It's Always Been You (Camila/You)

Chapter 2

"You're kinda, sorta, basically, pretty much, always on my mind."

The following day quickly came and I found myself eating lunch with Elijah and Alessia.

Jackson was off with his friends somewhere, as usual, he never sat with us anymore.

I was laughing at something Elijah said before I saw five girls sit across from us at our table.

I then realized it was Camila, Lauren, Ally, Dinah, and Normani.

"Hey, guys." I looked at them with a grin, my eyes lingering on Camila a little longer.

I couldn't help it.

Various greetings were returned to me.

"You know these people Y/n?" I heard Alessia ask from beside me.

"Oh yeah these are the people I met yesterday," I said.

"Guys this is Alessia and Elijah and Alessia and Elijah these girls are Camila, Lauren, Ally, Dinah, and Normani", I added, pointing to each person as I said their name.

"Nice to meet you guys then, I'm surprised Y/n has friends that aren't us," Elijah jokes.

I gasped and smacked his arm, earning a laugh from everyone around me. "Y/n's chill, even if I don't really know her yet, I can tell," Lauren said.

"Thank you, somebody who appreciates me," I jokingly scoffed.

Elijah wrapped his arm around my shoulder, pulling me into a side hug as he said, "You know I love you I'm just not used to seeing you with new people."

I looked at him, still trying to feign irritation but couldn't fight back my smile.

I lightly laughed before turning to the girls and striking up a conversation with them.

Throughout lunch I got to know all of them better, they were really fun to be around.

I could see us all easily becoming close friends.

One thing I did notice though was Camila kept staring at me.

Whenever I turned my head to meet her eyes she either quickly looked away or blushed and looked down.

I honestly found this cute even though I had no clue why she was staring at me.

Once lunch ended we all said our goodbyes and headed to class.

Upon entering math, I pulled my phone from my pocket and scrolled through my Instagram.

My math teacher always started the lesson like 10 minutes into class so I wanted to kill time.

My eyes were glued to my phone until I heard the chair next to me being pulled out.

I turned my head to see who was sitting next to me only to find Camila there.

"Hi," she said with a cute smile.

"Hey, I almost forgot we had this class together," I replied.

"Well, here I am," she said and then playfully winked.

I felt my heartbeat pick up, damn that wink.

"So Y/n, tell me about yourself," she spoke and turned her full attention to me.

"Well I'm 17, I like reading, writing, video games, music, and binging Netflix or YouTube. I'm really not that interesting, pretty boring honestly."

She looked at me with a mixture of admiration and curiosity in her eyes.

"I think there's a whole lot more to you than meets the eye and I want to know just what that 'more to' is," she replied.

"Good luck with that then, I don't think there's anything special about me," I said.

"We'll see about that," she said with determination in her voice.

I have to admit that math was pretty fun that day. I mean it was only fun because Camila and I kept up a conversation throughout the entire class period.

The more I get to know about this girl, the more I think I might have feelings for her.

A few weeks had passed now and I was starting to become really good friends with all five of the girls.

At this point I knew I had a crush on Camila, I couldn't deny it anymore.

The only thing that made this so complicated was, I had a boyfriend. The problem was, when I was with her I seemed to forget that fact. That could become very dangerous very quickly but I'm an extremely loyal person.

I wouldn't let anything happen between us as long as I'm still dating Jackson.

"Hey, I never really see you and Jackson together in school, what's up with that?" Dinah questioned me, speak of the devil.

Ally smacked Dinah on the arm. "You can't just ask people something like that, it could be personal," Ally scolded her.

Dinah raised her hands in defense then turned to me with a raised eyebrow.

She clearly wasn't giving up on this.

"In all honesty, I don't know, he just always ends up wandering off with his friends. He always chooses them over me," I responded and felt a pang of sadness I'm my heart when I thought about my relationship.

All the girls looked at me in concern, Alessia and Elijah looking at me in sympathy instead.

They've known about the issues Jackson and I have been having and I couldn't be more grateful to have them to help me through them.

I felt Camila intertwine our fingers underneath the table. She began drawing soothing patterns on my skin with her thumb.

I turned my head to look at her, seeing her with a light pink tint in her cheeks and a cheeky grin on her face.

I giggled and squeezed her hand before changing the subject at hand.

"Normani somebody told me you were hosting a party on Friday?" I questioned the girl across from me.

"Yeah I am, schools been stressing me out lately, I want to loosen up a bit," she responded.

I hummed in reply, I wasn't much of a party person but I could get her perspective.

"You should come Y/n," I heard Camila say.

Alessia and Elijah then burst out laughing. The girls looked at them weirdly.

"Sorry, sorry I just can't imagine Y/n at a party," Alessia said after recovering from her laughing fit.

"Yeah I mean the last time she went to one had to have been two years ago," Elijah agreed.

"I just don't like the party scene," I said and shrugged but felt a little embarrassed.

"Well then maybe this is a good opportunity for you to go to one," Lauren spoke up.

Everyone agreed with her.

"Fine I'll go but when I end up hating it, don't say I didn't warn you," I reluctantly said.

The group all began cheering.

Elijah wrapped an arm around me and kissed the top of my head while saying, "It will be fun just trust me."

I really do hope he's right this time.