The Hook-up

Chapter 157

The next morning Bruno rolled over half expecting to feel his wife's body next to him. Instead of feeling her body he felt the fur of his dog. "Oh. Hello." He smiled at the do who licked his face. "eww. Get off..." he groaned pushing the dog off the bed. He glanced over to the side of the room seeing the empty space of a bassinet and chair. "Laur?" he asked wandering into the kitchen not sure where he was going to find his wife and newborn daughter. "Lauren?" he asked again walking down the hallway to see Lauren and Everlee in the babies's room. He heard her melodic voice as she talked to Everle about her brother, Ezra. "She's beautiful..." he said handing her a diaper.

"I don't need it. I'm using the cloth ones..." she told him pointing to s bright stripped diaper underneath Everlee.

"Oh. I didn't know we had those." He said confused putting a clean liner in the outter shell of one diaper making a weird face. "Like this?"

"Just like that." Lauren smiled taking the made up diaper putting it next to her. "Now you have the diaper ready for the next change....that is if you're going to be here." She answered.

"I'm going to be here." He answered cleaning up Lauren's mess taking the baby from her.

"I thought you were going to the studio today?" Lauren questioned.

"There are a lot of things I should be doing." He said holding the baby tightly looking into her sleepy eyes. "But it's not as important as spending time with you and your brother." Bruno watched Lauren move slowly to the rocking chair. "Let me take her. You go back to sleep. You've been up too long."

Lauren rolled her eyes holding out her arms. "I have to feed her and then you can have her for two hours."

Bruno kissed Everlee's head handing her to Lauren. "But that's not fair. I can't do that..." he said pointing to her chest.

"Oh hush. You'll have plenty of time with her." Lauren said moving her hand over for Everlee.

"Fine. I'll go make breakfast." He told her turning to face the other side of the room.

"You have a nice butt, Bruno Mars." Lauren smiled as she held her daughter.

"Thanks, mama. You have a hot butt too." He turned to wink at her.

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After a longer than expected nap, Lauren awoke to her alarm stretching out in the empty bed. "Shit. I have to get up." She moaned standing up realizing it was almost noon and that she wasn't sure if Bruno would be able to handle the baby. She grabbed her phone and put her wet hair, from the shower she took before falling asleep again, in a ponytail. She tried to decide where Bruno and Everlee would be hearing music from the other side of the house. Of course that's where she would be. Lauren smiled turning the corner to see Bruno singing a song that she had briefly heard in the studio months ago while sitting next to a bassinet with a sleeping baby next to him. "Do you want me to take her back with me?" she asked stopping at the edge of the room.

"She just fell asleep. She needs the noise." He told her.

"She needs her brother is what she needs." Lauren sighed sliding next to Bruno on the piano bench. "What were you playing?" she asked him. "It sounded familiar."

"I did it with the guitar the last time. But I like it better with the piano..." he said turning around completely enthralled in his music. He played the notes again catching her humming along with him. "Do you like it?" he stopped reaching around to pull her close to him.

"I like everything you do." She said to him reaching for the back of his hair playing with the curls at the base of his neck. "Can you take a break and come with me to see Ezra?" she asked holding onto his hair trying not to lose whatever the moment was that they were having.

"Let me finish this little bit." He said reaching around her to grab a pen writing in a foreign language of music. He let her hold onto him but continued to play the piano and began to start to sing again closing his eyes losing himself in the song. Damnit. She thought seeing him get lost in the notes. She unknowingly sighed with a bit of subconscious frustration catching him off guard as she stood up. "I'm done." He said knowing that it wasn't worth fighting with her at that moment.

"Don't hurry." She said to him knowing that he was trying not to fight with her. "I have to get dressed and get her things." She told him.

She didn't answer him walking out of the room. About an hour later Lauren walked back into the room to see Bruno picking Everlee up to carry her to Lauren who was dressed in a bright orange sundress with her hair in natural curls tied into a side braid with bright white earrings and brown flats. "She needs to eat. Go get ready and then we can go." Lauren instructed her husband.

"Yeah. Okay..." he said to her handing Everlee back to his wife. Oh my god. What is with her fucking mood? He thought to himself going back to the closet to get dressed.