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Third Person's POV
Vero had inhaled and exhaled, finding the courage to walk into the classroom. You can do this she encouraged herself. As if that was the little push she needed, she held the doorknob and opened the door. Not sure whether she was welcomed or not, she slowly and cautiously walked in.
"Miss Jauregui," she spoke softly. Lauren turned around from her computer, giving Vero her full attention. "Sorry for bothering you, but may I speak with you?" Vero approached politely.
"Of course," Lauren motioned for Vero to pull up a chair. "Have a seat," she invited. "What's on your mind?" she asked. Lauren thought to herself, I wonder what it is. Even though she looked calm on the outside, on the inside she was concerned.
Vero was not in any of her classes, therefore, it couldn't exactly be anything school related. There was only one thing in common between the two of them, and that was Camila. In Lauren's mind, whatever Vero needed to talk about, it was going to involve her Camz.
"First of all, I've come to you because I don't know who else to go to," Vero's foot tapped nervously on the floor. "Only because you're an adult and I know that Camila trusts you," she added, explaining.
Oh, so it is about Camila, Lauren thought to herself. How does she know Camila trusts me? She tried to remain calm, but other thoughts were rushing through her head as well. Has Camila spoken about me? Does she talk about me too much intentionally? Does Vero suspect anything? She couldn't help but ask herself these questions.
"Camila?" Lauren tried seeming unaffected. As if asking her to elaborate.
"Yes, you see, my friends Shawn and Dinah told me that Camila's been acting strange lately," Vero replied, getting more comfortable. "Apparently, Camila has been avoiding them, well, only after school and even during lunch," she added, trying to remember all the times.
"Do they know if Camila has a problem?" Lauren asked in that firmly, yet gentle manner.
Vero shook her head slightly, "No," her eyes narrowed down.
Lauren appreciated that Vero was worrying about Camila. Even though she knew that Vero loved her girlfriend, she still very much appreciated the affection. There was no way she could ever be upset for someone caring about Camila.
"Maybe you need to ask Camila," Lauren suggested. "It's impossible to solve a problem without knowing what the problem is," she stated. Vero made a thoughtful expression, agreeing with her statement.
"I think I know what the problem is," Vero replied, causing Lauren's eyes to widen just a bit.
"W-what do you think the problem is?" Lauren stuttered at first, but then controlled it. Is it just me, or is it getting hot in her? Lauren was starting to feel the heat.
"Well Camila told me that she had a girlfriend," Vero answered. Discreetly, Lauren gulped, as she felt her heart rate increase. "I'm not sure, but I'm suspecting her girlfriend to be older than her," Vero added.
Feeling on the spot, Lauren grabbed her water bottle and drank from it. She could feel sweat forming on her forehead. Vero was so close to figuring out the truth. How in the world did she come up to that conclusion?
"Why do you suspect that?" Lauren tried sounding calm and collected.
"Because she hasn't introduced her to any of us," Vero answered. "She hasn't even told her parents," she added, shaking her head in disbelief. "She said that her girlfriend goes to another high school," she air quoted. "That was a complete lie though," she stated. "Either way, whoever she is, she's changing her," Lauren didn't like hearing that.
"In what way?" as much as she didn't like hearing it, she just had to.
"Well because of her, now Camila doesn't hang out with her friends, she doesn't get to do anything anymore," Vero explained. "We rarely see Camila out in public anymore. We used to see her all the time at the stores, or simply having fun when she wasn't with us, but now, that never happens," she elaborated. Lauren let it sink in. She didn't want Camila to do this to herself. She thought Camila understood, but apparently not. "Her girlfriend should seriously take her out at least, not just have her who knows where, inside the entire time," slight anger was heard in Vero's voice.
Lauren was so caught on her own, thinking that she couldn't respond to Vero. Luckily for her, the bell rang. Saved by the bell, Lauren felt relieved.
"Yeah," was all Lauren replied.
"Before I leave, I want to ask you to talk to Camila, she'll listen to you because she respects you so much," Vero acknowledged. "Give her advice, tell her to spend more time with us, and to have fun," she sounded hopeful. "And tell her to dump her damned girlfriend," she joked, to which Lauren had to laugh. Even though she hated Vero's last comment.
