Secret Climbing [[Ashleigh]]

[brady]

He slowly walked down the dark hallway trying not make any noise. It was easy enough. He was always that ay, making no noise and sneckin up on people. His eyes quickly adjusted to the night's light, quicker than most peoples.

He wore black tight jeans and a black shirt that hugged every part of him. He wore a black cap that covered his bleach blond hair. He had a black sweatshirt with him incase it was cold outside. He wore black vans that didn't even let a twig crack.

He slid down the railing of the stairs. He grinned. He hadn't done that for a while expecially on suck a railing. He hopped of near the end landing swiftly an quickly movin to the door that lead out into the light of the moon.

He walked out taking everything in swiftly. The grass looked grey and the trees were like surprises hiden in the shadow. He walkedon down the path toward the lake. It was great. Just like he had remembered it. He hung by a tree in the shawdow, making sure he wasn't seen as he examined the lake more closely now. The surface sparkled in the moonlite. It was prfect.

He bite his bottom lip. He wondered what to do next. He had accomplished the part of coming here without being seen. Now, what was there to do. He looked at the tree and started toclimb up into the shawdow. When he was half ay up he rested on a branch and parted the leaves so he could see anyone come by while he looked around and whistled under the moon.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh walked down corridors and such soudlessly. Her long black and white socks went over her knees, the rest ofher legs concealed by the leggings she was wearing. She wore her tight dress and black notebook converses. Her black hair was plaited and entwined with gold thread. It stood out well against her midnight dress. Stopping near a window she saw a figure heading towards the lake. She watched as it reached a tree and climbed up. Then she ran outside and went from shadow to shadow until she was behind the tree. Climbing up quietly, she stopped behind the figure. Putting a hand on his shoulder she whispered

"Hello there. bit late to be out isn't it?"

[brady]

He sat there looking out. He hadn't heared nayone following him out or climbing up the back of the tree. He sat there, his hands gripped tight onto the branch making his kunckles white. He was just having a restless night and he was very jumpy. It happens when you have to much suger and than have to restrain yourself so your not caught.

"Hello there. bit late to be out isn't it?"

He looked down onto the grass enough to see a shawdow behind him. He first thought it was a tree but than he felt someone tap his shoulder. He didn't turn around but looked forward. He didn't want to know who it was. He was caught he was caught. What could he do except, except it.

He heared her whisper. He grined and finally got up and turned to face her. He was in the shawdow and she couldn't see his face too much. He saw a first year. He smilied and looked at her. "Souldn't be asking you that?" He finally asked rasing his eyebrows. When you were a night creature like him, you couldn't stay locked up inside all the time. He comes outo nce in a while.

He looked at the girl than let himself fall back and he quickly landed on his feet. He turned away from the tree waiting for her to join him. He pulled his black plain sweatshirt over his head messing his hair up a little. He pulled hi hair back in place letting them fall over his eyes. He pulled his hood up and waited.

[ashybean1994]

"I asked you first!" She retorted. "But if you must know I can never sleep. I'm always the last one to bed and the first one to wake."

She jumped from the tree, landing soundlessly on the ground. She dusted off her dress and put her hand out.

"I'm Ashleigh, Ashleigh Yarwood. Now answer my question!"

She grinned and stamped her foot in her usual fake childish manner.

He was a second year for sure, but she couldn't tell you what house.

"it's nice here at night isn't it?"

[brady]

"I asked you first!"

He laughed. He could just see them getting into a fight saying Nah Ah.... Ya haaaa....Over nad over till finally one of them gave up. The girl looked like a determend kind. They would than be at it for a while. He was never the one to give up without a fight. He grinned but pushed the thought away.

"But if you must know I can never sleep. I'm always the last one to bed and the first one to wake."

He grinned. "Really?" He asked questioning her. He raised one of his eyebros but turned it down and just smilied pushing the question past them. "I'm up at night and sleeping during day usually unless I've got things to do that require my pressence during the day." He said quitely but he was telling th truth. Sometimes he went through days without any sleep. His sleeping schedule wasn't the same as normal people and never stayd the same either.

"I'm Ashleigh, Ashleigh Yarwood. Now answer my question!"

He smilied. He thought that he had her all figured out. He shook his head and laughed when she put some foot stomping to go with her attitude. He grinned back at her. "Nice to meet you, Ashleigh. I'm me and i'm out here because I feel like being out here." He said matching her foot stomping and attitude with his own but instead o stomping his foot he crossed his arms over his chest and stuck his tongue out. This was going to be intresting. He waited to see what she would do next.

"it's nice here at night isn't it?"

