Chapter 3

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Nicky's was so much more than just a bar. It seemed as if the entire junior and senior class of Spenser crammed themselves into the small building. A third sat at small round tables with their friends eating burgers and fries. The rest either relaxed by the game area(which consisted of two foosball tables, and three pool tables), or had dry sex on the dance floor to the songs pounding from the old school jukebox.

Everyone seemed to pick Nicky's as their official hangout for the weekend, though there had to be very few other choices. Not just the upperclassmen, but the lowerclass, and even kids from the local public school. Although if you didn't try too hard you wouldn't be able to tell the middle-class students of Ipswich High School, from the high-class elite of Spenser Academy.

Among the most revered were the highest of the high, the clique you wish you were apart of: The Sons of Ipswich. Reid, Caleb, Tyler, and Pouge lounged at their usual table, accompanied of course by the lovely Kate. And it didn't go unnoticed by anyone present, from Spenser or otherwise, that there were new additions to their gang. Two new, transfer, additions by the names of Sarah Wenham and Chase Collins. There was no doubt that tomorrow's biggest gossip would be how incredibly fast those two rose to popularity.

"So, Sarah. How are you liking Spenser so far?" Caleb asked.

"It's...interesting. Not a dull moment yet." She smiled. "What about you Chase?"

"The girls are definitely interesting." He replied. And it might have been his imagination, but Pouge saw the quick glance he threw at Kate.

The tension had so far been thick, but ignored, between those two. The people at the table could tell, but smartly kept their mouths shut.

"Speaking of chicks." Reid interjected smoothly. "It looks like we have yet another new female transfer."

"Not again." Tyler groaned.

"Who?" Pouge questioned.

"Didn't get her name. But man was she hot." Reid smirked. "I don't know though. She was hangin' out at the library, reading a calculus book, and you know what they say about smart chicks..."

"I don't. But I'm sure you're gonna tell us." Caleb said.

"Kinky." Reid smirked.

"Should 'a known." Pouge laughed.

"What were you doing in a library anyway? Take a wrong turn?" Caleb teased.

"Actually..." Reid shrugged.

The whole table burst into laughter.

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From her stool at the bar Dilara looked on at the laughing group. She, being so in tuned to his behavior, noticed that Tyler wasn't half as enthusiastic as the rest of his companions. He seemed to have this far off looked in his eyes, but laughed anyway, to mask his worry.

'But what is he worried about?' she thought. It was then that she realized that she hadn't contacted him in over a week. 'Me?'

She fiddled with the ring on her finger while she debated if that really was what he was worried about. She was snapped out of her thoughts by a hand on her shoulder. She snapped her gaze from their lively table to Natasha.

"You okay, Dilara?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Why?"

"You've been staring at that table for five minutes now." She giggled. "I know the Sons are hot, but staring for that long makes you look needy." She shifted her gaze to the table. "So which one has captured your interest?"

"No one. I was just spacing out for a minute there." Dilara blushed.

Tiffany laughed. "No one can look at those four and space. No reason to be ashamed." She sipped her coke. "I'm sure every girl in our school has had a fantasy or two about at least one of those boys. I myself dated Caleb Danvers."

"Really?" Dilara asked.

"Oh yeah, Tiff and Caleb go way back." Natasha answered while munching on a fry.

"Stop exaggerating. We dated for like a month freshman year, no big deal." She stole a fry off of Natasha's plate. "I think he had a thing for redheads that year."

"And it's blondes?" Dilara questioned.

"Ah, of course. The other new girl." Tiffany said looking at the bubbly laughing blonde. "Don't much about her, except that by tomorrow, everyone is going to know her name."

"Fast grapevine in this school?" Dilara raised an eyebrow.

"The fastest in the East." Natasha laughed. "Tiff, did you here about Kira Snyder?"

"No what happened?"

"Well, I heard that she went to the Hamptons this summer and..."

Dilara tuned out the rest of their conversation. Not that she didn't care or anything, but she had no idea who Kira Snyder was, so the information was of no use to her. She instead went back to watching Tyler interact with his friends. He still looked far off and worried, so she decided that it was her he was worried about.

'Worry no more Ty.' No time like the present, to show yourself to own boyfriend. One last deep inhale of breath and she hopped off of the stool she was sitting on and made her way through small crowd blocking her path, barely registering Natasha's call.

"Dilara where are you going?"

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Reid checked his cell phone for the time.

"Looks like Abbot really doesn't want to lose any money tonight." He looked up at Tyler. "I think our night is ruined."

"I really wish you two would stop hustling Aaron at pool. We're not always gonna be here to back you up." Caleb sighed.

"You say that like we start things. He's just a sore loser, digging his way through daddy's trust fund, one game at a time." Reid rolled his eyes.

"He's right." Tyler said. "Aaron is always the one to throw the first punch." He said toying with the remaining fries in his basket and not looking at anyone.

"There you have it. Baby Boy never lies." Reid threw a gloved hand on Tyler's shoulder. Caleb then shook his head, and looked up to see a girl with light brown hair slowly approaching their table. Reid followed his gaze to the girl coming from the right.

"Well I'll be." He smirked. "I knew she'd come around."

"You know her? I've never seen her before." Pouge said.

"That's the one from the library."

She halted in her steps, and looked around. Seemingly debating whether or not to keep going.

"Ty you gotta see this. You cannot tell me she's not hot." Reid urged him.

She must have steeled her resolve to go up to their table because she started walking faster and was less than two feet away when Tyler looked up at the girl everyone was staring at.

His breath hitched at once. She was wearing a long-sleeved V-neck forest green shirt, that stopped just above the faded jeans she was wearing. She directly at him and smiled softly.

He seemed to have forgotten how to breath properly, because all of a sudden his breath came rushing back to him. Along with a lot of relief. Here he was worrying about her being dead or something equally as bad, and she's right here under his nose. Looking even more beautiful than the last time he saw her. He felt a smile spread across his face as he got up and went to her. He grabbed her in a hug so tight that he lifted he right off of the ground.

"Surprise!" she said as soon as her feet touched the ground.

He kissed her, and long and passionate kiss, for all the ones they'd missed in the last year that they'd been apart. They both pulled away breathing heavily.

"Well? Are you surprised." She laughed, breathless.

"That would be an understatement. What are you doing here? Why didn't you call or e-mail, something?"

"Because then it wouldn't be a surprise." She smiled and kissed him again quickly. "I figured that, the best gift I could get you would be, me. I go to Spenser now."

"You came all the way here, for me?" He asked as quietly as could in the loud bar hall.

"Who else would I come here for." She hugged him tightly. "Happy Anniversary Ty."

"Happy Anniversary, Lara. Even though it is tomorrow." He chuckled.

A throat cleared from behind Tyler.

"Excuse me for interrupting. But I think Baby Boy has some explaining to do." Reid said.

"Oh right." Tyler grabbed Dilara's hand and brought her over closer to the table. "Everybody this is Dilara Aydin, my girlfriend."