Under the moonlight (Camren)

9.

Camila's POV

Not talking to the person who basically saved me from living on the street in school is hard. I'm in most of her classes, and she's always with either Dinah or Brad. I didn't get why she would hang out with him.

I can only stare at her back, because she sits right in front of me. I can smell her heavenly scent, and I see all the mindless doodles she has in her notebooks. I see Brad closely moving towards her, kissing her swiftly on her cheek. I cringe badly. She was very gay, but he was still flirting with her. I kinda fell bad for him. 

Until Lauren did the same thing to him.

I sat behind her, gaping at the things happening before me. Did she just kiss him back? She said she was gay! Maybe she's bi? No, she screamed at me when I said I was gay, because she was gay herself. What the hell? I need to ask her about this later. 

The rest of the day went by slowly. I hadn't ran into Austin, luckily, but sadly the only persons I seemed to run into were bread and Lauren. But ofcourse, I was too scared to actually talk to her.

"Earth to Camila?" I heared from beside me. I turned to Normani, not in the mood to talk. 

"What, mani?" 

"You've been off all day. What's up." She asked me, trying to look in my eyes. 

"Nothing. I don't want to talk about it. It's dumb." 

She grabbed my arms and turned me to her. "Girl, I've known you for basically all my life. Don't mute yourself, it won't help." 

I sighed and turned away, saying something about a teacher who needed me. Ofcourse, that's not the case, but I really didn't wanted to talk to the chocolate skinned girl. It's not that I don't trust her, but I need to find this out myself. Besides, she tells Dinah everything. 

I turned around the corner and guess who I saw, kissing some kinda girl. 

"Austin?" I asked, slowly making my way over to her. He quickly seperated when he heared my voice. The girl, who I now recognize as Jesy from my spanish class, looks between the two of us. 

"What's up, Camila?" She said. 

"What's up, is that you are kissing my boyfriend." I said angrily. Not angry at her, but pretty angry at Austin. 

"What? You said you broke up with her!" She said, turning to Austin again. He looked at me, and back at Jesy, a troubled look in his eyes. 

"Don't worry, Jess. You can have him. We're done, for real now." I said, walking away. I was worrying about breaking up, but now I don't have a home anymore, because of him, and I don't have to worry about my parents anymore, so I don't care. 

I thought I heared Jesy saying something simular to him, but I don't care. I hope she gets someone she deserves, and I hope Austin will never find anything close to love.

Quickly making my way out of school, I spotted Lauren's car at the same spot we left it this morning. She isn't there yet, so I waited, standing with my back against her hood.

I saw her walking out with Dinah next to her, looking as beautiful as ever. I should've known I was gay when I saw her for the first time. I should've accepted it when I saw her three years ago. But I didn't and now I'm here. 

I've been daydreaming for a while, 'cause the next thing I saw was Laurens concerned face close to mine, asking if I'm alright. 

"Camila? Hello?" She looked at me for a second, before opening the car. "Come on, I'm getting us home." Home. Home. Why do I like the sound of that so much? 

She drove us home, and I got out. I smiled swiftly at her, not wanting to concern her more.

"So, what happened at school today? You seemed completely out of it." She asked. Before I could anwser, she quickly added "You don't have to anwser, I don't know if I'm crossing any lines here or anything." 

"Don't worry 'bout it. But uhh, to anwser your question, I saw Austin kissing someone else and I broke up with him." I said without emotion in my voice. 

"Okay, uhh, that sucks? I don't know how you feel about it so I don't know how to react." She said, akwardly looking at me. I smiled at her, shrugging my shoulders. "I don't feel much, it's not like I really liked dating him." 

She smiled sympathetically, making her way into the kitchen. "You want to watch a movie?" She asked, walking back with a bag of sour patch kids. I smiled and nodded. 

We put Aladdin on, both singing to all the songs. After a while, I started to drift off. I was really tired, and Lauren looked really comfortable, so without thinking I cuddled up to her. I felt her tense, before relaxing a bit. She didn't comment, just put her arm around me, playing with my hair. 

I fell asleep that day without any trouble. 

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I never felt more alive than in the past two months. I haven't seen my parents since they kicked me out, and I honestly didn't mind that much. Lauren and I got extremely close in the past months, and today her parents are suppose to come back. 

Today is also the day she's gonna introduce Brad as her boyfriend to them. So me being the good friend I am, helped her set up a nice dinner.

"You ready Laur?" He asked her. Clara and Mike should be home in an hour, according to the text they send her.

"Yeah, just, I don't want to pretend to date a guy to keep them pleased. I just want to be able to date a girl and be happy. But I guess this'll have to do." She said, shrugging. I smiled at her. I totally got her. As in, I was in the exact same spot. 

"Anyways, I'll be at mani's. Text me when you can." I said to Lauren. Quickly nodded at Brad. Even though I don't like the guy, he is really sweet. As long as he doesn't try anything with Lauren, we're good.

I make my way out of the house, walking over to Normani's. She greeted me with a hug, and we immediately walked into her room. I laid down on her bed, face buried in a pillow. 

"Okay girl, spill." I looked up, sighing. I know I need to talk to her, but I honestly can't find the energy to tell her about everything. That was until she gave me 'the look'. 

"Fine. I'll talk." I said and she squealed. I giggled softly before talking.

"Promise me you won't say anything to Dinah." She nodded immediately.

"So, I got kicked out because I'm gay. You know that." I saw Normani nodding, so I continued. 

"Well, I've known I was gay for four years now, and I've had a crush on a girl for the past three years..." 

"Oh my god, who?!" Normani asked exitedly.

"Lauren..." I said, not meeting my best friend's eyes. 

"Lauren? As in Lauren Jauregui? As in the girl in which house you live right now?!" 

I can only nod in confirmation. The next thing I know, I'm tackled on the ground in a hug. 

"Oh my god! I knew it!" She screamed happily. I smiled, happy with a friend like her. The rest of the night went smoothly and I totally forgot to ask Lauren about the dinner she had. Little did I know, I was far from the green eyed girl's mind.

Lauren's POV:

Brad and I were talking when the door opened. I quickly move to my feed, and my parents are standing in the door opening. 

"Hi dad, mom. I brought a guest for dinner today." I said, extremely nervous. "This is Brad, my boyfriend." I introduced him. They smile at him, before my mother speaks up.

"Well, we brought a guest aswell." She said, and behind her someone stands that I haven't seen in at least eight years. 

"Chris?" 

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A/N: Welcome Chris:) Anyways, I didn't proof read this, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it, so enjoy:)

xx Juliette