Daylight

Chapter 8: Family gift but more like family horror

The party had only begun half an hour ago but Camila was already exhausted, in her defense she had been here earlier to oversee the final touches of everything. Just remembering her conversation with the pastry chef gave her chills, the man had changed the cake but didn't change the rest of the cupcakes, they got here with Elsa's face in it and Camila almost had a heart attack, luckily they managed to work around it and fix it before the party.

Finally, she sat down, she had a table for herself and her guests, Lauren was a great host and they had been treated with the same respect as the other parents and guests. At her table were Dinah, Selena, and Justin, Leigh-Anne couldn't come because of her work. Normani tho wasn't sitting with them, she was at Lauren's table at the center of the party with some other women Camila didn't know but she understands that they're very close and Normani's even Liv's godmother, which makes sense to her to be there with them.

Even tho she wasn't working today, Camila couldn't stop watching the girls, Liv was so happy and vibrant that it made her happy too, surrounded by friends going between the pool and the bounce house. Meanwhile, Luna was a little closer off from the rest of the party but still had some friends over. Everything was fine.

Maybe because she's keeping them under her eye she was one of the first people to notice a brunette approaching the children by the pool. At first, she didn't see anything wrong, could be anyone's mom or guest, until of course, she saw Liv out of the pool and run into her arms.

The scene was already getting some looks and whispers from the other guests close to that area and Camila knew in her bones that whoever that woman was, it wasn't a good thing.

It didn't take long for her to be proven right, she got up fast when she saw Lauren running in that direction and without thinking, she ran after her.

"How do you have the courage to show your face here I'll never know" She heard Lauren saying to the woman who was holding Liv in her arms, Camila swallowed a bitter taste seeing the scene, she didn't know why, but she didn't like it. She already had an idea about who she was.

"It's my daughter's birthday, is it not?" She emphasized the word my and Camila knew the situation just got worse "Since you didn't bother to invite me, I decided to come anyway"

Yes, that was Lucy, the girl's other mother. Camila watched the woman she had much judged since learning she left her children. Despite being dressed in a way that said she wasn't materialistic Camila could see she grabbed her necklace and it wasn't cheap, she gave a certain artistic vibe and it made sense since she was a painter but her eyes were cold and she looked at Camila like she was an insect, after all, she was just the help.

Yeah, she didn't regret calling this woman a bitch in her head.

"Weren't you in Europe?" Lauren looked at her and then at her daughter "Livia, come here"

"But mommy..."

"Now!" She was firm "Don't make me say it again" Liv nodded and got out of the woman's arms, going straight to her mother.

Camila was trying not to make any noise and call attention to herself.

"Camila, take Liv inside please" The situation was so out of control that Lauren didn't even realize that she had called Camila by her name instead of Miss Cabello. Lucy tho, she noticed, she could feel her gaze down on her clothes.

She wouldn't let herself be intimidated.

"Are you sure?" She asked Lauren, she didn't feel comfortable leaving the woman alone with the brunette right now.

"Yes, quickly before Luna comes down here" Oh, yeah, that would be a disaster. She grabbed Liv in her arms and just watched as Lauren took Lucy by her hand to a more secure spot over the fences where no one could hear them.