Chapter Six:

Reid leaned over the sink methodically brushing his teeth. He was wearing his favourite grey sweat pants and no shirt. The bathroom was crowed with people waiting to get into the showers. He was tired and the last thing he wanted to do was go to class. He hadn't seen Victoria since Friday night when he dropped her off.

Reid leaned over and spat in the sink and felt fingers run along from his right shoulder to his left. He turned, with toothbrush in his mouth, to see Victoria standing behind him, smiling at him.

"Hey you," She said. She was wearing a towelling robe; it was obvious she had just gotten out of the showers.

"Hey yourself," And then on impulse he hugged her. Stunned by his own actions Reid let go and held Victoria at arms length. If she was shocked by his actions she certainly didn't show it she just continued to smile at him. "When did you get here?" He asked.

"Oh Caleb brought my stuff in on Sunday night and dropped me off outside my dorm." She said rolling her eyes.

"Ah, well now you are free from the Danver manor what are you planning on doing?" He asked leaning against the bathroom counter.

She smiled at him, "First off orientation with the Provo, my roomy estimates that will take about an hour and a half…do you think he will notice my iPod earbuds?"

Reid laughed, after spitting the remaining toothpaste into the sink. "Nah, just wear you hair like this," He messed up her hair so that it framed her face, making her ears invisible, "And every so often make a non-committal noise." He smiled at her.

"Noted," She smiled, "Well see ya around." She winked and left. Only then did Reid realise how good she actually looked.

Reid's head was resting very comfortably against his history text book, after a very stressful morning of biology, and having to decide what he should eat for lunch. Tyler was annoyingly scratching away notes that Reid would later steal and copy. What was the point in giving teachers false hope that he would pay attention in class when he had Tyler to exploit?

Someone sat down beside him but he didn't look up. They were very rude to interrupt him when he was trying to nap. "Hey you," His interest was peaked at the very familiar voice.

He sat up and looked at Victoria, "Uh, starting to think you are stalking me."

She giggled, "Yeah starting to seem that way, but wait until you see the rest of my timetable." She dug into the bag hanging from her shoulder and pulled out a piece of paper and discreetly put it on Reid lap.

Reid couldn't help but be annoyed at how aware he was that her hand had brushed against his thigh. His whole plan on being nonchalant about every girl was quickly falling to pieces, or at least it did when ever Victoria was around.

He picked it up and looked at it. It was already covered in doodles and what looked like a lip stick smudge. Their timetables were almost identical:

History 12
Political Science 12
Lunch
English Literature 12
Chemistry 12

He looked at her slightly startled, "We are in three classes together," He said. Victoria's eyes bulged and she elbowed him in the ribs. Reid was suddenly aware that the entire class was silent.

"Excuse me Mr. Garwin," Reid's attention was drawn to the Professor for the first time all class, "for interrupting your private conversation with my lecture."

Reid smiled, "Don't worry, happens to the best of us," His response created a number of giggles and snickers around the room, and to Reid's delight, one came from Victoria.

"Keep it up Mr. Garwin, and you will be able to join me in detention."

Reid continued to smile but nodded his submission; he had no intention of being stuck in detention especially now that Victoria was in the dorms. The teacher went back to his lecture and Reid's interest in him instantly vanished, his eyes drifted back to Victoria but were caught on Caleb, who was sitting in the second row, glaring at him. Reid smiled at him and then looked at Victoria, who was shaking silently trying to contain her laughter.

She looked at him smiling, "Good one," She whispered.

"Yeah well you know, it was completely planned,"

She smiled at him raising an eyebrow, "We'll talk at lunch?"

He smiled at her, "Sounds good."

"So I thought you were in grade Eleven, yah know being a year younger and all." Reid asked straddling the bench in front of Spencer's track field.

"Yeah, well, I should be," Victoria sat down in front of him and looked out over the track, "But dancing gets boring fast, so I ended up in the library a lot." She looked at Reid who just smiled back at her. "And ya know, I am kinda brilliant." She said jokingly, he chuckled and nodded but just couldn't seem to stop smiling at her.

He suddenly came back to his senses when he realised she was giving him a funny look, "So, let's see," He snatched the timetable out of her hands again, "History, English Lit., Chem., … what about this Political Science? When did you get into that?"

