Chapter 3: For A Merry Christmas...
"You are such a fucking pervert." Pogue chuckled.
Reid grinned collecting his winnings. "What? My girlfriend knows I'm a pervert, she's ok with it."
"I bet. So how is Aubrey?" Pogue asked as Reid racked the balls on the pool table once again.
"Different." Reid said after sticking the rack to the side and pointing at Pogue to break. Tyler was off playing foosball with Caleb.
Pogue lined up to break and after doing so stood straight eying the table for any billiard balls that might go in to the pockets. "How so man?"
"Looks different, that's all. Not that I'm complaining she looks fucking hot as hell, but she was gorgeous before." Reid said nonchalantly.
Pogue looked at his friend. "Man how do you know what she looks like now?"
Reid pulled his wallet from his back pocket, it was attached to a chain that was hooked on to his side belt loop. He flipped it open and slipped something out holding it up to Pogue. "She sent me this with her last letter. Said Val got a hold of her." Reid laughed slightly before taking the picture back and slipping it back in to his wallet.
"You better hope Higgins doesn't start mandatory dorm checks." Pogue said shaking his head.
"He's got no reason to. Fucking Higgins has already taken this too far. You know he wouldn't even let her come home for Thanksgiving. Yeah he went there and they went out to dinner at a diner in town. Aubrey was a fucking wreck when she wrote me about that."
"Why?" Pogue questioned as Reid moved in to take a shot.
Reid sighed. "Thanksgiving was her mother's favorite holiday. They'd cook dinner together." He explained lightly.
Pogue nodded. "I can see how that would upset someone."
"It's getting closer to Christmas though." Reid said a grin plastered on his face within seconds.
"What's that got to do with anything?" Pogue questioned.
Reid smirked. "I'm going to buy her cell phone that she can call me with."
"You've really got it bad for her don't you?" Pogue asked.
"Man she just..." Reid trailed off trying to think of how to explain it.
"Gets you?" Pogue asked. Reid nodded. "Yeah, Kate and I we fight, but it's all on the surface."
Reid sighed. "I just wish this wasn't so fucking difficult."
"It'll get better man. It has too. Higgins can't stop her from seeing you once she's eighteen, not to mention I heard she's going to come in to a lot of money on her eighteenth birthday, I overheard the secretaries in the office talking about how Higgins thinks Aubrey's going to use the money to keep him out of her life." Pogue said.
"She will, no doubt about it. She blames him for her mothers death and he just made it worse by sending her to Brinley and treating her like a captive." Reid said. "He deserves to lose his daughters, he's an egotistical son of a bitch who doesn't understand that..." Reid started to rant.
Pogue stepped in. "Yeah man I know, you've said it before. We all know."
Reid nodded. "Yeah...yeah I know. I just...I hate him. That's all there is to say."
"Hey guys." Tyler and Caleb had made their way over to the pool tables and were holding sodas for their friends. "Reid beat you again Pogue?" Tyler asked.
Pogue looked back at the table and saw that Reid had cleared it without even paying it that much attention. "Fucking A. I know your good but when the fuck did you get that good?" Pogue asked.
Reid grinned at the memory. "Aubrey."
"Here we go..." The other three groaned jokingly.
Reid glared at them. "Shut up."
Brinley Academy:
Same Night:
Aubrey lay on her dorm bed reading over a cosmopolitan magazine she'd picked up her last trip in to town. While Val was in the bathroom readying herself for a night out. "So you coming or what?" Val asked casually applying liner on her lower lid.
"Nah I think I'll stay in. I've got kitchen duty early in the morning."
"Fuck that sucks. What'd you do?" Val questioned.
Aubrey scoffed. "My father spoke to the headmistress, says it'll be good for me, get my mind off things. Ha I'm going to be serving meatballs and spaghetti tomorrow night, do you know how many lewd comments Reid's made about spaghetti and meatballs before." She joked.
"I can only imagine." Val said loudly from the bathroom. "Speaking of have you heard from lover boy recently?"
"You must get your dose of drama from hearing about Reid and I?" Aubrey kidded.
Val laughed. "Well ya that and my girlfriend thinks you guys are like some epic love story waiting to happen."
