AN: This is another chapter. I hope you like it. I do not own the covenant or the characters in it. I just own my OC's and the plot of the story. Reviews will be greatly appreciated.

Chapter 3: Tangled In Trouble

The night at the Nicky's was fun. Everything went well the rest of the evening; even after the whole drama with Reid Garwin. Thankfully nothing else happened afterwards. The following day, I was getting ready for the classes for that day. That was when someone knocked at my door. I opened the door and found Troy standing there.

"Hey good morning!" He greeted me brightly.

"Morning, what are you doing here?" I asked casually after greeting him back.

"I thought about walking together to the class. We both have geometry now." I nodded my head and turned around to lock the door. I didn't have any roommate yet, just as I wanted. Troy and I walked out of the dorm and reached the school building. We were walking towards the class while talking about casual school stuffs. We found Angela on our way. She got physics class for her first period. When we greeted Angela, Troy and I noticed that she wasn't looking very good; actually she was downright panicking because she got a quiz on the subject today. Angela was convinced that she wasn't prepared for the test properly and asked us to help her out with some mathematical problems. I checked my wrist watch and found that we still got fifteen minutes left before the first class starts. Unfortunately, by the time Troy and I reached our classroom, the teacher had already started the lecture. After apologizing to the teacher we searched for two vacant seats and found them one beside Aaron and another beside Garwin. Just great! I thought to myself.

Troy looked at me the same time, I looked at him. Our eyes locked and we both mirrored the same expression. Worry. After all we both knew very well that those seats were like danger zones for us. I was actually surprised to see Garwin in the class above all people because most of the time he missed his first class of the day.

"You take the seat beside Garwin, he wouldn't dare to do anything in the classroom." I nodded to Troy and then walked up to the vacant seat beside Garwin and Troy sat beside Aaron. Garwin however didn't bother to acknowledge me or my presence there in anyway which I was really grateful for. Though, I had a gut feeling that these two vacant seats weren't only a coincident. But I had no way to prove that, did I? The teacher had already resumed his lecture. I was paying my full attention to it and taking neat notes carefully. But suddenly I felt a hand on my knee. I quickly jerked that hand off and glared at the blonde heatedly who was smirking to himself. I sat furthest from him, increasing the distance between us as much as possible and resumed taking notes. After a while, I felt him touch me again and again I jerked away his hand but this time I whispered to him in a low dangerous tone of voice along with a death glare.

"Just because I'm sitting in a class, doesn't mean I won't do anything if you try to touch me again."

As expected, he didn't take my warning seriously and touched me for the third time. This time I didn't shove his hand away. He gave my knee a strong but still gentle squeeze. Then he started taking his hand to a higher place slowly. I looked around to see if anyone was looking at our way. Getting a perfect opportunity I stabbed his hand with my pencil compass. It created a perfect wound on the back of his palm and it started to bleed right away. Garwin suppressed the painful yelp that threatened to escape his mouth, though couldn't help but flinch visibly from the hurt feeling. The blood was making a mess and he was doing too much movements for my liking. Also, I didn't want the teacher to notice him because then I could get in trouble too along with him.

So I handed him my handkerchief to cover up the wound and somehow stop the bleeding for the moment. He looked at me with disbelieve in his eyes. It was understandable though. Given that it was me who just hurt him. After staring at me for a few more seconds, Garwin took the handkerchief and started to wrap it around his hand while looking at me from the corner of his eyes. I smirked at him and then quietly started to take notes again as if nothing had happened. We remained like that for sometimes.

"Why the hell did you stab me?" He whispered to me with gritting teeth and glaring eyes. I shrugged my shoulders nonchalantly at him.

"What else was I supposed to do? And I warned you, didn't I?" His glare suddenly faltered and Garwin started smirking at me instead which made me a little confused.

"What?" I asked raising my eyebrows at him.

"Pogue was right about you. You really are a tough girl." The smirk turned more devilish as he said that.

"You did this just to find out what type of a girl I am?" I asked with disbelieve in my voice and a shocked expression on my face. Garwin winked at me like a badass. Then suddenly my shocked expression dissolved away and a 'not very impressed and bored' look appeared on my face. It made him frown at me with confusion.

"Well, that was a very lame old way to do it, wasn't it? I figured it out the first time you touched me." I shrugged my shoulders at him nonchalantly to further prove my point to him. It made Garwin gape at me a little.

"You knew that I was only testing you and still you stabbed me!" He looked perfectly pissed off which only made me waggle my eyebrows at him with a small yet satisfied smirk playing on my lips.

"Actually that's exactly why I did it. To give you a clear idea of what kind of a girl I am. I don't want you to misunderstand anything about me and know that it's in your best interest to stay away from me." Garwin shook his head to himself as I kept smirking to myself, feeling thoroughly satisfied. Then he spoke up again.

"Though you look boring but I think you are rather interesting than your looks." He said smirking at me again. Was that an effort to insult me and hurt my female ego? Too bad no offense was taken.

