The sunlight shining through the loft windows created the perfect natural spot light on Rachel's naked back. Really you would think Santana would learn to pull the blinds every night, but nope she didn't. Santana laid there staring a moment before she reached over and gently ran her fingers through the ends of Rachel's hair. It all still seemed surreal that she was officially engaged to the love of her life. It had a been long night in the best of ways and now today would probably be spent much like last night with the occasional break to call family and friends to inform them of the engagement and maybe eat some food. The sudden movement of Rachel shifting in her sleep caused Santana to still her hand for a moment, she didn't want to wake Rachel up yet. Deciding that she was going to try and fall back asleep for a while herself, Santana turned over wrapping an arm around Rachel's waist and pulled the woman closer. Having Rachel in her arms was something that Santana could never live without.
When Santana woke again it wasn't because of the sun it was because there was a warm weight that had settled on top of her. She blinked her eyes open to see Rachel laying there with her head propped up on Santana's chest. She grinned cutely when she saw that Santana had woken up. "Good morning." Rachel spoke softly as she shifted a bit and laid her head down on Santana's chest to stare up at the woman.
"Good morning to you." Santana reached out a hand and cupped Rachel's cheek. Rachel sighed happily as Santana began to run her thumb across Rachel's cheek.
"I really thought last night was a dream until I woke up again this morning." Rachel smiled as she brought her hand up to look at the ring that Santana had given her.
"I assure you everything was very much real." Santana was happy to stay in their little bubble of bliss for the moment. She was sure there were things that needed to be done by both her and Rachel but she couldn't find the energy to care at the moment.
"Can we stay like this all day?" Rachel sighed as she scooted farther up to lay more on Santana. The woman tried to suppress the moan that erupted from her throat. Rachel was naked and scooting against her; it felt more than magnificent.
"You can stay like that for as long as you want." Santana breathed out while dropping her head back against her pillow with a soft thud.
Rachel whom had realized what she was doing grinned devilishly. She began to move back and forth slowly grinding her center against Santana's. "What's wrong baby?" Rachel asked with an innocent smile on her face.
Santana had fallen into a ring of bliss. There was no way that Rachel was going to be receiving anything other than a few garbled noises accompanied with a moan and/or grunt. There was no doubt in her mind that Rachel knew exactly what she was doing. Santana felt Rachel start to slow down like she was waiting for an answer. "Don't you dare stop Rachel." Santana gritted out between her teeth.
"I don't plan on it baby." When Rachel started moving faster she pushed herself farther up in order to connect her lips with Santana's. Her arms were shaking from holding herself up and the impending orgasm that she was also bringing upon herself. "I love you so much Santana." Rachel was barely able to breathe out as she brought herself and Santana over the edge.
"I love you too." Santana murmured barely audible over her heavy breathing as she wrapped her arms around Rachel.
"Santana what do you think about this one?" Rachel held up the binder full of sample album covers that she was looking through. It was never too early to get an idea about what you wanted your cover art to look like even if they hadn't started recording yet. Santana was cooking lunch while Rachel sat at the kitchen island. They had finally drug themselves about of bed for a shower and some food about an hour ago, there was only so many orgasms a person could have before their body started chanting no more, I need a break.
Santana turned around from the couscous she was "fluffing" and stared at the picture for a moment before scrunching her face and shaking her head no.
Rachel sighed and laid the binder back down. "I am never going to pick one at this rate."
"Well technically you don't have to pick one, those are just to help you get ideas. That one you just held up is too loud for you style of music. I feel like it would be more appropriate on maybe some kind of techno album. It doesn't represent you or your album vision."
"I know...I just thought it was pretty." Rachel flipped over another page in the binder. "You know...why don't you just design my album cover." Her eyes were bright with hope and Santana could tell that she was super excited at the idea.
Santana paused in mixing the vegetables she had sauteed in with the couscous. It wasn't a horrible idea, but she had a few reservations about it. "Wouldn't I have to work for PF Productions to do something like that?"
"Nope. All of these are independent artists like you. You know Puck only uses independent artists and writers, he's all about working with people trying to get into the business in some way. This could be great. If this is the only way I can get you on my album then I will take it since you still won't sing with me." Rachel pouted and broke out her best puppy dog look. It was only a matter of time before Santana caved.
