Well, it would be prudent to investigate more, get proof, her father says - her mother wants her to leave the city for her health. 

It's her first semester, she's going back and she's going to finish out the term.

Anxious glances at each other.

She'll be fine. Promise.

- If she gets worse over the last two and a half weeks of term, she'll leave?

She will.

...Alright.

Okay, then.

(Dani is going to need to do some Thinking about why she fought so hard for this victory. Later, where her parents can't see.)

Hopefully the rest of the holiday is cheerful.

Mostly. A pall of worry hangs over the household (and her father steps out for several unusually long visits to friends).

Mrrrr.

Maybe if she just starts texting Carmilla again like nothing ever happened the feeling will go away.

Carmilla leaves it to Dani to mention (or not mention) any awkwardness between them, picking up the flirting and gossiping where they left off - Carmilla is just still staying on campus, apparently, though she's taking advantage of the lack of school to do stuff like visit local art museums. 

Dani definitely does not mention any awkwardness at all. What awkwardness, haha.

Carmilla should send her pictures. And commentary.

This gets her a tiny deluge of pictures (basically nearly everything in the museums) and historical information about the artists and the art itself and the design movements and what's depicted, and scathingly hot takes about the art (and the artists; her grudge against this one guy who died in the early 1900s sounds almost personal), and asides about how Dani is so much prettier than a lot of the girls depicted in this one portrait gallery, and how Dani needs to let Carmilla take her to a museum sometime, a lot of these pieces really need to be seen in person for the full effect, especially the textiles and sculpture, and no ones invented a camera that really gets the color of paintings right -

Awww.

Yeah, this is why she likes Carmilla. Good to be reminded.

Does Dani want to meet her for a museum date before break ends?

...Sure. Sunday evening?

perfect <3

Then Dani will slip away in advance of officially returning to school.

Carmilla's sitting on a fancy bench outside the museum, and she stands and waves excitedly when she sees Dani.

Dani skips over.

"Hi!"

"Hi, caterpillar." Kiss?

Kiss.

Giggle. 

"I'm glad you could slip away." She takes Dani's hand.

"Me too."

"Daddy wanted to pull me out of school."

" - What? - Are you okay?"