the robber.

uno

it was fun. i never got caught, i never hurt anyone.

it was small things at first. i swear it was. my family couldn't afford food some nights so i'd steal frozen meals from Walmart.

then it became guns and going for the money.

i was okay with it. we were good. normani, dinah, and i were tight. when one of us made a mistake, the other was quick to fix it. no yelling, no delays.

different cars, different cities every day.

there was no pattern. we were fucking good.

we were running a little low on supplies so dinah decided to go to a gas station. it became more than it had meant to.

buy a couple of things. dinah ended up showing her gun to the cashier accidentally when she tried to take out her wallet.

when he had noticed, he immediately freaked out. normani and i were outside and groaned. we saw dinah knock out the cashier and normani shook her head.

"i'll work on disabling the cameras and the footage and whatever the fuck. make sure stupid over there doesn't knock another innocent person out."

she got out of the car and i did as well. i walked in, slapping her in the back of the head.

"are you fucking dumb? you know how stupid that was? you know the fucking rules. no hurting ANYBODY unless they're a bad guy."

"we're the bad guys," she responded, taking a bite out of her Snickers bar.

"that's why i hit you, dumbass. i'm gonna make sure there's no one here."

i walked through the small aisles, seeing nobody. i went to the restrooms and saw it was locked. i pulled out two bobby pins from my pocket, immediately getting to work.

when i opened it, i smiled at myself and put my hand in my pocket, turning the door knob with it.

i saw a girl in the corner. she was crying. like full on sobbing. i didn't know what to do with her.

when she saw me, she started crying harder.

"please don't hurt me! i saw what your friend did to the guy and i came here. i promise i won't tell anyone. please! i'm gonna go to college," she said through all of her tears. i knew she wasn't going to tell the police, but she could tell her friends and then they could go. she already saw my face.

"i'm not gonna hurt you. but you could come with me. i seriously cannot have you going around with my face in your head."

"please, please, please."

i sat next to her and she whimpered. i bit my lip, she looked about my age or younger.

"what's your name?" i asked. i had a plan and i was going to leave with this girl.

"camila," she responded.

i said her name over and over, making sure i did it right.

"what about your last name?"

"cabello. what about you?"

"i'm lauren jauregui. so, now you have to come with me."

she looked shocked and confused. when she realized what i had meant, she started freaking out again.

"please! god, i have so much to do with my life."

she talked a lot. i really liked this girl. she was fucking gorgeous. even with the tears running down her face.

i pecked her cheek and she calmed down a little bit.

"why do you want me to go with you?"

"i like girls. you might not, camila. but i can tell that you're not adventurous. i could show you so much. i'll take you anywhere you wanna go."

she looked at me. just looked and i couldn't even tell what she was thinking.

"my mom and dad, though. lauren, i can't just leave without telling them,"

i forgot. fuck, i'm so dumb.

"shit. sorry. you're right, you gotta go to college. get a good education so you don't end up like my friends and i," i smiled and she laughed. it was the best thing i had heard in a while.

"see you later, camila."

i put my hand down to lift myself up and she put hers on top of mine.

"fuck it. i'll go," she said with hesitation but sounded positive at the same time.

"are you serious?"

"yeah. you guys look like you know what you're doing, and i'm not gonna be involved in it. just adventures, right?"

i smiled at her.

"just adventures."

we both got up and walked out of the gas station. normani and dinah were waiting and saw camila, fixing their stance.

"who is she? why the fuck is she here?" dinah asked and normani nodded, not comfortable speaking around new people.

"it's a girl. she wants to come and i want her to go with us. end of story."

they gave me a look. it was filled with too many emotions at once and i understood all of them.

"this is different. camila, can you take your phone out for me?"

"oh yeah! it's a new one though so don't drop it." she smiled at me before taking her phone out of her pocket, handing it over.

her voice was so sweet and intoxicating so i gave it to dinah and she knew what to do.

dinah put it down and was about to step on it when normani threw a bag at her.

she ran over and picked the phone up, putting it in her pocket.

"what the actual fuck, lauren?" camila asked and i just smiled.

"she's gonna do some stuff with it. she's learned a lot in the past couple months. dinah, not so much. but, when she gives you back your phone, be very minimal on your calls."

dinah scoffed and went up to camila, sticking her hand out.

"welcome to.. whatever the fuck we are. don't fall in love with me, it'll break lauren's heart," dinah said with a dumb smirk and got into the car.

"this is not at all what i expected criminals to be like."

A/N: wOW FIRST CHAPTER