fall
Kara stood shifting her weight back and forth between her two legs, waiting near the entrance of the fall fair. Today marked the first day of Fall, officially Kara’s favourite season. So when Kara heard that the annual fall fair was returning to National City, she just had to ask Lena. Thankfully, the other woman had agreed to meet Kara at the fair, seeing how excited just talking about it Kara had been. She glanced down at the watch on her wrist - the watch Lena had given her for her last birthday- and sighed, ten minutes after their set time to meet. Would Lena blow her off without any warnings? She played with her necklace- also a gift from Lena, last Christmas- that was placed on top of her turtleneck, the chain just long enough that you could see the key charm poking out from the folded-over ruffles, as she stood on her tippy toes and looked around. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Lena trying to rush her way through the crowds. A couple seconds later, the brunette had appeared standing in front of Kara, dressed in a mid-thigh sweater dress, black pantyhose and knee high black heels.
“Lena, hi!” Kara’s face immedietly lit up with a wide smile, as she pulled the woman in for a tight hug.
“Hello, darling,” Lena smiled softly and after an appropriate (okay, maybe a little more) amount of time she pulled away to look at the woman's appearance, Kara had dressed in comfortable black leggings and a red turtleneck. Lena subconsciously smiled when she saw Kara wearing the tiffany necklace she had purchased for her. “I apologize, it seems I am late. The traffic was horrible and I’ve spent the last couple minutes trying to push through this crowd, but I’m here now. Shall we go get our tickets, or whatever we need to get in?”
Kara shook her head, pulling two wrist bands out of her pocket, “I actually bought them in advance. The lines here always take far too long to get through. Your arm, m’lady?” Kara pretended to bow as if she had been a servant or potential suitor back in the days, causing Lena to giggle.
“Well thank you, kind woman,” Lena beamed and curtsey’d as well, before holding her arm out for Kara. Once the band had been strapped onto her wrist, Lena helped Kara into hers. The two girls walked hand in hand into the festival, giggling at something Kara had said, and swinging their arms together like teenagers.
By the end of the night, they had been on more than enough rides, eaten far too much food (at Kara’s persistence), and won plenty of prices for each other, Lena’s favourite being a bee stuffed animal that Kara had won for her at skii ball, and Kara’s favourite being the husky dog stuffy that Lena had totally overpaid for, after losing 14 rounds of ring toss, just because Kara had said “oh, what a cute puppy!” as they were walking by after getting cotton candy.
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“So.. do you maybe wanna go out some time?” Kara shyly asked, holding both of Lena’s hands in her own outside of Lena’s penthouse apartment door.
Lena threw her head back in laughter with a grin spread across her face. “Of course I do, dork. It only took you four years to catch on,” She smirked and winked at Kara’s surprised face. “Was literally filling your office with roses, red roses, not enough darling?”
Kara’s face flushed deeply “I-I thought.. Never mind. Maybe I should go, it’s been a long night and we are both pretty tired,” she said with a small smile, leaning forward to kiss Lena’s cheek.
“Why leave? I have a perfectly good bedroom here, no need to go across town..” Lena offered
“T-tonight? Oh Lena, I-I don’t think I'm ready, f-for that..”
Lena cut her off with a quick peck to the lips, “No worries, darling. Nothing needs to happen tonight. We’ve shared a bed before and nothing happened, I have no issues with taking this however slow we need to go,” she told Kara with a reassuring smile before gently pulling her into the apartment, fingers laced together.