Aubrey giggled. "Well how is Kat?"
"Asked you first."
"Ok fine, yes I've heard from him, nothing new to report except he keeps saying he's got a big surprise for me for the holiday." Aubrey told her. Laying on her stomach her feet angled up in to the air were kicking back and forth.
"Cryptic, what do you think it is?" Val asked.
Aubrey shrugged mostly to herself since Val wasn't looking back at her. "Not sure. So Kat?"
"She's good. She says she's almost got enough money saved up to come see me for Christmas." Val told her, Aubrey could hear the happiness in her voice. She often took on the same tone when talking about Reid. "Her parents aren't against the whole lesbian thing, but they just can't afford stuff."
"Well she's close right that's all that matters." Aubrey said.
"That and sneaking her in to the dorms." Val finished in the bathroom and turned flicking the light off walking over to her bed, she perched on the corner elbows on knees back hunched looking at Aubrey.
"No, I will not be present while you two fondle each other." Aubrey laughed rolling her eyes.
Val pouted. "Aubs please let her stay here. I promise we'll be good." She said putting her hands together like she was praying.
Aubrey sighed. "Even if I say yes, which I haven't, but if I say yes how are you going to get her in here. There's guards on every door into the dorms, not to mention the ones that patrol. This place is locked up tighter then fort Knox you know that."
"Well we'll worry about that when the time comes, right now I just need to know that it's ok. She wont have the money for a hotel..." She was giving Aubrey puppy dog eyes and Aubrey grunted at the thought that she just couldn't say no.
"Fine. Ok, but one sound of hinkiness from you two and it's over." Aubrey said looking at her sternly. A grin spread on Val's face. "I mean it Val. I am all for gay rights and whatever but I do not need to hear my roommate and her girlfriend playing find the nub under the blankets...oh my god I sound like Reid." She said and started laughing.
Val laughed too. "That sounds like fun, find the nub. Well now that you've planted the idea..."
Aubrey glared at her playfully. "Val."
"What you said it first, now my mind is taking all kinds of joyous detours." She said wiggling her eyebrows. She stood from the bed grabbing her jacket from her desk chair and slipping it on. "Ok I'm off. Don't stay up to late, you've got kitchen duty in the morning."
"Fuck you." Aubrey said jokingly as she threw her pillow at her roommate. "You coming back tonight?"
"Nah I'm not gonna get busted by rent-a-cops when I don't come back by curfew. I'll just crash at Stacia's parents house with her. So I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yea night."
"Night." And with that Val was gone.
First Week of December:
Boston:
"Well what would you get for yourself?" Tyler asked logically.
Reid shrugged. "I have a sidekick, why don't I just get her one of those, it has Internet capabilities."
They walked around the different displays of cell phones till they came across the right one just as a salesperson came to speak to them. "Anything I can help you gentlemen find?" The young woman asked.
"Actually we already found it." Reid said. "I need one of these and I want to add it to my plan."
"Your parents will need to authorize that kind of change to the account." The woman said giving him apologetic smile.
Reid shook his head. "Actually my parents put me on my own account I can authorize anything I want." He told her. "You can check if you'd like."
The girl smiled. "Well in that case lets get you set up shall we." After getting the phone activated and added to his account Reid headed out back into the Mall with Tyler.
"We've got one more stop and then back to Ipswich." Reid told Tyler.
Tyler looked at him questioningly. "What?"
"I found this design online, and I'm going to have it jeweled on to the phone." Reid said.
Tyler raised his brow confused at his best friends actions. "I'm sorry, you said you're having it jeweled on the phone? Who are you?" He said jokingly.
Reid chuckled. "Aubrey's cell phone was jeweled and she liked it that way, so I figure why not do it with this one."
"Ok, seriously who are you and what have you done with the real Reid Garwin cause you're starting to freak me out. Reid Garwin doesn't usually know what girls like, especially when it comes to accessories and further..."
"Ok, ok I admit it's going a little bit over the top, but it's going to make her happy." Reid said shoving Tyler jokingly.
The reached the shop in the mall that Reid was looking for and went inside. (AN: Ok this is probably most likely not true, so don't hold it against me) Reid and Tyler made their way up to the front register and the girl behind the cash register smiled at them. "Hi how can I help you?"
