May 16th, 2019
Previously on a Heya Love Story...
"What is your full name?" Heather spats viciously and everyone looks at her. Naya holding her right arm with both of hers while scrunching her eyebrows.
He stays silent and Heather whips her head around to Becca who is still sitting in the back of the courtroom.
"Becca!" Heather yells and she groans walking over. Everyone is baffled at what the hell is going on. Ryan and the older cast have their arms crossed trying to stay away as much as possible but Heather clearly knows something. "Becca, who is this?!" Heather growls and looks between David and Becca. Naya looks between the two as well before Becca throws her arms up in defeat and annoyance.
"He's my brother!" Becca confessed.
"Yes okay, yes! He's my big brother!" Becca said angrily. Everyone's eyes widened in shock at hearing this and Naya went white in the face. So many times this girl had tried to be near her daughter, staring at her or holding her wasted, and come to find out she's the sister of the guy that's made their life a living hell.
"You bitch." Heather spoke viciously while stepping toward the blonde. Of course, now she starts seeing the resemblances between the two. "Don't you ever come near my family ever again! We will be filing a restraining order immediately and if I have to go to more extreme measures I have no problem doing so. Don't test me, Becca. Look out for that restraining order." Heather growls and Becca rolls her eyes making everyone furious that she is seemingly not taking any of this seriously.
"What the hell Becca?" Why would you do that?" Chord says just as pissed at this new revelation and this person so close to this horrible human being was right under their noses this entire time.
"I work with you people, how the hell am I supposed to stay that far away?" Becca asks scoffing and making eye contact with Ryan who has his arms crossed. He hated when people screwed with him and Becca has been nothing but problems since she started on the show. He had enough.
"Don't bother coming back. We will be talking with lawyers and releasing you from your contract for next season. I won't have this kind of behavior and atmosphere on any set that I run. We will be in touch to square away the details of your contract, but don't bother showing up anymore." Ryan finishes and everyone looks at him slightly shocked.
"What?! Why the hell is it automatically me that has to be the one to leave? Why can't they be fired?" Becca asked and Ryan looked at her like she had completely lost her mind. The fact that she was even speaking this way to someone who was technically still her boss until the contracts were dissolved, was unreal and the entire group was staring in complete shock. Heather stopped her glare and moved from in front of Naya to her side and wrapped both arms around her. Naya brought her arms and bent them up to hold onto her wife's arms.
"You know what, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response," Ryan said just as the two guards took David out of the room and Heather glared at him as he did her until he was no longer in the room. Heather along with everyone else just wanted to get the hell out of there.
Heather stepped forward and looked at Becca, as Naya held on to her arm from behind her, those two had never broken their hold since the verdict. "This is your warning, you stay away from my family," Heather said as she blocked Becca with her body as Naya passed and lead her out of the room followed by everyone else.
The limo service that brought them to the courthouse was waiting for them as they came out and so was a large crowd of screaming fans, relentless paparazzi, insistent media, and everyone shouting statements at them trying to get a comment from the couple as they walk down the cement steps of the courthouse. Heather was holding on tightly to her wife making sure she didn't trip with all the commotion around. The older cast members left together in a different vehicle, most likely Ryan's, and they had agreed to come over to Lea's house tomorrow for a little backyard pool party and barbeque to celebrate the big win today.
Heather! Naya! Are you satisfied with the outcome?
Where's Sophia?!
Give us a statement!
Heather! Naya! This way!
The shouting and slurs of words that jumbled together were so annoying and there was no chance that they were going to sit and answer any of them. Plus, who the hell asks where Sophia is? Did anyone really think she would be here today? These people ask the most ridiculous questions...
"Ugh, that was exhausting..." Naya said as she sat in the limo seat with her head leaning back. The seating was set up so everyone was sitting around like a big table and could sit and see each other. It wasn't like rows of seating as normal cars were set up. Heather was seated next to her, of course, and wrapped her arm around her wife's back as Naya leaned into her.
"I am so proud of you, my love. So damn proud of you." Heather said and Naya shed a few tears. She was just overwhelmed by everything, it was a long day. Heather looks at her and notices her tears and wipes them away with her thumb. "You're alright, I've got you. We did it." Heather smiled and Naya nodded leaning into her.
