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It has been 4 days since the 'Nicky incident' and not much has really changed since that night- same old same old really!

By the way there was supposed to be a LOT of sarcasm there.

I mean seriously since I have become 'friends' with these people it's like a never ending party or something!? All of a sudden just about everyone I pass by knows my name either because I know Tyler and the others or they're patting me on the back for what I did to Abbott at Nicky's. It's a bit intimidating, even worse Sarah and Kate absolutely refuse to let me have any time by myself! I think the only time I'm alone is when I shower and even then I feel like they're gonna pop out of nowhere.

I guess in its own weird way this change is helping me become more social, but right now I'm still so shy that it's scaring me just how many people know me and I don't know them…if that even makes sense. My parents would be rolling over in their graves if they were dead and are probably jumping up and down in happiness now! To the point- this is moving way to fast for me to understand.

I am at this time in the process of hiding in the pool by sinking myself into the deep end under the diving boards so I'm a little less obvious to see. I think this is my 5th time going under because I come up every two minutes to catch my breath; my dad being an ex-marine officer trained me to hold my breath for longer periods of time (also the guy who got me into judo). It was during my next breathing period that I was discovered. By whom you wonder? Well he made his presence known by this-

"You're not doing someone or masturbating are you? Cause' I can hear you breathing from here and that's kinda gross, so save it for your own pool okay?"

I hate Reid sometimes.

I swam out from under the board only to find him sitting cross-legged on the one I was just under. I rolled my eyes at the smirk half tempted to splash him with water, but I'm better then that so I refrain from it.

"I'll be sure to try that the next time I go visit my parents, so what brings you here anyway? I thought you went with Pogue and Tyler to see some movie?" I asked hoisting myself onto the board next to his, kicking my legs back and forth out of habit as I sat.

He shrugged and looked down into the water. "Didn't really feel like goin'-they went to a movie I already saw, Sarah, Kate and Caleb went to do errands. I figured I'd find out what you were doing."

I nodded and on the inside I was wondering if this was a bad or good thing that he actually went to find me so we could hang out or whatever-but I was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

See over the past few days my social standing with the group kind of shifted- Pogue and I had a mutual love of motorcycles, in the way that I thought they were cool and he was willing to share his unrivaled knowledge of every make and model. Tyler and I remained the same that he was like my first best guy friend and we would hang out when Kate and Sarah weren't dragging me somewhere over the rainbow. My relationship with Caleb I think caught the whole group off guard.

I mean sure we're both friends but its almost like we already know at some point we're gonna have an argument over something and before we become really good friends we have to have this happen, like he's keeping me at arms length. Part of it I think results from my shyness as well-neither of us really likes to begin conversations; so ergo we don't really talk to each other.

Reid and I…I couldn't even begin to try to explain.

We flirt with each other and when we don't flirt we're talking about music or general things. Sometimes there will be days when we don't talk to each other at all, as if he wants nothing to do with me that day. His behavior those times is when I've noticed that he and Caleb won't speak and the whole group is kind of tense. I can assume that today hasn't been one of those days so it's safe to converse with him.

"aroline, Caroline!!!" Reid shouted and I jumped a bit,

"What!? Oh…sorry Reid I kinda zoned out there. What did you say?" He sighed and placed his chin in his hand.

"I asked if you felt like cleaning up and going to Nicky's to play pool. It's the last day before we go back to school since we had a 4 day weekend and I want to do something." I thought about it for a moment and agreed so I stood up revealing my 'bikini body' and Reid didn't even try to hide the fact he was staring. I laughed on the inside and waved my hand in front of his face.

"You see something you like there beanie head?" I had taken to calling him that ever since I noticed he always wears it, plus it sounded better then hobo gloves…but I call him that too.

He shrugged and motioned to my stomach, "Didn't notice you had a belly button ring, that's all." I looked down at my stomach and saw my silver ring that had the Japanese character for water at the end with a small tear drop hanging off the character. This time I shrugged.

"I took it off to clean it the day I met you guys, I didn't put it back on till today." I snagged my towel I had placed on the side ladder of the pool and towel dried my hair then wrapped it around myself. Reid followed me as we headed out, we reached my room (which was closer to the pool) and stepped inside. I began picking out a quick outfit and set it aside on my bed. Reid looked it over and asked me a question.

"Do you always have something black on? I thought most girls hated black…unless you're a Goth in disguise." I chocked back a laugh. My outfit consisted of a black baby-T and my favorite pair of jeans that had a hole in the knee from the many tripping incidents of my life.

"Couldn't I say the same to you?" I questioned back as I grabbed my shoes out from under my bed. He smirked and fingered his hobo gloves.

