A;N/ I'm sorry for the delay. My life has been filled with funerals, boy drama, my best friend's boy drama, personal issues and much more. Also I've had the serious case of writers block. It was absolutely ridiculous!! But I created a RPG for this story in particular and the person playing Reid has been fantastic in giving great ideas to the story. So things might go in a different direction, but it's all for the better.
Three days had passed since the whole thing with me getting kicked off the soccer team had happened. But for some reason it was the least of my worries. I had been seeing Rebecca hanging around campus a lot lately and it was bothering me to no end. Although, it didn't seem to be bothering Reid at all and I think that's what annoyed me the most. Honestly, the guy had been my boyfriend for three days and already things seemed to be going downhill.
I sat at the lunch table, picking through my unsatisfying salad with my plastic fork. My thoughts were quickly interrupted with Carmen dropping her trey on the table. I didn't even bother to look up.
"It was Dee," she said and immediately caught my attention.
"What?" I said. There was no need for me to ask her what she was talking about. Even though my mind had been busy with other thoughts over the past three days I knew Carmen, Sarah, and Kate had been busying trying to figure out who had gotten me kicked off the team. I scoffed. "I shouldn't even be surprise," I said.
Carmen was clearly peeved. "I can't believe that little bitch!" she snapped and bit a carrot stick in half like it was Dee's head.
I shrugged. What was there that I could do about it? Nothing. But still, I had other things on my mind.
It was clear that Carmen could see how aloof I was about the topic and I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was surprised and confused. "So," she said slowly. "What's going on with you and Reid?"
I shrugged again, something I seemed to be doing a lot lately. I looked up and saw Rebecca walking over to Reid who was standing in the lunch line to get his food. "I don't know," I responded while keeping my gaze on the two. "But I sure as hell want to find out."
Carmen followed my gaze over to Rebecca who was standing next to Reid at this point. I scowled and folded my arms over my chest. I watched as he turned out, surprised to see her, but not hurt or annoyed. He didn't want her to go away and it was so clear to me.
Why the hell had I thought things were going to be different this time for Reid? Obviously the things he had said about me being different and how he wanted to be with me was a bunch of bullshit. I was so peeved about finding out it was Dee and seeing Rebecca talk to Reid with ease that I couldn't stand it. I could publicly humiliate him without even caring.
I saw Reid pay for his food and walk over to us with a goofy grin on his face. I rolled my eyes and stuffed a piece of lettuce into my mouth.
"Hey," he said and landed a soft kiss on my cheek.
"Was that Rebecca you were talking to?" Carmen asked. I was thankful to have a friend like her. She was someone who would start the fire for me so that I could get the ball rolling.
Reid shrugged. "Yeah she was just talking to me."
"Seems like she's been hanging around you a lot for someone you never wanted to talk to," I said and stared straight ahead of me at where Reid and Rebecca had been talking.
"She's changed. She's been apologizing a lot lately for what happened," he said. I was finding it very strange of Reid to be very nonchalant about something that he wouldn't even talk about a few weeks ago. Something was going on, even if he didn't know it yet.
"Reid I need to talk to you about something," I said bluntly and dropped my fork onto my tray.
"Yeah?" he asked. I could see that he was unsure about everything and didn't know what I was going to say. Then I saw a hint of something in his eyes that made him think that it had to do with my getting kicked off the soccer team.
"We made a mistake," I said and he just blinked. "It's too obvious to me and everyone else at this school that you have a thing for Rebecca still and she has a thing for you." I wasn't being nice but I didn't care.
"What the hell are you talking about?" he demanded. I had hit him in a sensitive spot and it was quite obvious.
"You know what the hell I'm talking about," I snapped back at him. "It's been three days since we've been together and I'm seeing you two talk like you're still together. And don't even get me started about how Rebecca always just happens to be in the spots that you go to when you're skipping classes or hanging out." I was fuming by this point.
I didn't wait to see what he had to say. I got up from my seat but didn't bother to pick my tray up. "We're done Reid," I said firmly. "But you don't have anything to worry about considering the fact that we never even really started anything." I glanced over at Rebecca who was watching us. "But as far as history goes you obviously have a lot with her."
