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Chapter 2 – Dating Pool
"Took you long enough," Reid complained as Tyler came back with four cokes.
"Was that Hailey Gregory that was talking to you?" The dark haired teenager asked glancing up at Tyler who took his own drink and sat down next to his best friend.
Tyler still had a very confused look on his face, "Yeah," he nodded.
"Hailey Gregory," Reid let her name roll off of his tongue expertly. "Purple Satin," he remarked coolly.
"What?" The long haired teen across from him asked, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
Tyler groaned, "Reid keeps track of what girls he's messed around with by the kind of underwear they wore when he finally got some…"
"Like I said, Purple Satin…" The blonde grinned menacingly.
"You slept with Hailey Gregory?" Their dark haired friend asked.
"Don't you remember when I dumped her right in front of Aaron and Kira?" Reid smirked, tossing a glance at his best friend who was still looking very confused.
"I remember that, c'mon Caleb even you aren't that oblivious…" Pogue pointed out his hazel eyes darting over to the dark haired girl that was sitting across a table from Aaron Abbott.
"Last year?" Caleb questioned trying to rack his brain.
"Yeah, right before English Comp…" He nodded his head. "It was pathetic…"
"Well not everyone can be as cold as you, Reid…" The leader perked up making the blonde smirk even larger.
"Don't fee his ego, Caleb…" Pogue shook his head.
"Yo, Ty… w hat's wrong?" Reid asked bumping his bony shoulder in to his best friend's.
"Nothing, just thinking…" Tyler shook his head and glanced over at the brunette again.
"About Hailey?" Reid asked in a questioning tone, noticing that his friend had looked at the girl about ten times since returning back to the table.
"Yeah," He looked back at the blonde next to him. "She flirted with me…" His brows rose as he spoke.
"Hailey Gregory… flirted, with baby boy?" Caleb asked confused. "She's like the quiet girl that you don't even know exist in class…" He pointed across the room.
"She slept with Reid…" Pogue pointed out.
"We all have our downfalls…" Caleb quipped with a snort.
"It took me a month to get her in bed…" Reid pointed out.
"No wonder she broke down in hysterics…" Pogue rolled his eyes. "You are a cynical man Reid Garwin…" His friend accused.
"Why thank you…" Reid smirked proudly.
Tyler rolled his dark blue eyes at the boy sitting next to him. He would do anything to score with some of the most impossible girls. Tyler was sure if Reid could find a loop hole where he could sleep with Sarah and Kate and still be friends with Pogue and Caleb, he would do it… just so he could say he did.
His gaze settled back to Hailey Gregory, there was no doubt in his mind that she was an attractive girl. She wasn't some bleach blonde girl that Reid would get his rocks off to normally; she was smart, and intellectual. The last statement, Tyler found, could be contradicting seeing as how she hung out with the likes of Aaron Abbott.
He watched her carefully as she smacked Aaron on the arm, her laughter filling the air as a mischievous smirk formed on Aaron's face. Tyler shook his thoughts and looked back at his friends, he was reading way too much in to what she had said and done.
Aaron smirked at Hailey his blue eyes wandered over to the table where the Sons of Ipswich sat, he noticed the youngest, Tyler was staring over in their direction. He lifted his eyes to meet Hailey's green ones and she gave him a questioning look.
"Simms is staring over here…" He stated casually.
"Oh really?"
Without another thought she let out a believable laugh, a small smirk crept on to Aaron's face as her long fingernails fell on to his arm; a small sign of affection as she let her hand rest on his arm.
"You've really got him thinking now…" Aaron whispered across the table. "He looks like his brain is about to implode…" He grinned.
Just as Hailey turned in her seat to take a look at the youngest Son of Ipswich, he turned around to face Caleb Danvers, the eldest and the unannounced leader of the Sons. She noticed them ribbing the younger boy, the blonde next to him casted a glance in their direction. She watched as he licked his lips surveying her toned legs, which were hanging over the side of the high barstool chair.
"You have someone else's attention too…" He stated in an annoyed voice.
There were two Sons' that always got under Aaron's skin, and they didn't even have to try.
Caleb Danvers, or Mr. Perfect, as Aaron promptly called him. Aaron hated Caleb because he did everything Aaron could do, but better. He had a perfect 4.0 grade point average, the perfect blonde girlfriend, a scholarship to Harvard, and he was the best freestyle swimmer in the state.
And then Reid Garwin, because Reid was rebellious, didn't care about rules and screwed anything that flaunted her ass his way. It was something Aaron tried to be on top of a good student, but the two personality types just did not work out together.
