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Fallen Now is Babylon the Great

Chapter 4: Not in Her Favor

-Babylon's POV-

This evening came way too soon. I can't believe that I'm actually going to go to Nicky's with the biggest pervert that ever graced Spenser Academy's campus. Ugh, the thought makes me sick to my stomach.

I got into the shower and was out in record time. I don't want to look like I actually put an effort into this, do I? Then again, I am going to be out in public, I should look somewhat presentable, I suppose.

I pulled a straightner through my hair a few times and put on some make up, trying to decide what to wear out tonight. I was sifting through the clothes that I did have and couldn't seem to put anything together. I heard a soft knock on my door and turned to see my mother standing there with a faint smile on her lips.

"Babylon, what are you doing?" she asked carefully. Her accent was hardly noticeable anymore.

I should have known that she would find out and start asking questions. She still managed to keep interested in all three of me and my sister's personal lives, despite how exhausted she always looked these days. I can't blame her though; it's her only night off for the next several weeks. I could see the tired in her eyes, and her body. It was getting frail and she looked sick, but still gave that stern 'motherly' look.

"I'm uh— going to Nicky's tonight with a boy from school…" I answered pulling out a black v-neck t-shirt and a patterned knee length skirt.

"My daughter—" I looked at her oddly as she seemed completely overjoyed. "—is going on a date?"

Oh gosh, why does everyone think this was a date? It is NOT a date! "Mother, its not a date," I protested for what felt like the thousandth time today.

"Sounds like a date to me." She pushed her dark brown hair out of her face as she came into my room, shutting the door. "Who is he? Have I met him before?"

Oh my goodness, is she seriously going there? Oh she is. And she looks like she wants to give me the 'talk'. Mother, I know all about the birds and the bees and trust me none of that will be happening tonight.

Absolutely not. Reid Garwin won't even get close enough to know what kind of shampoo I use.

"Babylon, you're getting older now, and you're probably curious about boys and—"

"No!" I shook my head. "Mother, we're not having this conversation," I said as politely as possible. "This isn't even an actual date. It's just two people going out to the same place, having a bite to eat and hanging out…"

Oh no… it doessound like a date.

No, no. It's not a date, because the person you're going to Nicky's with is Reid Garwin. You loathe his existence and you don't even want to be seen with him.

"Well, what's his name?" my mother continued as I slipped into my clothes for the night.

I put my feet into a pair of black-heeled sandals and fixed my hair and my mother was about to open her mouth again when my door flew open and two smaller bodies came flying towards us. I shook my head at my two sisters.

Most people might consider me an ice queen, but there's a soft spot for these two. Shenandoah, my twelve year old little sister who was literally a mini-me down to the fact that she had started taking dance classes and Imogen, my seven-year-old sister who reminded me of my grandmother.

My mother left the room as the two girls started hurling questions at me. Usually I'd be going off to work, or staying home to watch them while my mom works. Thankfully, we both had the night off, and the two girls would be staying in, and helping Mom with the chores.

I was just beginning to tell them that I wasn't going to be around until later tonight when I heard the doorbell ring. My heart nearly leapt out of my chest. I didn't think that he would actually come to the door. Reid Garwin does not seem like the kind of boy that would pick a girl up at the door.

I stared down the hall and ran for the front door; why didn't he just honk, like every other teenage boy out there? I got to the door about ten seconds too late.

There was Reid Garwin stepping foot into my house, grinning like a maniac at my mother. I felt like pushing him out of the house and telling my mother to have a good night, but that wasn't lady like and certainly not polite.

"Wow, Babylon never told me how beautiful her mother was," Reid smiled at her.

Part of me wanted to die a little at that; my mother cannot be buying this false charm. Are you kidding me?

"What a polite young man, come in, please." She smiled shutting the door behind him as he stepped inside, eyes scanning the new environment.

"You have a lovely home Ms. Arnardottir." The way he said my last name was nearly flawless, and his manners impeccable. I shot him a glare. How in the world can he act like a complete gentleman in front of my mother, but when there aren't any adults around he's the nastiest boy I've ever met?

"Why thank you Reid." She smiled, knowing exactly who he was. It was hard not to know the four main families in the town. Also, there had been a time where we had money and attended the same social gatherings as these families. But that was years ago now; I hardly even remember them.

Oh, she has that look on her face; I don't like that look on her face.

That's the look of a mother who is trying to envision what her grandchildren would look like being fathered by a Son of Ipswich, the blondeSon of Ipswich that was standing there before her.

"And who are these two beautiful ladies?" Reid asked giving Imogen a slight pinch on the cheek, flashing a cool smile at Shenandoah.

"There are Babylon's sisters," My mother introduced. "Shenandoah and Imogen."

