May 2nd, 2019
Previously on A Heya Love Story...
Heather's phone chimes from her back pocket and asks Naya to see who it is. Naya freezes and shows her wife the number on the screen and it's the unknown number from earlier. Heather nods for Naya to unlock and read the message which she reluctantly goes. Naya goes to the texts and opens the most recent one and visibly gulps and feels sick.
Incoming Unknown: Miss you sexy. Can't wait to see you again. Let's plan another time to meet. xoxo *side kiss emoji*
Naya's face goes white when she hands over the text and several of her friends get concerned. Heather looks furious. Chris hurried to Naya's side worried she was found to pass out just by the look on her face and they all looked deeply concerned.
"What the hell just happened?" Chord asks
"Heather, what was on your phone?" Lea asked wanting an explanation for the sudden energy shift in the room. Heather is silent and locks the phone putting it in her pocket before handing Sophia to Melissa again whos directly to her left.
"Please don't let her go and stay where we can still see you," Heather says and Melissa nods settling her in her arms. Heather picked up Naya's bridal style and turned to her friends.
"I'm going to take her over there to sit down," Heather spoke while nodding to the lounge area with the padded bench. Can one of you grab a cold water and can another one of you grab Elliott and John and have them come over here." Heather said before walking away leaving everyone confused. However, the second they comprehend that Heather wanted to speak to John and Elliot their security guards, that got their attention and they started moving.
Heather carried Naya over to the bench and sat her across her lap. Naya started crying frantically:
"I'm gonna lose you. I'm losing you!" Naya sobbed and Heather pulled her close stroking the back of her head and holding her close.
"Not possible, never. Do you understand me? It's you and me, my love. I don't know who the hell this is but I will damn sure find out!" Heather says before kissing her wife as Lea comes back with bottled water and removes the cap.
"Thanks, Lea," Heather says and grabs the bottle. "Here, beautiful, small sips." Heather encourages while rubbing her back. Chris comes back with a rag and an ice pack and dabs her forehead and runs it over her arms to help soothe and being her color back.
Heather gives the bottle back to Lea so she can put the cap on. She peeks up and sees Melissa holding Sophia rocking her from side to side.
"Are you okay, love? I'm right here with you." Heather says and Naya looked so lost.
"Please don't leave me. Please." Naya said heartbroken and Heather shook her head.
"Never. Absolutely never, beautiful." Heather says and Naya lays against her taking a deep breath.
"What happened you two?" Amber says and Naya shrugged before nodding and hiding her face in Heather. Just as Heather was about to explain, Elliot and John walk over with Kevin and look concerned.
"You guys okay?" John asked holding a drink in his hand.
"Been better." Heather sighed and they scrunch their eyebrows waiting for more info. "Someone has been sending me weird texts that are insinuating that I'm cheating on my wife. They are from an unknown but local number. I want to find out who is sending me these." Heather said angrily and everyone is shocked
"Oh God, I'm sorry that's happening. Well, the first thing is reporting it to the local police and they can tell you if they've gotten reports of any others being harassed or called from that number or any unknown number and see if they have any relevance to each other. The next thing they will most likely do is have a private investigator work to scan IP Addresses, and phone signals, check that number, and find an owner or at the very least the last person to purchase that said device under that number." Elliot explained and the girls sighed.
"It can be a long process depending on if they covered their tracks well, but there's way too much technology nowadays that the likelihood you'd find the person is very high," John said.
"I want to find out who's doing this. My wife doesn't need to see that garbage pop up on my phone and I sure as hell don't want it on there." Heather speaks bluntly and Naya lifts her head and shakes it.
"Let's wait, baby. I'm probably just overreacting and it's just some random number or spam. Please, can we wait." Naya said and Heather sighs bringing her fist to her forehead.
"Love, what if they message me again? It's bothering you and I'm not going to have that." Heather says and Naya leans against her wife's cheat.
"Naya what if this person is stalking your home, work, or the messages get worse?" Lea urges and Naya cries into Heather's chest. Heather wraps and secures her wife in her embrace.
"Please, no," Naya begs and Heather nods holding her wife tightly.
"Okay, honey, okay. Shhh. I've got you. If this gets worse though, baby, we are going to the cops." Heather says and Naya nods.
"Is everyone going to start heading out now?" Chord asks and they all nod
"Alright, I'll bring the car around," Heather says and Naya clings desperately to her. Heather sets the keys down and holds her wife.
"No! Don't leave," Naya says and Heather holds her before tilting her chin up.
"I will never leave you beautiful. I don't want you and Sophia walking that far at night so I'll go grab the car and bring it out for my girls, okay?" Heather says tucking a piece of black have behind her ear. "Everyone will be here with you and I'll only be a couple of minutes," Heather reassures and Naya reluctantly nods. Heather kisses her forehead before grabbing the keys and kissing her daughter. Heather turns back to Naya and kisses her head.
"I love you." Heather whispers and Naya looks up.
I love you so much." Naya says and Heather stands and walks towards the entrance.
Naya tilts her head back and holds her arms out for her daughter. She needs them both close as Melissa smiles at her and moves over to Naya and carefully shifts the sleeping girl into her mami's arms Sophia lays on her shoulder and snuggles into her shoulder. Naya wipes a tear that falls and Lea speaks up.