I stormed out of the cafeteria with Carmen by my side. For a thing that we had been having for only three days I was surprised to see how worked up I had gotten. But it was also something that I could understand. First of all I had put aside everything I had worked for in three years for a stupid guy. So to see him with his old ex was hard for me. And I couldn't handle it.
"A bit harsh Cal?" Carmen asked quietly while she tried to keep pace with me.
I shook my head and seemed all calm about the situation now. "Not even a little bit."
Reid was hurt and it was obvious to everyone. It was so obvious that even Kate and Sarah had pulled me aside to try and talk some sense into me. They said that Reid didn't know talking to Rebecca would upset me that much. But it had.
I ignored them and became more focused on Jake.
Jake was an old friend of mine from my partying days. Usually I didn't talk to anyone from back then, seeing as how well that had worked out with Leah. But Jake was different. He was a really nice guy and even though I didn't remember much of him he seemed like someone I could trust. And considering the state of matter I was in with Reid I was all for hanging out with a guy I could trust.
We had been texting a lot and he had been calling me. He was coming back into town and I got the feeling that he would be moving here soon. I was excited about that. It was amazing that in a matter of five days since breaking up with Reid things were going so smoothly.
I had managed to kick Dee's ass and get my grades up. How amazing, I know. But with still being off the soccer team I had more time on my hands than I could have ever imagined. It was nice and I used the time to study or hang out with Sarah and Kate. They were still my friends but didn't like the idea of Jake too much. But what did they know? They barely knew the guy.
"Jake's moving into the dorms tomorrow!" I said with a grin as I sat down at the lunch table. Reid wasn't there yet so I didn't have to worry about him sending my death glares. He and I had been ignoring one another, but it didn't bother me.
"Well that was sudden," Pogue said before he shoved a bite of his sandwich into his mouth.
I shrugged, clearly not interested in how he was rooting for Reid and not Jake. "That's the reason he's been talking to me a lot lately," I explained. "He knew that I lived here so he probably just thought that it would be nice to know someone before he actually moved here."
"Reid's not going to be happy," Tyler mumbled under his breath and I knew that he hadn't meant for me to hear it. But I had and I was going to say something. Even if it did make him blush with embarrassment.
"Reid doesn't have a say in my life," I pointed out looking over at Tyler who immediately got red as I had predicted. "And I don't get why you guys keep pushing me towards talking to him again. It's getting a bit ridiculous. I can live my own life how I want," I said and looked around at the other faces at the table.
"We know Callie," Caleb said. "But you have to understand that we obviously like you better with Reid than this other guy that we don't know. Even if Reid can be an ass sometimes he can be a good guy too."
I sighed. Obviously if Caleb was giving his input about Reid and how he was such a 'great guy' then I knew the rest of the group felt strongly about the situation too.
"Fine," I said and acted like I didn't care. "Then I just won't bother with introducing any of you to him when he gets here."
Sarah sighed and shook her head. "That's not what we want," she said. "We just want you to be careful. And even though we like you better with Reid despite the fact that it was odd at first, we mainly just want you to be happy."
Ah, of course I could count on Sarah for being the nice one in the group. But I wasn't completely fooled. I knew she also wanted Reid to be happy. But I understood that.
"But he does like you a lot," Kate pointed out with that grin on her face. It was the grin that she could whenever she was talking about gossip.
I shrugged and took a bite out of my cheeseburger.
I knew that once Jake got to Spencer that things would be different. They wouldn't be peaceful but I knew that eventually they could settle down. I was hoping that I could trust Jake and that maybe we could get to know one another. I felt comfortable with him knowing that he knew my secret but he still treated me like a normal person. Since we had started talking he hadn't asked me once to go to a party because he respected that I had given that up.
Reid walked over and sat down at the far end of the table; opposite direction of me.
"Hey," Tyler greeted him. At least Reid still had Tyler to keep him company. I knew that was a good thing.
He mumbled a hello and I rolled my eyes. He was such a baby. Couldn't he get over the fact that I had broken up with him after three days? Honestly, it wasn't like we had been going out for a month or more than that. It was three days. Three nonexistent days. They shouldn't matter.
But something in the pit of my stomach made me think that they did matter; at least to him.
A:N/ I know its short but I've got serious hand cramps. And I'm going to bed!!