Home is where the heart is (Berena)

Chapter Eleven

Bernie walked up to the front door and let herself in and closed the front door where she then stood against the door looking down the hallway , still thinking if she had made the right decision of breaking up with Alex. David watched Bernie walk up to the front door and watched her go in to the house before driving away knowing that she was safe.

Bernie took her jacket off and hung it up next to Serena's and took her boots off and placed them next to Serena's shoes before she walked down the hallway to the stairs where she stood on the first step of the stairs looking into the kitchen thinking if she should make herself a drink but decided not to, she made her way up the stairs and walked into the bedroom seeing that Serena was still asleep, she smiled to herself before she got undressed and laid next to her partner watching her sleep for a little while.

Serena rolled over so that she was facing her partner and soon felt the blonde cuddle into her  and smiled in her sleep and held her close while she slept, With the blonde feeling guilty on how she had been treating Serena since running off to Ukraine till now the blonde wanted to make it up to her , she didn't know how to yet but maybe now that Alex was out the picture it would be a little easier for the blonde.

"I'm sorry" the blonde mumbled in her sleep

"I know you are baby" the brunette mumbled back and kissed the blondes head softly

"No , you don't understand..." the blond mumbled again

"Babe get some sleep we'll talk about it in the morning or whatever time we wake" the brunette said softly reminding the blonde that it was their day off tomorrow.

It took the blonde to get comfy while being cuddled into Serena , before she finally rolled over and faced the wall and let a few more tears fall until she silently cried herself to sleep.

**The next Morning**

It was now 10am and with Serena being the first one of the two she rolled over seeing that Bernie had her back her which got her thinking a little before she wrapped her arm over her and cuddled her kissing the back of her shoulder softly

"Good morning beautiful" Serena spoke softly knowing that she would get a mumble or a groan from her partner but this time it was different, there was no moan or mumble as  the blonde  was sound asleep, Serena got up out of bed quietly as she knew that Bernie didn't want to be woken up , she grabbed her silky dressing gown from the back of the bedroom door and put it on with her grey slipper boots and made her way down stairs.

Once she was downstairs she headed towards the kitchen and picked up the kettle and took it over to sink and filled it with more water before putting it on the base and flicked the switch in order for it inthe kettle to boil. Serena picked out two mugs from the cupboard and left Bernie's next to the kettle after she put a spoonful of coffee and then two spoonful of sugar in the mug ready for her when she would wake.

As Serena was waiting for the blonde to wake she decided to tidy up the front room and kitchen a little, when serena was finished she looked at the time which was now 12:30 as she looked she thought to herself if she should wake Bernie as she was getting worried about her.

The brunette made the blonde a coffee and took it up to the bedroom and put it down on Bernie's bedside table and sat on the bed next to her and softly ran her finger in a circular motion on Bernie's arm and softly kissed her shoulder, the blonde was slowly waking up and smiled to herself

As the blonde woke she gave out a little moan "mm" and rolled over so she was facing Serena "babe what time is is?" She said in a little mumble

Serena smiled "it's 12:20" babe"

"Why didn't you wake me earlier?"

"Because you looked peaceful and you needed your sleep babe"

"But still babe..."

"Babe you needed you had so much to drink last night" Serena paused "I made you a coffee just the way you like it"

The blonde nodded and reached over and lifted the cup taking a sip "just the way I like it"

Serena smiled and continued to stroke her partners arm watching her wake up more before asking her a question

"Babe last night you said that your sorry and that I didn't understand, what did you mean by that?" The brunette asked softly, Bernie looked at her knowing she had to tell her about Alex.

"I urm I went to the airport after you fall asleep, and met up with Alex... I had to see her one more time ..." the blonde spoke replying to the brunette's question and paused

"What happened next babe?"

"I begged her to stay but she kept saying that you would do a better job of looking at me... but I didn't want her to go..." the blonde paused again  and looked down  we kissed to say goodbye and I watched her walk away.... I ended it with Alex so I could be with you..."

"You really loved her didn't you?" The brunette asked pulling her into a hug

"I love you both so much which was hurting you and her so I chose you because I love you more than Alex" she spoke as tears started to fall

"Hey I'm never going to let anyone hurt you ever again,  I promise baby, I'm gonna keep you safe"

Bernie nodded "I've been taking you for granted , I'm really sorry , I swear I never meant to hurt you"

"Bernie babe? I'm still here aren't I?" The brunette replied softly as she wiped the blondes tears away "I'm never going to leave you"

"I'm sorry" the blonde cried into the brunette, the brunette kissed her head "hey come on shush everything is going to be okay , we can get through this together"

Bernie looked up at her and gave her a little smile "what did you want to do today? As I thought we could go into town and have a look around?" She asked

Serena smiled "we can do anything that my princess wants to do"

Bernie smiled again "you know I don't deserve you right?""

"Of course but I love you too much" Serena replied with a smile "you drink your coffee and get yourself into the shower then we can go" she said kissing her partners head again.

Bernie smiled cuddling into Serena more "I love you to the moon and back" she said before sipping more on her coffee.