-Diana's POV-

"She was fired?!" I sit up and Charlie nods.

"Why didn't she tell you?" He asks me and I slump back on the couch rubbing my hands over my face.

"She hasn't told me a lot of things, Charlie. How did you find out?" I ask him.

"My cousin is a sophomore...how do you not remember me telling you that like a billion times?" He asks offended. I stare at the tv as it plays, I look back to Charlie quickly.

"Why was she fired?" I ask. He looks at me before looking away, his mouth twitching weirdly.

"Charlie, tell me." I push his shoulder.

"I love you, Diana but that's not my place—"

"Tell me for god sake!" I raise my voice and he sighs.

"Photos...ones of you too."

"What?"

"Supposedly...my cousins 'friend' sent photos to the principal, I don't know how she got them but she said there's photos of you." He says with a worried look on his face.

"What photos, Charlie?...." I ask and he frowns.

"You."

"Yeah, I know me but...Do...Do I have clothes on?" I feel my face heating up as I look at him, his expression tells me what I need to know.

"She didn't even tell me! Photos of me were sent around and she didn't tell me that!" I shout getting up off the couch as I feel my blood beginning to boil.

"They weren't sent around, only a few people saw and Mrs Daniels—"

I hear the front door opening, it's almost ten o clock. It's my first day home and I'm more stressed than I am at Yale.

"Dar—"

"No, don't darling me—not now, Natalie!" I shout as she walks into the living room, she looks at me confused before looking behind me to Charlie.

"Alright...what's your issue now?"

"My issue? Fuck sake—Fuck you!" I shout, my throat hurting slightly.

"Diana, calm down before you say stuff you're gonna regret, babe." Charlie says coming up behind me.

"Why are you so angry? I came to apologise to you." Natalie reaches for me but I slap her hand away and that catches her attention making her look me right in the eye.

"You got fired, your dad dies and photos of me were leaked...you told me none of this, I found them out myself!" I yell, using my hands as I shout. She breaks the eye contact...she's in the wrong and she knows it.

"Those are things that are up to me to tell you, my dads death—"

"Your dad died, Natalie! My dad left when I was a child because he didn't love me and my mom—"

"Do not do that! Do not compare two completely different things!" Natalie warns me and I scoff. I shut my hands, digging my nails into my palms from the anger that continues boil through my blood.

"You're both going to say something you regret, Diana, you're giving very...negative energy right now...Both of you need to calm down before this shit goes on fire, like seriously I'm beginning to burn up myself." Charlie says putting one of his hands on me and the other on Natalie's chest pushing us back from each other.

"You know what. Sit the hell down on the couch, both of you, beside each other—"

"Charlie, this is—"

"I don't care if it's not my business, you're both going to shout and hurt each other if I leave and you both know which road that will lead you down." Charlie says.

"I don't want to speak to her, she's a—"

"Diana! Would you stop, take a breath and think about what you're saying and who you're saying it about." Charlie raises his voice at me.

Natalie walks over to the couch sitting down, crossing one leg over the other as usual.

"I'm not important to her, she made that clear—"

"You are the most important thing to me in this damn world and you fucking know that, Diana. Do not lie and say you don't." Natalie raises her voice and I glance to her before to Charlie who leans closer to me.

"Sit down, Diana. You might lose her otherwise if you keep saying hurtful stuff." Charlie whispers looking at me.

I huff walking over to the couch, I get a whiff of her perfume as I sit beside her. I move away from her, moving down the couch and she glances to me with a scoff.

"Okay, there's two rules. No calling each other names and no interrupting. Think before you speak." Charlie says, I sit back crossing my arms with another huff.

"Okay...now, Natalie...why didn't you tell Diana about all this stuff, your dad dying, you being fired and the photos?" Charlie asks.

"She's stressed—"

"I'm stressed? S—"

"Do not interrupt me." Natalie looks back at me giving me her warning look. I roll my eyes and Natalie scoffs again.

"Keep doing that, Diana, I swear." She says, glaring at me.. We both know what she means by it. I shift away from her more. Charlie groans.

