Dis: Some of this shit ain't mine.
Fuck. Reid was confused and frustrated. He was confused because of Steel and frustrated that he was confused, not to mention that Steel had left him in a very uncomfortable and unsatisfied position. The nerve of that girl. On top of that, he was given extra homework for not being able to concentrate during literature. Stupid Romeo and Juliet, it was doing nothing to take his mind of her. If anything, it was fuelling his imagination, making him wonder what it would be like of he were Romeo and she were Juliet. Dammit, he really was loosing his marbles.
Steel was avoiding Reid. She never expected to develop any feelings like that for any of the sons of Ipswich. Dammit she was here to fulfil her instructions not to fall for some guy any and screw everything up. She needed time to think, to sort out everything, but most of all she needed her mother. It had been a month and she still missed her desperately. Steel missed her voice, her loving embrace and now, more then ever, her wisdom and advice. Silent tears flowed down her pale cheeks.
Slowly, unnoticeably at first, but surely, Caleb was aging, faster than his other three friends. They were all worried but no one knew what to do. Caleb's dark brown hair had been greying slightly at the temples and even the others were getting crow's feet.
A week had passed; Reid had noticed that Steel was tired and constantly asleep in class. Her results in chemistry, the only class they shared, were always swinging between a bottom line pass and failures. On top of that she was avoiding him completely. He was done waiting for her. Tonight she would talk to him whether she wanted to or not.
A minute before the bell rang; he crept up to where she was sitting and gripped her arm.
"Listen to me; meet me in the basement car park at 6 tonight. Don't tell me you can't go or any damn excuse like that, just be there. Okay? Please." He whispered in her ear and then returned to his seat.
At six –twenty, there was still no sign of Steel and Reid was feeling uncharacteristically anxious. Girls usually waited for him, not the other way around. Anyway why had she kept avoiding him since that incident? Thinking back, he sighed. He had spent countless nights awake just thinking about it and the rest of the time asleep dreaming about it, the next morning finding that zipping his pants had become an issue. After the initial pain of the bite, when she started drinking, he felt his senses heighten tenfold. The feeling of her lips and tongue on his neck, her toned body and soft breasts pressing against him and her hands gripping his shoulders were all vivid memories he would not forget.
The sound of footsteps heralded her arrival.
"Sorry I had detention." she said as a form of greeting.
"Hi." He smiled at her, pulse quickening.
"Do you feel it?" she asked after gazing at him intently.
"What? The tension between us? Yea, hell I do." He grinned.
"Not that you idiot. Do you feel like, you know," her voice dropped to a whisper," something's coming?" Her eyes were large with a touch of fear, something he had never associated with her before. It made him want to hug her tight and protect her.
"Em, the air seems heavier, I think." He said slowly.
"Good then it's not just me. Wait here for a minute." She sprinted away immediately and returned with a long black object.
"What the—"he began when he realised what it was.
"We have to go now." She strapped it to her back and pushed the bike out of the gate. She stood in the middle of the drive way, looked up to the sky and then nodded. She gazed at him for a few seconds then mounted his bike and motioned for him to get on behind her. The engine started and she sped off down a winding path between the trees.
God, thought Reid, she had no idea what kind of torture she was putting him through. He put his arms around her waist and at the same time tried to sit as far from her as possible. He willed his hands not to wander and tried to divert all his attention away from where the bodies contacted. Her abdomen was flat and hard but the jerkiness of the path sometime made his hands brush against the soft fullness of her breasts. He bit the inside of his cheek till it bled. Reid closed his eyes and tried to convince himself that this was one of his guy pals and definitely not a girl. By the time the bike came to a stop, he felt more in control. It began raining halfway through the journey but Steel kept on driving at the same relentless pace, yet keeping perfect control of the bike.
"Is this Cambridge? What the hell are we doing here?' Reid asked in surprise, squinting through the rain.
"We have to stay here for awhile. Can u get us a room?"
……….. ps. This is Cambridge, Massachusetts, not the English University………..