Something about her

- 13 -

Camila finally finished packing her suitcase at around 8pm. She packed all the essentials she needed for her to work on some mixes while she was in New York. In her bag that she was taking on the plane, she packed her Macbook, her iPod and her songbook in case she got any inspiration for a new song. Most of her stuff was all packed apart from her guitar, which she was currently strumming along to in hopes that she'd come up with a song for her album. She'd tell you that Lauren is not on her mind while she's writing the song, but then she'd be lying.

She decided to call Dinah to tell her that she was leaving for New York for a month tomorrow. She was bummed that she'd be missing their weekly movie night but she was more than happy for her when she told her that she'd be working with Demi Lovato and that she would be on Letterman. She also ended up giving her an impromptu pep talk about what to do when she told her that Lauren ran away from her earlier.

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"She ran away?" she asked, sounding like she just told her that Lauren had just shot her.

"Yeah, I- I was singing for her and she-"

"-Wait, you sang for her?" she asked in a shocked tone.

"Yeah"

"What did you sing?"

"At first I sang a song that I wrote the other day, then I sang that's what hurts by Hall & Oates"

She hears Dinah chuckle down the phone and she knows for a fact that she's going to tease her for being a hopeless romantic. But she doesn't care. She relates to that song and it means a lot to her.

"Did she like the song you wrote?" she asked after she told her she was a cheese-ball.

"I hope she did, I mean.. I wrote it for her but I didn't tell her that-"

"-You wrote a song for her?!" she asked, putting emphasis on the word 'her'. Dinah sounded even more shocked at this which made Camila roll her eyes because she get's so excited about the smallest of things.

"It's no big deal" she answered back defensively.

"That is a big deal, chancho! Of all the years I've known you, you've never written a song for a girl and sang it to her."

"Yeah, well.." she trailed off, sighing and biting at her nails. (A habit she does when she's nervous.)

"She really means a lot to you, doesn't she?" Dinah sounded more genuine with the question, because she knows that if she doesn't ask, Camila's never going to admit it.

"Yeah.. I love her Cheechee but she doesn't love me back and it- it kinda fucking sucks"

"Have you told her that you love her?"

There was silence on the phone as Camila thought of what Dinah would say when she tells her that she hadn't told her she loves her yet. She's always complaining to Dinah about how much she loves Lauren and that she doesn't love her back but she's never taken the time to actually sit down and tell Lauren this.

"Walz?"

"No- no not exactly.."

She heard Dinah sigh a little too dramatically down the phone. "You have to tell her"

"I can't" she shot back almost immediately.

"Why? I thought she wanted to be with you just the other day?"