"Lauren?"
Camila waited. She waited to see if the girl would turn around. She never did. I mean, if someone called her name, she would turn around. It must not be her.
Dinah must have just had known Lauren. It didn't mean that this mystery girl was Lauren.
The girl waited for Camila to walk off before turning around and watching her like she always did. She watched her every time she walkes through the school doors, every time her knee bobbed up and down during class.
"Yeah." Lauren mumbled, shoving her books into her locker aggresively, although no one was paying attention.
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"You and Lucas broke up?!" Normani exclaimed, causing people to look around in the hallway.
Camila slapped Normani's shoulder gently. "Mani!" She sighed and nodded. "We didn't get into a fight or anything, we're still great friends. It's just that I didn't feel comfortable."
Camila was going to tell the rest of her friends about her sexuality sooner or later. She just wanted to get her head 'straight' first. All she could think about was her. Lauren.
God, where is she? She said she transfered schools. Did she say to where?
Camila decided to go through her old screenshots and look for Lauren's text from almoat two years ago. Yes, Camila kept it.
Camila hadn't forgotten about Lauren, she just didn't want to remember. She didn't want to remember what she did to her.
From: lolo <3
I'm done with this. I'm done. I've tried so hard, Camila. I'm transferring schools. I don't want to see you every day. I don't want to see you ever again.
But that really was a lie.
Camila closed her phone and looked down. Lauren didn't say where she was going. She didn't want Camila to see her ever again. Camila wouldn't take that, though.
"Camila? Hello? I was talking to you." Normani crossed her arms, slightly offended by the fact that Camila totally ignored her to check her phone.
"Oh I'm sorry, Mani." Camila shook her head. "My mom just texted me." She nodded and put a reassuring hand on Normani's shoulder. "You were saying?"
"Lucas was your first. Don't you still have a connection to him? In any way?" Normani continued.
Camila thought long and hard about that. About the party at the end of sophomore year. The party that she met Lucas at. The party that she lost Lauren at.
"We um..." Camila looked down, folding her hands. "Normani we didn't have sex." She confessed, looking at the floor.
"Why did you tell us that you did? Mila, are you still a virgin?" Normani asked, confused.
"I mean..." Camila chuckled, looking around from side to side. "I didn't have sex with him." She said, tears almost forming in her eyes. She held them back, though.
Normani's eyes widened as her tone became softer. "Who else would you have had sex with?"
Camila totally avoided the question, shaking her head and looking past Normani. "Look, I have to find Dinah. Quick." She gave Normani a quick hug before running towards the girls' bathroom where she had seen Dinah.
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"How do you know Lauren?" Camila blurted out just as she had caught up to Dinah.
Dinah turned around quickly and tried to hold in her laugh. "It was you, wasn't it?"