"Naya, if you girls want to come to stay with me you sure can because I have absolutely nothing going on this weekend." Lea offers and Naya seems to be considering this.
"Thanks, Lea but we don't have any clothes or anything for Sophia." Naya sighs
"Well it's not even 10:00 pm yet so if you wanted to swing home, pack a bag for the weekend and come over you're more than welcome to. We can relax for the weekend but it's just an offer, no pressure either way.
"Lea, would you mind if I crash with you? I came with Heather and Naya because my car wouldn't start." Melissa sighs and Lea nods.
"Of course, you can. We can take my car and swing by your place so you can change and pack a bag." Lea smiles.
They see Heather walk back in and she smiles at Naya who lets out a breath she didn't even know she was holding in.
"There are my girls," Heather says and Naya smiles as she approaches. Heather stands near Naya where Naya is sitting holding Sophia and strokes her wife's hair before crossing her arms as Lea speaks up.
"Hemo, I made the offer for everyone or anyone to come to stay the weekend with me. You all are on the list and know the gate code so anytime you want or need to come over, any of you, my doors open." Lea explains and Heather smiles looking down at her wife.
Sophia tiredly lifts her head and mumbles to nobody in particular.
"I don't have plans. Let's go aunt LeLe's house." Sophia mutters before laying her head back down on Naya's shoulder making them all smile and shake their heads.
"Nice to know you don't have plans without us knowing!" Heather giggles before glancing up at Lea. "That's really generous Lea. We will talk about it on our way home since we would have to go grab stuff anyway. I'll text you shortly and let you know." Heather explained.
"Sounds good." Lea smiles
"I'm going to say out here with my girls when you guys go in the room to grab your stuff, can you just grab Naya's purse and Sophia's tote? I'm worried all break that girl's leg I see her right now..." Heather says causing Naya to look up and hold her daughter protectively.
"Sure no problem, Hemo. Chicks probably passed out on the damn floor..." Cory says shaking his head as they all make their way to the back bedroom to grab their things.
Heather takes a seat next to Naya on the bench seat and leans forward to place a kiss on the back of her daughter's head and then on her wife's lips.
"What would you like to do, beautiful? Did you want to stay at Lea's?" Heather asked softly and Naya shyly nodded.
"I kinda do. I love being around them and of course, you, especially when shit like this happens, they're like our family." Naya says and Heather nods.
"Then that's what we will do. We can run home and if you want I'll pull into the garage and you can stay in the car with Sophia so we don't have the wake her to keep taking her out of the car seat just to put her back in again. I can run and pack our stuff." Heather says and Naya hesitates. She has no idea what's wrong with her that the thought of being without her wife for that long is terrifying...get a grip Naya. She internally rolls her eyes at herself.
"Su...sure," Naya says and Hearher cups one of her cheeks and leans their foreheads together.
"You can both come inside with me too. It was just a suggestion in case you didn't want to keep dragging her in and out of the booster seat. You do whatever you're comfortable with." Heather says as the group comes back out of the room with all of their things. Cory hands over their tote back with Naya's purse inside.
"Thanks, man," Heather says before turning to Lea. "Lea, if it's okay, we will stay with you after we run home to grab some things. Offer still stand?" Heather smiled and so did Lea.
"You know it does. Like I said you know the codes and the security guards have your names. Hank knows Soph..." Lea giggles. Heather and Naya both manage to crack a smile remembering their daughter giving Hank a candy car instead of a photo ID. (Chapter 71).
"My daughter knows more people than I do..." Heather rolled her eyes and looked over adoringly at the little girl on Naya's shoulder. The friends giggle and several others say they are going to come to stay as well.
"When we get there we will help get up the beds, Lea," Diana says throwing her bag over her shoulder
"They are already up." Lea shrugged and everyone looked over confused.
"How? You didn't even know we were staying?" Jenna asked curiously.
"You guys are always over. I'm prepared." Lea laughs making the group giggle. "Alright, guys I'm out of here. I'll see whoever is back at the house and the rest of you hopefully very soon!" Lea says as she says her goodbyes and leaves with Cory.
Naya motions for Heather to grab their daughter and Naya stands as the hands the girl over while staying extremely close to her wife.
"Alright, love, let's head out and hopefully we will see all of you soon," Heather says before wrapping her free arm around Naya as Naya carries the tote bag.
Just before 11:00 pm Heather was entering Lea's gate code and pulling into the driveway. Just as they pull in they see another car come up which they recognize as Amber's and leave the gate open long enough for her to drive through before closing it.
Sophia had woken up a little bit knowing they were going to aunt Lea's but was going in and out of sleep. She was struggling between being way too asleep for talking but way too excited to not talk. Oh, Soph.
Heather turns off the car and helps Naya out before grabbing their packed bag. Amber reached in her trunk to grab hers as well before walking over to their range rover and greeting them again.
"We meet again," Amber says and they smile but Amber can see how forced it is. "Hey, we will figure this out. What does the text say?" Amber asked and Heather grabbed the phone and showed her the two messages they got today. Amber scowls and gives Heather the phone back.
"Heather we all know you would cut off your arm before hurting Naya like this so don't you two worry. We will figure this out." Amber said making them both smile. Heather launched into her arms because the feeling of having people say I know the kind of person you are and I believe you, is exactly what she needed to hear.
