Imperfectly Mine
Rating: PG-13 or T just to be safe
Summary: No one's perfect. But Caleb and Rachel seem to be imperfectly perfect for each other. But of course, fate won't let them be together that easily. Caleb/OC
Disclaimer: Neither The Covenant, nor any character mentioned in The Covenant belong to me. I'd take Caleb Danvers in a heart beat, but sadly he's not mine.
Chapter One: Someone New"Hey Caleb!" Caleb Danvers, also known as the leader and oldest Son of Ipswich, smiled politely at the group of girls currently drooling over him but continued walking to his seat. As usual, he could always rely on his friend's being nothing but kind and supportive of him.
"Oh hell. Of course Lord and Master Caleb of all that is perfect in the world is single and now every single girl in this whole damn school is fighting for him." Reid Garwin would do anything to make Caleb feel like a million dollars. "And what does Caleb do?"
Tyler Simms, the youngest Son of Ipswich, scratched his head, deep in thought. "He has a mutual break-up with a girl, still maintains a great image that all the ladies love, but doesn't do anything about all the ladies fighting over him?"
"Ding, ding, fucking ding!" Reid and Tyler did a mock high-five, while their other friend, Pogue Parry, did his own part to be supportive.
"Hey now guys, let's be fair. Just because Caleb respects the ladies doesn't mean he hasn't had some fun with them…oh wait…that's right…Caleb's still a vir-"
Reid groaned and made a move to grab his chest in pain. "I can't believe you still haven't experienced the greatest experience someone can experience!"
"You just abused that word completely." Tyler smacked him upside his head.
Caleb just shrugged. "So I want to wait. Big deal. My experience will just be that much more amazing than yours."
"Hey hey hey I will have you know that I am a beast in the bedroom!" Pogue just shook his head in disbelief.
"He didn't mean that he's better than us Reid. He means that his first time will be more…"
The three youngest boys weren't even sure there was a word to use. They knew that Caleb was missing out by not having sex, but they still respected his choice completely. Caleb had always been the kind of guy any girl would kill to have; respect and chivalry was definitely still alive. And it had manifested itself solely in Caleb Danvers.
As the class lecture began, the boys handled their professor's lecture in the same way they always did; Pogue was busy writing notes back and forth with his girlfriend Kate, Tyler was working on his assignment that was due next class, and Reid was, predictably, sound asleep. Caleb was the only Son of Ipswich paying attention to the lecture, which was the main reason he had the best grades out of the four of them.
"Mr. Garwin!" Reid's head snapped up as soon as the words left the professor's mouth. "Tell me one play written by William Shakespeare and I won't fail you this semester."
Reid's mouth hung open. Shakespeare…Shakespeare…he's that old dead guy that wrote with weird English that only Caleb could really understand. Damn, why does stupid Caleb have everything so easy? Ok think man. Wasn't that one movie based on something Shakespeare wrote? Shit.
"Uhh…I'm going to use my lifeline here. Caleb?"
Caleb just rolled his eyes, but turned to look at his friend anyway. "Romeo & Juliet, McBeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night…"
"Obviously Shakespeare was the writer of such stuff as Romeo & Juliet, Mc…McHamlet, Beth, something about a night…"
The whole class started laughing, despite the fact that Reid's lack of knowledge of what they were just discussing was nothing new. The professor shook his head, but still had a smile on his face.
"It might be wise for you, Mr. Simms and Mr. Parry to offer to do Mr. Danvers's laundry the week before finals. Otherwise you might not be able to come close to passing this class without his help."
The class all chuckled, and a few girls murmured different things about doing Caleb's laundry.
Before the whole class could get back into the swing of the lecture-or whatever else they do during the lecture-there was a light and almost graceful knock at the door. The professor allowed for the guest to enter, and once the door opened, the entire male population held their breath while the entire female population glared.
"Hi, I'm Rachel Vaugier, I apologize for being so late and interrupting, but I just transferred and I'm still trying to find my way around. Again, I'm very sorry sir."
The professor merely shook his head. "Not at all, welcome to English Literature. Please, take a seat, we're merely discussing William Shakespeare's affect on current literature."
