Gossip Column (Carmilla Fanfic)

Chapter 18

During the next week Laura and Carmilla barely had time to simply enjoy each other's company. Carmilla was very busy recording her new album and Laura was being given more and more articles to write at the newspaper, which meant she was also very busy. However, they managed to at least see each other every night when Laura would go to the studio bearing some take out food for Carmilla and the studio crew, which included the singer's sister. They always sat together at a corner of the long table in the conference room to eat, practically ignoring everyone else while they fed each other and shared small kisses between bites of food, which always caused JP to cheer them on, making Laura turn impossibly red and causing Carmilla to scowl at him and threat to fire him and find herself another producer. Mattie always observed all of these little interactions with eagle-eyes.

When Laura arrived at the studio on Thursday, bringing with her Thai take out for everyone, she was greeted by Mattie as soon as she was inside.

"Oh, Laura. You're here, good. Everyone seems to be hungrier than usual today, let's set the table so we can eat." she said, taking one of the plastic bags with food from Laura's hand and heading to the conference room.

Laura stood there looking at her with her mouth agape, it had been the first time that Carmilla's sister had called her Laura and not Miss Hollis.

"Are you coming, midget?" Mattie asked, turning to look at Laura who hadn't moved at all.

"Yes, of course." Laura said, finally following the other woman. As they set the table, the journalist looked curiously at Mattie. She had used her name, she had yet to threat Laura today, and, even though she called her a midget, it had sounded almost caring, kind of like Carmilla's nicknames did. Laura smiled to herself, maybe she was starting to grown on Carmilla's sister, after all.

"Can you go get everyone, please, Laura?" Mattie asked.

"Yes, Miss Belmonde." she answered, turning towards the door.

"I think we can drop this Miss Belmonde business, don't you?" Laura turned back to look at her, "Just call me Mattie." she said, making Laura beam.

"Of course, Mattie. I'll go get everyone."

When they were all sitting at the long table each with a plate of food, Carmilla didn't start eating right away, she just sat there observing Laura closely.

"What?" Laura asked her, blushing at the intense gaze she was being given.

"You seem happy today." Carmilla said, tilting her head to the side with a look of curiosity on her eyes, "Not that you are not always happy, because I've never met anyone that can be as happy as you all the time, but it's like there's something bubbling inside of you, just waiting to get out."

Laura smiled and bounced on her seat.

"There is something special today."

"May I ask what, or who it is that has you smiling so much? Should I get jelous?"

"No need to get jealous, silly." Laura said, pinching Carmilla's nose affectionately. "I think your sister has finally started to like me."

"Really? Why do you say that?" Carmilla asked, glancing quickly at her sister who was eating with one hand and typing on her phone with the other.

"She called me Laura today. And, she told me to call her Mattie. Isn't that a good sign?"

Carmilla's smile was just as wide as Laura's.

"That's a great sign, Cupcake. It definitely means she likes you."

Laura bounced on her seat again, she was so happy that Carmilla's sister apparently approved of her now, not to mention how relieved she was that Mattie didn't want to crunch her bones anymore.