A/N: He he... So it's been a while huh? -hides behind Reid- PLEASE DON'T MURDER ME! Reid: Please let me go strange person...
~Abigail's POV~
I quickly shut my dorm door behind me and dropped to the floor. My shoulder still tingled slightly with pain. I ran my fingers through my hair and dug my teeth into my bottom lip, almost until it bled. 'What is going on?' My mind screamed at me. I slammed the back of my head against my door and screamed. Obviously someone heard me, because moments later there was a knock on my door. I stood up again, locked the door, and sat down on my bed.
"You're not getting in!" I shouted, picking up my guitar case.
"What if I offered to pay for lunch?" A familiar voice shouted from the opposite side of the door. I had just taken my guitar out of it's case and softly strummed a few chords, which were inaudible anyways because the guitar wasn't hooked up to it's amp, which was sitting in the corner staring at me.
"Well, it depends…" I said, setting down my guitar and making my way over to the door. "Where would we go to eat?" I asked pressing the side of my face against the cold closed door.
"That depends on what you want to eat." Reid said, and I could almost hear that bad boy smile spreading across his face from the way he spoke. I unlocked the door, swung it open and said one word.
"Chinese."
Within a couple minutes of Reid showing up at my dorm room –which, in the back of my mind, I was curious about-, Reid and I were arriving at a small restaurant that definitely looked family owned –not that that was a bad thing-. I was curious as to how such a cool and aloof guy like Reid knew about such a quaint, little, secluded, homey place like this, but I decided not to ask. We had barely taken two or three steps into the restaurant when my question was answered.
"Reid!" A small, slightly chubby, Chinese man shouted, sounding extremely surprised. "What are you doing here? Aren't scheduled to work until next Thursday." He said. Then he saw me, and obviously thought he knew why Reid was there. "Oh, want to impress your lady friend eh?" He said, waddling over to us and elbowing Reid in the side.
"Keji, if I wanted to impress a 'lady friend' this restaurant would be the last place I would bring her. This is my friend Abby." He said, and I glared at him. "Sorry, Abigail" He said, motioning to me.
"Sure." Keji said smirking. He waddled over to me, and whispered in my ear. "A real catch this one! Hard worker, and not too hard on the eyes either!" He told me, and I stifled a giggle. I had a feeling that Reid knew that Keji was talking him up to me, because that bad boy smile –which I had to admit was kind of starting to grow on me- spread across his face as soon as I glanced in his direction.
"You can keep him for now Keji, but I'll be sure to let you know if and when I need him." I said, patting the wrinkly faced man on the shoulder and casting a smile in Reid's general direction.
After that brief and hilarious confrontation with Keji, we were finally seated.
"So," I said, after we told Keji what we wanted to drink, "do you bring all your first dates here, or am I just super lucky?" I asked jokingly. He laughed a little.
"If I brought all my first dates here, I don't think I would ever get a second date." He said glancing towards Keji.
"Don't be mean!" I said, gently punching his shoulder from across the table. "Keji's sweet in his own, slightly obtrusive, creepy way." I told him. Reid raised his eyebrows at me and cocked his head as if he was saying 'really, are you serious?' "What's that look for?" I said grumpily, crossing my arms.
"I think you know exactly what this look is for hun."
"Did… You just call me hun?" I asked raising a questioning eyebrow at him.
"Is this twenty questions or something?" He mumbled obviously slightly embarrassed, "Because if it is I'm leaving." He said, attempting to slide out of the booth we were seated in. I grabbed his wrist as he started to stand up.
"No! Please, I'll stop asking questions, just don't leave. I could use the company." I said, running my thumb over the back of his hand.
"Fine." He grumbled, sitting back down. "But only because you said please." Once again he flashed his bad boy grin. I rolled my eyes, smirking; acting like it still didn't affect me.
Dinner was nice, but I wished it would have lasted longer. Apparently Reid and his friends, who he was hanging out with at Nicky's, were trying out for the swim team –which made me want to try out for the dive team even more for some reason-. They were also all going to Winter Formal as a group plus Caleb and Pouge's dates. At the end of dinner the following conversation happened.
