Hope everyone had a splendid Memorial Day Weekend! I know I enjoyed it thoroughly:)
Chapter 14 – Garwin Party
The next week went by easy for the Ipswich kids; everything seemed to be going back to normal, well as normal as it could get for a group of four witches. This made Reid happy because it meant he could throw a huge party at the Garwin Manor. Rylie didn't object; she actually welcomed the party; some relaxation was much needed after the week they had just endured.
Word traveled fast over Spencer Academy, her brother had gotten one of his friends in printing to make out a bunch of flyers and pass them out around the school. He had major connections with a bartender and DJ and they were all set. Saturday night came a lot faster than they had anticipated and were they glad about that. Kate was now at or close to a hundred percent, Pogue's fracture was healing quickly and he only had to wear a brace for two more weeks.
Rylie was at her house helping her brother decorate and get ready for the party. She was standing on a chair trying to get a streamer hooked around the banister; she leaned over a bit too much and nearly fell until some grabbed her bare legs. She glanced down to see Tyler smiling back up at her.
"Thanks handsome…" She smiled, getting her balance back.
"You're welcome gorgeous…"He smirked up at her, "Need an extra set of hands?" he asked her.
"How about an extra set of eyes?" Reid called from behind them.
The streamers mysteriously lifted themselves out of his sister's hand and pretty much decorated the banister themselves. She turned in the chair, her hands on her hips as she glared over at her brother.
His eyes went from black to blue in an instant and he smiled slightly resting his hands on the next piece of furniture to leave the front room. When she turned her back, a ring of fire went over his eyes and they turned pitch black as he quickly pulled the rest of the furniture out of the way.
Tyler helped her off of the chair and looked around, "You did a really good job…"
"Thank you, now I need to take a shower and get dressed…" She stated looking down at her jean shorts and messy t-shirt.
Tyler was about to say something back when Reid came back in to the room, "Don't even say it Simms…" Reid stated grabbing the rug and rolling it up with a kick of his foot.
"What?" Tyler asked turning to look at his best friend. "I wasn't going to say anything…"
"You're full of shit…" Reid laughed. "Come help me carry this rug out to the back…" He stated shaking his head.
Rylie looked at Tyler and shook her head with a laugh as she ran up the stairs to her bedroom. They had hauled most of her things to her dorm room but her room was not even close to bare. She glanced around the room shutting the door quietly, her eyes fell upon a piece of long paper at her desk.
A smile graced her lips thinking about the design that she and her brother had worked on for Tyler's mom's birthday present. She had loved it; Reid had drawn these intricate designs that resembled one of his tribal tattoos while Rylie added a feminine touch to it with a few mystical butterflies and other little animals. In the middle of the design in old English letters was their last name, Simms.
Tyler said his mother put it in the front foyer so everyone could see it when they walked in, Rylie had been ecstatic when she found out Rosalind's reaction. The Simms had invited Reid and Rylie over the next night for dinner as to say 'Thank You' for their help on the great present for her.
Rylie had wanted to do something like that for each of the mother's of the covenant; she just needed to get their birthdays from the other two sons. She figured that they all might like it. She walked over to her closet and searched for something to wear tonight.
Finding a perfect outfit she grabbed her things and went in to the bathroom. She washed her hair quickly and washed up just as fast, within 20 minutes she was out of the shower and dressed in a short jean skirt that rode low on her hips and high on her thighs, and a red halter top that dipped a bit low and showed off her slightly tanned stomach. She pulled on a pair of red and white keds on her feet.
Taking a hand towel to wipe off the condensation on the mirror she looked at her reflection and pulled out her make up and brush. Twenty minutes later she emerged from the shower hearing the loud thumping of the music playing downstairs. She was going to have fun tonight, or at least that's what she had told her self.
Opening her door she saw that her brother's friend, aka the DJ, had brought his fog machine and the air was staring to look mystifying with the smog collecting around the already drinking teenagers. She walked down the stairs and surveyed the party thus far; it looked as though there were already a good hundred people there. She squeezed her way down the stairs until someone caught her arm in their grasp.
"Gorgeous…" Aaron Abbott's voice filled her ears, and his long bony fingers curled around her forearm.
"Asshole…" She smirked yanking her hand out of his grip and disappeared in to the crowd.
"Hey little sister, how's the party?" Reid asked an unknown blonde under his arm. Rylie bit her lip looking around, Regina and he had taken a liking to each other after the Fall Fest and she didn't want her new friend to be crushed by her brother's action, although she had warned the younger girl about Reid's behavior.
"So far so good," She shrugged carelessly.
"What the hell are you wearing?" Caleb's voice came from behind her. Rylie turned around and looked him up and down, he looked good… no he looked hot. He wore a pair of loose fitting dark blue jeans and a tight black shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.
"Clothes…" She answered smartly.
