Our Little Secret ➳ Camila Cabello

thirty-nine

The next thing I knew is I woke up in the car with the girls. My head was killing me and so was every other part of my body. "Ah..." I groaned causing 4/5 of them to look in my direction, and Ally to look up to the rear view mirror.
"Don't move, babe. We're taking you to the hospital." Camila's sweet voice replied.
This time I didn't badger them to not do it. I felt like I had been ran over by a semi a couple of times and could quickly feel my energy dissipating with every passing second.

I passed out again and this time I woke up in a hospital bed surrounded by the girls. "Help me." I groaned feeling the waves of the aches wash over me.
I could feel a hand be placed on my forehead and when I looked up it was Camila, "We are right here. We'll get you help."
The rest of the girls had stood up to see me too and they were each surrounding the railings of the bed.
I used all the muscles I had to move my hand and touch my side which automatically hurt. I had been dressed in a hospital gown so it wasn't too hard to put my hand up to my collar and lift the top open to look down at my flesh. There was so much bruising and welts everywhere. I looked over to my side to see that the stitches were still intact. Well, all except a few at the bottom that had probably broke free when Dan hit me with his fist.
"Mama, don't look." Dinah calmly told me before grabbing my hand and setting by side.
"I hurt so bad." My voice was groggy.
"May I see one of you girls outside?" A doctor said peeking into the room.
All the girls looked at Ally with sad reactions. Ally sighed and exited the room to talk to the doctor.
I could slightly hear their conversation. The doctor's voice was deep and had a big vibrato, "Since this is a domestic abuse case, we will be able to use the evidence you gave us to have her parents arrested."
Ally exhaled in relief, "Thank God."
He stopped her, "That's not all. Like I said, it is a domestic case, so that means we have to put her in foster care until we can assure she'll be safe."
Everyone in the room heard that and shared shocked expressions. "That's not going to happen, sir." Ally replied feeling a little anxious. "We will take care of her. I can promise you that."
"She has to be put into foster care, ma'am. No offense, but you are all children yourselves." His voice was straining a little.
"I think we should close the door." Normani said getting up.
"If you close that door, I will hit you up the side of your head when I can move again." I threatened her causing her to sit back down in her chair and cross her legs.
"Believe me, sir, we aren't children. Almost all of us, except 2, are 18. I'm 21, and I usually enjoy taking care of her anyways." Ally sounded a bit more worried. There was no more sound until Ally decided to speak up again, "What if we had our manager, Simon, talk to you. I mean he's in L.A. but you can call him. If he can talk to you can you put y/n in our custody? Just until the court hearing, if there even is one?"
"Court hearing?" I whispered to myself. I tried to wriggle myself up the bed because I was slowly siding off the pillow.
"Here, kid." Lauren pulled the pillow down under my head.
It got quiet again and soon Ally's heels were clicking back into the room.
"So?" Camila asked tapping her feet in nervousness.
Ally pushed back her hair and sighed, "He's gonna talk to Simon. We just gotta pray that he's in a good mood."
"When it comes to me, he's never in a good mood. I better just get my things and get ready for foster care. It was bound to happen anyways." I could feel my throat become dryer than usually.
"Stop talking like that, y/n." Camila begged me.
I rolled my eyes and pointed to the water. "Whatever. Can I have some of that water?"
"If you say please." Lauren smiled.
"Please." I replied before she brought the straw to my face and let me wrap my lips around it.
I let go of the straw and looked at them, "So, have they said anything about my side?"
No one wanted to make eye contact with me. Ally got up and stood beside me, "Baby girl, you'll have to get stitches again, and you won't be able to move for a while."
"What do you mean?" Once I asked them I got worried, "Am I crippled?! OH MY GOD NO. I'M GONNA BE A VEGETABLE." I looked over to Lauren with the most serious face, "JUST FUCKING PULL THE PLUG ALREADY OR SHOVE THIS PILLOW IN MY FACE I CAN'T DEAL WITH THAT."
Everyone started laughing at me except for Ally who was glaring at the girls. "Silencio!" She yelled and they all quieted down. "Chill, babe. You're not crippled, it's just that they went a little over board and really hurt you so you'll need to stay laid down a lot."
"Thank God. I thought I was gonna have to be put down like a horse. If that happens, I choose Lauren to do it though." I admitted.
Camila whined, "What about me or the rest of the girls?"
"Camila, you would keep me as a vegetable to take care of me. Ally cares too much. Dinah would visit my numb body way too often. And Normani wouldn't really care. At least Lauren would be the least emotional when it comes to putting me down like a rabid dog." I laughed.
"If I could slap you right now I would because you know how I feel about you talking like that." Ally retorted going back to her chair.

