Title: Picture To Burn
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not The Covenant, or any of those delicious actors that stared in it, just the character(s) I made up. So no suing please.
A/N: Well I am pretty pleased with how quickly I managed to get this next chapter up, hahaha. Thank for the reviews on the last chapter, hope you enjoy this one, and don't forget to review!!! Thank you!
Chapter 4: Both Of Us Broken, Caught In The Moment.
( Hannah's POV )
I locked myself in the bathroom of my dorm room as quietly as I could in the state that I was. When I had got to the room, I found Rachael and Bobby sound asleep in Rachael's bed and I really didn't want to wake them with my stupid Reid drama. I leaned against the hard wood door and tried to control my erratic breathing. I ran all the way from the courtyard to the dorms, afraid of what would happen if Reid had caught up to me. Not that I was afraid he would hurt me or anything, not physically at least, I just wanted to avoid another confrontation with him, I couldn't handle another one. Not tonight at least.
I couldn't believe I had just said all of those things to Reid. I just...couldn't take it anymore. I didn't want to hurt him...but I needed him to understand why I couldn't be with him anymore because he obviously didn't get it. Reid's a good guy, deep down, under all of that bad boy bullshit he piles on to keep his reputation intact. Many people wouldn't believe it, but he does have a soul and a heart, a good one at that. He only shows it to the people who he cares about because he knows they wont judge him for it.
And I really do care about him, I'm head-over-heels in lo-never mind that. It hurt to know I couldn't go to him, kiss him, lay around with him and watch corny chick flicks that I know he hates but only watches because I insist on it...I felt my eyes begin to well up with tears again, and I slid my way down to the floor, head in my hands.
A moment later there was a knock at the door. "Hannah? Are you in there?" It was Rachael. I let out a muffled 'yes', but I'm sure she couldn't understand. "Han, open the door, let me in." I unlocked the door and moved to the wall next to it. I heard the door open and close, and felt her sit down next to me. I felt her hand on my shoulder. "Reid?" She questioned. I nodded. "What happened?" I looked up at her and started to explain the whole Reid fiasco that had just taken place.
"And then I turned around and ran." I finished and she gave me a sympathetic smile.
"Well, at least you got your feelings out in the open, right?." She said as I stared at a broken tile on the floor. "Now maybe he'll leave you alone." She paused for a moment. "Does he know, Hannah?" I knew exactly what she was asking about.
"No." I said shaking my head.
"Han, maybe if you told him he'd be more underst-" I quickly cut her off.
"No, it probably won't make a difference, not now at least." I ran a hand down the side of my face. "He probably hates me." I muttered miserably. I wanted to be friends with him still, but I doubt that would happen now. I had made sure of that. I'm so stupid. I sighed and looked at Rachael for some kind of hope, my eyes begging her to tell me that I was talking nonsense and of course he doesn't hate me.
"Maybe right now he does," Great, so much for that. I groaned in defeat. "But once the hurt wears off, I'm sure he'll come around." She tried to make me feel better about it. But we both knew the truth. This was Reid Garwin we were talking about. He didn't let getting hurt go too easily.
( Tyler's POV )
What the hell is going on? I was walking down the hall towards my dorm when I heard a whole bunch of loud, angry noises. And it was coming from the room I shared with Reid. It sounded like lots of things breaking, shattering, ripping, I could tell it was utter chaos in there and I wasn't even in the room yet.
I warily opened to door to find Reid standing in the middle, his back to me with random things flying all over the place. Books, shoes, clothes, lamps, my laptop, anything that wasn't nailed to the floor was flying across the room hitting the walls and breaking. Wait...my laptop?! I quickly closed the door. The last thing any of us needed was someone randomly walking past and seeing school text books flying around on their own.
"Reid?" I questioned cautiously. He turned to me, his eyes black as night. He looked absolutely furious. I've known him my whole life and I don't think I've ever seen him look as mad as he does at the moment. "Everything okay?" I asked as I side stepped one of the shelves that normally held part of my DVD collection as it came flying at my head. "REID!" I yelled. He was breathing heavy, but everything seemed to be slowing down and soon, there was nothing left but the debris of Reid's little temper tantrum. I didn't try talking to him again until his eyes had went back to their natural blue color. When I was sure there would be no more destruction coming from him, I let my own eyes fall black momentarily and the whole room went back to the way it had been when I had left earlier to get something to eat with Pogue and Kate. "What happened?" I tried again. I had a feeling I knew who had made Reid flip out like this, but I wasn't exactly sure why.
