Like I Do - Camren

Chapter 9

I was out with Dinah to get some lunch and I had just dropped her off at her and the girls' room. I turned and unlocked mine. The first thing I saw was Lauren in her bra. I quickly looked down, my face turning red. "What? You've got what I've got." She chuckled at me. "No, I don't. You have abs." I said, looking up. This time she had a red face. "You see every time I wear a crop-top." She mumbled. She makes a point, though it's very different with a black lacy bra than with a crop-top in my opinion. "Whatever. Put a shirt on, you weirdo." I giggle and walk past her. "Ok, ok." She says, tugging a white pocket t-shirt over her head.

"We only have half an hour before we have to go." Lauren says, pulling her hair out of the shirt. "I know." I collapse onto my back on my bed. She chuckles and then sits on her bed. Just then the door bursts open. "Whatup, bitches?" Dinah yells, walking in with the two others following behind her chuckling. I giggle slightly and sit up. "We gotta go now. They called us early." Ally says. "Aw man." Lauren stands up, while I do the same. "I was hoping to close my eyes for a minute." I groan. Lauren pouts her bottom lip and looks at me. "C'mon. Let's go!" Dinah calls and walks out, with all of us following.

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The show was finally over and we all head to get dinner at some small diner after getting changed. We sit in a booth laughing and joking until we are interrupted by a small group of girls freaking out. "We were just at your concert!" One of them squeals. "That's so cool." Mani says back and they all go insane. "We love you all so much! Especially Lauren." One of them says and we all chuckle. "Lauren marry me!" A girl from the back yells and we all break out into a laugh. I slide my arm around her shoulder and say "Sorry, girls, she's mine." I say still laughing, in a joking manner. The all say "aww"s and "oooo"s and then the one I the front blurts "Is Camren real?". I giggle at the comment. "I'm just kidding." I retract my arm with a chuckle, and look to Lauren who has her head turned away from me. Dinah looks at Lauren with a face of concern, as if they knew something I didn't. "Alright girls. Well it was great meeting you. You guys want pictures or anything?" Dinah asks. They squeal and we end up signing things a taking a few pictures before we had to go back to the hotel.

We all go into mine and Lauren's room and I fall over onto my bed. "Chanch! Get up! We are gonna watch a movie and you are staying awake!" Dinah yells at me. "Go away! I've been up since 2 this morning!" I groan. "Why were you awake so early then?" I hear Lauren chuckle. I just shake my head against the sheets. "You're a dork." She says. I sit up slowly and rub my sleepy eyes. I notice that Lauren has turned her back to me doing something with the blankets on her bed with Ally. I stretch my arms up and Lauren starts to turn around. I see Dinah look at me from the corner of my eye and she comes running over to me, pulling my sleeves so you can't see the bandages. She breaths out a sigh of relief and Lauren looks at us both, confused. "I'm just gonna ignore whatever just happened...." She says, looking to Dinah. I chuckle nervously and look to Dinah as well. "So, that movie?" Dinah says quickly.

Dinah tackled me onto the bed and we wrestled for the remote. She wanted to watch some stupid movie while I wanted to watch Finding Nemo. I currently had the controller and I hid it underneath me, still holding it. She grabs my arm and pulls it, not realizing I still had stitches. I winced and she quickly apologized. After a few more minutes of wrestling we decided to have a vote, and ended up watching the stupid movie.

Halfway through the movie I get up and go to the bathroom. When I come back out I notice that everyone is asleep except Dinah. She looks at me and raises an eyebrow, her eyes travel to my arm and go wide. She jumps up and comes over to me. "I thought you said you wouldn't do this anymore!" She says, pushing me back into the bathroom, closing and liking the door. "What do you mean? I didn't do it...." I look down at my sleeve and it is covered in blood that must've seeped through. "Than what is that from?" She asks, sounding upset. "Dinah, I swear I didn't do anything." I lift my sleeve up and the blood had seeped through the bandages. I stumbled a bit and she grabbed me. "Ok, I believe you. I'm gonna get us an Uber to the ER." She sighs.

When the Uber arrived we had to sneak out of the room. We got to the hospital and I went to the back with Dinah. I explained what was going on and they took the bandages off. "Ok, so it looks like the stitches broke." The nurse says. "Were you doing anything that might've caused this?" She looks up at me and I shake my head. "Actually, when we were fighting over the remote earlier it could've happened." Dinah spoke up and I remembered that it did hurt a bit after that. "That could've caused it. I'll just fix this up and you guys will be able to head home as soon as I'm done." The nurse said, leaving the small curtained area.

She finally finished and said that I would have to push my appointment to get them out a week later than planned.  We made our way back to the hotel and snuck inside, but sadly Ally was already awake. The sun was starting to shine through the curtains. "Where the hell were you two? And Mila, why is there blood on your sleeve? Did you...." She started. "No, the stitches broke." I cut her off. She breathed a sigh of relief and pulled me into a hug. "Ok." She said. I then noticed Lauren stirring. "Ally, toss me that jacket!" I whisper-yelled, pointing to a sweatshirt thrown lazily on the floor by me. I peeled off my current sweater and caught the one Ally tossed me, slipping it on before Lauren sat up and sleepily rubbed her eyes. I rolled the bloody jacket up and went over, setting it on my suitcase. "What...?" Lauren questioned sleepily. "Nothing. Morning sleepyhead." I said to her. "Morning." She reached her arms out to hug me. "You have to tell her eventually." Dinah mumbles into my ear, and I fell into Lauren's arms.