"Thank you for saying that Amber. Thank you." Heather said and Naya smiled as she hugged Amber.
"You're my family, of course! No get my niece out of that booster so I can squeeze her. The little star of the evening!" Amber said and Heather softly giggled and just stepped to the side allowing a very eager Amber to get her granddaughter out of the seat.
Amber unbuckled the toddler and she clung to her aunt with her bunny and blanket. Amber was relishing closeness with that little girl and both Naya and Heather could see she was in complete auntie bliss.
"Heather adjusts the bag over her shoulder and wraps her arm around her wife before hitting the lock on the car and the three of them walk up the pathway before knocking on the front door. About fifteen seconds later Cory answers in much more casual attire since they last saw him and he motions for them to come in. When they walk in they see all the mattresses pushed together and singing from the kitchen. Sophia lifts her head and squints from the light.
"Too late to singing, LeLe!" Sophia says before her head hits Amber's shoulder again and they all snort out a laugh before Lea comes into the room with a towel drying off her hands and waving to the four new arrivals.
"Hey Lea, thanks for letting us stay." Heather smiled and she waved them off.
"Of course! You know where everything is, feel free to lay her down in your spot on the beds. I was just cutting up some fruit to put in the refrigerator for breakfast tomorrow. Did anybody want some tea or cider? I was going to make myself some but I'll just make a full pot if other people want some too." Lea said and Amber nodded along with the other two.
"Sounds amazing girl, thanks!" Amber said and Heather nodded.
Just then Melissa came out of the bathroom with her cosmetic bag and her dress in hand now wearing her cozy pajamas. She looks up and sees the four new arrivals and smiles.
"Oh, you're here! The bathroom is all yours." Melissa announces with a smile and walks over to kiss Sophia on the head. "She doing okay?" Melissa asked before walking over to her bag and putting her folded dress inside.
"She's okay. She did wake up when we walked in from Lea's screeching though." Naya shrugged
Melissa laughed as Lea poked her head out and scowled before disappearing back into the kitchen. Heather rolled her eyes before looking over at her friend who had her daughter in her arms.
"Amber, did you want to get Sophia changed into her pajamas while Naya and I get out of these fancy clothes too?" Heather asked her friend and she nodded
"Absolutely," Amber said and Heather kissed her wife before walking over and opening their suitcase and pulling out her daughter's pajama pants and then her matching top, along with a pair of socks. She walked over and handed them to Amber thanking her for helping with Sophia before she smiled and carried the little girl into Lea's bedroom to change her.
Heather reached in the suitcase and grabbed her and her wife's pajamas along with their hairbrushes and toiletries to wash their faces and brush their teeth for the evening.
"Come on, love, let's let into some comfier clothes so we can relax," Heather says and Naya nods with a smile taking her wife's extended hand. "We will be right back Lea and Cory," Heather says and they were Lea yelled, okay from the kitchen where she was making their tea.
About fifteen minutes later Naya and Heather came back out into the main living area and their faces were freshly washed, hair brushed out, and comfy clothes were on as they joined Cory, Lea, Amber, Sophia, Diana, Jenna, and Harry in the living room.
"Hey! You guys must have just walked in." Naya said and Jenna nodded.
"Yeah, we snuck in while you were getting changed. We were going to stay home but it's much more fun with you guys so we crashed the party." Jenna smiled and Diana nodded.
"Same. I got bored at home. Vanessa and Chord texted me and said they were coming over too. Vanessa said there's a creepy bird outside her window so she's packing up and getting the hell out of there." Diana said and the group laughed because that was a very Vanessa thing to do.
"That girl is hilarious," Melissa said shaking her head as Lea handed her a cup of tea. "Thanks, Lea," Melissa said
"You're welcome, Naya and Heather yours are coming up!" Lea says practically sprinting out of the room before Heather turned her head from where she was setting settled on the bed.
"Your awesome Lea but I can also get our tea. Relax girl and come hang out with us. I'm getting whiplash watching you run around here." Heather says and everyone nods along in agreement. One of Lea's favorite things was playing host but she deserved to relax and hang out with everyone too.
"Your tea's," Lea said as the girls grabbed them and pointed to the bed demanding she sit her ass down and hang out with them.
"Thanks, Lea, now sit," Naya said and she scowled
"I'm not a dog," Lea said
"Oh woof, now park it," Naya said snapping her finger and pointing to her spot on the bed. Lea grabbed her cup of tea in the kitchen before listening to her friend and sitting down. Sophia was laying in the fetal position right in front of the girls who had their legs crossed and were sitting side by side. She was covered in blankets with her head resting on the pillow just as they heard the door open and Vanessa and Chord slip through.
"Hey, you guys." Vanessa loudly whispers as she catches sight of her niece sound asleep. Sophia could sleep through a tornado though so nobody was concerned.
"You don't have to whisper hun, if Lea's screeching doesn't wake her, nothing will," Amber said and Lea huffed causing Vanessa and Chord to chuckle and set down their bags. They were already in pajamas and must have washed up before they came over.
"So... scary bird?" Melissa smiled
"Effing huge! Plus I think he was staring into my soul so I got the hell out of there." Vanessa responded and Chord nudged her where he was standing next to her.
"I wasn't aware you had a soul." Chord said and she elbowed him in the stomach.
