1. Popular
It's difficult to not be popular when you're handsome, rich, and with an aura of knowledge and ability that the people around you just don't posses, and the Sons of Ipswich aren't even trying.
2. Past
Alya's past caught up with her, and she stood up to it with heroic strength of will and character, and all Reid wanted was to heal the wounds that childhood had left in her heart and mind.
3. Pretend
I've got a good, tight, perfect New England respectable family.
4. Partner
Most people never realized just how far and absolutely they could rely on the mouthy blond, in good and ill, in trials and in fun.
5. Painful
He'll joke it off and laugh it off as long as he's able to, and hide the rest, as well as he possibly can, but rejection, small or not, cuts deeper than it should.
6. Pure
There are no words for the pure bliss they touch when Using; nor for the pure betrayal that slipping down that slope means.
7. Pleasure
Mmm, coffee.
Take in everything that life throws his way, and burn brightly with living in each second - pleasure in every little thing is what it means, to be Reid Garwin.
8. Perfect
It is the little things, the touch of fingers on the back of his hand, the tickle of breath on the side of his neck - that combine with understanding and attention and care and love, to make him aware over and over again at how perfectly thy fit together.
9. People
Best subject of study, ever.
10. Peace
Rarely sought and even less frequently achieved, he still immerses himself into it fully and appreciates it well, when it happens.