Those Eyes (Camren, Camaustin fanfic)

Chapter 33: The Call

Lauren's POV:

"Hey Camzi?... Camila?.... Camz!" I say snapping my fingers in front of her face. "I'm sorry, what?" She says forcing a smile. We are sitting in the airplane ready to go to our first location, where we'll find our bus and start with the tour. Camila hasn't said a single word since we left our apartment, and I'm starting to get worried. "Is everything okay? You've been staring out the window for the last ten minutes and we haven't even taken off yet." I tell her holding her hand. "Yeah, I'm just distracted." She answers with a weak smile. We sit in silence for a while and then the plane starts to take off. "Lo maybe I should just call him and apologize." Camila says breaking our silence. "No freaking way, don't even think about it. We're not letting that bastard win babe." I answer staring directly into her eyes. "But maybe that's the only way Lauren, we need to stop him somehow." She says resting her hand on my knee. Camila is probably right, but I just can't let him get away with it. "I'm going to sleep, wake me up when we get there, okay?" I say smiling and close my eyes. I don't really need to sleep, I just need time to think about this whole thing. If Camila calls him asking for his forgiveness, there's nothing that could actually stop him from hurting us and letting everyone know the truth anyway. Maybe we should come out before he publishes anything, but I just can't, and I'm sure Camila doesn't want that either. I should just focus on our tour, at least for now. That son of a bitch is ruining everything in my life, I hate him so fucking much. And just thinking about how Camila was once in his arms, kissing him and holding his hand, drives me insane. She's all mine now, and I'm as happy as I've ever been, but we can't be peacefully together if Austin keeps getting on our way. But, the thing that's worrying me the most is not knowing when the hell he plans to drop the bomb, and maybe there's still the slightest chance he won't do anything at all and he's just trying to scare us, but we all know that's highly unlikely. Unless something makes him change his mind about everything. And that something might be Camila's call. And all of the sudden that doesn't sound like such a horrible idea anymore. Even though I'd hate to see him win, I'd hate to lose Camila so much more. But even if she apologizes, why would he trust her? That wouldn't make any sense, she has already lied to him several times before. My head is a mess right now, I can't even think properly anymore, I'm seriously freaking out. Suddenly I feel her head laying on my shoulder, and slowly opening my eyes again I admire her sleeping. She looks so calm, so beautiful, so perfect. We have to at least try to fix this, I know there's no guarantees, but there is nothing in this world I wouldn't do for Camila. There's got to be a way we can stop this, but until we land there's nothing we can do other than trying to sleep.

Camila's POV:

"Oh my Gosh, its beautiful!" Ally says running to our tour bus. We just landed in Boston, the first location of our tour and we're all pretty excited! "Are you alright?" Lauren asks me holding my hand and I nod smiling. But the truth is I'm not, I'm as scared as I have ever been. Some creep has recorded us having sex for who know how long and I'm freaking the hell out. Lauren seems to be super calm about it and I have no idea how. I've tried to hide how scared I am, but Lauren totally knows something is going on. We finally get in the bus, and start picking our bunks, when our manager comes in. "Hey girls! The show is in four hours, you need to be here for hair and make-up in two hours, but until then do what you want." He says smiling and leaves. "Boston is beautiful, lets go check out the city!" Ally says excitedly. Its really, really cold outside, so we put on our jackets and start walking around. There's still tension between Dinah and Lauren, and I hate that so much. "Hey girls I think we should talk about what happened yesterday." I suggest and Ally nods. "Yeah, I'm sorry about what happened, I was way too bitchy, even for me." Lauren says and I wink at her. "I acted like a bitch too guys, and I'm sorry." Dinah adds looking at us. "Lets hug it out girls, I love you!" I say and we have a group hug. There's enough drama already, internal conflicts are not exactly what we need. Lauren holds me by the waist and we walk behind the girls for a while. "That was the right thing to do Lo, thank you." I say resting my head on her shoulder. "Yeah, you seem to be the only one who likes my bitchy side." She answers giggling and I stare into her beautiful emerald eyes. She looks so cute with her beanie and scarf, and the tip of her nose is a little red and I just want to kiss her so badly, but I can't and it kills me. "Aren't you excited to spend your birthday in New York?" She asks smiling. "Yeah, that's actually really cool." I answer rubbing my hands together, trying to keep them warm. "We're going back to the bus girls, are you coming?" Normani says smiling. "Yeah, I'm freezing." I say walking to the girls but Lauren grabs my arm. "We'll be there in a minute." She says and the girls go to the bus. "Are you cold? Do you want my beanie?" Lauren tells me taking it off. "No, no, don't worry please! I'm okay." I say with a smile but she puts her beanie on my head anyway. Her hand softly brushes my cheek as her piercing eyes stare deeply into mine. "Thank you Lauren." I say softly, staring at her full lips, holding back my need to kiss them in public. "We have to do something Camz, we can't let him decide when to tell the world we're together. Maybe you should call him after all." She tells me taking a deep breath. "Are you sure Lo?" I ask and she nods. "I trust you'll do your best to make us work baby." Lauren tells me smiling. We've got nothing to lose, this might be the only way. I take out my phone and dial Austin's number, after a couple of seconds he picks it up. "Hello?" I hear his voice after such a long time. "Hey Austin, its me." I say nervously. "I'm sorry, who's this?" He asks confused. "Camila, please don't hang up." I say and he sighs. "What do you want?" He says softly. "Baby come back to bed!" I hear a girl's voice in the back. Now that's awkward. "Just a second babe." He replies. "Umm I'm sorry if I'm interrupting something, I can call you back later." I say softly. "No, its okay. What's up?" He says kind of sweetly, that's weird. "I wanted to please ask for you compassion. I know what I did to you was messed up, and I'm sorry if I broke your heart, but if you ever cared about me, please don't do it. You must have enough evidence with my phone and the videos to do whatever the hell you want, but please don't ruin my life." I say and my voice cracks. "I have no idea what you're talking about Mila. After you took the pictures I realized I had been the biggest asshole in the world, and I haven't really had a chance to apologize. But I have to go now, take care." He says and hangs up. What the hell? "What did he say?" Lauren asks eagerly. "He didn't do it Lo, he didn't steal my phone or place the cameras." I say extremely confused. "He's lying, that son of a bitch." She groans tightening her jaw. "No, I think he was telling the truth, and there was a girl with him. I don't think he did it Lolo." I say biting my lip. I don't know what the hell to think or do, that was our only chance of stopping whoever wants to hurt us. "So what do we do know?" Lauren asks me. "I have no idea. We need to go back to the bus." I say and start walking alone. I'm pissed, and confused, and I can't even think properly anymore. Lauren grabs my arm once again making me stop and I stare into her eyes. "Don't shut me out, okay? We're in this together." She tells me softly. "I'm scared Lo. Please promise me you will never give up on us." I say holding back my tears. "I promise Camz, we will get through this." She answers intertwining our fingers. We start walking back to the bus together, and I know I need to me focusing on our first performance of the tour, but my head is spinning. If Austin didn't do this, then who did? And why does this person hate us so much?