I Can Do That With My Eyes Closed

Chapter 8

Dinah glances at Camila from across the room. The small Latina has a pen in one hand, resting the end of the small writing utensil between her two teeth, not biting on the pen so to say, but applying small amounts of pressure while she thought. Her other hand holds a large notepad on her lap. Every once in a while, Camila glances in Dinah's direction, smiles, and brings the black pen to the paper to scribble black ink on the white sheet.

From where Dinah sits, she can't make out exactly what the words say, but she can see the smudged black ink all over the page. Camila, places the pen back between her top and bottom teeth and Dinah notices the side of Camila's hand is smudged black too.

Every once in a while, they happen to glance at the same time and Camila blushes before looking back to her paper in false concentration and Dinah keeps her eyes trained on the girl to see how long Camila waits until she takes her chances to look again.

Dinah is confused and curious and maybe a little bit worried because it has been almost a week since Camila had her breakdown and sprinted from the room. Camila had told her and the other girls that she didn't know what came over her and she was just probably stressed from classes and too tired for her own good. Not a good combination. Dinah can understand that.

The next part however, Dinah thinks sounds a little suspicious. Supposedly, Camila was upset and went for a walk where she ran into Lauren. Lauren calmed her down and Camila fell asleep in her bed. All is well blah, blah, blah.

That doesn't explain, however, Camila's 1975 sweatshirt reeking of alcohol when Dinah was doing their laundry or the fact that during their entire Friendsgiving dinner, she had asked Ally to dim the lights and Dinah caught the girl taking a few doses of Tylenol; both signs of a hangover. It definitely doesn't explain how when Normani got back from her late class to find Dinah freaking out of Camila's absence and the two of them went to look for the girl, Camila wasn't in Ally and Lauren's dorm like they said she was.

So Dinah knows something is up. She is worried about the girl because even if her story is true, that wasn't just a random freak out. No one, out of nowhere, just gets up and starts panicking over nothing. Something had to had caused it and Dinah has a feeling it wasn't the movie they had been watching (it had been The Parent Trap).

She has made a few attempts to talk to the girl about it since then, but Camila always changed the subject. Dinah had even gone as far as too talk to Lauren about how Camila was acting when Lauren found her all upset, but the green eyed girl had pulled herself from the conversation and excused herself, saying that Lucy was waiting for her and since then Lauren has been scarcely seen by anyone except Lucy, Ally, and Camila.

She wonders if maybe now is a good time to try again. Camila has been at her writing for nearly an hour with no sign of stopping anytime soon so Dinah knows that she has no excuse to leave. She stands up from where she was listening to music on her bed and walks over. "Hey Mila." She greets as she sits on Camila's bed. "What are you doing?"

Camila must have zoned out or something because she clutches her heart like Dinah scared her and she hurries to close her notebook and places both her hands over it protectively. "Uh...I... Nothing."

Well now Dinah has another reason to be suspicious. She raises an eyebrow and sighs. "Nothing? What were you writing?"

Camila arranges herself so that she is sitting cross-legged on the bed, facing Dinah. She places the notebook on the nightstand next to the bed. "Just.... Homework."

"For what class?"

"Uh...you know. My uh, writing class." Camila curses as she realizes that she doesn't even take a writing class. It doesn't help that the closest thing she has to one is her lyrics class which she just so happens to share with the girl. She knows she is caught in the act. "I was writing a song." She admits quietly.