I'm freaking thrilled at the response I got the last couple of chapters. You guys really blow me away sometimes. You're the ones fueling this story... I couldn't get motivated to write for awhile, but now I can't stop!

Chapter 21 – Interrupted

Hailey never realized how much work went in to planning a birthday party. Sarah was nice enough to lend a helping hand with the invitations which was pretty much the only thing Reid had a say in.

"Are you planning to be on Super Sweet Sixteen?" Hailey asked looking through the guest list and the invitations Reid had ordered.

"I'm blowing those parties out of the water…" Reid grinned, glancing through her notes. "Remember money is not an option…" He shook his head.

"So when do you want to go pick out your tux?" Hailey asked glancing down at her to do list.

"Tomorrow?" Reid asked looking down at his watch.

"Yeah, do you want the guys to come with so you can all get them at the same time, or what?" She asked.

"Yeah, call them and let them know…" Reid nodded as he popped a grape in to his mouth. The two were in his dorm room going over the information.

"Why don't you call them, they're your friends…" Hailey stated shaking her head.

"They're your friends too…" Reid pointed out.

Hailey didn't say anything instead she hit Reid in the head with the top of her pencil. The door opened and Tyler came rushing in letting his book bag fall to the ground. He laid down on his bed and let out an exhausted sigh.

"What's wrong?" Reid asked, pushing the invitations to the side.

"Freaking Pogue…" Tyler heaved. "He wanted to do extra laps after you and Caleb left, and he dragged me in to it… then he wanted to run the track…" Tyler caught his breath.

"Doesn't Caleb usually do that with him?" Hailey asked scratching her head in thought.

"Yeah, but Danvers bailed, and so did you… so I got stuck doing it…" He pointed to Reid and leaned forward. "I'm never doing that again…"

"So that's their trick…" Hailey mused out loud.

"What trick?" Reid asked confused.

"Why those two are so buff…" She grinned glancing from Reid to Tyler.

"You never complained before…" Tyler stated glancing down at his body.

"There's nothing to complain about, I'm just saying…" Hailey stated blushing slightly.

"Yeah, you never complained before…" Reid stated with a wicked grin.

"Don't be a jerk Garwin," Hailey pushed him.

Reid got up and stood to his full height, he winked at Tyler and turned to Hailey, "I'm gonna go see if Boston's ready to do some invitations, I'll be back in a few…"

With that the blonde left the two alone in his dorm room and smiled to himself as he did so. Hailey looked down at her list of things to do in the next week before Reid's party and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Tyler asked.

"Lots to do…" She scanned over the list.

"You want some help?" He offered.

Hailey looked up and their eyes met for a brief moment, "I'd love some..." She responded with a small smile. "Tomorrow we're going to get Reid's tux, we decided all of your guys should probably come to get it out of the way..."

"Ok, so maybe Saturday we can go out and pick up some of this stuff?" Tyler asked taking the list from her.

"That's what I was thinking, that way we can get a bulk of it done, and just get things started at his house, he said his mom is gone for about two weeks, so we've got plenty of time to decorate and clean up afterwards.

"Yeah, business trip or something…" Tyler nodded his head. "Well if you need help just call me and let me know… but how about we go at 1 on Saturday?" He asked.

"That's perfect…" She nodded her head.

"Maybe we can do lunch first?" Tyler offered.

Hailey stopped writing and looked up from her paper, "Lunch?" She whispered.

"Yeah, lunch…" Tyler nodded.

"I'd love lunch…" She smiled and went back to writing.

Moments later Reid came back in to the room with Sarah and Kate. The girls were instructed by Reid that each scroll was to be tied with a gold ribbon, with a gold leaf, with the name of the person in calligraphy.

It took a while, but by midnight the girls had finally finished the invitations, and Reid smiled and thanked them. Sarah and Kate left and Hailey stayed to help the boys clean up. She let out a loud yawn and covered her mouth.

"God, sorry…" She laughed. "I didn't realize how tired I was…"

"It's cool, so we should meet up after school and go get the tuxes, right?" Reid asked.

"Yeah," She nodded.

"You know there is this dress shop right next door, we could stop by and get you girls your dresses…" Tyler pointed out.

