Beautiful When You Don't Try

Chapter 81

           

"Come here." Camila said, pulling Lauren into a light kiss as they entered the diva's staging room. "It feels different to kiss you now."

"Does it?" The brunette asked, holding the petite woman in her arms and pecked her lips again.

"It does." The diva assured her. "I don't know how to explain it other than I know you're not going anywhere now. I mean, I knew you weren't before, but the fact that it would take legal action for you to do it now just seems to drive the point home more."

"Oh, I see. What you mean to say is now that you've suckered me into marrying you, I'm stuck unless I get permission to pawn you off on someone else." Camila beamed a smile and nodded her head, running her fingers up and down the back of Lauren's neck. "Well, I guess it's a good thing that I have no intention of giving anyone else the chance to be in this position. You're mine as much as I'm yours."

The two met in another kiss, never pulling apart between caresses of their lips until the heard the click of the camera. They looked over and found Meg and Kim standing in the door way. "I think that one should go on your office wall." Kim stated before embracing the two in congratulatory hugs.

"I think it just may." Lauren agreed as she pulled the camera from the apprentice's hands to look at the display screen.

"Hi. Nice to see you too. Don't worry, I'll just get a hug from your wife since my existence hasn't registered to you yet." Meg teased at the brunette's single track mind before she congratulated Camila. "That camera is totally her other woman."

Camila shook her head. "Her ice cream is. The camera, that's a whole new level. I'm the other woman to the camera. The ice cream is the other woman to me."

Meg mashed her lips and nodded her head. "I forgot about the ice cream."

"Is all the mushy stuff over with?" Ally asked as she appeared in the door way with Normani. The brunette was carrying a good size box in her arms. "Because we have some business to attend to which must be done in private."

"Now before we open this, I just want to say that you have succeeded in completely terrifying me with the mystery." Lauren confessed as she accepted the gift from a bouncing Normani.

"That's good to know, but we didn't do it to scare you. We were looking for another emotion." Ally assured her which only made her more nervous. "Now just open it."

Ally, Normani, Meg, and an already blushing Kim stood around them, Meg with the camera at the ready, as Lauren handed the package to Camila. "Oh, I get to do it?"

The brunette nodded. "If anything pops out, they won't risk you getting mad at them."

The diva arched an eyebrow. "Good to know." Camila slowly undid the ribbon and pulled off the wrapping paper to reveal a plain brown box. "No pictures on the box for hints?"

Ally snickered with an evil tone. "I didn't think they'd be appropriate."

"That doesn't cause me to be nervous at all." Camila teased as she struggled with the tape before she was able to finally open the box.

"Oh my God." Lauren exclaimed before she turned her head away and blushed behind her palm, allowing Meg to snap the picture she was waiting for, then turn back to snap one of Camila's amused smile.

"Now this should keep our two week long honeymoon interesting, Baby." Lauren's jaw dropped and she looked back at Camila, shocked that the brunette wasn't at all embarrassed. "Oh, nipple clamps."

"Camila!"

The room broke out in fits of laughter that had even Kim grabbing at her sides, gasping for air.