Title: I Caught Myself

Summary: He was the addiction. She was the addict. It was so perfect that it was simple – they were meant to be. But it's not as simple as you may think. ReidxOC

Genre: General, Romance

Rating: T

Silent Knight: Aww guys! Thanks so much for the support and the awesome reviews that I loved reading.

Also, check out my profile page and leaf through it if you want. There's a surprise for you guys at the posters for stories list. I'm sure you now understand what I mean by that. ;) Also, there's a little contest I have going on for this story. For the details, go over to my blog which is over on my profile page and skim through it. You'll be sure to find it. :D

Another thing you guys should know. IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! There. Hopefully that will draw your attention. This story is before what happens in the movie, so that means no Sarah. Truthfully, I could never stand her in the movie and always have to make so many modifications to her in my brain when I first thought about having this before Sarah so I decided to have this happen before. Perhaps I'll write a story with Rosie [Reid/Josie] in it which is during the movie. Maybe. Another important thing is that, in this story, Kate knows about the Sons and their powers.

I just wanted to say sorry for not updating for a while, I lost my inspiration, but I finally got it back so here's the next one. Thanks so much for all the lovely reviews, and hopefully this was well worth the wait.

Disclaimer: Check chapter one.

Claimer: What the disclaimer said. ;)

Enjoy!

I Caught Myself

Chapter 3: I had to stop myself

It was all so weird now. The Sons Of Ipswich weren't what Josie thought they were. She still doesn't know who they were. Sure, she wants to find out, but what if she doesn't like the end result? Like, maybe they're witches out to kill anyone who finds out their secret? But there was always the fact if they saw it was her who was spying on the two nights ago, in Nicky's. They hadn't approached her yet. But maybe it was because they were conjuring up some spell that will kill her? Okay, so, maybe Josie was freaking out a bit too much. But there was nothing else she could do! She was freaking out and even had dreams about that night at Nicky's. It was something she definitely wouldn't forget.

So...what did she feel about Reid now? Josie had no clue at all. Her feelings for him ever so neat and intact before. Everything about him made her like him, obsess over him even more than before. And every day her feelings would escalate. But now it was all mixed up, all over the place. Her feelings from before were present, but more mellowed down with fear, amazement, hesitation and not to mention she was confused with everything that had went down. What she saw was something that people would laugh at her for, telling her that she needed to go to a mental asylum. But Josie knew what she saw. She was positive of it.

But then, from that day forward, Josie always looked at the Sons more closely; trying to find signs of them using their powers. And she saw Reid with his black eyes a lot. Turns out, he doesn't hide them as nicely as any of the Sons thought; they were obvious to see, but people always casually brushed the sight out, the subconscious part of their brain telling them it was just the stupid lighting. But that was not the case. Josie now saw that Reid was the one who used his powers the most, Tyler after him, then Pogue while Caleb hardly used them.

Perhaps Caleb was the sort of leader - kind of like Leonardo from the Ninja Turtles. The one who's always trying to keep his brothers in check while following his sensei - Master Splinter's orders. He cared more about being found out by the New York people up in the city rather than anything else.

Reid would definitely be Raphael; the hot head in the group that always challenged Leonardo (i.e. Caleb) with every step, every move he made. They probably butted heads most of the time and he was also the most dangerous thing to them, for he was always pushing the boundaries and almost exposing them.

Pogue would be Michelangelo, always having fun and joking around. Sure, Reid could be Michelangelo, but there was more Raphael in him and his jokes were more gritty and perverted. Something Michelangelo would sometimes hint at, but not all the time. Though Raphael was pretty funny himself, in his own way, kind of Reid.

Tyler would be Donatello; the brains in their group and also the shy, quiet one, always tinkering around with technology and whatnot. He was the smart one that thought things through but also had a bit of a wild side, he was more in the background, though. It seemed that he didn't mind, for he rarely spoke up. Only around Reid - always around Reid.

Kate Tunney, Pogue's girlfriend, would have to be April, the only human being - with the exception of Casey - who knew about the turtles but kept it on the down low. April had stepped onto something shocking, but she knew how to harbor a secret, becoming one of the Turtles' most trusted friend and ally.

She noticed that, the more she thought about it, the Sons did remind her of the Ninja Turtles and Kate reminded her of April as well; more than she thought at first. Well, except that they weren't mutated turtles that lived underground and in the sewers with a rat as a sensei and had supernatural powers.