Victoria looked at him for a while before swivelling in her seat so she was facing him completely. She crossed her legs and looked him in the eye. "Yah know Reid, you never cease to amaze me sometimes."

He continued to look at her slightly confused, "Well, I know I am quite amazing." He leaned back resting his hands behind him.

Victoria shook her head, "I mean I think I've got you down, don't care what anyone thinks, will do just anything anyone tells you not to, and I start to wonder, why do you care?"

He sat up straight, a little unnerved by her tone. He didn't like being questioned or doubted, he got it enough from his friends, his parents, his professor's well, pretty much everyone. "Care about what?" He asked leaning in slightly towards Victoria.

"Me." She said simply raising her eyebrows. "I am starting to wonder if you are only taking interest in me because I am Caleb's little sister."

She was starting to get on his nerves now. "Oh yeah," He suddenly stood up and took a few steps backwards looking at her smiling, "Well, yah know the family resemblance isn't that great but Caleb is a little high maintenance for me. So ya know next best thing..."

She swung her legs around to face Reid again, "You know what I mean Reid. I am the one girl in this whole school that you 'can't' have and suddenly you are paying all this attention to me? Last time you saw me you call me 'Picky Vicky Tiny Titties.' Which barely rhymes by the way."

Reid glared at her in response. He wasn't sure exactly what to say, because in truth he wasn't sure if what she was saying was true or not. She stared expectantly at him. "I…look… ok first off, I was fifteen and an idiot, the last time I saw you. And hey, you were the one, who sat beside me in history, and you came and found me in the bathroom, I am just an innocent bystander in all this."

She stood up and glared at him, "Typical, I actually talk about something that won't piss off my brother and you get all freaked out, you only want to piss off Caleb, lets face it."

"Hey," Reid snarled at her pointing a finger at her.

She smacked his hand away, "Don't you point your finger at me!" She yelled.

They both stood there seething at each other. Suddenly Reid lunged at her. Unsure of what else to do Victoria lunged backwards but Reid hit her first knocking them both over the bench they had been sitting on only moments before.

They were kissing before they hit the ground.

And there they lay making out, Reid wasn't exactly sure what had driven him to do it, and it just seemed the appropriate thing to do. Now Reid was very glad he had. There they were, legs sticking up in the air over the bench until someone grabbed Reid by the back of his blazer and hauled him off Victoria.

"What the…" He cried pissed and turned to see Pogue standing behind him. "Wow, man I thought you were Caleb for a moment." He said laughing and smacking Pogue on the shoulder but Pogue just continued to glare, smacking Reid's hand away.

"What in the hell do you think you are doing?" Pogue growled.

Victoria slowly lifted herself up by her elbows and just sort of sat there looking a little shell shocked.

"Well, we were having a good time until you came along." Reid said calmly straightening his jacket. Victoria stood up and just stared at Reid obviously still a little surprised by what he had done.

"You can't do that with her!" Pogue yelled. Victoria snapped back to life jumping the bench to stand in front of Pogue.

"He can do what ever I want him to!" She yelled.

"But..." Pogue seemed like he swallowed the words he wanted to say and in stead just spat out, "You're Caleb's sister!" Pogue yelled shoving Reid by the shoulder. Reid advance threateningly bumping into Victoria's back in the process.

"Look, what are you doing here anyway?" Victoria asked.

"I came looking for you, to offer to walk you to Political Science," Pogue said not taking his eyes off Reid who shrugged at Pogue in response, smiling.

"Wait, how do you know I have Political Science next?" Victoria asked glaring at Pogue suspiciously.

"I have it next too."

"Yeah, but how did you know I am in your class?"

Pogue shrugged, "Caleb was looking at my schedule, mentioned we had the class together and he-"

"WHAT!?" Victoria screamed at the top of her lungs making both boys jump. She took a few deep breaths before looking Pogue in the eye again, "Don't ever presume to walk me to class, ever again! Where's Caleb?"

Pogue looked at Victoria a little unnerved, "The library with Sarah," He pointed at the school as if to get the point across.

"Thanks," Victoria stormed off towards the school.

"I think I might love her," Reid said smiling at her back. Pogue shot him a look.

"Shut up," He took out his cell phone and dialled Caleb's number.

Caleb sat beside Sarah in the library when his phone rang. The old female librarian glared at him. Sarah giggled as he quickly answered the phone.

