Paper Scars || camren

Chapter Twenty One

"Mila, I need to talk to you." Dinah approached the small girl who was scrolling through Tumblr. "Hello?"

"Yeah, hold on." She continued to scroll, obviously distracted by the technology.

"Mila, now."

"Yep, one second."

"Camila." Dinah stressed.

"Hold on."

Dinah slapped her phone to the ground, annoyed with how long she was taking. "You finna make me wait? What do I look like to you? I'm not gonna "hold on", I said now."

"Dinah, what the hell?" She reached to grab her phone, checking to make sure it didn't crack. "Aren't you supposed to be getting your hair done or something?"

"Why haven't you told Lauren about Austin?"

"Shh." Camila widened her eyes, glancing over at a smiling Lauren who was speaking with Ally. "Don't talk so loud." She got up quickly and walked out of the room with Dinah, who had her hands placed on her hips.

"Well?" She asked impatiently, waiting for an answer.

"I don't know." Camila spoke softly.

"You don't know?" Dinah simmered.

"I don't know." She repeated.

Dinah scoffed. "You have got to be kidding me, girl. It's been weeks. Actually, over a month, I'm pretty sure." She rolled her eyes at the nervous girl. "Through all that, how can you stand to watch her suffer?"

"She's not suffering." Dinah gave her a pointed look. "Okay, well if she is, she hasn't said anything about it."

"She hasn't said anything? Are you forgetting how many guys she had sex with? That was not saying anything? That wasn't suffering?" Dinah looked at her in shock. "Are you being for real?"

"To be honest, it's bothering me that she hasn't spoken to me about it. It's like she doesn't even care that there might be competition." Camila shook her head.

"It's taking all I have in me not to hit you right now." Dinah was furious. She thought back to the night Lauren swallowed the pills—right after she thought Camila was going to leave her for Austin. "Get your shit together, Mila."

"Get my shit together? It's none of your business." Camila chuckled.

Dinah glared at her and Camila backed up a little. "Don't even start. You sound so stupid right now, and that's a lot coming from me because usually I'm the stupid one. You think she doesn't care that you might be messing around with someone else? You'd have to be the most ignorant person alive, and I know you aren't. How can you even stand here and expect more from her? She's given you her all, and you want more? How is she supposed to give you more when she doesn't know where your priorities are? When she doesn't know that you could very easily be doing the same stuff as you do with her, with him?" Dinah looked at the girl in a way Camila has never seen—with disappointment. "If you think I'm going to stand here and watch you completely ruin her again, you're wrong. You'd better tell her, or I will. If I hear from her one more time that she still thinks you're together, this whole sick secret we have is over. I won't watch her lose it again over this." And with that, Dinah gave her one last disapproving look and walked back into the dressing room, leaving a confused and guilty Camila in the hallway.

"Hey, what was that about?" Normani asked a flustered Dinah. She watched as Dinah shook her head and frowned. "Come on, I'm dying here."

"It will only make you more mad and right now, you need to stay a happy Normani for Lauren to forgive you." Dinah explained.