A/N: Well, I am almost done with this story... Have another one in the works, a little more romance... I think. / Anyway... Please review. :)

Disclaimer: I only own original characters in this story.

Turns out that Tyler's idea for putting the information on the bulletin board at Nicky's was rather profitable. Within the first five days that it was there, Reid had 50 subscribers to his site and so far, the Girls of Spenser were none the wiser about becoming the newest Internet reality stars.

As the days went by, Tyler found himself drawn more and more to the site, not to see how everything was running, but to catch glimpses, often fleeting of Nicolette. He had become accustomed to the schedule that she kept with her classes and after-school activities like student government. But, it was those times that he would catch her in her room doing her homework that he found himself remembering the most. The way that she would stick her tongue slightly out of the corner of her mouth as she read, the way she would nibble the top of her pen when she was trying to figure out how to say something just right on her homework, or even the way that she tended to dance around the room when she thought no one was watching... Oh how wrong she was.

"Hey, Tyler, did you finish the homework for American Lit yet?" Reid asked as he hurried into their room. Tyler looked up from his laptop at his friend.

"Yeah, it's in the folder there on my desk." He looked back down at his laptop and smiled at the site of Nicolette as she sat on her bed tying her shoe. "We going to Nicky's?"

"I don't know about you, but I'm meeting Jenny Salinger there." Tyler looked up and smiled.

"Who's Jenny Salinger?"

"Girl I met in the provost's office this afternoon." Reid sat at Tyler's desk and proceeded to copy the homework down.

"You know, you spend so much time in there that, I think, they should have the chair in front of his office bronzed in your honor. What did you do this time?"

"I cut Chem this afternoon. Got caught with Beverly Wells... in the janitor's closet." Tyler shook his head and smiled.

"I thought Bordy had a thing for her." Reid looked over with a smirk on his face and a devilish look in his icy blue eyes.

"He does." He turned around and went back to the homework. "I was just... 'testing the goods' for him." They laughed. "What are you doing over there anyway?" Tyler looked up.

"Um... surfing MySpace," he lied as he looked back at the face on his screen and smiled. He shut his laptop off and got up from his spot on his bed. He grabbed some clothes from his closet and disappeared into the bathroom.

"Why don't you go scoop up Betheny and meet me and Jenny at Nicky's tonight?"

"Not in the mood to deal with her." Reid looked up.

"Something happen?" He looked over at the closed bathroom door.

"No. Not really. She's just been a bit clingy lately and I really don't want to deal with that at the moment. I'm trying to think of a nice way to break up with her anyway."

"There is no nice way to break-up with someone. Just do it and get it over with. Keep putting it off and she's going to get too attached." Tyler opened the door and walked out.

"Too late. That happened after I slept with her. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't even bothered." Reid sat back in the chair and looked at Tyler with a smile on his face.

"Am I hearing right? Is Baby Boy becoming jaded about the opposite sex?" He folded his arms across his chest as Tyler sighed and sat on his bed.

"It's not so much jaded as it is bored. Most of the girls around here are the same. They pretend to be different, but when you get down to it, they are all the same. Sleep with them once and they think that it's forever. I'm too young to be thinking anything like forever, know what I mean?" Tyler grabbed his shoes and slipped them on.

"This is what I have been trying to tell you all along, but would you listen? No." Tyler got up and grabbed his wallet from his desk.

"Shut up Reid. I don't want to hear 'I told you so'."

"Okay, I won't say it, but you know I was right." He smirked and looked at the clock on the nightstand. "Dammit, I'm gonna be late." Tyler grabbed his keys and smiled. He walked over and opened the door.

"I'll see you later, man." He grinned and walked out as Reid looked back down at the homework he was in the middle of copying.

After a couple of hours hustling Aaron and his merry band of idiots at pool, Tyler was joined by Reid at the pool table that they usually shared. They greeted each other and Tyler looked around the crowded bar.

"Where's Jenny?" he asked as he continued to scan the crowd. Reid grabbed a pool cue and sighed.

"Lost cause. The girl is dead-set on sex before marriage. Everything I tried, she shot me down." Tyler suppressed a laugh and attempted to look serious for a moment, at least.

"I'm sure there is someone else out there that is willing to fall on her back for you." His eyes locked on Amy storming their way. "Incoming." Amy walked over and pushed Tyler out of her way in trying to get to Reid. Reid looked up and smiled.

"Hey, Amy. What's up?" he said nonchalantly while he lined up a shot on the table.

"Don't 'What's Up?' me, Reid Garwin. I saw you with another girl. Who is she?!" Reid made his shot and stood up straight.

"I don't believe that's any of your business, now is it?" She walked up and stood toe to toe with him.

"If I'm your girlfriend, it sure as hell is my damned business."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa... Who ever said you were my girlfriend?" Her eyes betrayed her and showed the hurt she felt at that statement.

"You did... the last time we were together. You said I was your girl." Reid smirked at the young girl with the ever increasing shrill voice.

"Yeah, you were... at that moment."

"Ooh...," Tyler said before he could stop himself. Amy's head whipped around and her eyes bore into Tyler's face.

"You knew about this?" she asked him. Tyler shrugged.

"Um... I'm going to go get a soda. This is between the two of you... Not me." He laid his pool cue down and walked away. Amy's eyes focused back on the blonde that was standing in front of her with a grin on his handsome face.

"So that's it? You just used me? You fucked me and used me?"

"I didn't use you. We used each other."

"What the fuck does that mean? I never used you!" Heat began building up in the young girl's face.

"Yes, you did. You know you loved the attention you got from the girls at school because you were with me. And by with me, I mean fucking me. Face it, you used me as much as you think I used you and when all is said and done, you are nothing more just another girl in a long line that I have been with. Nothing more..." With that, Amy slapped Reid and walked off as he laughed while holding his cheek that was now becoming red with the imprint of the girl's hand. Tyler walked over and laughed as he sipped his soda.

"That was really smooth. You realize she could blab about the website, right?" he asked as he set his glass on the edge of the pool table.

"She's not gonna say shit. She'll be begging for me forgiveness tomorrow. They all do." Tyler picked up his pool cue and grinned.

"I hope you're right... For your sake, I hope you're right." Tyler bent over the pool table and lined up a shot.