Reid pulled out his cell phone and flipped it open pulling up a saved picture and showed her. "I want to have this done on a phone, purples and blues with a different name, think you can do it?"
The girl nodded. "Sure. What kind of phone?" Reid set the bag on the counter and she pulled the box out. "It's going to be pretty spendy."
Reid shook his head. "Don't care."
The girl, her name tag read Beth, nodded. "Sure it'll take some time to do as well. Probably about two weeks if we rush it. Do you need it back by a specific date?" She asked as she made a little sketch on paper of what Reid wanted.
"I needed it back at least five days prior to Christmas."
"What's the name?"
"Sweets." Reid told her. Beth lifted her head and smiled.
"I'll go out on a limb and say it's for your girlfriend." She said kindly.
Tyler chuckled. "Yeah who he happens to be head over heels in love with." Reid shoved Tyler and glared at him.
"Shut up."
Beth smiled. "If you ask me it's rather sweet." She said and then showed him the drawing that she did free hand on a blank sheet of paper. "Will this work?"
"Yes. Would you do her name in a light green?" Reid asked.
Beth nodded. "Sure. Anything you want. We wont have the exact amount for you right now cause we don't know how many crystals it'll take, but we'll call you and let you know when it can be picked up. Your girlfriends a lucky girl."
Reid grinned. "Actually I'm the lucky one. Her father hates me enough to send her to another boarding school in Maine and she still wants to talk to me."
Beth laughed and shook her head. "Fathers just don't know their daughters. Ok well all I need is for you to write down your information and that's it, we'll have to keep the phone though."
"No problem." Reid said jotting down his information on the sheet she'd shoved towards him on the counter. "Anything else?"
Beth shook her head. "Nope that should do it." Reid thanked her and he and Tyler left the store leaving behind Aubrey's cell phone.
"Anything else?" Tyler asked his friend.
Reid looked to the store they passed with a grin. "Well..."
Tyler looked to and shook his head. "No. I'm not letting you buy Aubrey lingerie for Christmas you oaf. Do you want her to dump your ass?""
"She wouldn't dump me." Tyler gave him a look. "Ok she might dump me." Reid relented as they walked passed the store completely.
"What do you think she's getting you for Christmas?" Tyler asked.
"Told her not to get me anything." Reid replied stoically as they made their way to leave the mall.
"Why?" Tyler asked. "She's a girl you know she's going to get you something."
"No she wont." Reid shook his head.
"Will." Tyler argued mockingly.
"Wont."
"Will."
"Wont."
Brinley Academy:
Aubrey was in the locker rooms cleaning herself up after working out with Val and she caught her roommate looking at her. "What?" She asked.
Val shrugged. "It's just...you're so...so pure."
"Excuse me." Aubrey laughed softly turning back to her gym locker.
Val nodded. "Yeah I mean, you don't have any piercings, no tattoos, and you're a virgin. Your so pure how'd you fall for a bad boy."
"He would say it's just cause he's that good, but Reid's sweet underneath his attitude. I mean he's loyal to a fault he'd do just about anything for his friends, and that's really attractive. Not to mention the good girls always fall for the bad boys that they can't bring home to dad." She said laughing again.
Val chuckled. "I guess. But it's just interesting is all."
"Trust me I think that at least once a day." Aubrey joked back.
"So what are you getting him for Christmas?" Val asked her roommate.
Aubrey slipped on her shirt and closed her locker. "He said not to get him anything."
"And you decided not to? Doesn't he have some sort of surprise for you?" Val questioned.
Aubrey nodded. "Yeah. That's why I've been wracking my brain for ideas. But there's nothing I can think of short of..." She paused a blush on her cheeks and Val grinned. "Yeah that, that Reid would really want."
"Well what does he like?" Val asked.
"Pool, women and tattoos. Basically your typical guy." Aubrey informed her.
"In that order?" Val asked jokingly as they started out of the locker room.
Aubrey shrugged. "Probably more like women, pool then tattoos." She said nonchalantly.
Val snapped her fingers and skipped forward quickly turning around so she was walking backwards to face Aubrey. "I've got it. What if you his woman got a tattoo on your body?"
