Addicted to You

9

Spencer woke up and pulled a post-it note off the top of his forehead. 

'Hey cutie, if you're reading this and I've suddenly disappeared it's because I decided to shower in my own apartment. I prefer to smell like peaches instead of...I don't know--man scent I guess. HAHAHAHA. I didn't know how else to phrase that but you get the idea - AP'

He tried to comprehend how she managed to fit that much on a post-it note in her oddly neat handwriting. He decided to get up and shower too. As he finished buttoning up his shirt he heard Atticus enter. 

"Hey, Spence. You ready to go? Why the fuck are you so dressed up?", she laughed looking at his plaid button-up shirt with a sweater vest over it, "God, you are too cute", she kissed him lightly. 

"Why are you so dressed up?" he questioned back. Observing her light wash black jeans, high collared black shirt with an oversized plaid jacket over it, and a pair of doc martens on her feet. 

"Bitch, it's not my fault I have killer ass style, the fuck", she giggled. 

They entered the library hand in hand and each pulled six books off the shelves. Spencer noticed that Atti had picked up books of multiple languages. They sat at a table and she leaned her head against his shoulder as they read. 

"How fast do you read", he questioned noticing that she had already finished half of her books. 

"Not as fast as you. Approximately"Wait  14,000-15,000 words per minute"

"Wait, what? What's your IQ?"

"185"

"Why did you never tell me any of this?"

She shrugged, "Eh, being a genius is kind of your thing hon"

He laughed, "You never fail to amaze me", he whispered as he caressed his face and kissed her sweetly. Atticus pulled away and did her best to suppress the huge smile that wanted to escape her lips. As much as she didn't want to, she kept thinking about what Reid had said, 'Bye. Love you.' She knew it was just a slip, but what the fuck was she gonna do if he meant it. 

Eventually, they left the library and headed to the store to pick up some groceries. Attici pushed Spencer around in the cart as she made her way down the aisles. Of course, he looked ridiculously adorable because his 6'1 ass barely fit in it. They checked out and drove back to their apartment building. 

Atticus started cooking and then entered the living room where Spencer sat, "They're gonna take a while, so we have a lot of time to kill", she laughed. 

"Yesterday, you told me that there's a lot I don't know about you, so tell me about that."

"I have an idea", she disappeared into her bedroom and dug through her closet. She returned with a fairly large box in her arms. Atti proceeded to hook up a VHS player to her TV and Reid looked at her confused, "What? I like old school shit".

"Anyway, lucky for you, I have most of my life on tape"

He raised his eyebrows with a small smile. She found the tape she was looking for, "Ok, so in this, I am eight years old and back then my siblings and I were obsessed with the movie 'Grease'--you know what I'm just gonna stop talking and play the tape"

Displayed on the TV was a young Atticus sitting on a mattress, her back facing the camera. She was humming quietly to herself, 

But now, there's nowhere to hide

Since you pushed my love aside

I'm out  of my head, hopelessly devoted to you

Hopelessly devoted to you

She belted, "Jesus Atti", Aeacus said from behind the camera. 

Atticus turned to face him, "What?", she muttered.

"We had no fucking idea you could sing like that", Apollo said. 

"Like what?"

"Like--incredible", Athena stated. 

"You really think so", she said with a small smile. They all whispered in agreement, and then the video cut off. 

"How did you sing like that at eight?!", Spencer questioned with astonishment. 

She chuckled, "I have this thing called 'perfect pitch', so if you take like a spoon or something and tap it against a surface, I can tell you what note the sound produces. So it's easy for me to copy songs like that because I can identify every note."

"Is there anything you're not good at?"

"Hmmmm--uh--I'm not very good at Calculus. That was the only class I ever had a C-in"

"So you're still pretty good at that"

"I guess", she got up and dug through the box again, "Most of these are just me and siblings wresting and doing illegal shit", she laughed, "So I'm just gonna skip to my highschool phase"

She appeared on the screen standing on a tabletop in a house full of people, she paused the tape, "Allow me to explain, in high school I kinda had this band and the rich kids from central would pay us to play at their parties. The funny part is, I graduated high school when I was fifteen so in these videos I'm fucking thirteen or fourteen"

Spencer's jaw dropped as he saw teenage Atticus dressed in low rise black cargo pants and a black crop top, her hair was short then and she styled it so that it flicked outwards. She snorted a few lines of coke off her wrist, "Ooh", she winced, "We are not off to a good start". In the video, she started to play a riff on her bright red electric guitar. 

She only say she miss me when she come into the city

I only say I love her when I wanna fuck her, I only call her pretty when she's taking out her titties

I only say I love her when I wanna fuck her

"Wow, this is painful to watch", Atti whispered as she turned to Spencer who was smiling, "I hate how much you're enjoying this", she turned her attention back to the tape. 

I only hit her up when I'm taking drugs

I only hit her up when I'm taking drugs

I only hit her up when I'm taking drugs

I only hit her up when I'm taking drugs

Spent all my daddy's money, making sure my nose stay runny

I only say I love her when I wanna fuck

We pop a couple xannies now she's taking off her panties

I only say I love her when I wanna fuck her

"So you were just always beautiful then?"

"Spence, I was strung the fuck out on coke in that", she laughed.

"That doesn't change the fact that you're gorgeous"

She rolled her eyes, "To be honest, that was embarrassing as hell. I was rebellious and vulgar as fuck. Fourteen year old me had no damn business singing shit like that", Attici laughed again. 

"This is off-topic, but earlier at the library, I noticed that you chose books in multiple languages. So how many can you speak?"

"Uhh--Russian", she started counting on her fingers, "French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazillian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese"

"Mandarin or Cantonese?"

"Both", she pressed her lips together and raised her eyebrows. 

"Why did you keep all of this a secret?"

"It wasn't a secret per se, it just never came up and I didn't think it was important."

"I cannot believe you've been hiding the fact that you're a genius this whole time"

"What can I say? If there's one thing I'm good at it's keeping secrets and hiding my feelings", she cupped his face and kissed him gently.