Reyna is feeling angry at herself. The redhead cheerleader has a lot of time on her hand after receiving and accepting an unconditional offer of a place at Brown. She's been spending that time thinking about a big mistake she made. She could have pursued a relationship with Noah by asking him out but she messed up that chance. Her stupid mouth told him it was just for sex when she does have a crush on him. In fact, she's liked him a lot ever since last year. He is just so sweet, smart and kind. But Reyna's fear about what other people would think got the better of her and she chickened out of confessing to him.
She thought about having a long distance relationship with Noah, now that high school is over and they are heading off to different places, but got scared that it wouldn't work out and lied to his face. Now she is beating herself up over it. She feels she should have tried to find a way to make it work. He loved her and she ruined it. Now she might not ever get a second chance. If only she paused to think before saying something. She feels like such a moron right now. It's completely doomed.
But then she stops herself from thinking this way, realising that if she gives up now, she might lose him forever. She can't accept that. No, she won't let him go without a fight. He means way too much to her for her to give up that. Reyna decides that she is going to have to do something, and do something fast. That way, she can tell herself that she did everything she could, instead of just wondering for the rest of her life about the one that got away. With that in mind, she gets herself mentally prepared for what she is going to have to do. It isn't going to be easy, since she's never had to apologise to anyone before, but she isn't going to give up on him.
She ends up going over to his house that day. On her way to it, Reyna thinks about how she can try to persuade him to take her back. It is going to be really difficult but she is starting to think that maybe she could pull it off, if she tries hard enough. And Reyna is definitely going to go all in this time. She isn't going to hold anything back now. She already knew what it's like to be apart from Noah and she doesn't want to go through all that again. Not a chance in hell. Noah will be hers by the end of the day. She'll make damn sure of it.
When she arrives at his house, Reyna is surprised to find that Noah isn't home. It isn't like him to be outside when he doesn't have to be. His mother is home though and she greets her politely. She gets a cold stare in return and deduces that Noah told her about the last time they met. "Hi, Reese! I'm here to see your son, actually," she tries, hoping that maybe her guess is wrong and the older woman is simply in a sour mood for a reason totally unrelated to her arrival. But the angry look on Reese's face doesn't go away and Reyna gulps.
Reese is still upset about how the small redhead treated her son but isn't totally pissed yet, since Reyna's words drove him into Alicia's arms and he is happy there. Still, it makes her mad to see the pretentious girl back here again after what she left behind. "Well, I seriously doubt he would want to see or have sex with you again," she says to the young redhead. "He is dating someone right now and very serious about them." She strongly prefers her boss to this silly girl as her potential daughter in law.
Reyna is very surprised by the news that he is now dating someone else. It feels like a sharp punch to the gut. Her eyes betray the intense pain that she feels and Reese almost feels sorry for her. Only almost, though. "Wow, well I must say I am astonished. I had no idea he'd be able to get over me, and to do it so quickly too. It was only about a week ago when I had sex with him, and he really enjoyed it a lot. I mean, your son cummed bucketloads inside me!"
Reese is slightly bemused at how the girl is sharing such details with her, but her boss has been as explicit when she described all the nasty things she was going to do to Noah over the phone. Through a twister series of events, she has gotten surprising accustomed to objectifying her own son. "I wouldn't know about that. But even if you were good at it, I'm sure he's now addicted to my boss' pussy. That's who he's been going out with for the past few days. She is quite attractive. They also both share the same taste in literature. Both of them read a lot of Stephen King."
Reyna feels the ground spinning beneath her. She nearly collapses before recovering her strength. There is something is Reese's words that make her refocus. "Wait a minute. You just said that he is dating your boss?" she asks in an incredulous tone, clearly not believing what she is seeing when Reyna nods. "How could you allow that? She is in a position of power over him. That woman is taking advantage of Noah and you let her do it. It's incredibly unhealthy!"
Now the older woman is getting annoyed. "He is my son and what I consider to be healthy for him is my business, not yours," she snaps. "As I recall, you lied to Noah about your feelings for him to trick him into fucking you. Then you left him after telling him that it was all just a game to you and that what you two did was meaningless. You are lucky I even let you back into my house after that kind of stunt. Get out of here now before I am forced to call the cops on you. Go! And never come back."
Reyna looks like she wants to say more but she admits defeat, at least for now. The dejected girl leaves, feeling tears in her eyes. She really should have known better than to throw away her chance when she first got it. Now she'll have to work extra hard to get a second one. It will be difficult but she is prepared to put up one hell of a fight for the boy she wants. Even if she has to resort to dirty tricks and shamelessly offer him her body she is going to do it, without any more holding back out of fear of what the future holds.
Back in the room, Reese is thinking of how the girl she just dismissed was so cruel to Noah. She was the worst, using him for sex and then carelessly telling him how he meant nothing. But then she realizes that her son is an adult and capable of making his own decisions by himself. The best thing to do, in fact the only right thing to do, would be to tell him what happened, so that he can choose who he wants to be with now. That way, it will end without any of them wondering about what could have been.
Suddenly, her son returns home from his overnight stay at her boss' place. He looks ver happy about whatever he and Alicia did last night. It makes the single mom shiver slightly as she get images in her head of different positions that her boss might have used when fucking her son. "Sit down, Noah," she tells him and he does what he's told, sitting down on a couch and looking at Reese with a puzzled expression on his face. "There is something very important we need to talk about right now."
