Karma leans down and right before she touches the back of Amy's neck with her lips, she can hear her breath hitch. Karma couldn't help but smile and kisses her neck softly. She let her hands wander to the hem of then blonde's shirt and traces patterns on the skin that is already exposed. She could feel the goosebumps under her fingertips and makes a line of kisses to her jawline, what causes Amy to turn her head in Karma's direction. When their gazes meet, Amy's look is rather confused, but also amused. "What are you doing Ashcroft?" she asks with a smirk. Instead of answering her question Karma leans down and connects their lips. Amy shifts underneath her, so the blonde lies on her back, bringing her arms up to the other girl's waste, pulling her closer. Their lips move in sync as they're meant to be together. When Karma starts to lift her best friend's shirt, she breaks the kiss and raises an eyebrow. "What happened to waiting until we're together?" Karma stops her movement immediately and looks at her lips and then back at her eyes. "We can stop right now if you want to." Karma was slightly panting from the heat in her body and swallowed hard. Amy looks down at her and back up while biting her lower lip. "Oh hell no." That said, Amy flips them over, straddling the other girl, while taking off her shirt. She wasn't wearing a bra, absolutely to Karma's delight. Karma brought up one hand to cup Amy's breast while the blonde leans down to kiss Karma again, this time way more heated and with way more passion than they ever share. Amy bites down on Karma's bottom lip and it escapes a small gasp from Karma's mouth, causing Amy to smile. She starts to tug on Karma's shirt, who lifts her upper body, so she has better access to pull it off. When the shirt is thrown to the other side of the room, Amy stops a moment and stares at the girl beneath her. Karma shifts a bit uncomfortable under Amy's gaze. "Are you alright?" Amy blinks a few times until looking into Karma's eyes with a bright smile. "What? Yeah! This is just … like … a dream come true." With an even brighter smile pulls Karma Amy close and kisses her again. Amy moves her leg between Karma's and presses her thigh against her center. Karma scratched Amy's back lightly in anticipation and a small moan escapes her mouth. Amy stops again and looks at Karma, a slight concern shown on her face while her eyes are full of lust. "Are you sure you want to do this?" Karma digs her fingernails more in Amy's back and closes her eyes for a second. "If you leave me hanging now, I swear I'm gonna kill you." Amy happily obliges and continues her actions.

When they walked down the stairs, foolishly grinning at each other, Karma's mother smiled at them. "So you two had fun this morning?" The two girls look at each other with wide eyes. Karma swallows hard and thinks Oh my god, she didn't hear us, did she? While Amy nudged her ribs to say something, because she clearly couldn't "Eh, yeah. We were just hanging and talking, you know." "Yeah, you know that Karma likes to chew things over and over again." Karma shoots her a look of loathing. "Amy." She hissed, but her mother didn't get the joke when she answers "Yeah, all of our family does that." Amy turns her head and puts her hand before her mouth to stop herself from laughing. "So you two, do you want some breakfast? Karma, you have to hurry though, or you'll be late for work." Amy couldn't stop herself from saying her next words. "Oh I already ate enough." What caused Karma to ram her elbow in Amy's ribs, causing her to lose her breath for a second. "What?" Karma's mother looks from one girl to the other, clearly confused about the situation. "Oh we just had a few snacks upstairs, you know. Some stuff left over from last night." "Yeah, some really delicious stuff, I almost crave more." Karma takes a deep breath while clenching her fists. Her mother smiles at them and returns to the kitchen with the words "If you still want something, I'm making pancakes." Karma turns to Amy with a furious look. "Amy would you stop it?! My mother's not stupid, you know?" Amy just starts laughing and pulls her arms around Karma's waist. "What's so embarrassing about what we just did? And she will not get it, trust me." She plants a small kiss on Karma's nose and pulls away. "Now let me get you to your work, so I can take you out tonight. Deal?" Karma starts to smile and shakes her head. "Yeah, fine. But promise me you won't talk like that in front of my mother anymore, yes?" She takes Karma's hand and laces their fingers together, while looking in the air. "Hmm, let me think … Nope, I can't promise you anything. Sorry." She turns to her best friend and winks. "Now let's get going, I don't want you to be late. I would hate myself for that." Karma lets herself get pulled out of the house, rolling her eyes. "You're unbelievable, you know that?" Amy just grins and says. "Yeah, but you love me."

