The Payphone (Camren)

Chapter 9: Giving Up

So I was uhhh... reading a Camren pizza fic and Lauren shoved pizza up Camila's coochie and I couldn't stop screaming... I literally threw my iPad away from me and screamed into my pillow because WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?! Some fanfics just... Allysus have mercy on their souls.

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There are many things that I didn't understand in this world. Lauren, Shawn, Life and why Dinah and Ally were having a twerking competition against Normani in our prep room just before we went on stage to perform. Lauren was in the corner snapchatting the whole thing and giggling away on her couch while I was the only one warming up my voice with some vocal exercises.

Over the week we had many submissions and we finally settled on naming ourselves, Fifth Harmony. We were all satisfied and it was one thing checked off our list. Our twitters were flooded with lots of people who were fans despite not really knowing our group, our style of music and all that jazz. Apparently Lauren's vocals and the fact that she chose to be in a group with us assured them that we were going to be great.

"Guys, we're next." I said, stressed. We had been practicing for a whole week, almost every day. It made me apprehensive that we only prepared for one week but Lauren assured us that our product would certainly be a lot better than the majority of the other acts. I didn't care about the majority and of course Lauren didn't either. She's so competitive and she and I wanted to win this while the other girls did this mostly for fun.

"Camz, don't worry about it." Lauren shrugged. I huffed and walked over to her couch and plopped down and snuggled up to her. I hugged her right arm and curled up while she used her free hand to scroll through her Twitter feed. "If we perform anywhere as good as we practiced, we'll do great."

"It's basically a 'fuck you Austin' song anyway." Dinah called out as she tried to wall twerk. "Chancho get your ass here so you can use that God given ass to beat Mani."

"No time D-Mac our cue to go is here." Lauren said as a stage hand came in.

I was nervous and slightly sweaty. I wiped my palms on my skinny jeans and shook my nerves out.

"Whoo we're gonna rock that stage." Ally cheered beside me. On my other side, Lauren took my hand and smiled.

"Camz, you'll be as fine as I will be and you know I'm bad at things like this." She said near my ear because the crowd was so loud.

"But you're perfect." I said, pretending to look scandalised. She snorted.

"Camila, I'm far from perfect, but you are."

"No way."

"You are to me." Before I could reply to her, our name was called up and we walked on stage. We were all smiles and when we got to our microphones I searched through the crowd and froze when I saw a familiar face that I didn't particularly want to recognise.

"Why is Austin here." I hissed into Dinah's ear.

"It was Lauser's idea. Dorito doesn't know what's coming." She smirked. "By the way Shawn's here too."

"What?! Why?!" I was horrified.

"He's performing babe." Lauren stuck her head in between Dinah's and mine. She grinned at us and then went back to Normani.