Gossip Column (Carmilla Fanfic)

Chapter 10

After their first phone call, Laura and Carmilla started talking on the phone every night before going to sleep. They would text in the morning and during the day, as they had been doing for a month, but at night they exchanged the texts for actual calls. Carmilla was always the one to call Laura when she was finally at the hotel from a concert, or an interview or any event she had to participate.

On Friday night Laura was out with her friends for a much needed winding down after the week's work.

"So, how is it going at the paper Laura?" Perry asked.

"Oh, it's going great Perry. I'm being given more responsibilities now, I think it won't be long until I'm actually writing my own articles." Laura said, almost bouncing in her seat with excitement.

"That's great Little Nerd." Kirsch said, raising his hand for a high-five, causing Danny to roll her eyes beside him.

"Congratulations Laura, we always knew you'd make it big some day." She said.

"Thanks guys." Laura beamed at them.

"So," LaFontaine started "how are things going with Carmilla?"

Laura had told her friends about the text messages and the phone calls with the singer. She was agreeably surprised to see that Danny refrained from making any negative comments about it.

"It's good. She's pretty tired of the tour already. She told me last night that she is ready to come home and hide in her bedroom for a week at least." Laura said laughingly.

"When will she be back?" Danny asked.

"In a week. Her last concert is next Friday and then she flies back home."

"Have you two discussed what you will do when she gets back?" LaFontaine asked.

"No, what do mean, what we'll do?" Lara asked them, confused.

"Well, you two are kind of best friends now, right?" They asked, and Laura nodded.

"So, when she comes back are you two going to see each other? Or is your friendship going to continue through texts and calls only?"

"I haven't thought about that." Laura said, scrunching up her face in thought.

"You should talk to her about it. If you two start meeting in person too the gossip mongers are going to have a field day." They said.

Laura's face fell. She had been really excited for Carmilla's return. She had already made plans of the TV shows she would make her watch, of places she wanted to show her, of making her join her little group of friends in their outings. But she had forgotten about the circumstances that brought her and Carmilla together. Of course, LaFontaine was right. If she and Carmilla started meeting as friends when she got back it would be purposefully misinterpreted by the gossipers and they would never get rid of their fake relationship.

Her friends looked at each other, noticing how Laura had deflated with the idea of having her friendship with the singer hindered by a gossip.

"It'll be okay Laura. You just need to talk to her and figure this out. Remember, communication is key." Perry said, trying to cheer her up again.

"Yeah, you're right. I'll talk to her." She said, but her voice had lost her earlier excitement.

Later, Laura was awake in bed waiting for Carmilla to call her. As she had a concert that night, she would only call late when she got back to the hotel. Laura was too worried about the conversation she needed to have with Carmilla to focus on watching anything on Netflix, so she had given up trying and was now staring at the ceiling thinking of what the singer would say when she brought up the little problem they had in the way of their friendship. She was afraid that she would tell her they couldn't be real friends because she didn't want to feed the fire of the gossip. As much as she disliked Carmilla in the beginning, the idea of not being able to be friends with her now hurt. The more she got to know Carmilla, the more she liked her and she would hate for this friendship to be destroyed by someone's callous gossips. She was startled out of her reverie by the ringing of her phone.