A nurse walked in and cleared the girls out of the room to get myself ready for removal and reapply for the stitches. "Can't I at least have one of them, ma'am?" I gave her puppy dog eyes that caused her to crumble.
Her harsh voice replied, "Fine."
"Ally!" I yelled out before she could get out the door.
She frowned, "This didn't work so good last time."
The nurse started to put a drug into my IV that made me feel a little loopy and numb, "I don't think that'll be a problem, Mama Ally." My speech was starting to go, "This stuff is really good just don't watch the needle or anything." The nurse smiled and tried to walk away but I quickly nudged her, "Ma'am what is this stuff?"
She smirked, "It's a type of sedation." She quickly left the room to get the doctor and I looked up to Ally, "Remind me to get the name of this because, wow. Like do you think this is sold on the street?"
I couldn't feel anything at all. This was better than any Percocet I could've had. I was out of my mindset completely. "You're not gonna start using this too. I draw the line at being constantly sedated."
I whined, "Aw, Ally Cat. Yoooure no fun."
The doctor walked in with gloves on his hands and was followed by the nurse who was just in here and had a tray of utensils in her arms. he smiled at me, "How are you now, Ms. Y/L/N?"
I shrugged sloppily, "I guess not sooo good since you're about to be sewing me uup. But other than that I feel preeetty good."
He laughed a little before grabbing the utensil and lifting my gown to reveal the bruises, welts, deep wounds, and scratches. "Oh my God." Ally whispered to herself.
I looked down to see it was worse in the light and squeezed her hand, "Don't worry, Mama. I'll be alright." I exhaled. "Eventually."
She sniffled a little and was almost on the verge of tears as the doctor took the utensil and cut the stitches apart before pulling them out of my skin. I couldn't feel anything, so that was great. He sat the old stitches on the tray before grabbing the new threaded needle and sanitizing it. "Now, be careful with these stitches."
"Whatever you say Doc. Just call me Humpty Dumpty and put me back together again." I laughed.
He stuck the needle into my but I didn't feel it. The only reason I knew he did it is because Ally squeezed my hand and looked away to sheild her eyes from what was happening. It only took 4 minutes until I was done and he was wiping the blood off of my skin with a sanitized wipe.
He took the gloves off and sent the nurse out with the tray. "You're all good, Ms. Y/L/N."
"Did you talk to Simon, sir?" Ally asked causing the dark haired doctor to look at her.
He frowned a little, "Yes ma'am. He said you girls could keep an eye on her as well as he would. I just still don't think it would be a good environment for her since she was just physically abused." The doctor got up to reach into the jars of gauze and tape to come back to my side and place the cotton over the surgical thread.
"I promise you we won't let anyone hurt her." Ally stared at the doctor.
He looked up seeing her harsh eyes bleed into him, "Ma'am, I'm not trying to be rude. It's just, she was in your care last time, correct?" Ally nodded not understanding what he was trying to say. "It's none of my business, but how come you let them hurt her in the first place."
Ally gritted her teeth, "You're right sir, it's none of your business. Can we head out now?"
He nodded knowing he crossed a line, "Yes. I'll just get you some perscriptions for pain and have you all head out."
He got up and pressed down the collar of his jacket before walking out and escorting the girls in before closing the door.
Camila ran to my side and kissed my head, "Did it hurt babe?"
I shook my head feeling even more groggier than when I was before, "No. I just wanna gooo home."
"She's so fucked up." Lauren giggled sitting back in her seat.
"Damn straight, LiLo." I joked before quickly starting to get drowsier.

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We took a private flight back to L.A. to get ready for the week trip of Brazil. I could feel myself get closer and closer to being more open to the public about Camila and I, and I can't wait for the day I could tell the world about her and I. The days were approaching quickly. Can I make it?