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Chapter 2

(Naya POV)

The last few years had been...different...to say the least. It's weird, when you lose your best friend you really lose a part of yourself too. After that night Dianna put some distance between us. I can't really blame her, I went about it all the wrong way. I should have shown her I truly cared for her, that I cherished her, instead of just trying to jump her in the night. Plus I found out some months later her and Daniel were expecting a baby. Dianna had quit Glee before the news broke so I had heard it through some of the other cast. I should have called to congratulate her, but my heart ached a little too much so instead I was selfish and just never did.

Despite telling Dianna I was only doing the whole drinking thing and dating Sean because it served as a distraction I continued that distraction for another year or so. I figured the hole Dianna left in my heart could be filled with these others things, that even some form of love and affection would satisfy the void, but I was wrong. It seemed my heart was only content and satisfied when it was Di. I knew I'd have to settle though, since I couldn't have what I truly wanted, and so when Sean proposed I agreed. I figured he'd do right by me and I could have at least some kind of life and happiness. The months proceeding our engagement though Sean sensed my withdrawal from him, from our relationship. When I stopped drinking, and began to get my life back in order, he wasn't at all surprised the day I told him I couldn't go through with the wedding. He was upset, yes, but he expected this was the conclusion I'd eventually come to.

Since then I'd done everything I could to better myself, I figured I deserved it. If I wanted to live life for all that it was worth I'd have to start treating myself with respect. I got my body back into shape, started studying Business through a local college, and made more of an effort to do things that made me happy. Part of my transformation was to stop lusting over Dianna, and the life I had so sorely wanted to be a part of. In the supermarket I'd avoid the trashy magazines with pap shots of the gorgeous blonde, I'd blocked google alerts that had often reminded me of just how well she was doing, and I cried less and less over her absence. It had been so long since there were traces of Dianna in my life that I was shocked when her personalised ringtone rang out across my apartment. I hesitantly picked up the phone from the kitchen counter and my surprise continued to surface as it indeed said Diana was calling me.

"H-hello?" I stuttered out in greeting.

"Hi Naya." After all this time the familiarity of her voice still sent warmth throughout my very being. I didn't need to ask if it was really her, everything in me knew that it was just from those two words.

"How are you?" It seemed like a stupid question but it was the only thing I could think of.

"I'm fine thanks..." her silence made me nervous, she had called me after all so surely there was something she had to say. "...I've missed you."

"I've missed you too Di." There was nothing truer than that. I'd missed her as who I believed was my soulmate, but I also missed her as my friend. I'd do anything to get that back. "How's the little one?"

"We had a boy, Austin, he's two now and growing up everyday. I feel old," she chuckled. That laugh did things to me I didn't care to admit. She could always have the easiest affect over me.

"That would make me just as old," I told her. "Besides, I bet Daniel tells you everyday you're just as beautiful as the day he met you."

There was a deafening silence after that comment. I chastised myself immediately, thinking that calling her beautiful was pushing her away. Her answer though shook me from the self berating.

"Uhh...no...he left."

"WHAT?" I said a little too loudly into the receiver. Maybe if I hadn't given up my slightly stalker ways I'd have known and not have had to put my foot in my mouth.

"Yeah, some time ago now. He said he wasn't ready for the whole marriage and family thing, that he still had living to do."

"That jerk!" I couldn't help myself. Whether or not I was with Dianna I'd still consider her the greatest thing this world had to offer and not in my wildest imagination could I pretend that there wasn't one person who wouldn't want to be her everything.

Dianna laughed, I guess she should have expected as much from me. "It's okay Nay, I've healed since then. Not that it hasn't been hard, especially trying to raise a kid without a father. Umm..." she began, searching for the right words, "I know I called really out of the blue, but ahh this is horrible of me...I need a favour."

I smiled to myself. I was glad Dianna felt like she could still ask for a favour, and that she still trusted me. "Of course Di."

"My friends kind of set me up on some blind date. They've been insisting I need to get back in the game. I've continually said no, but they won't leave me be until I go on at least one."

"Ok..." I was unsure what this had to do with me.

"Well I haven't ever left Austin with anyone that isn't family, but Mom is busy tomorrow night and I don't feel comfortable having just anyone watch him."

"You want me to watch your kid?" Now I was really flabberghasted. No one knew me as a nurturing mother type.

"If you could...I'll pay you of course...I just, you're my only call."

"You don't need to pay me Di. If it means you go out and enjoy yourself I'll do it, I only ever wanted you to be happy."

"You're a godsend. I'll text you my address and you can come around about six tomorrow?"

"Sure blondie. I'll see you then..." I said, not knowing what I'd walk into.