Surviving in Colorado (TBP fanfic)

Miranda

      A few hours after everyone went to bed, Reid wakes up and slips outside into the shadowy night barefoot.

      Reid sighs into the night and makes his way towards the boulder he and Neil were sitting on earlier today. He sits down on the large base of the boulder. Reid pulls out his phone and looks into his contacts.

      Reid opens his contacts and he finds the number she wrote on his palm that he put into his phone. Reid smiles and feels his cheeks getting hot as he thinks about talking to her.

      He texts her, since he has signal, even way up here. Surprisingly Miranda answered at 2:30am.

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     "Reid, is that you?" Miranda asks.

     "Yep, it's me! Sorry I haven't messaged you sooner." Reid replies to her.

     "It's okay! So anyway, why are you awake at this hour?" she asks.

     "Um, I should ask YOU the same!" Reid jokes.

     "Haha, very funny, but I asked first." she says, and sends a winky face.

     "Well, I'm up late to talk to you."

     Miranda pauses and waits a while before sending a message.

     "Awe, you're just being nice!"

     "Nah, I mean it! I purposely got up while my siblings sleep to talk to you."

     "Okay Reid, you're so nice!" Miranda says. Reid smiles and starts to blush again. He's very happy she can't see him.

     "I'm just being me tho....."

     "Well, then you're certainly awesome Reid." she says. Reid smiles even more. Not many people build him up this much. It gives him much needed confidence.

     They talk for a little longer in a kind of awkward fashion. Reid breaks the ice however when he asks her a question based on his observations about her.

     "Are you into horses Miranda?" Reid asks.

     "Yea, how'd you know that?"

     "Well, I saw you had muddy boots with spurs on, so I kind of guessed. "Reid says as he sheepishly blushes more.

     "Oh, haha. Well, yea, I am. I have three of my own." she says. That makes Reid like her so much more.

     "Wow, really?? Tell me what they're like!"