"Yeah," He said quietly, trying not to draw attention to himself.

"Caleb, it's Pogue, I need to warn you."

"Warn me? Warn me about what?" Caleb asked a little unsettled.

"Okay, look..."He heard Pogue take a deep breath before getting into it, "I found Reid and Victoria making out."

"What?" Caleb yelled standing up suddenly, knocking over his chair making everyone in the library look at him. Sarah was pulling on his other sleeve trying to make him sit down again but he couldn't.

"Yeah I know, well, I broke it up. Anyway she got all suspicious when I suggested we go to class together, asked all these questions and got super pissed and I think she thinks you put me up to it or something-"

"Look I don't care about that now, she was kissing Reid?"

"Yeah,"

"Reid? Our Reid?"

"How many other Reid's do you know, dude?"

"Oh crap. Why couldn't she have made out with you?"

"Hey man, this is...I wouldn't ...she doesn't... I'm with Kate so I wouldn't. I mean I wouldn't ever."

"Wait; is that a compliment to me or an insult to her?" Caleb furrowed his brow at Pogues flustered response but decided not to think about it too much, a guy can only deal with so much on his plate at once.

"Look, Caleb, never mind about that, she is coming to … uh talk to you, and I don't think she looked happy."

Suddenly a voice came from behind Pogue's, "Happy? Ha, that's the understatement of the year!"

"Wait! Was that Reid in the background?!" Caleb asked not paying any attention to the librarian who was quickly striding over to him.

"Uh yeah, we are out at the track field."

"Good. Kick his ass for me." Caleb hung up the phone when he saw Victoria storm into the library. She turned surveying the groups in the library, her eyes flashed when she saw Caleb. She started to walk towards him but he decided to catch her first.

He glanced at Sarah, telling her he would be right back and then met Victoria off at the pass. He grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the library but once they were in the hall she didn't hold off any longer.

"What the hell are you doing? Having me followed?" She yelled. A few people in the hall turned and looked at them.

"Victoria, calm down." Caleb said trying to quiet his sister.

"No, I won't calm down Caleb! You don't even trust me to get to class?!" She yelled. Victoria had always lacked a normal persons ... Inhibition. She never cared what other people thought, which was good but Victoria had a habit of taking that to extremes.

"It isn't that I don't trust you, I don't trust Reid. Or the way he was looking at you in history." He crossed his arms and looked at her, "And from what Pogue tells me, I had right to worry."

"You didn't have the right to worry. I will choose my friends Caleb!" Victoria's voice got dangerously low.

"From the looks of thing, Victoria, Reid wants to be more then friends."

The thought that Reid might actually be interested in her just hit Victoria and put a kink in her yelling spree. The fact that he had kissed her, they had actually made out, just hit her, up until that point it had been slightly unreal. She remembered that she was mad at Caleb right now and shook her head, she could deal with Reid later. But it was useless, she had lost her head of steam. She took a deep breath putting a hand on her hip and looking at her big brother, "Look Caleb. If I need you I will call you, until then stay out of my life, kay?"

With that she walked off leaving Caleb standing there. He wasn't about to give up so easily. He took off after her and grabbed her arm pulling her around to face him again.

"Victoria, it is my business, you're my little sister…"

Once Victoria got her feet planted again she glared at Caleb wrenching her arm from his grasp, "I am not two any more Caleb; I am barely a year younger then you."

"Look, that isn't the point, Victoria. No matter how old you are you are still my little sister and I don't want to see you get hurt. "Let alone by Reid. I would really hate to beat up one of my best friends." He smiled at her trying to lighten the mood.

Victoria smiled at him, "Yeah well, I don't even know what is going on with Reid."

"But why Reid? I mean, why not…anyone other than Reid!" He said staring at his sister helplessly.

"Cause he's sexy!" She said, Caleb shivered. And he knew she was saying it to get under his skin but it still bothered him.

"Don't Tori."

"Don't call me Tori and I won't talk about sex and Reid in the same sentence in your presence ever again."

"Deal," Caleb shook Victoria's hand. "You know I am only trying to look out for you." He pulled her by her hand into a half hug.

"Yeah, I know Caleb," She hugged him back before turning and started to walk to her next class, adding to herself. "Don't I know,"