"I'm not tattooing his name on my ass Val." Aubrey said rolling her eyes.
"No I mean just a tattoo, something for him to look at you know. And then we'll take a couple of pictures and send them to him. Sexy pictures."
"I don't know how to be sexy, you've already got me to put a few purple highlights in my hair and I still haven't gotten Reid to tell me what he thinks of those." Aubrey said skeptically.
"I'm sure he thinks they're hot, come on I've got blue tips because it's the only way you'd do it. I'll get a tattoo if you do?" Aubrey seemed to contemplate this deal. "I see the wheels turning." Val teased.
Aubrey bit her lip out of habit and then nodded. "Ok, fine but I am not tattooing his name anywhere on me. That is just bad luck. Every time a girl tattoos her boyfriends name on them they break up."
"Yay." Val said enthusiastically moving back so she was walking next to Aubrey, their arms linked together. "I've got the perfect idea for you."
"Why do I have a feeling I'm going to regret this?" Aubrey asked softly hanging her head and shaking it. "Well you can show me that perfect idea later, I have a meeting with the headmistress."
"Bummer. I'll see you back at our dorm?" Val said unlinking their arms and moving to go down another hall.
Aubrey nodded. "Yeah. Later." Val was soon out of sight and Aubrey made her way down to the main office. Once she was inside she walked up to the secretary. "Hey Gretchen, I'm here for my appointment."
"Very well Aubrey go on in she's waiting for you." Aubrey nodded her head and made her way in to the Headmistresses office.
"Headmistress McCain." Aubrey said taking her seat unenthusiastically.
"Miss Higgins, I suspect you know why your here?" The headmistress turned around in her chair to face Aubrey. She was a petite woman, red hair brown eyes, aging skin. She was average and tried to be somewhat frightening but Aubrey had grown up with a Provost for a father, she knew all the tricks to persuading students in to doing things so her tactics rarely worked.
"Can't say that I do." Aubrey rolled her eyes.
"Well I'll enlighten you then. It's come to my attention that you were off school grounds for an entire night two nights ago."
Aubrey snorted. "So?"
"Aubrey you have been walking a very thin line these last few months. Your teachers have made multiple complaints as to your behavior in their classes not to mention other girls have informed me that you have verbally harassed them."
"It's not my fault they can't retaliate in a verbal match. And they started it all I did was finish it."
"I brought you here as a favor to your father, but you are walking a very thin rope my dear. You need to shape up. I'll give you until the end of this school year before I make my decision on whether or not to let you remain a student here."
Aubrey nodded. "Fine." She said standing. "You do that." As she walked out the door a large Cheshire grin appeared on her face. If only the headmistress knew that Aubrey really didn't care about that thin line.
As she got back to her dorm room she saw Val drawn furiously in her notebook. "Ah good your back." Val said sitting up. She held out the notebook to Aubrey. "What do you think?"
Aubrey saw the delicate flower design. The flower was a shade of pink and the lines around it were white accented by dark shading. "Wow, this is awesome Val. It's perfect."
"I know." Val said excitedly.
Aubrey looked at the flower some more. "This was my moms favorite flower."
"Oh I, I'm sorry I'll put another kind if you..."
"No, don't change it. I love it."
1 Week Later:
"Oh my god I can't believe you got me dressed in this." Aubrey said looking at herself in the mirror. Val walked over and looked over her shoulder into the full length mirror as well.
"You look hot." She said. "I'm sure Reid will love this."
"I look like...I can't even describe this." Aubrey said tilting her head back and forth eying herself up and down in the mirror. Bare feet, bare legs, pink and black pleated plaid mini skirt slung low on her waist, black v-neck vest and pink bra peeking out of the vest. Hair straight but looking thoroughly run through, lips glossed and pouty, eyes decked out in black liner and mascara with a light gray tint on her eye lids.
"You look like a fuck-able fantasy." Val said bluntly. "Reid will appreciate it."
Aubrey bit her lip nervously. "I don't know how to be sexy Val. This could all just turn out sucky."
"Trust me, I'm the queen of sexy. Besides your showing enough to keep him interested and covering enough to come off a bit modest." Val told her, adjusting the skirt to a little lower on her hips. The tattoo standing out in great contrast to her light skin.
