Disclaimer: I only own Peyton, Bridgette, and Missy, and I wish I owned Peyton's car. But you can't have everything in life.
It's been a week since Reid and I kissed in the car, and I ran away. He keeps trying to talk to me, but I've been avoiding him. He knows it too. Everyone is starting to suspect something, especially Bridgette and Missy. I know I'm going to have to face him eventually, I'm running out of excuses to give people. The thing is though, I don't want to talk to him, in fact, if I could avoid him the rest of my life, I would. Okay. That was a total lie. It's only been a week, and I'm having a hard time staying away from him, a whole life, that would be just torture. I guess this is me officially admitting to liking Reid. A lot.
It's Friday again, and if it were any normal night, I would be going with everyone else to Nicky's, tonight, I guess I'll just do homework or something. At the moment, I'm incredibly jealous of Bridgette who is getting ready for Nicky's, while I am lying on the bead, in jeans, and my collared shirt and loose tie from my uniform.
"I wish you would come to Nicky's with us tonight." Bridgette sighed. I wish I would too, but here's the thing, if I go I will either see Reid, or the girls will grill me for information on what made me so anti-social.
"Nah, I'm just going to hang here, I'm exhausted, and I have a bit of homework I want to get done before the weekend starts." I say. Nearly wincing at the thought of staying cooped up in this stupid room.
"Okay, babe, but if you decide you want to join us, you know where we are." She said sympathetically, I really hope she didn't read my mind with the stupid powers.
"Yeah." With that she left, a stupid sympathetic smile on her face. Somehow I know she knows that I'm doing something that's probably stupid. I get up with a frustrated sigh and take out that history homework, and aimlessly flip through the pages of the text book. Unfortunately, I'm pathetic, and even history reminds me of Reid. What the hell? Even when I'm not talking to him, he irritates the hell out of me. I get up and put the homework away, there's no point in doing it now, I'd be too distracted to actually get anything right. I pulled my hair into a ponytail, and slipped out of my jeans into black basketball shorts and shrugged my shirt off in favor for a white wife beater. I've been going on runs a lot lately, it keeps my mind off of things. I grab a water bottle out of the mini fridge, and clutch it tightly as I take off.
I never had one path that I go on, it's always spontaneous, keeps things more interesting, before long, I found myself at an old willow tree at least a mile away from my dorm room. I stop, my breathing erratic, I walked over to the trunk and put my hands on knees, trying to catch my breath.
"Hey Peyton." I jumped, a rather depressed sounding voice, breaking me out of my stupor.
"Oh, Reid, um sorry to bother you, I'll just be on my way." I said, never making eye contact, I started off again, breaking through the sheet of leaves, and then I stumbled, feeling a firm grasp on my wrist. I whipped around, to see Reid, a mixture of emotions flying across his face, and for the first time in a week I met his blue eyes, and lost all rational thought.
"Wait, I have to talk to you."
"Okay." What am I doing? I was not supposed to say that.
"You're avoiding me."
"Yes." I figured there was no point in lying, if he knows the entire world knows.
"Why?"
"Because you kissed me!" I blurted out.
"Yeah, because you said you liked me!"
"So you were just going to use what I said to get in my pants? What were you going to do? Fuck me, and then laugh to your next whore about how easy I was, probably." I yelled, I was in hysterics now.
"I didn't want to fuck you!" He finally yelled.
"Oh, so now I'm not good enough for the famous Reid Garwin?" I asked bitterly, tears streaking down my face. It was no use trying to hold them in, my facade had broken from the moment he stopped my run, and I looked in to those startling blue eyes.
"No, I didn't mean it like that. Peyton, you're not just a fuck to me. You're the only girl I've ever been actual friends with, and the only girl who's ever stood up to me."He smiled a little, and then continued, "You're the only girl who's ever actually meant something."
I stood there in shock. Really, any smart ass remark that I would normally supply, just flew out the window, probably off to have a party with my dignity and rational thought, two components of myself that are also mysteriously absent.
"Could you say something please? Because I'm seriously freaking out about all of this." He said weakly, dragging his hand through his hair.
"You like me?" I asked, they were the only words that could stumble out of my mouth.
"Well, I'd like to think it's a little deeper than that." he said grinning, walking up to me. I was suddenly aware of how close he was, and then, my stupid heart, that obviously has more control over me than my mind, made me lean up and close the gap. My eyes immediately snapped shut, and I poured all the feeling I had into that one kiss. He stumbled backwards from the force, hitting the tree. I snaked a finger into the belt loop of his pants, and pulled him closer to me, I could feel the indents of his abs against my stomach, and reached my hand behind him, and absentmindedly traced quick patterns all over his back, my fingers dancing across his muscles. We both pulled away, breathing heavy.
Then, I was suddenly reminded that I was on a run. "I must look horrible." I said, my hand instinctively reaching for my hair, patting down any loose strands. Okay, see what this boy does to me? I've never cared about my appearance before.
"You look beautiful."He murmured in an uncharacteristic soft tone. His lips, leaned down and kissed and nipped at my neck, I leaned into him at the feeling.
