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Chapter 14
"Get up now!" Dianna and Lea take turns knocking on the bedroom door.
Naya opens the door. "How did you 2 get in here?"
"We had a key, not the point. Tell Heather to get dressed and meet us in the living room."
"Ok?"
Heather sat on the couch cuddling into Naya. "No, you guys need to sit at opposite ends of the couch."
"Lea is right, so hurry we aren't going to all be late for work because of you guys."
Heather links her hand with Naya's and slides down the couch. "No touching each other." Dianna glares at the girls as they drop each other's hands.
"Mind telling Heather and me what we did wrong."
"This is a sex-ervention, you guys are spending way much time together and don't get us wrong we love that you guys are together but Dianna and I worried. Since you 2 have been together we have hung out once."
"That can't be right, I'm sure Naya and I have been out with you guys several times."
"No, the cast has hangout at least once a week for the past few months. You guys have not been their once."
"You guys act like an old married couple."
"Trust me Naya and I definitely don't have sex like one." Lea and Dianna look at each other both wishing they had not heard that. "I think I see your guys point now."
"Me too, but I love her and it's hard for me to stay away from her." Naya reaches her hand over grabbing Heathers.
"Well Lea and were thinking today we are just filming that quick number and the rest of the cast is going bowling afterward maybe you guys would like to come."
Naya and Heather look at each other and nod. "One more thing. Di and I think it's best if maybe Heather spends the night at my house afterward."
"What's taking away my girlfriend going to accomplish?" Naya says defensively.
"Baby they might be kind of right. We haven't really hung out with anyone in awhile and I don't want to become one of those couples who cuts off their friends because they have an amazing girlfriend."
"I guess you're right, I just don't like the idea of spending a night away from you."
"Di will you please keep my girlfriend company tonight?"
"I'd love to. Now we are going to go so you can have time to finish getting ready for work."
"Nay look you actually managed to knock down a pin." Heather laughed as Naya took a seat on her lap, wrapping her tan arms around Heathers neck. "Are you having fun?"
"Lots of fun." Naya quickly kisses Heather.
"No PDA." Mark yells.
"I don't get to see my girlfriend tonight so I get to kiss this beautiful blonde all I want right now."
"It's almost time for me to go. I can see Lea is getting restless."
Naya lays her head in the crook of Heathers shoulders. "I can see that too. I'm going to miss you."
"Me too but I'm sure you and Di will have a nice time catching up."
Lea and Dianna walk up. "Not to break this up but the guys are leaving and I was wondering if you were ready too Heather."
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be. I just have to grab my bag from Nays car."
"That's fine my stuff is in Lea's car."
Naya stands up helping Heather up. "I'll walk Heather to your car. And then we can trade."
Naya grabs Heather leading her toward the car. "As much as I'm going to miss you I think this will be good for us."
"I do too. Heather, will you promise me that you'll call right before you do to bed."
"Of course baby." Heather opens the car door grabbing her bag and then the two starts to head toward the opposite end of the parking log.
The girls walk in silence playing with each other's hands until they reach Lea's car. "This is it, my first night without my girl."
"We will make it, I'm sure you and Di will have lots of fun."
Naya opens the passenger door for Heather. "Love you."
"I love you too Naya Marie." Heather pulls Naya's face closer, tenderly kissing her lips. "Have fun and I'll call you later."
"Remember when you use to come over here and we'd get wasted. It seems like forever ago." Naya grabs two shot glasses and a bottle of tequila walking back towards the living room sitting on the other end of the couch away from Dianna.
"Naya you were the one getting drunk, I was the one listening to you cry over Heather and how she would never love you."
"You're lying." Dianna shook her head. "How come you never told me?" Naya pours the shots, handing Di one.
"What would you have done?"
"Probably nothing. But I'd say things turned out pretty good." Naya's smile lit up at the thought of how happy she was.
"So besides the sex how are things with Heather?"
"Really good. She has been the best thing to walk into my life. I really love her Di."
"I know you do, it sickens Lea and I watching you guys on set all the time. Heather was made for you."
"We were talking about a 2 year plan a few nights ago and how she would like to be engaged in the next 6 months."
Dianna lets out a laugh. "A two year plan?"
"Yes 2 years, a lot will be changing in the next two years for her and I. Plus five years seems too far into the future to start planning."
"True. Do you want to be engaged that soon?"
"Is it really soon? I mean Heather has been my best friend for a long time and according to everyone we've always seemed like a couple, the only difference between now and then is that I call her my girlfriend now."
"I'm watching your face as you talk about her and you're glowing. I don't think I've ever met two people more in love."
"Thanks." Naya pours two more shots and the girls take them.
