"What were you doing sitting against the door?"

Sam looked back at a the door and saw Brooke’s mp3 player sitting
on
the floor. In front of them.

"Uh," Brooke managed to sound completely dumbfounded, "I
think I
fell asleep."

"In the bathroom?" Sam’s quizzical look was dangerously
close to
making Brooke giggle.

"Yeah, I… didn’t want to sleep in my room it was ..
Uhh… cold."

"Riiiiight," Sam drawled.

"What?!"

Brooke tried to get defensive, but couldn’t manage it though the
haze of wondering why she had actually been in the bathroom. How
could she possibly explain what she had been doing without making it
sound stalkerish. She decided not to try and so in the interest of
saving her own ***** she redirected the conversation to safer topics.

"What are you doing up anyway. It isn’t noon."

Sam briefly thought of smacking Brooke on the arm, but decided that
physical contact wasn’t the best idea in light of what had
happened
last night. She didn’t think she could handle the confusion this
early in the morning. She did want to find out of the feelings
generated by their touching had been a fluke sometime in the future,
though.

"Just couldn’t sleep anymore." She bit her lip and waited
to see how
Brooke would react. When she saw the blonde nod she smiled in
relief. She had let them both off the hook.

Brooke was still tired enough to sleep for another three hours, but
she had a lunch date with Harrison so she couldn’t afford the
sleep.
She really didn’t want to go. If she bailed though, it would
probably make the already annoyed Harrison, furious. He was right
when he said that she hadn’t been spending much time with him. In
truth she hadn’t been spending much time with anyone lately. She
and
Nicole usually went shopping constantly to occupy their summer
hours, but since that was out of the question Brooke had taken to
spending a lot of time in their home gym, and when she wasn’t
working out or swimming she was reading. She still had a couple of
books that Sam had lent her to read.

She had really gotten into Eastern religion and thought after Sam
had explained some of it to her in the hospital. She had felt like
she was she was floundering after her near miss at prom. Why had
Nicole tried to run her over? So many crazy things had happened to
her in the last few years and this seemed to be the culmination of
all the random events. She had one thing though, Sam had been there.