"So I'm gonna go take a shower, are you gonna wait in here or go back to your room or am I meeting you there?" A day ago I showed the group a more odd side of my personality; I didn't know that they were in my room helping unpack my stuff (more like Sarah and Kate were helping since they knew what went where and the guys just happened to be there) when I came in from being in the shower. I did have my towel on but the way Kate acted I might as well of been walking around naked. Sarah didn't seem to care but they both proceeded to shove the guys out when I told them,

"They can stay, I don't care I'll just change in the bathroom." I had grown up with a family that didn't have much regard for privacy, so as long as I wasn't completely naked I didn't really care.

"I'll stay here, I already have everything." I nodded and went to take my shower.

As I watched her walk away I looked at the way her hips swayed and bit back a groan. I threw myself back on her bed watching out for her clothes. It had only been a few days since I met her and already I just want to throw her down and have my way with her. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but there was just something about her that I just liked that made me want to respect her (apocalyptic thoughts right there).

Maybe it's the fact that she and Baby boy get along so well, or that hot body or knowing that she can kick Abbott's ass-it maybe the fact that she and Golden Boy Caleb don't get along as fantastically as the others thought they would. It was annoying the hell out of me that I couldn't figure it out.

I can tell just by her posture that while she is hot, Caroline herself doesn't believe it and because of self-consciousness she is more prone to be in the back-round. Then like what happened at the pool table, when she was subtly showing off her hips cause' she knew I was watching…she is like a freakin' rubix cube to me, she will take forever for me to figure out.

I looked her door and sat up as she walked in, hair clinging to her head and shoulders, water running down her and into her towel watching the drop flow innocently down between her breasts licking my lips. I finally tore my eyes away to look at her rounded face with those tiny, soft pink lips and her stormy blue eyes that were looking at me with a questioning gaze.

I smirked and she shot me a dry look, snagged her clothes and disappeared into her bathroom. Leaning back into her bed I closed my eyes to rest them.

Maybe I would learn to like that rubix cube personality.

Reid and I arrived at Nicky's with no problems, though I did tease him for the fact he was using his own car for once, he snorted saying that the only reason he always takes Tyler's car is because he 'sucks' at driving.

"So driving the speed limit and not running pedestrians over is sucky driving?" I asked him as we stepped out of the car; Reid looked away and grumbled something about 'old ladies' and 'stupid motor scooters' but I left him to ponder that whilst I went to snag a pool table.

I finally grabbed one after about ten minutes of waiting, in which time Reid snagged us a couple of cokes and we watched the other people play. We commented back and forth between each other about some shots that were horrible, really good or decent and just needed some work from those players. To be honest I was having a great time already and we haven't even touched a cue stick yet, it was pretty amazing I would have to say.

When it was finally Reid and Caroline's turn to play, it was safe to say that they both got competitive pretty quickly.

Turn after turn rolled on and on, spectators gathered and watched the pair play but those two were oblivious to everyone and everything except the game and each other. Tension built between the two as they passed one another to make shots, at one point both were purposely missing shots just to have an excuse to brush past their partner, however they still remained competitive by only missing every so often.

It was Reid's turn to shoot when heard a voice that Caroline thought sounded like nails against a chalkboard, it grated your ears and made you shiver with distaste.

"OHMIGOSH REID!!! Its been forever since I've seen you!" A bubbling blonde bounced her way into his field of vision and he didn't even try to hide the agonizing groan.

"Hi…um, Sierra?" He tried as she latched onto his left arm. She attempted a cute giggle and shook her head, to be honest Caroline thought it looked like her neighbors dog when it found a stash of their son's weed and got high. Highly hilarious and highly sad, no pun intended.

"No silly Amanda!! Remember two weeks ago?" Caroline raised a brow at Reid's suffering look, he clearly was trying to get her to save him, but in all honesty she took her comedy when she could get it, this time it was at Reid's expense but oh well. Not her problem.

Right?

"Right, Amanda. Well as you can plainly see I'm at this moment whipping this lovely young girls butt at pool so maybe some other time we…" He didn't really get to finish as 'Amanda' looked at Caroline with all the hate she could muster. Caroline held back a laugh, it reminded her too much of Olivia's cat Puffy.

"And just who do you think you're doing with my man?" Caroline decided that this girl wasn't worth talking too so she just shrugged and motioned for Reid to make his next shot.

This girl wasn't having that.

"Hey you bitch respond when I'm talking to you! Or is that beyond your mental capability!?" Caroline sighed and looked back at her.

