The Covenant - Uncovering Secrets -

Chapter Five - An Unexpected Closeness

Okay so you know how you get those really annoying people in your life but somehow you can't help but find them appealing? Well I have four of them right now driving me up the bloody wall! Not only do they invade my dorm room every night almost but every morning too, at eight! Eight! Some people like to sleep and then rush to make it to class before it starts but I do not get to be one of them. Nope. Seriously I'm starting to think they miss numbered the rooms and this one actually belongs to them, they certainly spend more time in it than their own rooms. Yes I understand that Kate is dating Pogue, I can stand that although I could do without the romantic smooch sessions they get into. I could even stand Caleb and Tyler but what I can't stand...is Reid Garwin! I mean really how do they put up with him for so long. I more than anyone enjoy a bit of sarcasm and am quite capable at giving it back but add his ego and cockiness to that and he is this close to being thrown out the window. If I have to put up with one more morning of him adoring himself while they wait for Kate and then try and wrangle me into going out with them I will not be responsible for my actions. As you can probably tell, I'm not in the best of moods although I'm pretty sure if you were working on barely a few hours sleep every night for the last week you would be considering murdering that smart ass arrogant...deep breath...one night, it's all I'm asking, one night without nightmares...hell I'll even take the nightmares as long as they're not the same frigging one every time.

Rolling over I sighed as 04:56 glowed back at me in bright red taunting me that I was still awake. Sighing I rolled onto my back pulling the covers over my head as I shut my eyes tightly, wishing for sleep.

I let out a disgruntled groan as I realised the thumping I was hearing was actually real and that I must have fallen asleep at some point. Hell if I'm getting up. I can ignore that. It's Saturday. My day to sleep. I pulled my pillow over my head burying deeper under the covers trying to block out the noise. After several long minutes of unsuccessfulness in ignoring the noise I threw back my covers stomping across the room and yanking open the door.

"Really? You're telling me she hasn't given you a key! You practically live here." I hissed rubbing at my temples as I felt a headache coming on. "If you must come in, be quiet. I'm trying to sleep." I muttered grabbing my covers on my way back to the bed curling back under them astounded that Kate hadn't even seemed to stir. How does she sleep through that?

"Kate time to wake up. Babe come on." I rolled my eyes at Pogue's gentle voice.

"I really need a new roommate. One with no friends, no boyfriends no life even." I muttered to myself squeezing my eyes shut trying desperately to find sleep.

"Babe come on wake up." After the fourth attempt at Pogue's way of trying to waken her and only receiving a string of mumbling, I sat up giving him an angry glare. "Hey, I'm being quiet don't go glaring at me."

"You're not getting anywhere, move over, I'll waken her." Grabbing my phone I climbed off my bed stumbling as my legs caught in the covers. Reid's arms wrapped around me stopping me from meeting the hardwood flooring. I jumped back as I felt like I'd been electrocuted, all my nerve endings on alert, my whole body seizing as I frowned at him feeling like everything in my head had been shaken around.

"You okay?" He frowned back, his head tipping as he looked at me funny.

"Yeah...fine." I whispered trying to remember what I'd been about to do before the jolting experience. Looking through my phone I located the file Eric had placed in my alarms folder in the hope it would help me waken to my alarms. Holding it next to Kate's head I pressed play, one hand covering my ear as a loud klaxon sound blared from the small speaker within the phone.