Chapter 2: Annoying habits – Unexpected Love
The morning came too quickly for two gingers, which had passed out in bed together from the night before.
A tuft of curly hair was peeking out of the covers, as a hand moves to pull the blankets down off their face; Lafontaine blinks, looking around.
"Perry…" They drawl out as eyes squint to readjust their vision, "Perry!"
Lifting the blanket slightly, laughing when they see Lola snoozing away with hair in her face; gently they move the hair out of the way.
Lola grumbles, "Go away, tired."
They chuckle, then scoot closer their eyes fixed on the woman that didn't want to wake up.
Smiling they kiss her cheek, "Babe, we need to get up."
Still no movement from Lola, then an idea strikes them in the head.
"Perry, there's mold in the kitchen!"
"MOLD WHERE!?" Lola sits up quickly, then groans holding her head and shutting her eyes tight.
Lafontaine laughs and falls back onto the bed.
"Shut up…" Lola states grumpily.
Instantly they stop laughing, "You okay?"
"Water…aspirin…now…" Lola states, still holding her head.
Quickly the ginger gets up and looks for both items, as they grab a bottle of aspirin; they hear their phone go off.
Rushing back with a glass of water, Lafontaine hands their girlfriend both things; then searches for her phone.
They wait about ten minutes, "Feeling better?"
"Yes, thank you hun," Lola says with a smile, "So what would we like for breakfast?"
"Hmmm…pancakes…"Lafontaine replies, kissing the other woman's cheek and then heading into the kitchen.
Lola slowly shakes her head, then follows Lafontaine into the kitchen.
They were already getting all the ingredients out, and heating a pan.
"Hungry?" She asks as she grabs a spatula, and laughs at her partner's face, "So how far did we get last night?"
She remembered after the movie they came back to have a few drinks at her place, after that was foggy.
Lafontaine was about to ask, when they both heard their phone go off.
Lola takes the batter from the ginger, "Go answer it, weirdo."
Receiving another kiss, Lafontaine runs out to find their phone.
They find it under the bed, "Hello?"
"Laf?"
"Oh yeah, Laura what's up?" They ask, watching Lola take the pills.
"Just wondering how your date went…"
They could hear the smile on the other end of the line.
"It's not over yet, I'm at Perry's place." They reply with a grin, "So I'm gonna go."
"Oh! I'll let ya go have a good one!" Laura squeals on the phone and hangs up; moving into the living room.
"What the…" Laura looks around at the dishes piled up in the sink, and the trashcan full to almost overflowing.
She wasn't sure what happened, when she went to bed the place was pristine; she pulls out her phone and dials a number.
After a few rings, "What's up cupcake?"
"WHAT IS WITH THIS MESS!?" She screams into the phone.
"Easy cutie, you're breaking up, what about what?" Carmilla asks.
"Why is my…our apartment such a mess after you being here one day?"
"I had a few people over last night, forgot to get to it."
Carmilla growls at someone that bumps into her.
Laura goes to the fridge, and sighs; no milk.
"Can you pick up some milk, you used it all…" she trails off and jumps when Carmilla is right beside her.
"How did you get here so fast? And the mil…"
"I was already on my way back with it, only around the corner when you called."
Laura hangs up her cell, "Okay…uhh thanks," she takes the milk from the slightly taller woman.
"Are you going to…" she looks back where Carmilla used to be, only to see the woman's bedroom door shut.
"UGH!" She huffs and puts the milk away and starts organizing the dishes to be cleaned.
In Carmilla's room, the woman was lounging on her bed with a philosophy book; when her phone goes off.
"Hey what's up?"
"Still on for tonight, at your place?" the voice asks.
"No, roommate is pissed that the place is a mess, have it somewhere else."
She picks at her fingers, the black was starting to chip on her nails.
"Damn, we were hoping, alright. See ya later."
"Bye."
She tosses her phone on the bed as she looks at the time, "Guess I should get ready for class."
Throwing a few books and note pads in a shoulder bag, she walks out of her room; then smirks.
"I have to get to class, I'll be back later sweetheart."
"Carmilla, wait!" Laura tries to stop the woman, but she was already out the door, "Damn it!"
Walking back over to the dishes, Laura sighs and grabs a plate and a sponge.
Three hours later
Laura was happy she didn't have classes on a Thursday, it took her way too long to clean everything up; she plops on the couch and grabs the remote.
Flicking through channels, settling on 'Twilight'; soon she doses off from all the cleaning.
The door to the apartment opens and Carmilla walks in with someone following close behind.
