Lauren's POV
- The sunset had turned the sky orange, while it was slowly hiding behind the peaceful ocean. The day before had been pretty weird, to say the least. She he didn't want to think about that. She had a beachfront house in Malibu. With a rectangular pool, some white Balinese hammocks and the wooden floor, which went up a staircase to a second floor that was a terrace.
- Normani came up behind me and yelled, scaring me, she couldn't be more annoying.
- "Woah." I said looking at her outfit and then at her face. She was wearing a tight dress in which her ass was perfectly shaped.
- "Calm your predatory instinct." She said raising her finger to shut me up. The guests are starting to arrive, you should welcome them. She pointed to the door and I grunted, I hated this about parties.
- I stood at the door and greeted them one by one with a smile, while Normani checked her cell phone for any messages. Normani was my assistant as well as my secretary. Normani advised me on what to do and how to do it, although I also come up with ideas. She was a kind of friend-secretary, which can be summed up as a personal assistant.
- I have been welcoming people for more than two hours, it felt like everyone in the world came to this party, except for Camila, I was waiting for her, where the hell was she?
- The door bell rang as soon I opened the door my jaw dropped. Camila was standing in front of me with the most gorgeous dress I had ever seen. We were alone in the living room because everyone was on the terrace, and I opened the door more letting her enter my house. There she was. With straight hair falling to her shoulders, a very tight black dress making me forget I had a girlfriend.
- "Lauren?" Camila asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
- "Camila." I smiled closing the door behind us. "Follow me." I gestured for her to come with me and she nodded.
- I walked through different parts of the house until I reached the kitchen where the catering was in. I grabbed a tray of canapés, a bottle of wine and two glasses, reaching one of the places under everyone, where the music was coming but no one could see.
-"You don't need to do this..." She smiled slightly and I shrugged. We were practically at a table in front of the beach, and I started pouring wine into our glasses.
-"You deserve this, believe me." I said, drinking a little while looking at her. I feel like I owed you way more than a simple meal yesterday. You were by my side day and night for two weeks, telling me about your life, and being so kind to me.
- "Yes .. It's something weird...", leaving it on the table. I stared at them for a moment, appreciating them because I just hadn't seen the same ones. "But that's okay, this is very nice and your house is impressive. I took a salmon canape and handed it to her, with a half smile.
- "You should try it, it's very good." to analyze every gesture she made. I took a bite of the same thing she did and drank some more wine, I stared at every inch of Camila's tanned skin waiting for her answer.
- "It is." She answered.
- Has your girlfriend been happy with you being here? I asked bringing the glass to my mouth to take a slight sip, glancing at Camila. She was thoughtful for a moment and I began to get nervous.
-I wanted to have everything under control, and a non-response from the Latina was eating at my nerves.
- "I don't have a girlfriend." She finally answered. My cell phone started ringing in my pocket and I took it out, my girlfriend's name was engraved on it.
- Excuse me for a moment. "Yes?" I answered the phone looking up front.
-"What are you doing honey?" Kaylee's voice was ringing through the phone but I could only think of Camila.
-"At the party for fashion designers, Kay," I replied. My tone was dry. Because I just wanted to talk to Camila and my girlfriend was bothering me. Was that normal? The one I should've wanted to talk to was Kaylee, not Camila. She was my girlfriend, but no, for some odd reason It was far more interesting to talk to Camila.
-Today I went to the photoshoot for Gucci, you know? They gave me a couple of bags for me to try on, nothing out of the ordinary.
- "Hey darling, I have to talk to Dolce. I'll call you later." I hung up, releasing a heavy, long, deep sigh. Camila who was looking at me moving the glass of wine, as if she didn't want meddle in my life.
-She was my girlfriend, Kaylee. She... She's a Victoria's Secret model. That's the reason for the party, designers and stuff. I forced a smile and she did too.
- I'm not surprised. "She said with a smile as she place the glass of wine on the edge of the table. Her legs were crossed and she didn't know how to respond to that. Why do you say that?