"I'll see what I can do," Lauren replied, trying to seem understanding.
"Thank you," Vero smiled widely and stood from the chair. "Well bye," she waved and hurried out the door.
Camila's POV
I was in such a happy mood, that I was even humming while entering first period. In where I was going to see my love, Lauren.
As I was about to step in, I was fixing my bag's strap on my shoulder. That's when I bumped into someone.
"Oh sorry," I chuckled and looked up, only to realize that it was Vero. My little laugh faded away. "What are you doing here?" I looked past her, wondering why she was coming out of my classroom.
"It's none of your business," with that said, she quickly walked past me, avoiding anymore questions. In the process, she even pushed me to the side. What the hell? My eyebrows connected in confusion. Vero is such a weird girl. Now I was afraid of walking in, what if Vero left something behind? She was being somewhat of a stalker now, which was freaking me out.
Brushing it off, I walked in smiling. I wanted to see Lauren so badly. I was dying to see her beautiful face. Hopefully Vero didn't do anything to disturb her.
When I walked in and looked over at Lauren's desk, I noticed that she wasn't there. My eyes quickly wandered in all directions, desperately searching for her.
Just then, Ethan came walking from another smaller room.
"Ethan," I pulled on his sleeve, making him come back to me. "Where's Miss Jauregui?" I wanted to know her whereabouts.
"She's in the room," he pointed back to the previous room he had came out of.
"Okay thanks," I let go of his sleeve and he walked away.
Lauren was probably alone in there. Hmmm, I wanted to go in there too and kiss her before class started. I bit on my lower lip while thinking about it. I looked around me, almost everyone was here. It wouldn't be a good idea to provoke Lauren at the moment. Oh well, I had to wait.
The final bell rang and we all took our seats.
"Where's our hot ass teacher?" Ramon cocked an eyebrow and smirked. Oh sure, he was only brave enough to say it since Lauren couldn't hear him.
"With a lady in the other room," Ethan answered.
With a lady? My forehead creased. With that lady? Huh, now I wanted to check, but everyone would've seen. I had to remain seated and wait. Fuck, the curiosity was killing me though.
"Ethan, with what lady?" I couldn't help but ask. He shrugged, not knowing. Ugh!
"I don't know, some lady in her fifties?" Was all he could guess. Okay, well that calmed me down. At least it wasn't someone young. There was no threat.
"What is she doing with an old lady?" Ramon thought about it. Fifty wasn't even old.
"Talking," Ethan shrugged, seeming bored to answer all these questions.
Luckily for him, Lauren came back into class. Indeed with an older lady. Hmmm, her face... it seemed familiar. There was something about her face structure, facial expressions that caught my attention. I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was something about her.
"Class quiet down," Lauren spoke firmly as the lady walked behind her. Lauren looked over her shoulder and smiled.
The class got quiet, staring at them, just like I was. They wondered who the lady was. I had never seen her before, she was not a member of the staff here. Not a teacher, no one who worked at the front office, she wasn't from the cleaning staff, and she wasn't one of the librarians. No one from school.
Who was she then?
Lauren and the lady stood in front of the classroom, all eyes on them.
"Class, meet my mom," Lauren introduced, smiling widely, seeming really proud of her mom.
Her mom! Wow, it was her mom! No wonder the lady looked so familiar, she looked just like Lauren. Well Lauren looked like her. No wonder Lauren was gorgeous, her mom was beautiful. Hmm, that's where she got her looks.
"Hello class," her mom appeared to be shy, but it was so cute. She was blushing.
"Hi Mrs. Jauregui," the class said all at once. "And good morning Miss Jauregui," now they greeted Lauren. Wow, did they rehearse this or what? They were so on point. How cool was that? I was amazed, especially because it wasn't planned or anything.
"Thank you," Lauren and her mom replied at the same time, making us laugh. What a coincidence.
"My mom will be joining us today," Lauren informed. "So please be nice," she wandered her eyes around, as if staring at all of us, making sure that we all understood her.
