Paper Towns (A 5H Fanfic)

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Day 2: The Venue

The girls finished off their drive as they pulled into the parking lot of the venue. It was seven in the morning so no one was there yet.

"How are we supposed to get in?" Normani asked from the drivers seat, leaning on the steering wheel.

Dinah looked around the area, trying to figure out how they could get inside. There was a janitor walking out of the venue and throwing a trash bag into the dumpster near by. That was their ticket inside.

The girls hopped out of the car and snuck around by the dumpster. Normani and Ally were both slightly grossed out but they got over it once Dinah made a sprint for the back entrance door and slid inside without the other girls consent about the plan.

With worried eyes, Lauren looked around to see if anyone was looking. She looked back at Normani and Ally, then followed Dinah's lead and ran to the door. Just as she burst through the doors she rammed right into Dinah's back.

"We have to stop running into each other ok. My nose can't get slammed into your back like this anymore." Lauren said while rubbing her nose that could probably be broken at this point after how many times she's gotten hurt so far on this road trip.

"We?" Dinah laughed as she turned to face Lauren. "You're the one running into me all the time. I think since Camila left you started getting clumsier by the second. Mila is rubbing off on you."

Normani and Ally both quickly and quietly ran into the venue behind the other two girls. Dinah continued looking around the venues backstage area. Remembering so many memories from their first time touring in venues, even if it was as an opening act.

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"Where are you guys?" Dinah called from the backstage door. She was finding a pattern of her always getting lost in venues when she wasn't with another one of the girls to direct her in one direction. "Hello?" she called down a hall. "Mila?"

Dinah walked further down the halls and found Camila and Lauren siting on the floor in the corner of the room, looking at some video on Camila's phone. The two were both laughing at whatever it was. So hard that Lauren was practically crying from laughing.

"What's so funny?" Dinah asked curiously as she walked into the room.

"We're watching our X Factor performance with Demi! I haven't watched this back ever because my introduction to Demi was so long and so embarrassing!" Camila laughed. The introduction part came up on the video and instantly Camila cringed. "I can't watch this. I ramble for like fifty minutes." Camila buried her head in Lauren's shoulder but continued holding up the phone for Lauren to see the video. "I'm so embarrassing oh my god." her muffled voice rang out.

Lauren looked up at Dinah with a huge smile on her face. "No, Camz, it's cute." she laughed, patting Camila on the head.

A few minutes passed and the video ended. Camila moved her head from Lauren's shoulder and put her phone down on her lap. "It's over. Thank god it's over." she sighed. Lauren laughed like a little kid at Camila, but what else was new?

"You guys are like a married couple." Dinah laughed to herself. "Who wants to get food?" she asked.

"I told Ally I'd help do her hair. Next time though." Lauren replied. She stood up off the floor and reached a hand out to help Camila up.

"Chanco?" Dinah looked at Camila.

"Well, I need to check my very busy schedule." Camila sarcastically said. "I've got another embarrassing video to watch with this loser in a few." pointing her thumb at Lauren.