Serendipity (Camren)

Chapter 1: Serendipity

"Oh, I am fortune's fool!" ― William Shakespeare
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"Fuck, you feel good. Put your leg on my shoulder." Lauren's focus was already hazy, but the blonde girl underneath her on the Shoreline Amphitheater's green room couch was naked and begging, grabbing handfuls of Lauren's shirt and urging her on. Lauren leaned over and took the bottle of Jack Daniels on the coffee table and gulped another healthy swig. The acrid taste made her eyes water, but it was easier to forget faces when she was drunk, and after tonight's sold out show, she was amped and wanted to make sure she enjoyed the girl without the vicious regret she would feel if she remembered this in the morning.

"God, this is like- totally serendipity," the girl giggled, her lips wet and her breath coming up to meet Lauren's face with little puffs of hot air.

Jesus, Lauren thought. I hate when they talk.

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The afternoon was bright, little whorls of leaves occasionally kicked up in the breeze, and Oval Park in Stanford was teeming with students enjoying a free and unfettered Saturday. Lauren was sitting in the grass watching some friends throw a frisbee while she listened to her best friend Lucy Vives pick out strands of an unknown song on her guitar. She watched the other students laugh and gambol around each other, smiling at just how much she enjoyed being there at that moment. It was Lauren's second year at Stanford, and already she had won the role of anchor and was co-captain of their winning swim team, sharing the responsibility with Lucy. Plus, she'd aced a difficult Biology test yesterday. This is it, she thought, this is everything I dreamed it would be. She felt like she should reach out and grab hold of the life in front of her, squeeze out its essence and drink its juice. She turned to Lucy and said, "We should start a band."

Lucy rolled her dark brown eyes and scoffed, "Yeah. Good one, Jauregui. Just me playing guitar and you standing there. I can see the crowds now."

"I can sing," Lauren retorted while chuckling, albeit a little petulantly, "at least well enough to sing in a band if you play loud enough. Come on! It'd be fun. Coffee houses, free entry to local music fests, maybe even a groupie or two- whaddya say?"

Lucy eyed her again, this time with less scorn. She put down her guitar. "You're serious, aren't you?"

Lauren blinked in mock disbelief. "As a heart attack." Lauren laughed again as Lucy shoved her hard enough to push her over into the grass. Still lying on her back, Lauren squinted up into the sun at Lucy and said, "How 'bout this? I get a drummer and maybe a bass player and you agree to try it."

"Fine. Good luck with that. But the drummer better be a hot guy," Lucy relented with a sigh as she picked up her guitar again and started playing a new tune.

Lauren surprised Lucy just a short week later by walking into the locker room before swim practice with the name of a drummer. Craig Sanders, Lauren's lab partner, already had much of the equipment they needed for the band and, as an added bonus, his brother Carson was bored, recently single, and some sort of virtuoso who played bass as well as several other instruments. He wasn't a drummer, but he was cute, Lauren assured.

As Lauren related the details, Lucy rolled her eyes. She loved Lauren, but the ease with which Lauren skated through life was enough to make Lucy green with envy. Lauren, beautiful, doe-eyed, talented, funny, easy-going Lauren. She walked under an invisible magic horseshoe, and when she wanted something, it would drop in her lap as if she waved a wand and sprinkled some fairy dust. If she wasn't her best friend, Lucy would hate the bitch.

"You know, Lauren, I don't get how serendipity just seems to find you all the damn time. Your lab partner is a drummer? Seriously? Fuck you."

Lauren just grinned back at her. "You promised to try it."

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Their first practice had shocked them all. Lauren could carry a tune, Craig was a pretty decent drummer, and Carson was a musical genius. As an added bonus, Carson had written a few songs in his Music Theory class that they could use in their first set list.

It really was serendipity, and as they all looked at each other over the fresh six-pack they were enjoying after band practice, they didn't even have to fight over what to call their band...

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Lauren shook herself out of her reverie, and looked back down at the blonde girl writhing wantonly on the couch. Shit, how many times have I done this on this exact couch? She was still fully clothed; she hadn't even taken her own shoes off yet. Hell, she probably wouldn't. The girl's giggling had all but killed the spark of desire she had felt when the blonde first made eye contact with her from the crowd.

"Don't talk," she rasped callously as she poured whiskey on the girl's breasts with one hand and entered her swiftly with the other. If it wasn't desire that the blonde's sudden keening was igniting within Lauren, then it was power. A swift need to dominate and feed the darkness seething within overcame Lauren, and she leaned over to lick the liquor off her conquest's chest as she drove her fingers deeper.

And that was the scene Camila Cabello was greeted with when she opened the door to the green room to meet her new client.

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Ok so this is my first anything ever!! I'm not a writer by any means but I do love reading and sometimes when I read stories I read them as Camren so I finally decided to convert one of my favorite stories. I did get permission as I would never just take someone else's work.
Anyways I hope you enjoy this and this is so far a 2 part series and I have all of book one converted so let me know if you like it.

❤️CaliGrl❤️