"Gahh. shit." Chord said.
"I can wake Sophia so she can aim lower if you'd rather?" Vanessa said and Chord put his hand up
"Fine, I'm sorry!" Chord whined before slumping down on the bed and the room giggles. Vanessa gets close to the bed when she gets a whiff of something good.
"Oh, tea! Is there any more left?" Vanessa asked and Lea nodded starting to get up but Vanessa snapped and pointed just as Naya did before. "Sit your butt down, I've been in your kitchen before," Vanessa said as she walks into the kitchen and calls out. "Jesus, Lea, you think you made enough? It's like a cauldron of witches brew in here for god sake. Are the queen and her minions joining us?" Vanessa asks emotionless making everyone on the couch snort out a laugh.
"I'm prepared!" Lea says as the door opens and Chris sticks his head in.
"Offer still good to come over? I figured it must be since I saw all the cars out there." Chris said as he snuck inside. Everyone nodded with a smile as Vanessa called out from the kitchen.
"Would you like a spot of tea, Christopher?" Vanessa said in her best old-fashioned English accent. Chris quirked a brow.
"Why is she talking weir?" Chris asked with a raised brow
"I don't know. It's Nessa. That's a door you don't want to open..." Naya replied and everybody laughed just as Vanessa came back in and flicked Naya on the back of the head.
"Lea, you're getting low on tea, we're down to our last three gallons on the stove," Vanessa said flatly and everyone shook their heads.
"Whatever. you're on your second cup already so I clearly made just enough Miss. I'm scared of a damn bird..." Lea said and Vanessa scowled.
"If you saw the damn eyes on that monster you would have ran out of the bathroom naked too!" Vanessa defended.
"That's probably why the bird was staring. Smart bird..." Chord said with a smirk and Melisssa hit the back of his head. "Ow! Damn it. Why did I come here?!" Chord whined.
"Because we are the only ones that put up with you," Amber said matter of factly.
The crew was all lounging around in the living room about twenty minutes later sipping on their tea and making casual conversation about how incredible Sophia was tonight with her singing and dancing. They were all watching the video of her dancing and then singing with Matt and the smiles couldn't be wiped off of any of their faces. Heather was sitting behind Naya and holding her around the waist. Naya made sure to bring her hormone injections and they secretly did that in the bathroom before putting it all back in their bag. Nobody knew they were currently in the process of having another child and for now, that's how they wanted to keep it. They didn't mind telling their friends right when they found out they were pregnant, but up until then was a tough process and they wanted to keep it just for them.
They all continued to talk about the amazing night they had up until...and as if on cue they hear a knock on the door and then see Kevin's face peek in and they all pop their heads up and smile at their friend until he comes in with someone else. Becca. Everyone looked as if they were shocked he would bring her.
Umm, Kevin, what the hell is she doing in my house?" Lea asked not happy and Kevin sighed.
"Look she's drunk out of her mind, we couldn't just leave her!" Kevin said and dragged her drunk ass into the house and she already looked half asleep.
Heather glared at Kevin. "This chick who had my daughter and was holding her while she's completely wasted in a private room while everyone was running frantic looking for her and I have to explain why her being here is beyond inappropriate?!" Heather says before grabbing the sheet and pulling it towards her so her daughter was right in front of them still on the bed. Naya dropped her arms on top of Sophia protectively.
"I'll just lay her in the spare bedroom so she can sleep this off..." Kevin says trying to be a good friend but also clearly does not understand how inappropriate it is for her to be there. Everyone looks down the hallway where he was practically supporting her entire wait before they disappeared into the guest room.
"Is he fucking serious right now?!" Naya said furiously.
"Well I know I will be getting zero sleep tonight..." Heather says and Cory being a little slow with keeping up looks at her in question.
"Why wouldn't you sleep?" Cory asked and she looks at him like he was crazy for not knowing.
"Other than the fact that she's here around my wife and daughter after what she pulled tonight. Not to mention the fact that she's drunk as hell and barely has a conscience when she's sober there is no way in hell I'm shutting my eyes tonight. So I might as well make some god damn coffee." Heather sighs and sneaks out from behind Naya who instantly tenses when her wife leaves her and Heather notices. "I am coming right back and I want to snuggle my favorite girls all night. I won't let anything happen to you, don't you worry." Heather says before lifting her chin and placing a kiss on her lips.
Kevin comes out of the room a couple of minutes later and looks around knowing he's in deep trouble but at the moment he thought he was doing a good thing. He's now realizing that he may have made the wrong decision.
"Kevin, what the actual fuck?" Amber said staring at him as if he had just done the dumbest thing in the world. Kevin looked at her and grabbed a chair from the dining room.
"Look, I'm sorry, I really thought I was just being a good friend to her but I see now how it must look and I'm sorry. I'll get her and take her home, or somewhere. I have no idea where her keys are or security code is and If I have to put money on it, I doubt she remembers right now either..." Kevin saif and Lea just points to the chair.
"Just sit down, It's damn near midnight and she's already fucking here. She better not cause trouble through or I swear..."Lea said and Kevin nodded.
"She passed out as soon as her head hit the pillow so I doubt she will be doing anything tonight," Kevin says and everyone sighs while rolling their eyes.
