A/N: Sorry about another short chapter, but i just wanted to get this part out there. Thanks again to everyone who chose to review this fic. Enjoy!...
Inner Struggles
Chapter 5
Ten minutes later, Caleb knocked on the door to Reid and Tyler's dorm room. Tyler opened it for him, and he and Pogue stepped in. "Hey Reid, how are you doing?" he asked.
"Are you stupid? I can't sleep because if I do, I could bring down the entire school," he said, not in a good mood, which was to be expected. "Are you really asking me how I'm doing?"
"Sorry I asked," Caleb said. "So, the plan is basically to keep you awake till we can figure this out. The first 48 hours shouldn't be too bad. Most people can handle that," Caleb said, sitting down in a chair. Reid laughed harshly. Caleb was trying to be funny, and he wasn't doing a very good job of it.
They sat in silence for a while. When Reid started to feel tired, he went to the fridge and grabbed the Bookoo he'd never finished. "What time is it?" he asked.
Caleb looked at his watch. "Two in the morning," he answered. 'this is gonna be a long night if Reid asks what time it is every 5 minutes,' he thought.
Pogue decided to bring up something to talk about. "So, Emma seems really nice," he said. "Almost too nice for you." Everyone smiled, except Reid, who wasn't listening.
"I think she really likes him," Tyler said, not wanting Reid to get pissed. This Reid heard. He looked back at them, from where he'd been staring out the window.
"We should go somewhere," Reid suggested, getting bored with just sitting there. "Let's go to Caleb's house." Caleb thought about it.
"Okay, we can call the girls, and see if they want to meet us there," he said, standing up and taking out his cell phone. Reid, Tyler, and Pogue all got up and headed for the door. Caleb followed them out, closing the door. They all snuck down the stairs, and out across the lawn.
While they were walking towards the parking lot, they heard footsteps behind them. They all turned around quickly, to see Kate and Sarah running across the grass, in their pajamas.
At the parking lot, the all loaded into Tyler's hummer, since it had the most capacity. Tyler sped down the road towards Caleb's home. Once there, Caleb went in ahead of them, to warn his mom of the guests.
He signaled for everyone to come in, and saw that Mrs. Danvers was busy starting a batch of coffee. "What brings you all here so late? Isn't it past curfew?" she walked over to the group of people gathering in the foyer.
"We've got a problem," Caleb said. "Whenever Reid sleeps, he unconsciously uses, and causes things to levitate off the ground, and fall off shelves," he said. "We can't let him go to sleep." Mrs. Danvers got a worried look on her face.
"Well, then I guess I'd better see how this coffee is coming along." She turned and went back down the hallway to the kitchen. Ever since Caleb's father died, she'd become more and more motherly, and stopped the drinking for the most part. They all followed her and sat down in the breakfast nook.
"It's very nice of you to open your home for us, Mrs. Danvers," Sarah said. Caleb smiled. She was always so polite to his mother, even when she was a drunk. Everyone muttered their agreement.
"So, how do you take your coffee, Reid?" she asked, getting out six mugs.
"Black," he said without hesitation. He wouldn't have had as much trouble staying awake if he'd been able to get any good sleep the night before. She smiled and handed him the first cup. Reid took it gratefully, muttering thanks. He was not fond of this attention, or being pitied.
"So, is Reid going to have to stay awake for the rest of his life, or are you guys gonna try to figure this out?" Kate asked.
"After coffee, we'll go try to figure it out. But for now, he's going to have to stay awake," Caleb answered. Reid sighed inwardly, thinking about how long it could take them to figure it out.