"So I never asked you, how do your parents feel about your new girlfriend?"
"Um." Naya grabs another shot quickly throwing it back. "I haven't told them yet."
"Naya." Dianna looks at her, disappointed and shocked.
"It's not like I'm hiding it or anything. I guess I just got so wrapped up with my love for Heather that I didn't think about telling my family."
"You aren't mad that Di and I separated you and Naya are you?"
"No, not at all." Heather hides behind a smile, secretly being home sick. The same feeling that she got as a kid every year she went to dance camp for a week and had to leave her mom.
"Is their anything you would like to do?"
"I'm kind of tired if you don't mind me going to bed early." Truth was that Heather just wanted to go call her girlfriend. She wanted to hear Naya's voice, and then go to bed so tomorrow could come and she could kiss her girlfriends lips again.
"That's fine, I'm pretty tired too. You know where the bedroom is and the bathroom, if you need anything even someone to talk to I'm just down the hall."
"Thanks." Lea extends her arms allowing Heather to hug her.
Heather races to the bedroom and pulls out her phone.
"Heather." Naya yells as she hears Dianna laughing in the background.
"Are you and Di having fun honey?"
"I am but I miss you a lot." "I'm going to let you get back to your fun." Naya can hear the sadness in Heathers voice. "Baby, I can talk if you want me too." "It's fine I'm just going to go to bed. Love you." "I love you too. Sweet dreams my angel. I'm going to text you in a few minutes."
"Ok. I'll let you go."
Heather changed into her pjs, brushed her teeth and then climbed into bed holding her phone up to her chest. Heather:I wish I were lying next to you, holding you, kissing you, rubbing my hands over your stomach and my fingers down... You know where. Anyways I miss you and love you but I am glad we are doing this because it makes me appreciate being with you so much more. I love you and cannot wait to see you tomorrow. Sleep tight.
Heather felt much better. She still wanted Naya by her side but she did not want to be the needy, attached girlfriend.
Naya:I love you. -
"You and Heather done talking?"
Naya read Heathers text message and felt her body warm up at the simple 'I love you' Heather gave her, it was a short message but those 3 words, even threw text, made her feel overwhelmed with love and compassion. "Yea she's going to bed."
"It's cute how you guys are acting during your first night apart."
"I don't think she's having fun but sadly this will probably be our future."
"What are you talking about Nay?"
"I'm talking about the future. As soon as my album is done I'm hoping to get booked for a tour, causing me to be gone for awhile and I'd kind of like to see Heather back on stage dancing and the way she was talking the other night she wants to tour again. So we will be spending a lot of time apart."
"Are you scared to be away from her for so long?"
"Honestly I am. A night, maybe 2 nights is nothing but a week with her hurts to even think about it. Heather makes me feel whole, she's my rock."
"I understand. And don't take this the wrong way but you ever think you guys are too attached? Before you say it, I get that you have been friends forever. I guess I just don't understand how you guys can go from unable to tell each other how you feel to living with each other over night."
"Honestly, sometimes I do feel like I'm too dependent on her. I love her but sometimes I don't feel like it's enough. That's why I always take her out, buy her things and tell her how much I love her."
"Nay honey why would you ever think your love is enough, Heather is head over heels for you."
"I can't give her things that guys like Taylor could."
"I think you've had a little too much alcohol."
"I can't protect her if someone hurts her, I can't give her kids and I can't get her mother to understand how much I love her, Di I'm completely useless. She needs a man not me."
"Naya no more alcohol. Give me the bottle." Naya shakes her head no. "I'm going to call Heather." Naya let's go of the bottle letting Dianna grab it.
"And tell her what? That I don't think I deserve her."
Dianna walks to the kitchen bringing back a bottle of water for Naya. "You deserve Heather. I know you can protect her from anything, I've seen you do it before and her mother will come around one day Taylor was a huge part of their family for years, just give it time. And if you want kids with her it's 100% possible."
Naya feels the warmth of the tears running down her eyes and then the saltiness of them as they hit her lips. "No Di it's not. They won't be my kids, they won't look like me, they won't have me running threw them. It hurts and on top of all that even if I propose to her we can't legally get married. You don't understand how much this all kills me."
Dianna reaches over running her thumbs over Naya's tears. "Have you told Heather any of this?"
"How? We planned the next 2 years out and she was so excited about kids and wanting to get married. You should have seen her eyes when she was talking about it, they were beautiful, they were the happiest I've ever seen her eyes light up."
"Even though I think you should tell her, listen to yourself trying to protect her feelings so she doesn't get hurt. You have to tell her Nay, maybe she feels the same way."
"How? I don't want to upset her."