Rachel smiled politely and took a seat in the back while every guy stared. Rachel definitely wasn't like any other girl in the room. She had a very fair complexion with a cute round face. Her eyes were a very dark brown, which matched her hair perfectly. Her hair was a little above her shoulders and was cut with very choppy layers that outlined her face, flipping in and out. She wasn't very tall, 5'4" at the very tallest, but her frame fit her height perfectly; very curvy hourglass figure with perfect muscle tone. Her smile seemed to brighten up her whole face and make her look even more beautiful...if that was possible.
No wonder every guy was staring while all the girls shot death glares at her. Rachel just politely smiled at the class, then quickly broke eye contact and started getting out supplies for class. She'd obviously dealt with that kind of attention before.
"Damn she's hot." Reid nudged all the guys as if they hadn't noticed.
"She is really pretty." Tyler kept his eyes peeled on her the whole time.
Pogue shrugged. "I still prefer Kate, but I agree, she is a good-looking girl." The two Youngest Sons of Ipswich couldn't stop whispering about the new girl.
"Hey baby. Looking for a good time tonight? I'd be glad to welcome you to the neighborhood with one hell of a party!" Aaron Abbot could always be counted on for being the pig he was.
Rachel smiled shyly and tucked her hair behind one ear. "Thanks, but I'd much rather be studying Shakespeare right now."
A collective amounts of 'ohhhs' filtered around while Aaron's smile turned into a rather rude glare. "Great, we've got another cold-hearted lesbian at this school now."
Caleb finally spoke up. "I think her rejection means that we have someone with a brain at this school. Stop being such a prick and leave her alone."
Aaron turned his attention to Caleb. "What's with you and all the newbies around here, huh Danvers? Scared to go after anyone who's been here long enough to actually realize how unperfect you are?"
Rachel laughed. "It's imperfect, not unperfect. And while I've only been in this room for about 3 minutes now, I'd have to say unless half the girls in here are newbies, then Mr. Danvers must be as perfect as he originally comes off."
Aaron and the rest of the male population listening scanned the room and realized half the girls were in fact staring straight at Caleb. Aaron opened his mouth, shut it, opened it again, and once again shut it. "Whatever."
Caleb snickered as he turned to meet Rachel's eye. She smiled shyly, tucked her hair behind her ear again, and looked back at the professor. Caleb couldn't fight the smile emerging on his face if he had even tried.
The bell, after what felt like hours to everyone in the room, finally sounded and the students began filing out of the room. Pogue moved over to give Kate a kiss as they headed toward the door with the other guys. Caleb was bringing up the rear, and tried filing out of the door just as Rachel made her way to exit, seemingly in a rush, causing the two to collide and get slightly stuck in the doorway.
"I'm so sorry about that." Rachel seemed to be beating herself up in her head, while Caleb just backed up into the classroom, allowing her room to leave first.
"Don't worry about it at all. These doors are way too small anyways." Rachel gave him a big smile, one that was returned back to her. "In a rush?"
"Yeah, I'm really sorry. This school is so much bigger than my previous one, I'm still struggling to find all my classes."
"Where are you at next, one of us could probably walk you there or at least part of the way?" Reid and Tyler both got excited about escorting a beautiful girl to class.
"Um, I have Chemistry 101 in room 214." Reid and Tyler both groaned out loud, causing Rachel to look over at them confused.
Caleb just chuckled. "They're just mad because they're on the opposite side of the building which means they don't have time to walk you to your class." Rachel couldn't help but blush. "Room 214 is actually very close to Kate's next class, maybe you could take her?" Kate smiled and nodded.
Caleb smiled at Kate, then laughed when he realized Rachel didn't even know any of their names. "I'm Caleb Danvers by the way. This is Pogue Parry, his girlfriend Kate Tunney, Reid Garwin, and Tyler Simms."
Alex smiled at each of them as Caleb went through their names. "I'm Rachel Vaugier. It's really nice to meet all of you. I realize everyone says that when they first meet someone unless they're rude, but since I don't know anyone at this school, I mean it is really nice to meet all of you."
The group broke into a fit of laughter at her little rant, everyone knowing that she would have an easy time fitting in with their group. As the group's laughter died down, everyone took a good look at the pair standing in front of them; Caleb and Rachel, both with huge smiles on their faces. Everyone could see that they looked damn good together. The guys couldn't help but feel especially happy, considering that it took something really special to get a smile like the one on Caleb's face to actually appear. Rachel seemed to have no problem making the smile appear on his face.
