Brittany was a little disappointed that they couldn't move into their apartment until after the beginning of the New Year. After Santana told her that they could stay in Lima through the holidays, however, she cheered up. She got another Christmas to spend with her and Santana's families. Santana was a little frustrated that they had to live with their parents again for another month, but it didn't bother Brittany. They had done it before for awhile. Besides, it wasn't like they were going to stay there forever.
Brittany was glad that she got more time to spend with her family before she moved away for good. She had planned several times before to be moved away from Lima but it always changed. This time she knew it was going to happen for real. They would always come back to visit, but she would never live in Lima again for any extended period of time. She was sad to be saying goodbye to the place she had called home for her whole life.
Christmas was wonderful. Brittany's parents had gotten them a cute little ornament to commemorate their first Christmas as a married couple. And Santana's parents had given them a nice bit of money to help with the move and getting furniture for their new home. Brittany was grateful to everyone for their support of their marriage. She knew they were young, but not once did either her or Santana's parents question their decision to marry or tell them to wait.
Brittany and Santana had decided to do another small Christmas for each other. Even though Brittany had gotten a pretty decent check from Univision for the first bit of "Queso por Dos" neither one of them thought that wasting that money was a good idea. They decided to invest that money in stuff for the apartment and stash the rest away. They had also gotten so many presents at the wedding of things they would need and had picked up a lot of souvenirs on their travels that they didn't have much they wanted or needed to get each other.
Brittany knew exactly what she did want to get Santana for their first married Christmas. She wanted to commemorate the love she had for her wife and the amazing experience she had dancing with her at the wedding. It had combined two things she loved most in the world, and she wanted Santana to know how special their wedding dances were to her. So she got a really pretty silver picture frame and put a picture from their wedding of them dancing in it. She also had it engraved with the words "I wanna dance with somebody who loves me" with their names and their wedding date on it.
The picture she had chosen was so perfect. They were looking at each other so lovingly and with adoring smiles as they danced in each other's arms. And the words she had engraved brought back memories of glee as well as memories of their wedding dances. The words would always hold true for Brittany. She would always want to dance with Santana, who she knew would love her forever. Santana cried in happiness at her gift.
Santana had gotten Brittany a gorgeous charm bracelet with some charms. She got a dancer charm and a cat charm and a wedding ring charm and a songbird charm. Brittany was overwhelmed by the feelings she got as Santana explained what each charm meant and why she chose them. Her eyes became teary when Santana explained the bird charm. Santana definitely had the same idea as she did for their gifts. She wanted to celebrate their relationship as well as their wedding. Brittany fell a little bit more in love with her wife.
It was only a couple of days after New Year's that they finally arrived in New York to move into their apartment. Brittany had asked Lord Tubbington to move with them, but he had refused. She didn't blame him because he had only ever known that house in Lima, but she was still sad that he didn't want to go. And she didn't want to separate him from Lady Tubbington, so she left both of her cats behind. She was depressed about that, even though she was excited to finally be moving in with Santana, and Santana spent most of their trip trying to cheer her up.
It didn't take long for Brittany to push the sadness of leaving her cats behind, however, once they got into the city. The excitement took over as they got to closer to their apartment and it wasn't long before she was more focused on getting settled than anything else. Moving in was exhausting. They had to shop for all their furniture and other essentials, and get everything set up. She felt like they didn't have much time to really relax and feel like they were at home the first few days.
