AN: I'm back! This chapter is quite long as I reread it several times to find a shorter break but to me while reading it, it just flowed. I'm my own beta so every mistake is mine. I obviously don't own anything aside from some of the plot. Thank you for the reviews, just to let everyone know there will be eventual Heya in this story as I love Naya and Heather. :) , Im also hoping to get the next chapter out faster than I did this one. Enjoy!
"Lea come here!" I shouted from my room.
Lea leaned around the corner to look into my room "Lady?" She raised her eyebrows.
I motioned for her to come sit on my bed where I currently was, we had both finished packing and had spent all night listening to music. We had to be at the airport in three hours so there was no sense in going to sleep.
I grinned "I found an acoustic version of Sleepyhead, here listen."
We listened through the song, we both liked Passion Pit, and both Lea and I had a soft spot for acoustic versions of songs we liked.
She looked at me as the song ended "How did we not know about this before!"
I shrugged "It kind of makes me want to sleep, in a good way."
Lea chuckled "Did you say something cause I was out like a light."
I laughed too and nudged her softly with my elbow. We both leaned back on my bed "It would go well with scenes from Harry Potter."
"We should tell Chris that."
"He would have a video for us all to watch the next day with exactly that, the way that boy is passionate about things, he is really gonna go far."
Lea nodded then scooted so that her head was on my shoulder "And he is only at the beginning."
We fell into a comfortable silence for quite a while before I suggested breakfast. We sat down at our table to eat when I realized that this would be the first time Lea was meeting my mom even though she had met my brother once before. She must have been thinking the same thing because she then spoke up.
"Di, what should I call your mom?"
"She will probably just have you call her momma Mary, even though she hasn't met you yet she already seems to love you" I smiled.
Lea let out a breath that I didn't know she was holding "Okay, thats good, I mean I wouldn't want her to not like me, that would be really bad."
"I don't think theres anyway someone could not like you Lea."
She nodded "And I'm very nice."
"And oh so humble" I added with a sarcastic tone to which she rolled her eyes but smiled.
A couple hours later we were on the plane as it pulled away from its gate at LAX and we were air born to San Francisco.
"Di, do you think your mom would let us borrow her car and we could go drive up to Napa for a few hours?"
Lea was leaning against me but I could still see her huge brown eyes pleading me into this, though Napa is never something I say no to. "Yeah, we can take a nap and then drive up there."
Contently sighing Lea lifted up the arm rest and laid her head in my lap. Absent mind-idly I started to softly run my fingers through her hair and gazed out of the window at the coastal mountains below us that gently met the sea.
I was so excited to be going home for the weekend not only to see my family but to get to show Lea what my life was like before becoming an actress. As the mountains passed below us I slipped into a wonderful day dream of us sampling wine and goofing around at my brothers party.
Shaking me from the beautiful picture in my head was Lea's voice softly asking if I was excited to be going home for a while. I looked down and nodded as we let another very peaceful silence come over us.
The plane landed and taxied up to the gate. Once the seatbelt sign flickered off we were up and grabbed our carry ons out of the overhead bin to exit into the airport. I reached over and took Lea's hand in mine as we made our way to baggage claim.
We reached baggage claim where my mom was waiting and she enveloped me into a hug that was long overdue.
"Im so happy to see you mom" I squeezed then pulled away "Mom this is Lea." I motioned next to me.
As my mom pulled Lea into a fierce hug I pulled our bag off of the conveyor. We had decided that instead of taking two little suitcases we could just take one large one. Soon we were at the hotel that my dad still managed and I had grown so accustomed to.
I had told my mom on the short drive that Lea and I wished to go to Napa after taking a short nap. We entered the Suite and I showed Lea to my old room.
I sat the bag against the wall and turned to Lea "Welp, this is it."
Lea had a smile on her face as she glanced around "It's so you Di."
I stretched out on my old red satin bed and sighed, it really was good to be home. Lea continued to survey things around my old room as I watched her in reverie. Since I had met Lea I had wanted to show her this room and I wondered what she would think of it and it was obvious from her smile that she indeed liked it.
I was brought back to the real world by Lea curling up next to me, she leaned over and her breath tickled my ear "Your room is just as magical as you my lady, lets get some sleep so we can go retrieve some wine."
