Chapter 6

Reid's lips pressed against mine lightly before he pulled back, ending the kiss.

I couldn't process what had just happened, my brain had quit working the second his lips had touched mine. So I just stood there looking at him, my eyes wide. While he stood there looking at me with that smart ass smirk on his face that made him look so damn sexy it wasn't fair.

"Does that answer your question" he asked the smirk getting bigger. I still couldn't form words so I just shook my head. After a few more seconds I regained some speech capabilities.

"How long have you felt like this?" I asked curious.

"I guess I have always kind of felt something towards you but I didn't realize what that feeling was until a few days ago." he said, his thumb tracing small circles on my cheek.

"Is that why you were acting so weird yesterday morning?"

"Yeah, I didn't like walking in on you and Ty messing around like that, and I really didn't like it when he asked you to go to the Fall Fest with him."

"Well that explains why you acted the way you did in the hall, but not the way you acted last night." I pointed out. He just looked at the ground.

"When you told me that you and Chase were going to the movies it made me mad but you said that it was just as friends so I tried to let it go, but I couldn't. Then when I saw you dancing with him at Nicky's later that night I almost lost it. I wanted to beat the shit out of him." he said looking back into my eyes.

"I was stupid to act that way, and I should never have said those things to you. Can you forgive me?" I just smiled at his words. Deciding that it would be easier to show him how I felt. So I leaned in and pressed my lips to his.

A little while later we were lying on my bed together watching a movie. I had tried to get Reid to finish watching Harry Potter with me but he had flat out refused, so I had taken mercy on him and let him pick the movie. He had decided on The Grudge even though he knew that it scared the shit out of me every time I watched it. I remember the first time I had seen it, for a month after every time a cat would meow I would practically jump right out of my skin.

At one of the scarier parts of the movie I screamed slightly and buried my face in Reid's chest, covering my eyes. He laughed lightly at my reaction and wrapped his arms around me. I peeked out from behind my hands to glare up at him.

"I will have nightmares tonight because of this." I said causing him to laugh a little harder.

"Well I guess I will just have to stay here and protect you then wont I?" he asked holding me tighter.

"You bet your ass you will." I replied. Reid had stayed over many times after making me watch a scary movie but I had always made him sleep on the floor or on top of the covers. So it wasn't a big deal until the movie ended and I decided that I needed to go to sleep, mostly because I could barely keep my eyes open near the end of it.

"I'm sleepy" I yawned, he just laughed.

"Ok I guess I could let you sleep." He said moving to get up from the bed. I stopped him.

"Stay with me tonight." I said as I pulled him back down to me. He just smiled at me as he lay down. We just laid there for a few minutes before I realized that he was still on top of the blankets and that it was more than a little chilly in my dorm.

"You can get under here with me." I told him pulling on one of the blankets to emphasize my meaning.

"I would but…" he started "I don't think I would be able to get comfortable." He said looking at me.

"What do you mean?" I asked not sure what he meant by that statement.

"I usually don't sleep in this many layers" he said referring to his clothing.

"How do you usually sleep?" I asked my pulse rising a little though I wasn't entirely sure why.

"Let's just say that Ty has learned never to pull the covers off me when he wakes me up in the mornings." He said causing us both to laugh.

"How about I make a deal with you…" I started "you can sleep under the covers with me, but you have to leave at least your boxers on." I offered not wanting him to risk freezing by not sleeping under the blankets.

"Deal" he said a little quicker than I had expected. With a huge smirk on his face he climbed off the bed and pulled his shirt off over his head and then stepped out of his sweatpants, leaving him standing there in only his blue boxers. God he was hot!

He pulled the covers back and went to climb in next to me, but I stopped him.

"You better behave yourself Mr. Garwin or you will have a few less body parts to worry about when you wake up." I said pointing my finger at him. He just laughed and lay down next to me. I rolled over so that my back was facing him and was surprised when his arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me against him, not that I was complaining.

I smiled to myself and then drifted off to sleep with the arms of my best friend, boyfriend, actually I didn't know what we were at this exact moment in time but I didn't care. I was in the arms of the man I loved and he loved me too. My life was starting to turn around.