A Simple Folded Paper

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"H-Hi", Camila managed to blurt out. Lauren's eyes were fixated on her and they were making her feel exposed like Lauren could see all her fears and secrets, and that made her more nervous than before. For Camila's surprise, Lauren gave her a smile and stood up.

Lauren was surprised to see the girl in front of her. Never in her deepest thoughts, she would think that it was this girl after all, but was extremely happy nonetheless. The girl in front of her was extremely beautiful, her eyes captivating and her facial features prominent, her lips so kissable and a shy posture. Yeah, Lauren definitely liked it.

Lauren gave a confused look and a nod towards what Camila was hiding behind her back and Camila remembered.

She took a step forward and extended the rose to Lauren, who blushed hard at the gesture.

Lauren accepted the rose and noticed that Camila's hand was shaking. After grabbing the rose with one hand, she reached Camila's and grabbed it, caressing it slowly with her thumb.

"Don't be nervous.", Lauren said barely above a whisper.

Now it was Camila's turn to blush. Lauren's hand in hers send shivers down her back that was covered with a thin layer of sweat. It was soft, so were the caresses on her hand.

Camila nodded and both girls took a seat on the bench. They stayed in silence for a few moments, both girls looking at their feet, her hands not on each other anymore.

"Thank you", Lauren broke the silence.

"It's nothing, a just saw that woman over there selling them and I thought you wou-"

"Not the rose, silly", Lauren interrupted and laughed. "I was talking about the notes, everything."

"Oh", was all that Camila was able to say. This was going better than what she imagined until then Lauren hadn't run away yet.

"I'm serious. You have no idea how those notes made my days in the last couple of weeks."

"They did?"

"Yeah. For weeks, I just kept trying to figure out who was sending them, but I never thought it would be you."

Camila took a deep breath, her nervousness was calming a little knowing that Lauren actually liked the notes. So she turned on her side and extended her hand to Lauren. "I'm Camila, nice to meet you", she blurted out in the most awkward way that was possible.

Lauren giggled and shook Camila's hand. "I know who you are, dummy. And I know that you know me, but I'm Lauren, nice to meet you."

Camila's eyes widened."You know who I am?".

Now Lauren became shy, her gaze was in the daisies at her feet. She scratched her neck, embarrassed, took a deep breath and decided to open the game. They would have both to open up. "Yeah, I had a crush on you for like a year in our freshman year.".

Camila noticed the tint of red in her cheeks and blushed too. She was definitely not expecting this, Lauren had a crush on her.

"Really?", she asked, sounding more surprised than she intended.

Lauren giggled. "Yeah..."

Camila just laughed. They had a crush on each other, at the same time, and there was Camila, thinking that Lauren didn't even know about her existence.

"Why are you laughing?"

"I may or may not have a crush on you since that time too."

Now it was time for Lauren to be surprised, surprised for both pieces of information that she had received. Camila had a crush on her and Camila had a crush on her since their freshman year.

"Why did you decided to only talk to me now?"

"My friend Jacob basically had the idea and I just got along with it, since you wouldn't know who I was anyway.", Camila explained. When she felt like Lauren was not going to answer, she continued. "Did you really liked the notes?", she asked calmly, almost embarrassed for the action.

Lauren took Camila by surprised when she turned fully on her side, facing Camila, and spoke in an enthusiastic way. "Are you kidding me? I love them, they always got me all happy and giggly the whole day. When I was having bad days, I would read them all again and, instantly, my day got better. I will never be able to thank you enough for that."

Camila gathered her thoughts, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "I know a way."

"What way?"

Camila slowly took a deep breath and gained the confidence to say the next thing, still making it with fear present in her voice - fear of being rejected. "Go on a date with me."

Lauren didn't think that the day could any better. After finally meeting the person who had been leaving cute notes in her locker, and that person being Camila, and now Camila basically asking her to go on a date with her, made Lauren feel like this was the best day of her life.

Camila was Lauren's crush for more than a year. After their encounter on the second day of classes, Lauren just couldn't get the girl out of her head but was too scared to actually approach her.

She must have been in her thoughts for too long by then because she heard Camila speaking again.

"I mean, if you don't want to, it's okay, I just thought that-"

"I'll go", Lauren interrupted. "I'll go on a date with you."

"Really?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

Camila thought about the question. Although the encounter was going pretty well, Camila still had her doubts. Not that Lauren wasn't showing much interest, it was just that Camila had not enough self-confidence.

"I don't know..."

Lauren moved closer to Camila and her hand grabbed Camila's that was placed in her lap. "Camila, you have been making me happy for weeks now, and I didn't even know you it was you. Although I never thought that it was you, I couldn't be happier that it was actually you the whole time."

"Why?", was all that Camila was able to say in that moment.

"Because when I had the biggest crush ever on you, I really wanted to be able to approach you and ask you on a date and all that sappy stuff. I just gave up because I was too shy to do that, but deeply, I never stopped having a crush on you."

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A/N: Hello y'all! First of all, thank you for 350+ views, that's pretty amazing! Second of all, were you expecting this? Tell me what you think about the fic so far and also, I ask all my readers to suggest a song because I'll need one in a few chapters and I just can't choose on my own. It doesn't matter the theme, I don't even know exactly what I'm going to do, so suggest a random song (you can suggest 20 if you want xD)
Anyway, have a great day and take care of yourselves.