The exact reason for Caleb and Reid's constant fighting. They were at two ends of the spectrum; polar opposites.
"Why do you let them get to you Aaron?" Hailey questioned.
"I don't let them get to me," Aaron mused getting up from his seat.
"That's bull and you know it…" She laughed following his lead. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you had a man-crush on them…" She grinned as he grabbed her hand forcefully.
"It's a damn good thing you know better then, huh?" Aaron remarked pulling her to the dance floor.
"You don't dance…" She stated glancing up at him as he let her body fall hard against his.
"I do tonight…" He gave her a charming smile and she laughed. She enjoyed their closeness until it was rudely interrupted by a persistent pain in the ass named Kira Snider.
"Jesus Aaron, I let you out of my sight for an hour and you're dancing around with this whore?"
If there was any word in the dictionary that described Hailey, it was not whore. That the three of them knew, but Kira hated Hailey with a pure passion. She was the one thing that kept Aaron from being hers, completely.
"Give it a rest Kira…" Hailey rolled her eyes at the red head. "Besides I was just leaving…" She stated giving Aaron a wicked grin.
"I'll call you…" Aaron stated as Kira grabbed him around the waist.
Hailey gave him a slight nod, shooting Kira a nasty glare as she purposely headed towards the door, making sure to walk right past the table that held the four Sons of Ipswich. She came up and noticed Tyler was looking around, what for she wasn't sure, but he caught her line of sight and he blushed furiously.
"G'night Tyler…" She gave him a wink before sauntering out the front door.
"Dude, what are you doing sitting here… go…" Pogue stated looking at his friend.
"She wants you…" Caleb agreed nodding his head as the brunette looked at the blonde next to him.
"It's your funeral man…" Reid smirked evilly as Tyler stood up and walked out the front door of Nicky's.
Tyler walked out of the front door and saw Hailey getting the keys out to her blue Ford Explorer. Tyler picked up his pace and called out her name. Hailey stopped and looked around spotting the blue-eyed brunette that was walking over to her.
She felt her heart thumping in her chest, she hadn't expected him to follow her out here, and she was just flirting with him a bit to get her plan underway. A plan that she hadn't even made yet.
"Hailey, hey…" He sounded a bit out of breath.
"Tyler… what's up?" She asked.
The boy's cheeks turned pink, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and gave her a small smile, "I was just wondering where you were headed…" He fumbled for his words slightly.
Hailey looked around and then at him, "I was planning on going back to the dorms…" She shrugged.
Tyler nodded his head and looked around, "Would you mind giving me a lift back, the guys aren't ready to head back yet…" the boy trailed off.
"Sure, get in…" She nodded her head to the passenger's side.
Tyler gave her a killer smile and walked back around the car; Hailey pulled her door open and took a deep breath. This was going to be easier than she thought it would be.
Tyler pulled himself up in to her truck and felt the keys in his left pocket jingle, Reid would just have to Use to get the Hummer to start. H e could really careless how the blonde got home later that night. Hailey got in and put her keys in the ignition.
"Don't you usually drive?" She asked him pulling out of her parking spot.
"I did, but Reid always ends up stealing my keys…" He shrugged his shoulders, obviously lying by the tint of pink his ears were turning.
"I see," Hailey nodded pulling off on to the road that would bring them back to Spencer Academy.
"So you and Aaron?" He asked casually trying to start conversation.
"Aaron and I, what?' She asked raising an eyebrow.
"Are you… together?" He questioned.
Hailey let out a small laugh, "No…" She shook her head. "We're just really good friends…"
"So you're single?" He asked shifting his weight in the passenger's seat.
"That I am…" She nodded her head turned left on to the main road.
"Why is that?" The blue eyed boy asked her curiously.
"You sure ask a lot of questions, Tyler…" She observed pulling in to the dorm parking lot.
He blushed furiously and looked down at his hands, "Sorry…" He grunted looking up and catching her giving him a long stare.
"It's ok… I don't mind…" She shrugged parking the vehicle. "I find it slightly intriguing…" She pulled her keys out of the ignition and they both piled out of the car.
They were quiet until they reached the second floor, the floor that Hailey stayed on.
"But to answer your question," She paused opening the door as he was about to ascend the next flight of stairs to the third floor. "I don't see a lot of prospects in the Spencer dating pool…" She gave him a small grin and looked back. "Until now…" She stated with a small smile before walking to her room with a confident stride.
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