♛ Sleeping beauty ♛ PV Closed

Ana briskly walked into the courtyard. These days, she was always on the move. Actually, scratch these days, Anastasia Beckett was someone who was always moving or doing something, regardless of what time period was being discussed. Her mother had once likened her to a hummingbird. Her busy nature had only intensified as she had gotten older. It had gotten even more intense when the young Gryffindor had discovered coffee.

Half the time, the girl was running on far too little sleep and far too much coffee. Sleep was lovely, to be certain. It just always seemed that there were other things to do. There was always another homework assignment or another book or another project.

As she entered the courtyard, she noticed a blonde girl stretched out like a sleeping cat in the sun. Ana paused a moment and tilted her head as she looked at the girl. She looked so peaceful. Ana couldn't relate. Still, the sleeping girl had caught Ana's attention and Ana was rather fascinated. Her light hair and sleepy smile made Ana think of a fairy tale she'd once read. It occurred to her that she probably looked like a total creep, staring at a sleeping person like that. She perched on a bench near the girl and opened the assignment she'd meant to work on that day. She half wondered how the girl was able to sleep with her head on that stone fountain. That had to hurt, right?

[Font= times new roman]It really wasn't the hard rock beneath her head, the bubbling of the fountain, or even the fellow Hufflepuff student that fell to her face a while ago that woke her up.

It was a strange feeling; a sort of aching that warned her of something. She felt it in her chest like a rabbit does when hearing a twig snap under the paw of a wolf, or like a deer when it sees a flash of sun hitting the barrel of a hunter's gun.

Airlia could sense she was being watched and it took her around three seconds after that to open her eyes.

Sure Airlia got many looks from people passing by, but whoever was staring at her now had been there a while. Long enough to make it weird for certain. Someone else might have been spooked when sitting up straight and seeing a girl looking at them while asleep instead of doing their homework that was laid on their lap as a decoy.

But Airlia just gently stretched her arms over her head with a long yawn stretching longer than an opera solo.

"Goodmorning!" Airlia said happily, blatantly speaking to her viewer. The girl sitting on a bench near her looked a bit tired and briefly Airlia wondered why she simply didn't just take a nap before remembering that not everyone was as gifted in the art of slumber as she.

"I'm Airlia. Who are you?"[/font]

Ana was rather startled when the girl stirred and then woke up. Before she could glance away and seem unshady, the girl made eye contact with her. Whelp, Ana supposed she would have to commit to this now. It would only seem weirder if she tried to act like she hadn't been staring like a total creep.

"Sleeping Beauty awakes!" Ana said brightly as though the two were good friends. This was a stranger, but she seemed nice enough and Ana could always use more friends. Not even necessarily a friend, just someone who didn't hate her guts.

"I'm Ana. And as lovely a name Airlia is, I think I like Sleeping Beauty better," Ana asked. This girl was clearly a unicorn or something. Not only could she apparently sleep anywhere, but she also woke up nice and friendly? Ana was something of a morning person, but if you tried to speak to her before she'd had a cup of coffee, there was a very strong chance she would become violent. It had happened before. "Just out of curiosity, how on Earth does one manage to sleep on a stone fountain? I can hardly sleep on a pillow, much less something that hard."

She closed her book and turned to be fully facing the girl. She seemed nice enough and Ana was quite frankly desperately bored with school. She was also going to confirm this girl wasn't a serial killer, since she wasn't trying to go back to sleep or threatening Ana for talking to her this soon after she had awoken.