I wrote another one shot!!! Still Mia and Reid… I just love writing about them and their many different first… this one is the most important one though… it's the first time they met and how they got together!! Yayy!!!

I know you were expecting the last chapter/epilogue for Redemption Song, and I'm working on it, but I was listening to Taylor Swift and got the idea for this… So if you wanna blame someone for sidetracking my muse, blame 'Jump then Fall' by Taylor Swift…

Reid sat in his usual seat next to Tyler in their Honors English class. His head was down, as usual, trying to catch some extra sleep before lunch. 'Who ever made English the class before lunch, was seriously fucked up.' He thought to himself, trying to drown out the teacher's lecture. He lifted his head to check the time on the clock on the side wall but stopped when he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. And for him, that's saying a lot because he's seen plenty of beautiful girls in his life. 'Why haven't I seen her before?' he thought to himself when the teacher made an attempt to catch his attention. "Mr. Garwin?" he heard his name and snapped his head forward. "How much of the lesson did you hear?" Reid shrugged his shoulders and smiled at the teacher. The teacher sighed and looked at the clipboard he had. "Well, since I don't want you to fail 11th grade English your first semester, I'll put you with someone who was actually paying attention, instead of with Mr. Simms like I originally planned." Reid let his eyes fall on the girl he was staring at earlier, silently praying that he waited was assigned her to be his partner. "Mr. Garwin, you're going to be paired with Ms. Tunney." Reid looked over at Kate who was sitting by the door, groaning because of the teacher's decision. "And since that leaves your original pairs partner-less, they will be together. So Mr. Simms and Ms. Johnson? Your partners."

Tyler smiled to himself when he saw Mia's head turn back towards him. They had worked together before last year in a lot of their classes so he knew that it would work out fine. He didn't expect Reid to nudge his shoulder and ask about Mia though. "You know her?" he asked, his eyes going back and forth between Mia and Tyler. He nodded and turned his head back towards his book. "I met her last year. She's nice." He whispered, trying not to draw any attention to him by their teacher. He looked over to his friend, who had 'that look' on his face. That was the look that usually got him into trouble with Caleb. "What are you thinking about, Reid?" he asked, slightly raising his voice. Reid said nothing; just put his head back down.

After class, Reid and Tyler stopped Kate and Mia from walking out of the class. "Hey, Mia. Kate" Tyler said, bringing a smile on her face. "Hey, Ty." Mia said, looking from him to Reid. Reid took this as the time to work his magic on her. "I'm Reid. Reid.." before he got to finish, Mia interrupted and finished his sentence. "Garwin. Yea, I know. Tyler talks a lot about you. I'm Mia." She said, earning a bump in the hip from Kate. Reid smiled at her, intrigued. "How do you know Kate?" Kate put her arm around Mia's shoulder and sent him a sarcastic smile. "She's been my roommate since last year. If you paid attention, you'd know that. Now if you don't mind, we have class on the other side of the building." Kate said, pulling Mia with her down the stairs to leave the room. Mia stopped her before they walked out and turned back around. "I'll call you later so we can arrange a study schedule okay, Ty?" she said before Kate grabbed her arm again, making her leave the room.

"Why didn't I meet her before if she was Kate's roommate?" Reid said, turning to Tyler, as they began to walk to their next class. "I think you did, you just didn't remember." Tyler said, walking into the hallway. "Didn't remember what?" Pogue asked, leaning against the wall outside the classroom with Caleb. "Reid has taken an interest in Mia." Tyler said, gaining serious looks from Pogue and Caleb. "What put her on your radar, Reid?" Pogue asked, confused because he had never said anything about her before today. "I mean, we've known her for a little over a year now, and you've never noticed her before." Caleb nodded in agreement. "He's right man." Caleb said, but Reid knew something else was about to be said. "Honestly, Mia's not your type, Reid. She's nice and sweet and has a good head on her shoulders." Reid looked at Caleb with questioning eyes. "What's that supposed to mean?" Reid asked, slightly offended. "Basically, he means that she's not a slut who will sleep with you just because you're you." Pogue said, starting to walk down the hallway. The two guys snickered and Tyler began to push him down the hallway. "It means that she's not the type you usually go for." Tyler said, putting it nicely. Reid stopped and turned to Tyler. "Well maybe it's time for a change, Ty."

