Fools

Chapter 8 - what? When? How? Omg

*Lauren's POV*

"Lo..." A voice whispered in my ear, "wake up." I groaned a little before my eyes fluttered open, meeting a pair of familiar brown ones. I flashed a sleepy smile at her before I realized three other bodies stood in the room, questioning looks on their face. I looked back over at Camila, who was still in the same position we hand fell asleep in, her body close and snuggled all up to mine.

"So, care to explain?" Ally finally asked and I looked up at them, a grin spreading across my face. I winked at them and then turned my attention back to Camz who stared at me with a confused expression. I leaned in, kissing her ever so delicately. She tensed up a bit at the sudden kiss but I felt her relax as I placed my hand on her cheek. As we pulled away from one another, I heard gasps.

I looked over to see Normani's jaw practically on the ground, Dinah looked thrilled as she snapped a picture at us, and Ally just smiled at us as if she knew this was bound to happen.

"FINALLY!" Normani practically yelled as she came to her senses.

"We came here to see if you were okay after the whole fiasco at school but we end up finding this!" Dinah yelled excitedly

"SO HOW'D YOU FINALLY ADMIT IT?!?" Normani and Dinah yelled in unison

I rolled my eyes and sat up oh my bed. "Would you all shut up and contain your excitement for a few minutes, I just woke up!" I said with a sleepy laugh. A arm wrapped around my waist and I looked out of the corner of my eye to see Camila snuggling up against me again. I kissed her temple and smiled as I saw her cheeks burn up red, obviously enjoying the feeling of being so close.

We all sat there for a minute in complete silence. Normani's eyes bounced between me and Camila while Dinah typed away on her phone, her eyes wondering to us as well. Then there was Ally who's eyes were on me, tracing over the bruises and whatnot that covered my face. I wonder how bad I looked, I mean right after I looked pretty terrible, but each of my injuring have had time to cool down.

I looked across the room into a mirror that hung above my vanity, I sighed at the sight. Right above my left eye was a large cut probably from that horrendous ring Victoria always wears. There was all a large bruise now formed around my right eye and my bottom lip was slightly swollen from the forceful punch to it. "Wow I'm so stupid." I muttered and reached up to touch my lip.

"That you are." Ally agreed with a laugh. "What in the world were you even thinking, Laur?"

"That's the thing, I wasn't thinking, it was impulsive. Just like when you see someone you love get hurt by someone else you just wanna grab the persons arms and make them apologize and it just happened." I said simply, absentmindedly playing with Camila's fingers

"You're lucky the principle isn't going to suspend you." Dinah said

"You don't think I know that? I got off easy, even with my parents, if I had been suspended I'd probably never see any of you again."

"Victoria had some nasty things to say about you." Normani said, her face turning into a look of disgust. "I nearly had to beat some sense into that little--"

"Language, Normani." Ally said. "We all know she's a brat but there's no need for name calling, it's in the past now. Lauren won't ever be doing something stupid like that again, correct?" Ally stated, looking at me as she emphasized my name and the word correct

"Yes ma'am..." I mumbled looking at my fingers

"You don't know how bad I wanted to hit Victoria though when I heard the things she called you." Camila said quietly. "It was worse than anything she's ever called me...."

"She's just jealous of how awesome I am," I said with a snort," nothing she says about me will phase me."

The room fell quiet again and everyone just looked around at each other. Camila shifted from my hands, rolling over to sit between my legs and lean her head back onto my chest. I fiddled with the ends of her hair, getting caught up in my own thoughts. I wondered what the others were thinking, about me maybe or even me and Camila or even Victoria possibly. That's when my mind went to Victoria.

I wonder what harsh things she had to say about me, all of them probably just lies. I mean I'm a clean kid, I don't drink and do stupid things and I'm far from a slut seeing as I'm a virgin...but what could've been so bad. "Lo?" A voice whispered snapping me from my thoughts. I looked down to see Camila staring up at me with interest, it was like she knew what I was thinking.

I shook my head and placed my lips next to her ear. "I'll talk to you about it later." I whispered and she nodded.

"Okay," Dinah finally said clapping her hands together, "how did this happen. Come on I want details. One minute Camila is furious at you getting in a fight, then she rushes after school to find you and clean you up, and next we find you cuddled up asleep and then you kiss! What did we miss, dawg."

"She kinda just admitted it." Camz said with a laugh

"Yeah and you kinda stared at me for a minute as if I was speaking a different language." I retorted, poking her cheek

"Well it was surprising," Camila huffed before turning her attention back to Dinah and the rest of the girls, "and then basically I told her to kiss me and she did."

"So are you two like...girlfriends?" Ally asked

"Yep." Camz and I said in unison

A knock was heard from the door and after saying come in, my brother Chris opened the door. "As much as I'd hate to break up your girls gossip session, mom has put on a curfew for how long your friends can be over so they have to go and dinner is ready." I nodded at him and he left. I sighed, all of us standing up. I said quick goodbyes to all of the girls, except Camila, who I grabbed from behind as she went to leave my room.

I spun her around in my arms and looked her straight in the eyes. I tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and smiled. Leaning in, I captured her bottom lip between mine, kissing her ever so lightly. Her hands fell to my waist as I cupped her face gently, not wanting the kiss to end but reluctantly having to pull away. "Ill text you if my mom will let me use my phone." I whispered then added, " if I can't then I'll see you tomorrow in school. Sweet dreams tonight, don't let the bed bugs bite."

Camila leaned in and pecked my lips quickly, saying, "my dreams will be sweet because they'll be about you." And with that she turned on her heel and left, I stood there, watching as she disappeared down my steps and sighed, placing my fingers on my lips. Wow, I thought, I got the girl.

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