"Go then." I tell her, my heavy, angry breathing begins to calm down as my heart stops pounding.

"You are stressed with college, I am stressed with other shit. You were hours away, Diana, it's not something I could tell you over the phone. I was going to tell you tomorrow, I didn't want to ruin your first day back especially when you basically cried when you saw me." She says and I roll my eyes looking to the Tv. Charlie picks up the remote turning it off causing the screen to go black and reflect the room instead.

"Okay, good enough reason.... Diana..your turn to speak, remember—"

"I have a right to know if those photos of me got leaked, they are private photos of me, me, Natalie, not you. You told Camila you weren't telling me about your dad because I would be clingy, that hurt me. I'm always clingy to you and I thought that was just our thing—"

"I—"

"Wait your turn, my gosh...You both have no manners." Charlie says with an exaggerated sigh and I see the muscle in Natalies jaw tighten..she doesn't like being told what to do so clearly this is a struggle for her....so is telling the truth it seems.

"You said I was going to keep asking if you were okay, Natalie...If something like that happens, I'm going to need to check in on you. I know that you hate that, but I want to make sure you are okay like you would do to me." I tell her and she looks back at me.

"It's not that I don't like you being clingy, I am going to feel as if you're waiting for me to breakdown. I should have told you about the photos but I wanted to tell you in person and you were so happy when you saw me, I didn't want to ruin that." She says and I search her eyes.

"I'm not like a couples therapist so I don't know what to do next..." Charlie speaks up.

"You still should have told me." I say.

"So, you would rather come home and have all my problems thrown down on you immediately? Or would you rather have a good first day, where I can help you relax like always? Then tomorrow I could tell you and explain what has happened?" She questions and I look away sitting back as Charlie looks from her to me. He mouths 'say you're sorry'.

"Well I don't like having to find it out myself."

"I'll keep that in mind if anything else happens then. I care about you, Diana, I kept it to myself because I thought I would be able to make this day stress free for the both of us."

"I get that...I care about you...Im sorry about your Dad and for calling you an asshole."

"You called me an asshole?" She questions and I look to her.

"...No?" I quickly look to Charlie and he looks away as his eyes widen.

"Well, I..apologise for being dishonest with you." Natalie says and I keep looking at her.

"I'm sorry for everything." I apologise once more and Charlie claps looking back at us.

"Okay...I'm going to leave you two alone to do whatever lesbians do after an argument." Charlie says and I smile slightly looking to him.

"I love you, Charlie. I'll text you later." I say.

"Yup, I love you." I hear him say as he leaves.

"I love you." I tell Natalie, looking back to her.

"I love you, darling." She says, she leans over kissing my forehead as the front door shuts.

"Do you want to take a bath?" I ask since I don't know what else to say. She looks at me nodding.

It's going to be awkward but it's fine...it's not like I shouted at her...or told her to fuck off. I get up and she does too. I glance to her and she looks back at me.

"Come on." She says holding her hand out to me, I smile taking it slowly as I follow her out of the living room and upstairs.

We go through the bedroom to the bathroom in silence, she lets go of my hand as she reaches into the bath which is besides the shower. She begins to run the water and I lean back against the sink as she straightens up.

She looks to me and I look back at her.

"Are you alright?" She questions and I smile.

"I'm the one who should be asking you that." I look up at her as she steps closer, cupping my cheeks followed with a kiss to my forehead again making my heart melt at her soft touch.

"I'm alright." She whispers and I cover her hands, rubbing my thumbs over the back of them.

"I hate when we fight...it makes things awkward like this afterwards." I whisper in response and she hums.

"I know and again, I apologise—"

"No, I don't need an apology, Natalie, I just want to stop thinking about it for a little while." I say wrapping my arms around her waist pulling her closer, she fixes my hair as she wraps her arms around my shoulders.

"Do you want to—"

"No, no sex tonight, I just want to relax and talk with you." I mumble as I know what she's going to say and she nods.

"Sounds like a plan then. The bath is going to overflow if you don't let me go though." She says and I smile letting her go. She turns around turning off the water.