Work was boring for Karma, the business was slow today and she spent most of the time washing already clean tables. She had time to talk to Cas, though. She thinks Cas is an interesting person, but she doesn't want to overstep any borders. "So, what does Cas stand for?" She turns around from the coffeemaker and looks around the cafe. "Erm, well in Irish it means something like curly or I don't know. But if you mean as a nickname, my real name is Cassandra. But I hate it, so I go by Cas." Karma simply nods while Cas turns to around to work again. "Cool, and what are you doing, like, in life?" This time the brunette doesn't turn around and just continues her work. "I'm in university, actually. Third semester starts soon." Karma rolls her eyes, wow this girl is really talkative today. "So, what's your major?" Cas puts away her stuff and Karma isn't sure if it's because she's done, or annoyed by her questions. She turns around and smiles at Karma. "Social studies. But I also have some lectures about history, but yeah. What are your plans now that school is over?" Karma has to think. The graduation is in a few days and she hasn't told Amy yet, that they're going to college together. She wanted it to be a surprise after all. "Well the next stop is university. I'm taking music production and songwriting. Hopefully I'll have my break out one day." Cas tilts her head slightly and her smile turns into a smirk. "You make music? What kind? Are you good? What instruments do you play?" Karma has to laugh, she never thought that Cas could be the one who asks a lot of questions. "Wow there, take it easy. Well I have a country vibe to my songs, but they're just mostly acoustic pop or something. Amy says I'm good, but you never know, her opinion might be influenced." Karma winks at Cas. "And I simply play the guitar, nothing big, just the simple chords to go with the singing." Cas bites her lip and raises her eyes from Karma to a costumer who just entered the cafe. After serving him, she turns to Karma again. "So what about your girlfriend? What is she doing now?" Karma sighs and plops her hands on the counter. "First of all, Amy is not my girlfriend … yet, hopefully that will change after tonight." "You're not together, but you kiss each other goodbye? I'm not blind, I saw you two when she was dropping you off." Cas interrupts Karma. "Like I said, it's not official, but hopefully after tonight it will be. But yeah, she wants to study history and journalism." Cas nods and shrugs. "Interesting choice of subjects. So she's gonna take you out tonight? Where are you going?" "If only I would know. She doesn't want to tell me, she's making such a secret about it, I don't know. She says she wants it to be perfect and that I will love it." "Sounds pretty great, does she know you well?" Karma breaths out a laughter and shakes her head slightly. "We've been best friends since kindergarten and there's nobody in this miserable world who knows me better than she does. For my birthdays she used to do scavenger hunts and the price was always something amazing, I still have all her gifts, because they're so well planned. I have no doubt that tonight will be awesome. I just hope that she didn't go out of her mind with the preparation. You have no idea what she's capable of." Cas brushes Karma's arm lightly and smiles at her. "Well I do wish you a wonderful time tonight, and I guess that you're pretty lucky." Cas returns to work and Karma just smiles at herself. I'm so fucking lucky to have Amy, why didn't I realize this sooner? We could've had the most perfect year together. But whatever.

