Beautiful When You Don't Try (Camren)

Chapter 69

A/N: Alright. Build up to some things to come and resolution to some things that have passed. Next chapter will be the dinner with all the friends and Shawn's arrival. Good stuff there. Later on it will be the bachelorette parties and then... the wedding. Not that it will get there in three chapters though. But those are the major things coming up soon.

I hope you enjoy.

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"Good morning." Adrianne greeted as she walked in the office just as Lauren was sitting down.

"Good morning to you too." The raven-haired greeted back, studying the surface of her desk and then looking up at the older woman.

She rolled her eyes. "It's clean."

"I'm still glad Camila's getting me a new one for my birthday."

"Aww... and get rid of all the fond memories you have of this one?" Adrianne teased sitting down in front of it. "Do you even remember their names?" Lauren hesitated and lost herself in her memories. "You don't do you? God, you were such a whore."

"I wasn't a whore."

"A womanizer."

She paused again. "Okay, that I could agree with. Lana! She was one." the raven-haired blurted out, receiving an amused raised brow from the brunette as Lauren tapped her hand on the desk in memory.

"That's one. Can you remember the other sixteen?"

"I don't need to remember them." Lauren protested, unwilling to admit defeat. "I'm getting married and they were just my past."

"I didn't say you needed to remember their names. I asked if you could and obviously, you can't."

"But they remember mine." The raven-haired jibe and then waved it off. Kim was right, when she and Adrianne got together they turned into complete guys. "Anyway. Where's Kim?"

"Right here." She called out as she walked through the office door with a tray of coffee. She set it down on the desk, nearly spilling it in her rush to slap away Adrianne's hand on her ass. "Is the word 'professional' not in your vocabulary?"

"Not today it isn't." The older woman informed her as she stood and moved close behind her. Adrianne smirked as she stretched over the shorter woman, unnecessarily close, to grab her coffee. "Just like it didn't exist in your vocabulary yesterday."

The assistant blushed and diverted her eyes as Lauren's smile disappeared behind her cup. "Ignoring that comment, you have a last minute shoot. They called this morning before you got here and wanted to set something up for nine o'clock."

"Tonight?" Lauren asked, nearly spitting out her coffee, but Kim shook her head.

"This morning."

The raven-haired looked at the clock and then back at her assistant who had clearly lost her mind. "That's in five minutes!"

"Told you she'd freak out." Adrianne taunted, taking her seat again.

"I'm not freaking out," Lauren assured her. "I'm... I'm just unprepared."

"And so you're freaking out about it. Relax. We all know you are a little spastic when you get nervous."

"What is with the names this morning?" Lauren asked in a huff as she stood up and shifted through some papers. "I mean, I'm a spastic, womanizing whore."

"Really, Lo, I think you're being too hard on yourself this morning." Normani teased from the doorway, accompanied by Dinah, Zayn, Frankie, and Ashlee. The latter quartette all looking rather shocked and confused at Lauren's description.