Lilly woke with a gasp. For the past three weeks of being in the dorm house she couldn't sleep well, she found herself sleeping after classes rather than at night. Her friends were only just noticing but they didn't ask too much, to her relief.

She was finally getting her breathing and heart rate back to normal when there was a light knock on her door, causing both to race. She squinted through the dark to try and focus on the figure in the door way. She could make out James, smiling weakly at her. "You okay?" he asked, seemingly worried.
"Yeah" Lilly mumbled "Just a bad dream…" She trailed off; she didn't want him to ask what the dream was about. "Why you still awake?" she asked trying to avoid the subject.

"Can't sleep…" he answered quietly as he looked at her. The only light in the room was from the street lamp outside, through her curtains, which gave the room a blue tint. Before he knew what he was doing he had crossed her room and was sitting next to her on her double bed, leanings against the headboard. Lilly leaned her head on his shoulder as he snaked his arm round her shoulders and held her close to him. Lilly felt better in James' arms, she always did.

James looked down at Lilly and couldn't help but smile. She looked so perfect curled into his side. Lilly sat up straighter and looked him in the eye, she searched them for emotion but only saw happiness, she couldn't see love, lust or want. James felt his heart stutter in his chest as Lilly sat up higher so their faces were inline, only inches apart. She whispered into the darkness "I'm going to miss you." James looked into Lilly's pale blue pools and inched forward. Lips millimetres apart. Lilly closed her eyes and wished him to close the gap.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Lilly's eyes opened wide and both of them stared at her door. James sighed and moved away. "What the hell was that?!" Lilly almost shouted.

"I have no clue, I'll go see." James whispered back and got up and snuck to the door.

Lilly smiled at the open door as James said "What the fuck dude, its two a.m. What the hell you doing?"

"Erm…" Liam replied, "Erm… Erm.. I don't know" he laughed "I dropped something down the stairs"

"Like what"

"Erm… a laptop"

"Smart ass"

"Hey. Shut up." Both of them started laughing and Lilly smiled back in her room. She subconsciously put her thumb on her lower lip, wondering what would have happened if Liam hadn't thrown his laptop down the stairs. In that moment Lilly both loved and hated Liam.

Lilly rolled onto her side and stared at the clock. She closed her eyes and sighed, only five past two. She relaxed into the bed as she thought about her, James and Liam massing about and having fun. The bed behind her dipped but she didn't move or open her eyes. "Lils you awake?" James asked quietly, she said nothing so James scooted closer behind her and Lilly smiled into the night when James' arm laid over her waist protectively and his face was in the crook of her neck. He kissed lightly and whispered "Goodnight baby girl, sweet dreams." Then after a pause "I…" Lilly missed the end, they were too muffled by sleep…