Title: Anyone But You

Summary: Each and every day he goes especially out of his way to make her life hell. Little does he know the girl he mocks during the day is the very same girl he can't stop chatting with at night.

This is a Purpleangel (Rosie) and St. Elmo-lover (Briana) collaboration; we hope you enjoy!

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The sound of Reid's head hitting the desk was almost audible to everyone in the whole room but he couldn't find it in himself to care.

Was it too hard for a teacher to change pitches every once in a while? Was it some sort of unwritten rule that they were all supposed to talk in monotone? Well this dick head of a history teacher sure did have it down to a science… boring kids that is.

"If the Provost hears that you've been sleeping in class again, he'll give you detention for a week." Tyler whispered from beside him. There was warning in his voice but at the same time his best friend almost seemed amused. Reid pulled himself from the desk and shrugged his shoulders with a smirk directed at the younger boy before finally throwing his head back to rest on the chair.

Even though he knew it was stupid, he wondered what the girl from the Internet was doing at that very same moment. He wondered if she was having a boring day like him or if that stupid guy that had been bugging her had made her life hell again. The way she had calmed him down the other day and helped him out with the whole Tyler thing, wasn't something he was going to be forgetting anytime soon.

He was actually looking forward to their next talk and he knew that had to make him a huge loser. Reid Garwin was no the type of guy to pick chicks up off the Internet. And this chick, he really didn't even know that much about.

But she was there for him unlike people in his real life couldn't be. That meant something to him. Most of the time people were always so busy trying to decide who the great Reid Garwin was going to lay next to. It didn't matter to him that he might actually have feelings under all the masks he showed.

Even Tyler couldn't see through them sometimes and Reid had to admit that that hurt. It hurt him because Tyler was supposed to be his best friend. They had known each other even before they had become the infamous Sons.

Reid knew he had changed over the years but he was still the same underneath. He had just changed the outside a bit to keep up with everyone else.

And this girl, this appassionata girl, knew him for him. He wondered, though, if it wasn't just because she didn't know him in real life. Would she have talked to him like she had if she knew what he was capable of? Of what he had already done in his past?

It was confusing to him and it made his head spin just thinking about it. But he knew it was something that he probably SHOULD think about. It was just one of those important things...

"You're late, Andrea." the professor’s voice rung out over everything else for once and the old man had almost caught Reid's attention.

What had really caught his attention though was the girl just now walking through the door, books clutched tightly to her chest like she was going to fall off the face of the earth. Which of course she probably could.

Her nose looked like it had been inflated with some kind of air pump and then colored purple. He almost winced when he saw it but just managed to hold it off.

It really did look horrible though and he had to remind himself that he had been the one to cause it.

Just as he was finishing up examining her nose, she looked up at him. Her eye did this sort of twitchy thing he noticed and she was fidgeting under his stare. She was nervous, he realized with a mental nod.

But why would she be nervous...

It dawned on him then, the reason why she would be so nervous around him.

She knew about the kiss he had given her.

It had been his small way of apologizing after all and he hadn't really thought it through before he did it, but then again, that was when life was more fun. The kiss hadn't been that bad either, considering he was the only one putting any effort into it. Her lips had been soft and plump underneath his though and that always made for a good kiss.

The smirk that came with his thoughts and the idea of her being nervous was very very wide and he couldn't wipe it off for anything.

Doodling on the paper in front of him, an idea sparked in his head and he chuckled to himself. Tearing a sheet of paper from his notebook, he quickly balled it up in his palm. He aimed and shot. His target: Andrea of course. Unfortunately he didn’t predict Andrea bending over to pick up her fallen pencil at that exact moment. Instead of hitting its target, the paper ball flew directly at a head of curly red hair.

“Professor!” Kira shrieked as she clutched the spot of her head where the paper ball hit. “Reid just tossed a paper ball at me!”

“Detention for a week Mr. Garwin.”

