Jamie found Reid as soon as she got back to the house. He was sitting at his computer in his room upstairs. She snaked her arms around his neck from behind and poked her head over his left shoulder. "Give me, like, ten minutes to get ready and let's go get into trouble."

"Tempting. But I promised your brother I would attempt to keep you out of trouble," Reid replied as he pulled Jamie into his lap. "Just out of curiosity, what sort of trouble did you have in mind?" Reid asked with that smirk that let Jamie know he probably wouldn't keep his promise to Tyler.

"Arson, destruction of public property, robbery…you know, the usuals," Jamie teased.

"I always knew you'd grow up to be a bad girl," Reid joked with her.

Jamie arched her eyebrow at him and leaned in to whisper in his ear. "You have no idea how just how bad I can be." With that, Jamie stood up and walked back to her own room, leaving Reid's curiosity sparked.

Back in her own room Jamie slipped out of the jeans and sweatshirt she had worn to get coffee with Tyler and changed into a pair of green cargo pants and denim jacket over a black tank top. She washed her face and did her make up and ran a brush through her hair. She finished the look with a pair of black Converse she had added silver sparkles to. She was ready to go convince Reid to get out with her and have some fun.

"You ready?" she asked as she plopped down on his bed.

"Am I ready for what?" he asked. He stood over her as she lay sideways on his bed. He leaned over her and put his hands on either side of her stomach. She noticed that he was still wearing the pair of black, fingerless gloves she had sent him for his birthday two years earlier. His nails hadn't been black back then, but she liked the look.

"To help me get into all sorts of fun trouble," she answered him matter-of-factly.

"Come on," he agreed with his signature smirk. He grabbed Jamie's hand and helped pull her up. Her shirt slipped up an inch or so in front and he saw the top of a tattoo peering out at him. "Care to tell me what that is?" he asked pointing to the sliver of black.

"What? My tattoo?" Jamie pulled the top of her pants down just far enough so that Reid could see the black circle with the star in it, the pentagram with flames enclosing the circle.

"Is that…"

"A memento of my past," Jamie finished for him. Actually, it was the symbol associated with the covenant of silence, the covenant the Danvers, Parry, Sims, Garwin, and Putnam families created hundreds of years earlier to protect them from the nightmares of the Salem witch trials.

"I like it. Any other piercing or tattoos you're hiding?" Reid wondered.

"I'm guessing you've already seen my navel ring. But you probably haven't seen the dove on my right shoulder or the heart on my left shoulder." She took the denim jacket off and Reid realized that he hadn't even noticed the two tattoos adorning her shoulder blades when he'd first seen her the day before. She'd been a top similar to the one she was currently wearing, but he'd been so happy to see her that he hadn't even paid attention to the artwork.

Sure enough, there was a dove outlined in black and colored-in in gray and white on her right shoulder blade. On the other shoulder blade there was a heart outlined in black and colored-in in pink, bound in silver and gray and black chains with an old-fashioned lock in the middle.

"I get the dove. It stands for peace. But the heart is in chains. It's locked up tight. I don't get that one." Obviously Reid understood that it meant she wanted to protect her heart by keeping everyone out, but he didn't know why someone as amazing as Jamie would want to do that. She had so much to offer the world. She had the biggest heart of anyone he knew.

"I got it after Dylan and me broke up," Jamie told him. "We dated for over a year and I trusted him so much. I thought I had finally found someone to give my heart to. But he broke it. The chains are what keep it together. And they protect it from ever being broken like that again."

"When did you get it?" Reid asked. He had heard her mention some guy named Dylan before, but he had no clue who the boy was.

"Three weeks ago; it was the day after we broke up." Jamie slipped the jacket back on and turned back around to face Reid. He could tell that she was not in a mood to discuss Dylan or whatever had happened with him. He respected that and walked downstairs with her.

"Where are you two headed?" Caleb called from the living room where he and Tyler and Pogue sat watching a movie on the huge TV screen.

"Out," Jamie stated simply. "We'll be back in time for the party. Be ready by eight!" she called back to the boys as she and Reid headed outside to her car.

"What party?" Pogue asked Tyler and Caleb, wondering if either of them had any idea what she was talking about.

"Aaron's party tonight," Tyler answered with a sigh.

"We're going to Aaron's party? Since when?" Caleb wanted to know. They all hated Aaron. They hadn't been friends with Aaron for years. And they wouldn't be caught dead at one of his infamous parties. They were almost always busted up by the cops.

"Since Jamie agreed to go this morning. He was at the coffee shop when we got there and somehow, while I was ordering for us, they became quickly reunited. He was all over her and she didn't seem to mind. She actually likes him. They were flirting right in front of my eyes! But she was so happy. I couldn't tell her about Aaron and Reid and the fight. I couldn't stand to see that smile fade from her face because of something like that. So I told her we would go to the party."

"Jamie and Aaron?" Caleb summarized. "This should be interesting."

"What party?" Reid asked Jamie as they climbed into the car.

"Aaron's party tonight," Jamie answered as she cranked the car and sped out of the driveway. "He asked me to go this morning and I told him we would."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because he's Aaron? And oh my God he got so much hotter! And he was hitting on me. Don't you think that would be awesome? We could all be, like, one happy family," Jamie giggled. Reid hadn't heard Jamie laugh in so long. He, like Tyler that morning, couldn't stand to tell Jamie the truth about Aaron Abbots. He couldn't stand to watch her get hurt anymore than she had been lately. But at the same time, he knew that Aaron would hurt Jamie. He would break her heart like every other girl he had ever been with.

"And where are we going now?" Reid asked, opting to change the subject away from his ex-best friend.

"To play pool at Nicky's. It's the only fun thing to do in this town," Jamie reminded her friend.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Reid spent many of his weekends playing pool at Nicky's.