I caught the amused look on Reid's face and tired to suppress the smile on my face. I will not be amused at his amusement, that's not possible. It wasn't the first time we'd gotten that look from people; I should be used to it by now. Our names were all rather unique.

"Can we go?" I asked shortly, the fact that he was charming the pants off of my mother, and now my sisters, was irking me beyond belief.

My mother looked at me curtly. Okay, so that wasn't the nicest way to ask, but he's getting on my nerves and she looks m much too pleased about him being the one here. I flashed her an apologetic grin before literally pushing Reid out of the front door.

I waved to my mother, grabbing my purse before exiting the house and walking out to where he had the large black Hummer parked in front of my house. I glanced over at him and I just wanted to push him in front of the car that was coming by.

Why was he doing this to me? Why in the world had he targeted me? I didn't need my family getting some silly rich boy-poor girl fantasy stuck in their heads.

Ugh, it was really starting to bother me, and he was staring at me again as we climbed into his best friend's car.

"Don't do that again," I warned him holding up my finger in his face. "I will not have you making a mockery of my family, do you understand?"

He gave me that shit-eating grin and I felt my stomach roll with anger. "You can mess with me all you want; Reid Garwin, but not my family, okay? Just not my family." I tried to hide the emotion that was in my voice, but it was hard. When it came to them… they meant everything to me.

"Promise?" Reid glanced at me with a sly smirk on his face as he shoved the gearshift down, putting the huge vehicle into drive.

I saw a flicker of something in his eyes, and pressed my lips together firmly. "Let's get this over with, please."

This was going to be a long night; I could already tell the cards were not in my favor tonight.

-Reid's POV-

We justgot out of the car and she's already setting down the ground rules. I haven't even made a fucking move yet! "Don't touch me, don't feed me your bad pick up lines, don't show me off to your friends, don't try to dance with me—"

"Shit, why don't you just cut off my balls right now?" She spun and faced me.

"Don't tempt me." Ouch, this bitch is ice cold. I sighed and opened the door to Nicky's, making the mistake of putting my hand on the small of her back when she brushed past me and into the smoky hangout. The Ice Queen glared daggers through me. "What did I just say?"

"Shut up. If you think for one second you're gonna pretend we aren't here on a date together, you're sorely mistaken little girl," I warned her, losing my patience a little, but playing with her at the same time, invading her personal space.

"This is not a date." Could this bitch be any more stubborn?

"It's a date. We are here together. I picked you up, I'm going to buy you dinner, we're going to dance, have a good time and then I'm going to bring you home. Maybe if you're lucky you'll get a goodnight kiss babe." She scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest.

I smirked and rolled my eyes. "Stop being such a baby," I growled, snatching her hand and pulling her the rest of the way inside before Nicky yells at us for having the door open.

Well, she's not pulling away from me. That can only mean one thing.

The walls were definitely able to be crumbled. It was just going to take some time, dedication and complete bullshit on my part.

I dragged her over to the bar, leaning against it and patting the stool near me so she could sit. Damn, I'm such a gentleman. I think I deserve pussy after tonight. Or at least something. I'll settle for a good old fashioned.

Hesitantly, she sat on the stool, looking around the place, a little horrified as she saw people grinding, drinking and making out. Holy shit... "You've never been here before, have you?" Her sharp eyes snapped back to me and she shook her head slowly.

"When would I have the time? Between all the after school activities I'm in, working and helping my mother take care of my sisters, I barely have time to breathe." Normally, I would feel bad when a girl admitted something like that to me. I mean, everyone knows why she has to help her Mom. My parents knew her father, wealthy businessman type. He bailed out on Babylon's mom some year s back and took basically everything. The whole town knew about it. But the tone of her voice just made me not even feel bad. She has this... 'holier than thou' attitude when she speaks.

"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. What do you wanna eat?" I watched as her eyes traveled down the wall menu and her face contorted into a look of complete disgust.

"Is everything on this menu fried?" she asked. I rolled my eyes. Oh, she's one of those. Wonderful.

"I don't know; you're the smart one." She scowled while I tapped my fingers on the counter waiting for her to make a decision.

"I'll have the salad I guess. No chicken." Oh, come on.

"What are you, veg?"

"No. I just eat healthy and judging by the rest of this menu, the chicken in that salad is going to be the chicken tenders cut into pieces." So, she's right. But there's no way I'm buying this chick a salad.

"Listen B. I don't know if you know this, but you're hot. And not just like 'yeah, she's hot' hot, but 'holy shit that chick is fucking fine' hot. That body's not gonna blow up if you eat a fucking cheeseburger every once in a while." Her face was burning and I grinned. "Nicky, two number fours!"

