Chapter 14….
The buses park at the Target Center in the twin cities. Heather jumps off the bus and goes up to the dancer's bus waiting outside to talk with Naya. The dancers come off one by one but no Naya. Then suddenly Heather starts to hear Naya's voice. She walks to end of the bus so she can wave her over to talk privately. She sees her laughing and talking with Sarah. She is happy that she is taking their breakup so well and decides not to talk to her there was no point.
Later Heather is getting her hair and makeup done and Naya walks in and sits next to her.
"Can we talk?" Naya says and Heather is caught completely off guard.
"Yeah…sure."
"It's not about us it's Ryan he requested that we don't fight on camera because the fans are very affected by it I guess."
Heather nods, "I don't want to fight anymore Nay…I wanted to talk with you actually."
"Heather if it's okay I'm not ready to talk. I thought we could just pretend to be friends. Is that okay? Then after the tour we can go our separate ways."
Heather looks at Naya who seems unaffected by all these words she can't believe these things are so easy for Naya to say. "Sure whatever you want Naya."
Naya gets up and starts talking quietly to herself as she walks away, "It's not like you care anyway you got what you really wanted."
Heather hears Naya mumble but says nothing in response. Naya walks out to the hallway and stands up against the wall and takes a deep breath and stands there plays with her ring. She can't cry anymore from all the pain Heather has put her in she has now been dried up from her tears. Heather walks up to the door and cracks it open to watch Naya from afar. Sarah walks up seeing Naya.
"Hey girl whatcha doing?"
Naya stops playing with the ring and smiles at Sarah. "Nothing just getting ready for the show."
"Yeah I'm disappointed Hemo will be doing the Valerie song tonight I was looking forward to dancing with you again."
Sarah moves closer to Naya and touches Naya's shirt. Naya laughs nervously. Heather watches on with immense jealously. She wants to burst out the door and separate them but she has no right to anymore.
Naya stares of Sarah's hand on her shirt, "I'm sorry, it was fun the other night." Sarah says as she looks into Naya's brown eyes.
"Yeah it was." Sarah moves a little bit closer to Naya and then Dianna comes up and sees the two of them.
"Hey ladies! Naya I need you for a second." Naya walks up Dianna while Sarah leaves.
"What was that all about?" Dianna says to Naya.
Naya who thinks Sarah is just being overly friendly and nothing more. "What was what?"
Dianna laughs, "Are you serious? Is there something you want to tell me?"
Naya still confused looks at Naya, "Okay I have no idea what you are talking about Di."
Dianna decides to drop it maybe she was just assuming something wrong. Naya starts to play with her ring again. "Are you okay? Did you talk with Hemo?"
Naya nods, "Yeah."
"And?" Dianna asks while watching Naya fidget with her ring.
"She seems fine..happy I guess. I asked her if we could pretend to be friends for the rest of the tour. She wanted to talk about us but.."
Dianna interrupts, "that's great how did that go?"
"I told I didn't want too. I don't want her to beg for me back because she will just do the same thing again." Naya starts to play with her ring again and Dianna takes her hand stopping her from fidgeting with it.
"Naya…stop it. Maybe you should take that thing off if you guys are over." Dianna looks at Naya.
"I don't know this ring is all I have left of us."
Dianna looks at Naya knowing this strong front she is showing Heather is just a front. "You have to either move on or else talk with her. It's up to you. I know Heather and she wants to be with you she is just scared shitless. What do you want Naya?"
Naya closes her eyes and pauses, "I…I want to move on." A single tear falls from Naya's dried up eyes.
Dianna smiles at Naya trying to help even though she knows what Naya really wants its Heather. She is the only person that makes her happy. "Okay then I will help you do that Naya."
"Thanks Di."
The two smile and start to walk down the hallway. Then suddenly the door cracks open and Heather is standing there having heard the whole conversation. She watches Naya walkaway in misery from everything she heard. She thinks what was she going to do? How was she going to get her back now? She then sees Naya running back towards her. Heather then runs back to her makeup chair without Naya seeing here at the door. Naya walks in the room Heather thinks maybe she was coming back to confess her love. Naya says nothing to Heather instead to goes over to her backpack and takes her ring off for the first time in a long time and puts it in her bag. She then runs back out of the room. Heather walks up to Naya's bag and takes out Naya's ring and put it on her gold chain around her neck tucking it under her shirt.
