A/N: Thought I would put up a chapter with a little more to it. Please review!
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The next morning, Tyler hurried down one of the many long hallways to the library to meet with Reid in the library. The hall was relatively empty and he was thankful for that. Why the hell had Reid decided to have this little 'planning session' in the library of all places? Tyler wasn't sure Reid ever used the library as more than a place to hook up with some unsuspecting girl in the Special Collections stacks. He laughed to himself at the thought.
"Hey Tyler!" a shout came from behind him. He turned slightly to see who the greeting came from and BAM!! He ran into someone and immediately fell on them. He leaned up and looked at his victim, Nicolette Emerson. He smiled weakly.
"Hey Tyler. You know, there are other ways to get my attention." She smiled sweetly as he blushed a deep scarlet.
"Hey Nicki. Sorry about that." He slowly got up and helped her from the cold tile floor. He bent down and helped her to retrieve her books that had freed themselves from the hold her arms had on them. He looked into her brown eyes and smiled. "A-Are you okay?" Nicolette stood and smiled.
"Yeah, I think I'm okay. No damage done. Why are you in such a hurry anyway?" She tucked her hair behind her left ear as she reorganized the books in her arms.
"Um... Just going to the library to do some research." He reached up and scratched the back of his head nervously. "I should get going."
"See ya. And slow down there, Speed Racer." She smiled again as she made her way passed him and down the hall. Tyler found himself watching her for a moment. A moment, he thought, that might have been to long. He blinked and shook his head.
"The library...," he mumbled to himself as he started towards the library again.
Tyler walked into the library a few seconds later and spotted Reid by the book return counter chatting it up with some red-head. She seemed genuinely interested in whatever it was the Reid was saying. Though, what that could be, Tyler had no clue as he knew his best friend had no game whatsoever. He always suspected that the reason Reid was so successful with the girls was because they actually felt sorry for him. Laughing to himself, he made his way over to the two and smiled. Reid smiled as his friend approached.
"Hey man. This is... what was your name again?" Reid asked, trying to sound nonchalant. The red-head looked at Tyler and smiled.
"Erin Brown," she said in a voice laced with a soft southern accent.
"Yeah, Erin. She just moved with her family up here from Georgia. She's a freshmen." Reid looked at Tyler and smirked. The smirk meant easy prey. Freshmen girls were always so unsuspecting of the junior and tended to fall for the blue eyes and the sweet words that he would use in order to get what he wanted from them before he moved on to the next piece of ass. Tyler shook his head and cleared his throat.
"Nice to meet you, Erin. Um, can we get this over with? I have some studying to do before Chem class," Tyler said.
"Sure. I'll um... see you around then, Erin." He winked and smiled at her and the two juniors walked away. They found a relatively secluded table near the door and sat down. "What took you so long?"
"I got caught up with that old bat Weir after Literature class. Something about my last paper not being up to the caliber she expects from me or some such shit like that." Tyler pulled a notebook and pen from his messenger bag and set them on the table in front of him.
"Yeah, well, if you weren't so busy screwing Betheny Jacobs, it might have been better." Tyler could feel the blush rushing into his cheeks and he looked down at the table.
"How the hell do you know about that?" Tyler uncapped his pen and opened the notebook.
"Who the fuck doesn't know about it? The girl blabs. You can do so much better than that gossip mill, really Tyler. The whole school knew about you two the day that it happened. I even suspect that all the dirty details are out there as well." Tyler could feel his ears burning and he looked up at Reid.
"She's cute." A sly grin spread across his face. "She's a freak in bed, too." Reid looked at Tyler with a mock look of shock.
"Damn, okay. I see that I am rubbing off on you a little too much there." They laughed as they did one of their guy hand shakes. "Have you thought anymore about how we are going to be able to have this done and going by the 15th?"
"The 15th? That's like a week away man. It's going to take at least that long to get the teddy bears."
"No it won't. I got the bears covered. We just need to make this list and figure out how many of them we are going to need. So let's begin, shall we?"
"Bree Stewart?" Reid's blue eyes got a far off look in them at the name. Bree Stewart was senior class president and the all around over-achiever. The running joke around Spenser was that she should have a litter box put under her seats in class because she was always the teachers' pet.
"Who is she roomed up with this year?" Tyler flipped through his notebook looking at the lists of girls names.
"Um, Jacqueline Morton."
"The 'goth girl'. Hell to the no. Next?" True to the nickname, Jacqueline was the goth girl. Typical in every way and so not what Reid was looking for.
"Sloan Eaton? She's rooming with a new girl, named um... Briana Lee. Really pretty too... Least, I think she is." Reid raised an eyebrow.
"I generally trust your judgment. What does this girl look like?"
"Typical of what someone would think a California girl looks like. Long blonde hair, blue eyes, long legs, big bre..." Tyler's thought trailed off as he pictured the girl in his mind. Reid looked over and slammed his hand on the table.
"Would you focus here?" Tyler blinked and smiled.
"Sorry. Anyway, she's an 8 on a scale of 1-10." Reid nodded.
"Alright. That's one. What about Alison Grant? Who is she roomed with this year?" Tyler looked again through the list.
"Um, Avery Butler." A grin spread across Reid's face and his eyes twinkled.
"Definitely on the list. Have you seen the way Avery looks in her swimsuit during practice. I'm sure a bunch of guys would love to see the co-captain of the girls' swim team out of her swimsuit." Tyler laughed softly and shook his head as he wrote their names down.
"Do you only think with your dick?" Reid smirked as he looked over at his best friend.
"Yeah... You should try it sometime." Tyler couldn't help but laugh. "Next?"
"Don't you have ideas? How 'bout some of the girls you have violated over the last three years?" Reid raised his eyebrow.
"Not good enough for this 'project'." Tyler scoffed and sat back in his chair. He scratched his head.
"Good enough to sleep with, but not good enough to be on a website? How does your thought process work man?"
"Look, if this is going to work, these girls have to look attainable, but be unattainable."
"Is that to everyone or just you?" A mock look of hurt crossed Reid's face.
"That hurts Tyler. Really hurts." Tyler rolled his eyes.
"I'm sure. The truth usually does." Tyler grinned and scanned the list that was before him.
"How about Avery's best friend? Nicolette? She's pretty cute. I think she's roomed with Crystal Meyers. That right there is a fantasy in the making, if you ask me."
"Yeah, unfortunately, I didn't ask you. Okay, so Nicolette is on the list then?" Reid gave him a look like 'Duh'. "Alright, alright, no need to give me that look." Tyler wrote the name down and they continued down the line.
Tyler held up the notebook and looked at the now shortened list of names and smiled.
"How many is that?" Reid asked as he eyed a brunette that had just walked into the library.
"Um, fifteen." Tyler followed Reid's eye line and smirked. "Is that it? I have to go."
"Yeah, that should be plenty. A little for every taste. Speaking of taste, I'll uh, catch you later." Without taking his eyes off of the pretty young woman, Reid got up and left Tyler at the table. He put away his notebook and pen and got up. He slung his bag over his shoulder and made his way out of the library.
"We are so going to get caught for this," he mumbled to himself as he walked down the now crowding hallway.
