The reader and the talker.
Disclaimers: I do not own any of the rights to the characters from Carmilla.
Personal note: woke up this morning by almost all my chapters deleted so I had ro repost them. Hope I don't confuse to many of you, i wish i knew what happened to them but i don't, might be a prank by my idiotic brother or something :/
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Chapter 3:
"Oh my god! It's you, the girl who kept reading the vampire books" Laura said in disbelief as she pointed at Carmilla with raised eyebrows.
"And you're the rude store clerk." Carmilla said as she raised her perfect eyebrow at the shorter girl.
"Well, I didn't find myself rude actually and- whatever!" She shock her head quickly before continuing. "Im genuinely sorry about your shirt and… leather pants, can I get you some napkins or something?"
"No, you've done enough" Carmilla told her in a stern tone before walking past the shorter blond.
"Why are you so rude all the time?!" Laura uttered in frustration, her knuckles going white from fisting her hands together. "I'm just trying to be nice! At least let me buy you another beer, I made you spill half of it!" Carmilla turned around and looked her right in the eyes. Laura suddenly felt intimidated by the taller girl whom's dark orbs glared right into hers.
"Fine, I do need more beer." Carmilla agreed.
"See, at least we can agree on something!" Laura said enthusiastically with a grin on her face, which was answered by a growl from Carmillas part. "Baby steps…" Laura added with a nervous laugh.
They finally made it to the bar, however both Kirsch and the other bartender were busy helping other customers.
"So… it's a nice bar." Laura said after a while of awkward silence.
"Yup." Carmilla answered uninterestedly without looking at the talkative blond, too busy wiping the drink from her clothes with some napkins she found by the bar.
"Have you been going here a lot?"
"Do you always talk this much?" Carmilla asked in irritation. Laura eyes went wide in shock, who was this girl and why was she so rude all the fudging time?! "Fine, I'll be quite."
"Finally." Carmilla said with a sigh.
Once again the pair were filled with an awkward silence, or rather Laura found it awkward. She wasn't used to not talking. She always talked, always spoke her mind and never had anyone seemed to be annoyed by that. Or if they were they certainly didn't tell it to her face. The blond started to sip from her drink in silence, hoping that one of the bartenders would attend them soon. The raven haired girl on the other hand, seemed to be enjoying the newly found quietness between the two and let her elbows rest on the bar while she looked around aimlessly.
"Hey sexy la- I mean Carmilla. EY, little nerd! I mean Laura, sorry I'll never get used to that." Kirsch said with a big grin on his face.
"You know him?!" They both asked simultaneously as they looked at each other in shock and confusion.
Kirsch on the other hand, didn't seem to capture the girls confusion and proceeded with his job. "So what will it be little nerd?"
"A beer please" Laura answered with a polite nod.
"Coming right up!"
Laura could feel the taller girl's eyes on her, boring into her with wonder. But Laura, being the stubborn girl as she was, would not be the first to ask how she knew Kirsch even though she was intrigued. The woman next to her had been rude too many times and latest asked her to basically "shut up", no way she was spilling the beans.
"Well, while we wait I might as well ask. How do you know Kirsch?" Carmilla said and for the first time since Laura had met the raven haired girl, she actually sounded interested.
"Didn't you just tell me to "not talk so much?"." Laura finger quoted in irritation and to her surprise the taller girl chuckled.
"Well, yes that is correct. But it seems like we finally have something in common so might as well ask while we are both waiting." Carmilla answered simply with a shrug of her shoulders.
Laura squinted her eyes at Carmilla, wondering if she was genuinely interested or it was yet one of her games. But the mysterious girl next to her seemed intrigued and Laura wasn't one to pass a conversation. "Ergh fine!" She huffed, the taller girl smirked in victory. "We met in college actually, he was in my Lit class and being the muscles with no brain guy as he is, he was struggling to keep up. So, I offered to help him in exchange of me being invited to their frat parties."
"A girl who knows how to bargain, I like that." Carmilla said with a smirk on her lips before adding "It's such a small world we live in, we always tend to believe it's such a huge planet with so many possibilities and yet, here we are." She took a long glance at her red wine before taking a sip.
"Why do you say that?"
"Well, I'm assuming you went to Silas University. That's were my brother went and that how I know Kirsch."
"Here you go ladies, one beer!" Kirsch interrupted the two women. Laura quickly grabbed some cash and handed it to the bartender and he was off.
