The next day at the store, Lauren had not been even remotely able to wipe the smile off her face. She actually hummed along to the music Normani was playing, something that annoyed her to practically no end, but she couldn't even care about that. Her night with Camila hadn't ended until 3 in the morning. They'd retired to the shower and done stuff there and then again in bed and then sleep and then they'd woken up and done stuff in the morning. Camila had actually had to leave on the Saturday morning to go into work. They'd kissed and exchanged numbers and then Lauren had pulled Camila back to bed and 45 short minutes later they'd left the bed for good. Lauren had laid in bed for a while, replaying the night in her head for a while and thinking about Camila before, eventually, getting out of bed and making it to the store at 1 in the afternoon. She couldn't stop annoying her with her cheerfulness. She was actually singing along to a song that Normani was playing, not knowing the words at all but trying to remember what she'd heard so far, that she finally snapped.
"Good sex then?" Normani I asked annoyedly.
"Whatever do you mean?" Lauren said coyly, thinking back to a particular bit of the evening, with her perched on her bathroom sink with Camila between her thighs after the shower.
"How cute is your boss they'll ask me? Terribly, terribly cute, is how I'll respond. And your fiendish plan will all come together." Normani said, going back to drawing. Lauren stood still for a second and looked back to Normani to finally answer her question.
"Oh my god Mani, it was the single greatest night of sex in my entire life." She finally spilled, the words racing out of her "We got back to my place and we started kissing and tearing each others clothes off and neither of us knew who should do what first so I..."
"My sweet innocent ears, spare me your filthy deviant details." Normani cut her off.
Normani's sexuality had long been a bit of some puzzlement to Lauren and everyone who knew her. Lauren had never seen her with anyone or talk about anyone special despite many cute geeky girls who frequented the store asking Lauren over hushed whispers near the front of the store if she was single. She always said she didn't know. The bolder ones would always approach her and she would typically be as brusque with them as she was with anyone else. The cute, geeky boys who'd ask her the same question about Normani would get the same treatment. Either way she didn't seem interested in hearing about anyone's sex life. Certainly not Lauren's.
"Well, anyways, it was unbelievable." Lauren said, particularly enjoying the song that was playing now. "What's this one?"
"Powerful Stuff. Sean Hayes." Normani I said wearily "Should I just give you my Ipod and start a new one?"
Lauren felt her phone buzz against her jeans pocket. She pulled it out. It was a text message from Camila.
"Hey Beautiful" it read. Lauren whipped her own phone, it's back marked up with little personal and phrases in white-out. She began typing back.
"Hey"
"Meeting. So boring. Want more U"
"Tonight?" Was Lauren's hopeful reply
"Too long. Starting to feel sick. Going home with terrible case of life-threatening flu. Come and tuck me in."
Lauren looked at the message for about 15 seconds. She thought back to last night and things that Camila had done and had said they'd do later and....well, it wasn't much of a decision.
"Be right there." Was her hastily typed reply.
Lauren put her phone back into her pocket and grabbed her bag from the counter.
"Close up tonight Normani."
Normani looked over at the Star Wars clock on the wall. It read 2:12
"Yeah, you've put in a full day of work." Normani said sarcastically as she left.