Basically, she meant more like a personality-wise, what they were in their little elite group.

Also, Josie noticed a lot of other things. She noticed that their eyes flashed black, the ring of fire erupting a lot more than she thought they would. Most of those times was just Reid, but that didn't make it excusable. Josie was surprised; she was always looking over at Reid, always. How could she never notice something big like that? Though she realized that Reid would sometimes close his eyes. She also remembered dismissing the times she saw his eyes turn black for the lack of lighting, which totally made her feel ashamed and embarrassed at how stupid she had been. How she hadn't noticed anything even slightly off with them. Sure, she liked Reid, but did that really make her blind to all of this magic stuff?

She had thought she was a fairly smart girl, but it seemed like she was wrong. Very wrong.

Like, whenever it was lunch time and the Sons were piled around their usual table, Pogue's girlfriend Kate Tunney with them, Reid, Pogue and Tyler would always be talking and laughing and smirking with each other right in the usual time frame of 11:45. Reid would look around and spot a girl, then point her out to Pogue and Tyler. They would talk some more, pulling some loose money out of their wallets and slapping it down onto the table. Caleb and Kate would both roll their eyes, which surprised Josie. Wasn't Kate jealous? Correction: why wasn't Kate jealous?

But, ignoring that question, she would always turn back towards the three Sons and silently watch as Reid would close his eyes, no doubt using that magic again, and the girl they were previously looking at - the one Pogue and Tyler were still looking at - would squeal, her skirt lifting up by some invisible breeze, her underwear in plain sight. Then one of them would take the money, grinning while the other two sighed and rolled their eyes, yet they were smiling as well.

After this happened four more times, Josie finally figured out why Kate wasn't jealous.

Because they weren't ogling a random girl they saw. They were betting on which colour - perhaps even which type maybe? - of underwear she was wearing underneath her skirt? When she realized this, she promised herself to always wear tights underneath her skirt, which she started to do the next day. Nobody regarded her with any looks for she wasn't anyone special - not that she minded or anything. She didn't want any attention drawn to her, like she had previously stated before. She was just a shy girl with a crush on a popular guy. The stupid Disney movie re-make, except her life was the real world, where you didn't get what you wanted.

Plus, the popular guy was actually a wizard or something, along with his friends. Their secret was hidden from everyone but Kate, and now, her.

Although they didn't know that. And Josie wanted that to stay that way. Forever until they finally left to go to a college, where they'd probably never see one another again. Though rumor had it that the Sons were interested in going to Harvard.

That was exactly where Josie was going, and so she hoped that they wouldn't get accepted, as cruel as that might be. Sure, she liked Reid and she didn't have anything against the Sons, but how would she be able to keep a big secret like that away from everyone? Even the people who's secret she knew? They knew someone had been there, someone who had seen it all. Whether or not they knew it was her was a complete mystery, so Josie tried her best not to be left alone for too long. She didn't want to have a confrontation with them any time soon.

Hopefully she'd manage to maintain this, but she had a rising suspicion that they'd find out if they didn't know already, and when that day came, Josie would be clean out of luck.

It also didn't help that she wasn't a great liar.

Did she still like Reid Garwin, wizard extraordinaire like she used to before?

That was the billion dollar question.

Josie still hadn't made her mind up about this, even though she said - in her mind, conscious, whatever - that she still did, like she always said - thought, whatever. Same thing - when she thought about them or Reid. But the brunette didn't know at all; she wasn't sure if she regarded them because she still had a fascination with him or the fact that they're harboring a huge secret from everyone they know and meet on a regular basis.

Sometimes she'd mull this over and get a migraine, needing an aspirin but Spenser had a strict no-drugs policy. She could raise up her hand in class and ask to go to the nurse's, but she was too shy and she knew that in a few hours rumors would spread of her being pregnant who-knows' baby. So she tried her best to concentrate with a migraine, which, trust her, was a very hard thing to do.

This was why she decided to just try her best and not focus on that billion dollar question, no matter how much she wanted the answer to it.

Did she...or did she not?

That was the question.

At Nicky's, Josie decided to be very careful. She never looked over at them for too long, never regarded Reid and/or Tyler when they'd stand up and go to the pool tables for too long, never watch Kate dance - sometimes even dragging Pogue along with her - for too long and especially didn't glance at Caleb too long. After all, Caleb was the Leonardo in the group, and everyone knew that Leonardo was smart and known for always being suspicious of anything small or major, for he had to for the sake of keeping his family safe.

