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

Sequel to The Iceberg Method

Falling in love was the best and worst thing that ever happened to Camila. Lauren was beautiful, smart, passionate and, unfortunately for Camila, married.

You're Lauren Jauregui. You danced the part of Clara in The Nutcracker for the first time when you were thirteen years old. You've already done two winter seasons of Swan Lake even though you're only sixteen. You've topped all of your classes since the moment you started them. For fuck's sake, you didn't even have to audition for the Fonteyn Academy for Classical and Contemporary Ballet, that's how good you are. - and no one, not even this girl that dances barefoot to Italian music, is going to take it away from you. // "I'm not into girls." "I'm not into you." // 'una somma di piccolo cose' - niccolò fabi

"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."

Camila and Lauren grow up together and fall in love a best friends to lovers au

"Sometimes girls kiss other girls and sometimes boys kiss other boys. There may be laws against love, but there aren't any rules. People can't help who they fall in love with, and one day everyone will know that." "I don't think Camila knows."

"But you have to kiss me, those are the rules," Camila insists, not looking away from Lauren's eyes. (Except to look at Lauren's lips, Lauren does notice that.) "Well, I'd rather kiss someone else, no offense."

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.

Lauren hates everything but most of all, she hates herself for letting her go.