Chapter 28

"Are you ready for part two?" I ask Camz as soon as we leave the recording studio. We recorded and sent the demo to Demi so now all we have to do is wait for her to get it and hopefully she loves the song as much as I do.

"Lolo I don't think it is even possible to top this." she replies ecstatically and I can't stop the smile on my cheeks. Making the younger girl happy makes me the happiest person in the world, my cheeks actually hurt from smiling. It's just something about her, I can't contain the smile on my face when I'm with her.

"Maybe not but I wanted to give you something." I pop the trunk of my car and take out the canvas.

I handed her the canvas of the sun and the moon that I painted her. "There's this story that I love so much, it's about the sun and the moon. It's about how the sun cared so much about the moon that he died every night to let her breathe. The thing is, the story doesn't have a happy ending because their fates were already picked out, they could never be together but you make me believe in happy endings and so I painted a happy ending. It's the story of us." I start. I honestly didn't realize what and why I was painting what I was until it was already painted.

"See you're the moon to my sun. You glow so bright and you are so radiant. You and I are like day and night and normally that wouldn't work but a very beautiful and wise person once told me nothing real can be threatened and there is nothing more real than the way I feel about you. I will always do anything I can to make sure you glow like you deserve to." I finished my explanation of the painting and stare at the younger girl who's glossy eyes stared between me and the canvas.

"How in the world did I get so lucky to have someone like you in my life? You are honestly the most incredible person and you are definitely the sun because you brighten up my day unlike anyone else." she smiles before bringing her lips up to mine.

I kiss the younger girl gently before wiping the tear from her eye.

"Wow we are both so cheesy, I don't know who's worse." I joke.

"Oh you are way cheesier than I am, even pizza is jealous of you." she countered and I couldn't contain my laughter. Camila tells the worst jokes ever that I can't help but to laugh.

"I love your smile." Camz whispers and our eyes connect again, this time it felt like she was searching for something deeper.

"I love.." I try to say the words that I have been trying so desperately hard to say to her but nothing comes out.

"I love your smile even more princess." I reply and kiss her head softly.

Camila's face dropped for a second before putting on a smile that I can tell was not competely sincere.

"How about we go back to my place and I can make you some dinner, you did all of this for me, let me make it up to you." Camz kissed my hand and I just nodded and opened the car door for her.

I hope more than anything that the younger girl doesn't doubt my feelings for her. I'm normally so good at expressing myself but when it comes to her I get so intimidated and scared.

A part of me doesn't want to say the words because what if she doesn't feel the same way? I still feel like she is too good for me, what if she realizes it too? I'm so scared of being happy with her because every time I'm happy, something comes around and ruins it and I don't want what I have with Camila to be ruined and I don't want to scare her away.

Instead of always thinking this to myself I know that I should communicate this with my girlfriend but she has so much going on I don't want to add any extra worry or stress so instead I keep it bottled up.

"Lolo where did you just go?" I snap back to reality at the sound of Camila's voice.

"Huh? Nowhere I'm right in front of you silly goose." I try to play it off.

"That's not what I meant beautiful. You were out of it are you okay?" she asks and I kiss her hand softly. "I am perfect because you're here with me." I reply before getting in the car and driving to Camila's house.

On the drive I kept feeling Camila glancing over at me so I tried my hardest to focus on the road.

I pull up to the house and open the car door for Camz.

"Thank you princess." Camz replies to my action with a smile.

"Anything for you beautiful." I smile back before we walk up to her house.

"Lolo, you know how you said there is nothing more real than the way you feel for me?" Camz questions and I stop at her door and nod.

"I just wanted to tell you that the only thing more real than the way you feel about me is the way I feel about you. I want you to know that I care about you more than I have ever cared about anyone else before, that's all." She smiled insecurely and I grabbed her chin softly pulling her lips to mine.

Each kiss feels special but this one feels so much more meaningful. It feels like our first kiss times infinity. It's like the kiss speaks the words that we are both too afraid to say and I kiss her with every inch of passion that I have in my body.

If I can't tell her the way that I feel about her the least I can do is show her.

I push her body against the house door until I can unlock it, my lips still attached to Camila's.

As soon as the door was open I picked her up and walked to her room.

I carefully laid her on the bed and pressed my body against hers. I move the hair away from her face and take in her beauty which takes my breath away. No matter how many times I see Camila, I'm still mesmerized by the amount of perfection.

I feel the beautiful brown eyes on me and I bring my lips to Camila's once more. I leave tender kisses down her neck without breaking our eye contact.

"Lauren, make love to me." Camila pleaded and I did just what she asked for, I made her feel everything I was too afraid to say.

As soon as I wake up I feel the warm embrace of Camz who is laying on my chest. I can't help but to admire her peaceful features as she sleeps like the way she snores so gently you can barely hear her and the way her hair covers half of her face.

I know we have to get up for school but part of me doesn't want to wake up the sleeping beauty because we had a late night.