Aubrey sighed and nodded. "Ok. Fine what do I do?"
Val grinned and moved her over to the door first. "Lean back, arch your back just a little so only your shoulders touch the door, maybe trail your right foot simply up your calf angling your right knee inward, and bring your arms up so that they are above your head resting on the door." Aubrey did as instructed.
"Like this?" She asked.
Val nodded. "Perfect, you know for a girl who doesn't know how to be sexy, you pull it off well."
"Just take the picture Val." Aubrey said.
"Don't smile, pout almost but add just a hint of mischievousness." Aubrey did so and Val lifted her camera to her eye and snapped a couple shots with the flash going off each time. "Ok, now..." She grabbed Aubrey's arm and walked her over to her made bed. "Lay down on your left side, hold your head up, elongate the neck a bit, good...no shift your legs just a little so each is angled but not exactly the same. Perfect."
"What about my free arm?" Aubrey asked.
"Form it with your right side, maybe even grab the hem of the skirt also." And that's what Aubrey did while Val took shots. "Ok one more pose and we should have enough to decide what to send him."
Aubrey nodded.
Three Days Later:
"Ok, that one and...that one, no that one...no that one...Ah shit I don't know." Val said pointing to the pictures on the screen. They'd uploaded their pictures to the digital photo booth at the drug store in town.
Aubrey point to two of the photos. "Definitely these two, and that one." She said pointing to a third.
"Perfect couldn't agree more. Now I'm gonna set these up for the one hour photo, which wont even take that long and you go find a card to send them in. And I'll throw in a few of the pictures from the day you got the tat."
"Cool, I'll be over by the cards." Aubrey told her with a smile and walked away.
Couple Days Before Christmas:
Spencer Academy:
"Did Kate get that package sent off ok?" Reid asked Tyler as they sat in their dorm room with nothing to do. Christmas break meant that lots of the students had gone home for the holidays but there was still a good majority that chose to stay there.
"Yes for the hundredth time she sent it off two days ago. Would you please relax, I think you made the instructions very clear and Aubrey will Call you when she gets it, will you please shut up about now."
Reid sighed. "You're right Ty. I'm just..."
"Go get the mail, it'll get you out of the room and keep me from strangling you." Tyler said irritably.
"Fine." Reid grunted getting up from the bed with his room key and cell phone and walked out. As he made his way to the office to get their mail he couldn't help checking his cell phone every few moments. As he walked in to the office he went straight for their box grabbing out the mail and started back to his and Tyler's room.
He thumb through the mail as he walked coming across an envelope addressed to Tyler with no return address, from Maine. He grinned and walked quicker to his room to open it.
"Guess what came baby boy?" Reid said walking in to the room. Tyler looked up from his magazine and raised a brow.
"What?"
"A letter from Aubrey." He grinned tossing the rest of mail on Tyler stomach as he flopped down on his bed opening the envelope. He pulled the card that was inside out and opened it, a smaller envelope dropped on to his chest. "Merry Christmas." Reid read allowed and set the card aside taking the other envelope and pulling the unsealed flap open. He pulled out the contents and found pictures. He went through each, each time growing more surprised. Pictures of Aubrey sitting in a chair, being tattooed, pictures of the finished tattoo that day and then a few rather racy photos of her in a pink plaid mini looking really good showing off said tattoo. "Holy fuck!" Reid cursed sitting up finally grasping the entire situation.
Tyler groaned sitting up and setting his magazine aside. "What did she dump your ass?" He asked rubbing his face.
Tyler looked at Reid and saw his heated stare and put his hands up in surrender. "No, she didn't dump me ass wipe. She got a fucking tattoo, see." He handed him one of the photos from the tattoo parlor as he finished looking at the others. A photo of her and who he assumed to be her roommate joined at the hip showing off their new tattoos, with silly faces. Aubrey's tattoo was on her right hip, slowly dipping down to her groin muscles, and Val's was on her left hip moving down in the same fashion, but Val's were simply drizzled stars.
"Why would she get a tattoo?" Tyler asked.
Reid grinned looking at the racier photos of his girlfriend appreciatively. "She knows I think their fucking sexy as hell." He told him. Tyler handed him back to photo.