"Nobody allows her near Sophia. Understood?" Heather says sternly wanting to reiterate that if anyone sees her around her daughter that they grab her immediately. Heather was done with this shit. Her family had been through enough.
"When is the court date for that damn kidnapper?" Amber sighs and the girls look over. Heather was still holding Naya tightly from behind and kissed the back of her neck.
"May 16th. That won't be a very fun day that's for sure. Our siblings are going to stay with Sophia all day while we are in court with him. Our parents wanted to be there." Heather explained and the group.
"Can you only have four people come?" Jenna asked and Naya shook her head.
"No, anyone can come that represents or supports him or us," Naya explained.
"So you can have twelve more?" Chris asked referring to himself, Jenna, Harry, Lea, Cory, Amber, Chord, Vanessa, Kevin, Diana, Melissa, and Darren.
Heather and Naya smile because they truly have incredible friends. Both of the girls subtly nod and the friends back at them.
"Hey...we are there for you," Chris says and the girls hug each other close and look down at Sophia.
"Always," Jenna says and they mouth a thank you
May 3rd, 2019
The friends decide to take their mind off the tension and just play a little question and answer game to pass the time since they were all still wired and awake from their busy evening it would be a while before they were close to falling asleep. It was 12:30 am and they were also drinking coffee, so there is that too...
"Come on Lea, what's your deep dark question for us!" Diana joked while taking a sip of her coffee.
"I'm thinking..." Lea said pursing her lips and getting a good question, although it may have not been a question that exactly got everyone's minds in a happier place. "Okay, if you had to change one thing about your past what would it be?" Lea asked and everyone looked around. Naya tenses and Heather sense it right away before holding her tighter and lacing at her daughter who was fast asleep.
"Damn, Le, that's deep. Well, I guess my answer would be my parent's divorce. That really screwed me up in middle school." Chord replies
"Probably saying no to Glee at first..." Chris says and everyone turned their heads in shock.
"Wait, what?" Kevin said
"Yeah, I was already working on the pilot of this other show that hadn't premiered yet when Ryan called me back and wanted me for the role of Kurt so for about two weeks I was working on two pilots until I practically begged this other show to release me and I went on to play Kurt permanently," Chris explained and everyone's jaws dropped.
"Wow. Well, it's a damn good thing it worked out the way it did!" Amber said patting his shoulder while Vanessa hugged his side before sitting back up.
"What about you Hemo?" Harry asked and everyone looked at her and she shrugged.
"I don't know. I regret a lot of things I guess." Heather says and Naya looks back. "Oh god, not you! Don't even go there!" Heather rushes out and Naya visibly takes a deep breath, she can't believe Naya would even think that. "No, love, I guess a lot of mine involve things I messed up on being a wife and mom," Heather says and everyone looks at her in confusion.
"Heather, you're the greatest mom..." Melissa says and Darren nods with her.
"Absolutely...You two are the greatest, what on earth could you have to feel guilty or regretful about?" Darren asks and everyone looks at her.
"I didn't confront those security guards the second I saw their eyes off Sophia when she was a baby on the beach. I indirectly brought this man into our lives. I failed my baby girl and I will never get over that." Heather says looking down at her little girl.
"Baby..." Naya says adjusting so she's more on her side but still laying against her wife. "Baby, that was not your fault! You were the one that brought her back!" Naya defended but Heather shook her head.
"It wouldn't have happened in the first place if I wouldn't have yelled at them like I wanted to but instead I kept my fucking mouth shut and he took my baby. Never will I get over how badly I screwed that up. never." Heather said and everyone felt her pain that she still felt from that situation. "Another thing is the car accident," Heather said sadly and Naya stared at her. "I felt weird all fucking day yet I still let her get in that car and I almost..." Heather inhaled deeply "I almost lost the person, the only person that's ever had my heart. Those are my two biggest regrets in my life." Heather said kissing the side of her wife's head.
"Honey, you didn't cause that, not even a little bit. That psychotic man is to blame for what we went through. Don't forget you went through hell both of those times too, it's not just me!" Naya said and Heather hugged her tightly.
"Nay, what about you?" Melissa asks and Naya clears her throat.
"Umm..." Naya sighs and Heather hugs her letting her know she doesn't have to say anything she doesn't want to. "Probably not leaving my first cheating relationship and then having it happen two more times work two different people. Also I..." Naya starts but stops herself.
"It's okay, Nay it's just us," Amber says softly.
"Are you okay, love?" Heather whispers and Naya looks at her.
"You don't even know this, baby," Naya replied and Heather's body straightened suddenly getting extremely nervous.
"Naya..." Heather said worriedly and Naya took a huge deep breath before speaking.
"My se... the second relationship was pretty volatile." Naya breathed and Heather's face went blank. "He cheated on me several times. I would find messages and towards the end of our relationship he would...he would hit me. Really hard. It hurt so b...bad." Naya choked out and Heather looked like she wanted to kill but she put those feelings aside and adjusted Naya to sit across her lap as she sobbed. Thank God Sophia was such a deep sleeper.
"No. No. Oh God, love." Heather cried with her wife and held her tightly. "I've got you," Heather said and everyone cupped their hands over their mouth or ran their hands through their hair in shock.
"That's why I'm so lucky I have you and I'm so scared to lose you. You're always so good to me and I don't think I deserve it." Naya cried and Hearher grabbed her face and made Naya look directly into her blue eyes.
