Hello!

Dedicated to Johnyfan122! Who said it's gonna end mushy? I have sooo many twists and turns for this story it shouldn't be legal.

Disclaimer- doing this makes me sad :(

Reid's POV

After my dumb ass out burst we didn't talk much but we did kiss a little more. Yay, me! I would jump up and do a happy dance if I wasn't Reid Garwin. She left a few hours later (being escorted by Tyler and Pogue) telling me to sleep even if it was against my will.

"At least it was warmer when she was here." I grumbled in my mind and tossing the blanket over my head

I heard a key in the door just before Tyler walked in "Hey, Reid. Lacey's good, she won an arm wrestling contest with Pogue, I was impressed."

I sat up slowly and laughed "How'd she cheat?" I reached over, grabbed the water Lacey had gotten me and took a sip

"She and Kate made out." I spat the water out and coughed so hard I fell off my bed

"And I missed it?!" I yelled only to be silenced by Tyler as he held up his phone

"I got it on camera."

"Bro…" I stared in awe "1. You have become the holy grail of pervs, this makes me proud. 2. I love you so much right now—"

"And 3, I already sent it to you." He grinned cheekily

"If your privets didn't dangle you'd be in the bed by now." I got up and we did the famous Son's hand shake as we laughed both of us flopped down for sleep

"Hayley's amazing…do you think I should go after her?" asked Tyler in the darkness

I had told the boys everything that I knew…except what my dad said. I wasn't going to tell them either "Yeah, Ty. She definitely wants you." I smirked in the darkness

"You think so?" he asked in his shy, timid I'm-talking-about-girls voice

"Yep, that night at Nicky's it looked like she wanted to rape you on the pool table over and over."

He shot up and flipped the light on "Seriously?" he asked with hopeful eyes

"Well she was watching your ass like it was her job and she made a bet with Kya and me that she would get your virginity in a month." I crossed my hands behind my head and smirked yet again

"…I've never wanted to kill you and thank you so bad in my life." He growled the word kill but mumbled the rest

"Let's just leave it at you're welcome." He hit the lights one last time and went into a peaceful sleep… "Well that makes one of us."

I was up for most of the night figuring the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until I turned eight-teen: six-teen days, twenty-three hours, forty-two minutes and eight seconds… seven…six…

"I can't live like this—I can't just sit here and wait for me to cause her death by association!" I ripped the blankets off of my body and put on my hoodie "Where can I go at two in the morning? Nicky's? Closed. Lacey's? She's asleep. Home? NO! Ugh, this is hard—"I took Tyler's keys from his jean pocket and slipped on my shoes "I know. I'll just go do some laps in the pool."

It was a short drive to the pool house but what can I say—I'm lazy…Actually that about sums it up—I'm sexy too but oh well. I hoped out of the truck, used to get in side, and changed into my everyday swim trunks because I hate the school Speedos, all the girls stare. Not to say that part isn't cool but the guys stare to… It's why I always bring sweat-pants. They can be jealous from a distance, can't they?

I dove into the pool. It didn't make a splash—never dose. The other guys do the whole swimming from one end to the other thing but I'm a diver, and a pretty damn good one if I do say so my self. I dove a few more times and stopped after I nearly lost my pants.

"That's why they give us those god awful things, gotcha." I walked over to my towel and rubbed it against my head trying to dry out my hair when I heard light footsteps walking in so I used to make the corner I was standing in darker

…it was Lacey and Hayley…in bikinis…SCORE!

"Sh! Hayley stop giggling!" whispered Lacey between quiet laughs

"I can't! Tyler is so cute! I'm gonna meet that bet even if I have to rape him on a pool table at Nicky's!" she informed defiantly

"Knew it." Was the only thing at that point in time that came to mind…kinda.

"Nice, real nice, Hayley." She giggled then sighed

"What?" asked Hayley

"What, what?"

"What was the big dramatic sigh for?" inquired Hayley wading into the polls warm water just after Lacey did

"Nothing…" she grumbled

"Lacey." I started to edge closer to the door

"It's Reid." …I started to edge closer to the pool "He…he's just—I mean."

