The Soulmates Series Camren

1.4

Camila was jogging along the waters edge at the beach like she did every morning before she had to get ready for school. She had found herself leaving her house before sunrise this morning as she was doing an extra shift at the coffee shop before school. With spring break coming up in a little under two months she was taking as many shifts at the coffee shop as she possibly could. She couldn't wait until she could escape those halls, until she was free and no longer as alone as she was at school. She was so lost in thought that she managed to lose her footing and trip over herself into the sand. Camila sighed heavily, it was just her luck to trip over her own feet, especially while running on an uneven surface. It made her question just why it was she chose to run over the beach every morning when this was most definitely not her first experience of falling. She was about to pick herself up out the sand when a hand was extended to her and she met a pair of intense, silver flecked green eyes staring down at her. She lowered her milky gaze to the surprisingly bare lips that were curved up into a smirk. Lauren extended her hand further, and Camila hesitantly placed hers inside of it, allowing the older girl to pull her to her feet.

"Looks like I found you again," Lauren smirked. When Camila regained her composure her form was much closer to Lauren than the girls had anticipated and it all but drew the breath right from Lauren's lips. Camila looked up at the taller girl with her mouth hanging slightly agape, her restless breathing escaping soundlessly.

"Looks like it," Camila breathed, not yet stepping away from the gorgeous girl. Her hand was still in the other girl's and she felt it appropriate to remove it. Her skin felt lost without the heat of the other girl radiating onto it, it was as though she had never lived without her touch. Intense green eyes stared down into chocolate brown and Camila felt her pulse hammering in her every pulse point.

"So what has you out so early?" Lauren asked, her gaze trailing over the contours of the other girl's face.

"I could ask you the same thing," Camila said, her tone managing no more than a whisper. Something about the other girl made her nervous, her heartbeat was thrumming rapidly against ribcage.

"I asked first," Lauren retorted, a smirk on her lips. Her gaze torn away from Camila by the rising colours in the sky. The subtle warm glow of the sun was casting a light across her face and Camila could have sworn she'd never seen something so stunning in her life.

"Well, uh, I have to do a shift before school,"

"How poetic," Lauren teased, returning her attention to Camila.

"Shut up," Camila retorted, a slight smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. "If you're so poetic then tell me why you're out so early?"

"You're just a little walking contradiction aren't you?" Lauren smirked, biting down on her bottom lip. Camila's eyes widened, focusing on the other girl's plump lip that she had taken between her teeth. Her heart had all but exploded by now. "Well, if you must know, I like to be out in the dark,"

"Like black that much, huh?" Camila replied, her confident delivery taking Lauren by surprise.

Lauren laughed, the sound obnoxiously loud yet intoxicating. "Like black that much," She confirmed with a lazy shrug. "But I also have a bit of a thing for that," Lauren said, nodding toward the watercolour sky. Camila turned her gaze to the sky, a mixture of pale pinks and blues, with white clouds brush stroked across the expanse of it. Her small mouth hung slightly agape, her lips forming the most beautiful smile Lauren had ever seen. The green eyed girl was staring at a much more beautiful canvas, one brush stroked with the warmest colours she'd ever laid her eyes on.

"I can't believe I've been missing out on this all this time," Camila sighed happily, averting her gaze from the sunrise to the glowing features of the green eyed girl next to her.