"I can't believe Becca... that's her brother?!" Amber said rubbing her face in complete and utter exhaustion at the amount of emotional mess this day had taken on all of them.
"This day was too goddamn much, Kevin groans shaking his head.
"Did anybody see that coming?" Jenna asked and everyone shook their heads defeatedly
"Hell no, if I did I would have done something more a hell of a lot sooner. Now that I know I can certainly see they were cut from the same cloth. Unreal..." Heather says angrily and massages her wife's head with the hand that's behind her and the other is squeezing her thigh which instantly calms Naya. Yolanda and Antonio look over and are so incredibly grateful for their daughter-in-law for everything she has done for their daughter. They can see the peace in Naya's face as she simply lays in the presence of her wife.
"I'm so proud of both of you girls, I'm just hoping I don't have nightmares from watching that video. Naya, sweetheart, all I can say is thank God you are okay, honey." Susan sighs and Naya reaches over and grabs her hand before letting it go.
"Thank you, Susan, it was a rough road there is no doubt about that and I still feel the lingering effects from my injuries but it's all getting better, and hopefully that part of our life we can start to put behind us," Naya says as she hums in contentment while Heather treats her like the queen she always does. Naya always feels so loved by her wife.
"I don't know about any of you but I'm having a damn glass of wine tonight..." Diana said and everyone laughed and nodded in agreement.
"I'll probably break out the beer instead of wine but that definitely sounds relaxing," Andrew said with a smile.
Yolanda looks over at Lea with a slightly concerned look, "Lea, sweetheart, are you sure it's okay for us all to stay? I don't want you to feel like your home is always being invaded by so many people." Yolanda says worried that Lea is just trying to be nice but even she knows that so many people in your home all the time can be overwhelming. Lea looks at her with a smile.
"I honestly wouldn't have it any other way. If it were my choice they'd all stay for good." Lea says and Heather looks at her with narrowed eyes.
"Don't tell Sophia that because she will pack a suitcase faster than you can name the top five Broadway plays of all time," Heather said and Lea looks at her with an eyebrow raised.
"I can literally do that in five seconds..." Lea said
"Exactly..." Heather replied and everyone laughed. That little girl can pack fast.
It was just after 5:30 pm when the Limo pulled up outside on the street in front of Lea's house. Lea got out first and entered the gate code and they all got out and walked through before the driver look off and she closed the gate once again. They were all exhausted and so ready for a drink and relaxation. Everybody figured they would most likely be in bed earlier tonight.
Yolanda, Andrew, Antonio, and Susan were the first to walk in and saw the four occupants on the couch cuddled in a blanket watching Sleeping Beauty. The older adults smile and see Sophia completely infatuated with the movie until Andrew speaks up and she whips her head around.
"Pause it Kiki! Grandpa!" Sophia says scrambling up off the couch trying to untangle herself from the fleece blankets that were draped over her. Nickayla pauses the movie while Ashley holds her waist making sure she doesn't fall and faceplant. Andrew smiles and lifts her when she jumps up into his arms, she goes on to hug each of her grandparents and squeals as the rest of them come in one after the other chatting with each other until they hear her squeals and they turn around to greet her!
"Soph!" Chord says lifting her and hugging her as she once again goes down the line making sure to give everyone a great big hug. Heather and Naya walk in talking to each other until they spot their daughter in Jenna's arms and she screeches the moment she sees her mothers and reaches out for them. Naya holds out her arms and the little girl is transferred into her arms and wraps an arm around Naya's neck and holds out the other for Heather who bends down and allows Sophia to wrap her little arm around her.
"Hi, my little love!" Heather said happily. After this rough and trying day, seeing her daughter is exactly what she needed.
"You won! You Won!" Sophia said leaning back to see their faces and they nod with big smiles.
"We did, baby girl! The bad guy is put away and guess what else?" Heather said and Sophia looked at her with big eyes.
"What momma?!" Sophia said with a huge smile and bright blue eyes making Heather and Naya melt where they stood
"Becca won't be there anymore either, she did some naughty things and so you won't have to be around her anymore," Heather said to the little girl who widens her eyes and looks at Naya for confirmation
"Really mami?!" Sophia said and everyone smiled, they didn't know what her reaction would be but they knew Sophia never cared for her and Sophia liked everyone unless they gave her a reason not to. Becca never got a nickname as everyone else gets and Sophia was always extremely uncomfortable being around her.