"Wait, you're brother went to Silas University? What's his name?" Laura asked hurriedly, not wanting the conversation to end just yet.
"Will" Carmilla stated simply. She had been ready to leave right after receiving the beer, but there was something holding her back, the bubbly girl, aside from her awkwardness, was actually quite interesting. She quickly shoved that thought out of her head, it must be the wine Carmilla thought after a moment.
"Oh, I defiantly know of him but we never talked you know? He was a Zeta, I on the other hand… well I was "The little nerd"." Laura chuckled nervously as she brushed her fallen fringe out of her face.
"Right" Carmilla replied with a small smile on her lips. She looked closely into Laura's eyes, something about them pulled her in, maybe it was the colour. Deep brown green eyes wasn't something you ran into everyday and Carmilla always believed that the eyes was the opening to ones soul. Laura on the other hand was having a small freak out. Why is she looking at me like that, do I have something on my face? What's going on.
But she couldn't help but look deep into the mysterious girls chocolate eyes.
Laura quickly and awkwardly broke the eye-contact, the tension getting to big for her. Carmilla quickly looked anywhere but at the smaller girl and cleared her throat.
"I.. I should get back to my table, but it was nice talking to you! See you aren't as rude as you make yourself to be! Baby steps!" Laura said enthusiastically as she swung her arm up, making Carmilla chuckle at the younger girl.
"Yea, whatever. Bye cream puff." She said and walked by her with both drinks in her hands.
"Creampuff?" Laura mimicked in confusion but realised that the mysterious girl was already long gone.
The blond walked back to her table and was greeted by her friends who grinned widely at seeing her return.
"Where have you been? You've been gone for an awfully long time Laura." Perry stated as she looked at her worriedly.
"I accidentally ran into someone and bumped my drink into them, so being the nice lady as I am I offered them a new beer, seeing that I accidentally made them spill almost all of it." She replied with an eye roll meant at her own unsmoothness.
"Always the clumsy one" LaFontaine said with a chuckle before taking a sip of her beer and continuing her conversation with Perry. However, Laura was up in the clouds, wondering who this mysterious girl was. One second you could actually have a normal conversation with her and the next she was the rudest, most annoying person on the planet. Laura was gifted with social skills, maybe not on the talking part because to be fair she was the queen of awkward. However, she always seemed to be able to figure people out. But not her.
The evening was over before it began and it was time to head home, the bar was emptying fast and people where stumbling out one after the other, clearly intoxicated by the amount of alcohol they had consumed earlier during the night.
"I'm just gonna go to the bathroom real quick before we leave." Laura said as LaFontaine and Perry were putting on their jackets.
"Okay, see you outside!" Perry said with a cat like grin on her face as she turned around and started wobbling out of the bar. She clearly hadn't mastered handling her alcohol yet, which was quite funny seeing the fact that sober, she was even more of a control freak than Laura.
Laura started walking to the bathroom but before she could get anywhere the felt a hand grab her arm.
"Hey, are you alright? You've seemed kinda off the whole night." LaFontaine looked at her worriedly with her piercing blue eyes.
"Yea, I'm fine. I'm just a bit tired that's all." Laura answered with a warm smile.
"Okay, good. You got me worried there for a second. Not often you're so quite." She replied with a chuckle. "Anyway I better head out and get Perry before she gets lost or Darwin knows what else!"
"Good luck, I'll be right back!" And she hurried off.
As she turned the corner to the bathroom she bumped into someone who was walking out.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-!" Laura quickly apologised before realising who it was she had bumped into.
"Well Cupcake, two times in one night. Might it be faith?" Carmilla answered with a smirk.
"Oh, hi! I'm sorry, even for me two times in one night? Thats a new record." She answered as a blush crept up on her cheeks. The mysterious girl smirked at her even more, the little blond was more entertaining than she had originally thought.
After a short pause, Laura tried saving the awkward situation she's been put in.
"So, did you have a good night?"
"Well, the night is only beginning. But yea, it was alright." Carmilla answered as she rose one of her perfectly shaped eyebrows. "What about yours?"
"It was nice, a lot of talking, drinking and catching up." Laura answered hurriedly, feeling her cheeks burning from the intense stare the older girl was giving her.
"I bet" She couldn't help but chuckle, the girl in front of her was just too adorable. "What did you say your name was again?" She questioned as she tilted her head slightly to the side.
"I didn't say it, not because I didn't want to but because you didn't ask or it didn't come up… I'm Laura." It felt like all the air from her lungs had disappeared and suddenly everything she said had to come out as quickly as possible.
