Lauren

She gasped in my ear as I whispered bad things to her. Heat was radiating off of her body as she arched her back, begging for me to touch her.

"You're so pretty under me like that, baby," I groaned as my hands trailed down her abs to her thighs.

She was shaking under me, whimpering and whispering to me. Her body spoke a different language and I was the only one who knew all the dialect perfectly.

"Please, Laur. I need you,"

"Say less, Darling. You're mine tonight,"

I kissed her with passion, her hands instantly finding their way into my hair, pulling and prodding, teasing me into doing what she wanted.

I stopped my attack on her lips and started to kiss her soft breasts, kneeding the one I wasn't paying as much attention to.

"Only for tonight?" She whispered to me, moaning at the contact.

"Forever,"

....

"Who was that, Lauren?" Camila said, hands on her hips and waiting for a response. I rolled my eyes and walked past them to the refrigerator.

"Laur, seriously. Who was that?" Ally asked me, more calmly than Mila.

"She's Talia. My CFO and COO," I responded cooly, taking a drink from a beer I opened last night.

"Lauren, are you forgetting about David? Your husband of six years?" Camila asked, snatching the beer away from me and pouring it down the sink.

They're all acting like they liked David. All of them had protests when we first started dating, and even more when I announced our engagement.

But it's not like I was doing anything wrong, anyway. David was off with whoever the fuck, and I was finding out all the shit he'd been hiding from me with someone who seriously cared about me.

"No, Mila. I didn't forget my cheating, money stealing, rapist husband. He's been on my mind for the past forty-eight life changing fucking hours," I snapped.

The girls instantly went to me and threw their arms around me.

"Girl, you have to fill us in now,"

I sighed and walked them all over to the living room couch.

"Well, it all started when he wasn't here to greet me after our trip. I couldn't call his phone, so I went to the office and met Talia. She got me through to him and when I got off the phone with him, I was pissed so I started doing some digging with her. Turns out there's a company card and he gave it to some other bitch.

He's been spending half a million a week on some fucking hoe. Not only that, but I just found out he tried to rape Talia and that's why she was promoted so quickly. We're not even done finding things yet, we've only just started,"

Dinah raised her hand, "But that doesn't explain why you were locking lips with Miss Superhero,"

I rolled my eyes, "There's nothing to explain. It's exactly what it looks like. I was about to kiss her and you decided to interrupt so now I have to wait until tomorrow,"

I was really disappointed that I didn't get to kiss her. Now that I officially know that she likes me too, there's no turning back.

"So what are you going to do about David's position?" Normani asked me, sitting cross legged on the floor.

"I'm giving it to Talia. She deserves it way more than he ever did,"

"I just want to take a minute and let you know I'm proud of how far you've come, Lo," Dinah told me, "You started Hotwire with twenty dollars and an Instagram post, now you own a multi-billion dollar business and you're getting rid of that douche. Which, by the way, we need to celebrate,"

Ally nodded her head, "Hell yeah we do,"

"How?" I asked, "All I have is beer and weed,"

Dinah and Normani looked each other in the eye. At the same time, they turned toward me.

"Burn his shit,"

....

Talia

Me: I miss you already.

Message erased

Me: Your friends didn't give you too much trouble, did they?

I set my phone down and closed my eyes. Everything was peaceful and quiet for a few moments. The only person I could think of was Lauren.

I didn't know if she wanted that to be a one time only deal or if she wanted it to continue. I hope she wanted it to continue.

I was sort of addicted to her already. I smiled thinking about her.

A loud bark interrupted my thoughts and I was brought back to reality.

"Oh, shit. I'm coming, Bruno!"

....

Lauren

"You'd think PlayStation would burn better," I mumbled under my breath as I continued to squirt lighter fluid on the things the girls were bringing out.

David's PlayStation, computer and some of his clothes were currently burning in the middle of my yard. I was a little surprised the neighbors didn't call the fire department already, but the longer I got to burn his shit, the better.

"What about this?" Normani asked, holding up David's personal cell phone.

That bastard didn't answer my calls because he didn't bring his personal phone that he begged me to let him have.

I was about to let them throw it in the fire, but I quickly decided against it.

"Wait, let me see that," I said as I grabbed it and double tapped the screen.

"Do you know the password?" Dinah asked, blowtorch in hand and looking over my shoulder.

"No," I muttered as I shoved it in my back pocket, "When we unlock his office tomorrow, I'll see if I can find it,"

"Can we come?" One of them asked me.

"Yeah, I don't see why not. Plus, Normani, I kinda promised Talia you'd take a photoshoot and interview for this month's issue," I admitted, hoping she wouldn't be upset.

Normani chucked a pair of Gucci Slides in the fire.

"It's no big deal, I had nothing else to do anyways,"

We sat at the fire for a few hours, drinking and laughing about the stupid shit we were about to do tomorrow.

Talia got brought up a few times, but not for long. I think they knew that we'd started something good together and they didn't want to get in the middle of it.

I sipped the last few drops of my beer and threw it in the fire along with the other shit. Grabbing my phone, I quickly typed in the password.

Lee: Your friends didn't give you too much trouble, did they?

Me: No, they were just surprised, that's all. I'm glad it happened like it did though.