"How about I think about it? Like you said Puck likes to use people who are trying to get established, I wouldn't want to take away someones chance at that. I got lucky when I was in school that some people saw my work and I built a contact list from that. This, being on your cover could be someones only shot."
"We still have plenty of time, even if I pick something now it would be altered once we get a few songs recorded. The cover has to somehow represent the music and right now it's not representing anything."
Santana nodded her head as she continued to listen to Rachel speak. "When will you know when you can start recording?"
"Not for a while, the main writer comes from the internship. So we won't start recording until the end of summer."
Santana chuckled as she turned around with a plate for Rachel. "Then why are you worrying so much about this now?"
Rachel shut the binder and pushed it out of the way as Santana sat her plate down. "You know I like to be on top of things."
"There's no need to work so hard on it today. Today, whatever there was that we had to do, it's put on hold. We are just going to enjoy the day celebrating our engagement. If anyone needs us they have our numbers."
"We can just tell them when they call, besides my dad. I need to call him anyway."
"That sounds fair enough. I want to show you something I want to build." Santana hopped off the stool that she was sitting on and ran to a book shelf on the other side of the fire place. Rachel had no idea what she wanted to build, there was no telling really when it came to Santana, the woman could do anything that she put her mind to. When Santana came back into the kitchen the first thing Rachel noticed was that Santana was carrying a landscape magazine. Rachel narrowed her eyes at the book, Santana must have found something in there that gave her an idea, because the woman did any and all landscaping herself. Rachel was intrigued to say the least.
"Before I show you this, I just want to explain the why before we get into the when, where and how. So you know we have the little patio were we barbecue right off the side of the porch. We also have the big pond and the little pond out front but they aren't fit for swimming. So I propose we or I build this." Santana opened the magazine to a page in the back where she had found natural swimming pools.
Rachel was amazed at the beautiful picture that Santana had placed in front of her. Natural swimming pools were beautiful in their own right and they fit right up Santana's alley with things that could be sustained on their own. This was perfect, if they wanted to swim they always had to go to the lodge or they just swam when they went out of town and was at a hotel. "It's beautiful Santana, are you wanting to build it to look exactly like this one?"
"I don't know, I just want to build one and we can do on it on that side of the cabin." Santana pointed through the kitchen out into the living room indicating the right side of the cabin. There was tons of room over there since the area had been cleared out years ago. "I want to get started on it soon and I know I am going to need help, especially from someone who specializes in stuff like this. I want to move the patio over there too and make us a large area for barbecuing and suntanning."
"That all sounds amazing and we can start looking for people soon to help get going in the right direction." Santana just smiled and began eating again, this was going to be amazing when it was all said and done.
Rachel began to eat also, she couldn't help but think about all the big changes that was currently happening or about to happen in her life. She was getting married, her album would start production at the end of summer and Santana had decided that she was going to make life at the cabin better in some new way. Rachel thought about the ring that she had now carefully hidden away in her dresser. She knew she had to figure out a way to propose to Santana also, the woman deserved to have a ring too. There were so many ways that Rachel had wanted to propose but after yesterday and last night, she wasn't sure that any of them would equal what Santana had done for her. This wasn't a competition, she just wanted to make sure that Santana knew how much she was appreciated and loved by Rachel. She could always ask Quinn for help since she had knew Santana longer, but she wanted the idea to be all on her own. They could always have dinner and then Rachel could ask, but that was what Santana had done and she didn't want to do the same exact thing. Santana liked simple, maybe she was just thinking too far out of the box. Ahh, stop thinking so hard, you are going to give yourself a headache. Hopefully the idea would come to her soon. Rachel sighed and took another bite of her food as she glanced over at Santana who was looking at the pool again.
Sometimes it was a bit overwhelming just how much her life had changed in the past three years. Rachel now had honest friends, a lovely home, a beautiful, smart and just all around amazing fiancee, an amazing career, and two fur babies that she loved dearly. Her life was something that a lot of people only dreamed about having and there was no way that she was ever going to take that for granted. For now she was going to enjoy her engagement and try to figure out a way to make sure that Santana felt just as special as she did last night.
I haven't done an author's note in a while now. I just want to say thank you all for reading, reviewing, following, favoriting and sticking with me to the engagement. We still have plenty of story left to go, obviously Rachel still has to plan her proposal, there's the movie premiere, an art show for Santana and some major other stuff.