Lauren looks at the clock, it's 4:45 and she still doesn't know if she should go over to Camila's. She doubts Camila would want to see her after today, but something is nagging at Lauren to go over.
Lauren watches the clock go by. 4:49, 4:53, 4:57.
"That's it, I'm going."
Lauren arrives right at 5 o'clock luckily. She didn't need anything else to set Camila off today and she knows that her being late sure would. Lauren walks up to the door with the flowers she picked out of her garden in hand. Sofi ends up opening the door and smiling widely when she sees Lauren.
"Laur," the girl screeches jumping onto Lauren like a koala.
"Sofi," Lauren pretends to screech back, hugging the young girl back. Lauren connects with people quickly, so she wasn't surprised that Sofia did this.
"Mila didn't say anything about you coming over," Sofi says once Lauren lets her down. As the words come out of Sofi's mouth Lauren's smile drops. Maybe Camila really didn't want her to come anymore.
"Well where's your sister at, Sofi?" Lauren ask as she bends down to her level.
"Living room," Sofi says as she guides Lauren there.
"Thank you," Lauren says as she picks a flower out of the ones in her hand and gives it to Sofi. Sofi grins happily before walking away. Lauren watches Sofi walk out before hearing that captivating voice.
"Lolo," she says with her infamous smile.
"Hi Camz, these are for you," Lauren holds out the flowers, stepping into the living room. Camila takes them, her smile growing wider as she looks at them.
"Thank you, Lauren," Camila says. Lauren steps closer to Camila, not sure how close she should get.
"I wasn't sure if I should come after earlier. I really am sorry about that, Camz," Lauren apologizes again.
"It's okay, Lauren. You didn't mean to, you'll remember from now on," Camila says before patting the spot next to her on the couch. Just then Lauren sees Ally, Dinah, and a special other person walk into the room.
"Normani," Lauren questions, confused as to why her best friend would be here.
"Hey, Laur," Normani says, flashing her a smile.
"I didn't know that you'd be here," the green eyed girl says. Seeing as the girl didn't say anything earlier when she asked for her advice.
"Well Camila invited me and I couldn't pass up the opportunity," Normani shrugs. Lauren shakes it off and looks at the other two girls. Dinah and Ally then run over to jump on top of her. Even though they'd all just met, it seemed like they've known each other forever.
"Hi," Lauren mumbles into Dinah's shirt before she flips to being on top of them.
"Lauren, you're squishing me," Ally breathes out, struggling to get Lauren off of her.
"Oh sorry pipsqueak," Lauren teases, taking her legs off of Ally, making it to where she's straddling Dinah.
"Lauren as much as I love this position, I think Camila is about to kill me," Dinah jokes. Lauren looks behind her and sees Camila in the loveseat glaring at the two. Lauren laughs before standing up from Dinah's lap.
"Aw is Camzi jealous," Lauren teases standing in front of Camila now.
"No, I just don't like Dinah in that p-position with you," Camila pouts.
"Well would you rather me be in that position with you," Lauren flirts.
"No because then we'd be touching a ton and it'd make my s-skin feel all weird. I hate when my s-skin feels all weird," Camila says shivering to herself.
"I make your skin feel weird," Lauren chuckles out.
"No, touching makes my s-skin feel weird. But you make my s-stomach feel weird. It feels like I'm on a rollercoaster when I'm around you, it's an amazing feeling. I love roller coasters," Camila says, not realizing how sweet her words were.
"You make my stomach feel weird too, Camz," Lauren smiles, behind them she hears the three other girls awe. Lauren takes a seat on the arm of the loveseat, just so she could be close to Camila. She makes sure that Camila is okay with it after she sits there.
"So who's ready for Chinese," a middle aged man comes out of the hallway asking.
"Papi I want you to meet my friends first. This is Normani and this is Lauren, the one I'm going on a date with tomorrow at 6:30," Camila says doing her smile again.
"Lauren, Normani it's nice to meet you," Camila's dad says as he puts his hand out.
"It's nice to meet you too, Mr. Cabello," Lauren says shaking his hand.
"Please just call me Ale," the man says before excusing himself to go get their food.
"I love your dad, Mila," Dinah tells her best friend after he leaves the room.
"Papi is great, he loves me for me, which is also great," Camila says that smile reappearing. Lauren saddens at the thought that Camila had to state the obvious, that he loves her. Just because some people don't.
"Well why don't we start Wall-e now," Normani suggest after a few minutes of silence.
"We'll have to s-stop it in the middle for our f-food though, I don't want that," Camila says getting more and more agitated.
"Then we don't have to start it yet, Camz. It's okay, we won't start it," Lauren says in a soothing voice. Camila calms down quicker than Lauren expected this time around.
"You okay," Lauren ask quietly, so the other girls couldn't hear. Camila slowly nods her head, turning her attention back to whatever show was playing on the tv.
"Can I hold your hand," Lauren whispers to Camila. Camila doesn't reply for minutes, Lauren finally gives up on trying to get Camila's attention. Just as Lauren was about to move away Camila grabs onto her pinky finger. Lauren looks at her quizzicality as Camila grabs another one of her fingers. Then another and another until she's holding all of her fingers. Camila slides her hand towards Lauren's palm slowly, letting go of her fingers. Lauren then spreads her fingers apart, inviting Camila to intertwine their fingers. Camila does just that after a few more minutes of palm touching.
Camila looks over to Lauren and smiles with a slight nod. All three of the other girls were watching this encounter. Dinah couldn't believe it, Camila never lets anyone touch her that she hasn't known forever. Dinah can barely touch her.
"Dinner's here," the girls hear Ale yell from the kitchen. Ally, Dinah, and Normani scramble up and run to the kitchen.
"Mila, Laur are you guys coming," Normani yells bringing the two girls out of their staring trance. Camila smiles before standing up, not letting go of her hand. Lauren's smile gets even bigger as they walk into the kitchen still hand in hand.
"Hey-" Ale starts, but then sees the two interlinked hands. He looks up in shock and raises an eyebrow.
"What," Camila says confused as everyone seems to be staring at Lauren and her. Lauren looks at them waiting for an answer, confused as well.
"You're touching Lauren," Ale mumbles out still in disbelief. Lauren blushes at the way he worded it.
"Yes, I know. What about it," Camila questions as she drags Lauren over to the food and finally let's go of her hand to grab it. Everyone just shakes it off and all the girls head into the livingroom.
"Are you ready to watch Wall-e, Mila," Ally ask. Camila nods, not wanting to talk with a mouthful of food. Lauren stands up to start the movie, but camila pulls her back down on to the loveseat that they are now completely sharing. Lauren smiles apologetically as Dinah stands up to do it instead.
After the two movies are done, they figure that it's time to leave. All the girls stand up and bid their goodbyes to each other and leave, but Lauren lingers behind.
"6:30 in two days, I'll see you then," Lauren says with a large smile.
"Yes, 6:30. Good night, Lauren," Camila says back before closing the door behind her and going to bed, dreaming about the date with Lauren that is going to happen soon.
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Speak (Camren)
FanfictionCamila was just a teenage girl with autism, that's all she was ever defined as. Until she met Lauren, the psychiatrist's daughter and star softball player of her highschool.