I pull my shirt over my head as Natalie mixes some soap into the bath moving her hand around the water. I push down my shorts and underwear with a yawn, I am so tired.... I take off my socks as Natalie begins to undress too.

I reach around to unclip my bra and huff. Sometimes they can be difficult.

"Can you unclip my bra?" I ask her, she turns around and I do too, she unclips it before kissing the back of my head.

"Are you tired?" She asks and I nod letting my bra fall, she steps into the bath taking my hands, I follow. Stepping into the warm bubbly water.

We both sit down, Natalie opens her legs as I sit between them, laying back against her chest. My body warms and she runs her hands through my hair like she always does.

We sit in silence for a few minutes, I run my finger up and down the front of her leg as I think.

She told me she's okay, but is she really? I mean, I kind of just got mad earlier and shouted instead of asking is she okay after everything first...

She just lost her dad and instead of asking her is she okay, I got mad because she called me clingy and didn't want to be asked...but I still should have, I know she wasn't close with him but she just never speaks about her family only her mom and Carson on the rare occasion. I mean last Christmas we went over to Janes for awhile, we didn't see any of her family.

"May I ask a question?" She finally speaks up and I think for a second.

"Yeah." I say, unsure of what she might ask.

"It's a serious question."

"Ask me." I say quietly.

"If...and I'm just saying if, I popped the question, what would your answer be?" She asks and I freeze for a second.

"Yes—obviously yes." I say sitting up slightly looking back at her, she looks up at me as she lays against the side of the bath. That was unexpected.

"Alright."

"Did you think I would say no?"

"No, I know you would say yes, but I mean if I asked you right now to marry me what your response be? Would you need to think about it since we're doing the whole long distance thing with college?"

"No...Being engaged doesn't mean we have to plan the wedding right away...even though I would like to call you my wife as soon as possible." I smile and she nods.

"Good to know."

"Are you planning on asking me?"

"Honestly, not yet, but I was speaking with my mom about you today and she told me marry you." She says as I turn, sitting facing towards her now. I haven't met her mom yet...We've been together two years but I think she just doesn't speak to her family much.

"What did you say?" I ask. It's good to know her mom likes me without having to meet me.

"I told her I plan to." She smiles looking at me, her eyes glowing...I smile back.

"You really want to me marry me?" I ask and she nods slightly.

"How couldn't I?"

"I have our wedding planned." I say and she furrows her eyebrows.

"I have a Pinterest board of our wedding, there's plenty of roses...in a huge venue...I made a wedding playlist too." I smile widely and she laughs.

"You planned our wedding without me and we're not even engaged yet."

"A red velvet cake since you don't like chocolate cake, the icing will be vanilla because I know you love vanilla icing." I say and she looks at me, listening.

"We will have circle tables, I don't like how the square or rectangle tables look, there must be room to dance, plenty of it too. Then the dj who will play the music—oh, a fall wedding too so we can get really nice photos with pretty leaves and stuff—the theme will be kind of just whites and greens, so lots of flowers, like roses since they're your favourite—on each table and candles, but none on the kids tables incase of a fire or maybe just fake candles everywhere..." I say and she looks at me. I look back at her getting a little nervous incase I've said too much...

"Do you not like it?" I ask and she cups my face pulling me closer, pressing her soft lips to mine, I smile against her lips before she pulls back.

"I love it and I'll make sure it happens." She says and I smile widely.

"Really?"

"Yes, really, what's our first dance song?"

"I have a few options."

"Tell me them." She says.

"There's lot of them..they're on my phone, if you don't want to hear them, it's fine—"

"I'm done with this bath, are you?" She questions and I look at her.

"We just got in."

"I want to hear the songs and you want me to listen to them." She says and I smile, she reads my mind, I'm really convinced of it.

"Baby, I seriously mean there's a lot."

"We have a lot of time, come on. We can listen to some tomorrow too." She stands up getting out of the bath, she holds her hand out to me and I get up smiling.

✺

I play the song, sitting up beside Natalie as she leans up on her elbow listening.

"That's Lana Del Rey, isn't it?" She questions and I nod smiling.

