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The next morning Hannah woke with a sense of need. Tyler and Reid had agitated her to the point of distraction and her tournament did not go as planned. She couldn't help but be consumed by the thought of their room and beds. The idea of it burned in her thoughts and left a desire that she had not felt in a while. She had made the decision to propose a radical idea that she knew might not behoove her but she knew she wouldn't be able to rest until her desire was fulfilled.
"I think this is a mistake," Jayne said, concerned her friend was not thinking clearly.
"Yes, you've said that already but I just can't get it out of my head. I have to at least try." Hannah responded as she dressed to confront the boys.
"I don't think you totally understand what you're proposing to do. I mean you're going to ask…"
"I know, I know. It's out of the ordinary but in this day and age, I think people are a lot more accepting. It's two-thousand and eleven, for Sagan's sake."
"It's not only that but you just met him yesterday, I think it's a little soon to be…"
"I know but he kissed me right? That has to mean something. I'm just going to ask and the worst he could say is no right?"
"How devastated would you be if he said no though?"
"There is that, I'd be very embarrassed if he turned me down but it's a chance I'm willing to take. I just can't stand the thought of waiting. Seeing him and his room…I can't wait. It has to be done. I wouldn't feel this way if I'm not supposed to…"
"Are you taking a page out of Alissa's book now? Starting to believe in predetermination?"
"No, nothing that silly but the fact is that I have these urges and I can't ignore them."
"I understand…do you have protection?"
Hannah nodded and showed her friend the box she had on hand. She wasn't planning to be so forward with Tyler but she always believed in being prepared.
"Oooo purple, those are nice," Jayne commented.
"Yeah I thought, why not? What's life without a bit of whimsy? OK I need to go now before I loose my nerve."
"I can't believe you're being so bold…with a guy you just met."
"I know, it's so not like me but being around him I feel like I could take on the world. There's something about him that makes me want to take charge and do things. I think I'll even eat lunch in the TaG break room. Meet my fellow geniuses and see what they're all about."
"That's good I suppose. Good luck."
"Thanks! Later," Hannah said goodbye to her friend and only hoped that Tyler would be willing to take her up on her offer.
She couldn't get the kiss out of her head either and she knew that it had to mean something.
Tyler slowly woke up from a deep sleep, warm and happy. He noticed that he had fallen asleep with Reid in his arms and felt a kind of peace he had never known before. It was the best morning he had ever woken up to and he hoped he could wake up like that for the foreseeable future.
Reid still slumbered and Tyler felt it would be a shame to wake him but as soon as he looked at their clock he noticed they only had ten minutes until class started. He immediately untangled himself from the blonde and it jolted him wide awake.
Disoriented, Reid asked what the matter was.
"Dude, we have class in ten minutes. Get your ass out of bed and get dressed!"
Normally Reid wouldn't have cared but since he skipped class yesterday and the heat from their coach, he decided not to press his luck and hurriedly followed the brunette's lead and haphazardly got dressed.
By the time they had slapped on their uniform and done a lightening fast hygienic routine, they only had three minutes to dash across campus to get to their first class.
Tyler had quickly rushed to the door, preparing to run like a mad man but he was instantly stopped by Hannah who had her hand raised as if she were about to knock. Reid had collided into him, wondering what was the hold up. He saw Hannah and his urgency to go to class somewhat dwindled.
"Hi, good morning," the raven haired witch said with more enthusiasm anyone should have at that hour.
"Hi, what's up?" Tyler said with a smile and wondered what the most polite way to get her out of their way.
"Well I had something I wanted to ask you," she started off but had to take a couple of deep breaths to gather her courage.
"And I know we just met yesterday and what I'm about to ask is a bit out of the ordinary and bold, not to mention presumptive but I feel like with what happened last night that you'd be more receptive to my proposal. I know that what I'm about to ask you is not a generally accepted societal norm, especially given my gender but it's two-thousand and eleven and I feel that in this day and age…"
Tyler's mind worked as quickly as it could for just waking up ten minutes ago but he couldn't help but get hopeful that she was asking for a date or even something more as she seemed nervous and she mentioned their kiss. She went on about how "in this day and age" her proposal ought to be considered regardless of her sex and he was about to agree to anything if she only just told him what she wanted.