"Don't worry, we'll be better than good," Jonah lenaed back on his chair which slipped. He dropped to the floor, along with the chair. Inevitable, the whole class laughed.
Lauren got on her tippy eyes, "Jonah, are you hurt?" concern was laced in her voice.
"Oh my goodness," her mom gasped, bringing a hand over her lips, slightly. Aww, that was so motherly like, it was cute.
Jonah raised his hand with a thumbs up.
"I'm fine," well he sure sounded like he was pain. He grunted while picking the chair up and sitting down. "Continue," he said while resting his head on his desk.
"Are you sure?" Lauren still worried. Jonah was an awesome idiot, Lauren should've known that. He was going to be fine. I wanted Lauren to go on, I was more interested in her. Jonah lifted his head only to nod. "Okay," Lauren moved on. She turned her direction to my mother-in-law. Oh, I liked that, my mother-in-law, it sounded perfect. "Mami, would you like to say anything?" she asked.
"Um, well," her mom played with her longish wavy hair, still nervous. "I just wanted to thank you all for being good students, Lauren, um, well Miss Jauregui," she corrected herself. "I still have to get used to that," she chuckled quite cutely. Older people were so adorable, just like babies. "I'll just say Lauren since she is my daughter," she gave her daughter a smile, I could tell that she was very proud of Lauren, and that she loved her very much.
"It's okay Mami," Lauren threw an arm over her shoulder, giving her a side hug in a way.
It's kind of funny seeing that and hearing her call her mom, Mami. It just made her seem younger than what she really was. Well she wasn't old at all to begin with. Lauren was actually pretty young. I thought it was cute though. Especially because we are all used to seeing all the teachers as adults, and can't imagine them with their parents. Typically, whenever teachers brought their parents, it was such a pleasant surprise.
"Like I was saying, Lauren has told me many wonderful things about this class," she stated. "You're her smartest class," she informed us. Ah, that made us all happy. "I heard that there's a genius in here," she added making us all look over at one another. "Who's Camila?" she looked out, waiting for a response.
Um, I rose my hand, "I am," I spoke up.
Lauren's lips pressed together, as if she weren't expecting it.
"Very nice to meet you Camila," she extended her hand, and I shook it.
"Nice to meet you to Mrs. Jauregui," it was kind of awkward since the whole class was watching us.
"Lauren told me that you've achieved 100% on all your tests and quizzes," she stated. Well I wasn't going to brag, but yeah, I have achieved that. By the way, I was very proud of it. That was my goal in this class, getting 100% on all of my tests and quizzes. It would be a bummer if I didn't.
"So far, yes ma'am," I nodded my head.
"You have?" Ramon sounded surprised. I turned around and nodded. "Cool," he sounded amazed.
"It's no surprise really, Camila's a really intelligent girl," Lucy commented.
"Yes she is," Lauren smiled directly at me. She then looked at the rest of the class. "Um, continue working on the classwork from yesterday," she instructed giving us a task to complete.
"Wait, we want to hear more from your mom," Ethan spoke up.
Lauren looked at her mom, as if asking if she wanted to continue. Mrs. Jauregui nodded her head with a smile.
"There's not much to say, unless you want to hear some stories of when Lauren was a toddler," she smiled widely. Aww, how cute, I want to hear stories about baby Lauren.
Many yes's were heard throughout the room.
"Um Mami, the class has to start working," Lauren quickly intervened, sounding a bit embarrassed of what her mom had in mind. Awe's are heard how. "Start working," she chuckled.
"Lauren why can't I tell them how you used to run around the house naked, singing that you wanted to be a little pony princesa," her mom said with a smirk. ANd oh my god, how fucking adorable.
Little aww's were heard around the classroom.
Lauren covered her face with her hands, out of embarrassment.
"Tell us more," Ramon was intrigued.
"NO," Lauren quickly said to her mom,still embarrassed. "Class, the work will be due in thirty minutes, so finish it up," she put pressure on the class, leaving them no other choice but to get started.
Now that the class was beginning the work, her mom walked directly to me.
