(Narrator)
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
"It's time to get up mija, you'll be late for your first day of school."
"Just 5 more minutes dad." groans Lauren loudly.
"Ayyy mija, I'll get your mom to wake you up..." Mike threatens.
"OKAY OKAY I'm up."
Lauren slowly gathers herself and makes her way to her bathroom, starting her morning routine. It was Lauren's first day of junior year after traveling the world with her army family and finally settling back down in Miami her freshman year. She didn't have that many friends due to her constantly migrating but she did have two best friends, Shawn and Austin. Their love for music brought them together when they were young, before Lauren had to keep leaving.
After getting ready, Lauren makes her way down to the kitchen where her two siblings, Chris and Taylor were already settled.
"Hurry up and eat your breakfast Lo, aren't Shawn and Austin picking you up?" Clara scolded.
"Yeah mom, I'm actually not that hungry, I'll just wait till lunch."
*HONK HONK*
"Saved by the honk, go on. Have fun at school sweetheart." as she smiles sweetly.
Lauren makes her way to Shawn's Honda, finding the two jamming out to Eminem.
"Is this supposed to get you all the girls?" Lauren teases as she gets in the backseat of Shawn's car.
"Hey hey, we already do get all the girls.. and you don't count because you play for the other team." Austin shoots back.
Lauren laughs at her friend's remark. Though Austin and Shawn knew about her sexuality, her family didn't. Lauren was born into a very religious and "perfect" family. In her perfect family, she was the perfect child with the perfect grades and the perfect personality. Coming out to them would be like declaring World War III which was something Lauren was just not ready for.
"I hope you don't mind coming pretty early Lo, Vince says he has someone to introduce to us."
Shawn informs Lauren as the trio gets out of Shawn's car.
"No not at all.. Did he say who?"
"Well apparently Austin and I have already met her, like back in elementary school. He says she's family and-"
Lauren's focus was interrupted by the most captivating brown eyes she had ever seen. She had always thought brown eyes were underrated and these specific pair proved it. She then realized these gorgeous brown eyes also belonged to a gorgeous brunette that she had never seen before.. not that that was hard to do considering she just moved back to Miami for high school after 6 years. Lauren was caught completely off guard when the captivating brunette made eye contact with her.
(Lauren)
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT SHES COMING THIS WAY. WHAT THE HELL DO I DO? I DONT KNOW HER RIGHT? I mean there's no way.. I wouldn't forget a face like that. Oh god Lauren please don't say anything to embarrass yourself.
"-LAUREN." Shawn basically yells to get my attention.
"-uhh, um, OH shit you were calling me."
"Yeah, for about a minute now Lo." Austin laughs.
"Vince was just introducing us to his cousin and you kinda just stood there." Shawn says.
"-as I was saying.." Vince chuckles at my awkwardness "this is my cousin Camila, she's from California."
Camila. Camila. Camila. Nope. I've never met her before. I wish I have though. Look at those eyes.. and those lips.. and those- FUCK. I need to pay attention.
Austin's eyes suddenly widened. "I DO know you. We used to play together in elementary school with Shawn. Come on man, you remember, right? She was the girl we were both crushing on for ages."
"We weren't the only ones too." Shawn laughs "Everyone had a thing for you back then, and I bet even now, I mean, look at you."
Camila laughs at my best friends fangirling over her. Oh my lord. Her laugh.
"You guys are too sweet but I think you're forgetting to introduce me to your friend."
YOOOOOO. Was she talking about me? Well I was the only one she didn't know so she must be talking about me.
"Oh sorry Lo. Mila this is our good friend Lauren." Vince says.
Just when I was about to say something, my subconscious decides to embarrass me. Maybe it was because of all the butterflies in my stomach but I ended up giving her a salute with my index and middle finger. Jesus I'm an idiot.
Instead of asking what the fuck was wrong with me, she smiles sweetly and salutes back to lessen my embarrassment.
This means we're basically married, right? I mean what signifies "for better or for worse" better than saving you from utter humiliation?
*RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING*
"That's our cue. It was nice seeing you again, Camila. You're eating lunch with us today, right? I mean, until you find your way of course." Austin offers.
"Yeah, I'll see you guys at lunch." Camila smiles.
