'Cause You Make Me Feel

Making Her Feel Good

Lena's POV

"Good night mommy, good night, Lena." Mariana says as she kisses her mother's cheek first and then mine after we have read to her and tuck her in. It's not every night that I tuck her in with Stef. Only when she asks, and I love it more than anything.

"Good night baby." Stef and I say at the exact same time making the three of us giggle softly as I look at Stef and smile at her.

I swear to God, that woman... what she did today, I'll never ever forget it. It meant the world to me and that was something I didn't even knew I needed because for the first time ever, it was my birthday, and we not only celebrated it, but I also loved every bit of it.

Stef knew exactly what to do to touch me. She made me not one but four cakes. As if she was trying to make up for all those years when I felt miserable on that same date. She made them herself, and she made them in the shape of my name... it made me feel so special. It's a strange feeling for me, because I always felt special, but it's the first time that I feel it in a positive way...

After getting out of Mariana's room, Stef and I head to the living room and for once we took our shower even before putting Mariana to bed. We did watch a short movie first and... I don't know, we did everything in a different order, and it was nice.

As usual we were going to take our cup of tea before going to bed and probably chat for a while, that taking longer and longer trough the days.

"Green tea tonight, huh?" I say for we ate a lot of cake tonight.

"Definitely." She says as I can tell she's suddenly very tired. First, she's pregnant and that takes a lot out of you, and on top of that today, she spent hours baking only for me which melt my heart, but I also think that she really should slow down and rest a bit more.

"Stef, you're tired. What don't you get in your bed, and I'll bring the tea to you." I say as she looks at me and smile.

"No I'm fine. Don't worry." She says as I sigh for, she's so stubborn.

"I know you're fine. But you are tired, and you did a lot today, and you did it for me. So please, honey... just go in your bed and I'll be right back, hum? Please. I would feel bad otherwise." I say, as she smiles at me still, but this time tenderly and when she looks at me like that... When she smiles at me this way, she doesn't know that she's making me fall in love with her even more than I already am.

"Okay, okay." she gives in as I smile wide at her, and she shakes her head as I go quickly get the tea ready while she slowly gets in her room.

After a few minutes, I get back upstairs and I enter her room, seeing Stef sit up on her bed, in her cute pajamas as she smiles when she sees me.

"Thank you, love." she says gently as she has no idea what it does to me when she calls me like that, when she calls me love, or honey, or baby... it just makes me want to make love to her very bad.

"Thank you for today, Stef. I... you know, usually I have to go to sleep before my ribs stop hurting me, but today... for the first time... it stopped hurting when we were eating the cakes. I felt such release... Thank you for that." I say honestly as she just smiles at me.

"I'm glad Lena. Next time, maybe you'll stay with us the whole day. Mariana asked for you multiple times. She said she didn't want you to spend the whole day alone." Stef says.

"I think now, I... I think something changed today... I think next year I'll... I feel like next year, I won't be in so much pain." I say sincerely.

"That's good." She says now as I see her rub her bare foot a little now.