Though she remembered not to be too cautious, not to tremble or shake when they were anywhere near her. That would make them suspicious of her as well, which then would probably lead up to her demise, having them "eliminate" her...for good. And Josie would rather live, thank you very much.

But she could never stop her eyes from straying towards Reid, in his beanie glory. Watch - with a red face - as his jeans slung low on his waist; dangerously, you could say. How that smirk he wore on his face truly made his face light up. Watch as his gloved-fingers flex as he gripped the pool-stick expertly in his hand, snapping it nice and quick against the white ball. When he'd smile and sometimes even wink over at Tyler's direction when he managed to beat him yet again.

So...did this mean that she liked him, still? That she regarded him not only because of the secret he kept with his friends and Kate, but also because she was attracted to him and his playboy ways?

Her mind always came blank at this.

It seemed pretty obvious. Yes, she did. But then she would backtrack, look over everything again, and decide that no, she didn't. Then she'd backtrack again and change her mind once again. Repeat that over and over and you'll find yourself right in what Josie found herself in: a pickle.

Sometimes Josie just wanted to bang her head against the table that she was sitting at, but that would attract eyes. Perhaps even his eyes; his light, blue eyes that seemed to cut through everything he gazed over at (Could he do that, though? If he wanted to?). So she refrained herself from doing so.

Sometimes she wanted to cry her eyeballs out, but the same thought came to her: too much attention would come her way. Perhaps even those pregnancy rumours would strike. She knew how much girls liked to declare that everyone was pregnant. Luckily she was not one of those girls, for she would gouge her eyeballs out if she was one. Kind of like how she wanted to do to the girls who were like that.

Finally, one day, she realized the truth. She finally got those billion dollars.

It was yet another day at Nicky's, and Josie would every now and then glance over at where Reid was playing with Aaron. Of course, Aaron was losing badly, but Josie discovered that the only reason - sometimes, that is - Reid would win was because he'd use. Only once or twice, though, but it still didn't make it fair.

Josie hated cheaters. She hated them with a fiery passion, truly. It was a weird thing to hate, really, but she hated cheaters. And liars. Whoever it may be, she always had violent pictures in her head of them getting hurt and her hurting them, which was very disturbing at times. Though Josie could never stop it for some reason. They'd play over and over in her head until the next day, when she'd only frown and grouch, but that would be it.

Yet, when she realized that Reid would cheat by using his powers, she prepared herself mentally. She waited for those disturbing pictures to start painting themselves in her head. And waited and waited...

Nothing came. Not one thing.

This surprised her a lot, for no matter who it might be, it would happen to her. There was no stopping it. Yet...there was no disturbing thoughts of Reid getting hit by a car or her stabbing him to death or something. Nothing. Her mind was blank, and Josie then found herself staring down at the slightly-dirty-with-dust tabletop in front of her, frowning slightly.

And then she knew. She knew that she looked, liked, stared at Reid still because it didn't matter that he was a sort-of wizard and might kill her if he found out that she knew about him and the others. She stared, she looked, she liked him because Reid was Reid. He was someone she was attracted to, someone who's personality truly intrigued her, for she knew that he had layers no one else knew of - only the ones who were very close to him and took the time in noticing those layers.

It seemed sort of childish reason as to how she had found out the answer, but to her it was like finding a black duckling from ten bright yellow ones: it just made perfect sense, it stuck out at her like a sore thumb.

Now she knew. Now she wouldn't have to think over it. Now she wouldn't get migraines. Now she was at rest.

But she then realized she wasn't.

They still knew there had been someone who had seen them, she still had the knowledge that no outsider had about them, they probably were on the prowl and trying desperately to find who was the one who had seen them use their powers. Plus, Reid still didn't know she existed.

So, yeah, nothing was alright.

She definitely wasn't at rest.

Well shit, this really made things suck all over again.

Silent Knight: Soo...no cliffie this time around. Are you all relieved about that or disappointed? Also, yay! Josie likes Reid for Reid! =) On the same yet sort-of different note, what do you think about Josie? What do you think of my protrayal of Reid so far? Do you want Josie to be with him or someone else?

Thanks so much for the reviews and I really do hope you'll continue to write more! You know you want to. *cue cute winky face*

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