"I've got to talk to my mom first to see if she'll up my spending money for next week before I can buy a dress…" Hailey stated holding her things against her chest. "But I guess it won't hurt to look…"

"Well you can ride with us in the morning…" Tyler stated. "That way we can all just ride together afterwards…"

"Ok," Hailey agreed with a smile, "Goodnight…"

The next afternoon they went and got the guys measured for their tuxes, and paid for. They then took the girls next door and had them try on their dresses. Caleb and Pogue both paid for their girlfriends, and Hailey picked out the dress she wanted. She asked for them to hold it for her and she would come back the Friday before the party and get the dress.

The girls were looking in the jewelry department and the guys rolled their eyes. They gushed over certain pieces and Hailey found a necklace that she loved. Tyler took notice and smiled a little bit as she pointed it out to Sarah and Kate.

After securing the dresses the girls followed Caleb, Pogue, Reid and Tyler out of the store.

"Hey, I forgot my coat inside; I'll be out in a second…" Reid stated glancing at Tyler and nodding his head back in to the dress shop.

Tyler unlocked the SUV as everyone else jumped in, "Hurry up Reid…" Caleb stated his deep voice vibrating the black leather seats of the Hummer.

Tyler followed him inside and looked at Reid, "What are you doing?"

"You want to get back with Hailey, right?" Reid asked.

"Yeah," Tyler stated uncomfortably. "What does this have to do with your coat?"

"Nothing, look…" Reid smirked. "We'll split the coast of her dress, and you can give it to her the night before, and ask her to come to my party as your date…"

"Why are you doing this?" Tyler asked leaning against the counter.

"Because you're miserable, Hails is miserable and you're starting to make me miserable…" He pointed out telling the owner to get the dress that Hailey picked out. "I want to fix it…" He stated with a small smile.

Tyler nodded his head and glanced over at the jewelry case and as Reid was paying for his half of the dress, asked the owner to take out the necklace that Hailey had been looking at.

"Add this to my half of the dress," Tyler pointed out.

"See… I'm good…" Reid grinned picking up his coat off of the counter.

"Remind me why you don't have a girlfriend again?" Tyler asked as they left the store.

"You stole her, remember?" Reid stated lifting an eyebrow and nodding to the Black Hummer.

"Oh no, I did not steal Hailey…" Tyler shook his head. "You did that on your own…"

"I'm just messin' with you…" Reid grinned and looked over at Tyler seriously. "One word, Grace"

Tyler gave his best friend a sympathetic nod and got in to the driver's side of the Hummer, Reid climbing in to the passenger's seat.

"Took you long enough, god…" Caleb muttered.

"Sorry, there was this hottie, who was all over me…" Reid smirked.

"You're hopeless…" Hailey rolled her eyes.

Tyler smirked and shifted the car in to drive as he drove back to Spencer Academy. The group dispersed and that night was the first night that Hailey didn't cry herself to sleep. She woke up the next day feeling ten times better than she had over the last couple of weeks.

Hailey got up and showered before ten o'clock, and was dressed by the time a knock came at the door. She smiled happily as she opened the door, only to find that it wasn't Tyler. Instead, the person on the other side of the door was Aaron.

"Have you not gotten the hint, Aaron?" She asked him, pursing her lips together. "I don't want anything to do with you anymore, you ruined my life…"

"On the contrary, love… you ruined your own life…" Aaron stated coming in to her room uninvited.

"You seriously need to leave…" Hailey stated in a warning tone.

"Is your little boyfriend going to come and beat me up?" Aaron rolled his eyes. "Pathetic really, he's so desperate and can't even get another girlfriend, so he actually takes you back after you screwed him over…"

"Aaron you need to leave, now…" Hailey stated seeing a familiar face show up at the door.

"Why should I leave? The parties just getting started," Aaron asked grabbing Hailey towards him.

"Aaron, let go of me…" Hailey tried to pull her arms out of his grasp.

"Oh c'mon Hailey… we can get things back to the way they were…" Aaron suggested as he pushed her towards the bed.

"That's enough Aaron," Tyler stepped in to the room. "You should leave before things get ugly…"

"Oh I'm shaking in my boots baby boy…" Aaron growled.

"You should be," Tyler stated grabbing Aaron by the shirt, pulling his fist back and coming in to contact with the brunette's jaw.

Aaron flew back in to Hailey's dresser, knocking all of the contents off of it. Hailey let out a loud scream as Aaron's hand sliced open and blood began to trickle down. Aaron grabbed on to Tyler and shoved him in to the wall, pulling his fist back and hitting Tyler in the mouth.

