Beautiful When You Don't Try (Camren)

Chapter 6

A/N: After 5 chapters and over 13,000 words of teasing...it's time we got to the pleasing. This is not a work friendly chapter. DO NOT READ AT WORK! :P

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Lauren sat in a chair just outside the dressing room waiting for Camila to gather her nerves to get dressed and exit. After the diva's initial shock of the magazine's choice in wardrobe, she at least thanked them for offering her a wide selection of colors to choose from. Now, it was just a waiting game. Lauren fiddled with her fingers to pass the time in the silent loft and only shifted her eyes up when she heard a door open.

"Did she run yet?"

Lauren's eyes lifted to meet the emerald orbs of her ex confidently strolling towards her. "No. She's just changing for the next shot." Lauren moved to stand but was stopped by one of Adrianne's legs on each side of her, the brunette straddling her waist.

She didn't waste any time and attacked Lauren's neck with an assault of kisses, nips, and licks. "God I've missed you."

Lauren placed her hands to the aggressive woman's hips and pushed but Adrianne pushed back. "Adrianne, stop." Any further words were cut off by the full lips on the Lauren's in a familiar lingering kiss.

"When will you see how this is going to end?" She asked, returning her mouth to Lauren's neck and running her hands over her chest. "She doesn't know what she wants. But I know what I want."

Lauren turned her head and pushed again with a little more force. This time Adrianne relented, stumbling backwards a few steps as the raven haired girl moved to her feet. "I know what I want too." Lauren snapped in a hushed voice, knowing Camila was just on the other side of the thin wall. "And I'm sorry, but it's not you. That's why you left. The only reason you're back now is because you hate to think that you lost at something in a little game you're playing right now."

"I did lose something. You. I made a mistake."

"No." Lauren shook her head. "You didn't. You leaving was never because you didn't care. It was because I couldn't care enough for you while not knowing what I could have had with Camila. It's my fault. I'm the one that has hurt you."

"And you're doing it again."

Lauren closed her eyes in frustration, fighting the urge to run over and comfort her former lover. Sure Adrianne was pushy and full of herself sometimes, but there was enough good there to have kept Lauren around for nearly three years. She had her softer, more playful, and fragile side. "I don't want to, but you're making that impossible. I can't give you what you need right now. I'm sorry. I am so sorry."

The brunette's eyes reddened at the tears she repressed and handed Lauren her type letter. "Sign it and I'll leave." Lauren stared for a second but knew there was nothing she could say to make the situation any better. She took the paper and returned to her office for a pen, Adrianne in tow. Lauren scribbled her name on the white paper and handed it back to the wounded brunette who refused to meet her eyes. "Call me when she runs and you get the answer you've been wanting so damn long for."

Lauren didn't say anything as she watched her ex girlfriend walk out the door. The situation sucked but it was better than continuing a life of what-ifs.

"Lauren?" Camila's voice echoed through the empty loft.

Lauren straightened her hair and clothes before she stepped out of her office. "Yeah?" She froze in place when she caught sight of Camila standing just outside the dressing room in sheer black lace panties and matching bra. The photographer couldn't breath, let alone close her mouth, so she was fairly certain she was drooling.