Chapter 5

I woke up the next morning still upset about the night before, but I knew that Chase would be here in a little while to pick me up for our date so I had to get up and get ready.

A little while later I was standing in front of my mirror doing my makeup when I heard a knock on my door, when I opened it I noticed that it was Chase.

"Hey are you ready?" he asked.

"Almost, I just have to finish doing my makeup." I said letting him in. He went over and sat down in my desk chair while I went back into my bathroom to finish my makeup. When I was done I grabbed my purse and keys and we left for the movie.

"That movie was awesome!" Chase said as we left the local theater later that afternoon.

"I know that action scene was amazing!" I said just as excited. I was actually having a really good time with Chase. As we were walking down the street in town we ran into the one person I wish we hadn't.

"Hey Reid, you really need to go see that new action movie. It was awesome." Chase said.

"Cool I might just have to do that." Reid said his eyes locked on me.

"Yeah it was cool you would like it." I added shifting uncomfortably under his gaze. Reid didn't say anything. He just stood there looking at me. I looked up at Chase.

"I guess we should better be getting back to the dorms." I said. I wanted to get as far away from this situation as I could.

"Sure, hey it was cool seeing you man." He said slapping Reid's back as he walked by him. I followed him not looking at Reid as I passed. Once I knew we were a safe enough distance from where we had left Reid I glanced back over my shoulder to see him just standing there, watching me walk away with Chase.

The entire ride back to the dorms I was thinking about Reid. When he saw me with Chase he got this weird look on his face, almost like he was hurt but I don't understand why. I could hear Chase in the background, he was saying something about how he was going to challenge Caleb to a race at swim practice one day this week, but I honestly wasn't that interested in what he was saying.

When we got back to the dorms Chase walked me to my room, I told him that I had fun and that I would talk to him later but before I could turn to go into my room, he leaned down and kissed me. I pulled back instantly.

"Wow, listen Chase your really nice and all but I just don't feel that way about you." I said trying not to hurt his feelings too bad.

"Oh, ok. Sorry about that then. I guess I will see you later." He said taking a few steps back from me.

"I guess, bye." I said, then he walked off down the hall and I went into my room.

I decided that I would spend the rest of my day just hanging out in my room watching movies. So I changed into my favorite pair of short shorts and a tank top and walked over to my bookshelf to pick out a movie, I decided on Harry Potter, don't ask me why but I just felt like watching it.

I was almost half way through the movie when there was a knock on my door. I got up off my bed and answered it only to find Reid standing there.

"What do you want?" I asked not letting him in.

"I just wanted to tell you I was sorry about yesterday, and I wanted to see if you would still watch a few movies with me." he said, giving me his best smile because he knew I couldn't say no to him when he used it.

"Ok but I get to pick the movies" I said pulling the door back so that he could walk past me. I noticed that he had changed since this afternoon when I had seen him. He was now wearing his classic Sunday movie attire which included a pair of sweat pants and a white t-shirt. He entered my room and walked straight over and lay down on my bed.

"What do you think you are doing over there?" I asked after closing my door.

"I'm getting comfortable so that we can start watching movies." He said looking at me like it was the most obvious response in the world.

"I see that, and what makes you think that you are laying with me?" I asked putting my hands on my hips.

"I always lay with you." He said looking confused.

"Not now that you have a girlfriend you don't, Shelby would go ballistic if she found out." I said looking at him like he was an idiot for not realizing that sooner.

"Well it doesn't really matter what Shelby thinks anymore. I broke up with her last night." He said turning his attention to the movie that was still playing.

"Why the hell are you watching this piece of shit?" he asked using the remote to turn the movie off.

"Just forget about my choice of movies for a second, when did you and Shelby break up?" I hate to say it but even the thought of a single Reid Garwin lying in my bed only a few feet away from me had butterflies the size of airplanes flying around in my stomach.

"I ended it last night after I left here." He said while messing with the drawstring on his sweats.

"Why?" I asked.

"It was just over between us. Besides I had started to realize that I had feelings for someone else." At the last part his eyes flashed to me, and they stayed there.

"Oh, I didn't know." I said feeling the butterflies in my stomach speed up their pace.

"Who did you realize you had feelings for?" I asked pushing some of my hair behind my ear, and walking over to my bookshelf in the corner of my room tying not to look at him just in case I didn't like his answer, but one never came. I turned back around to see if he had even heard my question, but when I did I realized that he had moved off my bed and was now standing directly in front of me.

I just looked at him. My heart was beating so loud that he could probably hear it. His eyes just stared into mine and his hand reached up to cup my cheek, his thumb brushing across my lips.

"Who do you think" he said smirking at me. Then he did something I never thought that he would do, he leaned in and lightly pressed his lips to mine.