Chapter 8:

Waking up the next morning around eleven a.m. do to her very annoying ringing cell phone Charlene grumbled something incoherent in to her pillow. She reached out snatching her phone and flipped it open. "Good morning."

"Kate you're far to fucking perky this early." Charlie said not moving from her comfortable bed.

"Long night?" Kate asked excitedly.

"Yes as a matter of fact it was, but not because of Reid." Liar.

"I never said anything about Reid." Kate told her and Charlene could picture the smirk on her face.

"What's up?"

Obviously Kate decided to let it go, for now. "Just calling to thank you." Kate said.

"Why?"

"I know you sent Pogue a reminder. He confessed this morning." Kate said.

Charlie laughed softly mostly to herself. "It's not a crime to help him remember. So this morning huh? You get freaky at his place last night or something?" She asked her teasingly.

"I don't tell about my endeavors." Kate said back playfully.

"That's as good as a yes. So how about we meet up at the coffee shop in town you ladies took me too the other day and then we'll head over to my grandma's house?"

"Sure, sounds great. Say around two?"

"Tell Sarah. I'm going back to sleep now, night."

"Morning." Kate replied jokingly with a laugh. Charlie didn't say anything else knowing that the conversation was over and ended the call setting the phone back on her nightstand.

It really had been a long night for her. Charlie rolled on to her side burrowing her face in to her pillow to block out the offending light of day coming through her blinds and started slowly slipping back in to the world of unconsciousness.

After getting back around two a.m. from the pool Charlene had spent a very frustrated hour touching and prodding her lower regions to ease the ache in her abdomen. Thinking of the things she always thought about while pleasuring herself didn't seem to work. Derrick was her first thought, that didn't work. Then the amazing abs of Channing Tatum didn't work and soon she thought nothing would until a picture of Reid from that night in his room shirtless popped in to her head.

Shivers ran down her spine and the euphoric tingling seemed to explode from her aching pit sending excruciatingly wonderful trembles threw her body as her fingers became wetter within her. It had been such a shattering experience Charlene found herself out of bed washing her hands before heading over to her top dresser drawer moments later retrieving new panties. She switched for the second time since she'd returned from the pool and then got back in to bed.

She's snuggled under her covers temporarily satisfied and fell in to a deep sleep with those miraculously nice pale-skinned abs in her minds eye. Now it was much of the same. Charlene fell back to sleep instantly.

It didn't seem like much time had passed when Charlene was woken again to a knock at her door. "Go away!" She whined loudly.

The knock came again and she pulled the covers from her body snatching her silk robe from the back of her door and slipping it on before actually opening the door.

"You're fucking kidding right?" Charlene groaned and left the door open and she went back to her bed.

"Legs it's one in the afternoon."

"Fuck off." Charlene complained. "It's Saturday and I don't have to be anywhere till two, which means I wont get there till two fifteen." She said pulling her bedding back over her body.

Reid let himself in and shut the door. Charlie saw him standing there but he seemed too confident to be awkward about standing in her room. She hadn't actually had him in before so he was getting his first glimpse of what her 'real' room would look like. There was an easel in the corner with a half finished panting on it of what looked like a contorted face.

Posters of various rock events hung on her wall and the infamous poster she'd told him about that night at his place. Clothes were scattered about in random places: hamper, desk seat, floor, and she had a bra hanging from the coat rack in the corner to the side of her door. Her laptop was off and closed on her desk and a bag of chips sat on the desk next to it. Her trash can was full of various energy drink cans and soda bottles and he could tell her nightstand to the left of her bed without a lamp was a mini fridge covered with a scarf.

"Nice room." He told her.

Charlie yawned. "Tha…nks." She said as best she could. Her eyes closed and she took a few deep. "Not that you aren't welcome here, but what the fuck do you want." She said her voice still irritable.

The bed next to her shifted down and her eyes opened just as something lightweight fell on her face. "Miss me?" He said cockily. Charlene grabbed the offending article from her face and saw it was her panties from before her second change.

"Nope, had phone sex with Derrick before I went to Nicky's last night." She told him masking her face so he wouldn't be able to tell she was lying.

"Derrick, ex Derrick? I thought we agreed you didn't like him after what he did and he was an idiot." Reid said getting slightly defensive.