"Spit it out Lacey!" I screamed in my head

"Are you referring to the fact that you're perfect together?" Hayley raised an eyebrow

"Yes but—"

"Or that he's gorgeous? Not as cute as Tyler though…" she said matter-of-factly

"What are you smokin'? He's way hotter the Baby Boy!" she retorted

"To you! Tyler is like—"I plugged my ears and played Addicted by Saving Able really, really, really loud in my head. After about ten minutes I unplugged my ears to she if she was done "And tat is why I want his virginity!" she finished with Lacey looking horrified

"You're paying for every cent of therapy I need, you know that right?"

"Yep I have a separate bank account for it." Lacey used and a tsunami of water hit Haley strait in the face knocking her over

I stood up and walked to the edge of the pool right behind Lacey "…boo."

She screamed bloody murder and I fell on my ass laughing

"Reid! If some one else doesn't kill you today I WILL!" she jumped out of the water and tackled me, successfully putting me in an unforgiving head lock

"Uh… I'm gonna go…" Hayley crawled out of the pool and seconds later I heard a bike ride away

"Lacey!" I croaked "Let go!"

"Never!" wow if I wasn't in a head lock, that could sound really romantic…Yay for head locks!

I spun around breaking the lock and pinning her under myself. She started squirming so I stopped her the best way I could: a passionate kiss that would make Shakespeare dizzy.

She slowly gave into me and wrapped her arms gently around my neck witch pulled me closer. I licked her bottom lip tasting nothing but sweet cherries she opened her mouth willingly for me. We kissed long and slowly savoring each moment that passed, breaking only for milliseconds to breathe.

"Reid…" she moaned it shook through me, hard making my legs weak and my head unclear

We both heard loud foot steps and the door unlock. "Lacey we gotta go." I murmured in her ear and she shivered

Both of us ran as fast as we could through the boys' locker room to the back door. She grabbed her clothes on our way out and I did the same. Once we were at my hummer—Tyler's hummer sorry I forget—she asked for a ride.

"Didn't you bike here?" I raised an eyebrow

"Yes I rode my bike and Hayley rode bitch but I let her take it back to campus while I choked you to death." She smiled innocently at me with those eyes again. I couldn't help but stare

"I want to show you something…do you trust me?" my voice shook a little but I held her gaze and tried to be cool about it

"Yes…" she looked worried "what do you have in mind?"

I smirked "Get in the car and you'll see."

"Fine, hold up." She turned around so her back was to me and her front was to the car. She quickly took off her bikini top and replaced it with a thin-strapped bias-cut white dress that exposed her entire leg up to the newly placed pair of tight, black shorts. The dress barley touched the ground but slightly flowed out to the sides where her black knee-high boots contrasted prettily against her pale, ivory skin "Ok." She turned around to look at me with one knee bent and her hands clasped behind her back as her hair blew in the wind.

"Oh wow…" was the only thing I could say

"What?" she asked, running her fingers through her long burgundy tresses that reached to her lower back

"I guess I'll never get used to this" I permanently burned this image into my brain "let's go."

We hoped in the car and drove in a comfortable silence with my hand resting on Lacey's leg a few inches above where her boot cut off.

"Reid?" she mumbled quietly

"Yeah, Lacey?"

"Why did you throw me out in the hall today? I could have helped you." Her voice was soft like she almost regretted saying it

"I know, Babe, but you could have gotten hurt too. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if you were in pain or stole from me." I gripped her leg slightly and she rested her warm little hands on mine

"I just couldn't believe your tone back there…it's like you were willing to die for something—and I think it was me." She looked up at me waiting for my answer

"It sill is you. The whole time I was on the floor there was nothing on my mind besides you." I practically whispered what I had said but she heard me—even if I didn't say it she would have heard me. I know she would have… some how.

Her eyes told the story even though she said nothing. There was something in those two big blue pools that said "I'll never leave you…if you never leave me…because I think I love you, Reid." I didn't want her to say anything for fear it would be different than what I wanted her to be thinking

"We're here." I mumbled getting out of the car closely followed by Lacey

"Marble Head? What are we doing out here?"

"Do you trust me?" I took a step toward her

"Didn't you—"

"Do you trust me?" one more step

She didn't answer

"Well do you?" took the last few paces

"Yes." She finally said kissing me as I wound my arms around her waist pulling her closer… and jumped over the edge…

TBC RXR

-Missy