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An Unfortunate Fortunate Coincident - Chapter Two

Camila’s POV

Pain. Pain. So much pain.

But pain is good. Because it means I’m alive. It means I’m real and whatever I’m doing right now matters.

So, I know I’m alive. I just don’t know why I can’t open my eyes. I can definitely feel all the pokes and pins of needles and peoples fingers. I can hear noises? Muffled but theres definitely something there.

I don’t quite remember what happened but considering the amount of pain I’m in, it had something to do with Nathan. Last thing I remember is me packing for Camden and I. On that note;  where is Camden? Is she safe?!

“Mami wake uuupp!” I feel a dip in my bed and my beautiful Daughters voice. I mentally sigh in relief (since I can’t actually do so).

“Cammie don’t do that. She’ll wake up soon but you can’t jump on her.” I hear a VERY familiar voice and mentally scream. 

“But Lolo I miss her!” I want to rip all these cords out hearing that name. 

“I know. Soon baby. Come on, lets go get some breakfast.” That amazing voice raspy voice speaks through the room and I swear I’m dying on the inside.

The door closes and the room is silent all besides the rapid beating of my heart. 

Lauren’s POV:

I can’t believe I actually took responsibility of taking care of my Ex-girlfriend’s daughter..

What was going through my mind when I said I was an old friend. Now I’m taking a 3 year old to get pancakes at 7 in the morning. Saying I’m exhausted is an understatement. I’m dead. 

“Lolo can we get biscuits too!” Camden that I now call Cammie asks and I smile and nod. “You’re the best!” I feel small arms wrap around my leg and I laugh. Shes just as hyper and happy as her mom.

“Lauren!” I turn around to see my partner Normani come into the restaurant. 

“Mani, thank god you’re here. You’re not going to believe whats happening.” I hug Normani and she sits in the booth across from me and Cammie.

“Well, I can guess. You have a what? 3-4 year old attached to your side and it happens to be the same girl that came from that awful call last night. So either, your kindness and caring personality went a little too far OR you knew who that was last night.” Normani speaks and I look at the 3 year old to my left that’s not listening but instead happily drawing in the color book I bought for her.

“The latter would be the one.” I sigh and turn back to Normani and shes just shaking her head.

“How well do you know her? Cause according to your face, you didn’t know she had a daughter but yet you know her enough to care and stay at the hospital with her child all night and possibly all day after your nonstop exhausting week.” 

“I knew her very well Mani.” I shake my head.

“What do you mean knew.” Normani asks confused. “WAIT, it can’t be that mystery girl that you always talked about, could it? The one that broke your heart?” She almost screams and jumps out of her seat.

“Mani! Keep it down.” I look around to see some people staring at us. “But yes. Mani, I haven’t seen her in what? 4 years! And now I manage to coincidentally get a call to her house with her abusive husband and her 3 year old child! Ask me if I’m freaking out because, guess what? I’m going fucking crazy” I whisper scream.

“Watch the language Jauregui! We have a child.” Normani scolds. “But oh my god Lauren. You are in quite deep with this. And now you’re taking care of her child while her father is in jail and her mother is unconscious in the hospital after having the heavens beat out of her.” 

“I know. I can’t believe she got married..To a man. To an abusive one too.  When I opened her shirt to check for internal bleedings she had scars and old bruises. How long was she being abused? God Mani. I feel horrible. I loved her and wanted the best for her and me. That’s why I told her to forget about me and move on. But now seeing as she moved on to an abusive almost death relationship I can’t help but feel a little guilty about that.” I vent and nearly let out a sob as a few stray tears roll down my face.

“Lauren! Stop that right now. None of this is your fault. I don’t know much about your past since you’re so reluctant to give it to me, but what I do know is that she was the one that decided to break up. She’s the one that got pregnant. She’s the one that got married to that man. None of this is your fault. Her being in the hospital right now is nothing more than her husband’s fault, who is hopefully going to rot in that cell.” Normani grabs my hands and I nod knowing she’s right but still feeling like shit about everything shes been through.

“I can’t believe 4 years ago we were hopelessly in love and now I just ripped a drunk guy off of her that almost killed her. God, I am never letting that bastard get near her again.” I seethe.