"Really, really! How do you feel about that baby girl?" Naya asked and Sophia looked at her mommies as Naya continued to hold her.
"It makes my heart super happy. She stared a lot and it was scary." Sophia confessed and Heather wanted to scream and yell at the girl all over again for doing anything that would make a four-year-old so uncomfortable.
"Well, it should be so much better now baby girl!" Heather said as she tucked a piece of her long dark hair behind her ear. Everyone starts shuffling in and putting their stuff down and going to the bedrooms to change and wash up so they can relax the rest of the night.
Heather, Naya, and Sophia are still standing in the entry and suddenly Sophia's eye goes wide and she looks like she's panicking a little.
"Soph? Baby, what is it?" Naya asked bending back slightly to get a good look at her daughter. Naya is holding her daughter so her little legs are wrapped around her mami's waist and their chests are together. Heather leaned closer and caressed the back of her head soothingly.
"You okay, little love?" Heather asks and watches Sophia look around before whispering since there were a couple of people in the room.
"I'm not hurting my baby brother or sister am I?" Sophia whispers so quietly they barely heard it but they did. Sophia is looking down with a worried look and wiggles out of Naya's embrace and holds her arms out for Heather who places her on her left hip and smiles.
"Oh no baby girl, if there is a little baby inside there, they are just fine, don't worry but remember sweetheart, there may not be a baby in there yet but we will talk about that more later, okay?" Naya assures and Sophia subtly nods. Heather can see how much this little girl wants this.
"Hey, honey," Heather says and Sophia looks up as her momma whispers. "Sometimes it just takes a little while to make a little baby but we will give you a baby brother or sister, okay, beautiful. You don't worry." Heather smiles and Sophia smiles back and hugs them both.
"I love you mommies," Sophia mumbles as Susan and Yolanda enter the room and give Heather and Naya adoring faces with their hands coming over their hearts witnessing the sweet moment. The girls smile over at them as they continue to hug and love their precious little girl.
It was just after 8:30 pm and they had spent the evening relaxing, enjoying a glass of wine or two, and hanging out on the back patio enjoying the nice evening.
"Has anyone seen Sophia and Chris in a while?" Naya asks and everyone looks around not recalling seeing the two for a while. Heather gets up and starts looking around before going into the house and Naya quickly scoots her chair back and picks up her glass to walk inside the house through the patio door to find their daughter and her uncle. They are immediately met with the sound of pouring rain and hear a humming sound as they get closer to the large setup of beds in the living room.
"What the..." Heather says and stops in her tracks making Naya bump into her lightly. Good thing she set her wine down on the counter. Naya was about to ask what happened but she peeked around her wife and opened her mouth.
The two missing persons were laying in the middle of the setup of beds on their backs in their pajamas and fluffy white robs and matching slippers. They had cucumbers over their eyes and both Heather and Naya could smell the lavender oil. Naya runs out quietly to grab everyone and motions for them all to be quiet as they come back inside. They all go over to where Heather is already standing and look over at the two divas on the beds. Yolanda, Andrew, Antonio, and Susan were all amused and taking pictures. This was ridiculous but brilliant at the same time and they couldn't keep their quiet chuckles to themselves. They were suddenly broken out of their thoughts when a little voice sounded throughout the room.
"It is really hard to mettetate (meditate) when everyone's watchin'" Sophia sighs and Chris takes the cucumbers off his eyes and looks at Soph and then over at the twenty people staring at them.
"May we help you...?" Chris said and Sophia never took the cucumbers off of her eyes and just laid there. The group pointed at her and giggled because those two were so damn extra.
"You two are ridiculous. We should have known this is what you would be doing when the two of you disappear together." Heather says with her arms crossed.
"It's been a long day..." Sophia sighed and the entire room snorted out a laugh and shook their head at her dramatics.
"How was your day hard Soph?" Naya asks while holding back her giggle just long enough to be able to say those few words. Sophia, still not lifting her head answers her mami.
"I had to watch Kiki and Ashley all by myself. It's just too hard... can I turn on my rain sounds again?" Sophia groaned and everybody had their hands over their mouths and a few ran back out to the backyard before bursting into a fit of giggles. Naya and Heather looked at the two as Chris pressed play on their rain white noise and both girls shook their heads before Heather held out a hand for her wife looking back one more time as they went back outside.