"You deserve it, beautiful. You deserve everything. You will never, ever be treated like that again. You are my girl. My everything. My queen. Where did this guy hurt you?!" Heather said fiercely making Naya close her eyes and breath. She wondered if she would just stop talking but the cat was already out of the bag so no use stopping now.
"Well, he never sexually abused me. He joked and would threaten to once in a while but he never did. He would slap me across the face often." Naya whispered and Heather leaned over and kissed each side of her face softly multiple times bringing a soft smile to Naya's face. "He punched me in the stomach a couple of times too." Naya finished and Heather made a face like she was a lion ready to attack. She bent over and placed a soft kiss on Naya's stomach as a test came down her wife's cheek. Heather placed a hand over her stomach, of course, nobody got the double meaning. Naya tearfully wiped her eyes.
"Never will anybody hurt you like that again. You are the strongest person I know and I am so damn proud to be your wife." Heather said and Naya wrapped her arms around her wife and buried her face into her neck.
They stayed like that for about a minute before they heard a phone chime and Heather realized it was hers. Who would be texting at 1:00 am?!
Oh shit... Of all the times it had to be when Naya just shared something so vulnerable that nobody knew. Here comes this monster to bring all of that right back for her.
"It's okay love. I'm yours and I'm right here." Heather says and brings Naya closer.
"Baby..." Naya cries and Heather kisses her and wraps her arms around her tighter as she opens the text and both of their hearts sank.
Incoming Unknown: I can't wait to make love to you again. The other day was amazing. Let me know when your wife is out again. Xoxo
Heather leaped up and tossed the phone on the bed. She was pissed. Everyone was shocked but immediately guessed that it was this person but nobody knew who it was. Naya brought her knees to her chest and wipes her tears.
Amber picks up the phone and reads the text as her eyes go wide.
"Hemo! We know this is fake." Amber said and Heather just paces.
"I don't care. This person is fucking with my wife's emotions and mine too!" Heather yelled.
The friends pass the phone around and Chord and Kevin look at it together.
"Hemo, are you one hundred percent positive too didn't get drunk and j..." Kevin starts and Heather whips around while Naya's face shoots up from where it was buried in her knees.
"Don't you dare accuse me of doing anything like that!" Heather snarled and Naya saw this rage she's never seen.
"Hemo you're our friend, we believe you but this text..." Chord says and Heather glares.
"You can accuse me of a lot of shit in my life, but don't EVER accuse me of betraying my wife and family. Ever!" Heather growled and Naya got up and opened her arms and Heather came over to embrace her. "Naya you have to know I would never In a million years do this to you," Heather whispered and Naya nodded.
"I know baby. In my heart, I know that. It's just screwing with my mind." Naya says and Heather nodded.
"Hemo..." Harry said and she looked over. "Text back." Harry continued and Heather looked at him like he lost his mind. Have all the guys lost their fucking minds tonight?!
"You want me to converse with this person?!" Heather asked baffled and Harry clarified.
"I'm not asking you to grab coffee with them, Heather. I'm asking you to text them back and see if you can try to figure out who it could be based on what they say. See if you can figure out if they've worked with you, if their an acquaintance, or if this is just someone who typed a random number and it just happened to be yours. It will give us something to go off of at least." Harry explained and everyone nodded in agreement.
"Good thinking," Chris said and nodded to the phone.
"It'll be okay, Heather," Jenna said and before Hearher even touched that phone she looked over to her wife.
"Love," Heather asked and Naya nodded. Naya looked down shamefully and asked a question that made her feel like a jealous teenager. She felt stupid. Everything the past couple of days just brought back all of her insecurities and she felt so small and fragile.
"Go ahead. Can I...can I." Naya shuttered hardly able to get the words out she was so humiliated but Heather knew immediately
"Of course, you can." Come here, my love." Heather said softly and Naya came over and sat in between her left on the bed. Their daughter still passed out from the busy day she had. The girl slept like a rock when she was tired. Heather picks up the phone and gives it to Naya. "It's all yours, beautiful," Heather said and kissed Naya on the side of the head. Naya looked back at her and her hands were trembling.
Everyone comes closer to the girls and Sophia is in the middle as they sit on pins and needles. Naya takes a deep breath before messaging back.
Outgoing Heather (Naya): I won't cheat.
Naya presses send and not two seconds later they hear a bell-like chime in the distance. Everyone lifts their heads in confusion.
"What the?..." Kevin says trying to see if one of their phones goes off again.
"Love, list send some dots back quick..." Heather says and Naya nods.
Outgoing Heather (Naya): ...
Two seconds later they hear the same chime. Heather looks up Naya sees a dangerous look in her eye.
"Who in the hell's phone is that?!" Heather said scarily low while Naya looked around trying to figure out what the hell was happening.
"Naya call them." Chris urges and Naya taps the phone icon on the top of the message convo and they hear the standard iPhone ringtone play in this distance. Nobody has ever seen this particular look in Heather's eye before. Naya's eyes widen.
"Becca..." they all breathe out.
"Boys...grab my baby girl and sit with her on the patio. She doesn't need to be here when I throw this bitch out." Heather says starting to stand up. Naya is in shock she has no idea what to do.
"Hemo..." Cory says and she closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before pointing to the patio.
