Leaf Blowers
Carmilla groaned as she woke up to an incredibly irritating buzzing noise coming from outside. She huffed and shoved her face back into her pillow, feeling around for Laura in an attempt to cuddle up to her human and just go back to sleep.
Her head popped up, however, when she didn’t find a small, warm body next to her.
“Cupcake?” She mumbled, propping herself up on her elbow and pushing her hair out of her eyes. She looked around the room to find it was still dark, but more importantly, clearly lacking any sign of her girlfriend.
And that buzzing wouldn’t stop.
Carmilla grumbled something and rolled out of bed, not so gracefully making her way to the window, where a sliver of light was peeking through. She pushed the curtain open, cursing that noise under her breath, until she was what was actually making the noise.
There, in their front yard, was Laura, staggering around with a leaf blower that was about twice her size strapped to her back. Carmilla raised an eyebrow and shook her head, a bemused smile gracing her features. Carmilla watched her for a moment or two, watching how the October sunlight glinted off of the sun streaks in her hair and how the wind kept whipping the leaves back at her before deciding to put her out of her misery. She pushed off of where she was leaning against the window frame and yanked on a pair of jeans and her boots before walking out onto their tiny porch.
“Cupcake!” Carmilla called, and then huffed a moment later when she got no reply. Laura couldn’t hear her over the leaf blower, apparently. Carmilla looked around quickly before zipping across the yard and flicking the off switch on the leaf blower.
Laura paused and jiggled the tube, her nose scrunched up in annoyance. “Don’t you dare die on me...” She grumbled under her breath, completely unaware of the vampire standing behind her due to a very large pair of noise canceling headphones.
Carmilla gently pulled the headphone off of Laura’s head. “Morning, sweetheart,” She said with a smirk.
Laura whipped around with a gasp, but a split second later, her expression turned annoyed. “Carm!” She gasped, nearly smacking Carmilla with the tube of the leaf blower. “Don’t do that!”
Carmilla chuckled under her breath, and dropped a kiss on Laura’s cheek. “What are you doing, sweetheart?” She asked, looking Laura up and down.
“Taking care of the yard,” Laura said with a huff.
“Cupcake, that leaf blower is nearly twice your size,”
“And?” Laura said.
“Wouldn’t you rather be inside with your girlfriend...and maybe some cider...” Carmilla murmured, raising an eyebrow as she took Laura’s hand.
“Well yes, but I also need to clean the yard,” She pointed out. “because a certain vampire won’t help me,” She said, giving Carmilla a mock glare.
Carmilla scoffed. “What about this,” She said, wrapping her pinkie around Laura’s, and tugging her towards their front door. “Once the sun goes down I’ll have the yard cleaned up in ten minutes, and right now, you come back to bed with me, and a couple of mugs of hot cider,”
Laura maintained her glare for a moment before letting it soften slightly. “You would clean the yard up?”
“Mmhmm,” Carmilla nodded, tugging on her hand a little.
“If I come back to bed with you,”
“Yes,” Carmilla confirmed with a nod of her head.
“If you insist,” Laura said with a devilish smirk as she shrugged the leaf blower off and followed Carmilla inside.