“Nothing excuses anyone treating you that way,” she said with a shake of her head. While she knew what Naya was going through due to her ex boyfriend leaving her for Arianna Grande and everything else, it didn’t excuse how she treated Lea. It was obvious to the blonde that she was taking the anger of her break up out on the shorter brunette, but that didn’t make it okay. “I know we weren’t talking, but I wasn’t going to allow anyone to hurt you and use me as a justification.” No matter how angry Dianna was, she never wanted Lea to get hurt. Hearing Ryan’s name as a reason for them to possibly worry about being together made Dianna more angry than she thought it would. She was never one to just explode in anger no matter what she portrayed in television, so she walked away to pace for a moment and try to breathe. “Is Ryan enough for you not to want to be open with me,” she asked with a hint of hurt in her voice. “Lea, he treated me terribly, and I know you’re biased with him, but even you had to see that. I mean, I won’t ask you to do something that might cause a problem in your career. It’s why I didn’t want to come out when we were on the show together, but Lea, would you really be okay if I’m the girl he has a problem with? I’ve read about you with others so it wouldn’t be women that are the issue.” Dianna couldn’t believe that Ryan Murphy could come in between them yet again. She thought she was done with that man, but she knew how close he and Lea were which meant that he would have to deal if he really wanted the woman. She had no idea if Lea was willing to risk anything with him for her. Sure, she had said at the event that she would have left Glee for her and rebuilt her career, but that was years ago. Dianna did stop moving when she heard Lea’s attempt at a joke and turned to face her. She loved that woman, and they both just needed to take the jump together. She was scared to do it before, and now Dianna had to help the other woman overcome it. “That’s true, and I get that it might not be fair for me to ask you to do this for me when I made you wait far too long for me to do it for you, but we have to do things differently in order for this to work.”
Lea had long forgiven the other brunette and it make her a little sad that all that anger had come out in Dianna and Naya’s friendship, especially because all of the girls had been particularly close. For some reason, she had been okay with being Naya’s scapegoat for all those years maybe she was hoping that because she was that person, that Naya treated everyone else better and from what she had seen, that was what had happened. “No, baby, no, I––.” Lea interrupted before hunching back to listen to what Dianna had to say knowing all too well that the pacing she had started was a method to keep her from boiling over in something resembling anger. She was right, Ryan had treated her like crap. Something she couldn’t quite understand why or where it stemmed from because Dianna was wonderful and one of the most kind hearted people she had ever met. It was almost impossible to find a person that didn’t like Di. The blonde wasn’t wrong though, it wouldn’t be because she was a woman, Lea had brought around casual girlfriend around and most of them had gotten his approval, not that Lea brought them to be screened by the director. “What’ve you read, mm?” She asked with a raised eyebrow, teasing her just a little, “If it’s because you’re a woman than I think he needs more help than either of us can even begin to explain but I’m not having him dictate our relationship.” Lea, while she cared what he might say because she respected him, she wasn’t going to throw away this chance. She owed it to them to give them another go at it. Lea stood back up from the stairs, going over to the blonde, wrapping her arms around her waist from behind and she rested her chin on Dianna’s shoulder, “I’m just joking, I can promise you that being out isn’t an issue. I want to let people in.” Lea was quite an open book and while she never really hid her sexuality, she knew that there was questions about that in the beginning her team would shut down, since then, she didn’t get any direct questions about it. ‘Coming out’ wasn’t what Lea would call it because she wasn’t going out of anything and people weren’t really entitled to any explanations instead, she saw it as letting people in. Letting them into a part of her life that she wasn’t ashamed of but just hadn’t gotten the chance to really talk about.