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Camilla Cortes’ POV

“Baby, I’m preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive, just like animals, animals, animals…”

I jumped out of bed when I heard my best friend, Alex, singing off-key. I got up, rubbing my eyes in an attempt to rid them of the blurriness from being awoken too early. I walked down the stairs of our three-bedroom apartment to find Alex singing her heart out while making pancakes. Usually, I would laugh my ass off at her for trying to sing, but I felt this needed special attention.

I quickly snuck back to my room and grabbed my phone. Coming back down the stairs, I hid behind a wall and recorded Alex with my phone. It was hard not to laugh while I recorded her.

Alex was a blonde-haired beauty with blue eyes and pink lips. She was around 5’7”, a whole inch taller than me. Most people thought blondes were dumb airheads who had no idea what was happening around them, but Alex wasn’t like that. If anything, she was the most intelligent and diligent person that I’d ever met.

She always puts others before herself and was really funny when she wanted to be, of course. I watched her as she jumped around to the bass in Nicki Minaj’s hit “Only.” Did I forget to mention that she loves to rap? She knows all of the latest rap hits as if they were her symphony.

I couldn’t help it this time, so I did the unthinkable. I laughed. I laughed so loud that Alex jumped and turned around, surprised to find me standing there. I quickly hid my phone and shuffled my feet nervously.

“Morning,” I mumbled to her, shifting from side to side.

“Hey,” she smiled brightly at me, a little too brightly.

“Did I wake you?” she asked, piling pancakes on a plate before handing it to me.

“No, I woke up all by myself,” I said, annoyed with that fact.

“Well, humans tend to do that.” She smiled; her sarcasm was not lost on me.

We stared at each other for a good few seconds before we both burst out laughing.

“What’s the plan for today?” she asked me while sipping a cup of coffee.

“I don’t know. What’d you have in mind?”

“I’m not sure…it’s 7 now, so you tell me.”

“What?!” I gasped, grabbing my phone to check the time, and just like Alex said, it was seven o’clock.

“Oh crap,” I groaned, stuffing a pancake in my mouth before running up the stairs and straight to my room.

I headed straight for my closet and started to go through all the clothes I had. I threw them on the bed one after the other. I didn’t even notice when Alex came into the room.

“Hey, are you—” I cut her off when I accidentally threw a black jacket in her face.

“Well,” she said as she took the jacket from her face, “that answers that question.”

“Lo Siento mucho pero…”

“Woah, hold up,” she said, her hands in the air as if to stop my words, “Deep breaths.” She pulled me to sit in a chair that was in the room.

“In,” I followed her instructions taking in a deep breath.

“Out,” I exhaled slowly. That was pretty relaxing.

“Now tell me, Mama, what’s wrong?”

I took a deep breath before I spoke. “Remember that interview I have to be the assistant to the CEO of Williams Corp.”

“I remember.”

“Well…it’s today at 9 am, and I’m not ready yet…I didn’t even remember until you mentioned the time,” I rushed the words, starting to freak out.