Sometimes The Person You Don't Want Turns Out To Be The Person You Need (Camren)

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⚠ Mention of drug use

She has always been in love with girls, even if she didn't want to admit it to the world, to her family, to her friends and especially not to herself. It has always been stolen kisses in the locker rooms with popular girls curious enough to try, pretty enough to make her want to kiss them and gathering enough blackmail material to keep their mouth shuts so she wouldn't be shunned like some pariah in school. And if she were to be honest to herself (let's just say she is seeing as she’s on a roll right now), she would have the courage to say that she has always been a little bit in love with Vero, her evil mastermind, her best friend and secret keeper all rolled into one.

It was something that would never make it out to the light of day (what she is saying right now doesn't count because it's between her and her alone) because Vero was never one of those girl who experiments, whose eyes slide over discreetly like the way Vanessa does, not like Alexis who reaches out at random times to pat someone fondly on the rear.

So she kept this secret to herself, painful and wanting.

University life was supposed to be her saving grace, the campus big enough to avoid Vero's call for lunch dates by claiming she was on the other side of the campus. Camila prefers University life over high school, mainly because no one gives a damn who you are dating unless it was the University's varsity football team and considering that it consists of only males, there was no chance in hell that Camila would go near them, if bad feet smell and disgusting sweatshirts weren't a put off enough.

It worked out well enough until she got invited to the same fraternity party as Vero.

The both of them weren't very good at holding their alcohol and being the only two freshmen at an otherwise sophomore and senior infested party, the both of them had clung on to each other the entire night, knocking back vodka shots and taking a whiff of the weed that was going around. By the end of the night, Camila was high enough to not care about her huge crush on the girl beside her and Vero was drunk enough to start spouting about how pretty she thought Camila was and how her lips would feel.

It was the push enough to get Camila to press her against the bathroom wall, mouth furiously working with Vero's, tongues stuck in some sort of twisted limbo.

Camila was sober enough to remember the night's details, waking up in her dorm room with Vero beside her (fully clothed thank god) and hope started to fill her chest, caressing the side of her best friend's face, her touch rousing the girl.

What came out from the recently awakened girl shattered her entire world.

"Shit… What the hell did we do last night? My head feels like it's about to burst…"

Camila swears off drugs and alcohol after that incident.

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It was about two months in that Camila bumped into Lauren and her gang again.

Well, gang would probably be an overstatement, considering Lauren Jauregui was an all round mysterious girl with her smudged eye make up that only she can pull of coupled together with the long one piece shirts that she passes off as dresses and torn stockings that would make someone else look like a cheap call girl but somehow works on her, combat boots and black wrist guards finishing off the look. The girl only ever hung out with two people: Ally, a girl so bubbly that Camila did not get why she follows after Lauren Jauregui and Lucy, a girl so much like Vero that Camila had to look away. She had known these three from high school (Diamond Bar wasn't exactly the biggest state in the world) and even then, Camila never got the way that Ally and Lucy would flit around other cliques, only to go back to Lauren by the end of the day or the way that Lauren's green eyes would bore into you and make it seem like she was staring deep in your soul.