The rest of the day the girls were worried about Rachel, but no one would give them an answer on her condition. Santana was most concerned, she couldn't focus in any of her classes and constantly checked the nurses office when she could. She texted Rachel a few times throughout the day but then she got caught by Mr. Schue and he took her phone.

The nurse wouldn't even let her look inside and with rumors an ambulance was heard outside it was hard on the girl. Concern started to mix with frustration at the lack of answers and by glee Santana was an unstable mix of emotions. She didn't even want to go to glee but Quinn said Mr. Schue may know something about Rachel so she went.

So Santana sat in the middle of the stands next to Quinn and Brittany. Tina timidly asked if she knew anything about Rachel, which made the Latina snap. Tina's face fell and Santana murmured a soft "I'm sorry" before Tina moved out of hearing range. Quinn heard it and looked at her friend curiously.

Mr. Schue walked in, "Okay guys. Before you bombard me with questions," he looked at Santana while he said this, "I don't know anything about Rachel. She was having problems with her throat and she was sent to the nurse. They had to call an ambulance for her."

Finn spoke before Santana could process this, "We should go see her."

Mr. Schue sighed, "At this point Finn they're only letting family in to see her."

"Well I can go. I'll tell them I'm her boyfriend."
Santana gritted her teeth, Brittany's hand immediately went to her shoulder and thankfully Quinn snapped before she could. "Finn. You're not dating Rachel. And you can't lie."

"I know that but I was going to get her back."

Tina spotted the anger in both Quinn and Santana's eyes as they glared at him, "Finn, I think you should stop talking now."

"Why?"

"Mr. Schue," Kurt interrupted, "Can't Rachel's fathers tell us anything?"
"No. In all honesty this is a family thing."
Santana stood up, "Some of us are family! This whole club is supposed to be about being a family, but when we need to be there for someone you say it's family business? Are you shitting me?!"
"Language Santana." Mr. Schue gave her that warning look she hates.

"No! Screw that! You're being very hypocritical right now, like you always are, and I for one am sick of it. Just give me my phone so I can get the hell out of here."

Mr. Schue sighed, "I told you, you can get your phone back after glee is over."

"Mr. Schue, you're being unreasonable." Quinn said. "She's not going to participate or even pay you attention. She's just worried about Rae. Britt and I will take her home and-"
"Actually, Q, I really need to stay. I know it's important but I've missed glee a bit this month."
Q frowned momentarily but nodded, "Okay. I'll just take her home then."
"I'll go with you." Tina offered. "We'll get her some Breadstix."
"Um." Quinn paused, taken aback by Tina's offer. "Okay. Sure."
Mr. Schue huffed, but consented and handed Santana her cell phone, which was dead. Santana pocketed the item and walked out, leaving Quinn and Tina to hurry behind her.

They stopped at Breadstix and Quinn went in to pay, leaving Tina and Santana in the car. San was in the driver's seat and Tina was in the back. There was a bit of an argument about who was paying but in the end Tina managed to at least pay for her part instead of covering for everyone.

Santana was still miffed at Mr. Schue and his golden boy so Tina was hesitant to speak to her. Sure she and Santana hadn't talked much, but it was like Santana had said earlier. They were family and they needed to start acting more like it. It's not like Tina didn't care about Santana or Quinn.

"Santana?" She asked hesitantly.

"Hm?"

"Are you okay?"

"No."

Well at least she didn't bite my head off Tina thought to herself. She decided to try again, "You want to talk about it?"
"Why did you come with us, Tina?" Santana shot back. "I know you're one of the nicest, if not the nicest, girl in glee but come on. You can't really care about me or Quinn, the two biggest bitches at McKinley High."

"But I do care. It's like you said, glee is supposed to be a family. Sure you two were bitches and sometimes you still can be, but you are nice on the inside. You just don't let many people in."
"Why does everyone have to psychoanalyze me?"

"I can't help I want to get to know you more. And hopefully you'll hear something about Rach."
Santana turned to look at her, "Of course you are."

"We're friends. Kind of. Well, we hung out a lot over the summer. I thought we were friends at least. She's been so busy since school started we haven't got to hang out. Or maybe she-"
"Don't go there, Morticia. You know if Rachel didn't want to hang out with you she'd tell you. I can't tell you whether she thinks of you as a friend or not. If you were hanging out the whole summer it wasn't because of pity or something."

Tina nodded, "You're right."

"Sorry. For snapping at you before. I'm really worried about Rachel."
"Why don't you plug your phone in the car charger and call her dads?" Tina questioned.

Santana shook her head, "I don't have her dad's numbers and besides my car charger broke."

"Oh. Mr. Schue told us it was something about her throat right?" Santana nodded, "That could be really bad."
"You don't think I've thought of that? I'm just hoping it's something like she needs her tonsils taken out."

Quinn opened the door and hopped inside, "I've got the food! You finally got her talking Tina?"
Tina nodded with a smile, "Yeah. A bit."

"Good. Now, S, get us to your place or I'm going to have to start eating these breadsticks in front of you."

"If you do that I will tie you to a chair, cook some bacon and eat that in front of you." Santana said, giving the blonde a semi glare as she got the car back on the road.

Quinn gasped, "That's cruel!"
"I could make you eat Rachel's vegan bacon crap."
Quinn shuddered at the thought, "Oh, God no."

Tina started laughing at the exchange.

When they arrived at Santana's house Santana immediately put her phone on the charger before coming back downstairs to get her share of breadsticks before they were gone. As they ate they got to know Tina more. Santana was skeptical at first though, she was sure all this getting to be friends with people would ruin her reputation.
She had a few things in common with the Goth that she wouldn't have guessed; like Tina was a gamer as well, but not as into it as Santana, she could speak Spanish just as well as the Latina. Tina shared Rachel's love for Broadway, but probably not as much as the diva loved it. She did like some of the things you would expect a Goth to enjoy, like horror movies, but there was more to Tina than that.

After the food was eaten and an hour had passed since they had finished Tina finally got them back on track. "San, do you think the Berry's could have got your cell phone number from Rachel's?"

"I suppose they could have yeah."

"If they even thought about us." Quinn pointed out.

"We're her best friends. Of course they would think about us." Santana mumbled, "At least they should with how much I've been over there."

The house phone rang and Santana grumbled a bit before moving to answer. "Hello?"
"Finally I got a hold on you Santana." She recognized Hiram Berry's voice on the other end. "You're cell phones been off and no one's been home."
"Mr. Schue took my phone earlier and it died. What happened to Rachel? Is she okay?" Santana questioned. Tina and Quinn stopped talking and listened in.

Hiram sighed on the other end, "Her throat is the problem. There's an infection inside and it looks like their going to have to perform surgery."
"Dios mio." Santana murmured, "She's going to be okay though right?"
"The doctor said she'll live, but if they don't do the surgery soon she'll lose her voice. With the surgery though she-" Hiram paused, taking another breath. "She could lose her singing voice."