"I want to congratulate you on the perfect scores you've achieved so far," she smiled. Aww, I really appreciated that.
"Thank you so much," I returned the smile. Lauren's mom was extremely nice. She leaned in and whispered, "You're my daughter's favorite student," she informed.
"She said that?" I was surprised to hear that from her.
"No, but I can tell, she talks about you so frequently," she answered. Oh, no wonder. I had to stop myself from smiling too much. I pressed my lips together, that helped the smiling. "You look so cute with that hat on darling," she complimented. I took my snapback off my head looking at it, I had forgotten about it completely.
"Mami," Lauren called her from her desk.
Her mom smiled one last time and walked away.
*****
Lauren was playing with my snapback, taking it off of me and then putting it back on my head. She was being very playful, kissing my neck here and there. She then started to mess with my hat again.
"You're killing me babe," I grunted and pulled the hat onto my head, backwards. "Stop it," I giggled.
"Hey, so what did you think of my mom?" she asked nervously.
"I think she's a great mother-in-law," I gave a cute cheeky smile.
"Really?" her voice got high as her lips got close to mine. I nodded, waiting for my kiss. Lauren pecked my lips.
"Why didn't you tell me she was coming over?" I asked.
"I didn't know that she was," she answered while taking off my hat, again. "She just dropped by, unannounced," she added as she put the hat messily on her head.
"That looks great on you," I complimented. Going back to the topic, I asked, "How long will she be here?"
"Just today," she was fixing the hat. "By the way, she went to the store and she'll be right back," she informed.
My eyes widened and I stood up abruptly, "What?" I had to get out of here. Her mom could be back any minute. She couldn't see me here. We couldn't risk getting caught.
Lauren held me by my waist as she remained seated on her black leather couch.
"Wait, she went to a store in another town, we still have time til she gets back," she explained, calming me down. I breathed out a sigh of relief. Oh thank Jesus. "Sit down and kiss me," she forced me down, but gently cupped my face and connected our lips. Hers brushed on mine, slightly. I loved it when she did that. A smile crept onto my lips.
Remembering something that her mom said this morning, I was stifling a laugh.
I burst out laughing, ending the kiss. Lauren's bushy eyebrows arched in confusion.
"Did you really run around naked singing that you wanted to be a pony princesa?" I reminded and teased.
Lauren grunted and threw herself back on the couch. I climbed over her, making myself comfortable. I loved laying on top of her.
"Don't bring it up," she covered her face with her hands.
I pulled them down, "Don't cover that beautiful face of yours," I kissed her hands. "Seriously though, what's a pony princesa anyways?" I chuckled.
"I don't even know," she groaned, although sounding like she wanted to laugh too.
"I see that," I poked her cheeks, trying to get her to laugh. Her lips pressed together, stifling a laugh. MY hands roamed to her stomach and began tickling lightly.
"Camz, that's not fair," she whined and tried pushing my hands away. My head tilted to the side and cocked an eyebrow. Fine, she wanted to push my hands downward, that was perfectly fine with me. My hands slipped between her thighs, causing her lower back to arch. "Camz," a little laugh escaped her irresistible lips. "What are you doing?" she questioned, with her famous smirk being etched onto her face.
"I don't know," I shrugged innocently. "You're the one who pushed my hands down, so the question is, what are you doing?" I mimicked, being a total smartass.
"You're such a smartass," she pulled my hands away. Then grabbed the collar of my sweater and brought me closer to her. Her lips pressed on mine, immediately entering her tongue through my lips. As usual, it slid on the roof of my mouth, being playful, and it always tickled.
To get back at her for messing with my hat over and over again, I started to mess with my hat that was firmly situated on her luscious hair. Haha, I finally got my revenge. To my luck, it backfired; it caused Lauren to stop kissing me. I should've seen that coming.
"Darn it," gotta admit, it was my fault.
"Aww, you're so cute when you say darn it," she pecked my lips. Surprisingly, she bit my lower lip and pulled on it a bit. My body got all tingly. "But hey, stop trying to mess with me," Eh, I brushed it off. Wanting to continue making out, I leaned back down. "Uh-uh," she turned to the other side, which made my lips crash with her cheek. Either way, I kissed it.
