Catching You

Chapter 11

Lauren's P.O.V
It's been almost two months since I last saw Camila. Of course she's been texting me and calling me whenever she can. She's sunk out a few times to see me. One time she got caught and I didn't hear from her for two weeks. It's killing me. Her dad gets mad at her for no reason now. He's been beating her. She told me that he never laid a hand on her until now. Which makes me feel like it's kind of my fault because if it weren't for me opening my stupid mouth we would still be able to see each other. When I do see her she usually has bruises and scarps pretty much on her entire toros. I hug her while she cries. It breaks my heart. I can't do anything really. All I can to is hold her and tell her that it's gonna be ok....but I'm not so sure of that.
I haven't heard from Camila in a week. I'm starting to get worried. The last thing she texted me was 'I need to see you....but my dad got really mad at me the day and he...I'm not gonna finish that. All I'm gonna tell you is that it's hard for me to walk and u can't really see'. I texted back of course. 'What happened? Talk to me Camz'. I never got an answer. Honestly I'm sacred. I don't really want to tell anybody because then Alejandro will find out that she's been talking to me. And a Camila told me not to tell anyone either.
The only people she has been taking to is me and Dinah. Dinah has permission to visit her once every other week. Dinah is pissed. Not only because she can't see Camila but also that this is happening to her....to us. She's the captain after all.
I'm laying in my bed listening to The 1975 and finishing my summer homework. School starts on Monday, It's Friday which means that I can see Camila. She didn't transfer schools thankfully. My phone starts to buzz. It's Dinah.
"Dinah?"
"Lauren get your nice Cuban ass in your car right now and come over to my house. This is not a drill. Let's go. Now," Dinah yells making me jump.
"Why th-"
"No questions," she cuts me off "NOW!" I get up from my bed and put on my shoes grab my keys and jump into the car.
"Ok I'm in the car and driving over there right now."
"Good." Dinah hangs up right as I pull into her driveway. I jump out of the car and run to the door.
"What took you so long Jauregui?" Dinah opens the door before I can even knock.
"Sorry," I spit back.
"Whatever."
"Now what is it that is so urgent?" I ask stepping into the house. Dinah grabs my arm and yanks me up the stairs and into her room, closing and locking the door behind us. There are coughing and groaning noises coming form somewhere in the room, I can't exactly tell where, but I can hear them.
"Dinah," a small weak sounding voice echoes through the room. I know that voice anywhere. I immediately start to cry.
"Camz?"
"Lauren?" She coughs out. I walk around to the other side of the bed to see Camila's small body in a puddle if blood.
"Camz!" I yell bending down to help her up. "What the hell Dinah!? Why did you leave her on the floor?"
" I was about to pick her up when I heard your cat pull up. I helped her through the window and then called you." I rub the smaller girls back, kissing her neck over and over again.
"Start running a bath," I order. Dinah runs into her bathroom and turns on the water. I slowly walk Camila over to the bathroom. "Help me get her undressed." Dinah nods and slowly starts to pull Camila's clothes off.
"L...Lau-Lauren?"
"Yes baby," I say calmly running my fingers through her hair. She gulps and clothes her eyes. Dinah is still slowly stripping her.
"Wi-will you t-take a b-bath w-wi-with-"
"Yes," I cut her off kissing her cheek. Dinah nods and walks out of the room with all of Camila's clothes. I carry her over to the tub and place her in. I watch her start to sink. "Can you hold yourself up?" I ask grabbing her before she can be fully submerged in the water. She shakes her head. "Ok. Hold on." I take start to take off my clothes. It's takes a while for me to get fully undressed but when I do I hold her up a little and slid in behind her, so that her back is on my front.
I still haven't really looks at Camila's face fully. I mean I looked at it but I didn't get a chance to see where she is hurt. I can see the bruises and cuts on her ribcage and stomach. Her chest is slowly rising and falling. She occasionally coughs then whimpers or groans causing me to rub her sides and kiss her head.
I don't know how long we spent in the tub but I didn't mind. I was with her. I was with Camila. The person I love. We haven't said anything to each other since I got into the tub with her. Camila stirs a little, and I looked down at her. Her eyes were closed but she was mumbling something I couldn't quite understand.
"What?" I question.
"I...I-I want," she mumbles softly "I want to get....out....but....,"she trails off.
"But what babe?" I ask stroking her hair.
"I...I don't want....I don't want you yo see my face."
"Camila," I breathe out, a little hurt. Honestly I didn't know what to say.
"I'm...I'm sorry....it just....it looks so bad," she sobs.
"Shhhhh," I hush her, stroking her hair. "Let's get out baby," I whisper in her ear, picking her up and taking her out of the tub. "Here babe," I say placing her on the edge of the tub still holding her hip. I quickly dry off and slip on my underwear and bra. "Dinah!" I call out. Dinah comes into the bathroom.
"You done?" She asks.
"Yeah will you get Camz some clothes while I dry her off?" Dinah nods running out of the bathroom. I turn and that's when I really see Camila's face. She has a black eye, her lip is busted in three places, she has cuts all over her cheeks, forehead and eyebrows and she has a deep gash that goes from her forehead down to her cheek. I bite my lip to hold back the tears. "Camz," I whisper my vice cracking as I bring my hand up to cares her cheek. She turns hear head into my hand as a tear rolls down her soft skin. I wipe away the tear with my free hand. "Look at me," I plead. She turns her head her eyes welling up with tears. "He did this to you?" I ask running my hands over the damaged skin lightly. She nods letting another tear fall. Her lips are swollen and her eyes are red. I lean in and kiss her cheek softly. "I'd kiss your lips but I don't want to hurt you," I run my finger over her bottom lip. She smiles weakly. "C'mon let's get you dressed and cleaned up." I pick her up and bring her to Dinah's bed.
"Here are the clothes," Dinah hands me a pile of clean clothes. "You can put her on my bed. I'm gonna clean up the puddle. The bandaids and stuff are right next to he bed."
"Ok thank you Dinah," I say placing Camila on the bed. I quickly get her dressed and sit her up, placing pillows behind her head and back. "You're ok now. I'm here," I whisper kissing her forehead. "Nothing will hurt you." She nods. "I'm gonna clean you up. Then you can sleep." She smiles again. After I clean her cuts, which didn't take that long because she was falling asleep and didn't move that much, I got up and found Dinah. "We need to move her."
"But she just went to sleep,"Dinah groans.
"No I mean we need to move her out of this house, because you and I both know that the the first place Alejandro is gonna look is here," I cross my arms.
"You're right," Dinah agrees.
"I already called Ally and she is on her way. She said Camila could her guest room," I confirm.
"Ok. So we'll move her tonight."
Halloooo!!! Lol sorry for not updating for a while. I'm on vacation 😑 it kind of sucks bc I've been away for three weeks and I miss home. I also have hella homework to do. But did you see fifth harmony and Taylor preform worth it!? 😱😍 It was so amazing. I can't wait to see them again. Ok so sorry for the spelling and grammar mistakes...it's summer I forget a lot of stuff. Thanks for reading. ILY!!!
-J