The rest of her workday is pretty much the same, just a few costumers, a slow day, really. At 5pm Amy arrives at the cafe and decides to drink something while Karma finishes her work and gossips with Cas. These two really hit it off. I hope I don't have to worry about anything. About fifteen minutes later, Karma joins Amy at her table. She leans over and pecks her lips. "So where are we going now?" Amy shrugs while taking a sip from her coffee. "Well, we have some spare time, but we're having dinner at 6 and after this I have a little surprise for you." Amy moves her hand and places it on Karma's. "If it's a movie, then you really didn't think stuff through my dear." Amy chuckles and looks down, shaking her head. "Who would I be to take you out for a movie, when I have a whole Netflix cue just designed for your pleasure? But that's not what we're gonna do tonight. Just trust me, it will be awesome." Karma tries to hide a smirk, but it's clearly not working. "Okay fine, where will we eat?" Amy looks up again to meet Karma's eyes and smiles. "Since I know you haven't been to Moonshine yet, I wanted to go there. It's really pretty and yeah." Karma knows exactly with whom Amy was there before, but right now she doesn't care about it, all that matters is that she's with Amy and that she's Amy's priority. "What's wrong? Don't you want to go there? We can go somewhere else if you want to?" Amy has an expression of concern on her face and runs her thumb soothingly over the back of Karma's hand. "What? No, it's totally fine. It's said to be good, so why not?" Amy pulls away her hand and narrows her eyebrows. "You don't seem too happy about it to be honest. Like I said it's fine when you want to go somewhere else." Karma thinks for a moment, after work she's really not up to a fancy dinner, adding that she isn't dressed for one either. She takes Amy's other hand over the table and holds both of them, smiling awkwardly at Amy. "Would you mind just taking me to In-N-Out? I don't want to make a big deal of this, really. I crave a burger right now and spending time with you is enough for me. I don't need the fancy surroundings." Amy smiles at her and squeezes her hands lightly. "As you wish, princess." Karma frowns and tilts her head. "Princess?" "Yeah, don't you like it? I think Princess is a nice nickname for you, because you're beautiful, you have good manners, you're always on top of everything and you have a faithful servant who would do anything for you. I'd love you to be my princess." Karma chuckles and feels her face heating up and just a short time later she's blushing like a tomato. "You're an idiot." Amy returns a smile, leans forward to kiss Karma's cheek and whispers "I love you, too." Then she gets up completely and pulls Karma up to her feet. "We better get going, we have a time limit for your surprise, you know?" Karma just frowns, but she knows that is has no point in asking, she will never get an answer, so for the second time today, she gets dragged away from Amy. "Remember your shift tomorrow, and have fun!" Cas exclaims when they're half out of the door. "Yeah, thanks, see ya!" Karma waves and before she knew it she sat in Amy's car and they were driving to her favorite fast food restaurant.

At In-N-Out the couple ordered their usual orders, a cheeseburger and Animal Style fries. They sit down in their usual bunk and start eating. "So why no fancy stuff? I wanted to go full romantic tonight. What's wrong? You normally love stuff like that." Amy asks while biting into her burger. Karma looks down at herself. She's wearing a white blouse and a floral skirt, so that was not an excuse. She looks up again. "I don't know, I guess I just don't feel like being surrounded by couples and elderly and I don't know. I just want to hang out with you. Just because we're on a date doesn't mean we have to go full on romantic. You know that I just love hanging out with you." She shrugs and continues eating her fries. "Okay, change of topic. Will you finally tell me if we're gonna spend the next four years apart, or can I see you every day like I hope?" Karma starts smiling at her food and doesn't dare to look at Amy. "Well, I guess you have to cope with the fact that you're gonna see my ugly face throughout the years, day after day, hopefully 24/7." When she finally looks up from her food she sees that Amy bites her lip and smiles foolishly. "You're serious? We're gonna go to university together?" Karma looks in the air like she was thinking about it. "It might be that I was saying this right now, but you'll never know." She looks back down to Amy who raised her eyebrow, still smiling. "Of course buttface, like I would ever leave your side ever again." Karma winks at her and finds her hand under the table. Amy smiles even more now, but shakes her head. "Why do you always have to do this to me? Like I want to be mad at you for telling me so late, but I still want to hug you and everything because you won't leave my side for the next four years." Karma shrugs again and returns her attention to her food. They make a lot of jokes the rest of the dinner and talk about their time in university, like they're hopefully gonna be roommates and live together.