Blondie doesn't like competition. Charlene thought amusedly. "Oh we worked things out. And we agreed that just cause we weren't together didn't mean we couldn't have a little fun with each other. Phone sex is almost as good as the real thing if you and your partner can really speak in visuals." She said mockingly and then tossed her panties towards her hamper, hitting her butterfly chair instead. "As you can see." She said smugly.

"Whatever." Reid said trying desperately to mask the anger, but having little luck in that department. "So I'm here cause…"

"Ooo someone's…" Charlene sat up her lips coming close to his ear. "Jealous." She whispered mockingly.

Reid scoffed. "Not a chance. If you want to phone whore yourself out go ahead." He said grudgingly.

Charlie rested back on her elbows smirking at him and he refused to look over, she could see his eyes twitch to the corners to see if she was still watching him and then they'd shoot forward. "So you don't want me to call you late at night and talk dirty to you?"

"Visuals aren't my thing, its why I don't take art." He said perking up a bit enough to turn and give her a crookedly mischievous grin. "I'm more about the physical." He said impishly.

Looking at him with a lazy smirk Charlene sat completely up coming close to his face again. "Hmm…too bad." She said her eyes locked on his. Reid leaned in to kiss her and Charlene smirked and fell back away from him.

"Tease."

"And damn good at it." Charlene smirked at him. "So back to why you're here?"

"Just thought you'd want to see my handsome face to brighten your day." Reid joked sarcastically.

Charlene snorted. "Handsome are you kidding?"

"That hurts." Reid said putting a hand over his heart feigning ache.

"Reid?" Charlene said unamused but a small grin playing at her lips anyways.

"Ok fine…I'm failing pre cal…and I was wondering…"

"Reid that is a very pathetic attempt at getting closer to me. I mean honestly cant you just accept the fact I'm not going to sleep with you?" She said laughed lightly.

Reid scratched at the back of his neck and looked over at her in her laying form. "It's not an excuse Charlene. I'm dead serious. I don't want to ask Caleb or the others cause then I'll just get a lecture about how if I actually paid attention in class I wouldn't be failing…"

"Wait, so you're serious?" She asked.

Reid nodded and stood up keeping his back to her. "Yep. I need the class to graduate and if I fail I get held back. And as appealing as that sounds I would rather not." He looked over his shoulder at her. "So?"

Charlene raised an eyebrow at him as she sat up. "So this isn't some bad boy Garwin plot for late night freaky study sessions?"

"Not this time." Reid said.

A shrug was her answer.

"Is that a yes?"

"I guess so. Why don't you just go to the tutor center?"

"So some kid can flat out tell me I'm stupid I don't think so." Reid said shaking his head. "I don't need to be told what I already know."

Charlene smirked at him. "You've got looks and that can lead to a career as a Chip N Dale dancer…what do you say?" She said cheekily.

Reid laughed lightly turning completely around. "I don't think so, but thanks for the ego boost."

"Welcome. Now get out so I can sleep a little bit more."

"You sure you don't want me to stay with you?" Reid said grinning.

"Positive now go Reid."

"When…"

"Sunday my room at six, then you can escort me to Nicky's like the gentleman you are." She said playfully.

Reid smirked at her. "You want me." He said smugly. And then he just walked out of her room.

Charlene shook her head grinning to herself. You have no idea. She thought silently. She rolled on to her side again and rested down in to her pillow and comfortable bed and fell back to sleep.

Coffee Shop:

Charlene made her way in to the coffee shop at two twenty and saw Kate and Sarah waiting for her and she went over to retrieve a coffee from the counted and made her way over to the table.

As she sat a yawn escaped her lips. "Still tired? Damn Charlie how late were you up?" Sarah asked.

"Late and lets leave it at that. Alright so Reid's birthday?"

"We were thinking a large house party with an adult dressed up theme?" Kate said enthusiastically.

"No Kate was thinking that. I suggested taking him out to dinner." Sarah said.

Charlene looked over grinning at Sarah. "You obviously know Reid the least." Sarah shrugged.

"Can't really argue with that, we never really got to know each other that well."

"I think you're on to something Kate. Just invite as many girls as you can. You know Reid…"

"Not really but you do." Kate said smirking at her. "I think you like him."

"I don't like him or anybody for that matter." Charlene said pointedly at Kate. Kate just shrugged and her smirk didn't leave her lips.

