Room 323 [Saturday, Morning]

[comeoutwrong]

Effy's room was dark and freezing, and for the moment she was only putting up with it for the moment simply because she was pretty sure she'd feel colder if she got up and wandered around the dorms.

Not being very good at layers as a general rule, she was probably going to suffer this weekend.

Wasn't doing as badly as she could be, at the moment. Fortunately, she had a hell of a lot of candles, and found herself a long sleeved shirt, leggings and an oversized sweater she'd probably stolen from Tony at some point to pull way down over her knees and wrap her arms around as she fiddled with her phone before the batteries died on her.

Give her a minute, and she'd probably be back under her blankets. Weekend, so no one was going to force her to go anywhere. Could have had worse plans to keep her going until she ultimately got bored.

[[Door is closed, occupant cold, post can be open!]]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"It's been a difficult week." It'd actually been a pretty good week after all the Griff shit. "I had people telling me no one likes me and I'm an asshole and glaring. That stuff just hurts my feelings."

Yeah, right. He wore those as a badge of honor.

"You're here now though," he pointed out, smiling some under the movements of her thumb. "Doesn't have to be as hard now."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Definitely not looking so upset about it now." Possibly because he never had, but it was bolstering to assume her being here helped. "Improvement."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Some people like me so I know she was wrong there," he replied, shrugging one shoulder a bit. It was easy to shrug off that sort of crap when he knew it was wrong. "Gonna push me that last little bit back into happiness, then?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Changed your mind about being happy?" She'd get there. Been lingering up close enough teasing for long enough. But somehow, felt the need to check on that one.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Dunno. Haven't gotten there yet so far. Not sure it's even possible." Glibly said as that was, he actually wasn't sure if he could be happy. Never had it happen before. "Think you could make me?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shrugged one shoulder, not really having much belief in all that either. Nothing could be perfect, but did you really need that for a bit of happiness?

Could try, though, and start that try leaning closer to kiss him, lightly for now, just in case he wasn't kidding about that lip hurting. She could be considerate.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Considerate, indeed. His lip had stopped really hurting a few days ago, only giving him trouble in occasional stabs of pain. Thankfully healing was a fast process.

All that made it easier to ignore the cold and return that kiss, just as lightly. His lips, cold as they'd been, warmed easily at this and Alex made a note of the fact that he'd found another reason to kiss her today.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Cold had some benefits, however minor and overshadowed by the negatives. That might actually be one of them.

Gave her the incentive to press closer against him and slide one leg over his. The more touching, the more body heat to share, right? Effy's reasoning as she wrapped her arms further around him.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

More touching was just fine with Alex, cold or not. In fact, when there was more touching, it was pretty easy to forget it was cold. He could concentrate on deepening that kiss, warm lips against warm now. He could reach down for that leg she'd slid over him and pull it tighter against him, bringing her closer.

He could use the arm he had around to tuck her closer, sharing more body heat and providing a little more warmth. Her reasoning was right on track with Alex's. He kind of liked the cold now.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Better now?" she asked, just barely pulling away, only to press another quick kiss to his lip.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm pretty good," he assured her, nodding slowly. "Warmer yet?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Getting there," she answered, grinning briefly and wasting very little time shifting back into kiss him again. Confirmation recieved, she might as well do a little more, curling her fingers into his shirt. Working for both of them in various ways.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"If you think you're hands are warm enough, you can get them under my shirts," he mumbled against her lips, not one to really turn down skin on skin. She'd had her hands in his shirts and around him that he figured they couldn't be ice cubes anymore.

And that was his time wasted before, yeah, he wanted to kiss her again. Cold made him a little affectionate and clingy, it seemed. Or maybe that was just her and the quiet moments they tended to have.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Couldn't turn down an invitation like that. Her hands weren't so cold as they were, at least, which was good enough she thought. Great time to release his shirt and slide her palms under to touch skin for real.

If she kept them moving, maybe he wouldn't notice they were still a little on the chilly side?

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

He noticed but they weren't nearly as cold as when she'd put on the back of his neck. He figured they'd warm easily and he could deal with the chill if she kept her hands there.

"Better?" he asked, eyes flicking down to where he knew her hands were before looking back at her. "See, not wearing that many layers. You managed to get your hands on me."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Barely," she teased, circling her thumb against his side. "Mission figuring out which layer was the last one," she claimed. Exaggerating, just a little.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And yet you persevered," he pointed out, leaning a bit into that hand of hers. "Tells me that if you wanted to find something bad enough, you would. And look at that, you did. Should I give you a prize?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't say no." Of course.

Well... depending on what that prize was, she might take that back. Nothing to prove her wrong in that so far. "Why, got something for me?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure I could find something," he decided, mentally running through the things that were in his wallet and on his phone. Not much but he was pretty confident he could put something together. "You want a condom or something?"

Alex, who was pretty damn good at schooling his face into a mask of impassiveness, couldn't quite keep the grin off his face at that.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Full of thoughtful and heartfelt gifts, aren't you?" she joked, unable to quite restrain a smile of her own. Considering how spur of the moment this all was, he could have done worse... Somehow.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You're the one digging in my pockets," he pointed out, moving his hips just to prove that point. "You can go looking through my wallet if you wanna find something you like. Or go through my phone if you think you might find anything interesting there."

Alex leaned a little closer, snagging a kiss just because he could before smirking again. "I'm warming you up, maybe I should get a prize too."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy considered that, and before getting back to her own explorations, wriggled as much as would let her get at the phone in her hoodie pocket and slip it into his hand.

"All I've got in reach," she explained, because no fucking way was she getting up and getting cold again. Be another ten minutes before he'd put up with her hands on him again.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Not a bad prize. Let's see what kind of life you lead when I'm not looking," he decided, clicking her phone on and keeping it close enough to her and the blankets so his hand wouldn't freeze.

She was damn right though because if she'd gotten up and gotten cold, his skin would have been off limits for awhile again.

"I guess you can find your own prize now," he said, having no real idea what he was looking for or at on her phone but clicking around anyway.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Sure I'll work something out." Couldn't be that hard to find something to keep her entertained, even if she ended up checking out if he'd taken a decent photo on his ID.

Wouldn't find anything too incriminating from her side. Few texts from people back home; Panda talking about her sex life (and requesting advice), photos in varying degrees of fuzzy from nights out, of Bristol and several friends, and an embarrassingly high score at snake.

Finding her own prize was the more interesting prospect, and she fished out his lighter to give it a little shake before moving her hands back against him again, missing a little of that warmth again.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

His photo ID wasn't half bad. No smile but for someone that didn't mug for pictures often, he was pretty photogenic. It got him what he needed for the most part.

Alex scrolled through a few of those texts, snickering as he did while glancing down to see what her hands were up to besides using him as a space heater (not that he was complaining).

"If I'd predicted I would be giving prizes, I would have stuffed my pants with lots of fun things." Yeah, that was a lead in to something dirty. "Oh wait, there's already something fun in there."