The first words you exchange with your soulmate are tattooed on your body but Lauren doesn't seem to remember the first thing she ever said Camila.

Lauren doesn't know what Camila did to her but suddenly everyone seems to be a bad kisser compared to her. And it fucking sucks because look, the girl she is kissing right now is freaking hot but goddammit, she is not Camila.

"Going well so far," Lauren murmurs. "Your parents and your little sister. They think I'm a great girlfriend." "You are," Camila agrees. Or: The time Camila really needed a date to a family wedding, and who better to fill the role of fake-girlfriend than Camila's best friend Lauren?

"The thing is, Camila isn't surprised, because she's a fast learner. And what she's learned so far is that Lauren is, in fact, a great actress. Whether she's pretending to like Camila or pretending to be straight, she's not sure yet. Camila just knows that she's pretending. It's all an act. It has to be. Rehearsals for the next show haven't even started yet, but it feels like they're already in play practice."

"Hey," an attractive brunette said with a small smile. Lauren felt her heart speed up. She had never, ever wished she was able to speak so badly. Trigger warning.

The only things Normani is absolutely a hundred percent sure that Lauren likes are the following: food, music, being right, pretentious books, kissing, and pretentious books about kissing. So far Camila is not on that list. (Normani's fairly certain.)

A bet is a harmless thing, right? Sometimes, but not when it has been planned by Dinah and Normani. When Lauren and Camila made a bet with her bandmates, they didn't know how their lives were about to change. In less than a week.

Camila has many unsolved problems and demons in her past. She is convinced that no one cares. For her, there is only one solution until one fateful evening a stranger knocks on her door and turns her life upside down. Will Lauren be able to show Camila that life is worth living? TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

Lauren never planned on living in the house she lived in. She never planned on working the job she worked. She never planned on befriending a strange girl named Camila, either. Lauren never planned a lot of things.

Camila wins a radio contest and gets to spend a week with the world's newest rising popstar: Lauren Jauregui.