Title: Picture To Burn

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I don't own anything remotely related to the Covenant. Only my OCs and a copy of the movie on DVD. )

A/N: So, this chapter is pretty long, and I'm not exactly sure if I'm happy with it fully. I don't know, I'm never really happy with anything I write, so I guess I'll get over it lol. But thank you so much for the reviews and story alerts, I really appreciate and love the feedback! So enjoy the chapter and review! Thank you!

Chapter 3: You're A Million Miles Too Close.

(Hannah's POV)

"Again Davis!" I groaned and stood up, dusting my hands off. "You're gonna practice that routine until you get that landing down!" I watched as Coach Muniz wrote something down on her clip board and looked back at me. "Start her music again, Jenna. Get in position Davis!"

I scrambled to the other edge of the mat. I heard the opening of my music start up and waited for my cue. As soon as it came up I ran and started my routine. I had to get it perfect this time, I was not about to stay here all night when I had a ton of homework to do. I managed to stick my end landing perfectly, not faltering once. I smiled at Coach.

"How was that?"

"Better, not up to par for you though." I frowned as she walked over to me. "Hannah," She started quietly, "I don't know if your breakup with that Garwin boy had anything to do with your less-then-perfect performance today,"

"What? How'd you-" She waved a hand dismissing my question.

"The whole school knows, honey." I sighed dramatically. One of the 'benefits' of dating a Son of Ipswich was that everyone knew you're business, even the teachers and coaches. "But, you can not let it affect you in here." Here we go, another lecture. "You are one of my most talented gymnasts Hannah. You know that our next competition is in less then a week and I recently learned that some scouts from a few different college's are going to be there," My eyes widened slightly. This was news to me. Big news. "and I know how much you want that scholarship to UCLA."

"You're right. I promise, tomorrow I'll be one-hundred and ten percent." This was my future we were talking about, I couldn't let some stupid breakup with some stupid boy fuck it up.

"Good, that's what I wanted to hear." She turned from me and blew her whistle. I put a hand up to my left ear, I wish she had warned me she was gonna do that. "Okay, great work today ladies! Practice is over, hit the showers!" All the girls on the team seemed to sigh in relief, practice had run at least half an hour long today because of me and my shitty work.

"So, I heard some things today," I looked up to see my best friend and room mate, Rachael Webber, standing over me, her blonde hair wet and she was half dressed in her school uniform. She was on the gymnastics team with me, it was how we met freshmen year here.

"Why are you wearing that?"

"Bobby likes it." She winked at me.

"Oh, ewe." I crinkled my nose in disgust. "Anyways, so what'd you hear now?" I pulled a green tank top over my head.

"Well, first I heard that you threw yourself at Reid and begged him to take you back," I rolled my eyes as she continued, "then I heard that you guys screwed against the back wall of Nicky's," Again I rolled my eyes, people were just ridiculous. "and finally I heard that you guys got into a big fight and you slapped him silly."

"That's all so ridiculous, you told everyone who said those things they weren't true, right?" Rachael smiled innocently. I knew that smile. "Rachael..."

"I did, I did...well, at least the first two I did." She smiled devilishly and I groaned.

"Oh Ray! Now I'm gonna have him come around crying that I told everyone I bitched him out." Reid wouldn't likely let this little blow to his ego go on, especially when it wasn't true.

"Whatever, he deserves it anyways." She started buttoning up the white dress shirt that was part of our uniform. "But, I need the room for about...an hour or two?" She questioned, batting her big blue eyes at me. I sighed and nodded.

"Fine, I've got a crap load of homework and studying to do." I stood up and pulled on my favorite black Victoria's Secret sweat pants. "But I'll be back by eight." I watched her nod her head happily.

"Okay, thank you Han!" She quickly hugged me before grabbing her bag and heading towards the locker room door.

"And stay off my bed!" I called after her. I swear if I ever catch her and Bobby making out on my bed again, I'll strangle them.

An hour and a half later I was sitting in one of the lounge chairs in the Leslie Danvers Library. Money for it to be built had been donated by Caleb's Great-Grandmother decades ago, and in turn they had named it after her. Everything in it was so lavish. From the thirty or so brand new, flat screen computers that lined the outer perimeter of the large room, to the lush deep green carpet on the floor, and the intricate chandeliers on the ceiling, everything about this library screamed 'high class'. Reid had told me once that Caleb's mother donated to the school annually just to make sure the library had nothing missing and was always up-to-date with the newest technology available.

I had my feet up on the small table in front of me, with my unnecessarily large Physics book in my lap. I re-read something I had wrote in my notebook, then re-read the short passage in the textbook and realized I had wrote down the completely wrong answer to the question. I groaned in frustration and forcefully scribbled out the words I had written in my book.

"Whoa, what'd the book ever do to you?" I heard someone question from above me. What was he doing here? In the library no less?

"Are you stalking me or something?" I asked, half joking, as I sat up and put my books on the table in front of me. I heard him laugh slightly and watched as he sat in the chair across from me.

"No, just here for a book actually." He held up the book in his hand and my eyebrows shot up in speculation.

"You expect me to believe that you, Reid Garwin, are here, in the library, for a book?" I laughed at the idea, it was just too outrageous.

