A Simple Folded Paper

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"Can we finally talk about college?", Lauren asked, getting under the covers and cuddling to Camila's side.

Camila sighed softly, she didn't want to have this conversation at all. "Yeah."

Lauren stayed in silence, waiting for her girlfriend to say something else, to explain, but Camila stayed in silence too. "So... what are your plans?".

"I haven't really planned it out but what my mom told was true, I don't plan on staying with her", Camila said.

"What do you mean?".

"I just want to... get out of here, get out of this city, meet new things, new places, new people.", Camila explained, hoping that Lauren would understand as her mother did.

Lauren became silent once again, she had thought about making college nearby but Camila had a good point, Lauren didn't have anything here besides her family and girlfriend.

They spent a good amount of time talking about college plans and cities where they would possibly want to go to. Camila was talking about it with so much happiness and joy in her voice that Lauren had to force herself to just stop staring at her girlfriend and actually hear what she was saying.

"To be honest,", Camila said, "I was excited to leave before we were a thing, now I'll gladly stay here as long as I have you.". She smiled lovingly at Lauren and kissed the girl's forehead.

Lauren melted with the gesture. She was always the one who did that kind of gestures, who was 'the boy in the relationship' if you want, and being cuddle up to Camila while receiving a kiss on the forehead was endearing. "I'm coming with you.", she blurted out.

Camila furrowed her eyebrows but smiled nonetheless. "You're not going anywhere with me because I'm not leaving."

"But you want to."

"Kinda.", Camila shrugged.

"Then I'm going too."

Camila smiled softly at Lauren and kissed the girl's forehead, glabella and then the bridge of her nose. "We'll talk about that later, alright?", she asked, placing a loose strand of Lauren's hair behind her ear.

Lauren nodded happily. Honestly, she didn't know why she was so scared in the first place. Yeah, she was scared of Camila leaving her but she knew that they could figure that out. With this, she discovered that she didn't mind leaving her own city and family so Camila could pursue her dreams, whatever they were. And why? Because Lauren would get to see her dream pursue her dreams, and that was kinda her dream.

~

A couple of days later, Camila was sat on the couch with Lauren and Hannah using her chest as a pillow, watching SpongeBob. To be honest, Camila's heart was melting more and more each time she looked at the two sisters. With time, Camila had bonded with Hannah in a way as if the little girl was her own sister, but sometimes the kid looked more like Camila and Lauren's child. They usually woke up Hannah, made her breakfast, drove her to school and picked up the girl once it was over. Camila loved every single moment of those. The singing sessions they have on their drives were priceless.

"I never realized how stupid this show is until now, Jesus Christ.", Lauren said, rolling her eyes in the end.

"What? How can you say that?", Camila asked, feigning offense for her girlfriend being insulting her favorite show.

"Do you realize that he's making a bonfire... under water, right?". Lauren lifted her head a bit so she could look at how Camila would react to her point and chuckled when Camila opened her mouth several times to try and defend her TV show but eventually giving up since she had nothing valid against what Lauren had said.