Chapter 10

Laura's P.O.V

I had rung my father to tell him I was staying over at work and after I had an earful about it, he told me he loved me and then passed his home nurse on the phone, who told me the latest of his condition and said he was improving, but still needed a lot of money for surgery, more money than we had, a lot more. After that, I put Rosemary and Alice to bed, after showing them leaflets of the museum I was taking them to tomorrow, it was an art museum and I had been waiting to go forever. I was so exciting to spend time with Carmilla and maybe we could hold hands and enjoy art and I could show Rosemary and Alice my favourite artists! It was true what Perry and Lafontaine had been winding me up about all last night, I had a big crush on Carmilla, the way boys used to have crushes on me. When I see her my stomach flips, and my heart stops beating and my head start to fuzz and, well, I'd never ever thought I would feel this way for her, but I have and I plan to tell her tonight. After she gets back from her date, which has been taking a lot more time than I thought it would. I have been sitting in her room, flipping through the books on her shelf. Mrs Karnstein thinks I'm staying in the room she laid out for me, but that room is cold and bare and doesn't have Carmilla in it. Plus, I was still vary wary of Will, and even though I've tried to ask Carmilla about it, she says that Will was insane and had a liking for biting women and that he wasn't what I said he was, and that she had got rid of him, and I trust her.

Laura had been waiting a little over two hours when Carmilla came through the door, a smile on her face and jumped back when she saw me on her bed. "Oh, hey Laura, have you been waiting for me?" I looked down and noticed a rose in her hand

"Yes, you said you wanted me to stay over" I frowned, she couldn't forget "How was your date?"

"Surprisingly good! He was super cool, and we talked about things I liked talking about, and there was no talk of marriage the whole time, he even said he wasn't fond of the idea either" As she fell backwards onto her bed, I felt my heart drop down to my shoes.

"Good" I smiled, casting my eyes to the floor "That's really good" Of course this is happening, of course she actually likes him, of course. I want to hit myself for thinking I could be anything more to her. There was silence for a while, as she went to her bathroom and changed out of her dress and into her pyjamas. When she returned she bounced onto the bed and sat down, taking my hands in hers and looking down to me.

"Are you mad at me for being late?" She pouted, tilting her head to the side and I shook my head

"No, of course not, I was the one that wanted you to go in the first place" And I tried to look happy, but I could tell my eyes were filling up

"Laura, please tell me what's wrong" She moved herself closer to me and squeezed my hands tighter "I'm...I'm sorry I tried to kiss you in the wardrobe, I don't know what I was thinking"

"No, no! That's definitely not the problem" I blurted out and could feel my cheeks getting hotter and hotter "Nothing is the matter, I simply miss my dad"

"Oh" Carmilla blinked "Well, if you'd like we can do something to take your mind off home?"

"Well...I have an idea" I grinned at her and she raised an eyebrow "Can we please go and see a movie?!"

"Oh" She repeated, before bursting into laughter, for reasons I'm unsure of "Sure, let's do it"

"We'll have to sneak out though, and I've never done that before, and since I'm kind of petrified of your mother, this will be ten times harder"

"Don't worry, I've been sneaking out for years" Carmilla winked, before going into her closet and throwing me a cute pink tea dress and grabbing a black one out for herself and after putting them on, Carmilla grabbed my hand and then grabbed her purse and pulled me through the corridor, and we escaped out of a small window that led out onto the small roof and Carmilla jumped down and then it was my turn. I knew I was only a little way away from the ground, so I closed my eyes and jumped and Carmilla caught me in her surprisingly strong arms, assisting me down to the floor. "Good jump"

Carmilla insisted that she knew her way, and when I got tired she pulled me up on her back and carried me the rest of the way, when we reached the theatre despite insisting we watch 'singing in the rain', Carmilla begged to watch the 'werewolf of London' and as much as I hated horror movies, and even if it was my first ever trip to the theatre, If Carmilla was happy, I suppose I was too. And she said that next time we come, we can watch that and I liked that promise.

We sat down by the back and because we were already late, the movie had started so everyone was telling us to be quiet as we giggled over trying to see in the dark. About an hour into the movie, I was screaming and cowering into Carmilla who was just laughing at me every time I jumped from the horrible sights that were on the screen. "I don't think I like the theatre" I whispered into Carmilla's hair as I was practically sitting on her knee so the horrible werewolf on screen wouldn't get me and she looked down at me, a slight frown on her face before she carefully brought my face up to hers and placed a kiss on my lips, it was soft and gentle and made my mind explode and fireworks set off inside my body. "Liking them a little more now" I giggled and a smile spread across her face

"I've seen this plenty of times, let's go watch your movie" Carmilla grinned and I practically exploded out of my seat, grabbing her hand and running out of the room into screen number 2, just in time to hear the first music number. Throughout the film, I could see Carmilla's eyes rolling, and hear her mumble under her breath, but most of the time she wasn't looking at the screen, she was looking at me and smiling.