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It was pitch black and Laura’s hands were outstretched in front of her as she wondered around in a circle. She grinned in delight as they finally made contact with the smooth surface of what she assumed was a wall. A wave of relief blew over her. Okay I can totally do this. She moved her hands along the wall, looking for a door handle or something, that would indicate a way out.
Suddenly something made a robotic cackling noise and came out of the wall towards her so she did the only logical thing. She ran away in the dark. It shouldn't have been so surprising that she rammed into something. What did surprised her was that said object, that she now realised she was holding onto, was warm and soft.
“Shit!”
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Two hours earlier.
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“Come on Laura” Kirsch whined while he pulled out his best puppy dog eyes and knelt beside Laura's computer chair. “It’ll be totally fun. I promise! Besides, D-Bear will be there!” This is Kirsch her annoying older brother. She loved him but sometimes she didn’t know how he had ever survived puberty. They lived with their father, Daniel Hollis, and both attended Silas High. Although they were both in the same year Kirsch was actually a year older and he liked to hold this over Laura when he was teasing her.
“If I say yes will you stop annoying me?” Laura huffed.
“Yes yes yes yes! I knew you’d come with me. It’s going to be so much fun.” Kirsch’s smile grew at an alarming rate as he scooped Laura up into a bear hug and leapt off the floor. “Let’s go and get some costumes. Oh! Maybe we could match up or...” Kirsch started to trail off as his large strides took him out of Laura's room and further down the corridor. She rolled her eyes and followed her brother with a smile. Maybe this night wouldn’t turn out so bad.
Famous last words or what? They did go and get costumes and that bit was actually quite fun. Their group consisted of Laura, kirsch and their best friends; Lafontaine, Perry and Danny. It was actually Kirsch who had decided that they would go as the Scooby gang. Laura was Velma, Danny as Daphne, Lafontaine and Perry were Shaggy and Fred and Kirsch was Scooby. It had taken a lot to talk him out of trying to hire a van that looked like the mystery machine.
Eventually Perry managed to get them all piled into Papa Hollis' car and Kirsch started to drive them to the scariest haunted house Laura had ever seen. Okay maybe that was a bit dramatic seeing as they were in a children's theme park... but she was lost in it okay?! As soon as they had set foot into the first dark room of the haunted house Perry and Lafontaine had abandoned her meanwhile Kirsch and Danny were arguing about something while walking way too quickly for Laura to catch up. So now she’s alone. Well not completely alone.
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“What the frilly hell are you doing grabbing people in the dark?!” Oh god this person sounded angry. Wait. She knew that voice from somewhere...
“Carmilla?” Laura intended for it to be a statement but it came out as more of a whimpered question.
“Follow me, Creampuff.” Laura huffed indignantly as she linked fingers with Carmilla and was dragged to what she hoped was the exit and not her unfortunate murder.
“It’s Laura.”
“You say that like I should be able to know who you are in the dark, Cutie.” Laura was glad her blush wasn’t visible. “But I did know your name; we have Bio together.”
Laura was about to comment but she suddenly saw light and ran to it; despite everything everywhere that tells you not to. When she burst out the doors, with Carmilla hot on her tail, she saw her friends standing in a circle and, shocker, arguing.
“Congratulations. You lost her Wilson.”
“Don’t call me that Summer Psycho. If you hadn’t-”
“You’re going to try and blame me for losing your sister?!”
Both parties had their fists raised as though they were about to ‘throw down’ in the middle of a kid’s theme park.
“Hold the cavalry.” Said a voice behind her, that had already saved her once tonight, and now saved her again. “I found the Shortcake.” Laura was about to throw an insult back about the continued nicknames when Danny beat her to it.
“Fantastic. It’s Elvira; Mistress of the Snark.”
“Oh ha ha Clifford. How many times are you gonna use that one?”
Great. Laura hadn't thought this far ahead but she should have remembered That Danny didn't like Carmilla for some reason. Now there was another fight Laura had to diffuse.
"Danny stop. I was lost in there and Carmilla helped me find my way out." She turned to the person in question. "So... yeah, thanks!" Carmilla was smirking at Laura's stuttered sentence. It was almost adorable. Almost. "Okay. Awesome bye!"
With that the younger girl grabbed Carmilla into a hug and darted off towards the car park. Leaving her friends to trail behind her with confused expressions apart from Lafontaine who seemed to have a knowing smirk and Danny who threw one last glare over her shoulder at Carmilla. Carmilla could barely hold in a chuckle as she wondered what Monday would bring.