Changed For Good.

Part 4

Lucy watched the girl across from her, looking at her phone.
"Are you going to stare at that all night?"
Laura looked up at her friend. "Sorry."
"Come on, what's up with you, Jordy? I thought things were going great over there at co-ed?"
Laura flipped her phone over. Sitting back, she folded her arms. "My sister is fucking my teacher."
Lucy almost dropped her drink. "Say what?" She wiped the drops off the table. "Your sister Jo?" Laura nodded, playing with the label on her bottle. "Wow! What subject?"
"What's that got to do with anything?!" She glared at her. Sighing, she sat forward. "Miss Williams, my drama teacher."
Lucy was quiet for a second. "Jo's gay?"
Laura met her eyes. She nodded. She sat back, taking a sip of her bottle.
"Wow," Lucy said again. "You know, I always thought she was pretty hot."
"Stop it!" Laura threw a chip at her. "You're not helping."
"Sorry." Lucy smiled. "So," She sat forward. "What's the real issue?" Brown eyes met green. Laura tapped the table. "Jo thinks I have feelings for my friend Cameron. Romantic feelings."
"And do you?" Lucy asked, taking a sip.
Laura sat forward, running her fingers through her hair. "I don't know."
Lucy pointed her bottle at her. "This isn't going to be another nose-breaking incident, is it?" Laura looked up at her friend, smiling with sarcasm.
"No. I don't know. All I know is Jos put it in my head, and now I just..." She scratched her hand. "I'm too scared to be around her."
"Laura." Lucy leant over the table, picking up Laura's phone. She lit the screen, seeing the girl in question in the screen saver. "She's not Louisa."
Laura looked up at her. She hadn't heard that girl's name in months. "How is she?" She continued to play with the label on her bottle.
"She's doing okay. Her nose has healed up. Has a slight bump to it. You hit her pretty well."
"I didn't mean to hit her."
Lucy handed back her phone.
"Do I need to warn this Cameron chick that you tend to punch girls you like?"
"She threatened me remember!"
"To out you!"
"To like everyone!"
"Ah, you tried to kiss her!"
"I thought that's what she wanted! I so got that wrong!"
"Big time!" Laura sat back, playing with her bottle. "Seriously, I'm not doing it again."
"What, trying to stick your tongue down your best friend's throat!?"
"Any of it!"
"Soo...Cameron?"
"Definitely not Cameron." She flipped her phone over, looking at their selfie on her screen saver. "Nah, no way! I want her in my life. I'm not gonna ruin this friendship for anything."

"Cam, you want another one?"
"No thanks." Cameron looked over to the sliding door as Malani went back inside Allys house. She slipped her fingers back into the pool's warm water, swinging the lilo around to face the sun.
It hadn't been as fun as she thought last night staying at Ally's would be. They had stayed there before, but this time felt different without Laura. She glimpsed up at the moon, sitting quietly in the sky as the afternoon sun was making its exit. She chewed her lip. Pushing her sunglasses up, she flicked through her photos again, trying to find the one she was looking for. Blocking the sun with her hand, she held up the image, trying to make out the figures in front of her. Unable to, she pushed her glasses onto her head, squinting against the sunlight. Tilting it, she could see Laura's features.
They had taken the selfie during practice a few days ago. She was poking her tongue out to the side. Laura had her arm around her neck, kissing her cheek. Cameron bit her lip gently.
It had been playing on her mind since Trudy said something about them the other day, an observation. Casually, she'd asked her if the two of them were dating. She laughed her off, telling her she was crazy! She'd sat on the roof outside her bedroom window that night, trying to analyse the emotions that had come over her. They were best friends! Laura seriously was her favourite person!
The sun went behind a cloud, and the image on her phone became clearer. Laura's green eyes instantly looked back at her.
She put her phone down. Somehow, she had to know, were they more than friends?

Laura stepped up to the gate at the back of Ally's parents' house, seeing the sliding door still open. She'd caught the bus back to town and decided she wanted to spend the rest of the afternoon with the girls.
She hadn't heard from Jo. She didn't want to see her anyway. She wasn't ready to talk about that kind of stuff.
Hearing voices, she spotted Dayna and Malani dancing in the lounge.
"Nah, Nah, Malani, go lower. Like this." Dayna pumped her hips, dropping her knees. Shaking her head, Laura walked past. She was looking for Cameron.
She heard her laughing in the kitchen. She was leaning over the breakfast counter, wearing only her bikini.
"Damn." Laura stopped. She couldn't help admiring the slender, tanned legs and the petite bum wrapped in blue. Ally looked up, seeing her in the doorway. Laura quickly put her finger up to her mouth. Ally smiled. She looked at Cameron in front of her, peeling back another banana.
"Do you have to eat all my bananas?!" She slapped her hand.
"Ally, you know I'm a banana freak. I looove bananas!" She took a big bite. Chewing, she noticed Ally wink over her shoulder.
Cameron dropped her shoulders. Taking another bite of the banana, she sighed. "Dayna is behind me isn't she. She gonna try and scare me" She turned around.
"Mmmm!" She screamed with her mouth full. She automatically jumped on the girl with the beanie, throwing her legs around her waist.
Laura quickly wrapped her arms under her legs, catching her before she slipped. She laughed.
"I take it your happy to see me?"
"Mmmaaaoouut!" Cameron pulled back, swallowing her mouthful. "I thought you were staying at your nanas?" She didn't let her go.
Laura sat her up on a barstool. Her hands came to rest on the naked skin of the girl's thighs.
"Yeah, she's okay now. So I wanted to come back and hang with you guys!"
"And so you should!" Cameron nodded, reaching up to straighten Laura's beanie, taking in the green eyes searching her own. She suddenly heard Trudy's words in her head. Laura could hear Lucy's in her own.
"Ahh, where are the others?" Laura stepped back, scratching her cheek. Cameron noticed the sudden change in her. Did she just sense something?
"In the lounge, having a dance-off. Ally..." She looked behind her. "Ally? Where did she just go?"