“But I-”

“Want to make it two?”

Reid didn’t say anything, and so the professor went back to his lecture. He heard Kira give a triumph ‘hmph’ as twirled her curls around her finger. His eyes glared draggers to the back of Andrea’s head, and from where she sat she could feel every hit. But she refused to turn around, doing so would only make things worse.

40 minutes left... she mentally groaned as she look at the clock hanging on the wall, I should have stayed in bed.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

As soon as the bell rang Andrea sprang to her feet and was out the door. If there was one thing she knew for sure it was that Reid never let things go. He was going to get her back, so she had to retreat to the one place he would never set foot in.

The library.

The only catch was making it there without being spotted. That wouldn’t be hard though, she thought, I’m partcially invisible. The feeling of someone’s hand grabbing her arm froze her on the spot. So much for getting away from him. Bracing herself for the worst, a small gasp left her lips when she turned around. The pair of blue eyes staring into her own eyes were defintely not the ones she’d been expecting.

“Ty-Tyler.” Color rushed to her cheeks as she glanced down to the hand holding her arm. Following her gaze he quickly let go of her arm.

“Yeah. I wanted to talk to you.” He said, flashing her a sheepish smile. “I wanted to know if you wanted to work tonight on our project.”

Right, what else could he want from me, thought Andrea as she mental slapped herself for thinking it could have been something else. “Sure. Around 8, sound good?”

He nodded his head. “Alright then 8 o’clock it’s a date.” The surprise emitted through her shocked expression at his choice of words. Tyler quickly added, “A study date.”

“Right.” Andrea mummbled. “I’ll see you later.” With that she turned around to continue her journey to the library.

Boys are too confusing, she mentally concluded as she took a glance over her shoulder. Blushing at the sight of Tyler taking a glance at her, she immdiately turned around.

Oh yeah, I’m so smooth.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

Reid stepped into the library as blue eyes searched for his target. Andrea. She has to be in here, he thought to himself as he walked further in. It was study hall and if there was one thing he could be certain of is the library was that girls best friend. While other students took the chance of study hall to catch up on personal activites, he knew she had none and so resorted in coming here.

Thanks to her he had gotten after school detention for the entire week. Which meant he couldn’t go to swim practice, and since they were so close to regionals that just meant Caleb would have a hissy fit. Not that he cared. No coming here to find her was about more than just Caleb getting his panties in a twist. As far as he was concerned Andrea had ruined his fun and for that he had to get her back of course.

Ah there she is. Reid spotted her in a far corner, nose deep in some book that looked a thousand pages long. How typical. Walking over to her, a smirk in place, he cleared his throat to catch her attention.

At the sound, Andrea froze. Eyes narrowed and brows knitted together she peeked over from the top of the book. “What do you want?” She asked, not really interested in his answer, but figuring it was the only way to get him to leave her be.

“You seem nervous.”

“N–no...” she stuttered and mentally cursed herself for doing so. It’s those damn eyes, she thought as she shifted her eyes to look back down at the book in her hand. “No. I’m not nervous.”

“Are you sure?”

“What do you want?” She repeated, not bothering to even try and look up at him. There was no point in looking at him as far she was concerned. There was only one thing he came here for and that was to watch her squirm. And there is no way she was going to give him that satisfaction.

“You.” Her eyes widened and shot up immediately to look at him. Cheeks flushed a deep shade of red at his confession – it took all he had to hold back a chuckle. “I wanted to see you.”

“Why?” Her voice was nothing more but a faint whisper, and she hated herself for it. Andrea lowered her gaze – the intensity of his eyes forming goosebumps on her skin.

“You know why.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Flashbacks of the kiss shared in the nurses office passed through her mind. This is so not the time to think about that. Focusing her eyes back to her book, she hoped he would take the hint and leave.

