The Black Tangled Heart

The Plan

Sitting in front of her dressing table mirror, Camila drew thick black lines below her lower eyelids with her eyeliner, purposely leaving out the wings she knew a certain someone liked before quickly lining her lips with a dark plum and then filling it in with a lighter version of the colour.

She closed her eyes as her mother and father's heated voices filled every corner of the house and then opened them again to apply a thin layer of mascara

In all honesty she wanted to take her hand and wipe every inch of makeup from her skin but Maria once again owed money which meant Maya had a date and that of course meant Camila had no choice but to double date

Pushing to her feet she walked to the corner of the red velvet curtain that covered the window of her balcony and sneaked a look, there in the shadow of the bushes was her car, the one that had hidden there, occupied by Shawn and Ethan for the last two days, the reason she had been able to sleep easier in her own bed than she ever had, their presence soothing and reassuring her.

She quickly replaced the curtain and then moved back to her spot before the mirror.

She didn't know how to get Shawn to leave, to walk away and forget he had ever met her but it was what she had to do, she had been so stupid to let things run any longer than one night, to think she could move out and her mother would just let her go when she was Maria's greatest asset.

Not even Camilas offer to pay the debt had worked, Maria seeming to want her daughter to learn a lesson about who is in control and what were the consequences of Camila trying to break free of that control

Sighing heavily, Camila felt the sting of tears but forced them down, knowing no one would care about her pain or her fear... no one except Shawn that is and he was now nothing but one more mistake in her history but she was sure if she left the house tonight through the front door she wouldn't even make it to the hired car before Shawn and his ego would appear and a hell she couldn't afford to unleash would break free

Camila closed her eyes and for a brief second allowed her mind to be filled with those early mornings with Shawn. His muscular arms around her waist, his lips pressed to her neck, they were just friends, he couldn't kiss her but he could allow his skin to touch hers without making it anything more than just innocent 'contact' and she had loved it. Loved that this tough guy she had assumed was only after one thing, still wanted to touch her even when that 'one thing' had been taken off of the table

Taking her thumb and forefinger she nipped the skin of her thigh and squeezed it tight, begging the sting to disperse her thoughts of Shawn but instead he seemed to become all that she could think about and all that she could see

"You ready?" Asked Maya as she appeared in the doorway to Camilas room, her taller, larger body filling the space and causing the room to darken

"Does it look like it?" Camila snapped, hating the way her sister dragged her so deeply into her murky world with no remorse

"Well hurry the fuck up. Carlo won't wait" Maya snapped whilst throwing her poker straight, black hair over on shoulder and looking down at her sister as though she was mess a dog had made on the floor

"I hope he doesn't wait, I hope he and his brother change their mind and then maybe I can go to bed and get some sleep without worrying about some sleazeball coming near me

"Rocco isn't a sleazeball and you owe mom after everything you put her through"

Camila closed her eyes and gripped her blusher brush as tightly as she could to stop herself from thinking about everything that had happened between Maria, Roger and herself before she had finally escaped to Shawns apartment and trying not to scream out in despair that even after escaping her own personal hell she had found herself right back in the middle of it

"The boy... the boxer, he's done right?" Maya asked whilst snatching the blusher brush from Camilas grip and applying a blush that was too deep for her paler skin tone

Camila nodded whilst rummaging for an eyebrow pencil, not wanting to alert Maya or anyone else to the fact that Shawn and Ethan has were still sat in her partially hidden car

"Word is he's hot and dangerous, God knows what the fuck he saw in a girl like you other than you wear no panties" Maya laughed lightly as she threw the brush at Camila "Be good tonight, mom needs the cash, no being a brat or a bitch, if he says jump, you don't question it you just say 'how high?'"

"I'm 18 years old Maya, don't you feel guilty about dragging me into this stuff?"

"Did mom feel guilty about dragging me into it?!" Maya's voice hardened against the tsunami of the past that hit her along with Camilas words as she pulled awkwardly at red dress that sat too high on her thighs and too low on her chest "You smile, you agree, you eat but do not drink anything" Camila nodded, after hearing the same instructions a hundred times over in her short 18 years of life "He won't show up, won't cause a scene?"

"I don't know" Camila answered honestly as she rubbed some clear lip balm onto her lips, knowing that Shawn liked them rosey and pink

"We can't have a scene Camila"

"Then I guess you should have left me alone, left me with my boxer and not dragged me into any of this"

It took half a second for Maya's hand to hit Camila so hard her lip split against her teeth "You and mama are poison to this family. If we could have left you with your brain dead bozo we would have, believe me but for some unknown reason guys seem to want you on the menu

"I don't want to go" Camila whispered

"Tough!" Get dressed, get in the car and then get over the boxer by getting under the guy that will help mom clear her debts"

"And if I don't?"

"If you don't then mom, the guy, Roger and me will come after your ass so hard you won't know if you got a telling off or if you got anal"

Camila sat at her mirror, her sisters words sinking in but her own longing crying out

Shawn..

She wanted Shawn

She wanted him to storm in here and drag her out, protect her from the words and the threats of her family but as Camila released her curls from her scrunchy she knew that wasn't going to happen and if by some miracle it did the cops would be called and he'd be hauled off to jail

"Here" Maya said suddenly reappearing and throwing something black at her sister before disappearing again just as quickly

"This is too short!" Camila called after her

"There is no such things as 'too short'" said Maya as she appeared back in Camilas doorway "Now remember, you do and say whatever you need to do or say and then once he's asleep you clear him out and head home"

"I've done this enough times to know what I'm doing" Said Camila as she stood up and then moved to her en-suite, stripping down to her black thong with no bra, knowing there was no way she could wear a bra with the dress she was now rolling over her body, the material not giving her an inch to move in

Looking at herself in the mirror, Camila felt her stomach turn, she looked disgusting, felt disgusting but there was no way out of this without agreeing to dinner with Roger, so she walked silently to the balcony window, pulling back the curtain and feeling her heart turn icy cold and then drop hard as she realised that after two days the car and Shawn had gone, he'd given up on her and once again, she was all alone

*I think I'm going to start ending this one too so please vote and comment please and give me a follow x