Or Is It Real?

Chapter 42: Almost Lover

Camila's PoV

The American Music Awards just wrapped up, and we were at an all-time high. After successfully performing our newly-released single, "That's My Girl", without any one of us tumbling down the stage, and then having just won an award for Best Collaboration, it felt so surreal!

Everything seemed to have been momentarily forgotten with tonight's event, all the stress and pressure all of us were put through these past few days quickly evaporated. Everyone was euphoric. But you know what's better? The fact that Lauren has been eyeing me all day long, keeping me beside her whenever it's possible, even switching seats with Dinah after our AMA performance. Watching the rest of the show with her beside me, glancing at me every now and then, her hand occasionally grazing my arm? That's gotta be better than the actual trophy, right?

So, yeah, damn right I was hyped as a kid high on sugar jumping up and down on a trampoline. It's the best night of my life.

Backstage was chaotic, but in an awesome way. Everyone's buzzing with excitement and good vibes, although mostly it's because of the champagne, and despite my general aversion to parties, I was ready to have a good time.

I saw my girls huddled in the middle of the room, laughing and shouting excitedly, snapchatting and drinking, and I was about to walk towards them but then I remembered that I left my phone with my mom, so I quickly exited the room to find her and get it. I needed my phone for my own snaps and potential IG photos. It's vital.

When I got my purse from my mom, I decided to quickly check my phone in case someone important messaged me. After replying to Roger's text message, I decided to linger on my social media since I was already on my phone. I posted an ot5 picture on my Insta - I always make it a point to show my love for my group on social media, and a dog filter snap, then I immediately went to Tumblr. Just a quick peek before I go back to the celebration, you know how this generation is, we really need social media rehab, just sayin'.

Scrolling through my feed, I reblogged a couple of cute posts, not too angsty this time because I was happy. We just slayed tonight's performance, Lauren and I are in a better place, and I couldn't ask for more.

Apparently, I spoke too soon.

Currently trending in all Camren blogs that I follow was the "Laucy kiss", but I see no pictures. Just a whole lot of posts about respecting Lauren enough to not spread the picture around. A photo involving a Laucy kiss in a wedding. What's happening? What kiss? What wedding?! Did they get married in Vegas while I was asleep or what? My thumb looked like it was spasming from the intense scrolling I was doing, but I still couldn't find a single photo, just a useless wedding picture, but no kissing. From what I've gathered, some blogs were bullied into deleting their posts.

Fucking pretentious little bitches with their double standards. When it was all about Camren they don't think twice in spreading even the blurriest of photos in the whole history of mankind, even blurrier than the oldest daguerreotype that has survived, and they reblog shit like a bunch of fanatics even if they see just a hazy outline that could very well be a sack of potatoes which vaguely look like heads bumping in what appears to be passionate kissing. Weren't they spreading those supposed hacked pictures of us kissing, faster than a forest fire, even when Lauren has repeatedly denied us and said that she's uncomfortable with "delusions" and even when the photos (several instances, all candid and blurry) were obviously from private moments? Weren't they insisting I was gay even when we said in an interview that we're not? And now that it's supposedly from a wedding, and both Lucy and Lauren were said to be conscious and aware that they were being photographed kissing, oh now people are demanding respect for Lauren's privacy and sexuality?