Beautiful When You Don't Try (Camren)

Chapter 99

A/N: Short filler chapter.

Thank you all for reading. You all are seriously so awesome that I'm not even going to try and tell you how awesome you are because my attempts would fall drastically short. Embarrassingly so. Thank you, have a great weekend and enjoy this chapter...

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"Ladies and ladies," Scott beamed as he entered the studio office with a stack of papers and tabloids under his arms. "Good morning."

"Scott, did you bring me presents?" Lauren asked as he set the papers down on her desk, taking the top one for himself.

"I most certainly did." He cleared his throat and began to read. "Put the rumors of Camila Cabello-Jauregui's alleged affair with castmate Alisha Thomas to rest for once and for all. An audiotape of Thomas' confession of Cabello-Jauregui's innocents has surfaced. The tape clearly states that Thomas' motives for spreading the rumors were simply to further her own career with a complete disregard for the impact these allegations would have on her cast mate. When contacted, Thomas' people had no comment to release as of yet."

"I like this one more," Normani stated, flipping back the cover of a tabloid magazine. "Bust: Alisha Thomas has been outed as a fraud in her allegations that she was having an affair with Grammy award-winning starlet, Camila Cabello-Jauregui. After hearing this audio confession for ourselves, all we can hope is that this desperate bitch gets what's coming." Normani laughed lightly. "I really like the 'desperate bitch' part."

"You will also be happy to know that I received a call this morning informing me that she is no longer fighting our request for her part to be moved," Scott informed them.

"That's probably because she's just hoping to still have a part after all of this crap."

Lauren squealed and threw her hands in the air before embracing Normani. "Thank you so much. You have no idea how stressful this has been on Camila. She's been slowly slipping into a depression thinking that no one believed her. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you." Each thank you was punctuated with a kiss on alternating cheeks.

"Aw, you're welcome, Lo. Kim? You want to get in on this too?" Normani teased, placing an index finger to her cheek but receiving a roll of the eyes from the assistant.

"I'd rather not. I'm not sure what diseases I may catch."

"God, I love you. You've got that spark of life that just makes me go wild. All I'm asking for is one night with you. I might even settle for one kiss even."

"Normani, leave her alone."

"But she's so damn cute when she's angry... and hot as hell when she's feisty like that." Normani argued, blowing Kim a kiss across the office. It was all in fun and games for her. If she was wanting to cause trouble, she could. She could have cracked a joke that any disease she had, Adrianne definitely had from all the hot, rough sex they had day and night. But she didn't. She was happy for them but still found it fun to tease the younger woman. "Are you and Adrianne-"

"No."

Normani arched an eyebrow at her. "You don't even know what I'm going to ask."

"Probably something along the lines of if we've considered having a threesome."

Normani tilted her head. "While I would be very much interested in the possibility of experiencing that with the pair of you... I'm pretty sure that much feistiness and struggle for control would not only end in the hottest sex imaginable but probably in someone's death as well. No, I was going to ask if you and Adrianne were having a bachelorette party."

"Oh..." Kim replied, blushing slightly.

"And they are," Lauren answered, scanning over more of the papers as Scott quietly excused himself. "I was planning on telling you today, so thank you for bringing it up. We are going to a strip club and they will be drunk before we get there. I don't want to listen to any whining about how one is missing the other and is probably sitting at home being miserable."