La vie en Rose (paused)

Part 13 - Hawkeye

After an amazing Valentine's day it's time to return to normal life. It's Tuesday and guess what? Oscars nominations' day. Gaga had a concert on Sunday and is still on show business time. Unbelievably she slept through it all.

Bradley is at his house with his mom waiting for the damn nominations. He's confident A Star is Born will do good in noms, but he's worried Stefani won't get her nomination as best actress in a leading role. And he wants nothing more than to give her this.

The moment they announce her name he cheers so loud his mom almost jumps from her chair.

"Mom! Stefani did it!!!! I gotta call her, but she's probably sleeping and if I wake her up she'll kill me." He says and Gloria laughs.

"Calm down Bradley! Aren't you sad you didn't get the best director nomination?" She asks and he shakes his head.

"Let's be real, mom. We know how this industry work, the academy just don't like me. They couldn't ignore the movie, but they would never admit that my first work as a director is worthy of a best director nomination." He speaks truly and his mom hugs him.

"You're the best, son, and the audience know that. Now, will you sing Shallow at the ceremony?" He nods.

"Stefani would never allow me not to."

—//—

Gaga wakes up and sees tons of texts messages. Everybody was congratulating her, so she probably made it. She opens the oscars website and sees her name there. She can't believe it! She searches for the other categories and fumes when she doesn't see Bradley's name on the best director one. She calls him immediately.

"How could they???" She says as soon as he answers the phone. He chuckles.

"Good morning Stefani. I believe congratulations are in order, my beautiful nominee in the best actress category." He speaks.

"Thanks, my love. But how could they sleep on you as best director? You know what? You're the best director ever in my eyes." He chuckles again.

"Oh Stef, I love you. And I'm so happy for you, I was actually more excited about your nomination than mine. And now we'll have to sing." She giggles.

"You know the world will stop to watch it right?"

"Jeez Stef, what a way to make me relax about singing live in front of the whole world." Gaga laughs.

"You'll do great! You have nothing to worry about. And I'll let you direct me once again." He smiles, it's awesome to know she trusts him that much. "Oh, my mom is calling me, I gotta answer. Are you free today?" She asks.

"After lunch I'll be. I have a meeting in half an hour and then I'm free for the rest of the day."

"Alright, I'll come over around 3, okay?"

"Yeah! Bye love."

"Bye, B."

—//—

Bradley's lunch meeting finished at 2 so he called Stefani to know if she wanted him to pick her up at her house or if he should wait for her at his own house. She accepted his ride gladly.

She gets inside the car with a backpack. He finds that odd, but doesn't ask anything. Gaga pecks his lips and turns back to her phone.

"Hey, we haven't seen each other for four days and you greet me like this." He pouts and she giggles.

"Sorry babe, but I got this text and this is gold." She laughs. "Look." She hands him her phone and he reads the text. His eyes' widen. This guys is flirting with her and offering himself to record a song with her. As he goes to the end of the text he sees a name: Jeremy Renner.

"Jeremy Renner, as in Hawkeye from Avengers?" He asks and she nods. "Do you know him?" He's curious.

"I met him once, a long time ago. He's a very good singer. Don't you know him? You're kinda an avenger too." He chuckles.

"I never met him. This upcoming avengers movie is the first we are in the same one. And I'm not an avenger, I'm a guardian of the galaxy."

"Semantics Bradley...." She rolls her eyes at him.

"So, you're gonna do it? Sing with him?" He is jealous, but he's trying to act cool about it.

"I don't know. I'm not that easy to convince to do a partnership, you were my only exception. I gotta meet him first and know for sure what's this is all about." She explains.

"You're aware he's flirting with you, right?" He states and she laughs.

"I know B, but it truly doesn't matter. If he tries anything I'll let him know I'm not available. It's not like I'm gonna meet him all alone. There's always people around me even when you can't see them. We weren't alone in my house that day, you silly boy. Mom and dad taught me not to ever meet a man alone for the first time. I can always scream and someone mostly my very huge bodyguard will appear." She winks at him and he touches her chin holding her in place. He kisses her passionately.

"There, now we can go." He says and she laughs.

"Well, if you keep kissing me like this we won't go anywhere." He finally starts the car and drives away.

—//—

Arriving at Bradley's house Stefani makes herself at home and throws herself on his couch.

"So, in two days we'll have the Oscar's nominees' lunch, how does that work? I'm truly tired of all this promotion and shit." She moans about it and Bradley sits beside her.

"Well, the lunch's propose is for the nominees to get to know themselves, so sadly we won't even sit at the same table. We'll take the official photo of 2019 there. Then, we'll be invited for an even more exclusive party that same night. There's barely press there so we can finally have some fun." He explains and she nods getting closer to him.

"B, I have to go to the studio later tonight, but I didn't want to go back home and be all alone. So, can I stay the night?" She purrs in his ear and her deep voice goes straight to his dick.

"Of course you can stay the night. You're home, Stef." He speaks on her ear and can feel her shiver. They finally find each other's lips and give in to passion.