"So this is where I live now, just don't go into that room," she points to Laura's bedroom, "That is my roommate's."
The girl, a blond, nods as she follows the darker haired woman.
They walk to the couch, where Carmilla looks at the screen "Vampire's don't sparkle."
She shakes her head and notices Laura on the couch sleeping with her arms tight around her body.
"Ok go to that door, that's my room. I will be right there so make yourself at home Elle."
Elle smiles and heads over, walking into Carmilla's bedroom.
Carmilla herself grabs the blanket from the edge of the couch and puts it over Laura; making sure that she isn't too cold.
The quickly moves to her room and shuts the door; seeing Elle on the bed with a notepad, books and highlighters.
"Ready to study?"
Elle looks up, "Yeah, who are we focusing on for our project?"
Smirking Carmilla walks over and sits down, "Aristotle, known as the Father of Biology."
"Right, ugh why did I choose philosophy?" the blond asks.
Carmilla chuckles, "I don't know, I'm a third year student so I know this stuff. You are the one that asked for tutoring."
Elle sighs, "So who is the girl on the couch?"
Looking up Carmilla smirks, "My roommate, she's a bit of a neat freak."
"She's cute"
The older woman nods, "Yeah, I guess she is…anyway back to Aristotle."
Elle nods and opens her book, showing Carmilla what she is having a problem with.
Back in the living room, Laura was stretching on the couch and looks down wondering when she grabbed the blanket.
The TV was playing 'Breaking Dawn Part 2'.
"Guess I slept through the first four…crap!" Laura jumps up and runs to her room.
Grabbing her shoulder bag and stuffing notepads, pens and her journalism book; and dashing out of her room, colliding with a body.
Her stuff now all over the floor.
"We really need to stop meeting like this, cupcake," Carmilla states with a smirk.
"Yeah well I am late for a lecture…" Laura reaches for her pens but instead touches her roommate's hand.
"Well then better get going," the older woman gives a barely there smile and hands Laura her pen's, book and notepads.
"Thanks." Laura takes it all, stuffing it back in and rushing out the door.
Shaking her head, Carmilla grabs a couple waters from the fridge and goes back into her room, "A little libation…"
Tosses a bottle to Elle, who catches it "Thanks, so what was that all about, out there?"
"Ah just ran into the roommate, literally." Carmilla sits on the bed and looks at what the woman had written.
~A few hours later~
Laura was slowly making her way home, when her TA from LIT class runs up.
"Hi, Laura right?" the tall red head asks with a smile, she wore jeans, converse and a blue sweater.
"Yeah, and you're Danny." She replies looking up, she was a good foot shorter than the woman.
"Yep, you looked pretty bored in the lecture," Danny starts to walk a little slower.
"English Lit is really not what I am interested in, though I need it for Journalism." Laura replies, "What are you doing?"
"Right now?" Danny asks as they turn a corner.
"Yeah"
"I'm headed to grab some food then head back to my dorm, nothing to do even though it's a Friday night."
"No parties to go too?" Laura looks around before crossing the street and stopping by an apartment building.
"Not really, this your place?" the tall woman asks, leaning against the brick.
"One of the many, I like that it's not too far from Campus but not too close either."
Laura makes no move towards the door, Danny may be a fellow student but she was still wary.
"Well I will leave you here then, see ya in class." Danny pushes off the wall with a smile.
Smiling back, Laura waits till' Danny is out of sight before moving through the door.
She quickly moves up the steps, and unlocks the door to her apartment; shutting it behind her and dropping her bag.
"Rough couple of classes?" A dull voice asks from the couch.
"Yeah, something like that…" She moves to the fridge and is about to grab a dark bottle.
"The dark bottle is off limits, call it an experiment." Her roommate states, not even looking over the couch at her.
"Okay, anything else off limits?"
"No"
Sighing she grabs the milk and a glass from the cupboard, pouring herself a tall glass.
"So what have you been doing? Laura asks, licking her lips.
Now Carmilla gets up, "I tutored someone in philosophy and then just hung out here."
The dark haired woman leans against the back of the couch.
Taking a sip of milk, Laura leans on the kitchen counter, "So a dull day?"
Carmilla smirks, "You could say that, anyway I'm gonna g out, don't expect me back till at least dawn."
"Alright…"Laura looks confused but shrugs as she turns to clean her glass in the sink.
Then jumps when she feels someone behind her.
"My you are jumpy, just wanted to let ya know, if ya need anything call my cell."
Carmilla steps back with a chuckle and then is gone.
"How is she so fast?"
Moving to her room, she collapses on the bed, "I need a nap."
TBC