countless encounters || spencer reid

f o u r // red plastic cups

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He looked at both, the girl and the boy and pushed himself forward, having to make awkward moves to get past the inebriated people, in order to speak to the couple.

"Uh, h-hello!", he heard himself call over the pop song that was currently playing, regretting it just a few seconds later.

The black haired boy didn't turn around, and neither did the blonde girl which meant that he hadn't done a really good job at speaking over the music. Spencer was somehow relieved though.

"Hi!", He heard someone else utter behind him, poking him on his back.

He moved around to see who it was.

"I'm Charlie. Are you looking for someone special?", a British accent spoke. A young man with brown eyes had just introduced himself to Reid. He was dressed in all black and had a bright brown mop of curls on his head and a lot of freckles on his cheeks and nose. His face had a nice shape, and he had a lip ring.

"Hello Charlie?" He spoke unsure, intentionally not answering his question and unintentionally sounding like he was posing a question himself.

"Did you want something from Richard?", the young man asked, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Sorry, who?" He watched Charlie with a quizzical look, not understanding him as well because his words were laced with his mentioned thick accent and the music and people were getting louder.

"This tosser over here.", he said louder now, slapping the guy with jet black hair on his butt.

Richard shrieked, turning around to face them.

He looked at Charlie with grim, "You can't stop touching my ass, huh? " He asked a grinning Charlie, shaking his head, ''I told you, I don't swing the way you do. I have a girlfriend.'' Richard teased, sticking out his tongue and Charlie pouted before erupting into bubbly laughter.

Spencer contemplated running away, but before he could, he was addressed once again.

"I'm so sorry, what was your name again?" Charlie asked, placing a hand of his on Spencer's shoulder.

"Oh, I'm Spencer." He smiled nervously at them, flattening out his tie.

"So what did you want Spencer?" the blonde girl, whose name was Caitlin, questioned curiously with a smile.

Right as he was about to answer, Richard suddenly let out another high pitched sound, "Stop it, Charlie!"

Caitlin giggled and kissed Richard on his cheek. Charlie and Spencer exchanged a look.

"Oi, looks like Sav is getting some tonight.", Charlie spoke again after a few minutes of silence, wiggling his eyebrows whilst pointing somewhere behind Spencer. Caitlin and Richard parted and he turned around to see Savannah and Derek making out against a wall, and scanned the room for Garcia.

After his eyes roamed a number of faces once again, he spotted Penelope in the adjoined entrance hall.

She was talking to some blonde guy with glasses. When she saw Reid looking at her, she waved him over.