Lea kissed my cheek and rested her head where my shoulder met my chest. I curled my arm around her as she tangled our legs and rested her arm over my abdomen and we fell asleep.
I woke up and looked at the clock to see that it was noon. Slowly I got out of bed and walked into the living room and sat down across from my mom.
"My little lamb, do you feel rested?"
I nodded my head with a smile "Yeah, Lea is still asleep, are you making something for lunch, because I'm kind of hungry."
"I just went and picked up Panera for us all." My mom answered with a smile.
"That sounds great mom!" I said as Lea came into the room and plopped down almost on my lap and rubbing her eyes.
My mom smiled at us "I'll go get it and we can eat it in here."
My mom brought out the food and arranged it on the coffee table "So Lea, obviously you are from New York, how are you liking the west coast?"
Lea swallowed a bite she had taken "I'm falling in love with Los Angeles more and more every day, so I'd say I'm rather fond of it now."
They continued to speak on the way Lea was liking the west coast and I was more than happy to just sit and listen. Soon Lea and I were in the car on our way to Napa.
Lea pulled her ipod out "I made a playlist in case we decided to drive somewhere, so glad I think ahead."
"You're crazy" I said with a teasing tone.
"Um, I'm your crazy my lady, you love me and I love you."
I was laughing and rolling my eyes as we crossed over onto the Golden Gate bridge "I do love you."
Lea was then taking pictures of the bridge as we continued along it. "Im so glad to have come with you this weekend, Dianna, I was so thrilled you invited me, I mean even though we live together it's nice to get away."
I smiled a thousand watt smile and then noticed that Lea had captured a picture of it "You are beautiful" I beamed at her.
Lea blushed slightly and glanced back out over the water letting the smirk she had develop into a full smile. "You are beautiful too lamb."
"My brothers party isn't until 6 tomorrow so I was thinking maybe we could go to Anthropologie and do some shopping."
"Because you need more dresses Di?" Lea answered sarcastically then added "Im so in."
"Good cause I might would have gone without you." I teased.
"No you wouldn't, you like to have me there to zip up your dresses if you cant reach."
"I bring you along as my personal servant" I deadpanned which caught Lea off guard.
Lea leaned over to my ear "You're a tease" she leaned back in her seat with a victorious smirk on her face.
I looked over and smirked back, two could play at this game "Only for you."
I Got A Feeling started to pump through the speakers and I turned it up as we were headed into the country side. Lea and I sang along to the whole song with all of the emotion we could find.
"That is such a fun song." Lea heavily breathed out after having made the last half into an all out dance party in her seat.
After she caught her breath she spoke again "How far are we out?"
"About 45 minutes."
Lea turned to me with a slightly more serious look on her face "I really like your mom Di, I know I was all nervous before but she is so nice and welcoming."
I chuckled "Well I do tend to talk my parents ear off about you, you're pretty much in every story I tell."
"I feel like that is how I am with my parents about you."
"That's why we make such great best friends." I turned to actually look at Lea and smiled.
"So, lady, I haven't been to Napa, what do you have in store for me?"
"I figured we would go downtown and walk the little shops and buy cheesy touristy shirts and definitely some wine. We should have someone take our picture under a sign that says Napa too, that would be nice."
"It sounds magical, like you, I can totally picture the high school you driving around the country side playing music."
"Thats pretty much how it was." Lea really did get me very well.
We fell into a comfortable silence until we got to the sign that said Napa. Lea started to squeal and kept saying how excited she was to be there. We got to downtown and found a parking spot and got out. Lea intertwined our fingers and we headed towards the shops.
We entered into one that had souvenir tshirts and picked a couple out. We exited the store and went across the way to one of the fanciest liquor stores I have ever been in. We picked out two bottles of red, a very promising pink noir, and a white because we had previously discussed how nice the vineyard it came from was.
After putting our wine in the car we found us a Napa sign for a picture. Lea stood in front of me as I had lightly wrapped my arms around her neck with her hands holding mine. I thanked the woman who took our picture then we headed to our car. I drove us to a winery not that far out of town that I knew ran tours.
"Try not to eat all of the cookies Le" I said looping my arm through hers "Or at least leave some for me."
"Then leave some wine for me will you lady."
I smiled "Touché, although I won't have hardly any as I am driving."