- "Look at you. You're sexy, pretty, and rich. What less could you be than a Victoria's Secret model? "She gave a soft laugh and took another canape, this time with caviar and put it in her mouth. First bite, she looked at me again. "Even if we don't want it, this is reality, Lauren. You date a world-famous model, and if you break up with her, you'll date an actress or famous singer because you deserve that."
-This is not governed by money, you know? Camila finished eating the canape in one bite and turned to me, slowly tasting it. She smiled, she didn't believe me, but I wasn't going to reply anymore. "For example, you're prettier than my girlfriend."
-"That's not true." Camila answered, frowning, shaking her head. "You go to parties, you meet people. People meet in bars, discos, cafes. Your bars are luxurious restaurants that only the most exclusive people can afford to go to, you have parties which include high end people.
- "What if that person has an accident and meets someone in a hospital? Is that it then? "I frowned, expecting an answer from her, but earned a sigh...
- "Unlikely." She answered running her hands through the fabric of her dress, raising her head to look at me. "I didn't mean to argue with you."
- "I hate that everyone always agrees with me." I smiled and she returned the same smile, staring at each other for a moment .
- I love this song. Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys began to play in the background and the truth is that I loved that song. I got up and took Camila's hands, lifting her from the seat so that she could dance with me. Very awkward. We both laughed as Camila denied.
-"Come on, everyone knows how to dance."
- "Sorry if I step on you." I laughed.
-I took one of her hands and put the other on her waist, while Camila put her hand on my left shoulder and took the other hand, beginning to move and dance slowly. I looked into Camila's eyes, which were glowing and bright although she squeezed them away a bit.
- "What's wrong?" I asked in a low voice, squeezing the hand that was on her waist.
- "Intimidated." She replied turning to look at me biting her lip. It was, really, beautiful. I couldn't even process anything at that moment because I was looking at her mouth as if there was nothing else in this moment more important than her mouth.
- "They tell me a lot." The hand that was holding Camila's, and her eyes darted between mine for a couple of seconds, until finally she pulled them away. My hands both placed on Camila's hips, and her hands went around my neck, leaving them attached on me.
-I could not resist, I could not even separate myself from her at that moment even if I wanted to, because I was totally attracted to the brunette. I tilted my head a little to bring her lips to mine...
-But Camila had backed away.
- "Lauren ... You have a girlfriend ..." She said, looking at me somewhat shyly. "We can be friends."
- "Sure, sure..." I cleared my throat, I had just acted like the biggest idiot in front of Camila, I had just made a fool of myself.
-"You love her and I don't want you to hurt her, for a silly kiss." She smiled and I reciprocated her smile, watching as Camila took her bag from the chair. "It was a pleasure coming here, and being with you." "It's ... You're great." She smiled and I couldn't help but return that smile. "If you need to talk, or need anything, call me." I'd like to see you... Even if you have a girlfriend, of course as friends though. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and then disappeared into the noise, the lights and the shadows of the party.
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- When I got up, I looked out the window at the beach. She had rejected me last night so I wasn't in the best mood this morning. I rubbed my face with my hands and yawned, standing up. She was wearing blue pajama shorts and a tank top, because Los Angeles was quite hot. The room, with a gray wallpaper, went perfectly with the designer bed and an black low cabinet, which held the TV. The window overlooking a small private terrace made me feel a bit better.
- I went downstairs and heard a noise in the bathroom. I opened the door and saw Normani crouched on the floor, vomiting.
- "Fuck, Mani, What did you drink yesterday" Normani sighed getting up and I tied her hair into a ponytail. At 28, she was even prettier than when I first met her in high school.
- "Where were you?" Her voice was completely muffled, and I was less ... Less drunk than usual, so to speak.
- "I... I was... Umm ..."
- Anyway, I don't want to know. She made a gesture with her hand and looked at me with a sigh. "Hey, this is serious, I almost fell down the stairs from dizziness."