When dinner is over, Amy goes to her car and Karma silently follows, a bit scared of what's about to happen. "So can you tell me now where we're going?" She tries, even though she already knows the answer. "Forget it, but you'll see as soon as we're there. You know the word patience?" Karma sighs and gets into the car. The drive wasn't long, but quite silent, because Karma wants to figure out where they're going. She frowns when Amy parks her car. "What the hell are we doing at the Music Hall, Amy?" Amy just smiles and points at the banner in front of the building. It says: Ed Sheeran in concert, tonight 8pm." Karma frowns even more. "Okay, we're chilling in front of the hall while all those people listen to amazing music? I don't get it." Without saying a word, Amy pulls two tickets from her jacket. "We don't have to stay outside, we could go in if you want." With a gasp Karma's mouth falls open and for a full minute she tries to form words, but all she can manage is "What? How? When? What?" Amy just chuckles and get out of the car, while Karma is not able to move. Amy opens the passenger door and looks at Karma expectant. "So you're coming or can I take someone else to the concert?" Karma blinks a few times before looking at her best friend. "You got me tickets to Ed Sheeran? I thought they were sold out." Amy just shrugs in response. "They are, but I purchased them months ago. I didn't know they would be for a date, but I wanted to surprise you either way. So you're coming?" Karma practically jumps out of the car and runs after Amy who starts walking to the main entrance. If only Karma knew the real surprise that Amy had planned.

They had to wait quite long until the screaming fangirls and they could finally enter the Hall. "We have the best seats in the whole thing, so we don't have to cope with them" She points at the girls surrounding them. Karma looks around, while taking Amy's hand. The last thing she wants to do right now is losing her in the masses. They got to their places and Amy was right, they were perfect. They were centered and with perfect view to the stage. "I still can't believe I'm here. You are the best." Karma places a hand on Amy's cheek so Amy looks at her, then she leans in and places a soft kiss on Amy's lips. "Wow, a kiss before the date is over, how lucky I am." Karma rolls her eye, but has to smile. This really is perfect. Karma thinks and then the music starts. Karma had dreamed to see this man life and finally she does.

Ed Sheeran starts his setlist with I'm a Mess, a song Karma likes, but he has better songs in her opinion. The next song is Lego House. And during the chorus Karma starts to melt.

"I'm out of touch, I'm out of luck
I pick you up when you're down
and out of all these things I've done,
I think I love you better now."

Amy slowly laces her fingers together and Karma leans over to put her head on her shoulder. She sighs and is happy because she never thought she would hear those songs live. The next song he sings is Drunk, one of Karma's favorite songs. She sings all the songs along with her idol and is the happiest she could ever be … or she thinks. After the song, Ed starts talking about his tour so far, how this is one of the best concerts he gave and all the stuff singers say during a performance. Karma turns to Amy. "You make me so happy, it's unbelievable. This is perfect. I love you." Amy puts her arm around Karma and just smiles. If only you knew princess. The fourth song he sings is Bloodstream. The only question on Karma's mind right now is how somebody can write so many great songs. His set is amazing, I wish he plays Thinking out loud later. He says he wants to loosen things up a bit and Karma straightens up, because it has to be a good song. And it is, Take it Back is Amy's favorite song from the album and Karma knows it. And he keeps it up when he plays Don't directly after it. Karma just dances in her seat and is clearly the happiest person in this room. When she looks over to Amy, she seems a bit worried. She leans over to her, whispering "Is everything alright? You seem weird." Amy just shakes her head "no, everything's fine. I'm just so excited I guess." Karma is not at all satisfied with the answer, but maybe it's the song or something like that. After three more songs, He says he wants to tell us a story. "When there's something in this world that I believe in the most, then it's love. There may be a lot of couples in the audience, maybe just one half of the couple. Maybe there are people who are in love. Not maybe, most certainly. There are also people in the audience who want to be a couple, like two girls. One of them contacted me to surprise her future girlfriend. So, this is for you Karma." Every color drains from Karma's face when he says her name. "What?" She blinks a few time and Amy reaches over to her to close her mouth. "He doesn't mean me, does he?" She looks over to Amy, who now wears a big smile, while Ed starts playing Wake me up. "Amy tell me, did you do this?" She just nods and puts a finger to her lips, so she would stop talking.

"I should ink my skin with your name
Take my passport out again
And just replace it.
See I could do without a tan on my left hand,
where my fourth finger meets my knuckle.
And I should run you a hot bath and fill it up with
bubbles."

Amy puts a hand on Karma's thigh, who can't look away from Amy, shaking her head in disbelief. Silent tears running down her cheeks. Amy reaches over and swipes away the tears.

