A Simple Folded Paper

65 Pt.2

When she got to the third page, her jaw completely dropped. It was a drawing of Camila's profile.

Camila's mouth was just open in shock, if it was anatomically possible she was sure that her jaw would be touching the ground. "I don't understand.", she said softly, turning her head to the side so she could look at Lauren.

Lauren nodded towards the drawing. "I drew that on the second art class we had that year. On the first, we still haven't met and I was too excited to be in an Art class to pay attention to the other students, but on the second class, that it was some days after our small encounter in the hallway, you were the first thing I noticed when I walked in that classroom on that day, you were sat a few chairs on my left and you looked so beautiful."

Camila felt her cheeks heat up and she was sure she was as red as a tomato when Lauren chuckled and kissed her cheek. Camila turned her gaze to the notebook once again.

"You can flip through the next pages.", Lauren said.

And so Camila did. She flipped a page and was met with another drawing of herself, but this time it was Camila in her seat in class, reading a book. She heard Lauren giggle behind her and looked at the girl.

"I remember drawing that.", Lauren said, "My mom yelled at me at dinner because she asked me what did we talked about or did on the Art class that day and I looked at her horrified. I had no clue what happened in that class because I spent the whole hour drawing you."

This time, Camila saw that Lauren was the one blushing in embarrassment. It felt weird, but a good kind of weird, to know this side of their story. In their relationship, it was more common for Camila's crush to come up in conversations or whatsoever that Lauren's crush, so Camila almost didn't know a thing about that part of the story, only that Lauren had had, indeed, a crush on Camila. 

It was almost as if Camila had entered a different dimension, she felt her heart melt at every new thing that she was discovered in those last minutes and she couldn't wait to know more, so she flipped a page and it was now a drawing of a pair of lips.

"Their yours", Lauren whispered in Camila's ear, making the girl shiver, when she saw that Camila wasn't getting it.

Camila looked at the pair of lips with more attention but she couldn't see her lips on the drawing, not because they were badly drawn but because she never really paid attention to her own lips. If you asked her all the details of Lauren's, she would know, but not hers.

Lauren continued, "That was like a month after we met. At that time, I had like a huge crush on you. Sometimes, in class, I just stared at your lips because I really really really wanted to kiss them. I noticed how you bit your lip every time the teacher asked the class a question and you were afraid that he was going to make you answer, or the way your tongue poked out when you were focused on some assignment we had to do."

Camila looked astonished at her girlfriend. "You noticed that?".

"Yeah, I loved to stare at you", Lauren informed, laughing after.

Camila laughed along but she still couldn't quite believe it. It looked like their staring game was not that strong, because neither of them had noticed the other looking.

Camila flipped a couple of more pages, it was essentially parts of Camila's face or simple drawings of random objects. Camila stopped at one that caught her eye, it was a drawing of two girls sitting on a rock at the edge of a cliff with a sunset in front of them, and they were holding hands. She turned her gaze to Lauren, silently asking her to explain that drawing.

"I drew that a couple of days before our junior year started. I wanted to draw you because it was the only way I had to... see you, but I didn't know what to draw. That night, I had a dream that I finally asked you on a date and took you to this cliff to see the sunset. When I woke up, I wanted to draw that and so I did. For a few months, sometimes I would look at that page and pep talked myself into talking to you, but I never had the courage to.", Lauren explained.