"Patio. Don't go all the way out in the backyard. I need to be able to see her but I can't have her in here. Please." Heather asked and the boys nodded. Chris comes over and picks up the lightweight little girl and she puts her head on his chest. Harry grabs another blanket in case she gets chilly. "Thanks," Heather says before taking off towards the spare bedroom and everyone follows her quickly.
Heather looks at the blonde who's passed out on her stomach with her head bent to the side. She immediately searches for the phone and looks in her pockets. The light on the screen is still on from the call she just received.
Heather snatches it from her pocket and looks at the text log and pulls up the texts from Naya and then sees the call from her phone.
"You bitch!" Heather yelled. She was trying her fucking hardest because she would not hit a girl but she's so damn close. "Get up!" Heather said pulling the girl up by her top. She was still in the same clothes from their fancy evening. Naya was covering her mouth with both hands.
Heather dragged Becca so woke up slightly and seemed a little more steady so the sleep must be wearing off the alcohol.
"Ow! Christ!" Becca says as she's pulled by the arm and sat on the bed. The girls are following her back. Jenna and Vanessa have their arm around Naya who has hers crossed in front of her.
"You..." Heather snarled and picked up Becca's phone showing her the text messages she already knew were there. Becca was still trying to wake up and figure out what the hell was going on.
"What? What is that?" Becca said and Heather glared and stood in front of Naya
"Don't you dare play dumb with me now! Fucking explain!" Heather yelled and she winced from the noise.
"Ugh, it's not a big deal!" Becca said and Heather stepped in front of her and bent down. Amber and Vanessa came a little closer worrying about what she was going to do. Heather grabbed the front of her blouse and stared at her. Naya's face was blank.
"You were screwing with people's lives and emotions so it is a big fucking deal. Talk! Now I have your phone number and your name didn't pop up when you texted or called so get explaining and fast!" Heather says and Naya puts a hand on the middle of Heather's back to remind her that she's there and has her full support.
"I just got a lame disposable burner phone and texted you from that..." Becca said as if it wasn't the shadiest ass thing she could have ever done.
"And you say that so casually, people don't do shit like that Becca!" Heather yelled letting her top go and standing up straight to glare at her. Naya grabs her wife's right arm with both of her hands and leans into her and speaks up for the first time.
"Why Heather? Why us Becca?" Naya asks angrily.
"I like you," Becca says and Heather whips her head to the side to look at Naya.
"Well, I'm married to the love of my life and have a daughter. If that doesn't say taken for God's sake I don't know what does!" Naya said.
"Becca, what was your motive here? What were you expecting to happen from this?" Melissa asks with her arms crossed
Becca groans rubbing her still throbbing head. "I like Naya. She's hot. I guess I hoped if Nays thought you were cheating she would leave you and pay attention to me." Becca admitted and Heather was seeing stars. Naya's eyes went wide and she lunged for Becca but Jenna and Amber held her back. They would've let me go after her if her daughter wasn't right outside but they weren't going to have a brawl in the living room.
"Becca you need to get out of my house. Now." Lea said angrily and Becca got up and crossed her arms. She was still a little wobbly but could at least stand on her own two feet.
"It's like 1:30 am!" Becca countered
"Shit out of luck! You did this yourself!" Diana yelled.
"We will have one of the guys drive you back to your house after that I don't give a shit," Jenna said and went out to fill the guys in.
Chord comes back in with Jenna offering to take her home since it would be too much calling and security shit to deal with to get an Uber in a private neighborhood. None of them were in the mood or wanted to deal with any of that.
Heather takes the burner phone Becca had that she used to text Heather and threw it aside and gave her her actual phone before pointing toward the door.
"Baby..." Naya says and Heather walks over and cups her cheeks.
"I'll be right back beautiful because I need to cuddle both my girls," Heather says causing Becca to roll her eyes which the other girls see. "I love you so damn much," Heather spoke and Naya allowed a single tear to fall and kissed Heather back passionately.
"You could've had another blonde, Naya," Becca said before Naya peeked around Heather and glared at the other blonde.
"Becca, you and I are going to have a little chat, now move it!" Heather said and everyone just knew this wasn't going to be good. Heather was in complete defensive mode and anytime you dare to mess with her wife and daughter, all bets were off.
Becca went out the front door and Heather was right after her, Naya hated the thought of Becca alone with her wife, not for any other reason other than the fact that she didn't know what this girl was going to do. Before Heather left the peeked her head back through the door
"Please get my baby girl back inside now and keep her by Naya." Heather requested and Jenna went out to grab the other guys and Sophia. Naya turned back to face Heather as she beckoned her wife over by curling her finger and her demeanor softened looking at the love of her life. "Me and you, love. I just need to give her a piece of my mind, and then I'm coming back to you and only you." Heather said caressing Naya's cheek and giving her a sweet kiss before kissing her forehead and walking out the door.
The second Heather left, Naya broke down in tears. Vanessa came over and wrapped her in a hug and pretty soon all the girls were surrounding Naya.
Heather walked outside and stared down the girl who just put her wife through hell and made her relive some of the worst moments of her life. She got right in Becca's face as she was leaning against the car and it took everything in Heather not to slap the shit out of her but Heather was better than that, and she wouldn't hit another woman.