"Well you see, I lost my American History textbook, and seeing how Tyler is so smart and in some stupid AP Euro History class, we don't have the same book." I rolled my eyes, leave it to Reid to lose a school textbook. "Which means that I can't steal his book to study for the chapter test I have tomorrow, and believe it or not I do want to pass." I shook my head in slight amusement.

"Oh, I'm sure." I teased. He smiled at me, then his face suddenly turned serious.

"Hey, you wanna go for a walk? Maybe talk about some things?" He asked, unsure. I hesitated for a moment, this might not be the greatest idea.

"Reid, I don't know..." I started.

"C'mon Han, I'll walk you back to the dorms." I sighed and stood up, pulling on my sweater and grabbing my bag and books.

"Okay, you win." I followed him out of the library and towards the outside doors. "What'd you wanna talk about?" I asked as we started through the courtyard. I watched him stop and it seemed like he was thinking of what to say first.

"I...Hannah, I miss you." I looked away, I really couldn't do this right now. "Hannah..."

"Stop Reid." I still wasn't looking at him. I felt his fingers grip my chin gently and he moved my head so I was looking at him. "Reid..." He had gotten extremely close to me, and I could smell his cologne, the only cologne he ever wore, something he mixed on his own he said. It was uniquely Reid. And it was starting to make me dizzy. He was getting way to close for comfort.

"Baby, why can't we just...be together again?" He asked, his hand slowly caressing my cheek. I involuntarily leaned into his touch and closed my eyes.

"Please don't do this..."

"Why? Hannah, I know you care about me, and whether you want to believe it or not, I care about you too." He paused and stepped closer to me, if that was even possible. "More then you could ever know." He had to stop talking, he was slowly pulling down all of my walls and defenses.

"Reid we fought so much..." I tried arguing weakly.

"But when we weren't fighting, Hannah, we were great together." His hand abandoned my cheek and I felt it move down to my neck, he really knew exactly what to do to get in my head. He leaned his forehead against mine, but I kept my eyes closed, I knew looking into those blue eyes of his would be my downfall. And apparently he knew that too. "Look at me." He commanded softly, his hand caressing my neck. I hesitated, I couldn't let him win. I had to be strong. "Hannah, open those pretty green eyes for me baby." I felt his forehead leave mine and soon felt his lips there instead. My eyes shot open and found his in an instant.

Before I even knew what I was doing, my hands were on his face, pulling him towards me, and our lips met in a gentle kiss. One of his arms slid around my waist and pulled my body against his as we continued kissing softly. After a while we pulled away, our foreheads pressed together, trying to catch our breath.

"See, that wasn't so hard was it?" Reid said and chuckled softly and I shook my head and pulled away from him. I definitely should not have just done that.

"Reid, its not that its hard," I started and he made a move to pull me back towards him. "No, Reid we shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have kissed you."

"Don't say that Hannah."

"Reid, we cant just get back together after everything."

"Why not?!" I could tell he was getting frustrated, but I didn't care at the moment.

"Because Reid!" God, how many times did I have to explain this to him?! "If we get back together, things will just go right back to the way they were, and I cant handle that anymore!" I backed about a foot away from him and put my hands on my hips.

"I promise, no more fighting, no more cheating, no more nothing!" He tried to negotiate. I wasn't buying it though. Not anymore.

"Yeah, Reid?! Well what happens when I decide that I still don't want to have sex with you? Hmmm? What then? You expect me to believe that you're just gonna wait for me to be ready this time? Cause you did a damn good job last time, right?!" I could feel the tears coming, and I tried my hardest to keep them at bay. I refused to let him see me cry.

"What the fuck is the big deal, Hannah?" Reid asked me, throwing his arms into the air. "It's just sex. What the fuck is the big deal about it?! I care about you, you care about me, we should be having sex! It's not that big of a fucking deal!" I looked at him for a moment after he said that and then I slapped him. Hard.

"You have got to be kidding me Reid!" I yelled at him as he gaped at me in shock. He was pissed, I could tell, but I didn't care. I still couldn't believe he had just said that to me. "Do you wanna know why I wouldn't sleep with you?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest. I didn't wait for him to answer. "It's because I didn't trust you." I said quietly, and I watched the emotion on his face change from fury to confusion.

"What?" He gently rubbed a hand over the cheek that was red from my hand. "Why would you date me if you didn't trust me?"

"I wanted to give you a chance, Reid." My voice was still quiet. I never thought I would be having this conversation with him. "I liked you, and I wanted to see if you really liked me too, or if you just wanted in my pants. I was so close to caving, Reid, and then I found out you slept with Kelsey Gregory and I just couldn't do it. I wouldn't let myself." I wiped at my eyes, at the tears I knew were falling from them. "I did almost everything with you. I never left you...in need, but it wasn't enough for you. You just needed sex, had to have it, and I refused to let myself just be another one of those girls, Reid." I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down, I knew I was starting to ramble on. "So that's it." I said, bending down to pick up my bag and my books that I had dropped on the ground sometime earlier, I couldn't exactly remember when. This whole thing was starting to become one big blur. "I didn't trust you, and I still don't. That's why I cant get back together with you." I chanced one more look into his eyes, and saw that they were full of hurt, and something else, maybe regret? I wasn't sure. I turned and headed towards the Dorm House, and then I stopped and turned back towards him. "And just for your information, Reid, it wasn't just sex to me. It was so much more." With that said, I ran back to the dorms, before he had the chance to say anything else, or see just how much of a wreck I really was at the moment.