“Okay Lauren, you’re exhausted. Listen, I’ll take care of Camden for a few hours and you need to go get some rest. You’ve been up for a straight 25 hours” Normani pulls me up out of the booth and into her arms.

“Thank you Mani. I owe you everything.” I cry into her shoulder before saying goodbye to Cammie and leaving to take a good, well needed nap at my apartment. Luckily my apartment is only down the street because I think I might crash from exhaustion. 

I need to sleep. I need to think. So much has happened in the last 24 hours and all I can do is sleep before I go crazy. 

Camila. Child. Husband. Hospital. What is my life.

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The next morning I wake up and jump out of bed. I look at the clock to see its 8 am, meaning I slept all day and all night leaving Normani with Camden alone in a hospital. I hurry and take a quick shower before throwing on some black jeans, a sleeveless bob marley shirt, and a grey beanie. I bump into the table with my hip as I try and put on my shoes while hopping into the living room. “Shit” I hiss and right before I open the door to run out of my apartment, I see the most darling and startling sight. On the couch is a knocked out Normani with a sleeping Cammie on her chest. I nearly jump out of my skin when I see them but feel relieved that they got some sleep and that they are okay. I smile and walk over to them picking up Cammie gently and taking her to my bed tucking her in before I come back and lay a blanket over a peaceful Normani. Cammie must have been a handful. 

While they sleep I take the extra time to run down the street and grab some breakfast for all of us. I start making my way back to the apartment with two bags of food in my hands but I take a quick right and walk towards the hospital.

“Lauren? What are you doing here? You’re off shift.” My boss asks when I step into the hospital.

“I know. I’m just here to check on someone.” I say back.

“Is it that girl you brought in yesterday?” He asks and I nod. “Lauren, you know it’s a bad idea to check on patients that you cared for.” He says with a disapproving frown and I shake my head. 

“It’s- I’m not- It’s complicated.” I shrug and he raises his eyebrows.  “I know her personally.” I tell him and he gives me a sad look. 

“Oh, I’m so sorry.” He pats my back and I nod before saying a goodbye and walking back to her room. I walk up to the door and can already hear a few nurses chatting.

“I feel so bad for her. No one deserves this.” One nurse says behind the door.

“She seems like such a lovely girl. Did you hear that one of the first responders is taking care of her child now?” The second nurse says. Normani must of told the police about my close relations with Camila and got permission for me to keep Camden for the time being. I was going to tell them eventually but I’m glad Normani got it over with.

“No way!” The first nurse gasps and I figured I can’t keep standing behind this door eavesdropping so I open the door loudly and the two nurses snap their heads towards me, recognizing me immediately and shutting their mouths.  “Hello, Lauren” They both smile and I nod. They exit quietly and I set down the bags of food on the counter before taking the seat next to the bed.

“Hey” I say as I sit down. “You are probably pretty lonely, huh?” I ask before face palming for my stupidness. “I don’t know if you know or not but I have Camden. She’s safe. I’ll take good care of her while you’re out. Okay? I promise.” I say to the sleeping beauty in the big hospital bed.  “I talked to the doctors and they said that you could be out for a couple more hours to a couple of days. Good news is that you don’t have any bad bad brain damage like we thought you might. Your memory should be fine, which is great. Bad news is that you do have a little bit of swelling in your brain which will cause headaches and a slight speech problem. But that’s nothing compared to what we thought.” I smile before looking down to the white marble floors and finally speaking on my emotions about the situation.

“You looked like…god.  When I walked into that house and saw you…with him…and he was bea-“ I let out  a small sob. “Camila.” Another sob comes out and I put my head in my hands. “I couldn’t believe it was you.” I looked up at her bruised and swollen face. “I never imagined that you could ever be treated like that. You’re such a bright ball of sunshine that was always cracking dumb jokes and laughing,  I can’t believe someone could ever hurt you.” I grabbed her hand and squeezed it. “I’ve missed you so much. I never once forgot you and I’ve been wishing for the day that we’d see each other again to come. But god Camila, I never thought this is how I’d find you.” I let sobs wrack my body until I’m gasping for air and left emotionally exhausted. I sit there for what feels like forever before I get up, place a small kiss on her forehead and walk out of the hospital with the now cold breakfast in my hands and dried tears on my cheeks.

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Chapter One