting a sense of where she was going. “It’s okay to say whatever you’re going to say. This is a safe space, nothing leaves this room, promise.”

Santana

Did she? Did she tell Jae? It’s not like she’d really known him that long, and he could turn out to be an evil little worm. But the knowledge was burning away inside her and she didn’t know what she would do if she didn’t tell someone, anyone. “I’m a lesbian.” She muttered. “But don’t like.. tell anyone or you’ll get real familiar with why I’m aceing my knifeplay class. You get me?”

Jae

Jae waited patiently. He would have waited there all day if he needed to. Making his brother wait for him as well. Jae just nodded at her confession, tightening the hold he had on her knee for just a moment to let her know it was okay. “I get you,” he replied. Not because he was scared of her knife play skills. Which he was. But because it was what she asked for. “This is our secret, I promise.” A hug or something seemed appropriate but that wasn’t his style, invading people’s spaces like that. “Thank you for trusting me with this. I feel like honored. I’m glad I can be someone you can talk to about this.”

Santana

Santana had never really had anybody be nice to her about really anything, and Jae was being so understanding she could see now why she’d decided that he was worth trusting. “I’m so fucked though.. my Abulea she already disowned my brother for the whole claiming men thing, and Cat just.. she’s just floating. Who is Abulea going to have once she realises I’m destined to end up in some old maid lesbian colony because I’ll scare off any decent woman with my continual venom.” Santana ranted, not really sure why she was just admitted that to him. “You just have a trustworthy face I guess, like you don’t give off rat bastard vibes.”

Jae