"…so may I clean your room?" she finally finished and looked at him expectantly but slightly afraid of his reaction.
He wasn't sure he heard her right because his brain might have finally fried from too much excitement so he asked her what she wanted again.
"May I clean your room? I know it's a highly strange request but ever since I saw your room last night I can't get it out of my head. It's so chaotic and I think it's one of the reasons you're having trouble in school. You can't think clearly in such a disorganized mess. I have all the supplies I would need," she brandished a red bucket with various cleaning supplies.
"As well as protection," she showed him a box of purple Kimberly-Clark nitrile polymer gloves that she had planned on uses to protect her hands from bleach as well as any biohazard the room might contain.
"So I think you ought to accept my proposal because you won't regret it…at least I highly doubt you will because I have no way of knowing for certain what your feelings will be after I'm don't but…"
A languid sort of fog settled over Tyler and he felt like he should agree to anything she wanted. He felt it the day before when she was teaching him algebra. His need to get to class and the haze she created made him acquiesce to her request without thinking things through.
He quickly said she could do whatever she wanted and he was happy to see what a big smile she donned at the news.
"Great! I shouldn't take too long, a few hours at the most and you'll see such an amazing difference a clean room can make," she said as they left to get to class.
Tyler sat in his first class and it wasn't until halfway through it did Hannah's charms started to wear off. He began to consider the ramifications of her total access to his room and anxiety started to settle in.
"Oh, God what if she touches the boxers I soiled when I was with Reid last night?"
A million thoughts ran through his mind, worrying him more and more about what she could possibly find. He wished he was in the right state of mind before he agreed to anything and now it seemed like her cleaning his room was the worst possible thing that could happen with a girl he was trying to seduce. She would see all the gross and private things guys hid to give the allusion of a suave and debonair gentleman. She would see the "man behind the curtain" which no girl should ever see.
As the morning went on, his anxiety started to form an all out panic as he thought of more and more things she could find that would repulse her to him.
"Oh my God what if she finds my porn stash?"
He finally had a study period and met up with Reid who had a free period also and seemed to have had the same worries.
"OK, why the hell did we agree to let her clean our room? Do you know what kind of stuff I have hidden everywhere?" the blonde asked alarmed as they made their way back to their dorm.
"Yeah I know…I don't know why we agreed but we were in a hurry and it felt like it was the only thing to do at the time."
"I know! I remember feeling really relaxed and thought it was the best idea ever with how she was explaining it…" Reid paused as if he realized something.
"The fuck? Did she pull some sort of Jedi mind trick on us?"
Tyler stopped and contemplated what his roommate had just asked and it suddenly made sense. He remember the Book detailing a witch's power of hypnosis but he didn't think it would be so subtle and feel like it were his own natural thoughts.
"OK her being able to control our minds like that, not cool," Reid stated, clearly disturbed.
"Relax Reid, she probably doesn't realize she's doing it. She doesn't even know she's a witch so hopefully once she does she'll learn to control that."
"OK what if she decides to use her power for evil and makes us her sex slaves and tries to take over the world?"
"What? You've got to be kidding."
"No dude, if you've ever seen a movie or TV shows the nerds who gain power are always the ones to turn evil first. They like to get back at everyone who's been mean to them or they think they know the world ought to be run."
"Reid, this isn't a TV show or movie. It's real life and she doesn't seem the type to want to take over the world or make us her sex slave, which I'm kind of surprised you'd be against."
"Hey, I like sex with various partners and I like my freedom to be promiscuous. I don't want to be saddled to one person, especially against my will. Besides, how do you know her whole 'innocent' act isn't a façade that her powers are masking?"
Tyler rolled his eyes and refused to participate in the conversation any longer. It did get him thinking of their relationship and where it was going. He had seen first hand Reid's player attitude and he had even participated in a few escapades but now that he was the one involved it didn't seem like a good place to be in. While they were together things seemed perfect but in the harsh light of day he was seeing that Reid's nature tended to be flaky and wondered if the blonde would tire of him one day.
