Chapter 8 – Conversing

A/N – Dedicated to Shelby, my amazing beta reader.

He'd done it. He'd kissed Caleb. Really kissed hm. More importantly, Caleb had kissed him back. Really kissed him back.

Then they'd been interrupted.

Reid sighed for what seemed the millionth time and burrowed into his pillow a little more. He was sleeping, or at least trying to sleep, in his bed at the dorms. The room was completely dark, save for the tiny speck of pale light that seemed to come from the other side of Tyler's bed.

There was no way he was gonna get any sleep tonight.

"Oy!"

Reid grabbed a pillow off his bed and flung it at Tyler.

"Up and at 'em, baby boy!"

"I hate you. Let me sleep."

"Wakey, wakey," Reid san in a high pitched voice, deliberately annoying the other boy.

"Seriously, what is your problem?"

"I kissed Caleb."

Tyler's head jerked upright, his arm flaying as he quickly sat up. He turned eyes filled with shock and disbelief at the smirking blond.

"You what?"

"I. Kissed. Caleb."

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Let me rephrase that."

Reid sat up, his smirk growing wider as he took in Tyler's dumbfounded expression.

"I French kissed Caleb."

Tyler opened his mouth once or twice, making him look like a goldfish.

Reid told him so.

"Shut up, dude!"

"You really do look like one with your mouth open like that. I'm serious…."

Reid was interrupted by a pillow smack dab in the middle of his face.

"You are so dead, baby boy!"

"Bring it!"

After a playful pillow fight that shredded all of their pillows, the two sat down on Tyler's bed, panting with exhaustion from the tussle.

"Ha! I win! Tyler Simms, the King of Pillow Fights."

"I let you win. Anyways, King? Of pillow fights? Sound more like a Queen's job to me."

Tyler made a small disbelieving sound at the back of his throat.

"Like you're one to talk to me about being a queen."

Reid grabbed the nearest pillow and whacked Tyler over the head with it.

"I'm not gay."

"Yeah, you're right. Though if Caleb's a girl, he's a little too flat chested, don't you think?"

That comment earned Tyler another hard whack with the pillow.

"Shut up. I'm not homosexual."

"Ok."

"I'm… Calebsexual," Reid accompanied his comment with a suggestive eyebrow lift.

"How do you make everything sound so dirty?"

Reid shrugged, "I have a gift."

Tyler rolled his eyes, clearly making his opinion on Reid's 'gift' known.

"Never fear, my young Padawan. One day, you too will have the Force."

"Are you a Jedi Master or a Sith Lord, Reid?"

"Sith Lord, naturally."

"Ah, the Dark Side of the force."

"Come to the Dark Side."

"No thanks, man."

"But we have cookies!"

"Well, in that case..."

The two burst out laughing, no longer able to keep straight faces. After their chuckling subsided, Tyler gave the blonde boy a serious look.

"You really kissed him?"

"Yup."

"Did he kiss you back?"

"Yup."

"Are you gonna do anything about it?"

"Nope."

"Reid!"

Reid had bounded off Tyler's bed and now collapsed onto his own, placing his blonde head under the pillow, in order to muffle out Tyler's whiny voice.

"How can you not do anything?"

"Watch me."

"Reid!"

Reid brought his head out from under the pillow and met the younger boy's eyes fiercely.

"Why won't you chase him?"

"Because he doesn't want to be chased!"

"He kissed you back!"

"He was caught up in the moment!"

"You don't know that!"

"He doesn't want me, Tyler!"

"He'd have to be insane not to want you!"

"I've always said he's crazy!"

"SHUT IT, SIMMS AND GARWIN! YOU TWO FAIRES BETTER GO TO SLEEP BEFORE I COME OVER THERE AND SEND YOU OFF TO SLEEP PERMANENTLY!"

"We're sorry!"

"Speak for yourself, baby boy."

"Reid, we're not done talking about this."

"Yeah we are. Face it, Ty, he's never gonna feel the same way. I'm not gonna put myself out there only to be shot down. If he wants me, which he doesn't, he's gonna have to make the first move. '

"Reid."

"Go to sleep, Tyler."

"Ok. But I'm here for you, if you need me."

"Thanks, man. I appreciate it."

"Night."

The two boys went to sleep, only to be woken up an hour later, from a spark of energy that startled them out of slumber.

"What was that?"

"I don't know. But I've never felt another presence that strongly before. "

"Weird."

"Our whole world is weird."

"Just go back to sleep, baby boy. We'll worry about it if it happens again."

"Kay."

A/N – Hey Guys! I'm tackling the plot now! I will have some movie bits but they will be a lot different from the movie! Anyways, Please REVIEW! I 'm very busy these days with school and the only reason I update is because of your reviews! So, please review!!!