"There is no way that I'm letting you date Reid, Mia." Kate said, as her and Mia got to class and took their usual seats. "I never said I wanted to date him." Mia said, looking up at her over protective friend. "You didn't have to say it!" she exclaimed, watching the eyes from all over the classroom turned to both of them. Kate took her seat and began her tirade in hushed tones. "He was trying to work his mojo on you. Do you not hear about all his sexscapades with most of the girls in our grade? In the rest of the school?" Mia laughed and turned to her book. "I'm sure he was just being polite, Kate. And if it makes you feel better, I'll be careful whenever I'm around him, okay?" Kate nodded and turned her attention to the front of the room, where their teacher had begun the lesson.

The rest of the day was uneventful for Reid. Tyler spoke to Mia after swim practice to arrange their "study schedule". He tried to get Tyler to tell him things about Mia that he could try to start a conversation about, but Tyler was no help. The next day, showed some sort of progress in his quest. After spending his English class tuning Kate out and staring at her throughout the period, and spending lunch thinking about what she might be doing, Reid saw her in study hall, reading one of Shakespeare's plays, most likely trying to get started on her English project. He took this as an opportunity to actually talk to her and see if he might have a chance. He slid into the chair across from her, startling her and breaking her concentration from her work.

"Hey there." He said, flashing Mia his signature smirk. She looked at him and gave him a small smile. 'She doesn't know how cute she is.' He thought to himself, leaning over to look at the book she was reading. "What are you reading?" he asked, trying to get as close to her face as possible. She broke the eye contact he had with her and looked at the book. "Umm… It's Romeo and Juliet. Tyler and I are re-reading it for our project." He nodded and got up to sit in the seat next to her. "So how long have you been at Spencer?" he asked, leaning closer to her. "Freshman year, second semester." She said, quickly before looking back at her book. He smiled again and started firing questions at her. "When's your birthday?" Mia smiled to herself. "Around Valentine's Day." She replied, not looking up from her book. "What kind of car do you drive?" She shook her head, still not returning his gaze. "A BMW." He nodded and smiled to himself, knowing he was annoying her. "What's your favorite color?" Mia let out a sigh. "Purple." She closed her book and looked at him. "My turn, Garwin." She said, making him smirk at her again. "When's your birthday?" he smiled and sat back in his chair. "Middle of December." She nodded at him, not breaking eye contact with him. "What's your favorite color?" she asked, leaning forward like he had done earlier. "Black." He replied, stretching out the word and making her slightly smile. "Why are you suddenly interested in me? Because you barely noticed me before." She said, leaning backwards and folding her arms across her chest. He was impressed. 'Ballsy. Maybe she's not the good girl she lets on to be.' He thought to himself and leaned forward. "Well, this is the first time you came on my radar." She laughed and rolled her eyes. "I met you a while after I met Kate. Over a year ago. The same time I met Pogue, Caleb, and Tyler." He stared at her, confused by her last statement. He didn't recall meeting her, or even seeing her around the school until yesterday. 'How could I have met her before, and not remember it?' he thought to himself. 'I wouldn't forget her face. I shouldn't have forgotten her face.' He looked at her with remorse on his face. "I don't remember meeting you before and I apologize for that." He said, hoping that she believed him. "Honestly, I just want to get to know you better. I mean, your best friend is my best friend's girlfriend, and we're bound to hang out because of it. And I don't want things to be awkward between us." Reid thought he was being sincere until he saw an unrecognizable look appear on her face. "I don't like to be played with, Reid." She said, still keeping that unrecognizable look. "I know what you do around here to the girls around school, and I'm not gonna let you even try to do that to me. If you want to be civil, we can be civil. And maybe somewhere in the future, we might be able to be friends, but it won't go any further than that with me." Reid sat there, jaw lagging close to the ground. "Layman's terms, Garwin? You're not gonna get anywhere with me." Mia stood up and walked away from the table, leaving him to think about her.

Reid walked into his and Tyler's room after classes, through his bag on the floor and laid on his bed face down. Tyler lifted his head from his book when he heard Reid groan into his pillow. "What's up your ass?" he asked, turning around to face Reid and his bed. "She blew me off." Reid rolled over and sat up on the bed. "Mia blew me off. No girl has ever done that before." Tyler looked at him and laughed. "Caleb and Pogue told you that she wasn't like normal girls." Reid shook his head. "No you don't get it, Baby Boy." Reid stood up and leaned on his desk across the room. "That was the sexiest thing I ever seen." Tyler chuckled and put his head down in the chair. "You're not gonna give up, are you?" Reid smiled and shook his head. "Nope." Tyler nodded and put his book down on his desk. "You're gonna need some help then."