"Look you insignificant, no personality, possibly gold digging, sexual disease carrying ignoramus, what you and my friend here did is none of my business but I can tell you that my pinky nail probably has a higher IQ then your entire cranium can even begin to comprehend. My languages consist of Spanish, Portuguese and even some Japanese, I can do college level algebra and have even dabbled in algorithms, I have won awards for essays I have written for English assignments, my understanding in the sciences is unparalleled and I already have three scholarships-not including the one that got me into Spencer- that will allow me to go to Harvard with money left to spare. So little miss street walker, I dare you to even try to insult my mental capacity for learning again, I'll flabbergast you with my insurmountable knowledge of everything you thought you knew." She had to take a moment to catch her breath while all the information sunk into their heads.

Amanda flushed a red that would put the color of Kira's frizzy red hair to shame. She sputtered what sounded like a 'whatever' and stomped away. Reid practically gapping turned to Caroline.

"Do you really know all of that shit?" He asked looking at her like she was some kind of alien. Caroline smiled.

"Nope! I'm right at where we should be in math, I have gotten a single award for an essay I wrote but that's only because an ex-friend took one of my old ones and put her name on it, the science and language part is true except for Portuguese. I have only one scholarship, and that's to here but I haven't applied for any ones for college yet. Now can you just make your god damned shot now?" Caroline asked leaning on the side of the table.

Reid gave a short nod and the game went on without interruption for the rest of the night.

I buckled myself back into the car as I checked my cell phone for any messages and found none, then I looked at the clock and saw that it was 7:30 pm, I didn't go to bed until 10 or 11 so I still had some time to chill and set out my things for my first day at Spencer tomorrow. I leaned back and closed my eyes, listening to the motions that Reid was making in preparation to head back to the dorm rooms.

I was planning on just washing my make-up off until Reid offered me to hang out in his room if I wanted, somehow though with the way he was looking at me, I knew even if I said no he would just follow me back to my room. I nodded but asked if I could borrow his sink to wash my face off. He granted my request and we proceeded to his and Tyler's room.

As we walked in I figured out that guests in their room must happen a lot for the whole gang was there sitting or standing in random places across the room. I pulled my hair back and nodded at the others as I headed into their bathroom and ran the sink while grabbing the soap bar then a rag.

They all talked quietly amongst themselves and I dried my face off with a rag and stepped back into the bedroom, all the chatter stopped and they looked at me. I felt nervous with all the staring and asked what was up.

"Nothing much, Reid just told us what happened at the bar, I thought you said you sucked at lying?" Caleb asked, I understood the sudden questioning and said,

"Well that's because I just added on things that my bro was trying to teach me, so in a way I do know them ergo I wasn't totally lying. Plus I do intend to get at least two scholarships to go somewhere, I said Harvard cause' it sounded more impressive."

I threw the rag into a clothes hamper and situated myself by the door, a little more away from the others. They continued with their conversations, when I suddenly let out a yawn. They didn't hear it thank god but as I stood up and reached for the door Pogue saw me and asked where I was going.

"I'm tired and I still have a couple of things to do so I'm just gonna go head back and crash, oh and Reid," I pointed at him and he raised a brow

"I will get back Mr. Hamilton next time!" I stated as dramatically as I could, he busted and the others assumed we had bet money on one of our games. I smiled and turned out through the door. I heard Sarah and Kate call out to me to wait up, and soon after both of them were on one side and the other.

"So I think Reid is totally into you, but I would be careful if I were you he's a bit of a player." Kate explained as we walked own the hallway to the stairs. I looked over to her then to Sarah who gave a shrug.

"Have you ever actually seen him 'play' a girl?" I asked as we reached the rooms. Kate thought for a moment and shook her head no.

"Then sorry but I'm not gonna take your word for it. I never judge a person by what another person says, it becomes too mixed up with what they think, and with what actually happened." I unlocked my door and bid them both goodnight and stepped into my room. I changed and threw myself into my bed after putting all of my stuff in my bag.

If Caroline had bothered to wait outside of her room for two more seconds, she would have seen one of the rarest things in the world at that time.

Reid Garwin, giving an actual, honest to god, smile.

She had apparently left her I.D. in their room and he went to give it back to her, coming in time to hear her not necessarily defend his honor, but she didn't judge him because of what Kate said either. He slipped the card under her door and walked the whole way back with that smile.

That night, Caroline had dreams of witches, warlocks and a certain blue eyed, blonde haired, beanie wearing, and hobo gloved boy. She would never admit it to them the next morning why she came as cheerful as she did.

So now I've got chapter two done and I thank those people that have looked at the story and have given reviews! I look forward to hearing from them again!

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