"If you say…"

"I know ok?" Charlie said. So the conversation went back to Reid's party. It just so happened that Pogue and Caleb had seen Charlene's and Sarah's cars while they were in town and stopped in to the coffee shop to find the girls talking and laughing together.

"Hey." Pogue and Caleb each said to their respective girlfriends. Each girl receiving light kisses before the guys pulled up chairs.

"What are you girls up to?" Pogue asked politely.

"Planning a party for Reid's birthday." Charlene answered.

Caleb and Pogue both looked at them raising their eyebrows. "Why?" Pogue asked.

Kate smiled at him sweetly. "I thought it'd be a nice gesture."

"And I got roped in to it." Charlene said.

"Uh well that's great and all but when is this party taking place." Caleb asked Sarah.

She smiling kindly back at him she showed him the napkin she'd been writing the information on, since none of them had thought to bring a notepad. "On his birthday…after eight." Charlene wasn't quite certain why Sarah had emphasized on the time but whatever she said seemed to reassure Caleb and he grinned.

"Why didn't you ask for our help?" Caleb finally asked Sarah after staring at her for a long moment.

Ok I'm missing something. Charlie thought and rolled her eyes but no one noticed. "We've got it under control, besides you guys really don't have the party planning gene like us girls." Kate explained.

"That so?" Pogue asked smirking at her.

Kate smiled back innocently. "Yeah it is." She said matter oh factly.

After a few more minutes the girls decided to head over to Charlene's grandma's house and get settled for their 'sleepover' as Kate and Sarah kept referring to it.

"Toss your stuff anywhere." Charlene said leading them in to her bedroom. She'd never really thought about it's size before until Kate and Sarah both gave small gasps.

"This is your room?" Sarah asked looking around.

Charlene shrugged. "I guess so, it's a bit bigger than my room back in Seattle not to different."

"This is like something out of What A Girl Wants, with Amanda whatsherface." Kate said. "My room at my parents house isn't even this size." She added.

Charlie just shrugged again. "I dunno, most of the rooms in this house are about this size. Nothing spectacular."

"It's twice the size of our dorms." Sarah said throwing her messenger bag on the floor next to the bed, as did Kate.

"Whatever guys, it's no big. I guess David took King on his walk…hope neither of you are allergic to dogs." They both shook their heads. "No phobia's of them right?" They both laughed shaking their heads again.

"So I brought some movies…" Sarah said.

"Nothing girly like legally blonde, right?" Charlene asked them skeptically.

Sarah smiled shaking her head. "No. More like hot guy flicks, let's see we have Brad Pitt…"

"Ooo nice choice." Charlene kidded.

"Paul Walker…"

"Even better." Charlene grinned.

Sarah laughed. "And last but never least Channing Tatum."

"Awe you saw my poster in my dorm room didn't you?" Charlene asked in a sickly sweet gushy voice.

Sarah shook her head smiling at her again. "Yeah I did. Hope you don't mind Step up."

"You know, it being Kara's favorite movie I've learned to like it even though it is a little girly." Charlene told her. "So how about we go to the kitchen stoke up and then watch movies?"

"Sounds like a slumber party." Kate said sarcastically with a smile.

Charlie laughed. "Ok, but we aren't thirteen year old girls gossiping over cute boys. We're just three hot chicks hanging out on a Saturday night." They all agreed with giggles and headed down to the kitchen, meeting up with David as he entered the house with King.

"Last walk of the night Miss Charlie." David said with a kind smile.

Charlene let him off his leash thanked David and continued on to the kitchen with the girls running in to the maid, Rosie. "Miss Charlene is there anything I can get you and your friends?" She asked diligently doing her job. But for Charlene she was still getting use to the fact that these people were supposed to wait on her because she liked doing things for herself.

King stood behind her waiting quietly to go upstairs. Sarah and Kate looked at the maid and smiled kindly and Charlene shook her head with a sincere smile. "Sarah and Kate this is Rosie our maid, Rosie Sarah and Kate are friends of mine from school." Rosie smiled and nodded at them and they each gave a soft hello. "And no we can get what we need for ourselves it's alright."

"Miss Charlene it wouldn't be a problem…"

"Rosie it's alright really." Charlie insisted with a sweet smile on her face. "I insist you let us get what we need."

