Consequences (Normila)

6.

"Wait, so you mean to tell us that you and Camila Cabello have had some type of secret love affair shit going on for the last six months?" Dinah Jane asked her best friend, Normani Kordei, for the fifth time since they arrived at Normani's house.

Normani had somehow convinced her best friends to await an explanation until they left the club and went to her house. She didn't want to be in the middle of explaining her relationship with Camila, only to be overheard by prying ears and eyes. The car ride back to Normani's house was filled with rather uncomfortable silence, completed with obvious stares at Normani from Zendaya and Dinah. Ally probably would have been staring as well, if her eyes had been so focused on the road.

Now, there they were, all sitting in Normani's bedroom, changed into comfier clothes, with mugs of hot chocolate in hand. Zendaya and Dinah had taken up the end of the bed, whilst Ally sat on the beanbag on the floor near the bed, and Normani was leaning against her headboard, both of her hands wrapped tightly around the mug in her hands. She had just finished telling her best friends about the situation with Camila, and she was biting down on her lower lip nervously in fear of being judged.

"That...is a lot," Ally chimed in, running a hand through her hair as she looked at Normani.

"I know," Normani groaned as she threw her head back against her headboard, "I know it's wrong, God, girls, I know it's wrong. But I can't seem to stay away from her, no matter how hard I try. She just always seems to be there. Shaking up my entire fucking world, and making me question everything in my life," Normani looked at her friends.

"Are you in love with her?" Zendaya questioned as she turned over onto her side to look at Normani.

"Maybe...I don't know. I know that I'm developing some type of feeling for her, but I can't tell if it's love. I mean, it can't be love, right? It's not like we actually talk to each other. I hardly really know her," Normani sighed before she turned to place her mug on the nightstand, "I just...there is something there, y'know? Like she makes me feel...so fucking much within the span of the short amount of time we share together, and I want to know her, but she just doesn't seem interested in anything more than just sex with me."

"I mean, didn't you say that she admitted to missing you?" Dinah questioned, lifting an eyebrow.

"And also, she almost kissed you before we bursted into the bathroom, right? Sorry about that, by the way. We didn't know she was in there," Zendaya smiled sheepishly.

"But those are things she doesn't do with any girls. She obviously feels something more with you, right?" Dinah continued, "Maybe she doesn't know how to cope with what she's feeling."

"What about Arin?" Ally finally chimed in again, and the three other girls turned their gazes to their much shorter best friend, "I mean, why are you still with him if you feel something for Camila?"

Normani frowned at Ally's question, and she wrapped her arms around herself silently, "It's stupid, honestly. It's just-, Arin is safe, y'know? He's there, and he will always be there. Camila, she's like a wild untamed horse. She goes where she sees fit, and doesn't let anything hold her down. What if I dump Arin, and I choose Camila, and she grows bored of me? What the hell would I do then, y'know?"

"You're only going to end up hurting him if you let this continue without ending things with him," Ally said wisely, "You can't be scared of the future, Mani. I think, subconsciously you already made a choice, you're just too afraid to follow through in fear of getting your heartbroken. But you have to remember that your actions have consequences, and if you continue down this path, someone will most definitely get hurt."

Normani knew that Ally was right. Ally was always right. Normani frowned as she nibbled on her lower lip silently, and she closed her eyes silently.