chapter ideas:

• normani’s birthday

• valentine’s day

• girls getting accepted to colleges

• christmas party

• dinah and lauren’s friendship (beginning to when they met the others)

  • dinah and lauren meeting

  • them talking about the future (lauren’s tattoo, nose piercing, their 40 year plan, dinah coming out to lauren and lauren coming out to dinah)

• camila’s career

  • camila checks out her youtube over the summer and sees her video got a good amount of views and comments

  • camila rids her instagram of everything after their breakup and looks toward a fresh start

  • camila keeps singing on her youtube and gets a following

  • shawn decides to drop out and pursue music because he got a deal (camila supports it but hates it)

  • camila gets a record deal but decides to wait on it so she can graduate

  • one of camila's covers gets shouted out by taylor swift

  • camila graduates and releases her album on january 12th 2017/23 (she's advised to not come out by her label)

  • camila meets normani in nyc sometime before her label comes out but after havana comes out

• lauren and normani in nyc

  • lauren getting her nose pierced and tattoo (include her bitching about her neck hurting and mani’s like i don’t want to hear about your time in the bedroom)

  • normani and lauren find an apartment

  • normani watches lauren and camila become distant

  • normani rips lauren off the couch after her breakup and takes her out of the apartment

  • lauren and normani hear havana at a bar

  • normani tells lauren about running into camila in nyc

  • lauren and camila get back together

  • normani and lauren discuss moving back to miami after graduation

• camila and lauren’s relationship

  • camila and lauren talk about lauren going to nyc

  • lauren leaving for nyc

  • celebrating their one year over facetime

  • lauren hanging out with normani and ignoring camila's texting her

  • they decide to break up (october)

  • havana comes out

  • camila's album release (signing tour) and seeing lauren again

  • camila and lauren being friends again but not getting together

• dinah in california

  • dinah moves to lucy’s apartment

  • she dorms with zendaya

1. where “love is in the air”

   1. dinah and normani hang out at the mall

   2. dinah talks to lucy

   3. camila and lauren have a valentine’s date of pizza and movies

   4. group chat texting

2. where there’s mistletoe

   1. camila and lauren hang out at camila’s

   2. norminah fight over how to host

   3. they host the party

   4. normani and dinah get drunk and kiss

3. where dinah and lauren become friends

   1. dinah and lauren meeting

   2. lauren has her first kiss

   3. graduating middle school

   4. dinah comes out to lauren

   5. lauren comes out to dinah

   6. dinah and lauren talk about their futures

   7. dinah loses her virginity

   8. dinah and lauren have sex

4. where laurminah get accepted

   1. dinah lauren and normani get accepted into nyu

   2. dinah gets accepted to ucla (doesn’t tell anyone)

   3. lauren tells camila

   4. dinah writes her letter to lauren (the day before she goes to lauren’s to sleep over the last time)

5. where dinah’s gone

   1. normani calls lauren and camila over

   2. camila goes home and sees the koala on her bed and loses it

   3. lauren refuses to open her letter and leaves it on her nightstand

   4. normani goes up to dinah’s room after a couple of days and pokes around, eventually finding dinah’s beyonce hoodie and the black shirt that normani stole all the time / ally comes in after to comfort her

6. where lauren turns eighteen

7. where they’re in new york

concept for the sequel:

dinah leaves florida and moves to california

normani and lauren go to nyu

- lauren majors in pre law

- normani majors in fashion design

camila and lauren break up some point in camila’s senior year

camila works on her music and posts it online, eventually she gets picked up by a label

2022, camila works with a label and by the end of the next year she has it produced and she picks up enough traction for a debut at number one

camila and lauren get back together two months before camila’s album releases

normani picks up modeling gigs and gets some fame because of that, which only amplifies as she picks up better gigs. she stays in school, though and gets her degree

dinah hears camila’s song on the radio at some point in 2023 and looks her up

dinah finishes school and moves back to miami, somewhere along the line she decides to visit clara

lauren and camila move in together in new york but move back after lauren’s done with pre law and finishes her degree in miami

possibly a conversation with camila and dinah and dinah talks about camila’s fandom

ideas:

• dinah and mani have angry sex before they figure everything out ✅

• lauren goes to the er with normani because she cut herself while making food and dinah treats her ✅

• camila goes back to la ✅

• lauren goes back to nyc for school ✅

• michael meets seth at soccer and dinah runs into one of her siblings

• lauren doesn’t want to be a lawyer anymore and goes through a depressive episode ✅

• normani and dinah have a conversation about church (dinah’s absence of faith and normani’s adoration of church) ✅

• camila goes home after fighting with lauren and she and normani get drunk

  • “she’s a bitch” “don’t say that” “but she is. she made me fall in love with her. again. just to rip my heart out in pieces. again. she’s a bitch. but i love her. that’s not fair. why does she have to be so pretty?”

  • “why does she do this?” “do what?” “get drunk! this sucks. everything feels heavy and my head hurts and everything’s spinning. it’s not fun.”

  • camila ends up regretting it and is glad they stayed in and got drunk instead of in public bc she totally would’ve outed herself go mila

• dinah proposes to normani in the moment

• lauren comes home from new york and finds the ring on the counter ✅

• "oh my god, you are not meeting my son with that fucking hickey on your neck"

• open 65 w something about nala

main events (rest of book)

p3:

dinah - seeing her mom again

lauren - stopping drinking and getting back on track

camila - helping lauren out and tour

normani - being officially with dinah

p4:

P4 BEGINS WITH CAMILA BEING OUTED

dinah - getting engaged

lauren - graduating law school

camila - coming out

normani - getting engaged