- "Do you want to go to a hospital?" Sunlight from the beach came through the windows and illuminated the kitchen and living room, decorated with gray and white furniture. I sat her on the sofa and she denied, having thought long and hard about it.
- "No, but I need someone to see me. I have the number here of..."
- "No!" I said putting a hand on her shoulder so she wouldn't pick up the mobile. "I'll take care of it."
- While I was making her a cup of tea, I took the mobile and I dialed Camila's number.
- Her voice over the phone was the best sound in the world.
- "Yes?" I smiled instantly. "Hey... Camila, I'm Lauren. You know, umm..." "Yes, I think I remember you." with a laugh at the end, which didn't stop me from giggling. "Yes, um, my friend Normani here is very dizzy and vomiting, and she needs you to see her."
- "Oh, sure, I'll be there in ten minutes."
- "Okay, thanks, and then I hung up."
- I walked over with the mug in my hand and Normani slapped me away.
- "What the hell are you on? Weed or drugs?" I glared at her with my eyes. She wasn't intimidated because she was the only person who was allowed to talk to me like that. Not even Kaylee could.
- "God, I'm trying to help you." I tied my hair up with a rubber band, quite frustrated that my friend kept complaining. In the eyes of a little puppy and I sighed, rubbing my face.
-After ten minutes, there was a knock on the door. I almost fell down the stairs when I went to open it, and there she was. She was wearing jeans and a tight white T-shirt, with a briefcase in her hand.
- "I'm sorry to come like this, but you called me when I had just woken up." She said in an apologetic manner. She looked adorable in that shirt and sexy at the same time. I was having thoughts that I shouldn't be having, she was torturing me with that outfit.
- "It doesn't matter. Come with me." I said closing the door. There was Normani, with her hand resting on her head frowning when she saw us come in.
- "Mani, this is Camila. The doctor who treated me when I was in the hospital." Normani smiled vaguely and closed her eyes.
- "How are you feeling?" Asked Camila sitting next to her on the sofa.
- "Bad. Very bad. I feel like vomiting, dizzy, and cold." She didn't lift her head but looked at Camila.
- "What did you eat yesterday?" She pulled out a small form, and Normani started talking as I watched from the kitchen sipping a glass of wine.
- "Uh .. A couple of canapes, a glass of wine, tuna tartare, I don't know, what was at the party nothing weird though." Camila looked at Normani and got up, gesturing for Lauren to sit with her at the living room table. "Well, at first it doesn't seem that bad. I'm going to take your blood pressure and run some tests, okay?" Normani nodded
- Camila placed something like a small bracelet around her wrist and pressed a button.
- "Don't move or talk, it's important." The brunette warned, taking notes in her folder. When a few seconds passed, he looked at the small screen of the device and continued pointing at his list.
- "Are you scared of needles?" Asked Camila taking out the needle from her briefcase, looking at Normani.
- "A lot." Panic was written all over Normani's face as soon as she saw the needle.
- "Okay, sometimes even though people grow up they are still afraid of things we had when we were little, you know?" She laughed and Mani smiled. "What do you do for work, by the way?" She took her arm and placed it on the table, tying the rubber cap on top of it.
-"I'm Lauren's assistant," she replied. Camila put her latex gloves on carefully and turned with a smile to me. "Are you paying her well?" I parted my lips when I heard her question and ended up laughing.
- "I don't know, let her tell you." I answered, taking a sip of the glass while watching.
- "I pay her about $ 2,000 a month, so I don't think it's considered a bad pay." Normani denied while laughing and Camila took a cotton ball, dipping it in alcohol and pressed it over the area where she was going to insert the needle.
- "No, it's a lot more than that." Normani replied.
- "Okay, I need you to clench your fist." Normani nodded and clenched his fist, Camila went back to look for her vein and nodded. "Let go slightly." "So you live a great life, right?" Asked Camila. Normani nodded with a smile biting her lip.