Our tour went very well. At the end the winery manager told us his wife was a big fan of Glee and offered us dinner on the private balcony at their restaurant. That is on the list of things you don't say no to.
We were seated across from each other overlooking the vineyards that followed the role of the hills. The sun was still fairly up though it did indicate that it was late afternoon. The light danced around through the vineyards and also illuminated Lea.
After we ordered I was once again struck with how the now evening sun brightened all of Lea's features so beautifully, as if this is the exact place where she belonged.
"What are you thinking about dear one?" Lea asked.
I sighed contently "You are... breathtaking, even more so with how the light is playing off of you."
I was glad I brought my camera as Lea did different poses and then let me capture some candids of her across the table. She also did the same of me and we took some of us both.
"We need to hang some of these in our apartment Di." Lea said while scanning through the pictures I had taken on my digital camera.
I nodded in agreement as our food was placed before us. The food and wine were both exceptional. As we waited for dessert Lea reached her hand across the table. I grinned placing mine on hers and lightly stroked her upturned palm.
"What do you want to do tonight?" I inquired.
"I would really just like a cuddle session with you in bed watching a movie."
I smirked "Well that sounds very possible." I had turned her hand so that I could lace our fingers "What do you wanna watch?"
Lea's devilish grin gave her away before she spoke "Mean Girls."
"Again Le, really?" I softly chuckled.
"Okay fine, you pick one."
"The Princess Diaries" I answered.
"Oh, that is better, okay lamb you win." I knew that suggesting a movie based wherever Lea was would be a shoe in to get her to watch it and I was right.
"Maybe we should have convinced Heather to name Zach, Fat Louie." Lea sat up a little straighter with excitement.
"Maybe!" I replied knowing that would have been a hysterical conversation.
Dessert was delivered, I had ordered the the tiramisu and Lea had ordered the chocolate swirl cheesecake. Every bite was delicious and I was so full, by the looks of it Lea was as well. The sun was nearing the horizon as we got into the car.
Pulling onto the main road Lea grabbed my hand and leaned her head against the back of the seat "This was an amazing day."
"I just want to live this day over and over again."
Lea, with her eyes closed and her head still leaned back, nodded "We still have Princess Diaries and some world class cuddling."
I chuckled "World class?"
"Yeah, because I'm the best cuddler ever."
"Humble still I see" I added sarcastically just as I had done that morning.
Lea smiled "Damn Straight."
Some people didn't understand our sarcasm with each other but it's really a one of a kind thing. The rest of the ride was spent in silence except for an occasional pointing out of something. Also here and there Lea would softly join in on a chorus of a song only to softly fade out again.
Night had come upon us as I drove the car through downtown San Francisco. These would always be my favorite city lights, even if I answered another place for that question, it would always truly be these.
"Im glad we went to Napa, Le."
We got out of the car after I parked and headed towards the lobby "The whole place just like took my breath away." Lea linked our arms and rested her head against my shoulder.
We were all set up to watch our movie, we had opened one of the bottles of wine and made popcorn to go with our red vines, gummy worms, m&ms, and the bag of assorted candy my mom had in the kitchen.
We got settled close together on my bed and I pressed play on the dvd. Princess Diaries is a movie that never gets old. I always appreciated the irony of them going by on the scooters past the limo. We watched as they travelled down streets we had just gone across hours before.
Half way in and two glasses of wine later I was starting to tell how tired I really was. I had my head on Lea's shoulder as I drifted in and out of sleep, each time I opened my eyes we were further into the movie than before.
I kept trying to figure out how in the world Lea was so attentive during the movie. It must have been her exuberant ball of energy she always possessed. I decided that must be it and snuggled more into her.
At some point Lea must have tucked us into bed as I woke up and the lights were off, we were under the sheets, and I was slightly spooning Lea from behind her. I ran my foot up her calf and lightly tightened my hold around her abdomen. She sighed and leaned back into me. I placed a barely there kiss on her shoulder and fell back asleep.
"Come on Lea!" I tapped my foot up and down on the floor impatiently.
We were heading to Anthropologie as soon as Lea was ready to leave. She insisted that she needed one more lipstick swipe and then she would be ready and apparently that was taking ten minutes.
Finally she exited the bathroom "See doesn't this extra touch up look that much better."
