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Cleo was working hard on a blanket for Pearl so she could give her one as a present for Valentines Day. But unfortunately, she didn’t know how to knit. Which is annoying, they had been practicing for a few months but underestimated how much more work a blanket would be to knit then the small oven mitt they made over the earlier winter months. They had wanted to give Pearl something special because Cleo knew that she would’ve died last year during… everything without Pearl. Cleo decided to take a break and hid the unfinished mess of a project under the chair she was sitting in and went outside to find some food in the forest.
Pearl was walking back to Oakhurst after shopping in the neighboring town to find something for Cleo for Valentines. She had found a pretty hair clip that had a flint and steel design with the flint having pictures of sunflowers in it. She hoped Cleo would like it because they meant everything to Pearl. Cleo was her home, and she wanted Cleo to know just how much Pearl loved her.
As Pearl was walking on the overgrown path through the woods, she heard a faint snap and stopped in her tracks to listen. There was a thump like a body hitting the ground then a gulping like sound. Oh, She knew who that was.
Pearl called out to the figure making the noise while stepping through the bushes. “Why hello there mate! Having an afternoon tea I see?”
Cleo who regrets telling pearl that she was raised in the British isles, Looked up from her cow to reply, “More like lunch then a tea. You want any?”
“Of course”, Pearl then bent down and bite in and started sucking some of the blood from the dead cow. Once the two vampires drain the blood from the cow. They then started back towards Oakhurst Where their Favorite kitty was waiting for them.
This is nice, Cleo thought. Just the two of them walking through the forest listening to the wind whisk through branches of the remaining trees and the singing of the songbirds that were just starting to come back for spring.
“Hey Cleo?”
“Yes Pearl?”
“I went to our neighbors to trade today.”
Cleo looked towards Pearl, “Oh. Did you get anything?”
“Actually, I did,” Pearl reached into her pocket and pulled something out, “It’s a present! For you.”
She put the object into Cleo’s hand and Cleo raised it closer to her eyes. It almost looked like a piece of flint and steel, but it didn’t have quite the right weight to it. Then it hit them, it was a hair clip shaped like flint and steel with the flint part having the design of three sunflowers carved into it. It was beautiful. Cleo looked back up towards Pearl and saw am excited/cautious look on her face, waiting to see if Cleo liked her gift.
“Pearl this is amazing! Thank you so much.”, Cleo wished that she could put into words how much she loves and cares for Pearl. As the thought entered Cleo’s head,
Pearl grabbed their hand and exclaimed, “Glad you like it”, with a bright smile on her face.
Cleo clipped the present into her hair and said "Of course I do its from you." WOW that's not cheesy at all, they thought to herself. "Anyways last one to town has to feed Oscar!" and the Cleo darted towards the town pulling her arm out of Pearl's grasp.
"HEY! You didn't give me a heads up! Cheater!" Pearl called after her with laughter before Pearl too took off towards Oakhurst, catching up to Cleo quite easily.
A few hours later after the sunset and the full moon began to rise, shining its bright light down on the small nearly empty town. Cleo was determined to finish the blanket she was making before sunrise so that when Pearl returns to human form they could give it to her. As the night carries on with Oscar making it more difficult to knit by laying on her lap and refusing to get off and wolf Pearl curled up by her legs, Cleo thinks about how lucky she is that Pearl was to stubborn to let her die though wishing that Martyn lived so that they could've have him here too. And just like when she met Pearl for the first time and when Pearl accepted her for being a vampire Cleo remembers just how much she loves Pearl for just being Pearl.