"You look me right in the eyes because I am so fucking close to losing it on you. Don't you EVER go near my wife or my daughter again. Do you understand me? I will stop at no lengths to protect my family and your taunting, lies, stares, glances, messages, and everything you tried to do to break us up just came right back in your face. You mess with my wife again and your ass will be handed to the police or I'll handle you myself. Do I make myself clear?" Heather said and Becca nodded slightly before scowling at her just as Chord shut the front door and walked about with his Keys.
"Let's go, Becca." Chord said and they got in the car. Heather watched them drive away before sighing and turning back to walk into the house.
The second Heather walked in the door she saw the girls surrounding her wife who was sobbing and her daughter on the bed still fast asleep. The girls heard the door close softly and lifted their heads from where they were comforting Naya. Naya looked up and Heather was about four feet away but had a sympathetic sweet smile on her face and her arms open. Naya cried and launched into her arms sobbing as she wrapped her arms around her neck and held on with everything she girls were giving Heather heartbreaking looks behind Naya's back and Heather softly shook her head as she cupped the back of Naya's head and tried to give her every ounce of comfort she could muster.
"I'm right here, beautiful. I'm right here. I've got you." Heather said and Naya looked up.
"Please don't ever leave me, please, I can't live without you, Heather. I can't" Naya cried and pleaded. Heather looked directly into her gorgeous brown eyes.
"Never will I leave you. Promise you will never leave me because I need both of my girls. It's you me and our babies against the world, Naya. Forever" Heather spoke softly and Naya cried and held onto her wife as Lea came back to them with a fresh cup of tea.
"Thanks, Lea." They both say with a smile as they all sigh and take their places in the bed. They all get snuggled under the covers but most of them prop their head on their hands so they can continue to talk for a while.
Heather scoots in bed and goes underneath the coverers and pats the spot next to her. Naya hurries and gets under the covers and looks for their daughter who is still in the center of the bed alone. Chris picks her up and walks her over and lays her down between her mom's. Both Naya and Heather look at him and mouth a thank you before they cover themselves and make sure Sophia's blanket and bunny are tucked around her. Naya combs through her daughter's hair softly.
Heather was laying about eight inches higher than Naya so her wife could burrow into her chest and snuggle to feel safe and secure. Within minutes Naya was asleep. Heather was still stroking her hair the way she loved.
"Did she fall asleep?" Jenna asked and Heather nodded.
"She did. Thank you for believing me and having my back." Heather said and they all nodded. Kevin is still feeling bad for even inviting her here and questioning Heather.
"I'm so sorry I brought her." Kevin sighed.
"It sucked and I wish you would have told us but because she was here we heard her phone go off and caught her, that wouldn't have happened if she wasn't here so in that aspect it worked out," Heather says and they all nod. "I feel horrible for my wife. After all, the shit she was put through in her past, to have someone bring that up and take it to make it seem like I would cheat on her is unfathomable. It makes me sick.
"Heather, we all would have gotten to the bottom of this. Everyone knows you'd never do that to Naya." Amber says and they all nod.
"You're the best wife ever Heather, you two are like my relationship gods," Vanessa says making everyone roll their eyes and laugh.
"I just...if anyone ever hurt her..." Heather said looking at Naya who was curled into her along with her daughter.
"You would kick their ass," Harry said and Heather smiled and shook her head.
The crew talk for another twenty minutes before Heather had to get up to go to the bathroom. She very carefully with ninja-like moves, got up without walking her wife and daughter and walked over to the bathroom. The only two that were asleep were Naya and Sophia. The hormone injections made her sleepy too and it was no surprise to Heather that after the day she had combined with all those added hormones that she fell asleep. Heather was in the bathroom when Sophia finally woke up for the first time since falling asleep. She saw her mami sleeping behind her but not Hearher.
"Momma?" Sophia whispered so quietly to herself that nobody could hear her but the second time she said it loud enough which woke Naya up.
"Momma?!" Sophia said looking around and Naya popped her eyes open thinking she was continuing the horrible dream she has been having. Naya say up more and looked around before Diana spoke.
"Girls she went to the bathroom. She will be right back" Diana says just as Heather turned the corner from the hallway and found her wife sitting up her daughter rubbing her eyes, both looking distressed. Heather walks quicker until she's right back next to them.
"Hey, hey! What happened girls? Are you okay?" Heather asks kissing her daughter's head before leaning over cupping the back of her wife's head and bringing her in for a kiss. "Come back down you guys. What happened?" Heather urges as she places a pillow behind Naya to help her feel secure while she wraps the covers around them.
"I wokted (woke) up and you weren't here momma," Sophia said sadly snuggling into Heather and facing her stomach. Heather held her arm out and motioned for Naya to snuggle closer so she was right up against Sophia's back.
"I'm here baby girl. I just had to go to the bathroom." Heather said kissing her daughter's cheek before glancing at her wife. "What about you, love? You look upset..." Heather asked and caressed her wife's cheek.
"I was having a nightmare you could say. I didn't see you and thought that maybe you left me." Naya says shaking her head at the last part somberly. She wipes her tear discreetly and Heather frowns before mourning, never.
Heather wraps her girls in a tight hug and that's exactly where Naya and Sophia remained the rest of the night. Completely safe in the arms of the woman who loved them both more than anything in this world.