"Mmm... that feels good," I moaned, "Reid, where does this leave us?"He pulled a way, a serious expression in his eyes.
"Well, you've made it clear that you're not a one night stand, and I don't think you would ever be one, regardless of what you think," He sighed, "I can't stop thinking about you, Baby Girl, and I guess, what I'm trying to say is, you mean more to me than any girl ever has, I don't know where this going, but I like how it is now, just you and me, no one else." I was overly confused, I repeated his words in my head.
"Reid, is that you're weird, twisted way of asking me to be your girlfriend?" I asked slowly.
"If that's what you want it to be, then yes. So, what will it be, Red, you want to be stuck with a jackass like me?" He chuckled, and I smiled.
"Well... when you put it that way, why not?" I giggled, softly kissing him again. We sat out there for a while, me in his lap, laughing, and talking, and kissing.
"My birthday is in a week." I said suddenly.
"You were born on Halloween?" He asked, smirking.
"Yes, although Halloween is a lot more fun than my birthday. I'm turning eighteen." I said. We both new what that really meant, I'm ascending.
"That's pretty big." He said gravely, for some reason, neither of us wanted to say the word ascending.
"Yeah," Being the queen of abrupt subject changes, I mentioned a different train of thought. "I've been having nightmares lately, about my birthday, I was ascending, and then there's this huge fight between the boys, you included, and some guy. Then I wake up, completely freaked out by the way." We had been walking back to the dorms, and we we're about to head up to mine. "Do you mind if I stay with you tonight?" I asked, "My dorm room creeps me out, and I hate waking up to it after I have another nightmare."
"Yeah, I was just about to suggest it." He said, he looked a bit worried, maybe I shouldn't have told him about the nightmares. We continued on, past my room, and towards, his. He unlocked the door, and I smiled. The difference between his side and Tyler's side was extremely noticeable. One was, neat enough that you could find something, if you wanted too, the bed wasn't made, but that wasn't too surprising, the other side, looked like a tornado went through it, there was stuff all over it, the most random stuff too, like a pair scissors were lying halfway under the pillow. What surprised me, though, was when Reid started to walk towards the clean side. He kicked his shoes off, and pulled off his pants and collared shirt, leaving him in his boxers and black a wife-beater. He lounged on the bed, and motioned for me to join him. I sat down, and rested my head on his shoulder, scooting closer, as he brought his arm around me. We lay there, comfortable with the silence, and I eventually let sleep take over.
It was like I was flying above everyone else, I could see myself outside of some old house, with all my friends around little me in a big circle. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning, streaked past flying me, and lifted little me off of the ground. I could see myself writhing in horror, all of my friends watching with grim expressions on their faces. Then this black hole thing appeared, and a boy steps out maliciously observing the scene. He turned towards me, wait, this didn't happen in all my other dreams, and says, "tell the Sons of Ipswich," he sneered at the name, "that their brother says hi." and then he swooped down onto the sight, shooting energy balls at Caleb, Tyler, Pogue... and Reid. Caleb stood in front of Sarah and Kate, trying to protect them, Reid moved in front of little me, as I was still convulsing, the rest of my friends (the ones with powers) surrounded him, he laughed and continued shooting energy balls at them, then a copy of him appeared by my side. He grabbed my throat and laughed and said, "Soon." in an evil whisper, and he disappeared.
I sat up with a gasp, feeling sweat caking the back of my neck and my forehead. I was breathing heavily. To my side was a very awake Reid, who's brow was creased with concern.
"It's nothing,"I said, trying to slow my breathing, "Just the nightmare again, only this time it was different."
"How?" He asked, if his eyebrows furrowed any closer it would look like he had only one eyebrow.
"When the guy stepped out of the portal, he spoke to me, said 'Tell the Sons of Ipswich their brother says hi.' and then at the end he said, 'soon'." I was still pretty freaked out, so I pulled him closer to me.
"Chase." He hissed.
"Reid, what's going to happen?" I asked timidly, he had a really scary look on his face, murderous.
"Nothing, nothing is going to happen to you." He said quietly, I noticed he never said nothing was going to happen to him. This scared me immensely. He leaned down to kiss me. I know that I'm not a total expert on his kisses since I've only kissed him a few times, but his kiss seemed to have an edge to it. Like, he was trying to take every detail of it in his memory.
Suddenly, we were interrupted, a light shined into the room, followed by a giggle that I knew way to well. I looked up to see Missy, laughing lightly with Tyler, her eyes never leaving his. He turned to look into the room.
"Holy shit!" He gasped, not exactly expecting to see Reid and me, in a bed, together, in a tight embrace. Awkward.
"Hey Missy," I said, blushing, "This is, a um, rather new development."
"I could say the same." She laughed, going into hysterics slightly. She laughs a lot when she nervous or embarrassed.
"So... what's going on here?"
A/N: Well that's done! If you want to see what Peyton, Missy, and Bridgette looks like go to my profile, I have some pictures up of what I thought they would look like.