"I will take that as a compliment." I smiled at him bitter sweetly to show him that my ego was perfectly okay. He scowled at me with a more pissed off look on his face. I might've managed to get on his nerves finally. When the bell rang, I shot out of the seat in a lightening speed. Obviously exaggerating here. I almost ran out of the classroom and found Troy standing right outside for me. He had quite a pissed off look on his face as well.

"I'm not going to ask how the class was for you." I said knowing that it must have been hell for him as well. I heard quite a lot of stories about Aaron and his nasty ways of treating people. I had one myself. We were walking towards our next classrooms when Troy asked me a question with a curious look on his face.

"What were you and Garwin whispering about?" I sighed out a little knowing that this would come up sooner or later. And I must answer him otherwise Troy would assume something was wrong.

"He was touching me in the class thinking that I wouldn't be able to defend myself." Troy knew something else also happened. So he asked-

"And?" With a suspicious look on his face. I looked at the floor not wanting to meet his eyes that moment.

"Well, I might've stabbed him with my pencil compass to prove him wrong." I released the breath that I was holding in. I knew Troy wouldn't be very pleased to hear about that. Because Garwin wasn't someone you could mess with and be safe at the same time. And Troy knew this very well.

"Did you really do that?" He asked again not really believing me. I slowly nodded my head to him and gave him a nice innocent smile. So that he wouldn't get too mad at me for my stupidity. Troy sighed out in frustration but didn't say anything thankfully. Later, in the cafeteria we were sitting at our usual table during the lunch hour. Michael nudged me and pointed towards a direction with his eyes. I looked at the way he was showing and found Garwin there, and he was staring right at me. He still had the handkerchief that I gave him, wrapped around his wounded palm. It was soaked with blood. He was brushing his fingers against it lightly as if unknowingly doing it while gazing at me without blinking his eyes. I noticed the other sons of Ipswich were glancing at me as well. I turned back around to face Troy. We shared a knowing look before I looked down at my food to avoid the gazes which were really getting uncomfortable for me.

"You are taking yourself into further trouble Rayna." Jessica spoke up after a few seconds. She too noticed the unfriendly look on Garwin's face.

"Jessica is right. Garwin isn't the type who let go of things easily." Michael agreed with her instantly. And I knew both of them were right. I sighed out heavily to myself and leaned back in my chair.

"You guys are right, I'd stay clear of him from now on. I shouldn't have got involved with him in the first place." Though I said it and meant it but I had a feeling that no matter how much I try to avoid Garwin now, he wouldn't let me be in peace. After all, I did stab him and insulted him in front of everyone. Things were already out of my hands. As if Troy had just read my mind, he spoke up softly-

"It's too late for staying clear of him Rayna. He's already up to something. I can feel it." And I couldn't agree more with him.

For the next couple of days, I made sure that Reid Garwin wouldn't come near within ten feet distance of me. Except for the one class we had to sit next to each other. But I found it really hard to avoid him other times as well, because he was literary stalking me around whenever he had the chance. It was like a 'hide and seek' game for us which we were playing quietly. But even that didn't continue for a long time. It didn't stop. It got worse.

One evening, after a tiring day, I thought about going out to take an evening walk. To refresh my mind. My room was on the fifth floor, and though I usually used the stairs but that day I felt like using the elevator. It was merely a spur of the moment decision. Unfortunately you never know when your bad luck decides to pay you a visit. I got into the elevator and pressed the ground floor button but it stopped on the fourth floor to let someone in. The elevator door opened and the person that stepped in was none other than Reid Garwin. As soon as I saw him stepping inside, I tried to walk by him and get out of the elevator. But he blocked the way of my exit and let the door close itself. The look on his face made me extremely uncomfortable. He was checking me out from head to toe like Aaron did the other day. But this time it made me nervous. He must have noticed it as he smirked to himself and stepped closer to me.

"You are not bad looking at all. Actually, you're quite pretty I must say." He took one lock of my hair in between his forefinger and middle finger and combed it down to where it ended. I hadn't tied up my hair that time like I usually do before going out. It was also a spur of the moment decision.

"An now that I'm noticing you for quite a few days, I think you could be the most attractive girl in Spenser if you work on it." I felt his hot breath on my neck. I was pressed against the elevator wall and he was standing so close to me, that I started getting goosebumps on my skin. When he whispered those words to me huskily, I felt myself shivering from inside. Why was he doing this to me? More importantly why was I feeling this unknown ticklish feeling all over my body? Why was he affecting me like this? The confusion in my mind was getting me nowhere. But somehow I managed to get a hold on myself. I gave him a sharp look and spoke up with a firm tone of voice.

"This is not going to work on me." I said looking straight into his eyes. Which wasn't a very good idea because if I was a little careless those ocean like eyes could have drowned me right away. Damn! why the elevator wasn't moving any faster? At last the door opened on the ground floor. I was certain the elevator moved at its usual speed but it had felt like a long time to me. I pushed Garwin away and ran out of there. I was breathing heavily as I came outside of the building as if I was running down a hundred miles per hour. Why the hell he was being so difficult? Couldn't he just forget about what happened? Why was he being so stubborn? Would I ever get the answers to these questions?