"Not enough of them, you should go upstairs and change…" Caleb instructed.
"Who do you think you are?" She questioned looking up at him shortly. "Certainly not my brother or my father…" She laughed sarcastically.
"I'm the closest thing you've got…" Caleb stated in a stern voice, seriousness written all over his face as she bobbed her head up and down to the beat of the music.
"Dance with me…" She mused grabbing Caleb by the bottom of his shirt and dragging him to the middle of the front room which had become the dance floor.
She grinned up at Caleb, she hadn't even had a drink yet, but he was probably assuming that she was already drunk, she loved to mess with the boys making them think she was completely wasted when she was actually more in her right mind then they were. Caleb reluctantly started moving along to the beat of the music as Rylie grabbed his hips and dipped down low, rolling her body against his.
She saw out of the corner of her eye Sarah was dancing provocatively with Kate and Pogue. Tyler was leaning against the wall his eyes shifting from one group to the other. Her blue eyes shifted over his outfit for the night and smiled, he chose a pair of black baggy jeans, black and white vans, a black and white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up much like Caleb's. She noted that his dark brown hair was spiked up in perfection and his tanned skin poked out at the top of the button up shirt. She continued to dance with Caleb until Sarah came over and stole him back grinding along side Rylie for a few minutes and then returning her undivided attention back to Caleb.
Rylie found her way to the bar and ordered three shots, taking each of them and finally settling for a mixed drink. She toted the drink around with her surveying the crowd. She found Regina sitting against a wall sulking, she waltzed over to her new friend and without saying a word grabbed her up on to the dance floor, she could see Reid and Tyler both watching them.
Rylie tilted her head in Reid's direction the blonde was all over him and he wasn't giving her a second look, "Time for a little pay back…" She smirked. "Just follow my lead…"
Regina simply nodded her head and watched as the Garwin sibling grabbed two unknowns to her, they were two guys that were on the swim team, their bodies looked much like Caleb and Pogue's build, Rylie shoved one towards Regina and danced with the other swimmer.
She knew Tyler wouldn't dance with her if she asked so she had to make him want to dance with her, she grinded her hips against the Spencer Academy swimmer and her eyes locked on Regina and unknown Spencer Academy swimmer number two, she could see Reid right behind them, he pushed the blonde off of him and stalked over pushing the swimmer off of Regina and claiming his girl.
Rylie laughed as Regina winked at her, Rylie danced away from the swimmer and towards where Tyler had been, she felt a pair of arms encircle her waist and she instinctively thought them to belong to Tyler. She began to rock her hips suggestively against him and she smiled doing so until a pair of lips found their way to her ear.
"I sure hope you move like that in bed…" Aaron Abbott's voice engulfed her thoughts.
She jumped forward and out of his grip, turning to scowl at him, she saw Tyler coming up from their side.
"You've got some nerve Aaron…" Rylie shouted at him.
"I think you need to keep your hands to yourself…" Tyler stated pulling Rylie towards his warm body.
"You think?" Aaron laughed. "Well baby boy you should think again, it was Rylie here that decided to rub all over me… I was merely accepting her wide open invitation…" Aaron stated smugly.
"Go to hell…" Rylie growled as Tyler pushed her behind him.
"I'm sure that's exactly how it went, but you need to leave my girlfriend the hell alone, or you'll be sorry…" Tyler stated glaring at the slightly older boy.
Rylie's cheeks flushed at the sound of him calling her his girlfriend, a small smile danced on her lips at the thought.
"Please Simms, don't make me laugh." Aaron smirked at him, the dancers around them closing in on them. "You couldn't get a girl even if you tried; Garwin's got his dick so far up your ass…"
Just as Aaron was about to finish his sentence Tyler punched the hell out of him, making the older boy stumble back in to a few people, who moved and made him fall to the ground. Rylie covered her mouth in shock of Tyler's actions. Tyler pulled Aaron up by the collar of his shirt and smiled seeing the blood trickle from his busted lip.
"What was that?" Tyler asked. "Oh that's right that was you leaving…" He stated throwing the boy towards the door.
Aaron got up pulling his pants up subconsciously and pointed at Tyler, "You'll regret that baby boy…" He hissed.
"Tyler, holy shit…" Rylie stated coming up to the younger boy's side, she was fanning her face slightly. Seeing Tyler get aggressive was actually really hot.
"Are you ok?" He asked turning around to look her in the eye.
"I'm fine, how's your hand?" She asked looking at his right hand; she had literally heard the flesh hitting flesh when he hit the older boy.
"Hurts like hell, but I'll live…" He smiled down at her. "He's such a prick…" Tyler stated shaking his right hand out and moving it open and closed.
"Let's go get some ice for that…" She whispered pulling him in to the kitchen.