"She's such a stupid bitch!" He exclaimed, his eyes finding a picture of him and Hannah that had been on his dresser. He grabbed it and threw it at a garbage can by the desk, knocking it over. I nodded slowly and waited for him to continue. "Tyler, I put myself out there." He started, tearing his eyes from the fallen garbage can to look at me. "I put myself out there, I told her how I feel, and you know what she tells me?" He asked, his voice raising slightly. I shook my head. "She tells me she doesn't trust me." He laughed manically. Oh boy, this was not good.
"Did she say why she doesn't trust you?" I wasn't sure if I should exactly be asking him this. I waited for his reaction. He threw his arms up in the air.
"I don't fucking know, man. She wasn't making any sense, she rambles when she's upset." He sat down on his bed, kicking his math text book pretty hard. I watched as it flew across the floor and into the bathroom. "Something about sex," He continued, "about how she never trusted me because of my reputation, how I only asked her out because I wanted to fuck her...I don't fucking know." He stood up again, and ran his hands through his hair. "I mean, why the fuck would she date me if she didn't trust me?!" He yelled, he was getting angry again.
"Well," I started hesitantly, "isn't that why you asked her out to begin with?" I had a feeling that was the wrong thing to say. I watched as his eyes turned black again. Yeah, definitely the wrong thing.
"That's not the fucking point!" He shattered the mirror in the bathroom, again. "Fuck this." I heard him mutter as his eyes went back to normal and he headed out the door.
"Where are you going?" I called down the hall after him, and all received back
was a not so friendly hand gesture.
( Hannah's POV )
I had managed to make it through the next day of classes without seeing Reid at all. Which was definitely weird because he was in two of my classes and he hadn't shown up. It kind of worried me. I mean, Reid wasn't the most studious teenager, but he rarely skipped class. The only time I could remember him missing class was when he got the flu last April. It just wasn't like him.
I met up with Rachael and Bobby on the front steps of the school. "You wanna go into town and get some lunch?" Rachael asked and I nodded, trying to push all thoughts of Reid Garwin out of my head.
"Sounds good, I'm starving." I said before flipping my head over and pulling my long auburn hair into a loose ponytail on top of my head.
"I'll drive." Bobby offered, being the gentlemen that he was...most of the time at least. He was a good guy, a bit of a dumb jock, but nothing to serious. He was on the school football team, and the football team didn't exactly get along with the swim team, so you could just imagine the tension between him and Reid when they were stuck in mine and Rachael's dorm room together. Ugh, there's those thoughts of Reid again.
The three of us headed towards the student parking lot. "Hey, just let me grab my jacket from my car." I was itching to get out of this stupid blazer I had to wear 5 days of the week, but it wasn't exactly warm enough to walk around without some kind of jacket. I headed towards my white Chevy Equinox, and noticed Tyler's Hummer parked in its usual place next to it. Although I couldn't see him, as I got closer I could hear him yelling.
"Where the hell have you been?!" He sounded mad. "You were gone all fucking night and weren't in school all day!" I was about to round the corner of the Hummer to see what was going on when the other person with Tyler spoke up.
"Fuck off, Baby Boy!" I heard Reid yell back. I froze in my tracks. I turned on my heel, with every intention of grabbing my jacket from my car and going directly to the other side of the parking lot where Bobby's car was.
"Do you know how worried we were about you?! After what I walked in on last night?! Me, Caleb, and Pogue were out till three a.m. looking for your ass, hoping we didn't find you dead in a fucking ditch!" I could tell Tyler was beyond pissed. The only time the word 'fuck' was ever in his vocabulary was when he was royally pissed.
"Yeah, well here I am, nothing wrong, nothing broken, you hap-" The beeping of my car as I unlocked it interrupted him. Shit. I forgot it did that. I saw both Tyler and Reid's heads appear around the corner of the Hummer. My eyes widened slightly. Reid's head quickly disappeared and I heard a small crash, as if he had dropped a bunch of things, before a car door slammed and his dark red truck went screeching from where it had been parked on the other side of Tyler's hummer. I heard Tyler groan in frustration.
"I'm sorry, Ty." I said heading to where I knew he was standing on the other side of his car. He rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Not your fault he's an ass." I shrugged. It kinda was at the moment. Then I looked at the ground where Reid's truck had been parked moments before. On the ground I saw a bunch of CDs that had been run over. My CDs that I kept in Reid's truck because most of the music he usually listened to sucked. That son of a bitch ran over my CDs!! My face went red in rage. I quickly headed to my car, grabbed everything that I could find that belonged to Reid, which consisted of some crappy CDs, a gray hoodie, a pair of gym shorts, and head phones.
"Hey Ty," I started and he looked up at me, almost nervously. "Can you give these to Reid for me?" I asked before dropping everything in my arms into a large puddle. "Thanks."
I barely heard him mutter a somewhat sarcastic sounding 'sure thing' as I turned and walked in the other direction.
Fuck you, Reid Garwin.
