Yours Truly

Chapter 6

"Well I can't say no to that, can I?" Carina grins before she adjusts herself so her back is leaning against her headboard and the crown of Lily's head is just barely nudging against Carina's hip. The smaller girl's fingers reclaim its place in Lily's hair, leisurely combing through the long and luscious mane easily.

Lily's eyes immediately close again and she swears she just caught a glimpse of heaven. Everything is just perfect. She must have done something in her life to deserve this moment, right now, with this girl. It all just seems too good to be true- Carina seems too good to be true. It's still funny to think that a simple English assignment is what brought them together. Who knew homework would be able to create and spice up connections between two people? That'd be one hell of a story to tell to children.

"Oh hey," Carina speaks up suddenly, just when Lily was just about to feel sleep pull her under. "Our school just emailed us and said no homework is due today due to the city-wide power outage and that we would all get another day to do it."

"Thank God because I didn't touch that shit at all," Lily mumbles. Her backpack is still in the car because homework be damned. As if she was going to be worrying about standard deviations, the Bubonic plague, and the effect that friction has on the motion of objects while she was with Carina. And how was she going to write her letter to Carina in Carina's house? Damn, was yesterday even real? What an ironic mess.

"Me neither," Carina sighs. "I was too busy cowering in your arms in fear to even think about homework. I was just focused on surviving the night."

Lily smiles and lets out an airy laugh, eyes still closed in contentment. "Nothing was going to happen," she whispers sleepily, her words beginning to slur together a bit. "I wouldn't let anything happen to you."

Carina blushes deeply and struggles to contain the inevitable grin spreading across her face and she's glad Lily's faced away from her so she isn't able to see it. "Goodnight, Lily," she whispers after a few minutes as she continues to run her fingers through her hair.

But Lily's already fast asleep, relaxed and happy right beside Carina.

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It was hard to get Lily to wake up a 6 A.M., to say the least. Carina tried everything she could ranging from pulling the covers off, repeatedly poking her in the shoulders and stomach and face, tugging at her arm and trying to hit her with pillows. She didn't budge. Carina even threatened to sit on top of her until she got up. Lily didn't even say a thing except smirk into the pillow idiotically.

Eventually after many futile attempts at waking up the stubborn bear-like human she called Lily, Carina just stormed off and went ahead to hop in the shower and get herself ready. Lily was going to have to get up sooner or later.

Carina first finds some clothes that Lily could wear for the day and throws it at her before getting some clothes for herself and heading into the bathroom. She takes a quick, relaxing shower as fast as she can because lord knows she would stay in there for hours if she could. Carina then wraps the towel around her body and walks out with her hair still dripping wet, the cool air in her room diffusing with the hot and humid air that the shower caused in the bathroom.

Lily still hasn't moved.

"LILY JOELLE WHAT THE HELL," Carina exclaims exasperatedly. She stomps over and holds her wet hair above Lily's face and wrings it out with her hands, watching the excess water fall and hit her face.

It works.

Lily shoots open her eyes and sits up, wiping it off frantically as if a few water drops resembled the lizards she feared oh so much crawling all over her face.