Almost has soon as it began it ended as Naya's phone began to ring, she wanted to ignore it, but it kept ringing. Never taking her eyes away from Heather she took the phone out of her pocket. "Naya Rivera."
As she held the phone to her ear Heather saw the ring on her finger and finally broke eye contact, casting her gaze toward the ground instead, willing herself not to cry.
"What? Is he hurt? Okay I'll be right there." She hung up the phone. "I'm sorry I have to go." Heather nodded, and without a second thought Naya took off, a part of her was screaming for her to stay, but she couldn't she had to get to him before it was too late.
Heather stood still unable to move, a single tear falling down her cheek. I'm too late, it's too late. She took the sight before her in once more before heading home for a hot cup of tea, and a bath. On second thought a tea wasn't near strong enough.
Hospital
"Hi, I'm looking for James Lafferty?" She was out of breath and trying to focus.
The woman looked at the chart in front of her. "Right this way ma'am." The nurse showed her what room he was in and let her be. She hesitated before knocking, trying to clear all thoughts of the woman she had just come face to face with after 5 long painful years.
"Come in."
Naya opened the door slowly and saw him laying on a bed looking up at the television on the wall. "Jamie." It was almost a whisper, as she seen the cuts and bruises on his face. She walked over and sat beside his bed.
"Hey don't worry I'm fine, I'm going to be fine. The doctors fixed me up, said I'd have to take it a little easier for the next little while. So I guess that means me taking some time off of work, I'm not sure how to do that but it could be fun." Here he was lying in a hospital bed trying to make her feel better.
"Wh, what happened?"
"Car accident, there was black ice on the ground, he obviously didn't see it, lost control of the car." Just then the doctor came in to check up on his patient.
"Mr. Lafferty, how are you feeling?"
"Sore." Was his honest response, and Naya was glad he wasn't trying to be a hero.
"You had some internal bleeding in your abdomen but we took care of it when you first came in. We're going to keep you here tonight, and more than likely tomorrow so we can be sure that you're okay."
It was late so James told Naya to go home and get some rest, but rest was the last thing she knew she'd be getting. James knew about Heather, and he loved Naya anyways, even though a part of him knew that Naya would never love him in that exact same way. She had gone home, but all she did was toss and turn, when she did fall asleep she replayed the scene with Heather in the park.
What are you doing in New York? Why did you look so sad when I left, you didn't love me. I need to find her, I need to talk to her, before I can have a life with James I need closure, and that means asking her why she never got married. Why she didn't love me when I thought we had something special. She thought to herself as she laid in bed aimlessly petting Maurice.
Finally getting fed up Naya looked at the bedside clock and noticed that it was 6 a.m. She got up, took a shower, got dressed and decided to go for some coffee. She walked through the park to the other side, and walked into Serendipity.
Heather hadn't slept all night, and consequently neither did Ashley who had told her that if she didn't find out what was going on with Naya then she'd wonder for the rest of her life like she had for the past 5 years and she'd get the ass kicking of a lifetime the next time Ashley was in town.
Being as sleep deprived as she was she opted for working from home, but needed coffee, lots of coffee and she knew just the place to get it. As she walked into the coffee shop she didn't notice the pair of eyes staring directly at her. She ordered her coffee and sat down with her lap top she hoped the sound of busy people coming and going would keep her mind more on topic than if she were to sit alone in her apartment, thinking about Naya.
She had this feeling like she should look up so she did and after scanning the room for a second she seen calming brown eyes connect with hers. She couldn't do this right now she had to focus on coming up with choreography for her new job. One of the main she reasons she had ventured to New York was because she got a call from Beyonce herself asking her to choreograph her new tour and in the mean time help some of her friends out with videos.
Naya got up, ordered two more coffees and walked behind the girl who was clearly busy. Taking a deep breath she finally spoke. "Can't say hi now?" Wow Ciara. She thought as she seen the header for the email Heather was reading.
Heather jumped as she looked up and watched Naya walk around her table to the empty chair. "May I." Naya had always been the braver of the two, Heather simply nodded not wanting to be rude. She couldn't sit there with her, knowing she had completely moved on, not that she was angry or upset with the girl, she was happy for her but sad for herself knowing she was too late.
Heather continued to type, she took a sip of her coffee without breaking her gaze with the computer. She had her ipod in view on the table, and Naya looked down at it. Reckless One, that's my song what are you doing listening to that? Funny that song is about you, how fitting. Please say something.
Finally Heather closed the lap top and looked at Naya. "Sorry, it's due in less than 24 hours now and I've had other things on my mind besides choreography. I hope your husband is okay, with the way you bolted last night. Oh thank you for the coffee," she took a sip and smiled, just the way she liked it, "just the way I like it, you look good by the way, I mean you look nice." She was rambling again, and she finally shut herself up.
Naya gave a slight chuckle. "You were rambling, means your nervous, you really don't have to be but if it makes you feel any better I'm a little nervous myself. We shouldn't be though right? And thank you, new city new style.." Her comment earned her a small laugh from the other girl. They stared into each other eyes not really knowing what to say, but then Naya's phone rang. "Hello?"