- "Depending on how you see it?" Camila began to draw blood from Normani's arm And she was looking at me, so she didn't even realize that Camila was doing that. She put some tubes of blood into a syringe that had an opening at the top. She didn't suction like the others, she just put the tubes and they filled themselves. Camila finished putting two tubes in a glass on the table and removed the syringe.
- I kept my gaze on Normani as if I was talking to her, but actually I was just entertaining her. "I don't know what you're doing? You entertained me with that conversation" not realizing "tricky, but it never works, so" Normani pushed Camila away, who was disinfecting the wound with the cotton, "stop disinfecting that and end the agony."
-Camila pressed the cotton on her arm and made her arm bend, looking at Normani.
- Hold your arm like this for ten minutes, honey. She replied sweetly with a smile, showing her the two tubes of blood. "I'll be back in about two hours."
- That girl was so sexy in her work as a doctor. It was impossible. The way she spoke, the way she treated her patients, I was simply infatuated. I couldn't stop looking at her. She put all her stuff in her briefcase and turned to me, waiting for me to escort her to the door.
-"Hey, excuse Normani, she has mood swings like that." I shook my head and she giggled.
- Then Camila left after saying goodbye.
- Two hours passed in which Normani had fallen asleep. How was that possible? I was hungry but I couldn't have breakfast in case Camila came and caught me in the middle of breakfast.
-Finally, the door rang and I opened, letting Camila enter the living room with her briefcase.
- "How was everything?" Normani asked, tilting her head.
- "Yes, everything is perfect. Besides your cholesterol levels, triglycerides, blood glucose, everything is perfect. No problem at all." She smiled looking at the reports and I stared at her... "Congratulations, you are pregnant".
- I was stunned, but Normani had a smile on her face, but then began to cry with emotion.
- "Are you serious? Really!?" She got up from the sofa wiping her tears. She was smiling a second ago, damn, how I hadn't thought about it before.
- "Really. There's a baby in your gut, Normani." Said Camila, leaving the papers on the table.
- "You didn't tell me that you and Jesse were planning on having a son!" I froze again. Normani had started dating Jesse Williams when she was just 22 years old. Four years ago they got married and now they are going to have a baby. I hugged Normani with a smile, because it would be so adorable for Normani to have a green-eyed baby.
- "I guess Jesse is your husband." Camila smiled, and I nodded.
- "Yes, the green-eyed shaved brunette from Grey's Anatomy" I laughed, running my hands down Normani's back. "You're going to make me an aunt! I'm going to buy Disney tickets now and spoil him a lot."
- "I have to go and tell him, although I don't know how to tell him. Goodbye!" She grabbed her bag and flew off.
-I looked at Camila and heard my stomach growl, clearing my throat.
- "Haven't eaten since we had dinner yesterday, and it's almost eleven o'clock." I shrugged and she laughed. Her laugh was lovely, neither too loud nor too absurd. It was a lovely laugh.
- "I'm going to make breakfast, today I'd like you to stay."
- "Sure." She agreed.
- After a bit, the scrambled eggs and bacon were on the table, and the pancakes were coming out one by one. Camila was walking around the living room and picked up one of the frames, looking at it.
- "Is this your girlfriend?" I nodded and poured some wine into the glass.
- "Yes, her name is Kaylee." I said sitting at the table, Camila joining me.
- "She's gorgeous, to tell the truth." She picked up a fork and took a bite of bacon and scrambled eggs, licking her lips.
- "You know what I think about that." I reminded her that she was even more precious than my own girlfriend, and she was already pushing the limits of that friendship. Both of us drinking from our wine, made us observe and analyze each movement of each other. I clenched my jaw and stirred the glass, listening to Camila's sigh.
- "You are a wonderful woman, Lauren." Camila said, putting her fork on the plate...
Chapter 2 is out!!! I'm going to try my hardest to translate the chapters as fast as I can. Please comment to let me know if you enjoyed the story and if you have any tips or ideas. Take care!!💕💕