The Beautiful Motto of Whatever [Normila]

Chapter 16

Camila's P.O.V:

I cover my mouth as I release yet another yawn and take a glance at the clock on the counter in front of me reading the numbers at a sluggish pace. It's 5 in the morning, I'm the first to go for glams and I'm hating every second of it. Our stylist is going through my rack of outfits trying to find the best one for his idea he has in his head for our group's look today. When we first started out in this industry I didn't understand the need for stylists but now I appreciate it more than anything since I know left to my own discretion I would be wearing sweatpants, converse, and crop tops on a daily basis. I make it through the motions and by 8 almost everyone is awake, up and moving. I sit down in the chair while looking at my reflection under the mirror lights seeing our makeup artist, Dawn, behind me occupied while going through her bag and picking out my foundation and moisturizer. Dawn's not that much older than Ally, about 4 years older but she's great with makeup and knows the best places to eat in LA so we all love her. I stretch out on the chair trying to get comfortable before the next hour where I'll need to be still to do hair and makeup. I end up resting my arms on the armrests of the chair.

"Hey Camila sweetie what is this?" I hear Dawn ask to the right of me. I turn to her to see her looking questioningly at my arm and I quickly try to hide it as she picks at the sleeve of my oversized sweater that fell off my shoulder to around my forearms. I pull it up to cover the bruise I got a couple of days ago. 

"Huh what?" I say trying to distract her, everyone is in the room this point so anyone can overhear and decide to embarrass me at such an ungodly hour.  "I just came to get my makeup done and I'm feeling so attacked right now" I say and Dawn just rolls her eyes and gives me a pointed look. "Hey what does a nosy pepper do... get jalapeno your business" I say with a smile and Dawn just looks away awkwardly. 

"You told me that one last week and it's still not funny" my face falls at her words, my humor is never appreciated. "Let's see, random jokes, frantic look and nervous lip biting... according to my pysc degree that I never use and you being you... that means you are hiding something from me" Dawn says in a teasing voice and I groan at how well she knows my habits. "Like you've got a gnarly bruise on your arm, don't tell me you didn't notice? I mean I know you're clumsy but I haven't seen this one a few days ago" Dawn says with a look of amused curiosity.

"Chancho got that when she fell from Normani's bunk the other day, Dan caught them" Dinah says within a breath's notice after popping out of nowhere and nearly giving me a heart attack. Dawn turns to me with a surprised expression and the heat from my cheeks could grill cheese. The both of them burst into laughter and gain attention from a few people around us as I cover my eyes.

"Loyalty Dinah, can you spell it?!" I say with a glare in Dinah's direction which earns me a smirk, I try to get up from my chair so I can chase Dinah down and she starts to back away noticing what I'm planning. 

"Slow your roll there speedster" Dawn says with a a hand on my shoulder keeping me in my seat. "I knew you were a lot of things Cabello but I never took you for a player" Dawn teases with a smirk and I want to turn into a puddle on the floor from the embarrassment. 

"Playa player" Dinah sings while doing a little dance move and her and Dawn look at me expectantly. I turn to look away hoping that they'll focus their attention on somewhere else but I can still feel their gazes on me. 

"Well you know-" I start, scratching the back of my neck with a small smile feeling slightly giddy at the mere thought of the girl with honey highlights.

"Well you know what?" rings out and my heart falls to the pit of my stomach as Normani approaches us from behind, her eyes on mine in the reflection of the mirror and my mouth goes dry.