"Sure Le, lets go, there are dresses to buy!" I said pulling Lea out the door and down the hall.
"Whoa my lady the store isn't going anywhere."
"Yeah I know Lea but the party is at six and I want to try on as many dresses as I can and also grab lunch."
Lea linked our arms as the elevator went down "Can we grab lunch first?"
"Yes definitely."
We went and ate and then made our way to my absolute favorite store. "Lea can you finish the zipper on this dress?"
Lea finished zipping up the sixth dress I had tried on, lace with blue fabric underneath it. Lea ran her hands along the seams, back, and stomach checking the fit.
"Di, you should totally get this one."
"I think so too, you should get the one you have on right now also, and also the red one, I think I'm going to get the one with the birds as well."
"That one did look good too, here." Lea said pulling the zipper of my dress back down.
We gathered the dresses in our hands after changing into our previous clothes and made our way to the registers. Lea went to pull one of my dresses out of my hold.
"What are you doing?" I raised my eyebrow.
Lea laid her dresses and the dress she had pulled from my grasp on the counter and smiled at me "Buying my lady something pretty, so that whenever you wear it you will think of me."
"Sweetie you don't have to do that."
"Are you denying me the satisfaction of this Dianna?"
Lea left no room for argument so I shook my head and surrendered. We put the bags in the trunk and headed back to my parents. The party wasn't for another two hours but since my family was hosting it we figured it best to be early.
I sat the bags down at the foot of my bed, we changed, and we made our way down to the pool where the party was being thrown. As we got on to the elevator there was a guy who looked to be 16 whos eyes widened when we stepped on. Lea tried making small talk with him but all she got was that he was a huge fan of the show.
Pulling me by the hand towards the pool, Lea only stopped when we reached the other side which was the bar. "Di you did not tell me there was gonna be a bar."
I laughed "I honestly didn't think about it Le."
Lea turned to the bartender "Yeah we would like two margaritas please."
She turned back to me and linked both our hands to pull me closer to her. We stayed like that for a minute as the bartender poured our drinks. With umbrella clad margaritas in hand I followed Lea through the snack line and we got plates of food. We picked out a nice chaise as Jason made his way over.
I squealed while standing up and throwing myself into a hug. "Happy birthday baby brother boo bear!"
Jason picked me up and spun me "Thanks sister lamb!" Setting me back down Lea got up to hug him and he did the same thing which made me grin exceedingly wide.
We sat back down on the chaise and Jason sat opposite of Lea and me. "I'm so glad you guys were able to come up here."
I grinned "I wouldn't have missed it for the world."
Lea nodded "Me either."
Jason went away to go greet some other guests leaving Lea and I to each other. Since we were eating there wasn't really much to say so I looked around at the other guests. I saw a few people that I used to know but wasn't quite interested in getting up to go talk to.
I was more than good to just stay there with Lea. I was becoming more distracted from the crowd by the fact that Lea placed her knee bent leg over mine and tucked her foot under my calf. I tried to focus on what I was eating but for some reason Lea's foot was dragging my focus.
"Look at that guy over there" Of course Lea was looking at a boy, though I wasn't sure why this was bothering me.
I turned my head to see where she was looking "Oh yeah he is cute."
The guy was tall and blond and looked like a surfer, he was very cute, he must have been one of Jasons friends I had not met.
Lea patted my leg "I'm gonna go for a swim."
I nodded my head to show I had heard her and pulled my sunglasses down over my eyes and leaned my head back. I watched as Lea went over to the pools edge and got in. Then she swam back and forth a couple times and got out. She walked up the steps and stood poolside to wring out her hair.
I unconsciously ran my eyes over her. Lea is like a Roman goddess in human form. I stopped my eyes on her legs for several seconds, the definition of perfection. I shook my head and took a large gulp of my margarita, it was definitely okay to think of your friends as perfect right? Because Lea, was like another level. My eyes traveled back up to hers and that was another swig of my drink.
Lea walked over and picked up her towel. I continued to lay there like I hadn't been watching her but behind my sunglasses I was looking up at her. I watched as her eyes ran over me and I unintentionally shivered. I took another drink of my margarita which was now almost gone. No, none of this could possibly be happening, I decided to just shove it all to the back of my brain.
