Best Friends? (Camila/You)

Part 10

Best Friends? - Part 10

I stood in the middle of the living area with my hands shaking, I looked down at the magazine, it was open to page 6 and what I saw tore my heart out. In the corner of the page I read the headline and I could feel tears stinging my eyes as I scanned over the page. 'Lauren Jauregui of Fifth Harmony having a little too much fun?' It said and as I looked below there was a picture of me and Lauren kissing in the bus, I was confused for a moment, and how the hell did they get that picture? Then I remembered Austin and everything became clear.

Austin's words rang over and over in my head 'this isn't over' repeated itself and I let a tear roll down my cheek. I continued reading or trying to read as my tears caused my vision to blur, the story read; 'Lauren Jauregui caught kissing a girl Late Saturday night, our anonymous source says that the two are actually having a so-called 'thing' and it has been going on for quite sometime...' I huffed and threw the magazine to the ground. All lies! Everything! I would never have a 'thing' with Lauren! Not when Camila is the only person I want, Austin fed them pure lies and I felt extremely overwhelmed.

In that exact minute Lauren walked into the bus, I turned to look at her and our eyes locked. She looked at me and was prepared to smile but stopped when she noticed my distress, she rushed over to me grabbing my hands with a look of pure worry across her face.

"Y/N? What's wrong? What happened?" She asked, I couldn't help but feel angry if she hadn't kissed me we wouldn't have been in this position. I looked at her and ripped my hands from hers bending down to pick up the magazine shoving it into her chest.

"Look for yourself" I said and she lifted the magazine, her eyes filled with confusion but as her eyes scanned the page they widened. She looked back up at me and I saw in her eyes how sorry she was, I couldn't help but forgive her in that instant I couldn't stay mad at Lauren especially not right now.

"I-I... Who, who could have done this?" She asked and I laughed bitterly.

"Who do you think? Austin." I said and her eyes filled with anger, she turned around running her hands through her hair. I could tell she was stressed when she looked back at me with apologetic eyes.

"Where's Camz?" She asked, I could feel my tears coming back as I remembered how broken she looked as she stared straight into my eyes and whispered she was done.

"In her bunk." I said pointing towards the hall, Lauren huffed and grabbed my hand. We made our way towards Camila's bunk and I could hear subtle sobs, my heart broke again and I didn't think I could feel any worse.

"Camz? It's Lauren and Y/N, please come out we need to talk." Lauren said but received no reply. We waited for 10 minutes hoping Camila would pull the curtain to her bunk but nothing; I couldn't take this I needed to say something.

"Camila? Baby please open up, let us explain it's not what it looks like I promise! I mean it with everything that I am when I say the magazine is a lie. Please Mila... Please." I begged, in the corner of my eye I could see Lauren sending me a sympathetic look, we stood there for 10 more minutes and still nothing. I frowned and I could feel tears pouring down my cheeks, Lauren wrapped an arm around me leading me back to the living area. I sat on the couch putting my head in my hands as I continued to let the sobs wrack my body, I messed up, this was all my fault if I had just told her as soon as possible this wouldn't have happened, she wouldn't have found out this way.

I sat on the couch for what felt like hours blaming myself for my stupidity, I shouldn't have done it, I should've pushed Lauren off immediately but I didn't I let curiosity get the best of me. I shook my head as Lauren stroked my back trying to comfort me, I felt a little better with her doing this but it still didn't heal the gaping hole in my chest. If I could I would go back and change it I would never have let it get this far, I couldn't believe how dumb I was.