Tyler coughed and Aaron pulled back again when something jumped on to his back. Hailey grabbed Aaron's arms and pulled him back, "Stop it now…" She cried.

"Hails that was not a good idea…" Aaron stated flinging her back on to her bed as Tyler took the chance to hit Aaron in the gut and kick him towards the door.

"Tyler, be careful…" She stated pulling herself to her knees and watched as Aaron composed himself to hit Tyler one more time in the mouth, as Tyler sucker punched Aaron one last time getting the brunette out of the room before slamming the door shut and locking it.

Tyler turned around and rested against the door, breathing heavily. He used the back of his hand to wipe the excess blood from his lip and Hailey was to her feet in a second.

"Oh my god, Tyler…" She grabbed his face in her hand, running her thumb over his busted lip.

"Are you ok?" He asked.

"I'm fine, are you ok?" Hailey asked inspecting his face.

"He only got two good licks in…" Tyler gave her a lopsided smirk.

"God…" She whispered sitting him down on her bed. "I've got some alcohol, we should probably clean it out, just incase…"

Tyler didn't say anything as Hailey walked in to her half bathroom and grabbed a brown bottle from under the sink. She grabbed a handful of cotton balls and walked back over to Tyler. She sat down next to him and made him turn to face her.

Dabbing the cotton ball to the top of the alcohol bottle she flipped it over and got the cotton ball wet. She moved closer, bringing the cotton ball closer to Tyler's face, she could see the early reaction to the alcohol appear on his face and smirked.

"Don't be a baby…" She whispered and blotted the cotton ball carefully on his open wound. Tyler's face twisted in pain, and she blew on it lightly, easing the burn of the alcohol.

Tyler looked down at her she would dab, and then her pink lips would purse together and she would blow softly on to his battle wound. He tried to control his inner animal, his wants were outweighing his beliefs, at the moment.

He wanted to grab her, kiss her and do unmentionable things to her.

The feeling of her hot breath on his face, easing the pain of the alcohol was making him light headed, as certain parts of his body ached for her. Tyler leaned forward, pulling her hands away from his face with his own. He wanted to kiss her again; he wanted to be in her arms again.

Hailey felt her entire body go numb at his touch, she looked up to see that beautiful face coming closer and closer to hers. She remembered what he said, and even though she wanted nothing more than to kiss him and have animalistic sex with him, she knew what he had said was true.

They had to rebuild their relationship, it wouldn't be right to either of them if they rushed things. She moved back a bit and pulled her hands out of his grasp, taking the pink and red cotton balls in one hand and the alcohol in the other.

"Hailey," Tyler's eyes were slowly opening, feeling her weight leave the bed.

"I have a few of your shirts in the bottom drawer; you might need to change… Aaron's blood is all over that one…" She reported in a melancholy tone.

Tyler watched her walk in to the bathroom, throw the cotton balls away and put the alcohol back. He cleared his throat and opened the bottom drawer, sure enough there was a nice assortment of shirts and hoodies that he had left, or that she had borrowed from him.

He took out a white crisp t-shirt and a stark black hoodie and laid them out on the bed. He turned and pulled his graphic tee over his head revealing his nicely toned body. Hailey stopped walking and stared at him.

It had been awhile since she had seen that excellent, breathtaking physique and the sight of him brought tingles to her body. She swallowed hard and forced a smile.

"I'll soak this in the sink, hopefully it won't stain…" She stated taking the shirt from him.

Tyler pulled on his white t-shirt and his hoodie as she went back in to the bathroom. Hailey filled the sink up and came back with her purse.

"Well, not that our morning has been ruined, brunch?" She asked opening the door.

"I wouldn't say it was ruined, just… interrupted…"

Hailey smiled as the two walked out of the dorm together, and to Hailey's SUV. They spent the entire afternoon together, and to Hailey it felt as though nothing had changed; Tyler made her feel completely comfortable and no awkward situations.

And they didn't have any more interruptions, which to Hailey was a blessing.

I'm not foreseeing many more chapters for this story, because I know where I'm leaving off and having the sequel pick up. Because this story is mostly about Hailey/Aaron/Tyler and I want to keep it that way; the sequel will be more set on Hailey/Tyler/Chase and the rest of the Sons... so please... don't press the blue button ;)