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I make my way to my home room, Honors English, with Ms. Lovato. I take a seat in front of the room, being my perfectionist-self, awaiting the late bell to ring and for Ms. Lovato to take attendance. The bell rings and Ms. Lovato starts to take attendance.
"Normani Kordei"
"Here"
"Dinah Jane Hansen"
"Here"
"Camila Cabell-"
"Here" she says desperate for air, looking like she just ran a marathon.. still drop dead gorgeous though.
Apparently everyone thought so too when all the heads in the classroom turned to her (boys and girls, can't blame them though).
"You're late Ms. Cabello." Ms. Lovato says in an amused tone.
"I'm sorry, I'm new here and I got completely lost."
"It's the first day, all is forgiven. Please take a seat in between Ms. Hansen and Ms. Jauregui. Girls, raise your hands."
The extremely tall girl and I raise our hands for Camila to find us. My heart was beating so fast I barely raised my hand. Camila sat down in between the tall girl and I and Ms. Lovato continued taking attendance.
Camila turns to me. "Hey." she smiles "Lauren, right?"
"Umm, yeah."
"I forgot to tell you earlier because you seemed like you didn't really want to talk but you have really pretty eyes." the gorgeous brunette says.
I. CANT. FUCKING. BREATHE.
"Oh, tha- thank- thank you." I smile to at least be a tad bit charming. I then realized she thought I didn't want to talk earlier due to my heart basically beating out my chest.
"By the way-" I gathered a bit of courage to say "I'm sorry I, I didn't mean to come off snobbish or anything.. I just, I was, I mean-"
She throws her head back and laughs. Thats literally the cutest thing I have ever seen, aside from her entire being of course.
"You're really cute Lauren." she chuckles "It's totally cool though, I didn't think you were snobbish. I was just wondering why you didn't really say anything."
Because of you. Because I tend to forget how to breathe around you now. Like the gods up above created this new rule that I can't breathe around you or something.
"I was just umm.. just distracted, that's all. I couldn't really pay attention to anything Vince or anyone else was saying." I tried to sound as convincing as I could.
Camila winks and gives me the sexiest smile my eyes have ever been given the pleasure to see. "Yeahhhh, I have that effect on people."
Jesus Christ. Why did she have to do that? I'm gay enough, why make me even more gay?
I smiled and tried to ignore the fact that Camila Cabello sorta-kinda-I-think just flirted with me. Ms. Lovato finished taking attendance after a couple minutes.
"Alright, juniors. Since today is the first day and all, I don't think it'd be fair for me to start teaching already. I mean yes, this is a rigorous course but I like to make it enlightening as well. Since I see a couple of new faces here at Miami High, why don't we go old school and introduce ourselves. Tell us 3 things about you. Let's start with you Ms. Hansen."
The tall girl speaks up. "Okay. I'm Dinah Jane. I've been the captain of the varsity volleyball team for 2 years now, going on my third. I'm 5'8. I've also gotten MVP for both my years as captain." She finishes, earning her praises from most of the class.
"Impressive Ms. Hansen. Ms. Cabello?"
The girl of my dreams- I mean Camila looks up and speaks. "I'm Camila Cabello. I'm new here, from Los Angeles, California. I love bananas aaaaaaaand I absolutely love to sing."
"We'd have to hear you sometime, Camila." Ms. Lovato smiles. "Ms. Jauregui?".
"I'm Lauren Jauregui. I play softball. I moved a lot before high school-" what I said next took even me, by surprise. "and I am completely and utterly enamored.." while looking intently at Camila.
As soon as the words vacated my mouth, I knew I fucked up. The girls from the softball team, Normani and Ally, and everyone else started cheering me on. I was probably as red as a tomato at this point.
Camila looked at me with this confused yet amused expression on her face. I did not know what to say.
Ms. Lovato chuckles and asks the next person to go. I didn't say anything for the rest of the period, regaining my composure I guess. But throughout my mute episode, from time to time, I could feel a pair of eyes looking at me. The familiar brown eyes that made my heart skip a beat were on me.
This was going to be a long day.
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A/N
Hey guys! I've been feeling really inspired lately and what better way to show it than writing a Camren fanfic? Nothing. That's the answer. I hope you guys like it. :)