Beautiful When You Don't Try (Camren)

Chapter 77

A/N: First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I wish you all the best for 2018... with a lot of fanfiction :P You all are awesome. Thank you for all the amazing comments and messages in 2017, I really appreciate them and always love to hear what you have to say.

Secondly, this chapter has a mix of our two favorite couples. With some little details thrown in here and there. Discussion of babies and relationships. The original Author didn't write the lunch with Adrianne's mom because that would have been too much of them and not enough Camren, but it is discussed.

Up next... old drama returns (kinda) and some other things to make up for a lack of Camren here.

Hope you enjoy.

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"Look at you," Marie called out as Lauren greeted her at the taxi, bending down to meet the tiny, plump woman in a huge hug. "It's been too long since I've seen you in person. I've had to rely on all those newspaper articles about you and your fiancé." She teased with pride as she released the raven-haired.

Marie's relationship to Lauren very much mirrored Clara's relationship to Camila. She was like her foster mother for the last few years when Clara was out of the picture. Her support of Adrianne, as well as Adrianne's relationship with Lauren, was amazing in aiding the raven-haired in her acceptance of herself and the security she needed to settle into it. Even when Charles, or 'Charlie' as Lauren would teasingly call him, would make little comments that were disapproving about her and his daughter, Marie was not above telling him to shut up or leave the room. It was that protection that Lauren had needed and found in Marie.

"I'm just glad you could make it to the wedding."

The older woman waved her hand at her. "Like I would ever miss it. But, onto the real topic. Camila. She's good to you?"

Lauren smiled and looked away with a bit of a blush. "Would Adrianne let her near me if she wasn't?" The apprentice rolled her eyes as she walked around the car and took her still nervous and silent girlfriend's hand. She was afraid to ask that the gentle smile on Adrianne's face calmed most of her worries.

"Good point, but that's not the question I asked. Is she good to you?"

"Yes. Very. She's amazing and I can't wait for you to meet her."

"She's upstairs?"

"No. She had to take her parents to check into their hotel but she should be back soon. So let me give you the grand tour while we wait."

The small woman hooked her arm in Lauren's and the quartette loaded into the elevator. "Tell me about her. I know nothing about musicals so I hadn't heard of her professionally until you were attached to her. I remember you describing her from our many conversations about your time in high school and that you said she was loud, obnoxious, narcissistic, but caring. I thought that was quite a combination but didn't push it at the time."

The raven-haired smiled and looked down at the woman who smiled right back. "She is not as loud, not as obnoxious, and not narcissistic anymore. But she is still very caring." Lauren assured her. "She is... God, I don't even know how to explain it." She exclaimed in excitement and a small jump.

"Well, she's forgiving." Adrianne offered. "She forgave Lauren for her cruelty in the past and forgave my behavior when they first got together, letting me keep my best friend when she could have easily had me thrown out."

"She wouldn't have done that."

"And why didn't she do that?" Marie asked, looking back at Lauren.

"A lot of reasons. Mostly, she saw Adrianne in a different light when I explained that while Adrianne ended our relationship, it was very much my fault. I think she felt bad for her."