My Dark Secret

3

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Lauren's POV

After working together at my house for the past two days, I made up an excuse that would leave us with no other choice but to work at Camila's place. I was starting to get very curious as to why she didn't want me to come over. I mean really, what's so bad that she has to hide to this extreme? Was it because she's embarrassed of her family, home or something else entirely?

I know I agreed to go over at 5, but I couldn't take it. Maybe if I go over a little early I'll be able to find out whatever she's hiding.

When I finally arrive and knock on her front door, a short, middle aged woman with glasses, whom I believed to be her mother opened the door.

"Oh you must be Lauren? Camila is upstairs. Come on in, while I go get her for you" she replies with a warm smile. Wow is this whole family always this polite?

"Thanks" I answer back uncomfortably. Im the type that never thanks anyone for anything. Or even dares to talk to anyone's family for a matter of fact. So there was no doubt that this felt really strange and awkward for me.

"Karla! Mija, come down here" the woman shouted up from the bottom of the stairs. Well I guess she's not as polite after all if that's how she calls for her children. I just wonder who this Karla is and why she didn't call for Camila. I just hope this bitch doesn't make me wait too long for Camila.  I'm sure whatever her secret is, it isn't juicy enough to keep me waiting for long.

Before I was able to go too deep into my thoughts about the mysterious Karla, I began to hear loud and quick footsteps. And before I knew it, Camila was standing at the bottom of the stairs wearing only a pair of baggy basketball shorts and a sports bra. My jaw literally drops at the sight and her eyes widen wildly as her gaze locks onto me. Even in sportswear, this girl still manages to look beautiful.

Unfortunately as I was about to greet her, she pulled the older woman by the wrist and into the kitchen to talk I guess. After all that has to be the biggest cliché ever right? I mean who would abruptly pull someone else into a different room if not to talk about the third person? And since I really wanted to know what all that secret talk was about, I had no other option but to had to eavesdrop.

"Mom don't say anything about.. you know. She doesn't know. I don't want her to or anyone else here to know" I heard Camila say in a low tone.

"But honey-" her mom begins to reply.

"Promise me mom! I don't want a repeat of last time" Camila replied cutting her off in a much higher tone this time. Um, okay what the hells going on? Is what happened before the cause of why she moved here? Clearly it has to be a hell of a secret if they moved this far just to keep it hidden.

When I heard the footsteps along her wooden floors start up again, I practically sprinted onto the couch hopefully making it seem as if I didn't hear anything.

"Lauren, wait down here. I need to go change real quick" Camila says as she speeds up the stairs. Okay well that was odd.

Around maybe 3 minutes later, she yells at me from upstairs to go to her room. Well apparently yelling from the stairs runs deep in this family. I guess I'll just take this opportunity and go up the stairs at a slow pace and take in every detail of her home since she's not rushing me. And so far, from what I can see, it's pretty nice and elegant, yet simple and classy at the same time. Overall a nice and homey place to live in.

When I got inside her room, I couldn't help but be extremely disappointed. She was wearing a long, loose t-shirt and sweats now. Why did she have to cover up those long legs and those magnificent abs of hers?

"You look comfortable in that" was all I say, trying to avoid looking at her body.

"Yeah. I'm sure you wouldn't want to work on this project while my gut and boobs are all out there" she says laughing.

"Well, you're wrong" I reply a little too quickly. Why the fuck did I just say that? Of all possible things I could have said, why did it have to be that?

"Very funny" she laughs.

"Ok fine. You caught me.. I just wish I was as comfortable as you look right now" I lie.

"Oh if you want, you can borrow something of mine?" she asks me with a gentle smile.

"Yeah that would be great. Thanks" Damn! Why did I just thank her? That's my number one rule. Never say thanks, and I just keep breaking it. At least now I get to wear something of hers. But the question is why am I so freaking happy about it? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

"Here" she says as she gives me the shorts she was just wearing along with a different oversized t-shirt. I was about to go to the bathroom to change but then I thought, fuck it. I'll get dressed right here, it's not like it's nothing she hasn't seen before anyways. Right?  And besides we all have to get dressed in front of one another for gym class, i'm sure she wouldn't mind. Not too mention i'm too lazy to try and search for a bathroom to just end up changing clothes.

When I noticed that she was staring at me, I couldn't help but smirk. Hmm maybe her little secret is that she plays for the other team? I can totally go along with that.

The rest of the evening, we just talked and stared at each other mostly with a little hint of working on our project.

We were actually starting to get along and have a great time that we didn't notice the time. It was almost one in the morning and school started in 7 hours!

"Hey Camz.? Do you mind if I stay here the night? It's too late for me to go home now without getting in trouble" I say lying on the last part. The truth was my parents couldn't care less about me and more then likely didn't even notice that I was gone.

"Ye-yea. S-sure. Um let me go get the guest room ready" she says getting up off the bed.

"Um actually, could I stay here with you? I get scared when I sleep over at houses I don't know" I lie again.

There's a long silent pause as she just stares down at me. "Please Camz? I promise I won't bite" I say flashing her my puppy eyes along with my biggest smile.

"Uhhh.. Yeah sure.. I guess" she says in a barely audible voice.

Bingo! Now I might just find out what her secret is after all. Plus, I also couldn't help but want to spend the night with her too.