“I remember when I came to that therapy session with you and they said that you’d be able to answer or do certain things automatically,” Dinah told her laughing. “It’s actually quite fun,” she shared. “Here watch this…” Dinah said and Camila held her hand over her arm protectively, sure that her friend was going to hit her again. “I’m not going to hit you,” Dinah informed her laughing. “I was going to ask you something.”“Oh,” Camila said, dropping her hand and resting it back in her lap, amused at Dinah’s understanding of her condition and the reflexive response to the information that she’d just given her.“Do you like bows?” Dinah asked her and Camila made an ‘are you serious?’ face as she automatically answered, “Yes.”“Are you good at tennis?” Dinah asked her again knowing that she was rubbish.“No!” Camila answered quickly, laughing at the memory of the lessons she’d had when she was younger.“This is fun,” Dinah mused, turning to look at Lauren who was watching the interaction with interest, an entertained expression on her face. “The wheels on the bus go…”“Round and round,” Camila answered and Lauren laughed deeply at the automatic response her girlfriend gave.Camila turned her attention to Lauren and pointed at the presents in her lap meaningfully again, gesturing for her to open them, already bored of the game with Dinah, memories of the numerous speech sessions she’d had coming back to her quickly now that she’d been reminded.“In a minute,” Lauren said, thoroughly enjoying this new insight in to Camila’s speech difficulties. “I just want to try one thing first…” she told her, pausing to think for a moment before clicking her fingers and turning to Dinah. “Does it work with any nursery rhyme?” she asked her and the other girl nodded, causing Camila to roll her eyes at the amount of pleasure they were both getting out of this. “Ok,” Lauren said turning to face Camila once more. “Old Macdonald had a farm…” she half-sang, leaving the line unfinished.“E-I-E-I-O,” Camila continued automatically and Lauren smiled at the sound of her girlfriends’ raspy tone as she sang back to her.“Twinkle twinkle little star…” Lauren sang lightly, chuckling to herself happily.“How I wonder what you are?” Camila finished frowning. “Ll….lla…llaaauuu…” she tried to protest, groaning loudly.“Alright I’m sorry,” Lauren apologised sincerely, rubbing Camila’s arm remorsefully and kissing her lightly on the temple. “I just never knew that you could do that.” She paused for a moment to look down at the presents in her lap. “Are you sure that you want me to open them now?” she asked. “I mean it’s not technically Christmas until tomorrow…”“Ppl…pp…pplll…” Camila said and Lauren understood pleading when she heard it.“Ok,” Lauren answered, feeling a little bit like a naughty child who was opening their present early as she unwrapped her gift. “Camz,” she laughed as she pulled out the panda beanie which she’d pointed out in the mall when they’d gone together to search for a gift for Sofi. “You remembered that I liked this?” Lauren asked and Camila nodded her head, smiling brightly.She lifted her hand up to her head and tapped it lightly with her finger, informing Lauren that she’d stored the knowledge away safely.“I love it,” Lauren said, smiling as she put the beanie on her head, striking a pose.“Am I the only one that finds it weird that you both got each other hats?” Dinah asked them, laughing. “Did you two like, plan it or something?”“No,” Lauren said reaching down to start opening her second present, which she assumed would be the main one out of the two, all the girls buying each other smaller gifts that they’d planned to exchange the last Wednesday night before the holidays, but, unfortunately had been unable to. “We’re just in sync that way,” she said pulling the wrapping paper off the box which she then placed on Camila’s knees, balancing it there precariously. Lauren took off the lid to reveal three smaller wrapped presents tucked away inside.“Ss…ss….” Camila said pointing to the box and Lauren looked at her uncertain of her meaning.“She’s telling you to open the small one first,” Dinah told Lauren easily and Camila nodded in agreement to her friends’ words.“How did you know that?” Lauren asked and Dinah held up a piece of paper with a scrawled, almost unintelligible script written on it.“Instructions,” Dinah said opening her eyes playfully.“Cheat,” Lauren laughed and she reached into the bigger box, pulling out the smallest one which was inside and taking the lid off it swiftly. Her mouth dropped open slightly as she took in the small piece of jewellery inside, a delicate silver necklace with a key and a heart charm on the end of it. “Camz it’s beautiful,” Lauren said sincerely.Camila pretended to unfold an imaginary piece of paper in her hands and pointed to the smaller box in Lauren’s grasp, causing her to look down at it more closely. Inside, she found an A4 sheet of folded pape
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