[Lake] Late night, beautiful scenery (Jake)

[yuelana]

Insomnia on occasion sucked, why because Lana wasn't doing well in her classes. Sometimes she would sleep through the first class which was why she was failing it terribly, she needed to find something to do to help her sleep. Instead of trying to find ways, she found herself walking around the school cautiously and trying not to get caught by the Professors, or even worse, the Headmaster. Making her way out to the grounds and toward the lake, it was a peaceful night out tonight, but it felt like a freaking party was up in her head. Her thoughts raced through her mind, thoughts of life in general. Like what she would do after she completed Hogwarts, what sort of occupation would she get into, starting a family. She was a little short of meeting the expectations of everything so far, so what was the point of even thinking about things like that.

A gentle sigh came from the brunette girl as she took a seat by the waters edge, her brown eyes skimmed over the surface of the lake, taking in the reflection of the night sky filled with stars. Lana closed her eyes trying to ease her mind of all the racing thoughts she had. The wind blew softly over the grounds, caressing the young girl like a sheet of silk. Her long brown hair whirled around her shoulders as it died down a little more. Opening her eyes back up, Lana scanned the grounds for life, unfortunately it was too dark for her to see anything. Not even a silhouette to even catch a glimpse of one. Glancing back down in the water, she looked at her reflection noticing the small bags under her eyes. Rushing her fingers through the water to erase the reflection, she looked back up to hear a twig snap.

[Jake Sawyer]

It had been a tiresome day for Jake, he was thankful now he was lay in his bed, quiet snores eminating from some of the other students who were now sound asleep, but Jake couldnt drift off, despite the fact he had been lay in bed, his arm over his tightly shut eyes, for over an hour. His body was almost screeching at him for rest, for sleep, yet no sleep came. Jake's mind was fully alert, though his body felt beat, his mind was not. He kept on going over the things that had happened, twice he nearly fell into one of those traps laid down by the Kennedy's, wasnt the boy supposed to be a prefect? He gave a quiet 'hmph', obviously Prefects in this school could get away with murder.

The last few weeks he had noticed changes in some people, thankfully the changes in which these people were having had not yet affected Jake, so he just let them get on with it, but Cairo Blackwell was a good example of these changes; usually a damsel in distress, wanting nothing to do with Slytherins at all, preferred to hang around that idiotic Gryffindor prefect and be as unSlytherinlike as she possibly could. But now, she was talking more to the Slytherins, acting more like a Slytherin and avoiding that damned Gryffindor like the plague he was. Jake had to admit, he was shocked. Though Cairo wasnt the only one to go through these changes, even though Jake rarely spoke to anyone, made little attempt at conversation and shrugged people off, he did watch and he did learn about things. He had been watching the castle closely. Something was going on. He just didnt know what.

Deciding sleep was going to evade him, Jake shrugged the blankets off him and shoved himself out of bed, before throwing a pillow at the Snake who kept snoring and grabbed his coat on the way out. It wasnt long before the chill in the air became apparent to Jake, but he seemed not to care too much as he walked through the castle corridors, ignoring the abusive calls from the portraits, until one got the better of him and Jake turned, pointed his wand at the picture and said, "Unless you like your canvas hanging on that wall undamaged, I do suggest you learn some respect, or you may find it being a little singed." The portrait man backed off as Jake continued walking.

Walking outside, the night air brisk, biting at the boys cheeks. It was dark, there was no moonlight and the stars were covered in a thick mass of cloud, frowning to himself he started walking, listening for sounds, but the only one he could hear was water, knowing it was the lake he headed off into that direction.

Once he was in the confines of the trees, he lit the tip of his wand with a lumos spell, accidentally standing on a twig as he walked. Soon he came out of the trees and onto the lake front, but as soon as he did he saw he was not alone. A fellow Slytherin, though Jake knew who she was he had never spoken to her. Not that it mattered much, nobody found offense in it unless they tried to speak to him and he just ignored them. She was looking up at Jake, and though his face was expressionless, he was looking down at her too. Now Jake was never one to strike up a conversation but it seemed as though this girl had problems, well as long as she didnt try spilling them onto him he would be fine.

"Nice night." Was all Jake said.