you're warm.. (Brighton)

[ISABELLA FINNIGAN]

Bella didn't know why she felt so cold. She was in stretch pants, a white t-shirt, and her barefeet up in her dormitory, her blankets around her, but she was still cold. Sighing, Bella rubbed at her eyes, licking her lips as she listened to the breathing of her fellow dormmates. They were all warm and fast asleep, yet she couldn't seem to sleep. In fact, her eyes were a bit watery, as if she'd been crying.

Feeling as if she couldn't sleep, Bella slipped out of her bed and carried one of the pink sheets that was on her bed down into the common room. It was very late, and the fire in the common room was half dead, it's flickering flames needing more wood to burn if it were going to continue to burn on into morning. Laying her sheet on the couch, Bella walked over to the pile of wood beside the fireplace, barefoot, picking up a few small cut pieces of wood, chunks of a few logs, and tossed them on top of the fire in the fireplace. Then, hoping to get it going, she poked the logs and the embers with the poker before she finally thought the fire was beginning to burn warmly again.

It was then and only then that she went and got her sheet, walking over before the fireplace, about five and a half feet from it, Bella sat down on the floor, wrapping herself in the sheet as she shivered, trying to get warm. Why was it that when everyone else was warm, she felt so cold?

[BRIGHTON ALEXANDER GREYBACK]

Brighton yawned sitting up in bed. He looked around and saw Daniel asleep. He smiled and grabbed his quilt and walked down the stairs to the common room. He stopped seeing someone by the fire then smiled seeing someone by the fire. He recognized that blonde head anywhere. Walking over he smiled. ”Bells? Can’t sleep?”he asked moving and sitting next to her. He wrapped his quilt around him and looked at her. He wasn’t cold but he just felt like carrying his quilt around.

[ISABELLA FINNIGAN]

Bella really didn't know if she had expected to spend all night and all morning alone, sitting before the fire for warmth. Though when Brighton came down with his quilt and sat down beside her, wrapping himself up in it, she found that she didn't mind the company. In fact, she prefered that he was there. It was nice to have someone else to talk to, so that she wasn't left by herself with her own thoughts all night. Licking her lips, she looked back at him, blinking once before giving him a very shy, yet inquisitive smile.

"No, I couldn't sleep. I feel too cold to sleep. What about you?" she asked, looking at Brighton's face and his blanketed form. "Rumor has it you've been very warm lately. That you've been getting a bit cozy with a friend."

[BRIGHTON ALEXANDER GREYBACK]

Brighton smiled at her and shrugged. ”I sometimes randomly wake up in the middle of the night. No big deal.”he said looking at her. He glanced at the fire and froze for a moment then swallowed hard and pulled the quilt tighter around him. How’d she find out? Swallowing again he looked at her. ”What rumor? What friend?”he asked looking at her curious. Brighton wanted to know how she found out. No body had been there.

[ISABELLA FINNIGAN]

Bella watched when Brighton froze after hearing the comment about him and his friend. By the look on his face, she'd struck a nerve, was speaking about something he was uncomfortable discussing, or had overheard something she hadn't been meant to hear in the first place. "I think that Daniel was the one down here with you, wasn't he?" Bella asked, wondering how Brighton would react when she finished revealing what she knew. "I hadn't been able to sleep, so I went to the loo. On my way back I heard loud moaning down here. The sound of moaning and of the couch rocking a bit. It didn't take much for me to put the clues together. So, how long have you been a couple, and when you asked Daniel to make it harder, did he?"

[BRIGHTON ALEXANDER GREYBACK]

Brighton hugged his knees being worried about what she was talking about. He hadn’t wanted her to find out about him and Daniel. ”Yea. He was doing some homework.”he said to her looking at her and looked at the fire as she continued. Taking in a breath he swallowed as she finished. Great. Just great. ”Me and Danny aren’t a couple. That…that was the first time he had done that to me…I wasn’t expecting it.”he said glancing down and bit his lip. Sighing he didn’t know what to do or say. He liked Isabella a whole lot but she had heard about him and Daniel. She must think he’s gay now.

[ISABELLA FINNIGAN]

"What was he doing to you though? What was he doing that had you moaning that often and that loudly? What did you want to be harder?" Bella asked, only having heard part of what had happened, and having seen none of it. She could see he was uncomfortable discussing it, but she was curious, and what was the best way to cure curiousity? To get answers, that's how. "I never knew homework could make one moan like that. You sound sad though, do you have a crush on Daniel?" Bella asked, wondering what Brighton's sexuality truly ws.

"Are you upset because after whatever you were doing, he didn't ask you out?"