Who Knew

Chapter 3

After almost a full three hours of shopping Lea had finally given in to Dianna's complaining and called it quits. They headed to Dianna's apartment having the workers in the building help with the tree they had bought. Once the tree was up, Lea smiled wide and clapped her hands.

"Now we decorate!"

Dianna collapsed onto her couch with a loud sigh, "Lea you need to give me a minute here."

"What? Why?"

"Why? Because you have been dragging me through the streets of New York for three hours straight. I am exhausted." Dianna kicked off her shoes and smiled as she sunk into the couch.

"Hm, well I'm going to being decorating since your house badly needs it."

"Hey I like how my place looks Okay. No need to insult."

Lea smiled warmly, "Okay I'm sorry. How about this? I'll start putting the lights on the tree and you can put on some good holiday music and get us both a nice glass of wine. Sound good?"

"Wine? Sounds perfect to me." Dianna smiled back and headed into the kitchen to pour two glasses. Before she headed back out to the living room Dianna took a moment to let everything sink in. Just a few weeks ago she was so set on not being near Lea but now she was more than happy to be around the girl. She missed having her best friend, she missed Lea's goofiness and outgoing personality. Maybe this friendship could work, she was excited to see where it will go. She headed back into the living room smiling at the sight of Lea struggling to wrap the bright white lights around the Christmas tree. She walked over to her stereo system and connected her phone. She went to the saved Christmas playlist she had and pressed play smiling wide as Baby It's Cold Outside by Darren and Chris filled her apartment. Lea turned to face Dianna with a wide smile on her face as Dianna handed her a glass of wine and took the lights from her grasp.

"You have our version of this song on your playlist?"

Dianna nodded, "I have every glee Christmas song we ever did on this playlist."

Lea smiled wide as she started placing ornaments on the tree, Dianna set her glass down and began to decorate her fireplace. The afternoon was going great for the two by 7pm the apartment was fully decorated. Lights were hanging from the windows and fireplace, garland was all around and Lea had even bought a can of fake snow and sprayed it all over the tree and window. They sang and laughed all afternoon and now were lounging on the couch watching television with a glass of wine in their hand. What made Dianna happy the most was that there was not one moment of awkwardness between the two. It was like when they first moved in with one another and feelings weren't involved. They were joking around, singing, dancing, just having an amazing time with one another. She didn't expect it to be this easy but it was. They could actually make this friendship work.

"So what are your plans for the holidays?" Dianna lowered the television and sat Indian style on the couch.

Lea shrugged, "Don't know yet. Matt had to go away for some work and won't be back until after New Years. My parents are doing some traveling so they won't be here for Christmas or New Years. I know Jonathan wanted to plan something though so we'll see I guess. How about you?"

"Probably stay here. I'll probably go see my brother on Christmas Eve but Christmas Day and New Years, I have no plans."

"Well if all else fails lets spend it together. What you think?"

Dianna nodded as she took a sip from her glass, "I like the sound of that. I can make my famous Christmas tree sugar cookies."

Lea gasped, "Oh my god! I loved those cookies, I'm telling you you had a gift with baking. Can we make cookies now? Can we?"