The Secret - Camren

Part 15

The following morning was brutal. I was exhausted from the hard night before. Camila's face was still tucked into the side of my neck. I would feel her breaths gently brush against my sensitive skin. I tried sliding away from her without waking her up but she had a tight grip on my shirt. I gently tried to unclasp her hand but I wasn't able to. I sat back down and kissed her forehead, then her cheeks and finished at her lips. She wasn't responding at first, but after a moment I could feel a light pressure against my lips. I tried to pull away but she grabbed the back of my neck and forced me back to her lips. She was kissing me like it was the last time. She had never kissed me so passionately before. Her tongue was exploring every inch of my mouth, her hand was grabbing onto my hair and her other hand was tracing the edge of my shirt.

After what could have been hours I pulled away to take a breath. She looked up at me with her big, beautiful brown eyes. She looked so sad, it broke my heart. I could see tears in the corner of her eyes threatening to escape. I took her into my arms and held onto her as tightly as I could.

"Did last night happen?" She whispered against my chest.

"Yeah Camzi it did" I said before kissing the top of her head. I held her in silence as tears continued down her cheeks. When her tears had dried we both got up and got ready for school.

When I got to the kitchen I was attacked.

"LAUREN!!!" my litter sister screamed almost dropping her cereal. She ran over to me and hugged me tightly. Ally and Mani were in the kitchen making breakfast for Camila and I.

"Hey cutie" I said and bent down to kiss her cheek. "I missed you so much Taylor" I continued.

Not long after that we were all cramming into cars and heading to drop off my siblings and to school.

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That day was a busy one. Camila and I never got to have our talk like she promised we would. If I was being honest I think she was avoiding it. I didn't blame her for it. Whatever it was about her past really seemed scary and I didn't want to push her too much. I couldn't lose the one girl I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

The only time that I saw Camila was in class. I was starting to miss her so much. We had made plans for her to come over to my house after soccer on Saturday and I really couldn't wait.

Thursday night when I got to work I found out that the boss had actually followed through with his awful plan to make the waitresses sing. The boss told me that today I was going to watch the other waitresses lip-sync since none of them were really any good at it and that starting tomorrow I was going to have to lip-sync too. I was not looking forward to singing.

The night had gone really quick and I couldn't stop laughing at my coworkers, they were overdoing it with the facial expressions. They had taken out a few booths to make a stage while I was gone and they had put a karaoke machine, mics, a guitar and a keyboard on the stage. At every table they had put a call button for the customers to ring when they wanted someone to sing. Clients could make requests, go on stage and sing themselves or just ask us to sing whatever song we wanted, all they had to do was put 1$ into the small machines. I truly hated Zak for making us do this.

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Friday was the same as Thursday. I got to see Camz in class and at lunch but it wasn't nearly as much as I wanted to see her. Time was dragging on without her.

When I got to work that afternoon it was strangely dead. Zak was playing around with the new musical equipment and I think maybe that was the reason no one was in the restaurant. When he saw me come in he walked off stage and his foot got stuck in the karaoke's wires. He landed face first on the floor and started bleeding pretty bad.