"Cause maybe you're lovable,
and maybe you're my snowflake,
and your eyes turn from green to grey
in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place
And you should never cut your hair,
Cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder.
And you will never know, just how beautiful you are to me
but maybe I'm just in love, when you wake me up."

Karma can't stand it anymore, she reaches over to connect their lips, moving them in sync. All the butterflies collecting in her stomach finally escape through her mouth and she feels more than just happy. When Karma pulls away the song is almost over. She places her forehead against Amy's and sings along to the last line of the song.

"Maybe I fell in love, when you woke me up."

Both of them smile foolishly at each other while Ed continues talking. "So these two girls know each other for 10 years and they're just 15. They fell in love with their best friend and are on their first real date tonight. I kinda feel honored to say this, because I'm really happy to have them here. Amy told me that Karma loves my music and that I inspire her, what is such a privilege to hear. Amy wants to ask Karma to be her girlfriend and I really hope she does say yes, but let's be honest, who wouldn't say yes to their best friend. Amy's gone out of her way to do this for Karma, I mean, who would contact a singer just for a simple date? I know I wouldn't. But either way, the next song is also for the two of them." The song starts and Karma recognizes it instantly. "Thinking out Loud, my favorite." She turns to Amy who has teary eyes now as well. "You are the biggest buttface Amy Raudenfeld. How did you do this?" "Just listen princess," Amy answers before kissing Karma softly, but short.

"And darling I will loving you til we're 70
And baby, my heart could still fall as hard as 23
And I'm thinking bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways,
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Well me, I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am."

By now both girls are a crying mess over this whole situation. Amy is just relieved that it worked and that Karma likes the surprise she made. And Karma overwhelmed with everything.

"So honey now
Take me into you loving arms
Kiss me under the lights of a thousand stars
Place your hand on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are."

"I think so, too." Amy frowns a bit, and shakes her head in confusion. "What?" Karma just chuckles at her friend. "we found love right where we are, and we're with each other." Amy's frowns is quickly replaced by a smile. "So, is this a yes?" Now it's Karma who is confused. "A yes for what?" Amy leans a bit closer to her. "Will you be my girlfriend goofball?" Karma leans in as well and their lips are almost touching when she whispers "do I have a choice?" "Nope." They close the distance between them for a quick soft kiss. "Have I told you that I love you?" Karma pulls back and sits straight again. "A few times I think." Amy sits up as well, but sighs while she does.

Both of them couldn't concentrate on the rest of the concerts they were way too busy stealing glances at each other. When it was over they decided not to drive home, not yet. They were going for a walk. Karma shivers a bit and Amy is quick to throw her jacket over her shoulders. "If I knew that it would be so cold outside today, I would have taken a jacket, now you're cold, aren't you?" Amy just smiles at her and shakes her head. "No, there's such a warmth in my heart when I'm with you, that I can't be cold." "You're so fucking cheesy, you know?" Karma bumps Amy's shoulder. "Karma?" Amy stops, looking at her now girlfriend. "What is it?" Karma stops, too, looking a bit worried. "I want to tell you something, something that the songs and everything can't tell you." Karma tilts her head a little, but nods as a sign for Amy to continue. "I love you, and I know I tell you that often enough, but I don't think you get it. I love everything about you, ever since I met you. I love your puppy eyes when you want something, I love the songs you write for every situation. I love the way you half close an eye and look up in the air when you think, how you wrinkle your nose when you concentrate, I love it when you're obsessed with something and don't give up until you have it. I love how embarrassed you get over your parents, but I know exactly that you will always love them. I love your jealousy when it comes to the time I spend with people who aren't you. I love the way you run your hand through your hair when you're frustrated and the way you fumble with your hands when you're nervous. I love the sparkle in your eyes when you talk about something you love and I love your smile, yeah. I love everything about you Karma Ashcroft. And that's the reason why I want to spend my life with you. And I'm more than happy to call you my girlf-" Before Amy could finish, Karma presses their lips together. "I love you too, you idiot." Karma places her hands on either side of Amy's face, while Amy places her hands on Karma's waist. Karma leans in again and feels Amy's smile when their lips connect again. And in this moment, Karma knows she really can't be happier.