Are You There? ("Those Eyes" sequel, Camren Fan Fic)

Chapter 19: Security?

Camila's POV:

A knock on my door wakes me up. God I've been sleeping for forever! "Come in." I say sitting up straight and fixing my messy hair. "Hey Camz, how are you feeling?" Lauren says walking into my room with a big smile on her face. "I'm okay, it doesn't even hurt anymore." I answer as she sits next to me. "I missed you." She adds putting a strand of my hair behind my ear. "I missed you too." I say staring into her eyes like I used to do when we were together. She licks her lips instinctively and leans for a kiss. I grab her face with both my hands and press my lips against hers. I will never get tired of kissing her, that's for sure. She makes me feel so many different things with just one kiss. I feel safe and vulnerable, but excited and nervous at the same time. She unleashes a wave of emotions from me, and it makes me feel alive every single time. Lauren ends up laying next to me with her hands on my waist. Our kiss becomes deeper with the entrance of her eager tongue. "I love you." She mumbles after a while and bites my bottom lip playfully. "I love you too." I answer softly and connect our lips again. Just the thought of having her all to myself again makes me sweat, because this time everything means something. Its not just a kiss anymore, its the ultimate display of the feelings we had had bottled up for too long. "Camila are you up yet?" Ingrid interrupts us knocking the door. "Fuck." Lauren says rolling on my bed away from me. "Yeah, come in." I answer and Lauren sits back on the edge of my bed. "Oh, Lauren, I didn't know you were here." Ingrid says walking into my room. "Yeah, I was just checking up on this dork." She answers with a smile. I can tell she's making a huge effort to be nice to Ingrid. "Okay, well I got a call from your doctor." Ingrid says crossing her arms. "What did he say?" I ask sitting up straight. "Well, apparently you were hit on the head with a hard object." She states biting her lip. "What do you mean? Did someone hit her?" Lauren asks worriedly and Ingrid nods. "I mean, they can't tell for sure, but because of the shape and depth of the wound that was their conclusion." She answers softly. "So she didn't fall and hit her head? An actual human being with a bat or something hit her on the freaking head? Someone tried to hurt her on purpose?" Lauren says standing up and she looks pissed. "Hey, calm down, I'm okay." I say rubbing her arm. "But this isn't okay Camz, what if you had been really hurt? This is messed up!" She exclaims holding her head. "There's something else. They found defensive wounds on your wrists Camila." Ingrid adds and I roll up the sleeves of my sweater to take a look at my wrists. My eyes widen when I see my arms covered in finger shaped bruises. "They say you'll start to remember things when the concussion is gone, and then the police will come and ask you a few questions to find whoever did this to you." Ingrid adds and everything hits me like a ton of bricks. Someone tried to hurt me. It must've been Austin, he was here last night and he's after me, we all know that. "Ingrid its not safe for us to stay here after what happened, what if he tries to hurt any of us again?" Lauren says pacing around my room. "I know, that's why Cole will stay here tonight until the security people come and install the alarm." Ingrid answers and Lauren and I look at each other. "Having a man in the house is so much safer, besides I need to keep you two apart." Ingrid says and I just know Lauren is going to snap at her and everything will go to hell. But surprisingly she doesn't. "Okay, that sounds good." Lauren says calmly. "But we really need to talk about this whole thing like grown adults because I seriously don't plan on spending another second away from her." She adds looking at me and my hearts melts. "Lauren you can't ask me to do that, I can't lie to Simon." Ingrid says sighing. "We promise we won't tell anyone, not even the girls and I'll keep my relationship with Austin for PR. This could be our secret Ingrid, please." I plead with puppy eyes. "Girls..." She starts saying but the doorbell interrupts her. "Cole must be here, we'll talk about this later." She says walking out of my room. "Well that wasn't so horrible." Lauren says with a smile. "Yeah, but you better go greet your boyfriend." I say grinning. "I'm going to talk to him okay?" She says leaning closer to me. "Okay!" I answer and quickly peck her lips. "I'll come back later babe, I love you." Lauren says whispering. "I kind of like you too, you know?"

