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„For fucks sake!“ Laura jumped out of bed. Once more, she had overslept. Just like, basically, every day during the past weeks. Usually she wasn't like this, but the past few weeks, she had been tired and exhausted and everything. Maybe moving to Germany for her long distance boyfriend wasn't such a good idea after all. But his arguments had been overwhelmingly strong. „I can't study politics, as in: German politics, everywhere in the world, but it doesn't really matter where in the world you study philosophy. And the uni has a really good reputation.“ After a few fights, Laura agreed and moved from Canada to Germany. She didn't even know how she made her dad agree to this, but right now, she felt good because he was far away and couldn't try to protect her like a toddler anymore. Which might be the only reason why she stayed even after she discovered that her boyfriend had cheated on her since forever and even after she broke up with him. She didn't feel too bad about the break up anyway. Of course she was hurt for being cheated on, but...she didn't really care with all of her heart for the end of the relationship. But Laura was way too positive to even think about it.
As fast as she could, she got dressed, rushed trough the bathroom and drank a mug of cocoa – because, honestly, she wouldn't go anywhere without that in her stomach, even though she was late as hell. Her new friends would laugh at her again for being so late, but anyway. The second she finished her cocoa, she rushed out of the door, not even looking at the clock for the exact minute – there was a bus heading to the uni every ten minutes, why even care for the exact time?
She already saw the bus from across the street and without even looking properly, she ran across the street and tried to catch it. Which she did, jumping into the bus as the busdriver pressed the close button and almost falling to the ground as he started to drive. Almost as in, suddenly, there were two hands, catching her from falling. „Damnit“, she heard a feminine husky voice mumble as she turned around to thank the person who catched her. She looked into the most beautiful dark brown eyes she'd ever seen in her life. The brunette girl was a bit taller than her, which might have been the reason why she didn't fall as she catched her. And her way to dress....Leather pants and a shirt that showed a lot of skin. And even that was an understatement. „Pass besser auf.“, she said. Laura did learn German for uni of course since most of the lectures were in German – and sometimes even held with a strooooong dialect that she couldn't really get used to yet – but she shook her head, because she was too shy to speak this language yet and said:“Sorry, what did you say?“ The other girl smiled and said:“Never mind, sweetheart.“ And there they were. Standing in a bus, getting stared at by some kids and a strange old woman, looking at each other and it felt like...something, something had happened, but Laura didn't really know what it was. „I'm Laura“, she said. The girl laughed in a sarcastic way. „I know...“ „How do you...Oh, geez! Is there anyone in that really small uni in this not-so-small-but-yet-too-small-town who hasn't heard of me yet?“ The brunette laughed even harder. „I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think so, cupcake.“
Laura had gained some kind of fame she didn't even want at uni ever since she had pushed her ex boyfriend into the bar at a uni party when he tried to talk to her and wanted her to meet his not-so-new girlfriend. „I'm Carmilla.“, the other girl said. „Well...then hi, Carmilla.“
Laura felt insecure and way too good next to Carmilla at the same time.“ As soon as the bus had made it's way up the hill at uni, she jumped out and headed towards the uni building. As in, she almost ran followed buy a pair of dark brown eyes, glowing in a sarcastic and yet a bit confused way.
„Oh god!“, Laura screamed as soon as she found LaF, a biology student that she had run into the very first day at uni. „Thanks for the new title, but I'm pretty sure I don't have that much power...yet.“ Laura laughed in a bubbly and a bit confused messed way. „Sorry.“ „It's alright“, they said. The two got joined by LaF's girlfriend Perry, a chemistry student and Danny, a giant sporty redhead, minutes later. „Soooooo...“ Laura chuckled. She knew that Danny was going to ask if she had overslept again. „I don't know what's up with me lately. I just keep oversleeping and I can't stop it.“ The friends started to laugh. That moment, Laura felt happy. She was lucky that she had found friends that fast. Friends who accepted her the way she way. A bit bubbly, a bit awkward...herself. As she was. And she felt the need to tell them right now. „You are the best people in the world, honestly. Moving here and all this...I really am still struggling a bit. I mean...My German is getting better, I'm getting used to the uni, everything, but...It wouldn't be the same without you. You're my new family.“ Her friends looked at her and smiled. „Laura, we love you.“, LaF said and the others nodded. Breaking the silence, Danny shouted: „Oh, no, we're running late for our lectures.“ The others looked at her watch and realized that she was right. And so they parted, promising that they'd
meet later this evening at Laura's to watch a film or something. Halfway to the lecture, Carmilla crossed her mind and she started to smile even more. Without even knowing, why. Mildly confused, she stopped in the middle of the hallway and made a huge jerk run into her. „Sorry“, she whispered, but he didn't even notice her.
„Carmilla“, she whispered this oh-so-unusual-but-wonderful-name and she almost jumped out of her skin when a very familiar voice answered: „Hi!“ Laura turned around to see the girl this name belonged to. „Where...Why...What...?“, she stuttered. „You called me.“, Carmilla said. „Well...yeah...I mean...no...I mean...kind of. But I didn't see you coming.“ Carmilla chuckled. „Yeah, because I was BEHIND you, cupcake.“ „Alright...I need to...I need to go...See you.“ Carmilla nodded. „See ya.“
The lectures passed. Slowly. But they did. And all that Laura could think of, the whole time, was the brunette with her sarcasm and leather pants and ugh...what happened? She had something about her. Mysterious. Dangerous. And at the same time, Laura felt a warmth she had never felt before, even though she had only met this girl this morning. And she knew nothing about her, except from her name.