Rosie smiled and nodded. "Alright Miss Charlene."

"It's Charlie, Rosie please." Charlene said but she wasn't demanding it or threatening her if she continued to say it. Rosie smiled and nodded again.

"Yes Miss Charlie. How about you young ladies get what you want and I will back you some fresh cookies and bring them up after a while."

Charlie looked back at Sarah and Kate and gave them a questioning look. "Girls would you like cookies?" She said playfully.

"Peanut butter chocolate chip!" Kate said exuberantly and then rethought it. "I mean if she can." Sarah and Charlene both laughed softly and Charlie looked back at Rosie.

"Peanut butter chocolate chip?"

Rosie smiled. "Anything you want."

"Is that ok Sarah?" Kate asked.

Sarah nodded in agreement. "Sounds delicious. I love peanut butter and chocolate chip, but I've never had peanut butter chocolate chip." She smiled.

"Well you ladies get what you need and I'll get started on those cookies." Rosie said and began bustling around the kitchen getting ingredients from the cupboards and mixing bowls and utensils that she would need.

Charlene, Kate and Sarah retrieved bags of chips and packs of canned sierra mist along with other goodies and headed back upstairs, King in toe.

"Ok so we have jalapeno chips?"

"Me." Kate reached up snatching the bag from Charlene and she laughed.

"Gross. And we have sour cream and onion…" Sarah smiled as Charlie handed over the bag that Sarah herself had chosen downstairs. Upon her arrival Rosie had stalked up on several different varieties of snacks for her visits on the weekends and other foods she thought she might enjoy.

"What kind did you pick?" Kate asked her they were all leaning back against her head bored stretched out on her mattress with King laying at their feet and the first DVD previews playing on the screen and soda cans sitting between their thighs for easily accessible drinks.

Charlie held up the bag in her hand and grinned. "Funions." She said happily.

"Ok those are gross." Kate said opening her chips and eating one.

"No those jalapeno chips are gross funions are exactly what they claim to be, fun." Charlie joked.

Sarah laughed at them. "Lets agree to disagree on this one guys, the movies about to start."

"Fine." They both laughed softly and soon the movie started and they began to watch diligently interested in Se7en.

When a knock came at Charlie's door about forty five minutes in all the girls screamed in surprise having been so interested in the movie and King let out a loud bark. Charlene put a hand to her chest and took a few deep breaths and handed Kate her soda with her free hand and then jumped off the bed to see who it was King followed closely behind.

Charlie opened her door expecting to see Rosie or David possibly but instead found none other than Reid standing there smirking. "Scared you didn't I?" He asked.

"Yes dip shit we're watching a movie and you happened to knock and a very intense scene." Charlie said not phased in the slightest that he was cocky about that fact she scared easily.

Reid looked at her and frowned. "We?"

Charlene opened her door all the way and Kate and Sarah looked up from the screen smiled and gave quick curt waves to Reid. King stepped around Charlie and jumped up resting his paws on Reid's abdomen and barked.

"So it's ladies night is it?"

"I thought I told you this Reid?" Charlene groaned in complaint.

"No but then again I still probably would've shown up if you had. Maybe caught you in the middle of a pillow fight in your skimpy lingerie." He said grinning at her deviously.

Charlie rolled her eyes. "That is only in movies Garwin. What are you doing here?" She asked. Reid patted King on the head and the dog jumped back down and walked over to the bed and took up his spot at the end of it like he had been.

"Came to see if you wanted to join me at Nicky's tonight, but now I see why you said tomorrow." He said in that cocky confident demeanor he always had about him.

"Who let you in?" Charlie asked.

"I let myself in the front door was unlocked. You really should double check that, I'd hate for something bad to happen to my favorite girl." He said mockingly.

Charlene smirked. "And them?" She said pointing to the girls over her shoulder. "Them too right?"

"Yeah I guess. Caleb and Pogue would be devastated if anything happened to them and I don't do devastated very well." He teased.

Charlie hit him in the arm with her fist. "That was mean Reid. Jesus cant you be a little nicer to them they are partly your friends you nimrod?"

Reid grinned and rubbed at his arm. "Ok, ok jeez."

