Forever and Ever

Forever and Ever (Chapter Three)

BAD
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Lauren didn't like Mondays either, but after spending all of Saturday night and Sunday hanging out with Camila the shorter girl had convinced her to at least come to school on time.

Lauren however managed to convince her to skip first period and sit at the picnic tables in the back of the school until the bell rang.

Dinah did manage to pull Lauren into the building by her hair after Camila had shot her a text almost begging for help getting the other girl inside.

They sat next to each other in class and whispered to each other the whole time.

Lauren tried writing notes in one class they had together but Camila opted for texting saying it was easier to not get caught that way.

At lunch everyone sat out back at the picnic table and Ally and Normani were almost surprised to find out Lauren had been to class at all.

"Come on, I'm not that bad you guys." Lauren argued.

"Laur, I haven't seen you in Spanish since the third day of school. Summer's around the corner." Normani laughed.

"I already know Spanish, as long as I keep turning in my homework and show up to the major exams I'll get the credit and be fine." She shrugged.

"Besides that our Spanish teacher hates Lauren." Ally explained to Camila through a laugh. "Last year she and Calum filled the room with live frogs. Y'all taped Barbie horse saddles to all of their backs with Lego people wearing sombreros hot glued to the saddles.. It took the janitor three hours to get them all."

Everyone started laughing at the memory of the janitor, Big Rob, trying to catch the frogs all jumping around the room.

"Hey, they never proved it was me and Cal! Don't let the principal hear you say that." Lauren smirked.

"Oh, whatever, Dawg. That's not as bad as when you cut the seam in the math teachers chair and you and Mike put thumb tacks in the padding." Dinah said, giving her friend a high five.

"Again, never proven, but I'm glad you appreciated it." She winked jokingly.

"Everyone appreciated it, he stopped giving pop quizzes all together the second time it happened." Normani shrugged.

"Sounds like you're a bit of a trouble maker?" Camila smiled just to Lauren.

Lauren blushed and nodded.

"I always fantasized about rebel types.. I bet you're so bad." She winked, running her hand along Lauren's thigh.

"You're sure Camila's spelled with a C?" She mumbled before jumping back into the conversation with the rest of the group and finishing her lunch.
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UNCONDITIONALLY
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"The taste of their lips stain your own and you know this is how it was meant to be, this is your soul mate.." Lauren read aloud from the computer desk. "Camz, these stories are amazing.."

"They're just stupid little stories, Laur. All that soul mate stuff, you know?" She shrugged from her place on her bed.

"So.. Have you met him?" The older girl asked slowly.

"I don't know if it'll be a guy so don't go labeling things." Camila laughed. "Have you met yours?"

"Nope." She shrugged.

"You said that weird.." The Latina accused.

"No, I didn't." Lauren scoffed.

"Yes you did, what aren't you telling me?" Camila asked, throwing a pillow toward the other girl.

"Okay. Well.. I'm pretty sure mine's a girl. Girls learn cursive before guys and mine looks kind of girly.." Lauren smiled slightly, glancing at her wrist. "I don't have a problem with it though, I'm still going to love the hell out of whoever it is."

"Really?" The brown-eyed girl asked.

"Yeah, but.."

"But what?" Camila frowned. "Tell me, Laur."

"Okay, so.. When I was thirteen I met this girl named Keana, and she was pretty great, ya know? She had an L and we were pretty close and we kissed once. I mean, it was just kind of a peck on the lips.. Still though." She trailed off.

"So she wasn't it? Right?" The smaller girl asked slowly.

"No.. It's cool though. She's a model or something now, we still hang out every now and then when she's in town. Who knows, maybe my soul mate's done way worse but I still feel bad about it.. I just don't want them to think.." She paused to lick her lips. "I don't want to ruin something good before it starts."

"I don't think you ruined anything.. I mean, your soul mate is your soul mate for a reason right? They'll love you unconditionally?"

"Yeah." Lauren scoffed. "If you ever find them."

"Well, I think we'll both find ours.." She mumbled.

"So what about you? Have you ever at least thought that you found them?"

"Have you ever told anybody about Keana? Before me?"

"No, why?" Lauren smirked.

"No reason.. I've never kissed anybody or anything, I don't even really like people hitting on me. I'd be okay if my soul mate kissed somebody before me though, so long as they thought it was love, not just these stupid letters." Camila shrugged, looking at her wrist briefly.

"Your stories don't think they're stupid." Lauren smiled.

"That's because the people in my stories fell in love. They didn't just rely on terrible handwriting skills and initials on their arms."

"Do you have terrible handwriting?" She teased.

"No but yours is. I saw your L's on that note you gave me last week." The tan girl laughed.

"I know!" Lauren sighed. "I practiced writing it in the sky and everything when I was little, I tried to make it perfect, but it turned out horrible like everything else."

"If you spent that much time on it than it's perfect, Laur.. Whoever gets to love you has got to be the luckiest person in the world."

"Bad luck maybe." She smirked, looking for more stories to read on Camila's laptop.