Beautiful When You Don't Try

Chapter 51

           

Sunday morning. Lauren woke up cold and pulled the bulky blankets around her shoulders tightly and forced her eyes open. Camila had the thick curtain pulled open along the glass doors and was sitting out on the front terrace. She couldn't wait to get her out door breakfast nook set up and ignored the rigid temperatures. Lauren just laid there for a few minutes watching Camila sip her coffee and look out into the distance, basking in the peace of it all. She was so in love with that woman and seemed to fall further every time she looked at her.

Slowly, as to not draw the diva's attention with her movements, Lauren rolled over and leaned out of bed to reach her camera bag. This was the photo opportunity that she was wanting. She wiggled her way back over to her side of the bed and aimed her lens at Camila. It was perfect. Camila was lost in distant thought, her knees pulled up to her chest, hair blowing slightly in the wind, and the frame of the doors and curtains adding a little texture, blurred in the foreground.

As soon as she had snapped the third picture Camila caught sight of her and covered her face in embarrassment. Lauren smiled adoringly and abandoned the bed, throwing on some boots and a full-length coat before greeting the bashful diva outside.

"Why do you have to do that when I'm not wearing any makeup?" Camila whined as the brunette kissed her cheek before stealing a sip of her coffee and sitting down at the tiny table next to her.

"Because you don't need to be wearing makeup for me to think you are the most beautiful woman in the world." Camila rolled her eyes and the brunette shuffled her seat closer, resting her head on the diva's shoulder. "There's no point in arguing. I'm right. You're wrong. I win."

"I love your logic, despite the fact, that it is lacking any semblance of the word."

Lauren shrugged tiredly. "You're just mad because you know I'm right."

Camila shook her head before resting it on top of Lauren's, inhaling the light scent of her hair. "So, today is the big day. Are you nervous?"

"...terrified. What if she doesn't like me?"

"She's going to love you, Baby. Who wouldn't? Besides, you're going to have moral support there. I'll be there. Your mom will be there. Hell, thanks to this last-minute work thing you have going on, you'll even have Kim and Meg there."

"Yeah." Lauren sighed and pulled Camila's hand into her lap, sandwiching it between hers. "What about you? Nervous?"

The diva took a deep breath and lifted her head to look down at their hands, intertwining their fingers. "Not really, actually."

"No?"

She shook her head. "No. It's weird because I was terrified up until a few days ago."

"What changed?" Lauren asked as she moved to rest her chin on Camila's shoulder, resting her forehead to the brunette's ear.

"Your mom. I guess...I've always seen Sinu as my only hope at having a mother in my life. Your mom has sort of changed that."

"She loves you like her own...sometimes more."

Both woman laughed at the fact that the statement might actually have some truth in it. The pair had Clara over for the first dinner in their new place and had found themselves in a lover's spat over something they couldn't even remember. It was mostly just Lauren teasing Camila and Camila giving the brunette the cold shoulder to prevent her from laughing at her girlfriend's antics. But Clara didn't catch on to that fact. Instead, the older woman had gotten very upset with her daughter, calling her a bully and was highly disappointed that Lauren hadn't learned from the mistakes she made in high school. The whole thing made Camila feel truly loved and accepted by the woman.