From Me To You [Laurinah]

1: lauren

There was something about being able to put your inner creations out on paper that made Lauren love art.

It's the way that your heart swells with pride at the finished result. Knowing that you put your all into something so special and significant made Lauren's pink lips curve into a small smile.

The Cuban girl bobbed her head to the music playing through her headphones as she lightly continued to add detail to the sketch's lips. Almost naturally, she pushed up her glasses and flipped her pencil to the eraser side, fixing the small mistakes.

Lauren loved how she had perfected the curve of the girl in her sketch's face. It was beginning to actually look more realistic.

"Lauren." The sudden voice made the girl yelp. Clutching her chest tightly, the Cuban girl turned to see Cordell.

The light skin boy smirked, "Scared you ?"

"You practically gave me a heart attack."

"You'll be fine Lauren. So," The tall boy pulled up a seat, straddling the blue chair, "I need something from you."

Lauren sighed, not wanting to ruin her euphoric artistic state she was in, "Cordell, I'm not convincing another girl to add you on Instagram. The last one almost swung on me-"

Cordell chuckled and shook his head, "No no, not that favor. It's a different one," He licked his lips mindlessly and leaned in closely to whisper, "I need you to take something home for me. It's in my locker. I have basketball practice and I just need it home before I get there."

"Locker C-553, right ?" Lauren confirmed, the boy nodded, "Okay. Anything else ?"

Cordell smiled, "Yeah. Lemme see what you're drawing."

The taller boy reached to touch her sketchbook only to have it swiftly yanked away, "Stop. Don't look at my sketches."

"Lauren you've been acting this way since we were in middle school. Why can't I just see-"

"I said no Cordell," The Cuban girl's voice final and stern, "I didn't let you see them in middle school and I surely won't let you see them in high school."

The two had a still stare off, one dead serious while the other only playful. Thankfully, the bell rang signifying the end of lunch. Lauren pushed up her glasses and easily tucked her sketchbook into her side, "I'll see you at home Cordell."

"I'll see you at home Lauren." The light skin boy waved as he walked away.

Lauren sighed and looked down at the black leather book in between her fingertips with pride. She had bought it back in middle school with her own money and it was still holding strong. It was such a prideful feeling to hold her sketchbook daily because it truly was hers.

Routinely, the green eyed girl tucked her sketchbook under her arm, pushed in her chair, and bid the librarian by the exit a soft goodbye. It was almost comically sad how stereotypically nerdy Lauren was.

Lauren was a shy quiet girl that enjoyed being to herself. Parties and get togethers weren't exactly something she wanted nor had in her vocabulary. Don't even get her started on the people at her school. The only people she ever really spoke to at school were her teachers, the librarian, and her siblings (that is, if they weren't surrounded by their friends). All in all, Lauren Jauregui liked being the shy little bean artistic Lauren Jauregui she always was.

"Art class here I come." A tiny grin made its way onto Lauren's pale face as she rounded the corner towards the art classroom.

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The green eyed girl pushed up her glasses as she continued to walk down the hallway towards Cordell's locker. The one headphone in her ear played some of her favorite upbeat songs, nothing but happiness filling the girl. She had finished all her work and was almost done with her latest drawing.