On her way in she grabbed them both a drink from the bar. Taking a long chug of his he watched Rylie saunter over to the fridge and grab a towel pulling some ice out from the freezer. She wrapped it up and placed it on his hand, he had propped himself up on the counter, his cup in his left hand hers next to him.
"He will never learn…" Rylie shook her head, grasping the cup in her hand.
"You sure you're ok?" Tyler asked taking a sip of his beer.
"I'm good; he just gives me the creeps…" She shuddered self consciously.
"So did you have fun dancing with Caleb and Greg?" Tyler asked, he tried to cover his jealous tone with one of sarcasm.
"Who's Greg?" She asked looking up in to his blue eyes.
"That guy you were dancing with just before the Aaron incident…." He stated pointing off in to the front room.
"Oh swimmer boy?" She asked nonchalantly.
"Yeah, that guy…" Tyler stated raising an eyebrow.
"We were just dancing…" She answered innocently. "Why? Jealous?" She asked leaning in to him, she was standing between his legs her hand resting on her red solo cup and the other on his thigh.
Tyler smirked at her and slid off the counter, lowering his lips to hers, they rested just above hers as he kept his gaze connected with Rylie. He ran his injured hand up her bare arm, giving her the chills. The tension between them was incredible; she could almost feel his lips on hers as he hovered over her.
"Naw," He shook his head before slipping out of the kitchen leaving her standing there looking up in awe.
She turned to the door he just exited out of and huffed, that was such a Reid move. She walked out beer in hand and saw Tyler out on the dance floor with some unknown red head. She nodded her head and surveyed the area, she saw Kate dancing with Caleb and Sarah and Pogue at the bar.
She sauntered over to the bar and took in Pogue's outfit; loose fitting strategically ripped light blue jeans, a white and blue striped button up shirt and a pair of brown dress shoes on his feet. She hooked her finger though his belt loop and pulled him out on to the dance floor.
"Hello good looking…" She smirked moving her hips carelessly to the beat of the music.
"Well hello, this is a nice homecoming…" He remarked resting his hands on her hips as they grinded on the dance floor.
She laughed and continued to rub up on the older boy; she smiled and saw Tyler moving his dance partner closer to them, she smiled up at Pogue and back over at Tyler that was until she noticed the dance partner was Marley Henderson. She growled and began to intensify her dancing with Pogue; soon realizing that Pogue probably wouldn't do the trick. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and found Greg, the boy she had been dancing with before.
Greg happily obliged to dancing with her, he hooked his right arm around her waist as they dirty danced uncontrollably all over the floor. Greg's hands seemed to be roaming all over every piece of exposed skin. Marley had shot Rylie an 'I won…' glance, making Rylie pull Greg to the bar. The two of them threw back a few shots and continued dancing.
Tyler had enough of Marley she was groping him and feeling him up any chance she got, and he had certainly had enough of Greg feeling up Rylie. He casually pushed Marley towards Greg and wrapped both his arms around Rylie; she looked up at him and smirked.
"I thought you weren't jealous?" She asked over the music.
Tyler smiled down at her, "I lied…" He stated simply before capturing her lips in a heated kiss.
"Hey, hey… break it up…" Reid's voice interrupted them. Rylie glanced up and saw Marley looking at them her mouth open in shock. Rylie simply shrugged her shoulders. "I'd tell you to go get a room… but dude… that's my baby sister…" He joked as Regina smirked up at him.
"Whatever," Rylie laughed shaking her head at her brother.
The four teens began dancing together, Tyler behind Rylie, Reid behind Regina, and the two girls dancing with each other. Reid's hands roamed all over Regina's body as she danced routinely with his sister.
"I think this is illegal…" He stated hiding his face in Regina's hair. "I can't watch my sister dance like that…" He yelped as Pogue, Kate, Sarah and Caleb joined the group.
"Don't be such a baby…" Regina laughed as she was introduced to the four new people she knew of but didn't know.
The group of eight started dancing to the rough techno beat; Rylie was thrown to Pogue and Caleb as Sarah and Kate took over dancing with Tyler. She simply shrugged her shoulders and started twisting her hips to the beat of the music one hand rested on Caleb's shoulder and the other holding on to Pogue's hip, the three of them danced expertly to the music catching the attention of many on lookers.
"Oh dang…" Kate laughed as Sarah dipped down low in front of Tyler. Tyler blushed as Sarah came back up seductively and wrapped an arm around his shoulders.
"Watch out baby boy, that's my girl!" Caleb beckoned with a laugh.
"Not for long," Tyler joked as he hooked his arm around Sarah's thin waist. She tossed her head back laughing as Kate turned him around and started to dance with him winking at Rylie in the process.