Memories of last night flood back into my mind and I can't wipe the smile off of my face. Last night I felt so many things I never knew that I could feel. Camila and I have had passionate sex before but last night was so different.

Last night was so beautiful, so passionate, so magical. Last night wasn't even just about the sex, it was the tender and passionate kisses we shared and the cute smiles in between them; it was the way we moved together, so in sync; the way she looked at me the whole time like I was all that mattered.

As much as I would love to sit here and stare at the brunette beauty I know we can't be late for school again.

I kiss Camila's lips softly to wake her up. It takes her a second to reciprocate it but she does with a smile causing me to smile as well.

"I love waking up this way." The younger girl whispers with her raspy morning voice.

"Me too, you're beautiful." I reply as I intertwine our fingers, rubbing my thumb softly against the back of her hand.

"You are gorgeous." Camz counters before getting up off of the bed.

I pull her body back on top of me. "Wait cuddle me for five more minutes." I smile as her head buries itself into my neck.

For the next five minutes I just trailed my fingers up and down Camila's spine and enjoyed the feeling of being so close to her.

"We should probably get up for school now." I say. When Camz doesn't reply I realize she fell asleep again and I chuckle. "Baby wake up." I shake her body softly and hear a groggy whimper.

"It hasn't been five minutes yet." She whines.

"Baby trust me I wish we could stay like this forever but do you really want another write up for being late?" I ask and she shakes her head with a pout.

"Please don't be so cute!" I kiss her lips repeatedly until I feel a smile forming underneath my lips.

"Fine, only for you." She kisses me one more time before getting up to get dressed.

I lay in bed and admire the naked body throwing on some underclothes before I get up myself. If I didn't stop watching Camila get dressed all her clothes would've been back on the floor in a matter of seconds and getting to school on time would have been out o the question.

I put on some underclothes and then decide on wearing one of Camila's plaid shirts and a pair of shorts. I look over at Camila who had on one of my sweatshirts with a pair of blue jeans. I used to make fun of couples who wore each others clothes and now I am a part of one of those obnoxiously cute couples.

As soon as we arrive at the school I give Camz a quick kiss before going to class. We got to school a little early but I have some work to make up in a few of my classes so I wanted to go to the library to catch up on.

"Oh look who it is again, how are things with Camila? I'm sorry about that little argument you got in, Camila texted me after it happened she was so upset.I can't help but to feel partially to blame." Hailee smirks and I roll my eyes. Why is she always wherever either Camila or myself am?

"Actually we fixed things up, sorry she couldn't text you that part, her fingers were a little busy if you know what I mean. See you in class though. Chow!" I clap back.

I see the shock on Hailee's face and I wonder who is more taken aback by that reply, her or me. Even though I can't believe that I actually just said that I am proud of myself, maybe Hailee will see that I am not going to just roll over and let her get in between Camz and I.

Like usual, my classes all went by in a blur and I was just counting the seconds before seeing Camila again. Whenever she isn't around I miss her, even if she is only gone for a few hours.

I go to Mrs. Hernandez' class early, I haven't really spoken to the older lady in a while and I want to check in on Tori and the rest of the kids.

"Hey Lauren, how are you sweetie? Is everything okay?" The teacher looks up from the book that she was reading.

"Yes everything is good on my end, how are things going with the foster care?" I question.

"Everything is going great, I actually have a meeting with your mother after school today. I just wanted to say thank you so much for that, it means the world to us." She smiles and I can tell how grateful she is, if only she knew how grateful I am towards her, the foster care and the children that I have me and grown to love.

"It's my pleasure, honestly the foster care is important to me as well." I smile.

I thought I would find you here, Hi Mrs. Hernandez." I turn around and see Normani and Dinah entering the room. "I hope we aren't interrupting, we just never really get time to talk to Lauren about Camila's birthday." Dinah chimes in.

"Don't be silly girls it's okay, take a seat." The teacher flashed her huge smile

Normani takes a seat beside me while Dinah takes a seat on her lap.

"So guys, her birthday is next week and everything is already figured out we just need to make sure she has absolutely no clue, Dinah said that tradition was always for the two of them to go out to eat so that means Lauren you are stuck with me getting the party together." Normani says.

"Wonderful." I sigh. I was kind of hoping I could spend Camila's birthday with just her at least for a few hours but I guess we can celebrate the day after.

"Speaking of.." I hear Dinah whisper just as Camila walks in.

"Woah what's the reason behind the party in here?" She jokes and I laugh awkwardly. I am not very good at keeping secrets and it is going to be so hard not to tell her the plans.

"They wanted to steal you for your birthday but I told them we have a ritual to uphold. After we go out to eat maybe I will share you and we can have a movie night at Normani's house. Maybe." Dinah lies effortlessly and I laugh quietly. At least one of us can lie decently.

"We just want to make the day special for you." I smile and pull the younger girl on my lap.

"It will be special as long as I am with all my special ladies." She smiles and kisses me on my nose.

I look at the younger girl and think about how terrible her birthdays must have been since her mom died and she deserves so much more.

I have to make her birthday one that she will never forget.

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