Finding Home

Bond

Lauren's eyes widened, when she turned to Camila. She looked at Ally and pointed to Camila.

"You want to sleep with Camila?"

Lauren nodded her little head. Ally stood up. "Do want to sleep in your room?"

Lauren pointed to Normani. "I'll take her to your room. Why don't you two meet me there?"

Camila grinned. She turned to Lauren. "Le's go Lolo." She ran out of the room and climbed onto the bed. She looked at the door to see Lauren staring at her with her big green eyes. Camila quickly climbed off the bed and turned to Lauren. "C'mon Lolo, I help."

Lauren slowly moved to Camila and allowed the girl to push her up onto the bed. Once she was there, Camila made Lauren lay on her actual tortilla blanket (Dinah thought it would be funny to get her an actual tortilla swaddle to wrap the girl in to make her into an actual burrito. Lauren didn't understand it, but she was warm ad she liked it. But it didn't replace the Lion King blanket Normani got her. Nothing replaced that) and wrapped the girl, before getting the tortilla beanie and placing it on Lauren's head. Camila then moved next to her and curled up next to her.

Ally walked into with Normani in her arms. She placed her next to Lauren and smiled. "Sweet dreams girl."

Lauren hummed before falling asleep.

"T'ank you Mama, fow sis'ers."

Camila pulled Lauren closer (they were spooning, but neither girl knew that that meant) and reached for Normani's hand to hold it.

It didn't take long for Camila to fall asleep.

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Normani was awake for a few minutes. She was confused for a seconds, before looking around. She grinned, when she saw her Baby Burrito and Camila asleep.

She smiled, having never seen Lauren let someone hold her when she slept (with the exception of Normani of course).

Normani wasn't going to lie. She was scared of Dinah and Ally, not a lot. She didn't know them. But they were so nice, and it made it hard to not trust them. They went out and bought them things.

But as scared as Normani was, Lauren was even more so. For the first three years of Lauren's life, she only came in contact with six people; her birth parents (who gave Lauren up before she was even more), the social worker that was in charge of finding Lauren a home (and did a horrible job at it), the Martins (horrible people) and Normani (the only person to love her).

It made her happy to see her open up with Dinah and Ally and Camila.

Camila sighed, as she slowly woke up. She released Lauren and sat up, yawning and rubbing her eyes.

"S'eep good Mani?" Camila asked, looking at the older girl.

Normani nodded, smiling softly.

"I wan' banana. Wan' some?"

"Strawberries?"

"Le's ask," Camila suggested, giving Lauren a kiss on the cheek before crawling over her to get off the bed. She walked out of the room.

Normani reached over and kissed Lauren's cheek, before following Camila out of the room.

She found Camila standing on a chair, reaching for a banana on the table. She grinned when she got the banana, before climbing off the chair. She then walked to the refrigerator and grabbed a small, clear box of strawberries. She moved to the table and crawled under it.

Normani frowned, not sure what to do.

"Mani," Camila whispered, peaking her head out from under the table.

Normani followed Camila under the table and grabbed the box Camila was offering her. She opened it and started eating the strawberries.

They ate the fruits in silence.

"I wan' you to be my sis'er Mani," Camila said, looking over at the older girl, her banana gone.

Normani smiled. "Me too." Normani offered Camila the strawberries and the younger girls took some.

They sat there, eating the strawberries, when they hear panicked footsteps. A familiar whine was heard, and both Camila and Normani crawled from under the table.

In the doorway of the kitchen was Lauren, tears in her eyes. She was looking around, before finding Normani and Camila. Little Lauren dropped Nala and ran to the girls, hugging them, while crying.

Normani should have remembered Lauren's fear of being left behind.

Normani wrapped her arms around the small girl while she cried. Camila looked down and was walking away when Lauren let out a whine, grabbing her hand.

Lauren shook her little head, not wanting Camila to leave.

Normani and Camila stayed there until Lauren calmed down, before leading her (and picking Nala up and letting Lauren mentally apologize for dropping her) to the living room.

The three girls watched Spongebob, while Lauren helped both the girl's hands.

Normani never felt prouder.

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Dinah rubbed her face.

"It can't be that bad."

Dinah shot Ally a look. "It's my mother. Yours is fine, but mine is going to corrupt those girls. She's already corrupted Camila!"

"Maybe it'll be okay, My mom will be there too."

Dinah and Ally stared at each other.

"We're fucked."

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Milika and Patricia make an appearance next chapter. Yay!

Lauren's speech therapist? Who do you guys think it should be?

- Drunk Breadstick says goodbye, GOODBYE!