But now here she was, smiling like an idiot and trying to crane her neck to see into their apartment. Lauren and Dinah looked at one another, stepping aside when Normani and Ally came back over to the doorway. Ally still appeared to be half asleep, but she quickly snapped out of her daze when she saw the other girl at the doorway.“What?” she asked, looking at Camila and then back at her roommates. “What’s going on?” Lauren shrugged, and Dinah and Normani raised their eyebrows, as if to silently say they were just as confused as she was.“Was there something you needed?” Ally asked, turning back to Camila, who still stood in the doorway with a smile on her face. Lauren found it quite weird.“Oh, yeah, that,” the smaller girl giggled and pursed her lips for a moment. “I need a bed.” She slipped past Ally and into the apartment, standing in the middle of the giant room and spinning in a circle to take it all in. “Do you have one of those?”Dinah closed the door, shooting Lauren a questioning look. All four girls turned to one another, keeping an eye on their old classmate.“What the hell?” Lauren was the first to speak up, keeping her voice low so Camila couldn’t hear her. Camila seemed to be off in her own little world. She seemed… different. All four girls were confused. It was like she’d become a completely different person.“Camila?” Ally spoke again, giving the girls a nod to try and tell them she could handle this. The shorter girl walked over to Camila, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Why do you need a bed? Where’d you come from?”“My house,” Camila shrugged. She seemed completely oblivious to the fact that the other girls in the room all had been at the receiving end of her reign of terror in high school. “Do you have a bed? I need one of those.”“Don’t you have your own bed?” Ally asked. She shot the other girls a pleading look, realizing she couldn’t handle this on her own. Normani and Dinah stepped forward but Lauren stayed back. She had too much build up resentment for the girl. She’d much rather leave Camila out in the hallway.“Yeah, but I have to walk a long way to get it,” Camila turned away from Ally and walked over to the couch, sitting down and picking up the TV remote. Normani turned back to Lauren and made a face of confusion.“Don’t mess with that,” Dinah quickly took the remote from the small girl’s hands and set it on the coffee table. “Camila, you need to go home,” the Polynesian girl adopted a serious tone, standing directly in front of Camila and crossing her arms over her chest. After Camila had outed Lauren, Dinah had become increasingly protective of the green-eyed girl. She didn’t know why Camila was back, and she didn’t care to find out.“But we’re friends,” Camila pouted, looking up at Dinah with pleading eyes. She pursed her lips in thought for a moment before raising her finger in the air, as if she’d come across a type of revelation. “Remember? We had chemistry together!”Dinah raised an eyebrow. The girl was right, even though she’d only shown up to half of her classes, she remembered occasionally seeing Camila across the classroom. That didn’t make them anything close to friends, though.“Camila, you really need to go home,” Dinah reiterated. She didn’t wait for a response, instead she took the girl by the arm and pulled her up from the couch. Camila only giggled as Dinah led her over to the door and out into the hallway.“I have to go home?”“Yes,” Dinah nodded, pointing towards the elevator down the hallway. Camila’s smile finally faltered, but she didn’t get a chance to respond before Dinah was closing the door in the small girl’s face. She turned back to her roommates.“What the hell was that?” Normani walked up beside Dinah and made sure the door was locked. All three girls knew what Camila had done to Lauren, and they knew she didn’t deserve any of their hospitality.“She was acting like an idiot,” Lauren observed, laughing bitterly.“She’s right,” Ally nodded. The oldest girl suddenly grew concerned. “She was acting strange.”Lauren shrugged and dismissed the thought. “She’s probably drunk,” she chuckled and walked back into the kitchen. “It’s supposed to rain tonight,” she added, trying to get her mind off of Camila. What had she been doing here? Lauren crinkled her nose, thinking back to when her high school life had taken a turn for the worse.
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4 years ago
“It’s funny because it’s true, Lo,” Dinah laughed from across the table. Lauren looked up from her food and stuck her tongue out at her friend.
“There’s no way he likes me,” Lauren rolled her eyes. She looked back down at the table and bit her lip. “Plus, he’s not even cute. I’m not into guys like that.”
“Or maybe you’re not into guys at all.”
The voice from behind Lauren caused all four girls to look up from their phones. Except for Lauren, who realized her phone wasn’t sitting next to her on the table like it usually was. There was a sinking feeling in her stomach and she turned ar
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