Miss Cabello

One Word, Four Letters

"I'll be the one who stays for you."

Camila remembered what Lauren had uttered that night. The words coming from Lauren's mouth became her stars in the evening sky, it kept her up, looking at them until she was longer aware humans needed to fall asleep. Lauren's arms were around her, holding her, and all Camila wanted that morning was to wake up to the same touch, wake up to the same face.

If she were to open her eyes to Lauren after she would drift into the realm of sleep, Camila would never hesitate to close her eyes, because she knew Lauren would be there once she would open them.

Camila reached out for one of Lauren's hands that was on her back and sled it upfront. She took her hand and placed it on her chest, where her heart was, where it aches for Lauren the most. Camila did not know if it would mend her, or break her all over again, but it was adequate to her heart's craving.

"Do you feel that, Lo? Can't you feel how much it beats because of you?"

And Lauren woke up just then, and in the sunlight enclosed Camila in a tighter embrace, smiling drowsily at her, but her eyes still closed. "Good morning, Camz." And it melted Camila's heart.

When Camila met Lauren's eyes, she walked in on love with a little bit more certainty to her steps. "Good morning, Lo."

"Lo?" Came Lauren's question with a cute sleepy and confused face.

"Yeah, Lo. It's cute. Suck it up woman." Camila lightly bopped Lauren's nose.

"Okay, okay." Lauren kissed Camila's forehead with a tender smile.

Then Lauren had only noticed that her other hand was pressed above Camila's chest. But she didn't retrieve her hand back, because she felt Camila's skin slowly unwrap itself to reveal her heart. It whispered foreign languages that she still had yet to understand. Every beat manifested a solemn imagery of Camila's emotional passion for her, but still, she had yet to understand.

And now, looking at Camila made Lauren tingly all over, her body, her heart, her very limbs. And they found their faces close once again, their lips now comets that are close enough to collide, but shy enough to pierce the galaxy that was between them. But Camila proved to be a sorcerer's spell as Lauren found herself being coaxed towards her.

She had her eyes on Camila's lips as their noses have now acquainted themselves with each other. Lauren would not deny she was overwhelmed with a strong affection for Camila, she had said words that expressed it. She knew that kind of affection too well. It exceeded the dimension of a platonic one.

Their lips grazed against each other to a slight extent. Their intimate contact was buried under the skin of the Earth, they barely had their lips touching, but they felt the magic of it move like magma, slow but it burned their insides.

But it ended before it could even begin.

Grace, their very own personal interrupter, had once again lived up to her title as she opened the door. Lauren and Camila's heads repelled almost like the same signs of a magnet would, but they still felt the advance of the magma underneath their skins, somewhere near their hearts.

Lauren was about to say something when she noticed the little bundle Grace had in her arms. "It's time for you to meet the baby." Grace came closer to Camila and revealed the baby girl that had remained hidden for the past nine months.

Camila took Luna and held her close to her chest. Her cheeks were white with a splash of red. She smelled of fresh air, and her favorite vanilla scent. This was heaven wrapped up in her daughter. "I love you." Camila looked deeply at her daughter's face.