The taller girl smirked at her again and Laura could feel she was getting redder and redder by the second.
"I'm Carmilla."
"That's a nice name." Laura said as she looked down at her feet, not bearing to look into the gorgeous eyes of the mysterious girl.
"Thanks." Carmilla said as she held back a chuckle, the poor girl had suffered enough.
"Well, I got to go to the ladies. Take care!" And she hurried off, mentally face palming at how awkward she had acted.
Carmilla stood there for a couple of seconds holding back a smile before she shook her head, frowned and left.
After her visit she went to wash her hands and to her surprise she found a forgotten iPhone by the sink. She looked around, checking to see that she was the only one in the woman stalls before she clicked the home button. Only to see that the background picture was a picture of Carmilla and Will. "She must have forgotten it just before we ran into each other" She thought. She put the phone in her pocket and headed out.
The bar was completely empty, except from Kirsch standing behind the bar cleaning up all the spills from the evenings customers. He looked up and saw a confused Laura standing completely alone in the bar.
"Hey little nerd, closing time, you got to go!" He said sternly. He might be a goof ball but he took his job very seriously.
"Yea, I'm sorry. I was just heading out, have you seen Carmilla?" She asked.
"Yea, she just left with Will five minutes ago. Why?" He asked.
"Oh never mind then." Laura answered as she headed out.
Outside, LaFontaine stood holding a very drunk Perry who couldn't stop laughing. At what, Laura had no idea.
"Hey guys, I found a phone at the ladies, any ideas what I should do with it?" She questioned the girls, but her question was mainly directed to LaFontaine, seeing that Perry was too drunk to respond.
"Well, you could probably track her home wifi, check her IP address and figure out here she lives and-" She felt a glare from Perry, the redhead clearly wasn't laughing anymore.
"Oooor, you can just call a random number tomorrow and tell them to come by the shop or something." Perry's glare went back to a big grin of satisfaction.
"Sounds good."
The next day Carmilla was suffering from a massive hangover and if that wasn't enough torture, she couldn't find her phone. She dragged herself out of her room and entered the living room where Will was sitting playing Candy Crush on his phone.
Feeling the presence of someone else in the room he finally looked up from his phone and was greeted by a very hungover Carmilla.
"Wow, you look great today sis." He said sarcastically. "The after party really got to you last night huh?"
Carmilla who usually stood tall with confidence, now stood hunched over with a pair of slacks and a oversized sweatshirt, her hair which usually was on point, now stood out like a birds nest and her usual perfect eyeliner was now smudged out which made her look like a sad panda.
"Oh be quite. Have you seen my phone?" She asked with a horsed voice.
"Sorry Kitty, haven't seen it since last night." He shook his head as he went back to his phone.
"Dammit. I must have forgotten it at the bar" She muttered.
"I'll text Kirsch, he's probably found it or else you'll just have to get a new phone. No biggie." He said with a shrug of his shoulders, still not looking at his older sister. "One sec, I'm getting a phone call, hey it's from your phone!" He exclaimed before answering.
"Hello? Yea, she's here. It's for you" He said as he handed her the phone.
"Well, obviously." She answered annoyed as she walked over and grabbed the phone out of his hand.
She cleared her throat before answering. "Hello?"
"Hi Carmilla, it's Laura." Laura said with a cheery voice. There was silence on the other line and Laura cleared her throat before continuing. "The girl from last night… the rude book store girl?"
"No, I remember" Carmilla answered impatiently. She was too hungover to talk to this bubbly girl so early in the morning, it was only one in the afternoon after all.
"Well, I found your phone last night and I thought you wanted it back…" Her tone had changed from bubbly to uncertain in seconds.
"Why didn't you just give it to Kirsch?" Carmilla answered confused and slightly annoyed.
"I.. I didn't think of that. Too many Strawberry daiquiris I guess?" She answered with a nervous laugh.
"Well, where should we meet? I kinda need it for work and stuff." She said shortly. How could she be so bubbly, didn't this girl know what a hangover was?!
"Yes of course! What about you come by the book store on monday, maybe around lunch? Or do you need it sooner?"
"Nah, I'll be good till monday. See you then Sundance."
"Yea see yo-" And before she could finish the line went dead. Laura sat in bewilderment for a couple of seconds before realising that she got cut off. "That ungrateful bi-b- BAD PERSON!" Laura half screamed in annoyance.