Chapter 4

I woke up to a sound that wasn't my alarm. As I started to come through I realized it was my cell phone.

"Hello," I answered so groggily I wasn't sure if the person on the other end would no it was me.

"Baby, is that you?" "Michael!" I yelled so happy to hear is voice again. "How are you lovey?" I asked him. "I'm good. Well this was supposed to be a surprise but I can't wait to tell you. Guess what I'm doing right now."

"What?" I asked him expecting it to be something trivial. "I'm listening to my mom, right now, speaking to Provost Higgins over the phone. I'm coming to Spencer next week!" he said very excitedly.

"Oh wow," I said not as excited as him but I quickly masked that with a yawn pretending I was still waking up, "I'm so happy you are going to be here." We talked for a little longer and then we hung up because we both had to get ready for school. Something inside of me wanted him to stay in Manhattan.

When Supria woke up I told her all about Michael coming over but I feigned excitement. I didn't want her to think I was a bad person for not wanting my boyfriend to come to school here.

"That's perfect! Now you definitely don't have to worry about Reid," she said hitting a nerve.

Right before me and Supria were about to leave for first period we heard a knock on the door.

"Hey I know you said I could sit next to you in English today but I thought the proper thing would be to walk with you there as well," Chase said as I opened the door. "Sure we can walk together," I answered him. So Chase, Supria, and I all walked from the dorms to the school together.

During our walk towards the school we kept hearing whispers, "Did you hear about the fight between Aaron Abbott and Reid Garwin at Nicky's last night?" Or whispers saying, "Did you see the new girl and Reid almost have sex on the dance floor," the latter sending a blush to my face.

"We weren't 'almost having sex' were we?" I asked Supria. "Do you want me to make you feel better or tell you the truth?" she asked as I slapped myself on the forehead. "I mean it wasn't vulgar, it just got really steamy," she said trying to make me feel better.

We dropped Supria off at her class and went right across the hall into ours to find a seat.

I walked in a little ahead of Chase because after hearing some rumors about Reid and me I didn't want people to think I was with Chase. As I walked in the room my eyes met with some very familiar blue ones and it made me stop in my tracks because of all of the emotions it brought out in me. Because of my stopping Chase ran into me and thankfully caught me before I fell and embarrassed myself.

"Thanks," I mumbled. We sat down in the last two seats available and I could still feel those blue eyes on me.

I started to busy myself by taking the best notes I've probably ever taken in my life. "Wow, you are a good note taker," Chase teased me as I continued to vigorously take notes.

Right as the bell rang I had to get out of there because I could still feel Reid's eyes on me. Something inside of me was getting angry; however, and I was going to ask him why he was trying to make me uncomfortable.

I waited outside the classroom for him to come out. "Why do you keep staring at me trying to make me feel uncomfortable?" I accosted him right as he walked out the door, pinning him to the wall.

"I don't know why you think so highly of yourself, little lady, that you would think I would waste time looking at you," he answered smugly. Oh he knew just how to push my buttons.

"Reid I thought we could still be friends," I started to tell him though I was cut off by Chase. "C'mon Cari, he's only bad news." " 'Oh I'm not the kind of girl who cheats'," Reid said trying to mock me, "How good is she in bed?" he asked Chase.

After he said that I just looked at him with tears welling up in my eyes and I could see a hint of shame in his eyes but I ran off before anyone could see me cry.

At lunch I sat with Supria, Caleb, Tyler, Sarah, Pogue, Reid, and Kate. I didn't even glance Reid's way, though I could feel his eyes sometimes on me.

I could feel anger welling up in me again so I excused myself to the restroom and walked outside to get some fresh air. "Cari," I heard a familiar voice say, "I'm really sorry about this morning. I didn't realize I was staring and I was embarrassed to admit it."

"Well you didn't have to embarrass me or be rude. And by the way I'm not sleeping with Chase. Why would you say something like that? I wasn't lying when I told you I don't cheat," I said choking up on some of the words because of the tears involuntarily spilling out of my eyes.

"But," I started not being able to stop the flow of words, "you make me want to." I quickly covered my mouth because I did not mean to say that out loud.

I turned around with a bright blush still on my cheeks and saw him right in front of me. He used the pad of his thumb to wipe away some of the tears and leaned his head to kiss me.

"Reid, just because I want to doesn't mean I can," I interrupted the kiss mentally kicking myself.

"Then why don't you call Mr. Perfect and break up with him that way you won't be cheating," Reid said matter-of-factly. "You know deep down that I can't just do that," I said, "I really want to be friends with you, Reid. Please let me do that." "Yea we can be friends," he answered with a hint of disappointment in his voice.

I went to give him a big hug and I felt this huge shock of electricity go through our bodies and again we were about to go in for the kill when we were interrupted by Supria and Sarah, "There ya'll are! C'mon 4th period starts in 5 minutes!"