The girls bus.
A few days later Naya is still on the dancer's bus all the girls are missing Naya on their bus and trying to think of a plan to convince her to come back. They are all sitting at the table in the bus. Heather is laying her head on the table moping per usual. All the girls know she is completely miserable without Naya but she won't let anyone help her get Naya back. She wants to do it herself this time. The girls are so frustrated by all of this. Lea stands up with excitement.
"Oh oh! I have an idea!" All the girls watch Lea as she grabs a piece of paper and pen and writes down something down. She passes it to Dianna first to read and they pass it around.
"Should I give it to Hemo?" Amber asked Lea.
Heather doesn't move just continues to lay her head on the table. Lea shakes her head. "Na, she will just ruin with her depressed mood the point is to get Naya to come back."
Lea and Dianna run into the bathroom and a few minutes later come out in robes. They stand towards the camera in room and look towards it. Lea turns around and looks at Jenna. "Remember tell us when it's been 15 seconds." Jenna nods at Lea.
Then Lea and Dianna open their robes revealing their underwear and bras. Amber and Jenna laugh hysterically at the girls. Heather lifts her head off the table and sees Lea and Dianna. "Oh my god! What are you guys doing?"
"We are trying to get the cameras in here. And you and Naya kissing isn't an option." Lea says standing there thinking 15 seconds is more like 15 minutes.
"Okay 15." Jenna yells looking at her watch the girls close their robes and give each a high five. Heather rolls her eyes and them and laughs and puts her head back on the table in misery. Jenna and Amber join Dianna and Lea at the camera.
"Okay this song goes out to Naya! We miss you please come back to our bus." The girls then sing acapella their own version of the chorus of Vanessa Carlton's "A thousand miles". Heather lifts her up and watches the girls and smiles softly she then gets up and walks to her bunk.
-Back in the dancers bus Naya is lying in her bunk and gets a text message from her sister. It's just a link of the girls singing the song. She laughs loudly and gets up off her bed instantly and starts to pack her bag. Sarah walks up to her.
"What are you doing?"
Naya looks at Sarah. "I'm getting my things together I'm going to go back to the girls bus on the next stop. I miss them."
Sarah stops Naya from packing her bag. "But Heather is in there."
Naya looks and Sarah and nods. "Yeah I know it will be fine. I just need to be around them. It's been to long I should have never Heather and I's break up come between the girls and me."
"What about us?" Sarah says moving closer towards Naya.
Naya then realizes Dianna was right maybe Sarah. "Sarah, there is no us I'm sorry but I'm not ready for a relationship with anyone right now."
Sarah pulls Naya towards her to kiss her. Naya pushes her away before she is able to kiss her. "What are you still in love with Hemo?"
Naya smiles. "I will always love Hemo, but no I'm not in love with her anymore. I'm just not wanting to date anyone right now." Naya says to get Sarah off of her but who is she kidding she of course was still in love with Heather.
"So you are saying if Hemo snapped out of her bad reality that she is in and made up for everything she did wrong you wouldn't just fall back into her arms?"
Naya stands back and thinks for a moment. "To be honest with you I'm not sure it would have to be a huge change that's all I know. Why are we talking about that anyway? That would never happen."
"No reason just wondering. She doesn't deserve you." Sarah moves back and gets frustrated storming away from Naya. Sarah gets back in her bunk grabbing her phone and texting on it.
Sarah: I made a move on her like you asked.
Heather: Well?
Sarah: She pushed me away.
Heather: Did she say if she still loved me?
Sarah: She said she still loves you but you really got to do a lot to get her back. You really fucked up this time. But she didn't want to kiss me. I say you got a chance Hemo.
Heather: Thanks Sar.
Sarah: Anytime oh a btw she is coming back to your bus.
-Heather's bunk.
She screams, "YES!"
The girls run up to her bunk and see Heather smiling.
"Are you okay Hemo?" Dianna asks.
Heather smiles and nods, "Yea I am now."
Sorry it's taken a while to update. I hope it was worth the wait. I would never give up on this story.