Reid stared at the girl as an idea popped into his mind. This is going to be priceless, he mentally snickered. Stepping closer to her, he kneeled down so he could be at eye level with her. He noticed her flinch, but she refused to look up at him. I’ll fix that. His left hand moved so that it now laid on the armrest. Fingers brushed against her skin, and she instantly moved her arm away.

Andrea tried to move as much as she physically could, but it was pretty much useless considering the fact she was sitting down with her back to the wall. His right hand grabbed her book and tossed it aside, so that there was nothing between them now.

“W-wh-what ar-are y-you do-” her stuttering sentence was cut short when the blond leaned down closer to her. Their noses were almost touching now. She couldn’t even try to look away now, his eyes where penatrating hers. No. Looking away isn’t even an option. The breath in her throat felt locked as he moved another itch into her.

“Your glasses...” Reid purposely trailed off and his trademark smirk resurfaced. His hands now moved again, only this time he moved them to cup her cheeks. He could feel the heat from her blush on the palm of his hands. Leaning in closer, he was almost brushing against her lips.

I don’t think she’s even breathing.

This was turning out to be much better than he had hoped. His blue eyes dropped from her eyes to her lips. Those soft lips he had kissed a few days earlier. He could almost feel his lips tingle from the memory and he briefly wondered if she would let him steal another.

Is he going to kiss me?! Her mind ran frantic at the thought, yet she couldn’t get herself to move or much less push him away. Instead her own lips eyes and almost closed as she felt him lean closer to her. The sound of her heart rapidly beating was the only sound in her ears, and she briefly wondered if he could hear the pounding.

The feel of his hands weren’t exactly soft, but they certainly weren’t rough. His hands were on the move again, and she tensed wondering what he was up to. Fingers slowly crept up and quickly removed her glasses from her face. And just like that he moved away, giving back her personal space.

“You’re cuter without them.” Reid said, as he twirled her glasses between his fingers. He made a move to hand them back to her, but then when she reached for them he retracted them. Before she even had a chance to ask what he was doing, he took the frames and broke them apart.

Andrea stared wide-eyed at her broken glasses in his hands. For the next few seconds, all she did was open and close her mouth a couple of times. Did he- did he really just do that? Her face tightened together up at the realization. Looking her to meet his eyes, the blond had a smug expression. She opened her mouth to try and say something but as she did the bell rang overhead.

Reid tossed the broken glasses on her lap, before giving her a mock salute. “Gotta go.” He said, not bothering to hide his amusement and started laughing at he walked away. As far as he was concerned... payback was now complete.

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Andrea marched down the hallway occasionally bumping into someone or worse bumping into the wall. Everything was a giant blur of colors – she wasn’t even able to make out any faces in the crowd. All because of him, she thought furiously as she walked up to what she thought was her dorm room and thankfully it was.

She could feel the blood boiling inside her as she kicked closed the door to her room. It was unbelievable how that idiot could do something so... so... so mean! Breaking her glasses was just too much. Never in a million years would she have thought he was capable of such a cruel act.

It was official. She officially hated Reid Garwin and anything even remotely associated with him. At very least she didn’t have to face him in P.E. No thanks to him she had the rest of the week off class. Not that she would thank him for that of course.

Walking over to her dresser she began searching for her contact lenses. She hated the idea of having to wear them... she hated the idea of having to put them in even more. Finding the compact she opened it and placed one lens on her index finger while leaning closer to the mirror.

“Almost there...” she mumbled to herself as she placed it in and sighed in relief as it slid over her eye painlessly. However the other one wasn’t as easy to put in. After poking herself in the eye for the past five minutes to managed to put it in place. Blinking rapidly to adjust her eyes to the feeling, her eyes drew together as the anger she had been feeling resurfaced. “This is all HIS fault!” she screamed as she lay across her bed. Yeah right... she pouted as the scene replayed itself in her mind.

I thought he was going to kiss me...

