Serendipity // Camren

Chapter 56

They were in the middle of cleaning up the breakfast dishes when Lauren's phone rang. Camila glanced over at it, instantly recognizing the tone as belonging to Lauren's publicist, and frowned. She hadn't been aware of anything that would require his attention. "Everything okay?"

Lauren sighed and shook her head. She figured that if he was calling her now, that he hadn't been able to contain those pictures like he'd thought he would. "Let's see," she answered vaguely. She smiled apologetically at Hiram and Leroy as she picked up her phone, and she answered the call right before it went to voicemail. "Hey, Jack."

"Hiya, Lauren. How're things there?"

Lauren glanced over at Camila to see the brunette watching her carefully. She smiled reassuringly at her as she walked over to wrap a light arm around her waist and she brushed a soft kiss over her cheek before she answered, "Things here are perfect."

"So you did it?"

"Yeah," Lauren said, smiling as she felt Camila lean into her. "She said yes."

"Congratulations," Jack replied warmly and Lauren could hear the smile in his voice. He was one of the few people in LA that she considered a friend, and it felt good to be able to share the news with somebody who she knew would be happy for them.

"Thank you. But I'm guessing that's not why you called."

"You'd be right," Jack said, sighing heavily into the phone. "The pics went up last night on a minor site that I hadn't even considered contacting, and after that, it was a free-for-all. There was no reason for the rest of the people I'd talked into holding off to wait any longer if they were already circulating. I'm so sorry, Lauren."

Jack sounded genuinely upset with himself that he'd let her down, and Lauren closed her eyes as she realized that she was going to have to tell Camila about the pictures once she got off the phone. "It's okay," she said, pinching the bridge of her nose to ward off an oncoming headache. "We'll be fine," she assured him.

"Have you told her?"

"Not yet. It wasn't exactly something I wanted to bring up last night. I'll do it just as soon as I get off the phone," Lauren said, and she could feel Camila's eyes on her, boring into her soul and trying to figure out what she was talking about.

"Okay. Good luck with that."

Lauren chuckled darkly. "Thanks. I'm going to need it. Anything else?"

"Statement. Yea or nay?"

"Nay at this point. Let us get our ducks in a row. Camz still has to call Ally, and then we'll figure out what to do. Fair warning though, we're going to be going out this afternoon with Camila's dads and we're doing the full-on tourist thing. So, be prepared."

"Gotcha. Will Camila be wearing her ring?"

Lauren licked her lips and sighed. "I sure hope so."

Sensing that it was time to let his client take care of things on her end, Jack signed-off saying that he would keep an eye on the tabs that afternoon/evening, and Lauren groaned silently as she slipped her phone into her pocket.

"Everything okay, sweetie?" Leroy asked, looking up at Lauren with a concerned expression as he dried the waffle iron that Hiram had just finished cleaning.

Lauren nodded. "Yeah. Jack couldn't contain them," she answered vaguely, knowing that he'd put two-and-two together after everything that had happened the night before.

"Why is it that I think all of you know something I don't?" Camila interjected, her confused gaze flitting between her fathers and her fiancée.

Hiram and Leroy shared a look as Lauren sighed and turned to press a soft kiss to the brunette's forehead.