CHAPTER 1
Hey you, who is lodged in my eyes
and my mouth, why aren't you here?
The bed is complaining, the house calling...
Come see me soon...
"We have to watch The Ring." Maggie pointed, fingers wrapped around the neck of her bottle of beer. Kara was shaking her head, temporarily speech-impaired by the four potstickers she had stuffed in her mouth.
"The Ring is not that scary! Let's watch Anabelle Creation. Kids in horror movies always freak me out." Lena strolled down the movie list, cursor paused over the poster's thumbnail.
"Uhhhh, little kids and horror movies are the best!" Sam points out from her corner. Ruby is asleep on Kara's bed, as it always happens on Girls Night. Tonight, the weather is terrible, snowing heavily and nobody is going home until the following day. The fire in Kara's fireplace is crackling, everyone is warm and comfy and Lena's emotions are all over the place. Every day was getting harder and harder to pretend she didn't have feelings for her best friend.
"Go for it, Little Luthor." Maggie curled closer to her girlfriend, getting ready for 2 hours of being spooked by a bunch of little kids and a weird ass doll. Kara let out a muffled moan from her place on the floor, being the only one of the bunch who's actually scared by horror movies.
Lena, who's had previous experiences with Kara + horror movies moves quickly next to her best friend, resigning herself to a night of friendly, platonic cuddles that she loves but make her heart ache every time.
Five bowls of popcorn are popped mainly because Kara eats 3 just by herself, nervously shoving them in her mouth as the plot builds and she gets more and more scared. She's practically on Lena's lap now, face buried on the space between Lena's neck and shoulder during a particularly scary scene where the little girl, Janice, unlocks the door where the doll is sitting on a lonely chair, bible pages lining the walls.
Kara's heart is thumping madly, her fingers clutching Lena's sweatshirt while she peeks at the television with one eye. Janice has now got a white sheet and throws over the doll, limping around the room while in the background, Anabelle is getting up from the chair.
Lena cups the back of Kara's back when she moans as the sheet falls off and nobody is there. By the time the movie ends, Kara IS on Lena's lap, both CEO's arms around her, her head resting against Lena's very comfortable breasts. She had conked halfway through the movie, her head buried on Lena's shoulder with her eyes closed for so long she had eventually dozed off. On the couch, Alex and Maggie were flat out too, Sam not far behind, curled on the fluffy rug, wrapped on Eliza's knitted, thick throw blanket.
Lena is the only one actually awake. She's basking in the silence, on the perfect, Christmassy weather, on the feel of the person she loved most in the world on her lap. For those silent, incredible seconds, Lena could pretend she had a different life. She could pretend Kara was actually hers, that they were together and she was happy.
A lump made its way up her throat and she closed her eyes, lowering her nose down against Kara's hair and basking in her smell, lips touching her brow. She was ripped off her fantasy by a shake and a loud, sucking noise. When she looked up, Alex and Maggie were already up from the couch, staring up at the large blue vortex that was opened above the TV, in the middle of Kara's living room. Sam was staring kind of gobsmacked at it as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
In the meantime, Kara woke up just in time to see Alex come out of the portal.