2. Rain
The weather was being quite weird recently. Earlier in the week it had just been drizzly, weird enough in itself for Academia. Then a day later, it was raining pretty hard…. But now, it was full on storming. Hope had claimed that this was all normal, the world was just changing season, but this storm just seemed a little extreme for that, at least to Noel.
He had woken up again for the third or fourth time, considering he wasn't used to the noises caused by the storm, the rain, and the wind especially. He propped himself up on his arm, and glanced towards the window sleepily. He sighed, realizing that yet again, the storm was to blame for waking him, there was no danger. Noel groaned and flopped back down, his eyes wandered around the room for a bit until he felt a bit of movement next to him.
Serah wasn't having the easiest time sleeping either, although she wasn't having nearly as much trouble as him. She simply rolled over and attempted to fall back asleep.
Noel smiled, being reminded of her presence. He gently wrapped an arm around her, pulling her close to him.
"Good Morning Serah." He said quietly to her. He knew she was awake, even if she didn't want to be, she didn't move around much otherwise.
"No." Serah mumbled back at him, burying her face in her outstretched arm.
Noel chuckled lightly; he moved his hand lightly along her side. "That's not very nice."
"Stop iiitttt." She whined sleepily.
"Nu-uh. Wake up Serah." Noel continued to run his hand up and down her side.
Serah sighed and rolled over from her stomach to facing and looking up at Noel. "What?"
Noel smiled down at her and kissed her forehead. "Why are you always so grumpy in the morning?" he teased.
"Because I'm not a morning person?" Serah rubbed her eyes and just stared rather blankly up at Noel.
"So I've noticed." He remarked. He moved his hand to her hair, and started to fiddle with the long braid that was normally her ponytail.
Serah yawned. "The storm seems to have gotten worse; I hope nothing bad is happening outside."
"I'm sure everything is fine." Noel said, glancing toward the window again.
Serah decided to sit up. She rubbed her head, then got out of bed, and wandered over to the window, and looked out. Nothing seemed to be wrong, but it was pouring outside…. There was no way she wanted to even try going out in that. "Everything seems fine, but we should stay inside today, just incase…" Serah said, still looking out, her breath slightly fogging up the cold glass.
Noel had sat up as well, but didn't get up. He shook his head, chuckled at Serah. Who would look at the weather and want to go out? "That's probably a good idea."
Serah turned away from the window, slightly shivering; it was rather cold in the room, especially when she just got out of bed. She crawled back on the bed and sat next to Noel, leaning her head on his shoulder.
Noel leaned over and lifted up one of the blanket on the bed, and wrapped it around both of them. "What do you want to do then?"
"I don't know." Serah answered, holding onto his arm that she was leaning on. "There isn't really much we can do, is there?"
"No, not that I can think of." Noel moved again, leaning down this time to give Serah a soft kiss, and she kissed him back gladly.
"I wouldn't mind just taking a day to relax with you." He added.
Serah giggled lightly. "I wouldn't mind that either." She said, smiling up at him.
"You're so cute." He smiled back at her and leaned his forehead on hers.
Serah sighed, beginning to relax again. She closed her eyes, just enjoying Noel's presence. He lightly stroked the side of her face with the tips of his fingers before gently kissing her again.
"Noel." She called quietly.
He backed up off her and looked a little concerned. "Hhhmm? What's wrong?"
Serah smiled. "Nothing, I just wanted to say I love you."
Noel smiled back. "I love you too Serah, very much." He linked his hands with hers happily.