"I have a question."
"Shoot."
"What is up with your roomie and hitting on Reid?"
Maddie snorted. Tyler had parked his truck, accepted the (surprisingly painful) punch that Maddie gave him for doing the stupid flying-over-nothing trick, and was now walking her to her dorm room, since he really didn't have anything better to do.
"Ana is horny as hell. She's been looking around for a nice piece of male to sink her claws into for a while. She was going out hunting tonight, but she found Reid beforehand."
"Ok, but why Reid."
"He's single, he's hot." She said blatantly. "And you wouldn't have slept with Anastasia even if she had stripped down to, well, nothing."
"Since when do you know me so well?"
"Ok, I admit it." Maddie said dramatically. "I can actually read minds!"
At Tyler's genuinely shocked expression she couldn't help but laugh.
They arrived in front of number 22, Maddie and Anastasia's dorm after a few more minutes of idle chitchat. When they got there Maddie opened the door an inch and knocked on it loudly.
"Ana." She said loudly through the crack. "Are you decent?"
Someone swore and tripped over something, someone else got up, shuffled to another room and rummaged through some fabric. Maddie patiented a minute before yelling again.
"Ana!"
"Just a minute." Ana said breathlessly. She soon appeared and opened the door wide, dressed in a large baggy shirt with nothing underneath. Her hair was messy, her makeup smudged and had an immense look of satisfaction on her face. "Welcome back."
Her breath smelled faintly of strawberries.
"Yeah, yeah." Maddie walked into her dorm and evaluated the mess level. The couch was destroyed, all the pillows lying everywhere, the curtains were ripped, the carpet was wet, the floor was stained with something milky and green, the walls had uneven bumps and crevasses in them and around the room was strewn various condoms, in or out of their wrappers. Reid was in a corner trying to zip up his pants.
"Gross. Open the window, will you?" Maddie asked Tyler, who happened to be standing right beside it. He opened the window and let a cool breath of winter air in. He noticed the five long scratches in each curtain.
Maddie grabbed a broom from under a couch pillow, brushed the black silk panties off of it and handed it to Reid. He glared at her in protest.
"Those are the rules. If you're still here when I get back, you're stuck cleaning up."
She gave him the broom and head to another room, stepping over a stained pillow on her way.
"Coffee, Tyler?"
"Sure. All this coffee won't help me sleep tonight, Caleb will be disappointed."
"Who wants to sleep on a Friday night?" Ana whispered naughtily into his ear "there are so many other things you could do…"she glanced meaningfully in the direction of her roommate. Tyler didn't reply and just headed to join Maddie.
"You used the ice cream too?" She whined, looking through the freezer. "You're terrible!" She threw the empty carton of mint chocolate chip ice cream into the recycling bin. "I won't ever be able to see the stuff without thinking about you two!"
She slammed the freezer and removed a kettle from a cupboard, filling it up with water. She then found a mop in another cupboard and walked into the living room to give it to Reid. By then the water had boiled and she rummaged through another cupboard to find coffee.
"No coffee, sorry. I have tea though."
"Tea's fine. I haven't had a cup of tea since I was maybe six."
"Why is that?" Maddie asked while pouring the boiling water into a teapot.
"Because back then my family could still be considered a family and I would attend the tea parties that my cousin would throw. Since then my mom moved away, my aunt died and my cousin doesn't even remember my name."
"Oh, the tragedies that fate must bring upon us through time." She said, without a trace of mockery in her voice. She poured him a cup of tea. "Jasmine." She said. "Its good for you."
"Thanks." He took a long sip, burnt his tongue and didn't say anything.
"Fuck, that girl Ana is HOT!" Reid said.
He and Tyler were walking to their own dorms. Reid's hair was messed up, his shirt on backwards and he couldn't find his belt. It has been, as he had said, a good night.
"Go figure." Tyler said. "Why exactly do you go around getting laid all the time? We had an important meeting."
"What can I say?" he shrugged his shoulders exaggeratedly. "The ladies just crave me. And besides, there's nothing in a meeting that can't be recalled later. So fill me in, baby boy."
The explanations had lasted until they reached their own dorm, opened the door and gotten themselves into bed. By now it was 1am, and they were both exhausted.
"That's some freaky shit." Reid said. "So what are we gonna do to kill Chase?"
"We should find him first. That might help."
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