"Hey, I was wondering…" Reid said, fiddling with the few stray vegetables that were left abandoned on his plate with his fork.
"What?" I asked wiping a bit of sauce off my face.
"Well I was wondering… would you want to come with us?" He asked. I felt fairly confused.
"Um, come with who where?" I said wondering how he thought I'd know what he was talking about.
"With me and the gang, you know, to the formal." He said, definitely avoiding my eyesight.
"Like, as your date?" I asked, purposely trying to get in his line of sight.
"Well, not necessarily. I mean, if you want it to be a date, then I guess it can be a date, but if not. I mean, I thought you might like someone to hang out with there, and since you're new and hardly know anyone but me and the welcoming committee. I just thought me and my friends would be a more pleasant alternative to the happy twins." He said. A smile spread slowly across my face as he kept rambling on.
"I'd love to." I said, placing my hand on his. He held it in his own and we smiled at each other. We both stood up at the same time.
"Cool! So, I guess we probably should be heading back to the dorms." He said motioning to the exit.
"But, we haven't paid yet!" I protested, refusing to dine and dash.
"Keji can just take it out of my next paycheck." He said, pulling me towards the door by my hand. My stomach tightened into knots. I had never dined and dashed before in my life and I felt horrible about it, but Reid did have a point. So I swallowed my instinct and followed him out to his black jeep. I climbed into the passenger seat and buckled up. Normally, I didn't, but Reid had shown me exactly why people had invented seatbelts.
"Nice car by the way." I said, gripping the seat. Reid chuckled and quickly slammed on the breaks.
"The car's not mine, it's my friend Tyler's." He said, glancing over at me quickly. "I'm just borrowing it. Your car's pretty sweet too. I definitely like the color choice, it seems very… you." I slightly blushed, and then we sped off as soon as the light turned green.
"Thanks." I muttered. We didn't say much besides that until we arrived back at Spencer Academy. The chilly air almost hurt my lungs as I took a deep breath in.
"Do you want me to walk you back to your dorm?" He asked, his hands safely warmed in his pockets.
"No…" I said, not thinking, more of a knee jerk reaction. Then he started walking away. I panicked and quickly grabbed his hand like before in the restaurant, except it was somehow different this time. "But!" I said trying to buy some time to think of some clever thing to say. "If you want to… I mean, if you think you should… You can." I told him, releasing his hand. A smile spread across his face. This smile was more genuine than his 'bad boy' smile.
"Sure." He said, turning around and grabbing my hand for once instead of me taking his. I was sure that if it hadn't been freezing cold out and my cheeks weren't pink already that they would have turned at least pink or even red.
"I love snow…" I whispered to myself, trying to break the slightly awkward silence between us. I glanced at the moonlight sparkling on the snow covering the branches on the trees. Suddenly, I felt a stabbing pain just like before. It wasn't as strong as it had been in the bar, but it was definitely enough to rip my attention away from the snow covered trees. I sucked in a quick breath and squeezed my eyes shut. "Shit!" I muttered, trying to keep myself from grabbing my shoulder. The pain slowly but surely faded, just like before and when I opened my eyes I saw millions of tiny snowflakes falling to the ground. "Woah…" I whispered, totally blown away by the sheer beauty of the scene unfolding around me. We continued walking to my dorm, but I wasn't really paying attention to what I was doing.
"We're here." Reid said, squeezing my hand gently. I now noticed we were standing right in front of my dorm's door. That's when I realized I didn't want him to go quite yet.
"Well… I guess this is goodnight then." I said, trying to hide my sorrow.
"Yep…" He said very matter of factly, then pulled me into a tight embrace. "Sweet dreams." He said quietly.
"Thanks." I said, pulling out of the hug, but not really wanting to. I walked to my door, turned my head and smiled back at him. With one quick motion I had my key out of my pocket and into the keyhole on my door knob. I hesitated for a second before turning the key, but I realized that I had nothing left to say, so I opened the door and walked inside. Before I shut the door I waved and whispered "Goodbye".