"At least she didn't tattoo your name on her ass." He joked.
Reid chuckled. "Yeah."
"So what are the other photos of?" Tyler asked.
"Sorry baby boy, those are only for my eyes." Reid smirked.
Tyler eyes grew big. "She sent you nude photos." He asked stunned.
Reid chuckled shaking his head. "No. She's got clothes on, but they're really for me only." He told his friend grinning.
Brinley Academy
Next Day:
Aubrey walked through the halls having just gotten out of the shower and was walking back to her room. When she entered she saw Val laying on her bed with Kat they were talking and giggling.
Flash back:
"Aubs please distract the guard." Val pleaded.
Aubrey groaned. "How? You want me to show him my boobs and tell him older men make me hot. He's under strict orders Val."
"I know, I know. Tell him you dropped your deceased grandmothers ring in the flower bed and you need his help looking for it."
"Why is it not surprising that you came up with that idea?" Aubrey sighed and started for the entrance that her and Val normally used to get to their dorm. The camera's were being worked on luckily and were turned off for the time being so that was one thing less they had to worry about.
As Aubrey approached the guard she put on her best smile and stepped right up to him. "May I help you miss?" He asked stoically.
"Yes you may. I, um, well I feel kind of foolish I mean my father told me not to wear it when it didn't fit right to begin with, but I did and..."
"Miss?" The guard asked irritated.
"Well you see I dropped my grandmothers ring, it's a family heirloom and I can't seem to find it, maybe four eyes will be better the two?" She asked sweetly.
The guard nodded and walked with Aubrey towards the flower garden. "Where'd you drop it?" He asked.
"Somewhere in this general area." She said kindly. He nodded and they both got down on hands and knees and started looking for a ring that wasn't there. Aubrey looked over her shoulder and saw Val holding Kat by the hand and pulling her along the path to the door.
"It might help if I knew what it looked like." The guard sat up and back on his heels turning his head slightly.
Aubrey didn't want him to catch a glimpse of the girls behind him so she pointed frantically in front of them. "There I thought I saw a sparkle." She lied and the guard kneeled over with her. "Oh no, that's not it." She said stupidly.
"Miss you might have better luck if you ask the janitor to come look with his metal detector?" Aubrey glanced quickly behind her and saw the door shutting.
She nodded. "You're right, you are absolutely right. I, uh, I will do that. Thank you though."
"You're welcome. It's starting to get dark you should head inside."
"I will. Goodnight."
"Goodnight Miss." And with that Aubrey went in to the building and the guard went back to his post.
End flash back
"And what were you two doing while I was gone?" Aubrey joked.
Val and Kat looked over at her and smiled. "Nothing you want to know about." Val said grinning at her.
Aubrey laughed. "Oh gross, you're right I don't."
"A package came for you." Kat said as she kissed Val's neck.
"Oh right." Val said having just remembered. "It's on your desk." Aubrey went in to their bathroom and quickly changed into comfortable worn boot-cut jeans, and a black t-shirt that had white lettering spelling out 'Eternity' and a picture of a geisha girl on the front. She slipped on her charcoal gray mid-thigh length knitted sweater and toweled her hair dry. After brushing it out she pulled it up in to a pony tail and walked out of the bathroom.
Aubrey made her way over to her desk and grabbed the package before going over to her bed and sitting down with it. She looked around for an object to cut the tape with and snatched up her room keys on the end of her bed. She then proceeded to cut the tape and pulled the box open.
Inside was another box. Aubrey examined it closely and smiled brightly snatching it out of the box and quickly opening it as well. "God I love him." She said happily as she got the second box opened and pulled out it's main contents. She looked the phone over and couldn't help it. "Awe." She cooed.
"What is it?" Val asked ceasing kissing her girlfriend. Aubrey held up the new cell phone so that Val and Kat could see the back.
"Sweets?" Kat asked confused.
"It's Reid's nickname for me. He got me a phone so that we could talk." She said excitedly. Then she noticed the sticky not on the screen. "For a Merry Christmas just hit send and Call me! Love Reid." Aubrey read allowed.
"Awe." Kat said and then slapped Val's arm. "Why don't you do that shit?"