Thankfully it was time for Jason to blow out the birthday candles. Lea held out her hand "My lady, a hand to escort you forthwith."
I laughed and took her hand and we walked over to join everyone. Jason blew them all out in one try and we all clapped and whistled. We each got a piece of cake and made our way back to our chaise.
"Di, this cake is amazing!"
"Isn't it! It's from a bakery up in San Francisco." I took another bite.
"I want to marry this cake" Lea widened her eyes while saying this.
I burst out into laughter "Good luck with that Le, though the relationship has sweet prospect."
Lea chuckled "Nice pun, lady."
I grinned "It's my specialty."
"Cake fixes everything."
I laughed again "I'm going to remember that."
Lea swiped her finger through the icing and dabbed it quickly on my nose. I gasped and did the same to her while also managing to swipe it across her cheek. We burst into giggles as Jason brought over champagne and I caught him rolling his eyes. Still laughing I picked up a napkin and wiped off Lea's cheek and nose. She licked her index finger and swiped it down my nose and brought it to her mouth. She sucked the icing off of her finger while staring into my eyes.
My eyes stayed transfixed on hers as she pulled her finger out of her mouth and whispered "Sweet."
All I was able to do was nod my head. The sun was shining down on her the same way it did in Napa. Her brown eyes showed hints of gold strands running through them like treasure through a stream and I could swear I had never seen anything as beautiful.
Lea broke away from our moment to hand me one of the champagne glasses. I tipped the glass up to my lips and took a bigger than necessary drink of it.
"Di, do you wanna go for a swim with me?" Lea quietly asked as I sat my glass down onto the table.
I returned my gaze up to meet her eyes, I answered in the same tone "Yeah."
I got up and followed behind Lea to the pools edge. We jumped in and swam around before I felt Lea grab my wrist and and then she turned me around. I almost collided with her and she put her other hand on my arm to steady me. She looked up and down me and bit her bottom lip. The alcohol from the day was starting to effect us both.
My eyes drifted down to her lips and she reached her hand up to move wet hair out of my face. I raised my eyebrow questioning what she was about to do. Lea giggled definitely sounding a little intoxicated and reached up and kissed my cheek pulling me into a hug. I held her tighter still confused but not wishing to let go until she started to pull away.
I still had my arms around her waist so I leaned in to kiss her cheek "We smell like chlorine."
She brought her lips up to my ear "The party is almost over, no one would probably notice if we left, lets stop by the bar first."
Lea intertwined our fingers, we grabbed two glasses of champagne at the bar, dried off, and headed inside to the elevator. We entered the elevator which was luckily empty because as soon as the door closed our eyes were locked and Lea ran her finger up and down my arm.
"Lea" I breathed out.
She leaned up to my ear, I wonder if she realized she was the reason I had goosebumps "Shhh."
By the time the elevator opened we had finished our champagne and were making our way into my old room. Lea stopped and turned to me "It would save time and water if we showered together, of course we will leave our swimsuits on" she gave a playful smirk at the slightly shocked look on my face and walked into the bathroom.
We stepped into the shower and pulled the curtain closed. I was remotely sober enough to know that this was all highly suggestive and I knew that absolutely nothing should escalate from this. Lea wet her hair first after turning the handle to hot. She lightly wrapped her hands around my wrists as we traded places so I could wet my hair.
I grabbed my shampoo and poured some into her hand and then into my own. After we both rinsed the shampoo out we went through the conditioner. Lea took the body wash off of the shelf and ran a finger down my arm "Can you reach your back well Di?"
I gulped and managed a "No." It was obvious the margaritas and champagne were clouding our minds.
Lea grinned "Neither can I" she lowered her voice into a whisper and pulled me closer "If I scrub your back, will... will you scrub mine?"
I didn't even answer her before I had turned around and pulled my hair over my shoulder and off of my back. I could smell the aroma of Leas body wash filling the steam soaked air as her fingers gently massaged into my shoulders. Lea lightly tugged the strap of my swimsuit that ran across my back. I held the front as Lea untied it and resumed massaging.
She finished scrubbing my back and retied my swimsuit and I let out the moan I had been trying to stifle hoping that the sound mixed with the pouring water. She turned me around and ran bodywash down my arms and over my stomach "All clean Di."
