Empire

Chapter 19

"Lauren, hey hi, can I just borrow your child real quick?"

Sam asked causing me to pause briefly with parted lips as I didn't realise I was running a rental service to gay aunties on the side..

"Borrow my child? Sam I- you know what fine here..."

His arms reach out gently intertwining around Luna's body before scurrying away into the hall doing something unknown to me and to be honest I was too tired to even care.. 2 weeks now and not a single nights sleep...

She was still cute and beautiful but man could she scream... even Zach who was the calmest of calms couldn't quite get used to the tiny lungs blasting some kind of baby chant on repeat at 3am every day

I head out swigging back on an entire bottle of water only to see aunty Sam sitting in front of the TV watching Rupaul's Drag Race repeats with Luna gently perched on his knee while a very subdued Gracie hover over her lap

"Samuel... this is what you wanted to 'borrow' my child for? Seriously?"

"Hey! This girl needs to grow up knowledgeable of her community.. she has two gay moms and two gay aunties, she needs to be in the know!"

I rolled my eyes playfully only happy to receive a little break as both me and Sam were solely in charge of diaper duty considering Camila had been laying in bed for the majority of the time we'd been home... she was suffering from some post birth abnormalities which were apparently nothing to worry about however still a little unnerving

"And she's also 2 weeks old.. she doesn't even know her own name yet dummy!"

"Well by the time she's able to understand what we're saying she's gonna think her name is YASS queen if I have anything to do with it!"

"Ok I'm too tired to even respond to that so enjoy aunty Sam time while I go check on Camz!"

I spoke after leaning down to place a small kiss on her peacefully sleeping head... I wasn't going to tell Sam she wasn't exactly interested in his learning curve however because like her for once... he was quiet

I head upstairs brushing past the door before perching against the side of the bed running my fingertips through the thick brown hair spread effortlessly over the satin pillows smiling as those beautiful brown orbs stare back at me

"Hey Mami... how you feeling?"

"A little better, I haven't thrown up in like 3 hours so I'm getting there..."

She replied back with a pale face, the doctor said it was something to do with blood loss and how tiny infections can creep into your body after it being so exposed... as much as I loved her I kind of desperately wished her back to health so we could maybe switch out the night feeds..

"Is Luna ok?"

"Don't even ask.. Sam is on one of his educational road trips again!"

Her small giggle in response soothed my heart as she finally lift from the pillows to sit upright holding onto her sore head feeling almost hungover after a few days of throwing up the entire contents of her aching body

"Take advantage of the break... you can cuddle me now!"

Her sweet voice respond as my arms fell around her back falling against the bed gently into a much needed embrace of missed over the past few weeks, her soft cheeks and rosey sent left me comforted beyond belief reminding me of how great our life's were destined to be

"I missed cuddling you..."

"Me too, I'm sorry I've been this sick mess lately.. I'm starting to feel better though"