Tyler and Reid sat in their room for a few hours talking about Mia and telling him things about her. This let him know that they actually had a lot of things in common. Reid was getting comfortable until he saw Tyler get up and head for the door. "Where do you think you're going Baby Boy, were not done yet." Tyler waved it off and kept walking. "I need to go to the library and get a book for my project. I'll be back." Reid sat back on his bed and closed his eyes on the bed for a few minutes, drifting back to his thoughts. It was nice for a while until he heard a knock on the door. 'Ty forgot his key again.' He thought as he got out of bed. "Baby Boy, I'm seriously gonna get you a chain to put your keys on and put them around your neck." He opened the door, surprised to see Mia standing there in regular clothes, books in hand and bag on her shoulder. "Tyler told me to meet him here to work on our project." She said, peaking in the room to see if he was there. "But since he's not here…" Reid stopped her and moved aside. "He went to the library for some books. He said he'll be back in a few minutes. You can wait if you want to." She nodded and walked inside the room, putting her bag on the floor and sitting at Tyler's desk. She pulled out her cell phone and laughed at the message. "Tyler said that he ran into Caleb and Pogue and they were going to Nicky's and was taken with them against his will." Reid laughed at the obviousness of the situation. "He says for us to talk and get to know each other. And to 'have fun'." Mia put her phone in her pocket and looked at Reid. "So, what do you wanna talk about?" she said, slightly chipper and sarcastic. Reid smirked and leaned on the desk. 'This is gonna get interesting.'

A few hours later, Tyler came back to his dorm to find Reid and Mia laying on the floor in front of her laptop listening to music. "Am I interrupting something?" Tyler said, making Reid and Mia leave the little world they were in. "I was just introducing Reid to the world of Lady Gaga." Tyler laughed as Reid rolled on his back, and started to sing Lady Gaga. Mia laughed when he got up and started to dance around the room to the song. Tyler put his head down and Mia just stared and laughed. "I so need my camera!" she said, making him stop. "No! No cameras! Imagine how fast my 'bad boy' rep would end if everyone saw me dancing to 'Lovegame'." She smiled at this and started putting her things away. "It's late. I should go now." Reid's face changed and he got sad when she started heading to the door. "I'll see you guys tomorrow." Reid poked his head out the door and watched her walk away. "If she turns around, I have a chance." He whispered to himself, watching her get to the end of the hallway. He felt his heart trying to beat out of his chest. He was about to go inside until he saw her turn around, give him a wave and a small smile before she went to her floor. "Yes! Yes! Yes!" he said to himself, going back inside and enjoying the rest of his night.

The next morning in class Mia was freaking out. She was having conflicting feelings about Reid. On one hand, she heard all the rumors about him with almost all the girls who lived in her hall, most of the girls in her building at that. But that didn't sound like the guy she had just spent hours talking to last night. And from what she saw, she liked; she liked it a lot. "Why are you thinking so hard, so early in the morning?" Kate asked, taking her seat next to Mia, putting her head on the desk; turned towards Mia so they could still talk. "So…" Mia turned to her friend, a small smile creeping on her face. "I talked to Reid last night…" Kate rolled her eyes. "Again? I mean, after the library?" Mia nodded and Kate groaned. "I was in his and Tyler's room, waiting for Tyler to come back so we could work on our English project, and we just… hung out. It was no big deal." Kate lifted her body up, turned to Mia, and put her hands on her shoulders. "It's never 'not a big deal' with Reid, Mia." Kate sighed, seeing that her warnings were going unheard. "I'm not gonna tell you not to date him, I'm just gonna say to be careful. His dating track record isn't as good as yours." Mia laughed at this. "I don't have a dating track record, Kate. I dated what, two guys in my life." She nodded and turned to her book. "Exactly my point."

The week flew by and before they all knew it, it was Friday, and everyone knew what that meant: Time to go to Nicky's. Reid walked in with Tyler and headed straight to the pool tables, as usual, and Pogue and Caleb walked over and got a table with Kate and Mia. Reid absentmindedly scanned the place and saw Mia laughing and joking with Caleb. He felt a twinge of anger and jealousy burning inside of him. 'Wait what?' he thought to himself. 'I've never had those feelings for a girl before. What is she doing to me?' He kept staring until his gaze met Mia's and she gave him a sincere smile and nod. Tyler walked over to him after she turned her attention back to Caleb and put his arm around his shoulder. "You actually like her, don't you?" he asked, watching Reid's envy of Caleb at that moment rise with every second that passed. "I mean, it's really different with her?" Reid just nodded and tried to turn his attention back to the pool game in front of him.