I washed off the bodywash and poured some into my hand. I started running it down Leas arms and across her perfectly toned stomach lightly ghosting my fingers across it. She gave me a wink and turned around already holding her swimsuit top. I untied it and started to massage her back with the bodywash.
I kneaded her tense muscles as she relaxed. A content sigh passed from her lips as I continued down her back. I let my hands come to rest on her hips and leaned in to gently kiss her music note tattoo on her shoulder. I took a longer than necessary glance at Leas bare back before retying her swimsuit.
She rinsed off and I grabbed us two towels and handed Lea one. We dried off and made our way into my room. We stood facing away from each other to put on dry underwear. The alcohol from earlier was telling me to chance turning around but the sober part of me was yelling how so very wrong that would be so I didn't.
After changing into sweats my mom texted me that my brother would be going out with friends and her and my dad were headed to see a movie. Lea and I decided to order room service. While waiting for it to arrive we curled up on the couch.
"You are so beautiful Lea." I was letting things slip through my filter and that last glass of champagne was making me not care one bit.
Lea connected both of our hands "You are beautiful too Dianna."
She ran her foot along the bottom of mine and I smiled at her. "Did you have a good day?"
"Absolutely, Im so glad you invited me, I wouldn't have wanted to miss all of this."
"Well I wanted you to be here with me." I said a little quieter than the last sentence.
"There's no place I would rather be."
"That was kind of a cheesy line Lea, but I did like it."
Lea chuckled and leaned into give me a hug. I squeezed her tighter and she did the same to me. Then there was a knock at the door which was our food. I poured more champagne into our glasses as Lea sat the food on the coffee table. We sat on the floor tucked underneath the table to eat.
"You know what this all needs?" Lea asked.
I shook my head having taken a bite of my food.
Lea broke out into a grin "It needs soft background music." She got out her phone and began playing soft music.
I chuckled lightly "Yes, thats perfect."
"See I told you" Lea smiled sweetly.
We listened to the music as we ate and finished off two more glasses of champagne each. I put all of our dishes back onto the room service tray to set out in the hall. I walked back over to where Lea was still sitting on the floor and took a seat next to her leaning my head on her shoulder.
"How often would you get room service growing up Di?"
I thought for a second "Not really that often, mom usually has food but if there was a night I wasn't doing anything and my parents were out Jason and I would order in room service."
There was a moment of silence before I spoke again turning so that I was facing Lea. "When we first moved here I actually had my room a castle theme."
Lea faced me "I'm having a hard time picturing you in a room that was pink and princessy."
"Well actually there wasn't any pink, it was greys and reds, much more medieval and very magical."
A soft smile formed on Lea's lips "Now that sounds more like you, how come you changed it?"
"I got older, I wanted something more sophisticated as a teenager."
Lea liked our arms "You are kind of an old soul."
I chuckled "Yeah kind of."
"What would your future prince look like Di?"
"Um" I thought for a second "My perfect prince would be tall, tan, athletic, he would be a true gentleman, very caring, creative. Actually if you had a brother I would probably date him."
"Really?"
"Yeah Le, cause I mean you are very pretty so if you had a brother I assume he would be handsome and he would also probably have the same values you do."
"I kind of wish I had a brother for you then." Lea laughed "And thanks for saying I am pretty."
I smiled at her "Well you are."
Lea sat up a little straighter "You could date Jonathan!"
I furrowed my eyebrows "Um, Lea, Jon is gay, I don't really think Im his type."
"Oh, yeah I forgot, I just got so excited about that prospect that I didn't really think about that, well thats okay Jon will still be our friend."
I rolled my eyes but was still smiling "If I hadn't have mentioned that fact you would have tried to set us up wouldn't you have."
"WHAT, no, I would have remembered."
"Sure Le."
"I would have."
"I know" I said kissing her cheek. "What about you Le, your perfect prince?"
I could tell she was thinking. "He would also be tall but thats not really a problem considering my height, muscly, and also a gentleman, with a lot of passion."
"Sounds like a great guy."
"MmmHmm, Im kind of tired, do you wanna go get in bed."
"Yeah I like the sound of that, Im super tired, plus all of the champagne this evening." I stood up and offered my hand to Lea who took it.