Charlie looked over her shoulder. "I'll be back in a minute pause it for me?" She said pointing to the screen. Kate and Sarah nodded with secret smiles on their faces before Charlene stepped out her door pushing Reid back and closing the door behind her. "For my sake will you make an effort to be kinder to them, they are my friends now after all and I probably wouldn't even have known who you were if it weren't for meeting them." She said looking at him.

"Pogue and Caleb haven't gotten me to be better with them, what makes you so sure you will?"

Charlene grinned at him and stepped closer and ran her finger down his chest never taking her hazel eyes from his blue. "Because I have something you want and if you want it bad enough you'll do this for me." She said huskily.

"You know this counts as the end of our deal than?" He asked cockily.

Shit! Charlene thought chagrined. "That isn't fair Reid. Come on I gave you the time in the pool, you can do this and I still get my anything."

Reid squinted his eyes at her and then grinned devilishly. "Fine, but only this once."

Tiptoeing up Charlene moved to kiss him and turned her face just enough so she caught mostly his cheek and just a hit of the corner of his mouth. "Thank you." She whispered softly pulling back with a smirk evident in her eyes but only an innocent smile on her lips. "See you tomorrow for our study session." She said sweetly.

"Sure you don't want me to stay and scare away all the bad things?" Reid asked jokingly grinning at her impishly.

Charlene grinned back and moved back against her door. "Thanks for the offer Reid, but I think we can handle it alone. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow it is than." Reid said lightly smug about getting her time the next day and he walked back down the long hall and Charlene watched him descend around the corner and down the stairs out of sight and then went back in to the room.

Sarah and Kate were still seated on the bed and they both grinned at her. "What?" Charlene asked seeing the way they were being sly about whatever they were thinking.

"Ok you can't tell me nothings going on. He let's himself in, and knows where your room is." Kate said grinning. "I don't think that's a coincidence."

"I've had him over big deal, and he basically committed b and e what's so great about that." Charlene said modestly defensive. "Nothing is going on with Reid and I."

"If you say so." Sarah said grinning at her. Charlie moved back to her spot between the two girls taking her soda and the remote from Kate and started up the DVD.

"Let's just watch the movies." Charlie said and didn't catch the all knowing grins Kate and Sarah had on their faces as she got engrossed in the movie once again.

After the first movie was over Rosie showed up in Charlene's room with the peanut-butter chocolate chip cookies and told her more was downstairs if they pleased. But Charlene knew they wouldn't finish what was already brought to them. There was a mound of cookies on the platter. Having realized night had come the girls decided to wait on another movie and do something else.

"Ok this is sick, 'take off your close from the waist down and stick your head out the window while I bang you from behind, it turns me on when you smile and wave at the passerby.'" Kate read out loud.

Charlene and Sarah burst into laughter, they were reading an old edition of cosmopolitan and some things that guys found intriguing during sex. Charlene took the magazine from her and found one to read. "Ok how about this 'Strip me down in the kitchen and pleasure me, it wont take long before I'm completely turned on and ready to go to bed.'"

"Guys are strange." Sarah said. "Thank god Caleb isn't like that."

"Oh come on, there's got to be some sort of raunchy fantasy in that boys head." Charlie smirked at her. "Derricks was this naughty pirate costume at Spencer's, let's just say Halloween that year was unforgettable and I got a whole lot more than candy, if you know what I mean."

Sarah's mouth fell open. "You did that? Dressed up for him to turn him on, I mean?"

"Yeah." Charlie said unashamed. "And it worked like a charm. I always say kink is good in moderation. It's not like I like whips and chains and stuff, but that doesn't mean a little fun with handcuffs isn't fun once and a while."

"You're serious?" Sarah said incredulously.

Charlie nodded. "Dead."

"Pogue likes me strip for him." Kate said out of the blue.

Sarah looked at her with her eyes wide. "You're kidding; please tell me you're kidding?"

"There's nothing wrong with it Sar. Seriously I mean is it so bad to keep things interesting?" Charlie asked her.

"I guess not." Sarah said.

Charlie smirked at her. "One of these times you should ask Caleb what his fantasy is and maybe even offer to play it out for him, trust me things stay fresh and fun that way."

Sarah smiled shyly at her. "Yeah."

Kate and Charlie saw her blush lightly and decided to change the topic. The rest of the night was spent talking and watching movie and then falling asleep together on Charlene's bed.