"Aubs your boyfriends making me look bad." Val joked.
Aubrey laughed and looked over at them as she took the sticky note off and reread it. "I haven't talk to him in so long." She said softly.
"How about me and Val go in to the bathroom and you call?" Kat suggested grinning at her girlfriend.
Kat was a beautiful girl with long dark hair, and tan skin. Her deep blue eyes and soft lips just made her that much more stunning. Val nodded in agreement getting up from the bed with Kat. "Yeah and um, don't uh worry, take all the time you need."
Aubrey laughed. "Ok just keep the noise down. I don't need the girls next door calling the guards about erotic noises."
"Oh we'll be quiet." Kat grinned pushing Val into the bathroom and shutting the door behind her. Aubrey heard and loud thump and shook her head.
"Quiet my ass." She muttered with a grin. She turned the cell phone in her hand on and made her way over the window seat of their room. Taking a seat she rest her temple against the cold glass as she watched the white snow fall from the darkened sky. And Aubrey looked at the phone to find Reid had saved a picture he'd taken of the two of them with his own phone as the back ground. Smiling to herself she hit send.
After three rings there was an answer. "Hello?"
"Ty?"
"Hey Aubrey." Tyler said and she could hear a smile in his words. "Uh Reid's at the showers, I'm surprised he didn't take his cell he's done nothing but stare at it since the package was sent off."
Aubrey laughed softly. "I bet. So um thank you. I wish I could say it person but..."
"Look, you make Reid happy and we all agree what your father did wasn't right."
"Yeah..." Before she could continue Tyler started talking but not to her.
"Oh hey man guess who finally call..." He was cut off as well.
"Sweets?"
Tears gathered in seconds and started falling down her cheeks. "Hey." She sniffled.
"No don't cry. Sweets please don't cry."
Aubrey giggled through her tears and wiped at her eyes with the hand that wasn't holding the cell phone firmly to her ear. "Happy tears I swear. It's just I haven't heard your voice in so long. It's nice to hear you."
"The feelings mutual Sweets. So do you like my present? It's the whole package, so you don't have to worry about text message charges or anything. It's got Internet access so you can email me whenever you want to and IM so you and I can talk even if we aren't on the phone. Basically any way you need to get a hold of me short of finding a way to runaway that phone has it."
Aubrey smiled and took and released a deep calming breath. "It's wonderful. I absolutely love the crystal design, it must've cost a fortune though."
"Don't even worry about it Sweets. Cost is nothing." Reid told her.
"Thank you so much." Aubrey said appreciatively. "Did you get my gift?" She asked a small blush on her cheeks as her free hand was now picking at a loose strand on her sweater hem.
"I did." That husky devilish voice, she could picture the grin on his face. Oh how she'd missed that. "I like it, a lot."
"Really?" Aubrey asked.
"Definitely, its so sexy baby. I can't wait to see it in person and just run my fingers over it."
Aubrey sighed blissfully picturing his fingertips tracing her tattoo. Even a daydream made her feel hot and bothered. "I can't wait for that too." She sighed softly.
"Picturing naughty things are we Miss Higgins?" He teased seductively.
Aubrey wanted to deny it she really did but part of her just wanted to be truthful with him. "You have no idea." She said chewing her bottom lip, something Reid had once told her was really sexy. She heard hushed giggling in the bathroom and groaned.
"What?"
"Val and her girlfriend are getting dirty in the bathroom." She told him honestly.
"I thought Val's parents sent her away from her girlfriend?" Reid questioned.
Aubrey nodded mostly to herself. "They did, but Kat saved up the money and flew here, then we snuck her in the dorms a few days ago and she's been staying with us. I try to get out of the room as much as possible so they can be alone. But apparently they didn't get enough alone time today." She kidded. "So how have you been I want to hear everything!" Aubrey said quickly changing the subject.
AN: So there you have the third chapter. Glad you all are enjoying! Like I've said before Reviews are great inspiration for me to keep going, so as long as they keep coming I will keep writing. Let me know any thoughts or feelings. Also I know some are word about my There's A Hole story, but I will finish it, I'm currently at a block on how I'd like to end it, so it may take some time, but it will get finished I promise. Hope this chapter was plenty for my readers! Let me know!
