A/N: I'm only publishing this because I needed to get this out of my mind but feel free to leave a review.

Caleb sighed. Another day, another illegal party in the woods. As usual Reid was talking to some scantily clad girl while Tyler acted as his wingman, Kate and Pogue were being nauseatingly cute and he was all alone desperately trying to avoid Kira. She had grown much worse since Sarah had broken up with him, following him around incessantly, making innuendo that even shocked Reid, it made him feel felt quite bad for Aaron. It was never fun being with someone who doesn't actually want you.

When that thought crossed his mind he turned back to Sarah and when their eyes met they shared a little smile and she nodded before going back to her date. He almost wished it was an acrimonious breakup so he could hate her and fully move on. But he couldn't really blame Sarah for getting completely freaked out when Pogue's ascension came along and she found that she was just not ready to deal with it or have it become a part of her life. She didn't want to grow up to one day turn into his mother, alone, alcoholic and bitter. He understood that better than anyone, after all how many years had he spent convincing himself that he was not going to turn into his father.

"You okay man?" Pogue said suddenly appearing out of nowhere and laughing when he saw Caleb flinch in surprise. He'd been on edge ever since thye realised Chase's body wasn't found in the ruins and while it did worry them all, watching Caleb react like a bunny on steroids was ridiculously amusing for them. Caleb disagreed.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Saw you watching Sarah again."

The 'again' tacked on at the end of the sentence scared Caleb, was he really that bad?

"Check out the new fish in the pond." Reid also appeared out of nowhere coming up behind Caleb and Pogue and throwing an arm over each of their shoulders and directed them to the new students.

"There have been a lot of transfer students this year." Tyler noted noticing that at least half the faces in the crowd were not there in the beginning of the academic year most of them female much to Reid's joy.

"I just hope they aren't like that Mariah-Sue." Reid shivered as he thought of the weird obsessive girl who stared at him in a way that made Caleb glad his only stalker was Kira.

The new students walked closer to the fire and they could finally see their faces. It was a boy and a girl, the male of the duo a tall, lanky redhead with his long hair tied into a pony at the base of his head with freckles galore, a bumpy nose and golden rimmed glasses. He attracted no attention from the girls who were too busy staring at the Sons and was engrossed in conversation with the girl who also didn't attract any attention. She was far too covered up for that, a sweater and jeans instead of the belly baring flimsy blouses that other girls wore. But beside that she seemed pretty in a tiny fairy-like way. Her dark hair and black glasses made for a perfect match to the boy next to her.

They were lost in their conversation completely unaware of the scrutiny of the four Sons.

"She's hot." Reid's proclamation was met with incredulous stares.

"This is about your librarian fantasy right?" Tyler guessed correctly and the other two smirked. Reid's thing for the assistant librarian was no secret.

"Come on let's go talk to her." The blonde insisted and one by one the Sons sighed before following him if only to make sure he didn't harass the girl.

"Hi I'm Reid." He said with a stellar smile that the four hadn't seen since he ate an entire two tier birthday cake at the age of twelve.

The girl grinned right back and this close he could see that she had freckles just like the boy along with the same stormy grey-green eyes. She stuck out her arm for a handshake and Reid tugged it up to his face and kissed the back of her hand instead.

"Bonjour mademoiselle."

At the sound of those words her smile grew and Caleb awaited the inevitable swoon only to hear her suddenly start chattering away in French.

"I'm sorry what?" Reid said utterly confused and her face fell.

"Screw it, I thought you spoke French instead you're just schmoozing up to me." The other three boys smothered a laugh while Reid spluttered only to regain his footing quickly.

"Well I couldn't help myself, you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen." He pulled her closer.

The girl sighed breathily and put one hand onto Reid's cheek. "I know." She said and pulled away while pushing Reid away simultaneously.

Caleb liked her.

"Allow me to introduce myself," Tyler said stepping up and extending his hand. "I'm Tyler Simms."

"Noelle Radcliffe."

For a split second Caleb felt the earth under him move.

"Wait, Noelle Radcliffe? You lived here before but then you moved-"

"When I was ten, thank you for remembering, Caleb Danvers."

"You remember me?"

"I punched a dude in the face for you and was not allowed to have any sugar for an entire two weeks, of course I remember you. A girl never forgets her first punch." She reminisced and he felt the wind knock out of his sails.

He had the biggest crush on her all through elementary school starting from the moment she'd punched a guy for making fun of him for having no Dad back in kindergarten. He'd been the runt of the group back then not really having grown into his body until a bit after he got his powers at the age of thirteen.

And there his childhood crush was, as always, spazzy and odd and radiating utter contentment like she always did. Before he could say anything or even close his mouth, the DJ announced the arrival of the cops and they scattered to the wind.

"We should hang out." He said to the empty space in front of him his mind not really registering the fact that she wasn't there and it was only when Reid pulled him by his coat that he realised they had to leave.

He was not off to a good start.