Lauren Young

Lauren, a character in the My Two First Loves series, is a student and cheerleader at Eastridge High. Although she is first mentioned in Chapter 2, she makes her first appearance in Chapter 3.

Appearance
Lauren has dark brown eyes, long dark brown hair, and fair-to-tan skin. She wears a dark green blouse, multi-stranded necklaces and rings, and matching green nail polish.

Personality
Lauren can be a catty person, often snipping at Main Character and other people she dislikes. She is an extremely talented cheerleader, but is known for being lazy and relying on her natural abilities rather than her work ethic. She is also quite flirtatious, though not always successful in her romantic pursuits.

My Two First Loves

 * Chapter 2: First Day of School (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: The Dangerous One
 * Chapter 4: The Cheer Squad
 * Chapter 7: Red-Handed
 * Chapter 17: The Slip
 * Chapter 18: Kiss Goodbye
 * Chapter 21: Empty Handed
 * Chapter 22: Trust Fall
 * Chapter 24: The Crown Jewel
 * Chapter 26: Behind Bars
 * Chapter 28: The Harris Boy
 * Chapter 30: Consequences
 * Chapter 33: Come Together, Fall Apart
 * Chapter 36: The Other Boy
 * Chapter 43: Losing Control
 * Chapter 46: New Tricks
 * Chapter 47: Overexposed (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 51: Option B (Determinant)
 * Chapter 53: Miss Movin' On
 * Chapter 54: Truth, Dare, or Consequences (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 55: Friends in Low Places
 * Chapter 58: Building Bridges
 * Chapter 59: Square One
 * Chapter 60: Slippery Slopes (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 68: Steamed Up (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 82: Nothing but the Truth
 * Chapter 83: Whatever It Takes
 * Chapter 87: The A Team
 * Chapter 90: Proving the Exception (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 91: The Defense Rests (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 99: Prom Night
 * Chapter 100: Back to the Future (Mentioned)

Adam and Todd
When Main Character sees Best Friend on their first day of school, she tells her what she had missed during summer vacation. According to her, Lauren --who is also part of the cheer squad-- switches between dating Adam and Todd. She is currently dating Adam but may go back to being single or dating Todd. This isn't brought up again, not even in Chapter 7, when Childhood Crush asks her about the last time someone has asked her out and she, as a result, (unsuccessfully) starts flirting with a waiter to prove that she can have anyone.

Best Friend
Best Friend mentions that during the summer, she and Lauren had gotten to know each other better. As Iris confirms, Lauren is interested in replacing Main Character as vice-captain of the cheer squad as well as Best Friend's new best friend. Best Friend says she has a lot of personal growth to do.

When Principal Jennings removes Best Friend from the cheer squad, he puts Lauren in charge as captain despite her not having earned the position. Because of this, Lauren scoffs and looks down at Best Friend, and tries to have the latter do menial tasks. Later, Best Friend overhears Lauren bragging to Toni and Iris about working on her tan rather than taking an exam. Best Friend takes this information to the school board meeting in an effort to prove Principal Jennings' corruption.

Main Character
In Chapter 3, when the girls notice Main Character talking to Bad Boy, she calls him "trash" and if Main Character says that he didn't seem like a hardened criminal, she will call her blissfully naive. She calls Main Character's brain dysfunctional because she doesn't know what happened with Bad Boy during their freshman year. If Main Character tells her that her mother died back then, she will angrily ask how she was supposed to know that. If Main Character instead says that it's none of her business, she will call Main Character out on her temper. Either way, after Best Friend backs Main Character up by telling Lauren to think before speaking, Lauren leaves.

In Chapter 18, a video of how Main Character and Childhood Crush accidentally kiss during the party game "Suck 'n Blow" is made and uploaded, leading to Best Friend angrily confronting the two about it. This, in turn, leads to Best Friend and Childhood Crush breaking up and Best Friend telling Main Character that she is done with her. Afterwards, Lauren comments with a smirk that "oops. I didn't think that video would go so... viral." This implies that she likely made and uploaded the video, and is confirmed to be true in a later premium scene.

In Chapter 21, she complains about Main Character being promoted to co-captain and asks the rest of the squad to back her, but everyone else disagrees with her. At the end of the chapter, she deliberately doesn't give Main Character a hand when Main Character climbs to the top of the pyramid even though Main Character clearly said beforehand that everyone should make sure that nobody falls. This results in Main Character losing her balance and falling. In the following chapter, after Main Character has reached the ground, twisting her arm and crying out, she is happy and states that "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." She tries to put the blame on Main Character, saying that she slipped because of her terrible depth perception, but Iris says she saw Lauren move her hand away. Main Character has the premium option to give her a piece of her mind or let it go.

In Chapter 59, she steals Main Character's camera out of her bag and threatens to drop it. She asks Main Character to beg her to give it back and even if she does, Lauren lets it fall and then deliberately stomps on it, destroying the camera and all photos saved within.

In Chapter 90, Best Friend tells Main Character about what she overheard in the girls' locker room regarding Lauren. That coupled with her acceptance to an Ivy League college seems suspicious to the group, so Best Friend suggests Main Character call Lauren to testify at the school board. If Main Character agrees, she interrogates Lauren who blurts out the truth before storming out. Principal Jennings counters with a sworn statement from Lauren's parents that they did not bribe him, and if the school board wishes to question Lauren, they will need to have their lawyer present. However, a photograph of Principal Jennings and Lauren's father in the football stadium bleachers proves Main Character and her friends' accusation of his character, and the school board dismisses the hearing in order to investigate further.

At Prom, Lauren blames the fallout on Main Character. Due to the scandal, Lauren's college acceptance has been rescinded and her parents face criminal charges. Lauren feels that Main Character owes her because the latter used Lauren to keep Bad Boy out of jail. Lauren wants Main Character to make sure she is crowned Prom Queen. However, if Main Character decides to rig the vote, she and her friends can crown herself, Best Friend, Iris, or Toni Prom Queen instead.

Trivia

 * She will share the same first name as Your Character (Save the Date) if the latter's default first name is kept.
 * Her last name is revealed in Chapter 36.
 * She shares the same surname as Hayden Young from the Perfect Match series and Roommate from Roommates with Benefits.
 * In Chapter 46, she mentions that she has been admitted early into Terman University, the same university Maria Flores and Aiden Zhou attend after high school, even though her GPA is only about 2.5.
 * In a premium scene of Chapter 90, it is confirmed that her parents paid Principal Jennings to help her get admitted into Terman.
 * She was on academic probation almost all of her junior year.
 * Though he has not appeared physically in the story, Lauren's dad appeared in a photo in Chapter 91, and he resembles Ronan from the America's Most Eligible series.
 * In Chapter 99, it is revealed that she won’t be going to College in the Fall and her parents are looking at criminal charges for bribing Jennings.