“I’m so stupid,” she told herself as she rubbed her hands over her face. She could feel her cheeks burning hot and in her mind she remember how she inwardly shivered when she felt his breathe against her skin. “No. No. No.” She scolded herself for the thought. There was no way she was going to allow herself to think about the Reid Garwin in THAT way. There was just no way.

Her eyes wandered around the room and fell on the laptop sitting on her nightstand. Reaching over she grabbed her and started it up. There was one thing she knew would make her feel better. Signing on she searched her buddy list for that one particular person... Sui Generis.

APPASSIONATA: hi there.

APPASSIONATA: you’re on early than usual... how come ?

SUI GENERIS: so are you

SUI GENERIS: needed to talk to me that much?

APPASSIONATA: avoiding the question...

SUI GENERIS: avoiding the answer…

APPASSIONATA: bad day?

SUI GENERIS: something like that

SUI GENERIS: but it’s better now that I’m talking to you

APPASSIONATA: always the sweet talker...

SUI GENERIS: what about you? having a bad day?

APPASSIONATA: more like horrible

SUI GENERIS: that guy bothering you again

APPASSIONATA: yeah like always

SUI GENERIS: ima have to beat this guy up for you

APPASSIONATA: lol my knight in shining armor

Her laughter echoed around the room. This was really the first time a guy ever said something like that to her – offering to defend her like that. It made her blush and smile… it made her feel nice. If only a guy like this could have been her first kiss… instead her first kiss had to be shared with that… that… that guy!

Andrea could feel herself inwardly gag at the memory… or more like at the feeling. She felt goose bumps as she shook her head clear of the memory and stuck out her tongue. A beep emitted from the computer making her come back to reality and she looked down to the screen.

SUI GENERIS: I was thinking about something…

APPASSIONATA: wow... i’m impressed...

SUI GENERIS: that’s not what I meant lover girl

APPASSIONATA: then tell me already!

SUI GENERIS: someone’s impatient…

SUI GENERIS: are you this impatient when it comes to other activities as well?

APPASSIONATA: ur such a perv

SUI GENERIS: yeah but you like it

APPASSIONATA: don’t change the subject

APPASSIONATA: what were you thinking about

SUI GENERIS: well… when do you think we’ll meet?

Meet? While it was all she was able to think about since first talking to this guy, now that it was finally coming up Andrea felt herself freeze on the spot. Her eyes fixated themselves on the screen as the questions spun in her head. Of course she wanted to meet him… but… she couldn’t… she shouldn’t…

“Urg!” she groaned as she bit down on her fingernails. What should I say! She could feel the heat rise to her cheeks at the thought of being to meet him. It was both an exciting and horrific thought. I need more time to think about this, she mentally concluded. Taking a deep breath, her slender fingers typed a reply that she hoped would suffice him… for now.

APPASSIONATA: um... soon...

SUI GENERIS: soon?

APPASSIONATA: yeah... soon...

SUI GENERIS: I can live with that answer

APPASSIONATA: i’m pretty sleepy

APPASSIONATA: ttyl

SUI GENERIS: sleep well lover girl

SUI GENERIS has signed off.

Laying back on her bed, Andrea sighed contently as her eyes fell close. There was not a smile but a full out grin plastered on her face. Her heart was beating rapidly in her chest as she felt the familiar flutter rush inside her.

Soon... soon I’ll meet him... I can’t wait...

Sleepiness washed over her and she yawened as her eyes opened slightly to peek at the time. 8PM. It wasn’t that late, actually it wasn’t late at all, but lack of sleep every night was defintely taking its toll on her. Curling up on her side, she shut her eyes closed completely forgetting her previous engagements... including the one with a certain Tyler Sims...

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Purpleangel - Author Notes:

Please don’t spork us! We meant to update soon, really we did. It was so hard for me to write this chapter. I think this has to due with the fact that it is in third person and I’ve already gotten used to writing in first. Still we hope you haven’t lost interest in this fic and continue to review. It is after all your reviews that made us want to write this chapter through all of our real life issues.

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