The second they closed the patio door they all started laughing.
"Sophia is the best thing ever..." Darren says as he stands next to Chris and offers to refill his wine. Heather looks over at them with a smile because Sophia was the best thing in the world along with her wife.
May 17th, 2019
The group was right in that they all fell asleep very early compared to what they normally do when they are all together. Everyone was sound asleep by 9:30 or 10:00 pm at the very latest. They all needed the rest too so none of them were complaining.
It was morning and the early risers were in the kitchen having coffee and talking quietly. Yolanda and Susan were whipping up some pancake batter to throw on the griddle as each person woke up so they rather than have stale pancakes for the later crowd. So far the early risers consisted of Susan, Yolanda, Antonio, Andrew, Chris, Lea, Darren, and Mychal.
"Wow, ladies, that smells amazing! What's cooking over here?" Darren asks with a smile as he gets a whiff of whatever breakfast aroma is coming from near the stovetop. The older women turn around and look at the handsome and polite dark-haired man behind them.
"Well good morning! We have pancake batter ready to make whenever each person wakes up. Lea honey if you want to grab that bowl of fresh fruit out of the refrigerator and people can pick at that while they have their coffee." Yolanda says and Lea smiles getting up from her seat on the island and opening the fridge to grab the gigantic bowl of fruit and twisting around to set it on the table.
"Well, it all looks divine," Darren says as he grabs one of the coffee mugs in the cabinet and pours himself a cup of coffee, opting to add some caramel macchiato coffee creamer before taking a seat at the table.
"Why don't you let me make breakfast you two?! You're guests here!" Lea says starting to get up but Susan turned and pointed to the seat.
"You aren't making our food on top of having us all here. Nice try though kiddo!" Susan smiles and Lea rolls her eyes. It was hard for her to relinquish control.
An hour later by 8:00 am, the morning crew had finished their breakfast and a couple more stragglers had woken up and the only ones still asleep here were Naya, Sophia, Nickayla, Vanessa, and Diana. Not a single person was surprised about that either.
The group was all in the kitchen talking amongst each other about the fun pool party and barbeque they had planned, luckily they all mentioned hanging out here the day after the trial which was today, Saturday, and so everyone brought their swimsuits. After the stressful day yesterday and all the drama and surprises with Becca, today was going to be the biggest welcome relief.
"What time did you tell the others to come over?" Jenna asked referring to the older cast members.
"I said we will be out there lounging all day and they can come over whenever. I said anytime after 11:00 am though." Lea said and everyone nodded.
"Well hi, Nessa." Amber laughed and the others turned to see a groggy light-haired brunette approaching the island where everyone was seated around. They all laugh because she looks half asleep still.
"How are you standing upright half asleep?" Harry chuckles while looking over at the girl.
"I don't know...google it." Vanessa shrugs making them all giggle as she sauntered over to the coffee pouring herself a cup just as Diana walked in.
"Wow, they're all coming alive!" Melissa joked and Diana sent a playful glare her way and headed over to the coffee pot.
"Would you like some pancakes, sweethearts?" Susan asked and they both nodded with smiles before giving her a side hug with their coffees still in hand.
"Sounds delicious! Thank you!" Diana says finally waking up a little bit. Heather giggles and shakes her head taking a sip of her coffee. Chord pointed behind Heather who turned around and saw Nickayla and Naya coming towards the table. An instant smile came across Heather's face at the sight of her wife, this gorgeous woman who might have a tiny baby inside of her. Maybe. six more days until they can take a test to find out for sure.
Heather turned so the chair swiveled to face Naya who wasn't even close to awake yet and Heather knew this so all the did was pat her lap and hold out her arms. Naya managed a small smile and Heather helped her make the tiny jump to her lap before she sat across Heather's thighs and laid on her shoulder. Heather starts messaging her head and kissing her over and over before taking her arm and wrapping one around her back and her arm while her right one wrapped in front of her inspection and around her hip so Naya was completely secure in her arms.
"Naya sweetheart, do you want breakfast?" Yolanda asks looking back towards the group and Heather looks down and sees her wife sound asleep once again. She must have been exhausted.
"She's asleep, Yolanda. She will likely eat with Soph when she wakes up." Heather says with a smile as Yolanda walks over to see for herself and shakes her head at the image of her daughter all curled up in her wife's lap.
