The Cry Of Silence

Chapter 8

       Laura and Carmilla had just pulled in when Laura seen a black suv pulled up front. "OH MY GOD!" she screamed. "What? Is it Danny? Should we go?" Carmilla was nervous now but not for long. She was just about to become annoyed. "NO ITS PERRY!!!!" she yelled in excitement as she jumped out the car leaving Carmilla in the passenger seat. She mumbled something about Laura "giving her a fucking heart attack" and then got out and walked in behind her.
      Laura had jumped into a taller read heads arms, but it wasn't the one she was concerned about. Laura seemed happy and that was a relief to her.
      "Carm this is Perry! She is Laf's partner. We all met back in high school. When the kids would be mean to me, she would bring me cookies the next day. I've missed you Perry!" Laura said giving the taller woman one last hug before letting go.  "Perry, this is Carmilla.  She's pretty awesome too. I'm going to be staying with her for a little while."
     Perry stuck out her hand and Carmilla took it and shook it. "Nice to meet you Carmilla. Laf filled me in. Thank you for what you've been doing for Laura. They were very concerned for a while but Laura had never said anything so she didn't want to assume. Thankfully you did." Perry said as she shot Laf a look and they gave her an awkward smile and a shoulder shrug in return. "We are just glad she's safe. Also Laura," Laura looked at Perry, "As always after a bad day, I made you something." Perry went behind the counter and  pulled out a tray of chocolate chip cookies. "Here, honey." She said as she handed them to Laura. "I have to be going now though. I have to get to work," she said as she hugged Laura tightly and kissed Laf goodbye. She stopped at Carmilla and gave her a hug too. "Really, thank you." she whispered in her ear and walked out of the studio.
     Carmilla walked over to Laura's plate of cookies. "Gimmie gimmie," she said as she reached for a cookie. Laura smacked her hand away with a laugh said, "gimmie got shot."  She just wanted to see a pouty Carmilla. It was adorable she concluded.  That didn't work in her favor though. "Fine," Carmilla said as she leaned over and just took a giant bite out of the cookie Laura had in her hand. "Damn, these are good aren't they. I see why you're so stingy with them." She and Laf started cracking up because Laura was still in shock that Carmilla had managed to eat HER cookie. "That one was miiiiiine Carmilla!" she said in annoyance. "Well if you would have just let me have one, it wouldn't have happened now would it?'' Carmilla replied. Laf was all but rolling in the floor. "You guys are too much. I can't even. I just- I'm going to my office." they said as they walked back to their office wiping tears out of their eyes.
     "Whatever," Laura replied but she was smiling now too. "You can have one now. I was just joking anyways," she said handing her the tray. "I know, cupcake. Although something tells me that the look of shock when I took that bite was legit." She said and she started laughing again. Laura rolled her eyes. "Well yeah. You don't take bites of my food. Especially if it's Perry's cooking." Carmilla started walking towards her. "What about bites of you?' she said to a blushing Laura as she walked past her with a smug smile and went to do her job leaving the girl standing there wondering, "Was she just flirting with me???"
     They walked lunch together at the little Mexican Restaurant down the street on break and then came back and finished the day out at work.
      "You about ready to go Cupcake?" Carmilla asked her as she clocked out for the night. "Yeah I'm almost done," she said. "Just shutting everything down and locking up." Laura went to the back and hit the main switch for the power and set the alarm. "Let's go," she told Carmilla, looping her right arm through the other girl's left.
    "So why don't you drive? Do you know how?" Laura asked as they started walking. "I can, yes. I guess I just don't because it's cheaper to walk and where I'm from everything I needed was in walking distance." Carmilla replied with a shoulder shrug. "Why do you ask?"
     Laura thought it over. "Do you wanna drive?" she asked. "You want me to drive your car? Why? I mean I will if you want me to, just wondering." Carmilla replied.  "Well obviously you don't have to if you don't want to Carm. I was just offering. If you want to, you can " Laura said as she dangled the keys in Carmilla's face. It was Carmilla's turn to think things over now. She thought about it. She took the keys.
    "Okay. It's been a while since I've drove. I do kind of miss it." She said as she unlocked the doors and opened Laura's door for her. She waited for her to get comfortable then shut it and walked over to the drivers side and got in.  "God, do you even like have legs?" She joked as she adjusted the seat so that her legs that weren't much bigger could fit. "Shut up!" Laura laughed and smacked her arm.
    The drive was okay. Carmilla only managed to almost get them killed once by dodging a damn raccoon in the middle of Beale Street. "I wasn't going to hit the raccoon Laura!" Carmilla had defended herself. "No Carm, you were gonna hit the people instead!" Laura replied. "Well, I do prefer animals more than people sooooo," Carmilla said which had earned her a smile.  Carmilla pulled into the parking lot and turned off the car. She looked at Laura. Her smile was gone.
    "Laura? What is it?" She asked. "Carmilla, Danny is here." She said as she pointed to the black truck parked in the back. "Stay in the car Laura. I'll be right back." Carmilla told her as she went to open the door when Laura grabbed her arm. "I'm going with you regardless of what you say dude," she said as she went for her door too. "Laura! Please,  STAY IN THE CAR.  Let me handle this. You are finally getting better. She's not about to fuck with you anymore. Give me 10 minutes and she'll be out and you won't have to worry about it anymore. She will leave you alone." Carmilla said.
      Laura kissed Carmilla. Neither Carmilla nor Laura saw it coming. It just happened. Both were relieved that the other didn't pull away just yet. It was nice, they could agree on that.
      "I'll be back in a few minutes," Carmilla said giving her one more quick peck on the lips and another on the forehead. "It's gonna be okay Laura, I promise." On that note, she got out of the car and walked into her building, determined as hell to make sure Danny never hurt Laura again.