Lauren's POV:

I can't wrap my head around the fact that someone hurt Camila on purpose. And it was someone who was at my birthday party, which makes me feel extremely guilty. But I was sure everyone had left when I went to my room and opened Camila's gift, unless someone hid somewhere, but why? Fuck, I'm so confused. Camila did mention Austin was here last night, maybe it was him, I mean, it must've been him because I don't think any of my friends would want to hurt her, it doesn't make sense. "Hey you!" Cole says hugging me and I come back to reality. "Hey." I say softly. "Are you still mad at me about last night? I know I was an asshole." He says rubbing my cheek. "No, I'm not mad, but we need to talk Cole." I say biting my lip. "Sure, wait! I left something in my car, I'll be right back." He says running out of the apartment. This is going to be hard on him, but I can't keep on dating him when I'm completely in love with someone else. I really care about him, and that's why I have no intention of hurting him. After a while he comes back with a huge stuffed bear and a box of chocolates. "I know Camila doesn't like flowers." He says with a smile. "How is she doing?" He asks staring into my eyes. "She's in her room, why don't you ask her yourself?" I answer guiding him to Camila's door. "Hey Camz, Cole is here, are you decent?" I say knocking on her door. "Yeah, come in!" She says with a hint of annoyance in her voice. I slowly open her door and Cole walks in. "Hey, how are you feeling?" He asks sweetly. "I'm fine, thank you." She says faking a smile. I know she thinks Cole is somehow involved in all this, so I understand why she's not that happy to see him. "Good, I brought you these." He says putting the bear and chocolates on her bed. "Thanks Cole, and thank you for coming." She says politely. "Yeah, no problem! What happened to you was intense." He says putting his hands in his pockets. Camila nods lifting her eyebrows and I take that as a sign she wants to be left alone. "Well you must be tired, get some sleep Camz." I say pulling Cole's arm and dragging him out of her room. "Okay, thanks guys." She says laying down and putting the covers on top of her body. "Goodnight." I add closing the door behind us and then we walk back to the living room. "I don't know what I would do if someone hurt you." He says putting his hands on my lower back. "Look, Cole I really appreciate you being here and the gifts and everything, but we need to talk." I say staring into his eyes and he nods softly. We sit on one of the couches and I take a deep breath before I start talking. "You're a great guy, and our relationship was amazing, but I just don't have enough time right now with the tour and the album release." I say softly biting my lip. "But everyone else in the band is dating, why can't you? How do they have time?" He asks putting his hand on my leg. "Because they have been together before The X Factor, they know what its like to be apart and juggling between friends and work and everything." I answer moving my leg away from him. "What about Camila and Austin? If they can work it out, then so can we." He adds staring deeply into my eyes. "Austin has been in the industry for a while, he knows about these things. Look, Cole this is for the best of us." I say as sweetly as I can. "Okay, I get it." He answers running his fingers through his hair. "I totally understand if you want to go home now. You don't have to stay with us." I say and he shakes his head. "No, I'm staying, I want to keep you guys safe because I really care about you Lauren, I hope one day you can give us another chance." He adds with half a smile. "Okay, well I better go to bed. Thank you Cole." I say standing up. "No problem, I'll be here if you need me." He answers laying down on the leather couch. I feel horrible for this, but it had to be done sooner or later.

After a while of laying in my bed staring at the ceiling without sleeping I decided to go check up on Camila, maybe she's awake too. I carefully tip toe my way down to her room and open the door softly to find her playing on her phone. As soon as I open the door she lifts her head to face me. "God, you scared me! I thought you were Austin." She says giggling. "Nope, its just me! What are you playing?" I ask laying next to her. "Fucking Flappy Bird, I hate it!" She says putting her phone away. "You hate it because you suck." I say smirking. "I do not!" She complains crossing her arms. I crawl up closer to her and lay my head on her lap. "I broke up with him." I say softly as she runs her fingers through my hair. "And how are you?" She asks me. "I'm okay, I'm just really happy to be with you." I answer sitting back up and staring into her eyes. "Thank you Lo, I appreciate everything you do for us." Camila says rubbing my cheek and then pulls me close for a kiss. "You didn't think I'd let you go to sleep without a goodnight kiss, did you?" She says softly and I kiss her again. "I better go, I'll see you tomorrow." I say putting my hands on her neck. "Why don't you stay? Please." She answers resting her forehead against mine. "Camila you need to rest." I say biting my lip. As much as I want to stay the doctor said she needs a lot of sleep and rest. "I promised I won't try anything, we'll just sleep. But I want to be with you." She assures putting her hand on my cheek. "Okay, you win, but we will just sleep Camz, you need to." I say laying next to her. "Okay mom, goodnight then." She answers giggling and wraps her arms around my waits. "Goodnight babe." I say kissing the top of her head and then close my eyes. I hope nothing ruins what we have right now.