After a few minutes Lea was out like a light and for some reason I now had a burst of energy. I walked over to my desk and opened my laptop. I had just joined a sight named 'Tumblr' which seemed pretty cool as a blogging sight.
I hadn't posted anything yet but I sure did love browsing around. Eventually I made my way over to youtube and browsed around there. It was around 2am and I was getting hungry. I went into the kitchen to find my mom pulling out chips and salsa.
She looked up and smiled at me as I sat on one of the barstools "Lamb, I should have known you would be awake at this hour."
It was well known in my family that I can be quite the night owl, I see nothing wrong with being creative (sometimes not) until wee hours of the morning and then sleeping in until the afternoon. My mom sat on the next barstool with the chips and salsa between us.
"I wish I could spend more time up here mom, I have missed you guys."
"That would be nice, we have missed you too, but Im so proud of you right now Dianna, this is your time to shine."
"Right now there are no signs of slowing down either, but Im so happy with everything."
"Your flight tomorrow is at three, yes?"
"Yeah."
"I wanna take you and Lea to an early lunch."
"That sounds great mom, we can spend the whole morning together and then lunch will be really nice."
We chatted for a little while longer before we both headed to bed. Lea was spread out taking up most of the bed which made me quietly laugh. Somehow without her walking up I was able to roll her over to her side of the bed and crawl in.
The next morning was wonderful spending it with my mom and Lea. We had lunch and were back on the plane to Los Angeles. Happiest of all at our return was Sheila who went about as crazy as a cat can go.
Half an hour later of me not unpacking and just laying on my bed staring at the ceiling lost in my thoughts Lea came into my room. She sat on the bed and picked up my hand lightly massaging it.
"Pizza, couch, and reality tv?" Lea asked.
"But I don't feel like talking on the phone." I stuck my bottom lip out in an exaggerated pout.
Lea stood up still holding onto my hand "I already ordered, just come to the couch."
Still holding on to Lea's hand I got up and we walked into the living room. I must have fallen asleep after sitting down on the couch because next thing I knew there was a pizza on the coffee table and a small brunette lightly stroking my cheek.
"You drifted off my lady."
"Sorry Le le I guess I was tired." I sat up swinging my legs off of the couch allowing room for Lea to sit next to me.
"Well you didn't come back to bed last night for a while so I figured you would be tired" she said placing a strand of hair behind my ear.
"I didn't know you were awake... I was in the kitchen talking to my mom."
"I wasn't really awake, I just felt the bed shift and put two and two together."
I put my hand on the other side of her face to cup her cheek while I kissed the cheek that was facing me. I turned to the tv and grabbed a piece of pizza, I also noticed that Lea had poured us sodas.
In between bites Lea asked "You were mumbling in your sleep Di, do you remember your dream?"
A few seconds of trying to remember "No I don't. Was it like I was scared mumbling?"
"No it was more just like having a normal conversation mumbling."
"Now I wish I actually could remember!"
A few more bites of pizza "You know Lea, you have actually been talking in your sleep a few times now, once it was actually in Spanish."
"That's really weird considering I don't speak it."
"That's what I was thinking, you had the accent and everything."
We finished the pizza and went into Lea's room to watch a movie grabbing popcorn and candy on the way.
Lea was laying flat leaning against the pillows. I had decided to curl up next to her. I had my head on her shoulder with my arm over her stomach and my fingers linked with hers. We were watching The Italian Job which Lea had proclaimed that it was an 'action movie kind of night'. I didn't mind, it's one of my favorite movies.
About halfway through the movie Lea started playing footsie. This was common of our movie watching nights. I had just ran my foot along the bottom of hers when she took back control and moved her foot to the bottom of mine. A couple minutes later of her doing this I noticed something I had not before. This was actually turning me on.
I froze as she was the one moving her foot. How could this possibly be, I had never had that happen with a girl before, just my previous boyfriends. I made my self ease up just a little bit out of my frozen state. I pushed the confusion I was having to the back of my mind and tried very hard to focus on the movie.
Soon enough the movie was over. Lea asked if I would stay in her room for the night and I sad yes. We turned the tv off and Lea pulled me to her side. I slipped one of my legs through hers as she pulled my arm over her stomach with her back facing me. I sighed contently as I snuggled into her and we both fell asleep.
