Catfish

Although It Took So Long

It seemed like a long time. It seemed like days. It seemed like minutes. It seemed like eternity, but it seemed like a few seconds. It seemed like the girls were having an internal conversation between themselves. It seemed that they wanted to make a move but neither of them wanted to budge, both girls being enamored by each other's presence.

The only thing that made them budge was Dinah's starstruck squeal.

"Gurl, I can't believe we found her! Lauren — can I call you that? She has been looking for you all day." Dinah says, leaning against her best friend's side, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. When Dinah saw that neither one of them has responded to what she said, she sighs and shoves Camila closer to Lauren.

Nev, knowing that this entire experience went downhill quickly and knew that the couple do nothing but fight, braced himself for what was to come. He has seen many things happen in the past 3 years of doing this show: they could fight, they could hug, Camila could just run away, or they could just make up. Judging on the way these past three months have gone by, the latter seems highly unlikely.

Camila reaches up to her face and wipes away a stray tear that escaped. Lauren, seeing that her girlfriend was upset, opens her arms wide. Camila chuckles and flings herself into Lauren's arms, wrapping her legs around her waist, each girl sniffing and clutching onto each other for dear life — feeling that if one of them would let go, the other would vanish into thin air.

In the back, the guys and Dinah are silently cheering. The two girls couldn't care less, it was as if they were the only two people in the world. But the feeling was short lived, because it was at that moment that Lauren recognized the two guys that were with Camila.

"Please tell me you didn't..." Lauren mutters. Camila frowns and unwraps her legs from around her, stepping back a few paces to read her expression.

Lauren internally groans, thinking about how bad of a girlfriend she had to be to have Camila seek answers from Catfish, a show that millions of people watch and those people tend to hate Catfishers. Her management will kill her when they find about this!

Not only will she get ten times more hate than she normally does, she'll also be put into a bad light in the press. Then her family and friends will find out what actually went down between them. This entire time they've thought that she was in a normal relationship, but they didn't really know anything about the two girls.

"Lauren, is everything okay?" Nev asks.

"Yeah, Laur, are you fine?" Normani finally pipes up, putting a hand on her shoulder. Camila stares at the unknown girl and almost growls at her.

Dinah sees this and chuckles, whispering in her ear that Normani is Lauren's straight best friend. Camila nods but still feels self-conscious.

Lauren stares at Camila, still in shock that she's here— she's actually here, and she feels the urge to reach out and touch her soft skin once again. She licks her lips and says, "Yep, everything's great." She glances at Camila and grins like a fool, staring at the ground.

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"Ally, gurl, we found Mila's girl! And she's so cool, she even gave me an autograph!" Dinah says excitedly into the phone, ignoring the giggles coming from the group around her.

"So, where should we go from here?" Nev asks to Camila. Camila turns her attention away from her phone and towards Nev, not knowing how to answer because she's not sure if she heard him right.

"Uhmm, yeah, the coffee was great." She mumbles, staring back at her phone blankly, waiting for a message from Lauren. Not that she was expecting one, but you'd think that them meeting would—

"That's not what I said. You should stop staring at your phone. She's probably asleep."

"Yeah, Mila, she has the life of a popstar, her schedule is crazy." Dinah says, putting her hand on Camila's knee.

"Yeah, you're probably right." Camila mumbles, still not putting her phone down. She decides to go on Tumblr to pass the time. The first thing she sees is a Lauren Jauregui fan account freaking out over a new post. She scrolls down and sees people making up theories about her new post: some say it has to do with a secret lover (some random celebrity), and some say it's lyrics to her new single.

Camila frowns and goes onto Lauren's blog, the latest post saying:

Did you come and go like the wind in between the time I was gone? Are these traces you forgot to clean up?

— When I'm Alone

Camila frowns again, not knowing what the post meant. She sighs again when she realizes that Lauren couldn't have posted this that long ago — she was with her 10 minutes ago. She refreshes the page and see that she's noted 3 other posts. She locks her phone and frowns.

Why is Lauren not talking to her?

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"So, this is awkward, huh?" Lauren says, scratching the back of her head. Camila purses her lips and nods. Nev and Max stare at the couple as if they were crazy.

"What's up with them?" Max whispers to Nev.

"I don't know, this is really weird." Nev shrugging his shoulders.

"So Lauren, I think we should get right to the point. How did you and Camila," he begins, gesturing between the two of them awkwardly, "meet."

Lauren turns her attention to them and sighs, thinking about why they're here. She sighs again, knowing she'll have to listen to them either way, there's no way she could get out of this.

"Well, I came across her blog through mutuals who always noted her posts. I went through her blog and instantly fell for her— her blog, I mean." Lauren coughs, trying to cover up that she almost said that she instantly fell in love with her, which she did, but she didn't want to overwhelm Camila.

Camila noticed that and smiled.

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I probably shouldn't have stopped it there but I saw that I hit 1k words so yeah

CATFISH (the show) TURNED 3 ON THURSDAY

pray for Paris y'all, because we know how sucky the world can be

Quick Question:

What do you think will happen next?

LOVE YOU GOODBYE (omf such a good song) (can't wait for the album)

~ InTheseWalls xo