Strangeness and Charm

Notice Me, Please!

Prompt: "Could you do a one-shot where Camila is 24/7 risque with Lauren but Lauren always ignores her. Just have fun with it. Smut, fluff, whatever you want."

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Camila always gets what she wants.

She is used to people bending over backwards just to give her what her heart desires because her daddy told her that she deserves it. She is daddy's little princess and the whole world is her oyster.

But do not ever (never ever!) make the mistake of saying (or even imply) she's spoiled. Oh, no no no, she resents that label and she will pitch a hissy fit if she ever hears anyone calling her the S-word. Rest assured she will go running to her daddy, crying and sulking because someone called Mila a spoiled brat. Of course, daddy Alejandro would then reassure her that she is not, in any way, a spoiled brat, and to make her feel better he will reward her with something only a princess like her deserves; probably a month-long Asian tour, or maybe a shopping spree in Paris, or he'll have his secretary call up the representatives of Camila's favorite girl group, Little Mix, to do a private performance for her, anything his princess desires. Camila, like clockwork, will then stop pouting because she gets to enjoy her reward for not being a spoiled brat.

So, yes, Camila Cabello always gets what she wants. It's the only certainty she has ever known all her life.

Does that make her spoiled? No. She's just privileged and entitled to everything she wants, that's all. That's her view of the world and she grew up believing it always how life normally worked. She has never been rejected and everything has always been handed to her on a silver (if not gold) platter embellished with Swarovski crystals.

Well, almost always. Because no matter how hard she tries, for some insane reason her mind could never comprehend, she couldn't get Lauren Jauregui.

Camila and Lauren basically grew up together, in the sense that Lauren's mother, Clara, worked as a secretary to Camila's father, and since Clara was then a struggling single mother who couldn't always afford a baby-sitter for Lauren, she has to drag her daughter everywhere she went. And wherever Clara went, Alejandro was there, and wherever Alejandro was, Camila shadowed him around. So that's how their friendship came to be, Camila and Lauren thrown together despite them being as different as night and day.

See, Camila, even as a child, is really super friendly and quite touchy. She's used to people coddling and pampering her, so she expects everybody to like her, not because she's spoiled, oh no, definitely not spoiled, but simply because she's lovable. Because that's what everybody around her says to her, and she believes them. She's cute, if she may say so, and she sees no reason as to how anyone could dislike her. It's just not possible.

So when Clara brings her nine-year-old daughter to their mansion the first time, Camila, an eight-year-old then, thinks Lauren would be the perfect best friend for her in the whole wide world. And even before Lauren has said one word, Camila already knows they'll click.

But no clicking has happened, and Camila is quite taken aback. She has picked her lucky red bow to match her most favorite dress, and she's sure Lauren will be impressed. But Lauren doesn't pay her any mind, at all. It hurts Camila's feelings, and once Clara and Lauren left, she locks herself in the bathroom crying in the empty bathtub and asking herself questions as to why Lauren would even dare ignore her. She's pretty sure she's not invisible, because Lauren glared at her that one time Camila tried to kiss her cheek.

Still, even after the cold start, Camila does her utmost best to be sweet to Lauren despite the latter's constant rejection: making conversation (shut up, I'm reading), offering her candies (Mama said not to accept candies from strangers), even giving her her favorite Barbie doll (ewww, I hate dolls!).