"Hemo do you want me to take her back to the bed for you?" Mychal asked and Heather smiled shaking her head.
"No way. This is perfect." Heather smiles massaging her wife's head and kissing her forehead lovingly. "I love you so much, beautiful," Heather spoke wanting so desperately to speak and lay her hand on this little hopefully baby, but with all these people that's a sure-fire way to let out a secret.
"You two are something else, Hemo," Melissa says with a smile and Heather sends her one back in return.
"Mommamiwheeou? (momma? Mami? Where are you)" Sophia mumbles incoherently as she stumbles tiredly to the island holding her blankie and bunny. Heather swivels the chair and smiles widely at her baby girl.
"We are right here, beautiful," Heather replies and she turns to Mychal and smiles. "Mike, can you grab her and lift her so she can snuggle with us?" Heather asked and Mychal set his coffee cup down and walked around the table to scoop up a barely awake little girl as Heather instructs him to lay her across Naya's thighs so she's facing her mami that way Hearher can wrap an arm around both of their backs and pull them close. Mychal tucks her blanket around her along with her bunny before going back to his seat as everyone stares on and shakes her head.
"Seriously Hemo..." Kevin laughs and Heather looks up confused.
"What?" Heather says genuinely curious making them laugh and motion down to her girls. "I know they are gorgeous, why are you pointing at them?" Heather says looking back up at the group.
"You are so damn whipped Heather..." Chord says and they all practically nod and Heather just rolls her eyes.
"Ma!" Heather says just loud enough for her to hear. When she and Yolanda glance over their hands go to their hearts and see both black-haired girls asleep in Heather's lap. "Tell them I'm not whipped..." Heather says sternly and Yolanda smiles and Susan raises an eyebrow.
"Yeah, yeah, sure honey, you're not whipped...and water isn't wet..." Susan says before going back to the stove and Yolanda puffs out a laugh before joining her partner in crime in the kitchen. Heather groans and everyone laughs.
By 11:30 pm everyone was outside and several people were hopping in the pool which was seriously like a bathtub it was so warm. it was only slightly cooler than lukewarm room temperature water which made it so pleasant to swim in. The older cast members and Ryan had just arrived and were in a standing group chat with Andrew, Yolanda, Susan, and Antonio over by the olive tree. While the older adults are talking the younger crowd is pretty much gathered around the pool. Naya is on a floating lounger but forgot to grab a water bottle but she's too damn comfortable to go anywhere. She's in a black bikini with her hair pulled up into a high messy bun. Heather was practically drooling it was so damn sexy. She had a magazine in her lap as she flipped through the pages, her black reading glasses also in place.
"Heather..." Jenna said but Heather just stood there from inside looking out the patio door that was closed. "Heather!" Jenna and Vanessa said together before she turned around. "What? Did something happen?" Heather said and the two girls shake their heads.
"What's this about you not being whipped, Heather..." Vanessa jokes and Heather sticks up her middle finger making the girls laugh before the two walk outside while Heather finishes cutting up the last of the fruit to bring out there. Lea was doing it but Heather offered to give her and the moms a break as well since they usually do the cooking.
Meanwhile, Sophia is outside kicking a beachball around in her lemon swimsuit with the yellow ruffles on the curve of the hips and her hair is also in a high messy bun, talk about a Naya clone. Sophia approaches the older adults who were lounging and talking about boring adult topics when Sophia pointed to the cooler that her grandpa was sitting on.
"Grandpa, I need bottled water please," Sophia said politely and Jayma, Matt, and Jane all looked at her. God, she was an adorable child. Andrew smiled and stood up and opened the latch to the cooler before shuffling his hand around the different beverages and ice to search for water which is finally found and dried the bottle off with a towel. "Are you thirsty pumpkin?" Andrew asked and Sophia shook her head taking the bottle from her grandpa.
"No, I want to give it to my mami because I think she forgot one and I don't want her to be thirsty...and..." Sophia stops herself before she almost said she doesn't want the baby to be thirsty either. Sophia just shrugs and the group looks like they just want to scoop this little girl up. Jayma has always adored her and Sophia loves when she comes to set, She is such a sweet and soft-spoken woman.
"You are a sweetheart, honey, you're such a good little girl," Yolanda says and Sophia gets a proud smile on her face before waving and turning on her heels and heading towards the pool.
