[ Santana listens to and watches Stephen’s response carefully, on the lookout for any red flags. She doesn’t find any, so she swallows and begins to speak, slowly at first, but picking up speed as she moves along. ]

So I’m from the middle-of-fuckall nowhere, Ohio. It’s, you know, exactly what you’d expect nowhere, Ohio to be like. And since Ohio is like that, there was some stuff about me that I wanted to keep private. And I do, for a while, but this asshole Finn, he figures it out and tells everyone. And ‘cause my cheer coach is running for some election, this stuff about me, it — it gets on the news.

[ With more force: ]

And this guy Finn, everyone thinks he’s so sweet, a real softie, but he’s not, he’s a backstabbing son of a bitch and — and —

[ Santana cuts herself off there. ]

So there. People suck, even the ones who pretend to be “decent.”