*****Camila's POV*****
"Are you taking care of our daughter-in-law Karla?" I laughed at the phone. My family decided to facetime us while we were in the hospital. I honestly thought they were doing their little check-up on me, because my mental state was all screwed a while ago. Surprisingly though, they were calling about Dinah and the baby. At first, my dad was a little skeptical of us dating and Dinah being able to take care of me, but she more than proved herself with all we've been through. Yes, there's still some issues between our fathers because of what her dad did, but they're getting over it. One day at a time.
"I'm trying guys. Dinah and I had a bit of an argument on how the baby should be raised. I still haven't talked to her since then." They all had sympathetic looks on their faces for me. "Dad. Sofi. Can Mom and I have a minute to talk?" "Sure Mija, take all the time you need" my dad said, grabbing Sofi and taking her out of the room.
Once they were gone, my mother spoke. "What did you do, Karla? Why is she so mad at you?" The argument played through in my head. "I tried to tell her that we needed to give the baby to a more suitable family." There was silence for a moment. So long of a pause that I thought she might have hung up on me. Then she started screaming.
"YOU TRIED TO TELL THAT GIRL WHAT TO DO WITH HER BABY?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME, KARLA? YOU WERE RAISED BETTER THAN THAT. I SWEAR TO GOD; THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU, I'M BEATING YOUR ASS WITH THE CHANCLA."
Okay. Maybe I messed up a little bit. I just wanted to do what I thought was right. By doing what I thought was right, I had completely disregarded Dinah's feelings. No matter what I thought, it came down to what Dinah thought was right. And since I love Dinah, I have to support my baby. And our baby to come.
"You're right, Mom" I sighed heavily. Like usual, I was wrong. "Please go fix things with my lovely daughter-in-law. We'd hate to lose that Hansen girl. She's definitely a keeper." I just laughed. My parents always did love Dinah. They'd kill me if I messed things up with her. I'd probably kill me too, to be completely honest. God, let me go to talk to her. "Okay Mom, I'm going to talk to her. I love you guys." "Love you too, sweetie."
With that said, I left the room and started to head to her room. I was thinking about every little movement I made and every step I took. If I do anything slightly wrong, I could lose her trust in me again. I just wanted to make things right for once. I had to stop messing things up with Dinah. After all, she's been nothing but good to me. I needed to return the favor.
When I got to the door of the room, I started to pace around and get nervous. What was I going to say to her? How was I going to say it? Would she even want to listen to me? Would we be able to move past my ignorance? God, I just needed to do it. The minute I reached for the door handle, someone grabbed my hand and started to pull me away from the door. When I looked up, I saw it was Normani.
She pulled me all the way out of the hospital and onto a walking trail away from it. "Normani, where the hell are we going?" She let go of my arm and turned back to me with tears in her eyes. "I couldn't let you go in there, Camila. Not after what I had to see. I can't let you get hurt the same way I did. You shouldn't witness what I did." I was so lost. "What do you mean?" She took a deep breath and fanned her eyes, "I saw Dinah and Lauren kissing".
My heart cracked. I could feel it. I could hear it. My whole world crashed down on me. Everything I knew and loved was just an illusion. I doubt Normani would lie to me, so I couldn't do anything but break down and cry. "I'm sorry, Mila" Normani cried, holding me in her arms. I just held onto her and let out all of my tears I had in me.
"W-why would they cheat on us" I asked, crying into her neck. She ran her fingers through my hair and I thought about how Dinah would do the same. This thought only made me cry more. "Is it something I did? Did I send Dinah to Lauren?" "No" Normani cried, "It was my fault for always arguing with Lauren". No matter what the case really was, we both took felt guilty for what happened.
After crying on the ground for almost an hour, we were both finally able to calm down. There was no way in hell we had done this to ourselves. You can't make anyone do anything, no matter what the scenario may be. I needed to confront Dinah on this right now, and I wasn't going to let her make me feel bad for her mistake. "C'mon Normani. We're talking to them right now."
Like a switch, we went from devastated to angry as hell. One minute, we were like Drake singing a sad song about his girl leaving him. The next, we were Chris Brown and knew these hoes ain't loyal. I think we struck fear into the room when we walked in. It was terrible seeing Dinah and Lauren cuddled up at first, but then I only used it to fuel my anger again.
"You" Normani pointed to Lauren, "Get your ass up right now and come with me". "Babe? What's going on with y-." Lauren was cut off by Normani slamming the door on her way out of the room. I kinda smirked, and then I turned back to Dinah. The minute I looked into those deep, dark brown eyes, I just wanted to melt back into her lies. I couldn't let her think I was so gullible and easily manipulated by her.
"Do you know what that's about baby" she asked, smiling at me. How could she just smile in my face like that? "Save the baby bullshit for someone who wants to hear it, Hansen." She just chuckled nervously, "What's going on babe?" "I don't know" I started, pacing back and forth. "Maybe you could start by telling me why you were locking lips with Lauren? Tell me that shit, Dinah."
Her whole face dropped and she turned pale. Almost as pale as Lauren mother fucking Jauregui. It was hard to look at her and love her knowing that she lied to me. I just loved her so much and knowing that she could cheat on me so easily hurt me so much. "Camila. I-." "No! You don't get to cheat on me and make me think that I caused this. You don't get to speak unless I ask you question-."
"Mila really" she started to breath heavy, "Something is wrong." I was too blinded by my anger that I couldn't even listen to her. "Shut up! Why did you cheat on me? Why can't you love me as much as you love her?" Dinah couldn't form any words. She was crying and sweating as heavy as she was breathing. Her skin was so pale and a her limbs were shaky. "KARLA! GET THE DOCTOR! GET THE DOCTOR, PLEASE!"
Just like that, my anger dispersed and was replaced with fear. Fear and worry for Dinah and our child. That fear and worry followed me to the nearest doctor, and then back to the room. Dinah was screaming and writhing in pain, and I couldn't help her. "M-Mila" she cried, grabbing onto my hand as they started to move her out of the room. "I'm right here baby. It's okay. You're going to be okay." When we got to the doors of the surgery room, I was held back by doctors. "You're both going to be okay, Dinah! I love you!"
Just like that... I had to wait again. Alone and scared of what could come.