Sophia walks over to the pool and Naya doesn't see her because she's reading an article but Sophia walks into the pool and sits on the first step so she's barely in the water. She knows she's not allowed in the pool without her jacket so she doesn't go any farther.
"Mami!" Sophia yells and Naya looks up and nearly dies seeing her daughter in the water but realizes she waiting on the step. From the corner of her eye, it looked as if she was actually in the pool and Naya had to slow down her heart rate.
"Hi, baby girl." Naya smiles from the middle of the pool where she was floating. "What's up, honey?" Naya asked and used her hand as a makeshift paddle to try and get closer to her daughter.
"I brought you water because you didn't have one and I don't want you to be thirsty," Sophia says sweetly and Naya swears she was the luckiest mother and wife in the world. Naya finally makes her way over to the pool steps and Sophia hands over the water with a smile and she leans in so only her mami can hear. "I love you," Sophia said before standing on the step and Naya instantly put her hand on her hip to make sure she doesn't fall. She surprises Naya by placing a kiss on her cheek and then sitting back down on the top step. Naya tosses the magazine on the side of the tool and slides off the founder. Diana, Melissa, and Amber are on the other side of the pool in the water chatting.
Naya walks in the shallower water that does up to her stomach when she stands and walks over to the step and put her arms out for her daughter who smiles and stands accepting her mami's outstretched hand and attaching herself to her mom like a koala bear. They were staying in the shallow water and Sophia was in her mother's arms so it was okay. The minute they go any deeper they have to put a life jacket on her.
Naya casually walks and bops around with her daughter as they giggle and give each other kisses just as the other three girls swim over with their drinks and Sophia smiles when she sees her aunties.
"I'm swimming with mami!" Sophia says hugging her mami around the neck with a smile. She loved her moms so much. Come swim with us!" Sophia said and the girls looked on adoringly because Sophia was just too adorable for words, especially in her little lemon swimsuit and messy bun.
"You guys are twinning!" Melissa says sweetly noting their matching hair and Sophia smiled proudly and nodded.
"Yep! I love my mami's and they made me! I have my mami's hair and my momma's blue eyes!" Sophia said and Melissa looked on adoringly but confused. They all realized that she hasn't been around very long and doesn't know that Sophia is biologically both her and Heather. Melissa must have thought she was Naya's biological and they got a donor that looked like Heather to get the blue eyes.
"Oh is this storytime." Diana giggles taking a sip of her cold water and Melissa gives her a confused smile.
"What's going on?" Melissa asks curiously and Naya turns her head towards Melissa while her daughter is laying her head on her chest just relaxing and soaking in the feeling of being in her mother's arms.
"We did egg fusion, Mel," Naya says and Melissa looks totally confused. She is clearly not aware of that process.
"Sorry, maybe I'm extremely uneducated when it comes to this but what is egg fusion?" Melissa asks innocently looking at her water on the side of the pool and taking a sip before setting the glass back down and looking at Naya once again. She looks genuinely intrigued and Naya smiles.
"They combine both mine and Heather's eggs and fertilize them with the donor making the baby equally and genetically both of ours. Neither I nor Heather has a higher percentage of her genetics. Sophia is 50/50 us and the other half is the donor." Naya explains and Melissa's eyes widen making the girls giggle.
"Woah, I honestly didn't even know that was a thing," Melissa said shaking her head. "But then I look at her now and of course those eyes and personality are Hemo. And her dancing..." Melissa says making the others chuckle. "Yeah, how I didn't see it before, I don't know. It's just not a question you ask people, but she had way too many Hemo characteristics for there not to be some genetics in there." Melissa says shaking her head with a smile and Sophia smiles from where she's laying on Naya's chest.
"Soph, honey, you almost look like you could fall asleep," Naya says and Sophia shakes her head.
"No, not yet mami, I'm just cuddling because I love you." Sophia mumbles and Naya blushes and kisses the top of her head.
"What kind of four-year-old just says that sweetness to their mami? Normally kids at this age are snotty brats..." Diana said making the group nod just as Heather comes out in her light blue-colored swimsuit. Heather places a pitcher of ice tea down by the pool and sits on the edge dipping her feet in. Jenna and Lea came out with her and stepped down the steps of the pool and into the water with the rest of them. Heather was just finishing up a few pieces of fruit before she came in too. Sophia spotted the others and turned and squealed when she saw Heather. Heather giggled and Naya held her daughter as she told her how to kick and swim over to her momma. Sophia was still learning and could swim very well with a life jacket and in the late summer into early fall she would be starting swimming lessons.
