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i. weaknesses combined, her first words

They meet through mutual friends.

Normani says 'Mila is so great', says that 'she has a unique sense of humor not everyone gets', says 'it's staggering amazing when she talks about stuff that matters to her because she's always smiling and joking and being a dork but whenever someone asks her a question--that may not even be too serious--she gets all concentrated and she's fucking amazing, Lauren'.

Dinah simply says to Camila, who's standing in front of her on the couch 'you'll like her as soon as you see her'.

Camila tries to reason with her, though. Saying Dinah is her best friend and she should know that she doesn't care only about appearances.

Dinah looks up from her phone and smirks, muttering 'just trust me' so quietly that Camila has to stay still for a while, trying to figure out what she said.

They meet through mutual friends, on a bowling place. Expect it's not only a bowling place, it's also a bar with karaoke and pool tables.

Camila doesn't exactly know what's going on with her but she definitely can say it is good.

She's been with her family on a barbecue and her cousins were all there because of a Holiday. She's not this happy because she drank but because her day so far has been filled with what she absolutely loves.

Laughter. Family. Food.

And when she gets to the bowling place--The Puzzles--things just get better.

She sits beside Normani and across from Dinah and she's just so happy because she's never really had friends that were this delightful and wonderful to be around.

Or just delightful and wonderful at all.

Camila doesn't quite know--except she does, because when she's really happy she hardly filters herself--what makes her legs move to the stage and perform a song but when her brain catches up to where she's going, there is no turning back.

She grabs the guitar that was placed on stage and adjusts the microphone in front of her.

Normani and Dinah are looking at her like she's not being herself (she for real is so fucking shy) so Camila smiles at them.

She sings Scars To Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara and she absolutely rocks it--according to Normani and Dinah, anyway.

Camila believes she could've done better.

Lauren gets there when Camila is on the bar getting them something to drink.

"That voice was absolutely fucking stunning. Who is she?"

Normani and Dinah jump a little on their seats as Lauren seats beside Dinah.

"Fuck, don't do that again." Dinah exhales.

"Who was singing?" Lauren asks, too eager for her liking.

"Um, that would be me," Camila says as she places the drinks on the table.

She looks at the stranger only when she sits down; tries as best as she can to contain her jaw from dropping and make a fool of herself in front of the most beautiful green eyes she's ever seen.

"Mila meet Lo." Normani says with a smile that only Normani could give.

Normani nudges Dinah with her foot when everything gets silent for barely a second.

"Lauser meet Camila." Dinah says with such pride and a smug smirk because she knows she was right.

Lauren has an air; something that pulls people in, draws their attention upon first meeting.

Then, Lauren says something.

And Camila could kiss her, right there and then.

"A beautiful voice and a beautiful face? My two weaknesses combined."

But she doesn't because although she's fucking beaming right now, she manages to filter herself on this.