"Hey Jamie…Mmhmm…Okay I'll come pick you up then…Alright, I'll even bring you a coffee…Love you too." She tried to whisper the last part, but the other girl heard it and when she did she looked down immediately.
"I guess I'll, ahh, see you around." Heather stood up quickly, grabbed her stuff and walked out.
Naya sighed at the timing of her phone call, quickly standing up and going after the girl. "Heather wait." Naya waited for the traffic to pass before crossing the road herself. "Heather please wait." She reached for the girl and grabbed her arm lightly turning her around.
The taller girl looked right at her, her eyes piercing her heart. "I just wanted to say sorry about last night. I'm sorry I had to leave so abruptly."
"It was an emergency, I understand but you have to go and I should really get back to the studio and actually work some of this out."
Naya nodded, she didn't want to leave, James was the furthest thing from her mind, she had so many questions she wanted answers to and Heather was walking away. "Why didn't you come after me?" Heather stopped dead in her tracks as Naya closed the space between them. She was standing right behind her. "Why?" It didn't come out angry just sad. Before Heather could open her mouth, Naya's phone rang yet again.
Sighing Naya took the phone out of her pocket, she wanted to throw it across the street. Looking at the number she decided she had to answer. "Naya Rivera…Tell them to deal with it, I can't right now I'm busy. No…just deal with it…I have to pick up James from the hospital…He's fine, he'll be fine, he's tough…Car accident…No he wasn't driving, and no he wasn't drunk…Don't prince and princess me, I will kick your ass so fast…Lea you are a pain in my royal ass…Yes it is royal, I'm talking to someone right now…I'll tell you later…Okay, yeah buh-bye." She said the last part with a laugh before turning back around to face Heather.
"Look you should really get going, wouldn't want James to wait." She tried to swallow the bitterness in her tone but it was evident to Naya, to someone who knew her so well. Heather began to walk away again. This time Naya didn't bother to go after, she was right she had to go and get James. I hate this damn phone, the next time I run into her I'm turning it off. There is no way I can marry James until I know why she didn't get married. Oh shit, she thinks we're already married .What Heather said earlier finally hitting her, she was too enthralled at the time by the other girl to pay attention to detail. Damnit Naya why are you so blonde sometimes. I guess it's going to have to take fate into my own hands.
Later that Night
"Wait she called you and you didn't tell any of us?" Lea asked Jenna as they sat in the smaller girls apartment. Naya was absent because she was taking care of James.
"I mean I know why you didn't tell blabber mouth Lea but me?" Dianna said as she sipped on her wine.
Jenna shook her head. "I didn't know what to say and I didn't know if Heather wanted me to tell all you guys she was living in New York now." Lea and Dianna rolled their eyes but nodded in understanding. "Want to hear the best part of it though?"
Lea smiled devilishly. "Of course."
"You'll never guess where's she living." Both girls through out a few guesses, each of them being wrong. "Naya's old apartment" The ex roommates mouths dropped.
"Seriously?" They said in unison as they watched Jenna nod her head.
"No way, that's impossible." Dianna said finishing the rest of her wine.
Lea laughed. "No, that's serendipity."
The other two looked at her with raised expressions. "You've been in this city for too long." Jenna told her.
"Yeah and you've watched way too many romantic comedies."
"Let's recap shall we?" Lea cleared her throat. "First, we have Naya running into Ashley, then Naya running in Mrs. Morris. Then there's the time Naya thought she saw her but convinced herself it wasn't Heather, only to find out that it probably was. Then they run into each other at the park, today at the café, and now we find out Heather bought Naya's old place. If that's not serendipity or fate I don't know what it is, I don't care if its one or the other, hell I don't care if it's both what matters is it happened."
Jenna smiled and it was a smile that neither Dianna or Lea had ever seen. "That looks mighty similar to you're devilish look Lea." Dianna said as she turned to her friend. Jenna started to nod as her smile grew. She reached for her cell phone and scrolled through the list of people. "What is she up to?" Dianna asked as Lea shrugged.
"Hi Ashley it's Jenna do you have a minute? Awesome I'm here with Di and Lea have you heard about our two star crossed lovers run in?" Over the next hour with Ashley on speaker phone the group of woman came up with a plan, one that they hoped would work. It wasn't necessarily meant to get the two romantically involved but everyone involved knew that at the very least Naya and Heather needed to rekindle their friendship.
"To be honest ladies I think the real reason Heather is in New York is because of Naya. She even told me herself that she was hoping to spontaneously run into her. We'll just help them along." Ashley laughed wickedly before everyone said goodbye.
"Who knew you were such a mastermind Ushkowitiz." Dianna said as she leaned across the coffee table and high fived her friend.
"This is going to be great, I love James but nothing gets in the way of my heya." They all laughed at Lea's comment.
"I mean I don't want to push it, I want to let it happen but it wouldn't hurt to give it a little push." Dianna said as they poured themselves some more wine. If life didn't get the two old friends back together then they'd do it themselves.
To be continued…
A/N: Thank you all so very much for the reviews, not going to lie they definitely made me want to get this out faster. Thanks again for being so absolutely awesome and I hope you liked it.
