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"I can't believe you did this," Dinah breathes out, frustratedly running a hand through her hair.

Ally stands next to her on the verge of tears, Camila stands next to her with clear disinterest and a blank stare back.

"And tonight? Tonight of all nights you decide this is a good idea?" Dinah continues, frantically running to the fridge to dig for any spare ingredients they have (they all know there's not a drop of anything left, the main batch of punch was the only batch of punch). "You couldn't have possibly thought through this plan and completely disregarded everything your mind was telling you since, as usual, it's dead ass, wrong as fuck?" Dinah continues and finally stops her pacing to glare at Camila who in turn shrugs.

"I don't see why it's such a big deal," she replies finally, moving to grab a water bottle and taking a sip perched on the counter. "It's funny," she adds, when Dinah glares harder and Ally lets out a shaky breath.

She's been freaking out since she got into the kitchen and Camila was laughing at a panicked looking Ally. It only took a second of Ally mumbling for Dinah to understand what had happened and another second for Camila to be moving out of the way and rubbing the newly sore spot on her arm.

Since then she'd been trying to find new ingredients to make new punch that couldn't be affected by Camila.

Dinah always knew Camila was reckless in terms of decision making, but really? Putting love potion in Ally's punch for their Christmas party? Like how dumb could this girl get?

"What's up with her?" a new voice enters the picture and the three girls look up to meet Lauren's eyes at the kitchen door.

"She's a bug. She's bugging," Camila answers.

"Does she need anything, like a snack or a drink or... this punch looked kinda good, I haven't tried it yet but she might like something fruity, usually that snaps DJ outta her funk. I'm pretty sure it's fruit actually... maybe something else? " Lauren asks Camila and just like that the accident gets worse as she lifts the cup to her lips.

Dinah's eyes widen in horror and Ally finally stops panting to gasp as their friend takes a deep chug of the potion before lowering the cup and closing her eyes for the briefest of moments, her body taking it in.

Her eyes go back to Camila's and the younger girl's heart stops for a second before Lauren continues, ignoring the gasps in the room, "yup, tastes like fruit punch - which, you know, makes sense because it's punch that's fruit flavored. Anybody want a cup?" she offers the room, well mainly offers Camila since her eyes haven't left her.

"No thanks," Dinah answers burying her face in her hands and giving up while Ally shakes her head no.

"Camz?" she offers the smaller girl, moving closer to her to lean against the counter she's on.

"I think I'm all set," Camila replies before taking a long gulp of water. Maybe Dinah's right, maybe she should think through her jokes before actually going through with them. (They're usually not that funny and this proves to follow suit).

-

"So how's the shit show going?" Dinah laughs as she greets Camila for lunch the next week.

It'd been a weird week. Camila was ignoring Lauren as much as possible, Lauren was chasing her like a lost puppy dog, Ally was still freaking out, and Dinah, Dinah was enjoying karma getting her best friend back. (Normani was just getting back from vacation and not noticing anything out of the ordinary other than Camila's skittishness).

"I don't want to talk about it," Camila replies, head down in her arms trying to block out the surrounding cafeteria noise, knowing the three girls would be joining them soon.