Paper Towns (A 5H Fanfic)

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A/N: So I haven't posted anything on here in a very long time. I've learned I like having finished stories before posting, now I know that, I have a few ready to go and want to share this one first, since it's 100% done. I've been writing a lot and running into different fandoms as well. I got super into 5h's music and now I've fucked my life up lol. Anyway, I know this isn't an o2l fic but I've been working on a new horror one that I'll hopefully finish this time. Also, I've been working on a Shawn Mendes fic bc I've been super into him lately. If people like this one, I have other ideas for other possible 5h fics if people want it. But I hope you enjoy this one even if you're not in the 5h fandom. I'm just proud I finished this one all the way through. Different stories with different fandoms to come. Hopefully. We'll see how this goes.

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"If we don't find her, this was all for nothing then! What was the point in driving all these miles just to kind of figure out where she is!" Lauren shouted to her group of friends.

The four stood in the middle of an empty and abandoned building somewhere near Miami Florida. A full wall behind Lauren was painted with a Peter Pan mural. Around the building there were dozens of graffiti and murals scattered around.

After eighteen hours and forty three minutes of driving, still no Camila. They had been on a road trip to find their friend for the past three days and Lauren thought they were so close to finding her. Finding Camila. But they weren't. They were back to where they started, clueless.

"Lo, we gotta go back to New York." Dinah started in a soft tone, trying to calm her friend. She put a hand on Lauren's shoulder but she quickly shook Dinah's hand off.

"Yeah, with or without Mila, the show tomorrow night has to go on. A lot of people bought tickets to see us." Normani added.

"Us. They bought tickets to see all of us. Not just this four piece." Lauren shot.

"Lo, she's on a missing persons list, cops are looking for her as we speak, fans probably are too. She can't stay hidden for much longer." Ally reassured her friend. "Someone will find her but we have to get back to reality. We have to do this show even without her."

Lauren was playing back in her head every minute and second of every day she'd ever had ever spent with her best friend. How Camila one time was so hungry that she got so excited to eat but when she sat down to eat she dropped her plate of food on the ground. She starred at the plate in defeat nearly frozen in the position she was in while the food toppled to the ground as Lauren laughed at the girl. Or how Camila would like to find the most random times to scare Lauren. In the middle of interviews, or even the middle of the night on the tour bus.

Camila was full of surprises. Some days she was high energy and unable to shut up. Some days she lacked any form of communication with anyone and would be so quiet they didn't even know if she was on the bus. Maybe that's why they hadn't suspected anything was up with her. Maybe that's why she was able to slip out in the middle of the night without a word or a trace and no one noticed until six am the following morning when it was time for an interview and performance on Good Morning America. Maybe that was her plan all along, to just disappear. But the girls needed her and the only question Lauren was left with was simply 'why?' Why did Camila choose now? Why did Camila choose Lauren as the one to find the clues? Why did Camila choose to runaway at the peak of Fifth Harmony's career? Why did she even choose to runaway? Why?

Lauren looked up and saw Normani, Ally and Dinah staring back at her worriedly. The past few days she had barely slept. None of them had. The four girls took off without telling their management they were heading off to look for their bandmate on their own. They had three days from the GMA interview and performance to the opening night of tour to find Camila. And here they were, day three, one day until opening night of tour, returning with nothing.

"We can't just give up on her." Lauren mumbled, looking down at the ground. Kicking the dirt and dust under her boots. "She never gave up on us."

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Day 0: The Before

"Lauren! Truth or dare?!" Camila asked excitedly as she un-peeled the banana in her hand.

The five girls had been playing truth or dare for the past fifteen minutes to pass the time on the bus. They were rehearsing for GMA in a few minutes but still had some extra time to relax.

"Um.. Truth."  Lauren said after a moment. She flung her long, black hair over her shoulder and out of her face.

"What's the most rebellious thing you've done?" Camila asked, looking at Lauren's green eyes, incredibly intrigued by what she would say.

Lauren thought for a minute. She'd done a rather lot of quote on quote rebellious things but nothing really stood out to her. "I tried to runaway when I was like ten." she confessed.

"I can see ten year old Lauren trying to runway." Ally laughed as she reached over Normani and stole a chip from the bag of chips that weren't hers but in fact Normani's. Normani slapped Ally's hand just as she grabbed a chip from the bag.

"I got scared and went back home after like fifteen minutes. I tried." Lauren laughed.

"A mysterious adventure for a mysterious girl." Camila noted, making eye contact with Lauren and raising her eyebrows at her rapidly. "Well I'm glad ten year old you went back home because look at you now." Camila threw her arms up in the air and nearly chucked her phone across the bus at Dinah who was trying to take a nap. Not that she hadn't just gotten up and out of her bunk to sit with the girls, sleep seemed like more fun than truth or dare.

"It astounds me that you haven't broken your phone before." Dinah said while reaching across the isle and handing Camila her phone back, still half asleep.

"Girls, we're ready to start rehearsal." A voice called from bus door.

The five girls stood up and walked towards the door. Lauren picked up the bag of chips and tossed a few blankets back into people's bunks.

"So you really tried running away?" Lauren's head popped up, looking at Camila who was picking at her phone case and waiting for Lauren to go to rehearsal.

"If you consider running down the street and packing a backpack of one shirt, a granola bar and a flashlight then sure. I guess I did." Lauren chuckled. She tossed another blanket into Normani's bunk and shut the curtain. "I was ten Camz, I don't really count it as anything other than being a kid, thinking I had the world figured out."

The two girls exited the bus and walked towards the building. New York was already feeling muggy out, even at 5am. "Have you ever thought about doing it again?" Camila asked as they walked.

"No. I mean I love the life I have and the friends I'm surrounded by. There's no reason I'd want to." she explained.

They stepped into the building and were handed their in ears and mic's.

"Yeah but I mean just for fun. Like have you thought about what would happen? Where you'd go? Who you'd tell?" Camila clipped her mic pack to the back of her red skirt and put her left in ear in. "Would you take anyone with you?"

Lauren adjusted her mic levels then looked up at Camila while clipping the mic pack to the back of her jeans. "If I were running away, why would I tell anyone? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?" Lauren replied before walking out the building door and towards the stage that was outside.

"I guess." Camila said to herself before following behind Lauren.

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A/N:

Shit is starting to happen yo. Hopefully you enjoyed the first part of this story! I tried to capture each girls actual real life personality throughout this story to make it a bit realistic. It's fun writing these girls since they all have such individual personalities in real life. Thanks for reading. Fun stuff is ahead in this story.