Behind Closed Doors (CAMREN)

Chapter 5

            Lauren's POV

            I opened the door to Lucy's apartment and Silver's head pops up from the couch. My babysitter Bea was sitting right next to her.

            "Mommy," Silver says running to me. I pick her up and hug her tightly, feeling tears start to well up.

            "Mommy?" Camila asks from next to me.

            "Camila," Silver says pointing to her.

            "Bea, could you put Silver to bed for me real quick?" I ask looking at the teenager. She walks over and takes Silver from me. "Thank you. I'll see you tomorrow morning."

            "Goodnight, Ms. Jauregui," she says walking down the hall to Silver's room. After I hear the door shut I look at Camila.

            "I can explain. Can you sit down and give me a chance?"

            "Yeah," she says walking over and sitting on the couch. I walk over and sit down across from her.

            "Four years ago, I was at a frat party. I went with Lucy and my other friend Normani. I was drinking a lot and someone had convinced me to do coke in the bathroom. I was really drunk, so of course I said yes. The next thing I remember is someone on top of me. I went in and out of consciousness, so I don't remember much. But Silver is my daughter. She's four years old," I finish looking at my shaking hands. She doesn't say anything for close to ten minutes, then she looks at me.

            "I....I'm.....," she tries to say before breaking down. She puts her face in her hands and I stand up and sit beside her. At first all she did was lay her head on my shoulder, but then I ended up wrapping my arms around her. Her head was buried in the side of my neck and she was basically sitting in my lap. We sat like this for an hour before I decided to say something.

            "We should get to bed, Camz. It's almost 2am," I whisper wanting to seem gentle and not wanting to wake my child up. She sits up and looks down, opening her eyes wide. She moves to get up and I wrap my arms around her again. "It's okay that you're straddling me, Camila. Can you just look at me for one second?" She looks up at me with red puffy eyes. "We need to get to bed, ok? I'll take the couch and you can take the bed."

            "No, I'll take the couch. I'm your guest," she says looking at me.

            "That's ridiculous, let me..."

            "Will you just fucking sleep in the bed with me?" she snaps. I raise my eyebrows and smirk. "No, I didn't mean it like that. God you're such a pervert," she says rolling her eyes.

            "Well if we're sleeping together, I may as well take you there the right way," I say picking her up. I walk into Lucy's room and I gently set her down.

            "I totally would've screamed just then, but I didn't want to wake up your daughter," she said taking off her shoes.

            "Well thanks, because she would've been up the rest of the night if you did that," I say taking my heels off and opening one of the drawers.

            "What are you doing?"

            "Getting some clothes for us to wear," I say pulling out two pairs of clothes.

            "Lucy lets you do that?"

            "We've been best friends since like Pre-K. We practically shared closets in high school. I think it's okay if I borrow some clothes," I say tossing a pair over to her.