"Good girl!" Heather encouraged as she lifted her long legs out and Sophia grabbed on when she was close enough and Naya let her go once Heather had a hold on her. Heather turned Sophia around so Sophia was sitting on her feet while leaning her back against her legs like she was sitting in a chair. Her head was laying right where her knees were. Sophia giggled because she was sitting in a chair in the pool! Heather would bring her legs up and down slowly almost as if she was rocking. Naya and the girls shook their heads and started back in on their conversation.
It was only about two minutes later and Heather had finished her fruit bowl when Naya looked back over and snorted out a laugh which immediately got the other girls' attention and she pointed at Sophia who was fast asleep. Heather looked at all of them curiously.
"What?" Heather said looking around
"She's asleep..." Naya laughed and Heather leaned over but she couldn't see. Finally, she lifted her legs because she was so strong and she was able to bend over to see that her daughter was fast asleep. Jenna and Diana waved the older crowd over along with the guys because they had to see this.
"Soph's new napping place..." Diana giggled as they approached. They all laughed and had a hand over their mouth to keep their laughs quiet enough
"Seriously..." Chris says with a laugh and takes a picture along with several others
"She's like Bee, falls asleep anywhere," Kevin says and Naya glares
"Shut up," Naya says before gently lifting Sophia off Heather's lounge chair legs. Sophia's head pops up instantly
"Momma!" Sophia says and Heather puts her glass of ice tea down and slips into the water and turns her ponytail into a high bun to keep it out of the water before Naya hands over their daughter to her wife and Sophia instantly looks up puckering her lips making Heather smile and lean forward to place a little kiss on her lips before she lays her head against her chest and falls back asleep. Naya walks over and leans on Heather's shoulder and just snuggles into Heather's side.
"Oh, by the way, baby, Sophia brought up that she was half yours and half mine that's why she has my hair and your eyes, well Melissa was confused and so now she knows," Naya explained not wanting Heather to feel out of the loop but she just smiled and kissed her daughter.
"Little bit of a shocker?" Heather giggled and Melissa looked at her with a smile.
"I mean yes, absolutely, but now I look at you two like that and I'm like...DUH!" Melissa said shaking her head making the other girls laugh and nod. Now I just notice everything a little more than I did before." Melissa said taking a sip of her ice tea and the girls smiled.
The girls spent the next hour just chatting about mindless things and Sophia took her entire nap in Heather's arms in the pool. All the girls could tell Heather was in momma heaven.
By 5:00 pm the group was starting to grill and prepare supper. The entire day had been lounging, relaxing, napping, and just enjoying doing absolutely nothing. The guys wanted to do some grilling and Lea permitted them to cook the meat as long as they kept it away from her but they were outside so that helped. The boys ended up grilling hamburgers, and hot dogs, and they also head potatoes and several pasta side dishes.
The younger cast of girls were all sitting under the olive tree on the large beach mat that fits everyone. The older crowd was on the outdoor furniture that surrounded the firepit chatting about the latest world happenings. The guys were close by in their gathering spot by the pool. Sophia got up off the mat after popping a blueberry in her mouth and tugged on Antonio's shorts. He looked down at her as she turned the hot dogs.
"Abuelo, hot dogs aren't actually dogs, right?" Sophia asked worriedly and Abuelo smiled and shook his head.
"Nope, they sure aren't Mija," Antonio says and Sophia puts her hand on her chest in relief before nodding and going back to the mat. She could relax once again. Naya and Heather giggle as she comes back to the mat. The guys start walking over making the girls look up.
"We just realized something..." Harry said making the girls continue to look up in question.
"We never let Sophia draw where we were going to go for our summer trip. It's coming up and we have no idea where we are going. We need to get a place reserved and ticket's booked." Chris said and Sophia's eye's widened and she clapped excitedly making the girls smile and then realize that they haven't decided anything about this trip.
"Man, you're right, I'll go in the house and grab some paper and a bowl and we can all write down and put our choices in for her to choose," Vanessa said starting to walk across the yard and Sophia jumped up.