Me: I'm low-key upset we didn't get to finish our kiss though.

Lee: There are plently more where that came from. Sleep tight beautiful :)

Me: Good night honey

"Aw, Lauren! You guys are so cute!" Dinah squealed as she grabbed my phone from my hands.

"Dinah Jane, give that back right now!"

Dinah kept laughing and started to run toward the house with it.

I followed her through the hallways, frantically waving my arms around while the other girls watched in amusement.

"Lauren, are you gonna-" Dinah paused, staring at the floor in the garage. I smiled in victory and grabbed it from her hand.

"Ha, now I have it back, Dinah," I bragged, "Dinah?"

I looked to where she was staying at the floor. There was my cat, sprawled out and mouth wide open.

"Cleo!" I sobbed, quickly gathering the dead cat into my arms. Her white furr was falling off in tufts between my fingertips. It felt and smelled like she died days ago.

"Put her down, Laur. It's okay," Ally said, grabbing the limp animal from my grasp and setting her back down on the ground, "Let's go wash our hands, hun,"

Ally turned behind me and whispered something to Camila, who nodded and picked up my phone from the ground.

David didn't feed her while I was gone.

....

Talia

Lauren: Hey, this is Camila, Lauren's friend.. We just found her cat dead and can't calm her down, can you come over?

I paused my game and slipped my headset off. Lauren mentioned her cat a few times in conversation. I knew it was given to her as a present, so she must've been heartbroken.

Me: I'll be there in less than twenty minutes.

I shut off the console and put a pair of sweatpants on, not caring about my hair or night shirt. I figured I would be spending the night there, so I grabbed everything I needed for work and turned the lights off in my room.

Bruno ran around the apartment, jumping on furniture and knocking over his food bowls. Lauren might like his company too, I thought as I went in the closet and found his harness and leash. He hadn't been out of the apartment in about a week anyway, courtesy of me being tired and over worked.

In about five minutes, Bruno was hopping around in the backseat and I was making my way towards Lauren's house, where I'd only been to once and already remembered the address.

"Good boy," I mumbled when he finally calmed down. It was probably the music.

When I got to her house, I didn't bother grabbing my stuff. I just leashed Bruno and made my way over to the door. Standing there awkwardly, I knocked three times and there was no respose. Deciding against my better judgment, I walked in to see a group of girls huddled over my Lauren.

"Laur?" I called, letting Bruno run loose. She looked up at me, her nose and eyes red from crying.

"Come here, honey," I motioned, walking over to her with open arms. She ran to me, tightly squeezing me and sobbing into my neck.

I whispered sweet nothings in her ear and slowly smoothed her hair. The girls kept smiling for some reason, probably laughing at me for not knowing how to handle sad Lauren in the best way.

"It's okay, Laur. She's in a better place now,"

After about an hour of her crying, she finally calmed down and passed out while I was holding her. I set her down on the couch, covering her up with my jacket.

"Where's the cat?" I asked them, not knowing any of their names on the top of my head. One of them looked familiar, but I was never the best at putting names to faces.

"She's in the garage," The tall one said, ready to show me the way. I noticed that they all dressed sort of the same, just different variation.

She showed me the way to the cat. When I got to the garage, it reaked of rotted meat and flesh. I gagged a little before looking around for something to put her in without making Lauren upset.

"Um, Talia.. What are you looking for?" The tall one asked me. I was surprised she knew my name.

"A box of some sort. I dunno, I guess I just thought I'd put it in there and bury it so Lauren can kind of have a funeral for it- her, I mean- tomorrow when we get back from work,"

She nodded and got stepped down off of the steps, searching through the cramped space with me.

"My name is Dinah, by the way," She said, fumbling with something behind me, "I think you're good for her. She needed you more than she realized. Now don't go and tell her I said that, but you should know that she already really likes you,"

"Oh, yeah?" I prodded, "On the low, do you think she's going to leave him for me?"

Dinah laughed lightly and dropped a few tools on the floor, "Duh, you should know that. It's not my place to say, but she obviously has feelings for you. I mean, who knows a person for two days and is comfortable with them like she is with you? Literally no one,"

I finally found a shoe box we could put the cat in and tossed it to Dinah. She caught it with ease and flipped it over, wiping the dust off the lid.

"Thank you, for that. I guess I was a little worried she would decide she was still in love with Mr. Peters,"

"Girl, what? She hasn't been in love with that ballsack for years,"

Dinah opened the box as I carefully set the cat in, studying it for a few moments before shutting the lid.

"Wait!" I said, quickly reaching my hands back in the box and taking of the cat's collar, "She might want this. To remember her by, I mean,"

"What should we do with this?" Dinah asked me.

"Well, you can go to sleep. It's like one in the morning," I took the box from her hands gently, "And I'll bury this so we can have a funeral type of thing tomorrow,"

....

Lauren

"Lee?"

"No, it's Mila," The girl paused and sat on the edge of the couch where I was sleeping, "I just wanted to tell you that we're here for you,"

I sighed and felt a small tear roll down my cheek.

"I know, Cam. Thank you,"

....

Hey all! This the longest chapter. A little sad, but the longest.

I hope you all enjoyed it, tell me what you thought and tell me your predictions!

Sleep good tonight!