First
"Do you feel like going to the meeting already, hm? Baby?" Lauren's sleepy eyes answered without any words. "We still have five more minutes". In moments like those, when they were free, in the solitude of their bed, Camilla felt like heaven. She got lost in the thoughts of her and Lauren being in possession of the possibility of running away, of starting an anonymous life, of finding a place where they could explore their love with no cameras trying to grasp every detail. But for now, they were stuck in a golden cage.
"Can we skip it?" Lauren said in a low voice, without taking her head off Camilla's neck. Her voice was one of the things that made her exactly who she was. It made her girlfriend dizzy, it always had, provoked her to get lost in a world of fantasy and happiness. So sexy. "What do you think they are telling us, anyway? So weird" She got up this time, as if she hadn't been laying down for a couple of hours, in fact, as if she had been up all this time. Camilla looked at her girl while she was putting her black shirt back on, expectant to see the show of her getting those leather pants back on her legs.
They got Starbucks on their way to the place where the managers held their office while on tour. They had a couple of days off, and so far they had done no sightseeing, probably too attracted by the idea of Netflix and chilling... all the time. An urgent meeting had been arranged earlier even if they were free and the two girls wondered if something could have happened to any of the group's shows. Or they could have found out about that thing. Their attempts at hiding had only been partially successful, Camilla having had a really bad time ignoring Lauren during the interviews and in front of the managers, trying to keep it as personal as possible. Their bandmates had been really helpful in this mission.
Lauren and Camilla waited outside the place for the other girls to arrive, although it felt awkward that they weren't there yet. Camilla hummed and danced on the spot while Lauren texted Normani, suddenly worried: "Are you guys all right? Where r u?" She got no immediate response, so she decided that the best they could do was wait outside the bus. Suddenly the door opened, scaring distracted Camilla.
"Girls, you are here! Perfect, come inside" The man who ordered this was a familiar face, but there were other two faces who they hadn't seen in their lives.
"Shouldn't we wait for the others?" Lauren said, shyly. At that exact moment, Lauren got a text and looked at her screen: "We're chillin' at a bar nearby. SUPER hot waiters, you two wanna come?"
The manager went on talking "There is something that we need to talk to you two about. Alone." There was nothing to worry about, they both knew their manager, but then they realized why they were being called alone. Camilla threw a worried look towards her girlfriend, looking more like a puppy than ever. This meeting could mean the end or the beginning, but both options being equally terrifying.