"C'mon Pogo…" Rylie smirked turning around to face Pogue, Caleb grabbed her hips from behind as Pogue and her dipped down to the ground. Caleb laughed as he tired to get down there but nearly fell over in the process. He stood up as Rylie and Pogue made their way back up and the group started dancing together. Reid and Regina got in the middle of the group, Reid stole Sarah, Tyler took Regina, Caleb took Kate and Pogue continued to dance with Rylie as they switched partners. They all got in a large group after the next few songs changed, Rylie was between Sarah and Tyler in the mess, some guy she didn't know ended up behind her, Kate was dancing with another random guy she recognized from English Lit.
Sarah and Kate soon stole Tyler again insisting that he was a better dancer than both Caleb and Pogue. Rylie laughed as she pushed Pogue and Caleb together to dance with one another, they both jumped back and grabbed her in the middle.
"There has to be a female body between us, that's just wrong…" Pogue stated glancing down at her.
"Find another female body, I'm stealing my boy back…" She stated glancing over at Tyler who was in a Kate and Sarah sandwich. She danced her way between Sarah and Tyler and grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him out of the front room.
They maneuvered through the sea of people, in to the kitchen and to the back door. Rylie pushed Tyler out in to the back yard the thumping of the music very apparent as she closed the door to the kitchen. She grabbed his hand and the two of them walked until they reached the large lake in the backyard.
"So what are we doing out here?" Tyler asked swing their conjoined hands freely.
"Maybe I wanted to have you all to myself…" She smiled up at him, her blue eyes catching the moon light.
They walked on to the dock and he looked over at her, "Now that I could get use to…" He smiled at her, even in the darkness of the night you could see his cheeks were tinted pink, a sign that Tyler Simms was just a bit buzzed.
"Me too," She nodded her head looking down at their joined hands. Tyler smiled down at her and pulled her hand up to his lips, kissing her knuckles softly. "I should be the one kissing your knuckles, Sugar Ray…" She giggled a bit.
"He deserved it; he was messin' with my girl…" Tyler stated as he took a seat on the edge of the dock, his feet dangling down just about to touch the water.
"Your girl, huh?" She asked sitting next to him.
"I'd like to think so," Tyler stated glancing over at her shortly.
"You know I'm pretty old fashioned…" Rylie started simply trailing off, waiting for Tyler to fill in the missing pieces.
"You're gonna make me ask?" Tyler questioned raising an eyebrow.
Rylie tilted her head to the side and looked over at him, tapping a finger to her chin, a pondering look on her face, "Yeah I think I am…" She nodded her head with a smile thrown his way.
Tyler bit his lip and sighed, "Alright," He shifted so that he was looking at the side of her face, one leg tucked under his body and the other still hanging off of the dock. She turned to sit almost identical to him. "Rylie Garwin, will you be my girlfriend?" He asked suavely.
Rylie sat giving Tyler a perplexed look, tapping her fingers to her chin, resembling Reid more than she probably knew. She waited a few more seconds and opened her mouth to say something, and then closed it. Tyler shook his head and swinging his foot over the edge of the dock.
Rylie cracked a smile and grabbed his hand in hers, "Of course, Tyler, I would love to be your girlfriend." She glanced up at him, blue eyes meeting blue eyes.
"I thought I was going to have to throw you in to the lake…" He stated pulling her closer to his body.
"Do you remember that summer you got your powers?" She asked with a large grin on her face, looking out on to the lake.
"The one where we all snuck out and came over and we went skinny dipping in the lake?" Tyler laughed remembering that summer all too well.
"Technically I still had my bra and underwear on…" She stated glancing up at him.
"That was the same night that you kissed Pogue…" Tyler stated, she pulled away looking at him.
"No, I didn't," She denied it.
"Yeah, ya did…" Tyler nodded his head.
"No Sir…" She stated turning a shade of pink.
"Yes ma'am… I saw it…" Tyler pointed out. "And you didn't just kiss him; it was full on tonsil hockey."
"That was like five years ago… how do you remember?" She asked blushing slightly. She remembered her crush on Pogue, but that was a long time ago.
"Trust me I remember…" He laughed shaking his head. "Because I wanted it to be me that you were kissing…" He stated truthfully.
"Well now you'll be the one I kiss, all the time…" She stated leaning over and placing a kiss on his cheek.
"That's all I get?" He asked shocked.
She looked at him with an innocent smile and closed the gap between them; she slowly pressed her lips against his. Tyler placed his hands on her hips pulling her towards him so that she was basically in his lap. His hands made their way from her hips up her back to her face; he deepened the kiss as her hands tangled themselves in his dark brown hair.
Tyler pulled away and licked his lips, Rylie smiled and kissed him again quickly, he was just teasing her now.
"What do you think Reid'll say?" He questioned.
Rylie smirked and pushed him back making him lay down on the dock, "I don't care…" She smirked capturing his lips again.
A bit sappy, but what can I say... I'd fall head over heals for Tyler myself... if I wasn't married with child... haha:)
Remember to R&R:)