Stranded

#26

"Can somebody please switch off the fucking lights? It's burning my eyes."

"Get your lazy dead ass out of bed Dinah. We got work today." Camila hollers from the kitchen, making Dinah groan.

Today was the day they would be having their opening of their new dessert bar, and everyone was pretty much excited. Except for Dinah. Apparently, since their little scare on their bachelorette party night, Dinah had done their partying in the mansion itself, buying booze and playing music in their spacious living room, hoping to recreate the scene at the club to their own liking and of course, Dinah goes all out. Lauren had skipped their little party, heading to bed around midnight, her morning sickness having made its way back into her life, and she needed the rest needed. Camila had walked in to their bedroom, finding Lauren's head shoved down the toilet bowl, and of course she spent a good hour in there with Lauren. Normani had left Dinah to sleep on the couch by herself, too drunk herself to carry Dinah up the stairs and drop her. Luna and Hailee had disappeared somewhere, not knowing what they were doing, but seeing that they whole lot of them were sex addicts, well, there was nothing each of them could say.

"Get up Dinah. Can't sleep all day. Plus, Normani's got the eggs and bacon going." Hailee walks by with Luna, both woman having took a shower together before entering the kitchen whereby Normani and Camila were getting breakfast ready.

"Where's Lauren?" Hailee asks.

"She was in the bathroom when I left. In which I will have to go check up on her right now because she never takes this long." Camila sighs before leaving the kitchen.

"Looks like her morning sickness must be kicking up a storm for her. Heard her last night heaving away when I walked passed the main bathroom outside the hallway." Luna exclaims, taking over Camila's duty.

"Well, she has been through it before. So, I won't be worrying too much. At most we could do is keep an eye out for her later and keep her on the fluids so that she doesn't get dehydrated." Normani states, placing the plates of eggs on the table, and Dinah, comes walking in with Lily in her arms.

Hailee perks up an eyebrow at her friend, who gestured to Camila walking in behind her while Lauren dragged herself into the kitchen, looking a little exhausted, but nonetheless, walked over to the cabinets, pulled out a peppermint tea bag, pouring fresh boiled hot water and took a seat the dining table. Everyone had their eyes fixed on her, making Lauren turn around and look at the whole lot. Lily was babbling away to Dinah, telling her a story of her own world, Jasmine wanting her Aunty Normani to pick her up, and Normani got to work flipping the eggs with Jasmine watching excitedly in Normani's arms.

"You look like shit Lauren. Sure, you can work today?" Luna has a closer look at friend, Lauren groaning.

"If I can carry twins and have two times the force of morning sickness and still go hunting in the woods, I'm sure I can survive a day at work. Besides, I won't miss this for the world. And the peppermint tea does help too." Lauren sighs, leaning back into the seat when Camila comes over and kisses her head.

"If things feel bad or wrong, you stop and rest okay? I don't want you overworking yourself on our first day of work. We have a whole week to survive and cover. Plus, I won't be around until evening when the gallery closes my love." Camila kisses Lauren's forehead again before walking over to grab a few pieces of toast for Lauren.

"Jeez Laur! I think you don't even need to eat. Camila gives you enough to sustain for a lifetime my friend." Dinah jokes, only to have Lauren throw the teabag at Dinah, landing it square in the middle of her face.

"Headshot!" Hailee and Luna holler, high fiveing Lauren.

"Idiots! Normani! Kill them my love."

Normani didn't even bother with Dinah, too engrossed in showing Jasmine the pancakes that she started just recently and strawberries on the island. Dinah rolls her eyes, clearly the kids attention was more important than her wife. Lauren took Lily into her arms, and starts kissing her daughter's forehead, before Normani walks over and deposits Jasmine into her arms, Jasmine passes the strawberry into Lily's hand and the two sisters start babbling away happily with their newfound toy. Lily giggles and passes the strawberry back to Jasmine, making the whole group stop and look at the two. Camila stopped to look at her daughters in Lauren's arms, the cute exchange going on with the strawberry, and Luna smiles along with the rest for she was the closest to Lauren. They realized that Jasmine was trying to pry the strawberry apart, and she takes it upon herself to help Jasmine, placing both half strawberries back in her hands. Jasmine then passes the half in her right hand to Lily, before they giggled and babbled, holding each other's hand.