Lauren Jauregui Imagines |ABANDONED|

Sacrifices (Laurmani)

Y/N Hernandez and Normani Kordei were best friends, they grew up in dance together, but Y/N had another friend, Lauren Jauregui, and they played softball together. Normani had a crush on Lauren. But so did Y/N. 

"I mean, her green eyes." Normani said, drooling over Y/N's captain. "They're magnificent." Normani muses and Y/N sighs. She knows these things. She thinks them daily. "And the way she gets so focused when she's out on the field? Oh my god, Y/N. I have to have her."

"I'm never inviting you to another one of my games." Y/N mumbles, rubbing her thigh, where she was cleated by a Jacksonville player.

"Why?" Normani asks, following her friend's hand to her thigh. "Holy shit, Y/N, you were cleated!" Normani shouts and Y/N rolls her eyes.

"Thanks for the news, Mani."

"Look, I'm sorry, but your captain is hot as hell."

"But your best friend is injured." 

"But you'll live."

"And so will you if you don't get Lauren." Y/N says, more to herself than to her best friend, who, of course, heard.

"What?"

"Hm?" Y/N says, trying to change the subject.

"What do you know about Lauren that I don't?"

"A lot."

"Y/N!"

"Fine, she has a date tomorrow after practice."

"With who?!"

"No idea." Y/N says and sighs, looking at her leg that just began to throb. "I'm going to clean this out." Y/N says, getting up and disappearing into her bathroom, mostly to get away from Normani, not being able to stand the guilt she felt for not telling her best friend about the fact that she was the one Lauren was taking out on a date. She cleans out the cuts the cleat left on her thigh and puts gauze over it before putting power flex around her leg before going out to Normani once again. "I'm also not going to dance tomorrow."

"But that's a dress rehearsal! If you miss the rehearsal you won't perform!" 

"Well, I won't be able to perform anyway if this gets infected." Y/N says and Normani rolls her eyes.

"How will it get infected?" Normani asks and Y/N raises an eyebrow at her best friend.

"Uh, sweat could get into it and that's really all it could take, or like, the gauze could get dirty and shit and yeah." Y/N says and Normani sighs. "And if the infection gets too bad, I'd have to get amputated, and I'd never dance ever again." Y/N says and Normani sighs.

"Ugh. Fine. Have fun here in your room being bored." Normani says and Y/N rolls her eyes.

"You're leaving already?"

"Yeah, I have homework to do." Normani says and Y/N nods.

"Don't die!" Y/N yells after her best friend as she leaves.

-

The next day, Y/N walks into the movies with Lauren's arm around her waist and she sighs, completely torn.

"Y/N?" Lauren asks and Y/N snaps out of her daze.

"Huh?"

"What movie do you want to see?" Lauren asks and Y/N shrugs.

"I'm fine with whatever." Y/N says and Lauren nods, asking for two tickets to some kind of movie, Y/N wasn't paying attention as she slipped into her thoughts again. They get their snacks and go to the theater that their movie is being screened in and Lauren leads them to the seats she chose.