Distance.

The First Facetime

I immediately make a dash for my room, before my mom stops me.
"Mila are you okay?"
"Yes Mom I'm great!" I say while taking my shoes off.
"I made dinner about an hour ago, and there's leftovers if you want some." she says.
"No thanks I ate already."
"Why do you seem like you're in such a hurry.?" she asks suspiciously.
"I'm not?"
"I know you Camila what's going on?"
Honestly right now I am not in the mood for a deep talk with my mom. I just wanna go FaceTime Lauren.
"I'm just super tired and I can't wait to go to bed." I say.
"Alright well sleep tight okay? tomorrow we're going out." she says
"Okay great." I respond.
I kiss my mom on the cheek then run down to my room.
I put on makeup which takes me about an hour. I told Lauren I needed to help my mom with something which was obviously a lie. Afterwords I throw on a onesie because it's comfy.
"You ready yet??" Lauren texts me
"Yes!! call me!" I type back
I wait only about 3 seconds before my phone starts ringing. I sit for a few seconds preparing myself while taking deep breaths. I let it ring three times before answering.
"Hiii!" says Lauren while smiling brightly. She has her hair up in a ponytail and her makeup is absolutely perfect. Her eyeliner perfectly winged. Her lashes have a few coats of mascara. Her brows are brushed and colored. She's wearing a light colored lip stick. Her small amount of highlighter could still blind me. Her teeth are perfectly straight. She's smiling back at me with her gorgeous green orbs, and I can feel myself falling for her harder than ever before.
"Heyy!" I say shyly
"What are you up to?!" she asks
"I just got back from hanging out with my friends. What about you?"
"Oh I just got back from a club. kinda tired." she responds.
"Oh really? Did you go with friends?"
"No I don't think they'd wanna go."
"What why not?"
"What heterosexual girls wanna go to a strip club?"
My heart stopped. My hands getting clammy like usual. My eyes widened.
"I'm sorry did you uhm say strip club?" I ask curiously.
"Oh yea I forgot to tell you! I'm a stripper!!" she says smiling
"Wow really?"
"Yea I gotta make money somehow, & working for 4 hours at a coffee shop isn't enough."
"Wait so how are your hours for you know.. stripping.?" I ask while gulping.
"Oh I work 9am-1pm for the coffee shop. Then I work 4-9 for stripping but sometimes I stay until 2 am."
"That sounds like a a lot of work."
"Well it's not really I just dance half naked in front of gross horny men."
"I mean like a lot of hours working. You know for both jobs."
"Oh haha"
"Yeah."
I don't want Lauren to think I'm disgusted by her for this. It actually makes me feel.. I don't know the word.. good I guess ? I don't want her to think I'm creepy though. What if she's straight? What if she finds out I like her, and she's disgusted??
"I respect you for that though Lauren."
"Really ?"
"Yeah I mean you seem like you work your ass off... no pun intended. And I mean if you're making good cash then why not right?"
"Yes exactly thank you! Like hate to break it to these guys but I'm hella gay."
As soon as she says that my heart stops once again.
Oh my god. Lauren is gay. Lauren is gay. Lauren and I could date. Lauren could have feelings for me.
"Oh my god wait you're gay??" I ask trying not to sound as happy as I am.
"Well I'm bisexual but I'm more attracted to girls yenno?"
"Yeah me too." I finally admit to Lauren.
"Wow really!!" she says ecstatically.
"Yeah like I've dated guys and I find guys attractive, but I usually find myself falling for girls more often." I say.
"How many girls have you dated?" she asks
"Oh well none.. yet. I mean after all the guys I've dated I've realized I like girls too. Like I've had a few school crushes and stuff." I lie, knowing Lauren is the only girl I've ever fallen for.
"Oh sweet!"
"Yeah.. how about you?"
"Oh I've dated a whole bunch. A lot through high school and a few after, but nothing too serious. My longest relationship with a girl was probably only 5 months."
That scares me. What if Lauren and I are only a fling? What if she doesn't wanna last forever? I wanna last forever with Lauren.
We start talking about different things and we get to know each other more. Suddenly my mom comes down the stairs
"Karla are you still awake? I thought you said you were going to bed."
My mom walks in seeing me on FaceTime with Lauren.
"Karla? What are you doing?"
She walks over to me and looks at my phone. She mouths Who is this.
Breaking the silence I say
"Mom this is my internet friend Lauren. Lauren this is my mom."
My mom never cared about me having internet friends, she knew I had a lot.
"Oh hii Lauren!! I'm Sinu, Karla's mom!"
Why did my mom call me Karla? Oh my god mom no. This is so embarrassing.
"Wait who is Karla?" Lauren asks confused.
"Oh Mila didn't tell you?? Her real first name is Karla and Camila is her middle name!! Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao!"
"Oh that's so cute! Why didn't you tell me KARLA?" Lauren asks while slightly laughing.
"I don't know it's sorta embarrassing. I just don't feel like a Karla .. I'm more of a Camila."
"I don't know why she's embarrassed it's such a beautiful name!!" my mom says while squishing my face.
"Mom can you go now?"
"Sure thing, don't stay up too late okay? Remember you,me,your dad, and Sofi are going out tomorrow."
"Gotcha.. bye mom."
"Bye sweetie. BYE LAUREN!!!"
"Bye Sinu !!!!"
I put my face into my hands.
"Aw your mom is so cute!!" Lauren says.
"Yeah she's cool but she gets on my nerves a lot."
"Ya but you love her."
"Of course I do."
We continue talking for another hour.
"Okay camz I'm tired, plus you got stuff to do tomorrow. Wanna continue this tomorrow night if you can?"
"Yeah sure Lo."
"Did you just call me Lo?"
I freeze and I get scared. Hoping it wasn't too weird I just made up a nickname for her.
"Yea."
"That's so cute I love it." she says smiling brightly but you can tell she's exhausted.
"Goodnight Lo talk to you tomorrow."
"Yup night camz."
We hang up, and I shut my phone off and I smile.
I love Lauren. So much. So so much.
I wash my face and take my makeup off. I climb into bed and I have a snap from Lauren. I open my phone and check the snap real quick before heading off to sleep. It's an up close picture of her cleavage with the caption "Sleep well camz☺️"
Oh my god. What the oh man.
Suddenly I can feel myself sweating.
I quickly change into spandex and a tank top. I snap a picture of my stomach and you can see my hip bone popping out. Perfect.
I send it to Lauren and caption it
"You too Lo😝" She opens it and responds with an up close picture of her lips. I open it and decide to leave her on open. I shut my phone off and drift off to sleep thinking about Lauren.