A Simple Folded Paper

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Lauren and Camila woke up that Monday morning more tired than never. With less than four hours of sleep, Lauren woke up in the same position that she had fallen asleep in. The alarm was annoying, so she stretched her arm and turned it off, only to cuddle back in her girlfriend's arms once again.

"We should get up.", Camila said, yawning.

"We are so dumb,", Lauren said, laughing, "we spent the whole week going to sleep at decent hours and precisely today, when we had to get up early, we decide to stay up until late."

Camila laughed along, they were indeed dumb in that aspect. "Do you regret having stayed up until that late?".

Lauren understood what her girlfriend meant and answered, amused, "Of course not, I would gladly repeat it.", she said with a smirk, locking eyes with her girlfriend.

"We'll see if you deserve it."

A couple of minutes later, both girls decided to get out of bed and Camila headed to the bathroom to take a shower while Lauren woke up Hannah and got her dressed. Once the little girl was ready, both sisters went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the 3 of them.

When Lauren finished pouring milk in the three bowls of cereal, Camila entered the kitchen already dressed for the day. Lauren couldn't avoid but stare at her beautiful girlfriend, she was so simple yet she was the most spectacular thing in the world.

"Like what you see?", Camila asked, smirking, sitting on one of the chairs.

Lauren blushed, knowing she had been caught. "You know I do, dumbass.", she answered, placing one of the bowls in front of her girlfriend and the other one in front of her sister, who was sitting beside Camila, and sat in front Hannah with her own bowl. "Whose car do we take?", she asked.

Camila seems to thought about the question for a bit but soon found the answer. "We should go on separate cars. You go drop off Hannah and I'll go to school and at the end of the day, you can come home while I go to the hospital."

"You're sure you don't want me to go with you?"

"Yes babe, you've been there enough time already. Honestly, I don't know how you stayed there for so long, I would be bored as hell if I were you.", Camila said, chuckling.

Lauren laughed along. "Anything for you, babe. How are you, with all this?"

"I don't know, but I miss them so much. Although we weren't really close, I just miss their presence, you know?"

Lauren reached for her girlfriend's hand across the table and interlocked their fingers. "I know."

They ate the rest of their breakfast in silence. Lauren got dressed as well and they got out of the house together, going in separate ways.

While Lauren was dropping off her sister at school, Camila was entering their school building. She had an idea. She sat on a bench on one of the hallways, took off her notebook and a pen, and wrote:

If I kept track
of every time I thought about you,
the list would be as long
as Rapunzel's hair.
After extensions.

She folded the paper and made her way to Lauren's locker, sliding it inside. Since they got out of Lauren's house a little later than usual, Camila knew Lauren would arrive at school just in time for class, so she made her way to her own classroom and grabbed a book from her backpack to kill the remaining time until class started.

Minutes later, Lauren was getting out of her car and making her way to her locker to grab some books she would need for the morning. This made her remember the old days when she would enter the building alone, go to her locker, have a folded paper inside of it and smile once she read it. For as much happiness that that brought to her, now she had Camila by her side and she doesn't need any more folded notes. But, since her girlfriend loves to contradict Lauren and her thoughts, she saw a note inside her locker as soon as she opened it. Specifically, on the day that Lauren was mentally prepared for and happy about not having a note, she had one. 

She unfolded it and read, not being able to hold back the huge grin that followed it. She took her books out of her locker, closed it and headed to her classroom that was on the complete opposite side of the school where Camila was. When she got to her seat in the back row, she grabbed her phone, texted an 'I love you' to her girlfriend and after that, Mr. Bryson entered the classroom, making Lauren try to get her girlfriend out of her thoughts and pay attention to class since she hadn't gone to one in a week.

Throughout the whole morning, the only contact the two girls made were the few texts they exchanged, like agreeing to meet each other by Lauren's tree at lunch, 'I miss you's and 'this class is boring' since they were in the two far ends of the school.

Lauren got out of the classroom as soon as the bell rang and headed to the tree near the parking lot. When she got there, she was not surprised to not see Camila there, after all, Lauren left her classroom as soon as the bell rang and she was closer to the tree than Camila. Not 2 minutes after, Lauren spotted her girlfriend getting out of the school building with a stack of papers balanced in her arms along with some books.

Once Camila reached the tree, she placed her things on the floor and sat in Lauren's lap, who had her arms open ready to receive her girlfriend with a hug, which Camila promptly accepted.

"I had forgotten how much school is tiring and boring.", Camila mumbled against Lauren's neck.

"Same, I hadn't realized how many things we do in a week. I only had one morning of classes and I have enough work to do for a month, just to recover from the week we stayed at home."

"I'm sorry.", Camila said. She was feeling guilty now that Lauren had put things that way.

"For what?", on Lauren's side, she was really confused. Why would Camila apologize?

"For you having stayed with me and now you have a lot of work to do because of that."

"It was not your fault dumbass, I stayed with you because I wanted.", Lauren informed. "And maybe, but just maybe, because I love you."

~

A/N: Why do I always end the chapters in cliffhangers or in a sappy moment? Anyway, enjoy the fluffy things while you can, shit is about to go down soon.

I'll probably not update tomorrow, I have this huge test of Wednesday that I don't even know what the hell we are talking in class at the moment, so I'm pretty much fucked. Or maybe I'll update since I'm fucked either way. We'll see.

Finally, but not least, empty your heart from all the hate. Instead, fill it with love and spread it around you, the world will be a better place that way.