Ugh I am not even going to begin with apologies. Real life got in the way. Relationship stuff, school stuff, work etc.

Chapter 39

"Naya, everything will be fine. Calm down." Heather was lying in bed, trying to sooth Naya who was pacing around the room with her phone in her hand.

"Lea and Dianna aren't here like they said they'd be and they aren't answering their phones." Naya dropped onto the bed and Heather started to scooch closer to her but she quickly got up. "Come walk with me. We'll go see if they're home."

"Naya, they're in Hawaii. They probably just got caught up sightseeing or something." Heather stood to take Naya's hand and try and calm her but she was already out the door. "Fuck." Heather mumbled under her breath.

Heather knew exactly what Lea and Dianna were up to and she was told to keep Naya at the cabin in the meantime. She seemed to be failing at that. She thought quick and only one idea popped into her head. She ran up behind Naya who wasn't even half way across the dock yet and gave her a push. Not a push to make her fall over and hurt herself but a push to make her fall off the dock and into the water, drenching her.

"What the fuck, Heather?" Naya screamed when she popped out of the water. "Now I'm soaked! I'll have to have a shower and get changed before I go anywhere now!"

Heather smirked. That was exactly what she had wanted to hear. She realised she was smirking and quickly wiped the smile off her face, leaning over the dock to help Naya up.

"Sorry Naya. I slipped. You know how clumsy I am." Heather pouted as she pulled Naya into her arms.

"What if Lea and Dianna are in danger?"

"You're overreacting, Naya." Heather shook her head. Naya looked at her with worry filled eyes.

"Okay." Heather rolled her eyes. "While you're in the shower, I will do my best to track them down."

"Thank you." Naya started to walk back to the cabin so Heather pulled out her phone and pretended to dial a number. Naya turned to check what Heather was doing so Heather quickly pretended that the call had failed.

"I'll keep trying. Don't worry."

Naya walked inside and once Heather heard the shower turn on, she dialled Dianna's number.

"Yo." Came the relaxed voice through the receiving end.

"Where the fuck are you? You were supposed to be here an hour ago. Naya is honestly about to call in a search party for you."

"Sorry, sorry! The flight was delayed! We are on our way now. I can see Lea in her car behind me. Give us like 15 minutes, yeah?"

"I will try and keep Naya distracted for that long. She will most likely make her shower a quick one." Heather knew that Naya would still be worrying and would want to go look for them sooner rather than later.

"Hide her phone. She will get worried about losing her phone in case we call. Hide her phone." Dianna suggested. Well it was more of a demand but it was a good one.

"Yes! You're a genius! Okay, see you soon." Heather quickly hung up and ran inside.

She heard the water in the bathroom shut off and looked around the room frantically for Naya's phone. When she spotted it on the bed, she let out a sigh of relief and ran around the room trying to find a place to hide it. The door to the bathroom opened so she quickly but casually turned her back to the doorway where Naya was standing and started walking into the kitchen.

"Any luck?" Naya called after her.

"Nope, nothing." Heather called back from the kitchen. She turned Naya's phone off, stood on her tippy toes and quietly put it in a high cupboard.

Walking back into the bedroom, she took Naya in a tight embrace.

"I'm just worried about them, Hemo." Naya whispered.

"I know, baby. We can go look for them if you like?"

"That would be great. I'll just grab my phone." Naya turned to grab her phone. When she saw that it wasn't on the bed, she started to move the pillows and blankets around.

"Should I meet you in the car?" Heather suggested with a small smile playing on her lips. Again she managed to control it and put a frown in its place.

"No, my phone should be just here. Have you seen my phone?" Naya didn't even turn to look at Heather so lying would be a little easier.

"Uh… no, I don't think so. Do you want to just go look for the girls anyway and find your phone later?"

"No, because they might call me and then we won't know because I won't have my phone." Naya tossed a pillow across the room and mumbled, "I swear it was right here."

"Would you like me to help you look then?" Heather pointed towards the kitchen.

Naya looked up. "I don't think it'll be in the kitchen but you can look if you like."

Heather headed into the kitchen and started banging around as if she was looking. Heather's phone vibrated in her pocket so she pulled it out to check it.

From Lady Di: We just pulled in now. How do you wanna do this?

