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Chapter 5
Denial and Hard Times

"So, what's up with you and Reid?"

My eyes met his brown and I raised an eyebrow, "You really think there's something going on between Reid and me?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "Why wouldn't there be? There's something going on with him, something I haven't seen before. At first I thought it had something to do with the fact that he started talking in his sleep, but now I'm guessing it has something to do with a girl. Girl meaning you."

"Wait a sec, Reid talks in his sleep?" I widened my eyes and a smile was tugging at my lips, "What does he say?"

"For the record he snores too, and he seems to be having some sort of conversation with a dreamsomeone." Tyler shrugged again, but didn't say anything else.

"Huh," was all I could manage.

We didn't say anything for a while, just kept on walking. Tyler and I had met in the hallways and we both wanted to get out of our next class. We'd decided to skip together and now we were just randomly walking around among some trees.

Tyler caught sight of a bench, nodded in the direction and soon we were both sitting down on it. I turned my face up towards the stray rays of sunlight and sighed of pleasure.

"So, you and Reid?" Tyler persisted.

"Well, I don't know. He's... well, he's Reid. And... I don't know." I sighed with a frown.

"Hm... but, seriously, what's so wrong with Reid being Reid?"

I wrinkled my forehead and met Tyler's gaze. What's up with Tyler being so smart all of a sudden? He's never talked to me like this before! I told him that.

Tyler started too laugh and I glared at him. "I guess I recognize Reid's troubled face, that's all."

"Reid's got a troubled face?" Okay, this started to get a bit too wierd.

"Yeah, and whenever you're around he wears it." Tyler sighed heavily and drew a hand through his ruffled hair.

"So, I make him troubled?" Tyler nodded. "Okay, that's a new one."

Tyler smiled and turned his eyes away to stare at a tree or something. "You really should try to get things staright between the two of you. Even Pogue's noticed Reid's troubled face, and he barely notices stuff like that when Kate's around. And Kate's always around."

A smile tugged at my lips, "If I didn't know any better I'd accuse you of trying to pair me up with Reid so you'll get rid of him."

Tyler and I both started laughing at that, before we fell quiet.

The sun warmed our faces and the birds sung around us. I wasn't much for nature and shit, but this was a moment when even I noticed the colour of the trees, the wind that messed with my hair and I acctually managed to appreciate the birdsong. Something I rarely do.

Somewhere to our left a bell piped up, telling people class was out and it was time for lunch. Tyler and I both got up. I let a sigh slip over my lips as he stretched out.

Tyler had told me a couple of things that I didn't know since before. Obviously Reid had the dream too, otherwise, why would he be having a conversation with someone in his sleep? And obviously he didn't recognize me. Well, that wasn't really a big surprise, since I wasn't as vurnerable in real life as I appeared in the dream. But then there was the fact that I troubled him. What was up with that? Did he, like, feel something for me? Already? Okay, of course there was some chemistry - I can't belive I used that word - between us, and I knew we both felt it, but had that already started to evolve into something else?

In the pit of my stomach I had the answer to that question.

Whenever I laid eyes on him there was like, "butterflies" and a knot in my stomach, which of course made me doubt this was for real at all. Well, nothing was for real in my world, but were those feelings really supposed to be there?

The answer to that was equally simple. No, not yet.

Things were moving along too fast, the kiss had been a mistake, something that should never have happened. Reid and I wasn't supposed to have these feelings this early - I suppose - and this is probably what bothers us both. I'd just have to avoid being alone with him, was my stupid solution.

Proved to be a hard task, seeing as Tyler wasn't the only one who thought we had something to talk about.

"You have to talk to him, Mel."

"Who?"

"Reid, of course," Lauren sighed.

"What do I need to talk to him about?" was my stupid reply.

"Obviously something's going on between you two," Kate said, appearing from nowhere along with Sarah.

"Why does everyone just assume that?" I shrieked, getting annoyed.

We were headed for our dorms and it seemed like they'd all planned an ambush for me - seeing as all the girls in our little group were around me. They were only trying to help, I knew that, but still I couldn't fight against the anger building in my chest.

"Just leave me alone, guys. There's nothing going on between Reid and me and there'll never be anything. So just walk along on your skinny little legs and leave my life alone!" I muttered, stomping along to my door.

The girls kept going behind me, seemingly not noticing that I'd left at all.