"I think she will be more upset if you don't tell her. It's something like this that will break you guys up if you don't tell her or you wait too long. When you talk to her think of her as your best friend not your girlfriend."
Naya pauses thinking over everything her friend was telling her. "I'll tell her, I just don't know when."
"Let's get you to bed."
"Di, thanks for making me think and talk about all of this. Next time you and I hangout it will be better."
"I enjoyed this, honestly I like watching and listening to you talk about Heather, I want to find someone who talks about me like that. You have something really special and you would have to be a fool not to talk to her about how you feel."
"Morning Lea." Heather cheerfully walks into the kitchen.
"Coffee?" Heather nods as Lea hands her cup. "Did you sleep alright?"
"Yes, thank you."
"You excited to see her?"
"You have no idea." Heather smile grows bigger.
"If you think you can survive another night without Naya, I'd like to have you over again and actually do something."
"Sorry I wasn't a better guest. Next time will be better." Heather takes a sip of her coffee, hoping that Naya will come walking threw the door at any second.
"You know that feel you get when you're with Naya, I get that feeling too... Well I mean I have it with someone else."
"You have a crush, on who?"
"Just a friend, but that's all it will ever be. Maybe we can talk about it next time. Right now I want to hear about you and Naya."
Lea watches Heathers smile grow at the sound of her girlfriend's name. "What do you want to hear?"
"Everything." Lea leads them to the living room.
"We are good. Just figuring things out as we go."
"That's it just good? I want to hear more."
"Actually perfect, Naya is a great friend but she is an even better girlfriend. I can't believe how amazing she is. Words can't describe what she means to me. She is my one and only."
"Can I just say how glad I am that you guys are finally together."
"Heather!" A voice yells as the door opens.
"Dianna, we are in here."
Dianna walks in the living room, Lea greets her with a big hug, and Heather can see the smile grow on Leas face.
"Where's Naya?"
"I'll explain in the car if you're ready to go." Heather nods and grabs her bag. "Bye Lea."
"Thanks for having me and next time we will talk more." Heather leans in hugging Lea.
Heather flies into her bedroom door seeing her girlfriend still sleeping. "Baby, why would you drink so much?" Heather kisses Naya's cheek as she climbs in bed behind her, draping her arm over the smaller girl's stomach.
Naya intertwines her fingers with the pale hand on her stomach. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."
Heather let's her lips linger on the back of Naya's arm to let her know she cared. "Can I get you anything?"
"A kiss?" Naya turns letting Heathers arm fall down the bottom of her back enough to pull her closer.
"You don't have to ask for that." Heather let's her lips slowly press against Naya's. "I love you."
"I love you too so much and that's why I need to talk to you." Heather watched as Naya's face shift from happy to serious and it made her extremely nervous.
"Is it bad?" Heather and Naya both sit up.
"It's just some stuff that I feel like I need to tell you and I don't exactly know how."
"Nay, please spit it out. You're making me nervous."
Naya grabs Heathers hand and puts it her lap, nervously playing with the pale fingers. "I know we had a plan for the future."
"We don't need the plan." Naya glances into Heathers eyes and she can see how nervous shes getting.
"It's a good plan, a perfect plan and I want it so bad but I don't feel like I can give it to you."
Heather can feel the tears forming in her eyes as her biggest fear might be coming true. "Are you breaking up with me?"
"God no." Naya sits on her knees in front of Heather, wiping the tears that slowly start to slip out of her light blue eyes. "I want nothing more to be with you. But my problem is that I love you. I want to marry you in the next year, hell I'd marry you right now if I could but legally we aren't allowed to. And that hurts."
Heather watches as Naya shuts her eyes letting her tears roll quickly down her cheeks. "It hurts me too baby." Heather puts her hands on Naya's neck pulling her close enough to kiss her cheeks, tasting the saltiness of her tears. "It hurts me so much that the law doesn't recognize my love for you. But one day I know you will be my wife and I'll get to see you in a white dress and that image in my head gives me hope."
"Thank you."
"Is that all you were worried about?" Naya shakes her head. "Talk to me. What's it about?"
"Our kids."
Heather let's out a giggle. "You weren't kidding when you said you wanted to talk about the future. What about our kids?"
"I hate sounding like a complainer and laying all of this on you right now."
"It's fine, I want you to talk to me. Just breath and let it out."
Naya takes a big deep breath in and then out. "Ok I'm scared of having kids with you because they technically won't ever be mine, they won't look like me and they-"
"Stop, look at me. You're saying if you help me get pregnant and I carry our child for 9 months that you won't feel like it's yours? We can always pick a donor that looks like you, we do have options babe. Don't be scared."
"I guess you're right."
"I love you Naya and I'm not going to let anything stand in my way of marrying you or making a family with you."