"I wanted a salad!" she protested when she realized I ordered for both of us.

"Tough," I snapped back, pushing myself off the counter. She looks irritated. Oh well. I smirked and motioned with my head for her to follow me. She slid off the stool slowly and I grabbed her hand again before she could hide it behind her back or something.

Don't think I didn't notice all the stares. Babylon's one of the hottest things Nicky's has ever seen. She wears this simple black V-neck t-shirt that seems to hug her nice and even shows a tiny bit of cleavage and a flowy knee high skirt that had a peacock feather pattern on it. Nothing special, but she's got half the non-Spenser attendance of Nicky's drooling over her. Almost everyone from Spenser who was here were staring either because they couldn't believe she was here or they couldn't believe she was here with me. No matter the reason, I was getting attention and had the hottest chick in here on my arm.

It's good to be me.

I led her to the pool tables and saw Abbot at one of them with his boys and some suckers from the public. His eyebrows rose and his jaw dropped a little when he saw Baby behind me. That's right Abbot, I'm the best. I wagged my eyebrows at him and he shook his head and got his friend's attention, nodding towards us. I was done rubbing her in Abbot's face for now though. I got to an empty table and dropped her hand, grabbing two cues off the wall. "Ever played pool before?"

I'm pretty sure this chick's answer was going to be no. "No." And as usual, I'm correct! I handed her a cue and she looked at it uneasily. I racked the balls and set the table up, quickly breaking to get this going. I scored two solids. "I'm solids. You want to get all the striped balls in that means before I get all the solids in. But don't get the 8 ball in or you lose." Her head nodded slowly as I shot again, sinking another solid. I shot once more, but it was hard because the stripes seemed to be obstructing every shot I had. I ended up missing.

This is my favorite part though.

"Come here." Babylon slowly came over to stand next to me and I pointed to the cue ball. "You want to hit that ball into one of the stripes." She nodded and I got behind her, smirking when she leaned over the table and tried to poorly imitate what I had done. "No, move your hips like this," I instructed, squaring her hips. She jumped away from me and glared. "What?"

"That was a little too close for comfort Garwin." Fuck, are you kidding me?

"Fine, do it yourself and lose smart ass." I walked away to grab our food when I saw it appear on the counter and when I went back, Babylon was struggling to keep the end of the cue from scratching the table. I sighed and got behind her again, putting the food on the empty table near us. "Like this." I adjusted her hands, not minding much how her ass felt pushing against my groin. I almost groaned at the feeling.

I squared her hips and got close to her ear. "Now just push it straight." She jumped a little at the closeness of my voice to her ear but did what I said and she actually got a lucky shot and scored one. "Good job, try again."

She lined up another shot, looking uneasy again. "Uh, Reid..."

Oh this is priceless.

I wish Abbot were closer so he could witness this. The Great Babylon asking for me to stand behind her, press up against her and rub my hands all over her arms and hips. Yum.

"Pull your elbow back more. Okay, go."

I played alone while she picked at her food and watched. She wasn't half bad, but she got bored of it and decided she would actually be gracious and eat the food I got her.

That's when I got a brilliant idea.

Though she didn't seem to be having a bad time, I know I'm not going to get her to come out with me again without a lot more effort that I don't want to put in if I can avoid it. I had this impossible shot lined up. There's no way to score three balls in three different pockets like this, right?

Wrong!

Not when you're as 'gifted' as I am.

"Hey B. You think I can get all these in there, there and there?" I asked, gesturing to the balls and pointing to each hole.

She scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, maybe if you're a magician. And stop calling me B." Oh if she only knew.

"Care to make a wager, B?" This girl is too easy to read when she's frustrated. It's so easy to wind her up. It's kind of hot. I love it when she's all flustered. "If I sink all three in one shot, you have to be my date to the Harvest Masquerade and Pogue's Halloween party that weekend. And if I manage not to scratch after the balls go in, you have to let me personally pick your costume for Pogue's party." I knew Spenser had mandatory formal attire for the Masquerade and that was no fun. But at Pogue's, anything goes.

Well, what do you know? The bitch is second-guessing herself. She doesn't look all that confident anymore. "Fine. But my top and bottom have to be covered. No disgusting thongs or anything. And nothing see through." Damn it.

Oh well, I'm sure I can find something acceptable. Insert smirk here. "Fine." I lined up my shot, purposely standing so my back was to her and she had a great view of my sweet ass. I let the Power pulse through my body and take over, swiftly making contact with the cue ball and sending it around the table strategically, sinking each shot I promised.

I released the Power and turned to smirk at her, finding her face looking quite horrified. "What's wrong babe?"

Oh yeah, this chick will be going down.

Literally.