My door was open, I noticed, as I pulled down the handle. There was a frown on my face when I noticed the room was empty. Slowly stepping inside, without closing the door, I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Why would someone just go ahead and unlock my door without even taking anything inside? Not that there was that much stuff in the small area, but still, there was some jewelry and some money in the upper drawer in her nightstand, not that much but it was still worth something.

I'd gotten about halfway into the room when the door slowly shut behind me. I turned with a gasp, trying to figure out who the hell was inside my room - the door wouldn't close by itself.

"Who the hell are you?" I shireked, trying to get as far away from the door as possible, ending up stumbling down onto the bed.

There wasn't any answer, only the sound of two feet moving closer to the bed where I was sitting on the end. The steps ended right before me, and I started to crawl higher in the bed, trying to get away from the person.

He leaned in closer, hovering over me, his breath hit me in the face, along with a soft scent of chlorine.

"Reid, what are you doing-" He wouldn't let me finish the sentance, instead his hands appeared on either side of my face, his lips moving closer before softly brushing against mine. My breath caught in my throat when the feeling in my stomach appeared again.

I could feel the smirk on Reid's face as he dropped himself on top of me on the bed.

"I can't believe you're trying to deny that," he muttered, getting serious all of a sudden.

"Deny what?" I muttered back.

"Don't try to talk yourself out of it, I know what you told Baby Boy."

"Did you spy on us?" I shrieked, trying to push him off of me.

"Hey, you can't blame me for that! I've spied on you all day!"

"What?"

"I said don't blame me!"

"Of course I do, idiot!"

"Stop yelling at me!"

"What, you don't want your girls yelling at you? Or maybe you prefer them groaning your name?"

"I'd sure prefer you that way!"

"Too bad that's never going to happen then! Get off of me!"

"Make me." His voice was warm and intimate all of a sudden, and I started to suspect this is what he planned all along. His voice was at my ear, his lips just barely touching it. "I bet you can't," he mumbled along my jawline as he moved his lips back towards my mouth.

He obviously didn't know me that well. Otherwise he wouldn't have made that last bet. Because I never lost a bet.

Reid's lips touched mine again, softly, provocingly moving slow. I answered the kiss eqiually as slow and provocing. His tongue moved over my lips, trying to enter my mouth, I smiled then let him do as he pleased. Though a second or two after his tongue was inside my mouth, I bit it. Hard.

Reid recoiled, backing away fast as hell, I only had to shove him in the chest once for him to fall of the bed.

"What the fuck was that for?" Reid grumpled, sounding funny as hell since he couldn't talk very well, what with the pain in his tongue.

"I always win bets," I smirked, pulling a hand through my hair to try to brush out the mess I knew it had gotten into, before I got out of the bed and straightened my uniform. I noticed Reid staring at me and glared at him. "What?"

"I was just yelling at myself for not taking advantage of that skirt. I can't belive I didn't at least try the buttons." Reid shoke his head and sighed, before sitting down on my bed.

I rolled my eyes at his face, before deciding it was time to change out of my uniform since I didn't want to risk anything. I turned away from him, facing my warderobe, before hurriedly unbuttoning my shirt, opening the door and put on a black t-shirt with some random print. Without taking of my skirt I pulled on a pair of ripped jeans and buttoned them underneath the skirt, before pulling the shit off.

When I turned back to face Reid he was lying flat on his back on my bed, sighing heavily with his eyes in the ceiling.

"What?" I asked, when I was sitting beside him.

Reid rose into a sitting position and faced me with a serious look in his eyes.

"Were you serious about there being nothing going on between us?"

I frowned, pressing my lips to a thin line, "I think I was."

Reid pursed his lips, nodding his head slowly. "Okay, so that thing I knew you felt when I kissed you, that means nothing to you?"

I sighed heavily, "No. It's just... I think things are moving too fast. We only had our first kiss two days ago, and we've only been friends for a week."

"Is that all? I usually only know girls a day before I get with them," Reid outburst.

A smile popped up on my lips and I raised an eyebrow. "Oh, I know."

"But seriously, you think it's going to fast?"

"Yeah, sort of."

"And that feeling doesn't mean a thing to you?"

"It sure as hell do! And that's the problem! I think we're moving to fast but at the same time I think we're not moving fast enough, I can't decide which one's the right one."

Reid had a smirk on his lips as he leaned in closer. "Let me help you decide."