Chapter Seven:
Getting the feeling that if Reid approached Victoria too soon he would get jumped by Caleb and Pogue, Reid didn't seek Victoria out, which seemed fine with her.
The next time Reid saw her in close contact he was just getting out of the pool. It looked like she was arguing with the girl's gym teacher.
He pulled himself out of the water and quickly put on his sweat pants to keep his muscles warm. He stood watching her argue with the woman, while Pogue dived in the pool to do the breast stroke.
Victoria crossed her arms exasperated and looked over at the boys. She saw Reid and smiled waving him over. Obligingly he walked over.
"Yah see this is my point exactly?" She said to the teacher when Reid got close enough. "Well, I mean the point is lost with the sweat pants. Drop 'em Reid." She looked him in the eye and so did the teacher.
"What?" He asked a little shocked.
"I wanna see your bathing suit." She said simply, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Well, look you girls can fight over me but I have to get ready for my next swim, so…" He started to edge away from the two women.
"Drop 'em Garwin." The gym teacher barked. Victoria looked at the girls gym teacher with aggravation, Reid shrugged and stepped outside of his sweat pants, he was surprised at how self conscious he felt in front of Victoria.
"See!" Victoria cried. "Look at that." Victoria waved her hand at Reid's bathing suit.
"Well, you know I am quite amazing..." Reid said smiling putting a hand behind his neck.
Victoria smiled at him blushing, the teacher just glared.
"I don't see your point Danvers." The woman barked.
"Well, I mean the boy's bathing suit couldn't possible be any smaller unless it was a thong, but look at the girls bating suite." She held up the one piece bathing suit that was on a coat hanger. For the first time Reid realised, Victoria was still in her jeans and a Beatles t-shirt.
"They are designed for speed, Danvers." The teacher said simply crossing her arms.
"Well, surely the girls can go fast and not look like well, you in their bathing suites." The teacher and Reid just stared at her. Victoria shrugged smiling.
"You. Provo's office. NOW!" The teacher yelled pointing to the exit from the pool leading to the rest of the school.
"Fine, swimming isn't my thing anyway." Victoria gave the teacher a sarcastic smile and turned to leave. Reid scoffed but stopped when he saw the teachers face, turning it into a lame sounding cough.
He looked around the pool, the girls were starting to come out of their locker room to swim and some boys were coming out of their locker room when they heard the teacher.
Reid looked at Victoria who had stopped when walking towards the door of the pool. She was looking up at the high dive. She started to climb it, "Danvers! Get off that, now!" yelled the teacher.
If Reid had had his way the teacher would shut up and watch Victoria and evidently Victoria had the same idea. Students at this point coming out of the changing rooms to watch the spectacle.
"What the hell is she doing?" Reid turned to see Caleb at his side watching Victoria still climbing to the diving platform. Reid shrugged and looked back up at Victoria again.
She was standing at the edge of the diving platform, looking over the edge. Reid noticed she was wearing black high tops. He couldn't help but smile. She took out her earrings and put them in the pocket of her jeans. She looked at the teacher "For you Mrs. Jeffries,' and gave the finger with both hands.
Caleb groaned and Reid burst out laughing as the teacher's mouth dropped open. Without hesitating Victoria sprung off the edge of the platform performing a perfect back summersault and entering the water with precision and hardly any splash.
"Wow," Tyler whispered standing on the other side of Reid.
Victoria swam to the other side of the pool, pulled herself from the water, waved brightly at the teacher and then walked out, leaving everyone on the side of the pool in a stunned silence staring after her, Reid was the first to move.
He slapped Caleb on the arm and smiled, "Gentlemen," he said and with that ran into the changing room, when the other guys finally left the pool deck he wasn't in there and his locker was empty.
Reid knocked on Victoria's dorm room door. It opened and he found a different girl looking up at him. She was around 5'2", with curly black hair and big overly emotional looking eyes, and was defiantly not Victoria.
"Uh, is Victoria in there?" Reid asked caught off guard.
"Oh, no, she came in…soaking by the way, head to toe, and fully dressed,"
"Yeah I know, is she here?"
"Like I was saying," The girl glared, "No she isn't. She came in and left."
Reid nodded and took off down the hallway, he could hear the girl yell, 'You're welcome,' after him but he didn't look back. He would get his cell and call her; his cell was in his room. He never took it to P.E.
He charged into his room, obviously Tyler hadn't gotten out of P.E. yet or had smartly gone straight to Chemistry, which Reid really should have done but he was determined now and couldn't turn back.
He threw his clothes haphazardly over his shoulders trying to find his phone. When he finally found it, it was actually under his pillow.
"What the…?" He said to himself, but never finished the statement because he was already scrolling through his address book.
He found Victoria's number and pushed talk. He held the phone to his ear and for the first time Reid realised he had no clue what he was going to say. It was ringing; he held the phone at arm's length.
"Shit," He whispered to himself. This was going to be the first time he was going to talk to her since he kissed her and he had no idea what to say. He had been turned on to no end when he saw her display at the pool but what did that mean?
"Fuck," He hung up the phone and stared at it in his hand.
There was no denying it anymore he liked Victoria…he liked her a lot. But he could barely admit that to himself let alone her. He had no intention of hooking up with a girlfriend full time right now, especially not before he ascended; he didn't need anything to distract him.
'But how bad could it be? I mean Pogue and Caleb seem to enjoy it.' He thought, shrugging. He quickly shook his head; he was defiantly not like them. And striving to be like them was not high on his priority list.
There was a knock on his door. Glad of the distraction, Reid walked over running his hand through his hair, in the process sending it standing in every direction.
Reid opened the door to find Victoria standing outside, wet hair up in a messy bun, changed into a white sun dress and navy blue Spencer cardigan, staring down the hall. When the door opened, she looked up at him.
Reid stared at her, his mouth opened to say something but he never got the chance. Before he knew it she threw herself on him.
Her arms were around his neck…she was kissing him! Actually kissing him! She pushed him into the dorm room and kicked the door closed.
She pulled back and looked at him, "No commitments? No promises? No expectations?" She asked panting slightly. It took Reid a minute to realise she was talking about them.
He nodded his head quickly, "Uh huh, sure, right. Commitment? No way." He kissed her this time. He wrapped his arms around her waist deepening the kiss.
"Good," She whispered in between kisses.
Then suddenly...
"Hey, Reid can I have my English notebook, please?" They slowly pulled apart to look at the door to see the entering Tyler. He stood in the doorway staring at them with an open mouth, suddenly he shook his head, "Nope, didn't see anything Caleb, actually I think Reid isn't even on campus." He muttered to himself as he left the room.
Victoria smiled at Reid looking back at him; he smiled back, shrugging, "I have him well trained."
"You certainly do." Victoria said smiling before kissing Reid again; they ignored the class bell as it went off.