"Wait for me! I got little legs!" Sophia says until Vanessa stops and holds her hand out for her niece and the two make their way into the house the group smile and turn back to each other on the mat.
"I can't believe we forgot!" Harry said shaking his head.
"I know. I guess we have had some shit to deal with since we originally made the plans..." Naya said shaking her head. Wasn't that the truth...
"You've been through hell and back, Naya, you deserve this..." Amber said and Naya sighed leaning against Heather's shoulder trying to get comfy
"Here, baby," Heather said patting the spot between her now separated legs and Naya shyly blushes and moves in between her legs and leans back. Heather strokes her arms up and down with her fingers and glances up at the group who are smirking at them.
"Yeah, yeah, I know, whipped," Heather says rolling her eyes, pouting, and hugging Naya tighter from behind as the patio door closes and Vanessa comes back with paper, a pen, and Sophia is carrying a plastic mixing bowl with both under it.
"Okay peoples!" Sophia shouts and the younger crowd looks over with amused glances. "I wants to get my tan on..." Sophia says exactly like Naya would and they all open and close their mouths because there is no response to that. Naya looks like she is about to choke on the water she just swallowed.
"My vote is Alaska, let's go sledding!" Kevin jokes and Sophia whips around and glares
"I'll go all Lima Heights!" Sophia said charging at him and he grabs and tickles her making her laugh hysterically. "Beeeeee! Th...this is seeweous (serious)!" Sophia breathes out as Heather and Naya look at their girl with huge smiles and wrap their arms around each other.
Vanessa folds the paper repeatedly before ripping it into slips and passing them around so each person has about a half-inch by two-inch section of paper to write their pick on.
"Ok peoples!" Vanessa states making Sophia smile and the rest of the group giggle, one pick, write it down. Fold it up twice and hold it out so Soph can come around with the bowl and you drop it in...understand?" Vanessa asks and Chord raises an eyebrow.
"Were not idiots..." Chord defended
"Uncle Chordy had to change when he wokted up. Because his taggy on his shirt was in the front..." Sophia giggled and everyone looked over at Chord. Amber shook her head at the blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy next to her.
"You were saying?" Amber laughed as well as the others making Chord glare at them.
"Thanks, kid." Chord groans and Sophia walks over and pats his shoulder
"Just keepin' it real like mami," Sophia says with a shrug and nobody missed the complete bliss-proud-looking Naya on the other side of the large padded mat.
After five minutes the group were starting to fold their pieces of paper and place them in the large white mixing bowl that Sophia was holding.
Once everyone had dropped their suggestion in the bowl everyone gave the go-head for Sophia to do the honors. Naya leaned back against Heather and the blonde wrapped her arms securely around her petite wife.
Sophia looks at both of her moms asking for silent permission to pick one and they both smile and nod at her. Sophia starts spinning her hand around in the bowl making the pieces of paper go round and round and rocking her hips making everyone sit back and giggle at her right as she starts quietly singing in her own little world.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round...
"SOPH!" they all say breaking out in fits of laughter. She looks up confused like she didn't even know she was singing. The adults continue to laugh hysterically.
"Kid grew up on Glee, what do you expect?" Chris said with a shrug making the group smile as they attempt to pull themselves together.
Sophia closes her eyes and picks a piece of paper and brings it to her mommies so they can help her read it.
The girls both smiled when they read the paper or wasn't their handwriting but hell, this place was gorgeous! Naya was dying to get on that white sand beach.
"Well..." Jenna and Amber said together clenching their fists and bringing them under their nose in anticipation.
"Tell them the letters baby, start with the first one," Heather says and Sophia taps her chin.
"C momma!" Sophia said and everyone nods waiting in anticipation for more clues.
"Good baby. What's this one?" Naya says leaning against Heather
"A!" Sophia says and the group tries to start guessing C...A...
Heather points to the next letter.
"B!" like uncle Kevin! Or a bug." Sophia says end they all chuckle but starts to figure this out and get excited.
"Oh my goodness! Is it what I think it is?!" Melissa says bouncing.
"Put them out of their misery baby! What's that one?!" Heather laughs and Sophia smiles
"O!" Sophia claps and stands up to do the Naya dance in the middle of the mat making everyone shake their head and laugh. This kid...
"WE'RE GOING TO CABO!" They all say excitedly!