He shook the thoughts out of his head and refused to dwell on that insecurity as he had more pressing matters to attend.
They reached their dorm and prepared themselves to see an offended Hannah, ready to never talk to them again.
What greeted them was an immaculate room that they couldn't believe could be done in a few class periods.
Their beds were perfectly made with hospital corners; all of their clothes were put away and organized within their closets, Tyler noting that they were arranged by color and type; the room had a distinct lemon clean scent that mixed with the Massachusetts' winter air as she had opened them to air out the room; the floors were bare and free of any debris or dust; the windows where completely transparent; and all of their books and magazines were neatly stacked and alphabetized.
Both Reid and Tyler could barely recognize their room and stood in awe of Hannah's handiwork. Reid went to explore what else she had done.
"Hi guys! I hope you guys like what I've done with the place. I think everything is in an intuitive location so you shouldn't have any trouble finding anything. If you do then I'd be more than happy to show you where I put it."
"Tyler, have you seen our bathroom? It's cleaner than when we first moved in!" Reid said excitedly, happy at what Hannah had managed to do.
Reid wasn't the only happy one as Tyler could admit to himself that their bathroom had started to become a biohazardous nightmare.
"Yes I also arranged all of your toiletries alphabetically but don't feel like you have to keep it that way if you're used to them in a certain order. I've arranged all of your shoes to match with the type of clothing hanging above them: sneakers with jeans and other casual wear, dressy shoes with your suits, school shoes with your uniform, etc…I also washed all of your dirty clothes and linens and folded them. I wasn't sure if you had any type of allergy so I used Dreft and hypoallergenic fabric softener…"
Hannah went on to explain all the things she did for them and Tyler started to relax about his various worries as she didn't seem to be effected by his lifestyle.
"She must have picked everything up at once and didn't notice the jizz stained underwear and she obviously didn't look under my bed since she doesn't seem scandalized," he thought to himself.
"…and I organized all of your pornography and put it into a locked privacy box. Here's the key."
"What, what?" his head snapped towards her, certain he didn't hear her correctly.
"Your pornography. I organized them by title and put them into a privacy box so it's not so obvious if anyone would happen to look under your bed. I also noticed you had 'Pirate Whores vs. Ninja Sluts 3' and took the liberty of ordering one and two so you'd have a complete set."
Both Tyler and Reid had completely frozen in place, not sure if the current situation was even happening. They couldn't believe that a girl would be so cavalier about a porn collection and even go as far as ordering them previous volumes to complete their collection.
Hannah had continued to talk animatedly and excitedly about what she had organized.
"Reid, I also organized your digital library and porn collection. I recommend you change your password from 'sexgod95' as it's not a very good secret code. I suggest you use something at least twelve characters long with one capital letter, one lowercase letter, a number, and a character. I also had to wipe your hard drive as some of the videos and clips you downloaded off of torrent had minors in them. I highly suggest you only buy your pornography from legitimate sources as pirating is highly unreliable when it comes to citing ages for the actors."
That broke Reid out of his stupor as he realized what Hannah was saying.
"Whoa, I do not have kiddie porn on my computer."
"Well you don't have extreme minors but some of your collection is from Europe and their age of majority and laws are different than ours. So while technically you are a minor, in the U.S. it'd be considered illegal regardless if the actors are under eighteen and depending on the prosecutor they might ask that you be treated as an adult. But don't worry, I backed up all your schoolwork and other miscellaneous files that did not include under age actors onto this external hard drive and arranged everything on your computer in a more logical flow."
Hannah beamed at how well she cleaned everything and the boys were astounded at the turn of events. What they had feared had come to pass but she was not reacting at all how they feared.
The witch noticed that the boys were not jumping for joy and realized that she might have over stepped her bounds.
"I'm sorry, did I go too far? I know I can get carried away and overstep boundaries…was it the porn? Because I don't mind! I have three younger brothers so I know all about semen stains and dirtied tissues. It's why I have gloves!" she said, trying to be as comforting and optimistic as possible.
As both boys reddened she realized she was failing.
