Beauty, but funny.

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“To go find some fireworks” Trent grinned, “It could be a lot of fun.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Oh I don’t know.” Bella looked a little hesitant then groaned. “Fine. But if we get in trouble, I’m ditching you.” She got to her feet and gave him a slight push to go ahead. 

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“That is what I have been told before” Trent snickered before looking at her, “So what do you say? Want to?” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Want to... what?” Bella raised a brow slightly at Trent. 

[nomadic-dancer-blog]

Essie Moore was always a night owl in every sense of the world, and as a young one would traverse the sketchiest of streets alone just to possibly make a friend. Now that she had been a big girl for quite some time, she spent her nights socializing in dive bars and dancing home in a happy little haze. Some nights, she’d disappear into the apartment of some interesting person. Tonight may have been one of those nights if she wasn’t on her way to the convenience store for a nice bottle of good ol’ nyquil for what felt like one of the worst colds she had in ages. Clad in thick sweaters, leggings under a floor length skirt, and a couple of thick scarves, she made her way down the sidewalk, looking and feeling like a moving pile of fabric.

[bookwormbella-blog]

Bella didn’t know why she was out this late, usually she was wrapped up in bed with a good book by this time but she had a craving for something sweet. Coming out of the store, she looked at the candy bar in her hand and shrugged, it will do for now, looking up, she gave Essie a smile, recognising her from school. “Bonsoir.” She greeted.

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Not really. You just can’t think about it and just… Go” Trent smirked, “Like right now, you and I could go running into the water. Or go find a firework and set it off. Anything. Something. As long as you don’t think about the consequences or anything like that it is doable.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Oh dear.” Bella shook her head slightly at the thought of doing all those things. “You’re quite something else.”

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Leopard. Dalmatian. Whatever. They both can’t change their spots and the statement still stands” Trent shrugged, “If you are comfortable with books then read. But I think you are down for adventure as well, since you came with me to the beach not too long ago. But that is just what I am thinking.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

She laughed a little, but Bella had to agree, it was her own life and why should she have to change it? “I did come to the beach with you, yeah. I’m trying to branch out, which is a lot harder than I thought.” 

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Now why would you be called that? You went to night surfing with me. That is definitely not boring and predictable, doll” Trent laughed, shaking his head. “Look, the way I see it, just be who you are. Can’t change a dalmatians spots so why are you trying to change yourself? Do what you wanna do.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Because I enjoy having a comfortable life, I enjoy reading books and getting into those worlds.” She shrugged her shoulders. “I think you mean a leopard can’t change their spots, but I get what you mean.”

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Yeah? Why is that anyways?” Trent asked, watching the fire as they talked, “Parties aren’t too bad, you know. Gotta let loose every once in awhile.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Because according to some people, I’m boring and predictable.” Bella rolled her eyes when she said that. “Yes, I’m well aware.”

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Yeah, we will definitely work on that next time” Trent laughed, “So are you having a good time?” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“I am actually, glad I came out to do this.” She nodded with a smile. “I don’t normally do parties.”

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Definitely better than the night that we tried to surf that’s for sure” Trent laughed, sitting down next to her, “Who knew that it would be raining almost all the time around here? Or at least be damp. You know they poured a ton of gasoline onto the fire, right? Just so it can still be huge and awesome if rain comes.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“I saw, yes.” Bella nodded her head and moved a bit so he could sit down properly. “Perhaps next time with the surfing huh?”

[bookwormbella-blog]

Bella was sat in front of the fire at the party, watching the flames dancing with a small smile on her features, there were books in sight and she was holding a bottle of beer which she had been handed the second she stepped onto the beach. “Mm, this is a nice night for this.”

[colorsofthewindguideme-blog1]

“Yeah, that is definitely a lot further” Pavati laughed with Bella, “I am sure. I get homesick from time to time knowing that my father is in Virginia as well. I can’t imagine how it would feel if I decided to go across the ocean into another country.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“What’s with us and not wanting to leave our fathers, huh?” Bella smiled though, she missed him so much but this had been for the best, she wanted an adventure then an adventure she was going to get.

[simonarmstrcng]

“What are you talking about, this is just how I speak?” Wilbur asks in confusion. Maybe this is why he was kicked out of libraries so often. He gives the book a wary look until it dropped, and he sighed in relief. “Good. Now what are you gonna do about it?” Wilbur rolls his eyes, “Comfortable is fine once in a while but all the time? You know what they day about too much of a good thing.”

“Lucky thing you have me then.” Wilbur replies instantly, already starting to churn through ideas in his mind. Sky diving, out of the question. They’d have to go through the whole organization process and it’d give Bella too much time to back out. Pranking probably was a bit too big a place to start, maybe a smaller misdemeanor, maybe-

The light bulb goes off. 

