Green Is The Warmest Color

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A/N: I've been reading your comments and I've noticed that you've got a lot of questions. I'm glad that you have a lot of questions because that's one of my goals into writing this fic to keep your mind busy asking and thinking about stuff. Anyways, your questions will be answered in the next chapters. Don't worry angels.

PS: I don't edit so apologies for mistakes in spelling, grammar and sort. 

Camila's POV

You don't really acknowledge the value of something or someone until they're gone. But my story is different; I never really had Lauren in the first place. After the night of my confession to her, everything drastically changed once again. I wonder when this change would come to a halt. Lauren stopped hanging out with us much and if Normani requested her to, she would decline and make up awful excuses that really seemed to be excuses. I would just listen to their conversation though; I never really had the guts to talk to Lauren again after that night.

Not that I don't want to but my mind and heart don't understand each other most of the time. Lauren would pass by the hallways of the university and she wouldn't even take a glimpse of me or even look at me a bit. I also happened to know that she dropped our Lit subject and we have no longer the same class anymore.

It sucks honestly. It sucks but I can't do anything no matter how much I want to do something.

Dinah, Normani, Ally and I are sat on our official table at the cafeteria. It's been a thing for us to gather around to talk things through especially about how Lauren's been acting these days. They're worried; I can feel it because I am too. But she looks happy with her newfound friends.

"This is ridiculous! She declines my invitation for her to hang out with us and she hangs out with those bitches?" Normani blurts out with a look of disbelief evident on her face. She heavily sighs. "If there's one thing I've known about Lauren for the past years, it is that she doesn't want to talk about her problems. She prefers to avoid them and in the process she'd be avoiding people too."

"I just don't get it! So it means she has a problem with us? We didn't even do anything at all!" Ally asks in absolute confusion. I took quick glance to Lauren and caught her laughing with new girls she seems to be enjoying her time with. For all I know, those girls are Keana, Lucy and Vero.

They are the girls who play a lot of sports in the university; star players in the women's basketball team. "Maybe she doesn't really have a problem with us." Dinah states nonchalantly. "Maybe she only does have a problem with Camila."

I stopped looking at Lauren.

I stopped myself from stealing glances.

I stopped moving.

Everything else in the cafeteria seemed to be at halt.

"I'm not dumb Mila. I know if there's something going on with you and right now I'm telling you there is." All their gazes turned on me and I just gulped and looked somewhere away. "Shit Mila. We demand you to tell us what's been going on! This time you have to be honest!" She pounds the table with a heavy fist as she glares at me. Ally and Normani looks even shocked at the sudden action while I remain taken aback.

The other students in the cafeteria seem to be also sharing gazes on our table, including Lauren and her new circle of friends. I can't find the right words to say if I admit and when Dinah is about to pound the table and speaks up once again I stop her.

I plead. "I will talk... b-but only to you... I'll t-talk to o-only you first. P-please..." Normani and Ally hear it and decide that they'll leave anyway but I stop them too. "No we'll go somewhere. We'll talk somewhere else... I c-can't talk with these pairs of eyes staring and w-watching." When I said pairs of eyes, I actually referred to Lauren and her new set of friends watching our interaction. They both nod at the same time and Dinah and I both stood up from our seats.