Student Exchange

XIV

When you've been out of school for over two weeks and you get an email from your teacher just now with the notes you've missed and an online assignment due in an hour, you're fucked.

Coming to Miami, I thought I'd just catch up on all I missed when I got back, neglecting many emails from my teachers. Dumb move, Camila.

For the last thirty minutes, I've been trying to teach myself four pages worth of trigonometry notes so I can do somewhat well on the quiz-like assignment that I need to finish soon. Finally, sort of understanding the difference between sine and cosine law, I start the assignment.

In the middle of the last question, my phone buzzes on my lap. I continue the problem but get an answer in the thousands when the adjacent side is four. I take a break from math for a little.

Grabbing my phone, I see it's a text from Lauren and smile subconsciously.

Baby 💦👅: get me out of class

Camila: No

Baby 💦👅: wtf

Camila: get yourself out of class

Camila: actually don't, go pay attention

Baby 💦👅: send nudes, I'll study those

Camila: yeah, because I save all my nudes incase of situations like this

Baby 💦👅: over it

Baby 💦👅: Baby, I won't be at lunch today, I have a test to make up

Camila: I'm still coming home with you?

Baby 💦👅: duh, I don't want to go through Camz withdrawn yet

Baby 💦👅: meet me five minutes before the bell by my car

Baby 💦👅: also, can you explain trig to me tonight?

Camila: too jokes, I just finished learning it but yeah ofc

Camila: go pay attention

Baby 💦👅: later, girlfriend (literally)

I put my phone away, smiling more than I'd like to admit, and continued to mess up that last problem.

The day went by pretty quickly as I decided to catch up on some other assignments I hadn't done. Next thing I knew, Dinah was picking me up for lunch and I quickly sent Lauren a 'good luck' text.

Ever since that day we sat outside all eight of us, we've kept the tradition. Dinah and I got there with everyone else, except Lauren, seated.

"Mila!" Vero called out, making everyone chuckle. "Shut up, you're just jealous Camila and I have a bromance and you guys don't."

"If anyone has a bromance with Camila, it's probably Dinah," Normani said. One cue, Dinah and I did a little handshake we had, bumping our hips at the end. I took a seat next to Vero with Dinah to my left.

"Whatever," Vero mumbled.

Then, Lauren came running towards us.

"I'm so fucking late," She said, her bag barely on her shoulder. Lauren leaned down and gave me a chaste kiss on the corner of my mouth. "Thanks for the text, baby. See you guys later!"