With the Spin of a Bottle

Chapter Two

Chapter Two

Reed P.O.V.

It had been a couple days since the party, where I'd gotten Leena's phone number. I hadn't called her yet because I was trying to convince myself that it was a bad idea. Leena Davis was not the type of girl I was used to. I mean, I wasn't a shallow jerk who only went for blond, big-breasted bimbos, but I also wasn't the type of guy who went out with really smart girls either. Hell, let's be honest, Leena was out of my league. What would she want with a jock, wannabe frat boy? The way she'd ran from me the only two times we had interacted was a big red flag, telling me to stay away, but there was just something about her.

My older sister, Reina, would have a field day with this. She had practically raised me. Our dad was a deadbeat loser, who finally just left us when I was five and Reina was seven. Mom had to work multiple jobs to provide for us. Those years of hard work are what finally killed her when I was sixteen. Reina, at eighteen, fought for custody of me and thankfully won. I would hate to have ended up in foster care, even if Reina was a pain in the ass ninety percent of the time. She was always teasing me, mostly about girls. I wasn't necessarily conceited, but I'd never had to work for a girl. Girls had literally thrown themselves at me before and my sister, Reina had always told me that when the right girl came around I'd probably have to actually work for her and she said that she'd laugh in my face when I didn't know how to woe her. I'd rolled my eyes at her whenever she said stuff like that, but now I was wondering if it was all true. Not that Leena was necessarily the one. I'd only had two encounters with her, so it was definitely too soon to tell. Wasn't it?

Was it fate that we'd ended up at the same college though? I hadn't been able to get her completely off my mind ever since the night of our high school graduation. That kiss we shared was, hands down, the best kiss of my life. Her innocence had been a complete turn on and it made me want to show her all kinds of inappropriate things. I had no idea it'd been her first kiss though and felt bad that I might have pushed her into it. That's the reason I hadn't called her yet. I didn't want to corrupt her. I mean, look what she'd done at the party the other night. Never in a million years had I expect to be completely naked, with my damned wiener in her face, while she wrote her phone number on me.

I shook my head and kept walking. It was the first day of college classes, in my second semester of freshman year. I needed to focus on school, if I wanted to keep my basketball scholarship. Coach was a stickler about good grades. I briefly wondered if Leena was here on an academic scholarship, but then scolded myself for thinking about her yet again. Then, as if my mind had conjured her up, there she was. She was by herself, with her head down, but I would recognize her anywhere. She was dressed differently than the last two times I'd seen her. Instead of the flashy party clothes, today she wore simple jeans and a form fitting sweater. She wasn't what some people would call gorgeous, but somehow to me, that's exactly what she was.

I decided that fate was kicking me in the ass again, so I pulled my cell phone from my pocket and dialed her number before I could talk myself out of it. I watched her pause, stop at a bench, and pull her cell phone from her backpack. She frowned at the phone and I thought she was going to ignore it, since she didn't recognize the number, but she surprised me when she lifted it to her face and said, "Hello."

"Hey, Sweets. I'm surprised that you actually gave me your real number. I had figured it was fake. I already have to live with the ink on my body, until it finally wears off, because that damned marker was permanent, so thank you for giving me a real number to display." I said and found myself smiling.

"Reed?" She said and was it just wishful thinking or did she sound a little breathless?

"The one and only. So what are you doing right now?" I asked and slowly made my way toward her. She wasn't looking my way, so I hoped she wouldn't see me for a little bit. I liked watching her and this was the most fun I'd had in a while.