Surprise!

Chapter 13. The Love Tour

The sun rises over the beach as Demi soaks in all of God's presence as the clock changes to six in the morning as she sits out on the balcony of the beach house's bedroom and sips on her ice cold limoncello La Croix.

It's rare that Demi gets a quiet morning, but when she does, she takes in the whole experience.

The kids are away with their grandparents as Demi and Trey wrap up this tour with only two shows left.

The transition has been hard on the parents, the last month has been filled with FaceTime dates and phone calls to check in on the little ones.

Upon sitting and basking in the beautiful sunrise, Demi reflects on recent events that have occurred and smiles to herself as she wraps up her morning prayer.

Life right now is good.

She takes a deep sigh, closes her iPad and wraps her arms around herself.

Trey wakes up to an empty bed, missing his wife's warm embrace and makes his way down to her.

He simply wraps his arms around her and kisses her cheek. Demi relaxes into her husband's arms and plays with his hands.

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"Talking to God about you." She replies as she kisses his strong hands that hold her little ones.

"Good things I hope." He whispers in her ear. She simply nods and concentrates on the waves hitting the shore.

The two stay quiet, wrapped in each others arms and sigh, feeling content in this moment.

"Can you believe we're actually watching the sunrise?" Demi asks. Trey chuckles.

"We always sleep past it. We've been missing out, Dem." Trey presses two sweet kisses to his wife's cheek and his phone rings, signaling a text from Kelsey, pulling them out of their sweet moment.

The couple glance at the text and Demi rolls her eyes. "Go cuddle your girlfriend." Demi partially teases, feeling emotional about having to leave this moment. All that she wants right now is to be cuddled up with her family and go exploring at their private section of the beach, and remain unbothered.

Is that too much to ask?

"I'd rather hug my wife." Trey teases before peppering her face with kisses. She laughs and kisses his lips.

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"Mommy!" Little Layla screams as she joins her mother in her dressing room on tour.

Demi nearly leaps out of her makeup chair and runs over to her daughter, tossing her in the air. She vows not to cry as she has just gotten her makeup done for tonight, she can't ruin it.

"Hi baby!" She screams before squeezing the small child, both of them laughing. Trey comes following the nanny into the room, followed by Dianna with baby Asher.

"Y'all are the best." Demi coos, giving everyone hugs and kisses her sleeping son on his forehead.

Trey picks up Layla who plays with his hair, he kisses her cheek which causes her to push away from him, reaching back for Demi who grabs her, holding her close.

"We came to watch you tonight. I'm leaving the baby with your dad and he'll be in the lobby." Dianna says, rocking sleeping Asher.

"Oh, no, he can come in here. I don't want anyone to photograph Asher or anything. These walls are soundproof." Demi responds as she takes a quick glance in the mirror and makes sure she didn't mess up her makeup.

She rubs her daughter's back and looks into her big brown eyes. "I've missed you so much." She coos to her oldest baby.

A knock comes to her door.