Second Chances

Chapter 6

Shawn had been doing everything in his power to try and win Camila back, he had asked her out on a date to see if they could chat and rekindle things, Camila felt obligated to go and just see how things went, which sucked for me but I understood and I wasn't going to get involved. It was Friday night and their 'date' night and I was sitting at home in antipation, I felt selfish for not wanting it to go well but I was terrified of what would happen if it did. "Not going out tonight?" My dad walked into the lounge room, I shook my head, "what about those friends of yours that you seem to keep hanging out with?" He asked, he knew I had been hanging out with 'friends' but he didn't know who I had been hanging out with, he knew everything that had happened with Lucy and I didn't want to bring Camila into that too and confuse him and make him worry more. I felt my phone buzz, my heart twinged but I looked down to see it was from Dinah.

'Hey, just wanted to check in and see how you are.'

'Nervous I guess haha but I just want her to be happy and it's probably good she's gone with him to figure out what she wants to do.'

'Jeez if she knew how understanding you were being right now I think she'd jump you haha'

'I don't know about that 😂'

'Have you heard from her?'

'Nope have you?'

'Nah I haven't, but she didn't seem too excited before she left if that makes you feel any better 🤷🏻‍♀‍'

My phone buzzed again, but this time it wasn't Dinah it was Camila...

'I miss you.'

She's out with Shawn and she's texting me telling she misses me? Risky.

'I miss you too, how's your date?'

I text Dinah back telling her that Camila said she missed me.

'She's with Shawn texting you that she misses you? It's camren yo!'

'Hahah shut up.'

Camila replied back

'Well if you come out the front maybe I can tell you...'

What the... My dad was upstairs so I snuck out the front to see Camila's car parked outside my house, why was she at my house? I walked over and got in the car, "what are you doing here?" I asked in total confusion. "Jeez, it's good to see you too." She giggled, I smiled, "I'm just shocked that you're outside my house." I said laughing, "I told you I missed you." She giggled and smiled at me, damn she looked so fucking cute, stop it Lauren. "That's a bit cute... how'd it go with Shawn?" I asked keen to know what had happened, "I'm here with you so..." I nodded, I didn't exactly know what that meant but sure. "Did you wanna go for a drive?" She asked, "sure just let me run inside and tell Dad I'm leaving." I got out of the car and ran inside, telling my dad that I was just going out for a bit. "I thought you wernt going out?" He asked, I shrugged, " I didn't think I was... bye." I waved and ran back out to Camila jumping in the car as she drove off. "Was a bit weird being outside your house." She mentioned, "it's a bit weird being in a car with you driving." When we were together she never had her license so I was always driving whenever we would go somewhere. "True you've never been in a car with me before." She said winking at me, "please keep me safe." I joked with her, I plugged my phone in so I was in control of the music, being in charge of music was always dangerous but I knew exactly what Camila would love to sing along to. Taylor Swift. Her face changed instantly and a big grin appeared, "you know the way to my heart." I laughed, "Taylor Swift has been there for me so much in the past few months" it was true, at the start I couldn't listen to music I couldn't even listen to the radio, I hated it, but as the months went on I turned to music sometimes to help heal the pain and Taylor Swifts music had a way of hitting the nail right on the head. She grabbed my hand and held it while she sang her heart out as she drove, I smiled it was nice to just drive around singing and not having any worries or concerns. She drove us to the beach, the sun was setting and it was my favourite time of the day, the sky was filled with wonderful warm colours. We went and sat on the beach and she sat between my legs as I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her close, if anyone saw us right now they would think we're happily in love. "I told Shawn that I was done with him, that he made his choice and it would be best if we both moved on." She confessed, I was shocked but I wasn't I know that does really make sense but I think I was relieved as well, this mean I wouldn't lose her and I had a 1% chance of getting her back. "Are you happy?" I asked her, "I will be, I think it's what's best for everyone." I squeezed her tightly to ensure her that I was here for her, "as long as you're okay that's all that matters to me." She got out her phone and took a few photos making sure she got our legs intertwined in the photos, I wondered if she was going to post them, I was beginning to think she was enjoying the sneakiness of our friendship, being able to post pictures that didn't actually show who I was and such. Indeed she opened up Instagram editing the photo and posting it with the caption 'onward.' Moments later I felt my phone buzz, I looked down to see Dinah had text me