He smilied. A change in the topic. He nodded his head. "Yes, I love full moon." He said looking up at the sky. "Expecially when the stars are out too." He said loving the stars. He would have kept lokoing up for an etrinity but he got a cramp in his neck. He looked back down and back at Ashleigh.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh rolled her eyes.

"And who is you?" She stuck out her tongue. She was amazingly good at getting her own way at home. Being the oldest of three girls she would usually ask her mum for things and explain that there were things she needed to do without the Gruesome Twosome. They weren't twins but her sisters just looked for ways to torture her.

"Yaha. The stars are nice. I like the rain too. Just standing in it is lovely."

She giggled remembering one time when her and her boyfriend had gone to Hogsmede and got caught in the rain. She'd sat in the middle of the road and later her and Lloyd had both staggered back to the castle, soaking wet and shivering.

"So you have any siblings, Whatsit?"

[brady]

"And who is you?"

He laughed. She wasn't going to give up. He shurgged. "Who is you is me." He said simply trying to get her confused. It was quite simple. He too had a younger sibling than of course cousins come into the picture. He milied and waited for her to argue more with him about his name. It was quite intresting really.

"Yaha. The stars are nice. I like the rain too. Just standing in it is lovely."

He shurgged as she giggled. She was probably thinking of something funny. "Rain isn't too bad." He said agreeing with her. He stuffed his hands into the pockets of his tight jeans. He looked around. It was getting darker. He wondered how long he had been out here. He sighed and looked out at the lake but soon turned his attension back to Ashleigh.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh smiled. He was not going to confuse her.

"Okay so who is me is you? Fine. So you're a 13 year old with two sisters and can feel emotions. Sure. What's your name?"

She wasn't going to give in until she got a guys name.

"Seriously, you look like a guy. You got a girlfriend Whatsit?"

[brady]

He liked the name she had given him. Whatsit. He laughed. He rolled his eyes and picked up a rock. It was nice and flat. He bend his legs a little. He swung his arm back and let the rock skitter across the surface sneding thousands of ripples across till they hit the edge an dimmed down.

"Okay so who is me is you? Fine. So you're a 13 year old with two sisters and can feel emotions. Sure. What's your name?"

He lauaghed. "I've already told you my name but you seem rulucent to except it as my name. I am me, me is me, and you is me. I am me." He said shurgging. He lookd at her not brecking his gaze andchallenging her. He smilied and picked up another rock and let it skim across the surface it finally plopped into the water.

"Seriously, you look like a guy. You got a girlfriend Whatsit?"

He looked at her and shurgged. "what do you think?" He asked turning back to the lake and picking up a rock. He picked anoter one this time too and gave it to her. She just stood there and skipping rocks were fun. He took his and let it fly skipping nine times till it plopped down into the water.

[ashybean1994]

Ashleigh stared at the rockfor a while and then shrugged.

"I can't. I don't know how."

She made to pass it back to him.

"Whatsit I've know you for 5 minutes. I don't know if you have a girlfriend or not. I don't know enough about you."

She watched him carefully as he skipped rocks, trying to work out how he did it.

[brady]

He looked at her for a moment than grabbed the rock out of the air. He threw it lightly back at her. "I'll teach you, watch..." He said. He slowly went throug he steps of skipping a rock. He bent his knee. He turned to his side. He got his hand level with the ground and swung th rock in. It skipped five times before ploping down. It wasn't one of his best.


He sighed. He shurgged. He didn't feel like playing along anymore. "I'm Brady. I dont have a girlfriend." He said simply throwing another rock in. He sighed and pushed a hand through his black hair. He turbned back to her. He didn't feel like skipping rocks anymore.

[ashybean1994]

She smiled and placed the rock in her pocket. She'd use it some other time.

"okay sooo.... Brady. Nice name."

She liked different names. ones that you don't imagine for the person.

She pulled herself back onto a branch of the tree. Ashleigh watched carefully as he ran his hand through his hair.

"Is summat up Brady?"

[brady]

He looked at her and raised his eyebrows. Personally he hated his name. It was so old fashioned and so many people in his family had his name. He wanted a name like his brothers. It wasn't unique but it wasn't Brady. He sighed and shurgged and turnedb ack to luke and the rocks.

He looked around them. No on had spotted them... yet. They were lucky so far. He thought about her name. Hel iked it. He had never heared of anyone named Ashleigh. He msilied. He remember when it was Christmas and there family were gathered together, talking and his mom shouted Brady and seven people shouted what. He hated that the most...

He turned an found her on a branch back in the tree. He shurgged nothing was wrong... At least nothing was wrong right now. He smilied and and shugged. "What abut you?" He asked back, being polite. He climbed up onto the tree and sat on a branch not to far away so they could talk.