"Again...I know you love her, it's from Maleficent." I say and she nods.

"I liked the last one, what was it called again?"

"Um...A thousand years, that kind of sad though." I say...I really like this, the way we're talking about first dance songs before we're even engaged...But I know she's the only person I want to marry anyway.

"Will I play the next one?" I ask and she nods. I click the next song. 'Enchanted' by Taylor Swift, she looks at my phone before to me.

"Enchanted?"

"Do you know it?"

"Yes, I think so, it's on your playlist?" She questions and I hit her shoulder smiling.

"You listened to the playlist I sent you?" I ask and she nods looking at my phone like it's not a big deal. It's a huge deal.

"You told me you weren't listening to it!" I jump a little and she smiles.

"I typed that while listening to it, I mostly just let it play in the car while I'm driving." She says and I lean over kissing her.

"Okay, next one is a classic and common one but I really like it." I say getting up 'lover', the first dance version.

I put my phone back down and she smiles, biting her thumb as she stares at the sheets of the bed listening.

"Do you like it?"

"I do."

"Seriously?"

"Yes, it's nice." She closes her eyes listening and I smile while looking at her still.

"Stop staring, I can feel you watching me, you weirdo." She opens her eyes pushing me back on the bed and I start laughing.

"Sorry, you're just so beautiful, my eyes locked for a second." I smile sitting up.

"I really like this one." She says and I kneel up.

"Really? Seriously? You're not just saying it because I like it?" I say and she shakes her head.

"No, really, I do like it. Play one more then I'm going to sleep, I'll listen to the rest with you tomorrow." She says and I nod smiling.

"Just hear me out for this one." I say playing 'rule the world' by Take That.

She nods approving as it begins to play.

I smile watching her reaction, her finger taps against the blanket, she glances to me and I smile looking away.

"Why are you looking away?" She laughs and I shrug.

"You make me nervous." I try to stop smiling and she laughs, why do I wheeze when I laugh and her laugh is weirdly attractive?...What did I do to deserve this?

"Everything makes you nervous." She puts her hand on my thigh and my eyes widen.

"Okay—what do you think of the song?" I ask quickly and she nods.

"I like it, I think lover is my favourite." She says and I smile looking at her as I nod. I turn off the music before moving my phone to the nightstand on my side.

"So...you think that will be our first dance song when we get married?" I lift the blanket getting underneath. She looks at me, for a few seconds not saying anything, I smile.

"What?" I ask pulling at the blanket as I search her eyes.

"Nothing, just thinking." She leans up kissing me before I lay down. She reaches over the her nightstand, turning off the lamp.

I lay my head down on her chest as her arm wraps around my shoulder, I tangle my legs with her and she gasps. I lift my head quickly.

"What?" I ask confused.

"Your legs are fucking freezing." She says and I try focus my eyes in the dark but I can't.

"Usually you're the cold one." I say laying my head back down.

"Oh, what a lovely thing to say. Go to sleep." She says and I smile closing my eyes.

"I love you."

"Love you." She says and I lift my head quickly. She starts laughing and I reach over her struggling but eventually turn the lamp back on.

"That's not funny." I look down at her. She keeps laughing blocking her mouth.

"I'm being serious, Natalie. I don't find it funny."  I keep looking at her serious, she looks to me before laughing more.

"Your face...I'm sorry, darling." She keeps laughing as she cups my face kissing me, I don't kiss her back. She drops her head laughing...this is not a laughing matter.

"I'm actually leaving." I huff as she shakes a little from her laughing.

"Alright alright." She lifts her head trying to keep a straight face. She laughs at the stupidest things....I try to keep serious but that just makes her laugh.

"You laughing at my face...hurts, for your information." I say. She smiles rubbing my cheeks with her thumbs.

"I'm not laughing at your face, it's the expression you made, you got so offended." She laughs a little still...

"I'm going to murder you in your sleep." I say.

She reaches over to the lamp turning it off. She lays back down and I slowly lay back on her.

"I love you." She says and I can hear the smile in her voice.

"Love you." I say and she starts laughing again, like a child...I smile as I begin to laugh a little.