Tyler felt the need to intervene in the situation, knowing that both Reid and Mia felt some type of something for each other, but it wouldn't happen unless they had a nudge into the right direction. Tyler walked over to the bar and sent a simultaneous text message to both of them asking to meet outside. He smiled to himself when he saw them both get up from where they were to go outside.

Reid stood there, watching the door and felt his heart skip when Mia walked outside. She slowed her pace when she saw Reid there instead of Tyler. "I got a text…" she started, then put her head down and laughed. "I should kick his ass." She said, making Reid laugh. "That, I'd pay to see." He said, watching her walk a little closer towards him. "So…" he said looking at her. She folded her arms across her chest and looked at him. "So…" she said, mocking him, making Reid smile. "See? That's what I like about you." He said, watching the shock appear on her face. "You're not like these girls here. And that's a really good thing. You actually have a brain. And they're interesting things in it. Not only that, but you know how to use it, too. Your funny and beautiful and you might just be the only girl that can actually make me feel some sort of feelings for them that will actually last. " Mia stared at him as he said these things. "Why are you saying this to me?" she asked, hearing her voice cracked and mentally cursing it as she did. "I mean, you sleep with a different girl every night, sometimes more than one. And I'm not like that. I won't be like that." Reid took a step closer to her and felt horrible when she took a step back away from him. "Mia, don't do that. I never even thought of you like that. I just said I was glad you're not that way." Reid looked at her and saw the confusion in her eyes. He wasn't sure if it was from him or herself though. "When we hung out, did I ever put any type of pressure on you or suggested that I actually wanted to take things further than you wanted to?" Mia shook her head no, not trusting her voice at that moment. "Doesn't that say anything to you, Mia?" She closed her eyes and ran her hands over her face. "It means that you know I'm not easy and that I won't fall for your usual bullshit!" Mia screamed at him, slightly scaring him because he's never heard her do it before.

She was having a difficult time processing what he was saying. "I don't understand why you picked me." She said after a few minutes in a hushed and defeated tone, lowering her head as she spoke. At that moment he walked over to her, lifting her head so that he could look her in the eyes. "I didn't pick you, Mia. And I didn't exactly ask for this to happen either." He said, gaining a light chuckle from Mia. "All I'm asking for is a chance. One chance here, Mia. And all you have to do is say yes." Reid looked at Mia with pleading eyes. "Please, say yes." He searched her eyes, trying to find the answer he was looking for. Reid was practically begging for a chance with this girl, something he had never done a day in his life. Maybe he really is starting to change his act. "There are a million sirens going off in my head, screaming at me to say no." Mia started, looking at him. "But, I'm willing to try if you are. So I'm saying yes." A grin broke out on his face as she said this. "Don't make me regret this, Reid." She warned, before giving him a warm smile. He nodded and put his hand under her chin, gently kissing her; not rushing it like he would normally do, but savoring the moment, enjoying the kiss. He ended it slowly and reluctantly, watching Mia practically come out of a daze. She blinked a few times and looked at him. "Why the hell did you kiss me?!?!" she screamed at him, pushing him away; lightly so he didn't get hurt, but still with enough force for him to know that she was serious. He looked at her confused, thinking he read the signs wrong. "I thought it was okay. I'm sorry if I read it wrong or offended you in some way.." Mia stopped him and started laughing. "You should have seen the look on your face!"she said in between laughs. "I was joking. As you probably saw, I liked the kiss. And I honestly wouldn't mind if you did it again." Reid smiled and put his arm around her waist, pulling her towards him. "Oh I plan to. Trust me." She stopped him before he tried to kiss her again. "Okay I know I said that I don't mind it, but can we go a little slower. I actually wanna set to know the guy who kisses me more than I do." Reid nodded and gave her a peck on the cheek and let her go. He walked a few steps away from her only to stop and offer her his hand. Mia smiled at him and took his hand. 'Maybe he's not as bad as everyone says he is.' She thought to herself. 'I'll only find out if I take the chance.'

So on to Redemption Song and what I plan to do with it… Chapter 18 was the last official chapter because I like how I ended it, but, there is an epilogue that I'm working on to wrap up most of the loose ends I left… then I'll start the sequel…

I should have it up soon. A day or two tops... if not, feel free to yell and scream at me..

I hope you liked it.. Review and tell me what you think.