"Ummm…is it because you feel like I have some sort of power over the situation because I know something you'd normally keep secret? Would it help if you saw my own porn collection?"
That seemed to have snapped Reid out of his own incredulity and not knowing if he should be thankful she was cool with his "guy stuff" or feel violated that she hacked his computer. The thought of seeing her own stash excited him, it further aroused him because it meant that not only did she have her own collection but it meant she probably used it for the same reasons he did.
The room suddenly felt very hot when he thought of Hannah touching herself and how he could help relieve any ache she happened to have.
"Yes, I think that would be a great idea. I mean, it's only fair really," Reid said enthusiastically.
Hannah was happy that she seemed to be able to appease them but Tyler did not think it was the answer.
"What? No, you don't have to show us your…" Tyler shied from actually saying it in front of Hannah.
"It's OK, I don't mind. I think that pornography is a natural curiosity among our age group and that masturbation is very healthy."
"Yeah Tyler, it's completely normal and healthy. Shall we go to your room now?"
"No, it's fine Hannah. I'm just surprised, a nice kind of surprised, that you would go to such effort for us. Thank you," Tyler insisted and was adamant about forgetting the entire issue.
While it was a violation of their privacy, Tyler understood she didn't mean any harm and he didn't outright tell her that any part of his room was off limits. He was glad that she seemed cool with his choice of viewing material and it did charm him that Hannah was not like other girls. He felt that he could be more himself and that she wouldn't judge him. Perhaps one day they could explore each other's collections and try out a few things.
"No problem it was my pleasure. Cleaning is fun and a great way for me to relax, so thank you for trusting your room to me. I got to bounce though; I have samples to collect and an appointment this afternoon. I'm also going to eat lunch in the TaG break room, I promised myself I wouldn't be such a hermit not that you need to know that, sorry. Are you sure about seeing my collection? I don't want things to be weird between us."
Before Reid could say anything, Tyler pointedly answered for them both and the blonde knew there was no room for argument.
"It's totally fine, isn't it Reid?"
"Yeah it's totally cool," he agreed but inside he was kind of disappointed because he thought it would be fun to see what she was into.
"OK, that's great. I'll see you guys later."
"Did you want to have dinner with me tonight?" Tyler asked before she could leave.
"Sure, did you want to meet at the mess hall at six again?"
"I was actually thinking it could just be you and me tonight. There's this new sushi place that opened up in town and I've wanted to try it."
"Just you and me?" she asked shyly, unsure if he was asking her out on a date and slightly incredulous that such a good looking guy would actually be interested in her; especially since she spazed on him the night before.
"Yeah, just you and me," he assured her and smiled.
She couldn't help but smile bad and stopped herself from giggling like an idiot. She tried to play it cool and act as if she got asked out all of the time by handsome men who gave her literal sparks and had an instant attraction to.
"Sure, is six OK?" she asked hoping that he'd be alright with her compulsive need to eat around the same time everyday.
"It's perfect. The place is kind of dressy, would that be a problem?"
"No, I have dressy stuff so there shouldn't be an issue. So I'll see you at the entrance at six?"
"See you at six."
As she left he couldn't help the smile that plastered his face or the excited feeling he got as he looked forward to having dinner with her. The warm feeling he had and the happiness had nothing to do with their magic because he hadn't touched her once since coming into the room and he realized he was really looking forward to their date.
Reid was happy for Tyler, especially if it meant that it would move things along but he was still slightly miffed that they missed out on a chance to go to her room.
"OK Romeo, you can stop smiling like an idiot. You think you did the gentlemanly thing by refusing her offer to check out her stash but we missed an opportunity to see what kind of stuff she's into; which might have helped us get into her pants quicker. Plus, hello! She's a girl that admits to watching porn. I wonder what kind of messed up freaky stuff she's into. How cool is she?"
Even though the blonde was being petulant, Tyler realized Reid was right.
"Damn"
A/N: Of course Hannah was talking about cleaning…what did you guys think she was going to ask? lol
Surprise! Double update in one week.
Here's a nice transitional chapter for you guys and then we start getting to the "good stuff." ;- D
Hope you guys liked it and thank you so much for keeping with the story!
