Hope you like this, lovely!
The mattress moved again
as Bellamy shifted once more. Clarke opened one incredibly tired eye and glared
at him. He was now on his back after apparently not getting comfortable on
either side or his front.
“Would you please get comfortable and go the fuck
to sleep already,” she growled at him.
They had driven the better
part of two days to get to Monty and Miller’s wedding, the whole group of them
hiring a van and driving down to Monty’s home town, where the wedding was going
to be held. The Greens and the Jordans were also kindly putting up Miller, his
family and close friends as the small little rural town didn’t have many places
to stay. However, it had meant people bunking together in rooms.
Clarke and Bellamy were
sharing a small little room that just about fitted a double bed in it, which she
really had not thought would be a problem until Bellamy had started tossing and
turning and generally stopping her from sleeping.
He shifted again, this
time on his side and facing her and said, “I can’t get comfortable.”
“I suggest you find a
position you can sleep in and fast,” she threatened. “I will kick you – hard – if you keep this up.”
He observed her face and
obviously did not think she was serious because he turned over once more. He
really should’ve known better, everyone in their circle of friends knew how
important sleep was to Clarke. Put it down to the nature of her shift work at
the hospital, but when she went to bed, she expected to sleep and many a
roommate had paid the consequences for not realising this.
Her foot shot out and
kicked him hard in the back of knee.
“Dammit, Clarke! What was
that for?”
“I warned you,” she said unrepentantly
as he turned his head over his shoulder to scowl at her.
“I didn’t think you meant
it.”
“Obviously, I did. Now.
Go. To. Sleep,” she said.
He muttered something but
seemed to settle down, which allowed her to relax once more into the pillow and
allow her eyelids to droop shut.
Then he sighed and wiggled
his hips.
Clarke’s eyes shot open
angrily and she hissed, “If you don’t stop moving this instant, I’m going to
send you to swap with Maya.”
He turned over to face
her, his eyes wide with horror. “You wouldn’t.”
“Just try me, Bellamy!”
Everyone knew the horror
stories about Jasper. He sleep like a terror; his limbs flailing around and
every now and again, he would shout out in his sleep. He also liked to have a
night light, stating that growing up in the middle of the country had left him with
a fear of total darkness. No one quite understood how Maya put up with it. She
claimed it was an eye mask, ear plugs and an ability to sleep through anything.
Bellamy eyed her
speculatively, a look she recognised from when he wanted to ask her something
but was afraid of what her answer would be.
“What is it?”
“I normally sleep
clutching a pillow,” he said hopefully, with a pair of puppy dog eyes.
She sighed. Of course Bellamy was a snuggler.
“Get over here then.”
Giving her a
big grin, he pulled her close and buried his face into her hair. Resting her
head on his shoulder, she breathed in the clean and slightly musky smell that
she always enjoyed when she borrowed a hoodie or something.
This is nice, she thought. She and
Bellamy did easy affection, a hug here and there, sometimes a kiss on the
cheek, but she had never been this close to him. She realised it was something
she could get used to.
“Happy now?”
she asked, but only received the slow deep breathing of someone asleep for a
response.
Clarke
finally drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face.