“Get us kicked out of this library.” Wilbur says excitedly, his eyes lighting up. “Creatively of course, no screaming. There’s no fun in that, but general havoc on the other hand…”

[bookwormbella-blog]

Bella watched as he had his lightbulb moment and raised a brow at what he said. She looked very unsure about his suggestion. “I don’t think that’s a very good idea.” She shook her head, doing exactly what Wilbur had been saying all along. 

“I want to be able to come back in there you kno- fuck it, fine.” Bella got to her feet and put the book on the table as she had a think of a way to get them kicked out of here.

[colorsofthewindguideme-blog1]

“I am from Virginia” Pavati said, amused, as they walked along the path, “What about yourself?” The path that Belle took seemed rather nice, surrounded by trees as the mist blew on their face. 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“France, a lot further away than Virginia.” She laughed softly and swung her arms a bit as they walked down the path. “I miss it some times, mostly because my father is still there, but I like it here.”

[asher-looney-deactivated2016083]

“Sure I do. You know, deep deep down.” Jesse said, motioning a pressing down action at his chest. “You know, I have. Well I read Lord of the Rings. I’ll probably read Game of Thrones when he writes them all. And after I’m done obsessively watching the show.”

[bookwormbella-blog]

Bella leaned forward and prodded him right on the spot he pushed on. “Oh, I haven’t seen the show. I know it exists, I’m not that turn off from the world of TV.”

[livin-footloose-n-collarfre-blog]

“Really? Well then” Trent chuckled, “Do you have a car? If not we can just walk. Isn’t too far, if I remember correctly.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“I don’t have a car, I never learned really because I lived in a village so it was just easier to walk.” Bella explained with a shrug. “It’s a nice night, let’s walk.”

[simonarmstrcng]

“Okay, yeah, I’ll give you that.  Moving continents is a big deal.” Wilbur says with a nod, before raising a pointed brow, “ But you’re not taking advantage of it! You’re doing the same thing in a different location! If you’re in China and you do nothing but, I don’t know, eat peanut butter sandwiches. And then you move all the way to Switzerland and just continue to eat nothing but peanut butter sandwiches, all you’ve really changed is the scenery! You could’ve stayed home and eaten peanut butter sandwiches just as well! Why did you leave? Okay, that might be a shit example, but you get it right? The location doesn’t make the adventure Bella, the action does!”

“Comfortable is insane.” Wilbur says with a wrinkle of his nose, a shrug, “If you’re comfortable all your life you’re doing it wrong. What about uncomfortable huh? What’s something you’re uncomfortable with that you’re tempted to do anyways?”

[bookwormbella-blog]

“Why are you shouting at me? I will hit you again.” Bella lifted the book up, she would do it too. “I get it, yeah.” She rolled her eyes slightly and dropped the book onto her lap now so she wouldn’t actually hit him with it. He was annoying, yes, and he made for valid points but that’s what she found annoying about him. “Comfortable is fine.” 

Then she shrugged. “I don’t know. I can’t think of an example off the top of my head, Wilbur.”

[simonarmstrcng]

“That is definitely how I got into school.” Wilbur says with a hint of amusement, giving the girl an unphased look. He was never the best in classes, never the A student, or the valedictorian type. He got into university because his parents wanted him in university. He wasn’t ashamed of that. At least not anymore. He used to be weird about it. It used to bother him, until he learned to just… stop caring. He wasn’t a genius and he was never gonna be. No use crying over spilt milk. “You’re not gonna make me feel bad for having money, Bella.”

“Okay, no, you can’t just pull the foreigner card!” Wilbur insist with a snort, sitting up against the bookshelf across from her so he can be at eye level with the girl, “Are you trying to tell me that if you were in France right now you would be doing anything different? You’re right, this is you. You can’t use the country as an excuse. You’re not adjusting to the countries behaviors, trust me, there are predictable people just like you probably in the dorm next door, studying or some shit- but you - and they - have to evolve somehow!”

Wilbur rolls his eyes at the question, feeling as if the answer is obvious. “First of all, it’s boring. You can’t live a life where the only change you expose yourself to is a change of font. You gotta… have new experiences.” Wilbur raises a brow, reaches across the space between them to tap the cover of her book as he says, “Tell your own stories. You can’t just relive the same day over and over with minimal alterations all your life, Bella, that’s literally insane.” 

[bookwormbella-blog]

“I’m already having a new experience! I literally moved thousands of miles from my home to get here, that’s an adventure itself.” She scoffed when he tapped the book in front of her. “It’s not insane, it’s comfortable.” He had a point though, wasn’t that why she came here instead of staying at home with her dad? Bella had really fought with herself before she came to the US and it was only after her fathers encouragement when she finally took the leap. 

Honestly? Bella was nervous about stepping outside of her comfort zone, the books helped her to think about doing all those things herself. She may have been a reader but actually doing that for herself was an all different kettle of fish.