Blake and Gwen made it back to L.A. safely after their time in Nashville. They had made a quick stop in Tishomingo to say goodbye to Blake's family and get some of the essential items they needed for their stay in L.A. for Lena. The flight back to L.A. had been uneventful thankfully. Lena was getting the hang of traveling by plane now. She thought it was fun. They got settled in the rental house the night they arrived and realized something...
"Um Gwen darlin'?"
"Yeah babe"
"I just realized something....we don't have a bedroom here for Lena. Not unless we take the stuff out of the studio Chuck set up for you" Blake said to his wife.
"Well Chuck gave me a few days off work to get settled back in, so how about we call the real estate agent up that help you find this and we go house hunting?" she asks
"That's a great idea...I will call her in the morning. For now let's just get some rest. It has been a long couple of weeks for us" Blake replies leaning into his wife to place a soft kiss on her lips.
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When Gwen woke the next morning she found it was just she and Lena tucked into the bed, her daughter sprawled out like a starfish. She slowly extracted herself and went to the bathroom to shower and get dressed. Once finished she checked to see that Lena was still asleep so she headed downstairs in search of Blake. As she approached the kitchen she could smell breakfast cooking, pancakes she thought. She turned the corner into the kitchen and saw Blake cooking breakfast and talking on the phone to whom she suspected was his real estate agent.
"We will be looking for a house, preferably on or at least near the beach because my wife loves the water. It will need at least 4 bedrooms, possibly an office, and 3 baths please. Yes, we can be there. 12 o'clock sounds great. Thank you so much ma'am. We look forward to working with you again." Blake says before hanging up the phone.
He turns to place the last chocolate chip pancake on the platter and without looking up says "good morning beautiful...you sleep okay?"
"How did you know I was in here? I didn't make a sound and you were on the phone and cooking the whole time" Gwen said making her way to her husband and tip toeing up to get her morning kiss.
"Mmmmm...thank you for that...and to answer your question I can always sense when you're in the room baby. You make my stomach do flips...like butterflies are in there."
"Aww Blakey...that is so sweet. I am going to go get Lena and bring her down for breakfast so we can be ready to leave on time."
When Gwen returns Lena reaches for her dad "Daddy Daddy....morning Daddy....I eat pancake!" she said to Blake
"Yes baby...daddy made you chocolate chip pancakes and scrambled eggs" he said kissing his daughter's forehead. He took Lena and placed her in her booster seat at the table. The family sat in a content state as they ate breakfast together, Blake filling Gwen in on their appointment at noon and Lena devouring her breakfast. When they were finished Gwen took Lena back upstairs to get her ready to go house hunting. She needed to stop by the office to drop some sketches off first so they left early so as to not get stuck in the L.A. traffic...something neither of them missed to be honest.
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When they arrived at the first house a couple of hours later Gwen was excited to begin the search. Blake was fortunate to get a lucrative deal with Rare Records and Gwen made great money at the design firm but they didn't want to stretch themselves too thin because as Blake had said...one record on the charts will not sustain them. He needs to make sure he can keep selling records and start touring as a headliner. They would look for properties they knew they could manage the payments on without difficulty.