To Lady Di: Stay put. I'll be out in a second.

Heather grabbed Naya's phone and walked out to the bedroom where Naya had almost turned the place upside down.

"I'll go check outside in case you dropped it on your way back in. You start cleaning this mess up." Heather walked outside and ran down the dock. She ran to the car and extended her arm. "Naya is looking for this." She winked at the girl and led her down the dock.

Naya was putting the last of the pillows back on the bed when she heard a familiar voice come from the doorway.

"Looking for something?" She turned to find her younger sister standing in the doorway with her phone in her hand.

"Nickayla?" Naya ran over to her sister and hugged her tight.

"You should really keep an eye on your blonde. She sure knows how to steal stuff and lie convincingly.

"What?" Naya's eyebrows furrowed together in confusion.

Heather walked in. "I needed to stall to stop you from going looking for Dianna and Lea so I pushed you in the water. I passed that off as me being clumsy. That bought me an extra 10 minutes."

Dianna walked in. "Then she stole your phone when you were in the shower and hid it."

"I then told you that we could look for them without it but I knew that you would say you needed your phone so I offered to help you look. That bought me another 10 minutes." Heather didn't let her smirk falter this time.

"Sneaky." Naya rolled her eyes.

"Then this talk right now bought us just enough time for you not to realise that Lea has yet to show up." Dianna added.

"Huh?" Naya adopted the confused look again.

A new voice sounded from the doorway, "Naya, don't frown. You'll get wrinkles."

"Mami!" Naya called and rushed over to hug her mother. George walked in behind Marie and smiled at his daughter who took him into a hug. "Hola Papi."

"Hola Hermosa. Nice surprise, was it?" He looked down at her.

"A very nice surprise. You guys weren't supposed to come in until later."

"Plans change. Mychal is still scheduled for the same time as before. We will go get him along with Elizabeth and then meet you guys in town for dinner at 7:30." Marie looked out the window at the ocean and Nickayla was looking out another window.

Lea walked over to Dianna and sighed. "We did it."

"We sure did." Dianna smiled.

"Can we go swimming? Nickayla asked excitedly.

"I just went for a wee dip, thanks to Heather." Naya slapped Heather lightly on the arm which made Heather giggle.

"Sorry baby. But yes Nickayla, you can swim." Heather smiled.

Before anyone could say anything, Nickayla ran outside and jumped in the water, clothes and all.

"That is not my daughter." Marie laughed, causing everyone else to laugh too.

"You know you love me, mami!" Everyone heard Nickayla's loud voice burst through the house even though she was outside.

"That I do." Marie mumbled under her breath and then turned to pull Naya into her. "Mi pequeño bebé! Getting married tomorrow! Usted está todo crecido! Estás contento? " Marie started crying when she was talking to Naya.

"Si, mami. Por supuesto que sí. La amo más que a nada." Naya was trying to put up a defence shield because she thought she might cry too. Seeing her mum cry made her feel emotional.

"Bueno." Marie nodded.

Heather could see that Naya was about to cry though, so she took her fiancée's hand.

"Baby, I know that your family just got here and anything but do you want to go for a quick walk with me?" Naya gave Heather a confused look. "We'll be quick, I promise."

"Okay, yeah." Naya turned to everyone in the room. "We'll be right back." Naya walked outside, dragging Heather behind.

"What is it, Hemo?" Naya stopped once they were at the end of the dock and looked at Heather with worry in her eyes.

"I just wanted to get you alone to check if you're okay."

"What would make you think I'm not okay?"

"I can see it in your eyes." Heather reached up to Naya's eyes which were on the verge of crying.

"Babe, I'm fine." Naya laughed. "I just felt like my mum is worried about whether I'm making the right decision. She seems alright. She just doesn't want to let me go, yah know?"

"What did she say to you in there?"

"She was just asking me if I'm happy and telling me that I'm growing up and all that." Naya shook her head lightly and looked down.

"and what did you say?" Heather tilted Naya's head back up.

"I told her that I love you more than anything and of course I'm happy."

Heather smiled and rubbed Naya's cheek with her thumb. "I am so excited to be marrying you tomorrow."

"I'm excited too. You ready to go back inside? We have some catching up to do before they go and get Mychal and all your family."

"Let's go."