"Why not?" I said in a whiny voice.
"Because I need to talk to you about something important," with that said, she sat up and made me climb off of her. I didn't like it, but I had to.
"About what?" I literally had no clue, but by the look on her face, it had to be serious.
"About this morning. Vero came to talk to me," she stated. Oh yeah, I saw Vero coming out of the classroom. Wait, why did she need to talk to Lauren... She didn't have her in any of her classes. It didn't make sense.
"About what?" I repeated.
"About you," she answered. I scratched my eyebrow and thought about it. "She wanted me to talk to you," she added, but I still wasn't understanding. "About your strange behavior," she somewhat elaborated, but still, I had nothing.
"What strange behavior?" From what I knew, there wasn't anything wrong with me. Vero must have been on something. She's nuts.
"Apparently you've been avoiding going out with your friends," she elaborated. Oh. Shit. "Vero suspects of you dating an older woman," she informed. That made me want to laugh. Well hey, it was true.
"What did you say to her?" I asked while criss-crossing my legs on the couch.
"Nothing much," she replied. Well that was good, I guess. "I'm worried though, I don't want you to miss out on anything," she grabbed a pinch on the ends of my hair, twirled it around her fingers and looked me in the eyes. Hypnotizing emerald green looking into brown. "She said something that left me thinking. She said that your girlfriend should at least take you out in public," she stated. Vero had no right to say anything. She had no right to go around telling others about my personal business. Of course Lauren is my girlfriend, but Vero didn't know that, which still proved my point.
"Don't listen to anything Vero says," I sighed.
"Camz, I want you and I to take a trip," Lauren stated. What? Okay, maybe Vero helped me out there.
My eyes flickered, "What do you mean Lo?" I needed her to repeat it. Did I hear right?
"Vero's right, you deserve to be taken out in public, our relationship needs that," Lauren went on. "If we can't do that here, then let's go somewhere we can, where we won't have any problems," she smiled. Wow.
"Are you being serious?" I couldn't believe it.
A hundred percent baby," she held my hand in hers. "During the weekend, let's go to Marilyn Beach," she suggested, but it was more like settling where.
"Wait, the weekend starts tomorrow," I pointed out.
"I know, let's not plan it, let's just go with it and enjoy," she bit her lower lip, waiting for my response. Hmm, I couldn't just leave like that. I still depended on my parents and had to ask for permission. I didn't live on my own like she did. That really sucked, especially now. "Come on baby. This could be the only time for us to go out to dinner together, to go to the movies, to do whatever we want, without having to worry," she convinced. How was I supposed to say no to that? I couldn't.
"Okay," I smiled. Wow, we're going to do this.
"That's my girl," she smiled and kissed me. "We'll have to leave tonight then," she said.
"Huh, that means I have to go pack now and try to convince my parents," wow, that's gonna be tough.
"Then go," she was excited about this. "I can't wait to be seen with you Camz," she cupped my face and looked me in the eyes before connecting our lips together. I felt the love that she was transmitting in that one kiss. I also couldn't wait to be seen with her. To be showing her off as mine. Even if it were with complete strangers, it was something.
"I'll go home now and lie to my parents," I laughed.
"What are you going to say?" she wondered.
"That I'm going on one of Dinah's crazy road trips," that seemed like the easiest excuse to come up with, since Dinah really does like taking road trips. Yet Shawn or I always have to drive.
"Okay, well I'll pick you up near your house around midnight. It's a five hours drive, so we'll have to hurry," she explained, and I nodded in understanding.
I stood up and leaned over, giving her one last gentle kiss.
Wow, I couldn't believe that we were actually going to do this. Finally! We were going to be seen together, in public, wow.
A/N: I'm back! It is officially summer, and I'm officially a senior in high school! Besides that, how do you babes like 7/27? Comment and tell me if you like it, your fav song, or just comment about something random. I want to get to know my beautiful readers:) Thank you all for reading and voting. There's a couple things that important in this chapter, so if you figure them, or want to guess just comment. I will update more frequently now that I'm on summer vacation!