Reids POV
Reid Garwin was bored. And when Reid Garwin was bored bad things tended to happen. Small planets exploded. Fast cars mysteriously disappeared. And, inevitably, Caleb Danvers had his weekly melt down. You see, when Reid was bored his favorite past time was driving Caleb absolutely mad, and he was pretty damn good at it too.
Reid tapped his nails on his teeth. He licked the sides of his mouth. He even went so far as to bit his bottom lip. Then, with a grin, he leaned across Tyler and tapped a very, well, nice shoulder. Then he and said to the person who he had been putting this little show on for, "How about lending me a pencil, handsome?"
When Caleb surfaced with said pencil he was met with a pair of smoldering green eyes. Reid waited expectantly, batting his eyelashes for effect, for some sign of discomfort. When Caleb blankly tossed him the pencil and turned back to the infernal lecture, Reid grimaced.
Nothing he did lately worked. Every wild crazy stunt was met with deadpan faces. Each time he latch himself onto Caleb and refused to let ago until he got a goodbye kiss he got that good bye kiss, but just barely. He used to at least struggle. Now Reid had to turn to Tyler and, oh God, Pogue for his entertainment. He would rather go terrorize a few freshmen or run around naked or something. If he hadn't already done that.
He would just have to up his game, he decided. Especially since the thoughts "up his game" just went through his mind. Shows just how close to insanity he really was. Reid Garwin always stood precariously close to the line of madness and he guessed that that the absence of one of his best friends was really setting him off. He hadn't even been on a date lately. He just couldn't deal with girls right now. They just didn't measure up to the rest of his friends. Namely Caleb.
Calebs POV
Caleb Danvers was slowly going out of his mind. And when Caleb lost it the whole world went to pot. Small children started crying. The ozone melted away just a little faster than it had before. Caleb had started to hide from everyone he knew. But mostly Reid. That boy would be the death of him. Every time he saw him, Caleb felt something indefinable swell in him. Things had always been equal with the sons of Ipswich. They all had their best friends, up till now his had been Pogue. Tyler and Reid had always been the younger two who begged to be included, who followed Pogue and him around like puppies. But now Caleb was spending less and less time with Pogue and more and more time trying to avoid Reid. It seemed that the blonde bad boy had singled Caleb out and decided that his mission in life was to drive him crazy. When Reid decides something you might as well resign yourself cause there's no stopping him.