Setting: Saturday afternoon, around 5pm. Blaise can't focus on her homework and decides to call Reid

Five: Study Break

"Come on, pick up…come on Garwin, I know you have your phone…"

"Hey, miss me already?"

"I was studying, I got desperate."

"Sure sweetheart. Keep telling yourself that."

"Where are you?"

"Dorm room, in bed. You?"

"I'm in my room too. I didn't wake you up, did I?"

"Nah, I've been awake for twenty minutes or so, contemplating taking a shower."

"Get a little dirty last night?"

"I like the tone of voice you use when you talk about my sex life, Eagan."

"Oh, so you did hook up with someone."

"Yah, the red head. You saw her."

"Says who?"

"Me. I saw you watching us leave. Why did you look so upset?"

"Tyler didn't feel like dancing and then you left. I didn't want to leave the club, but I was kinda stuck. It sucked."

"Haha, sorry."

"Yah, you sound it."

"Hey, don't be like that. I am sorry. If I'd known you wanted me to stay, I would have. You know I would have."

"You still would have left with her at the end of the night though…"

"Yah? So?"

"I dunno…Doesn't it ever bother you?"

"What, having sex? Hahaha, no, not really."

"Haha, you know that's not what I meant…I meant like…the always being with different girls thing. It never hurts?"

"Feels pretty good actually."

"Shut up. I mean emotionally. I just think about how I would feel if I slept with a different guy every weekend. I'd be a wreck."

"Well, you and I can't always think alike Blaise. Otherwise we'd be the same person. And I, for one, am thrilled that I'm not a girl."

"Haha, yah, you and the entire female population of Massachusetts."

"True. I would hate to think where they would be without me."

"In absolute shambles, I'm sure. Now can we get back to what I was saying?"

"What exactly were you trying to say?"

"Just that…All these girls you sleep with aren't going to improve your family life, or your grades. And it's really not going to help you get used to your powers. When you wake up in the morning, you're going to have to deal with the same shit from the day before."

"I don't have sex to fix anything. At this point, I've accepted that nothing is going to make things any better. Only more bearable."

"I guess if it helps you…I just think sometimes, you'd be happier if you'd settle down with one girl."

"Eh, that's not really my style."

"Have you ever tried to make it your style?"

"Blaise, we've been over this. Girls only complicate things for me. I don't want to get involved with them because none of them make sense."

"Does that include me?"

"Well, you're different, you're not a girl."

"WHAT? Reid, you're so weird."

"Hahaha, you know what I mean."

"Uh…no."

"You're like, not a girl or a guy."

"So, I'm…a plant?"

"Haha, stop. You're just my best friend, okay?"

"Thanks…"

"Look, I don't know how to put this. I guess…you're the only girl I've ever met who's never suffocated me or scared me or fucked with my head. So it's hard for me to see you the way I see other girls."

"Oh. Well, considering that you see other girls like pieces of meat…I guess that's a good thing."

"I knew you'd understand."

"It doesn't change the fact that I think you'd be better off if you just stuck to one girl."

"When I find one I can stand for more than a few hours, I'll let you know."

"Well, what about the red head? How was she?"

"Curious?"

"I asked."

"You sure you wanna know the answer? Even if I don't say I've had better?"

"Stop trying to be all mysterious and just spit it out."

"She was good, I guess."

"You guess?"

"What do you want? Details? Why don't we meet for dinner and gossip about it. Then you can do my hair and I'll paint your nails."

"Damn, she must not have been that good if she turned you gay."

"Fuck you."

"Can't. Essays to finish."

"Well, at least meet me for dinner. Say, six o'clock?"

"Again, essays."

"That's what Sundays are for."

"I hate school just as much as you do, but I'm going to pass my classes because I'm going to get out of Ipswich if it kills me."

"Why would you want to leave? Fucked up families, cold and rainy weather, absolutely nothing to do. This is paradise baby."

"Haha, you could always come with me. You just have to do your work once and a while."

"Or I could just party my way through Spenser and hand Princeton or Yale or where ever it is you plan on going half a mill under the table."

"Gee, why didn't I think of that?"

"Because that's why you have me, to think of these things for you. So, now that that's settled. Meet me for dinner?"

"Haha, I seriously can't Reid. And by the way, I'm going to Berkeley. Try to get it right before you fill out an application."

"Psh, what does California have that New England doesn't?"

"Um, a good nutritional science department aaaand- oh yah, sunny beaches where there's actual sand and not just rocks."

"Well, I guess if it means you in a bikini…"

"Would that get you to do your homework?"

"On a Saturday? Blaise, babe, I love you, but…"

"Yah, yah. Save it pretty boy. Go take your shower."

"Don't get too distracted thinking about me in the shower now."

"Ha, I'll try."

"You sure you don't wanna meet up for dinner?"

"You know I want to Reid. I just can't. I'm sorry."

"Alright, as long as you feel guilty."

"Shut up."

"Haha, love you too. Talk to you later."

"Bye."

This is probably one of my fave chapters. I hope you liked it as much as I do!Whether you did or didn't, please let me know! Have a great weekend ladies and gents!