So far, my vacation to Italy was amazing. When Josh drove me to the hotel, everyone was in Noelle's suite. They all welcomed me to Italy and caught me up on the latest drama. Josh stayed by my side the whole night. And we went back to his room and got ready for bed. As I slowly took off my make up, I groaned. I hated when Josh saw me with no make up. I looked hideous. Like I'm naked. Wait, he's seen me naked. Does that change things? I continued taking the black liquid off. When I was done, I looked at myself in the mirror. I didn't take all of the make up off. I was feeling lazy.
Josh walked up behind me and wrapped his strong arms around my slim waist. He kissed my neck all the way up to my cheek. I smiled and put away my stuff. I turned around and faced him. He stopped kissing me.
"You need to stop." I teased, smiling.
"Stop what?" He cracked a smile.
"Growing. Before we know it, I won't be able to reach you anymore." I told him leaning on a hip.
"Then I'll just have to pick you up." He chuckled. I started laughing when he picked me right of my feet and lifting me onto him. I wrapped my legs around his waist and my arms around his shoulders.
"Yeah, I could get used to this." I put my forehead against his.
"Me too." He smiled before reaching up to give me a kiss deeper than life itself. I kissed him back. Slowly, yet fast. And longing, in a loving way. Josh walked us out of the bathroom and into the bedroom part. He laid us both on the bed. He was lying on top of me. I ran my fingers through the curls that just touched the back of his neck. His hands ran up and down my hips and sides. Our bodies pressed up against each other. I pulled away for a second to catch my breath. He pulled away too, holding himself up on his hands. I watched as he rolled over to lie next to me. He landed on his back, and while breathing, he looked over at me. I continued to look at him and then rolled on my side, wrapping my arm around him.
"I missed you." I whispered in his ear. He looked down at me. His blue eyes gazing.
"I missed you too." He whispered back. He kissed the side of my face and then started down my jaw. I stretched my neck out. He made his way up to my lips and gave me a sweet kiss. We stopped. Enough making out for tonight.
"Do you want to go on the beach?" He asked.
I smiled. "It's like 12."
"Well, 4 to be exact." Josh smiled. "Do you want to?"
Before I knew it, we were walking down the beach. The sun was just peaking up above the waves. It looked like it wasn't going to move ever again. We walked hand in hand down the beach. The only ones out here.
"It's so beautiful." I said lightly staring at the sun. Josh looked at it too.
"I know," He paused. "Not as beautiful as you." He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me to him.
I looked behind us. "Let's sit down." I pointed to the lawn chairs with padding on them. They looked comfortable right now. Josh sat down on one and I sat between his legs. My back leaned against his chest. He wrapped his arms around me and I held onto his hands. We just watched the view for a while. I couldn't believe the sun was already coming up.
"When you're away at college, I'm coming up and visiting you a lot." I told him, playing with his hands.
"I'll come back to Easton and take you to my parent's place in New York too. You shouldn't have to stay in that hell hole for more than 2 months straight." He was right. No one could take a straight year there without getting away from it a few times.
"We should do that." I said. "I don't think I'll want to stay around there long. All my friends won't be there." I said.
"I know, but you'll still have some people." Josh pointed out.
I sighed. He was right. I didn't want this year to be over. "When's your graduation?" I asked.
"In June. Day before the last day. It's usually earlier, but I think with the new headmaster… things are different." He said.
I nodded. "I'll be there." Even if it's pouring like frick outside. I'll be there. "Even though I don't want to be away from you, I'll support whatever you do. You can go to school in California if you want. I'll still be proud of you." I told him slowly, thinking about each sentence.
"I'll be there at your graduation too." He told me, squeezing me quickly. "Then, once we're both out of high school, we can really start our lives."
I nodded again. I knew what he meant. Right off the bat. "Do you think we'll be together when college comes around?" I asked.
"I want to be with you in college." Josh said. "I hope we are. And I hope we stay together beyond that too." He said.
"Me too." I smiled. He held me closer to him and we both listened to our breathing while the waves crashed on the shore. It all seemed too perfect. It seems like something was supposed to happen any second. But nothing did. And we sat there for many moments until we decided it was time to go back.
"You mean Amberly was staying in your house for seven days?" Portia laughed. She threw her curly hair over her shoulder and smiled. I just told all the Billings Girls about Amberly. We were all lying on lawn chairs out in the sun. While waiters in white shorts and gorgeous wind blown hair served us fruity drinks and smoothies. This was the life.
"She's such a little bitch. If I could, I'd strangle her. She sucks up to me too much. It was nice at first, but now it's obvious." London scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"I know! She does the same thing to me." Vienna gasped.
"No way!" London squealed.
"Is she still doing that?" Kiran smiled.
"She's probably banging your brother as we speak." Rose teased.
"Ew!" I shouted and kicked my legs and arms out. We all laughed.
"That's it. I'm done." Noelle sat up and slammed her Vogue down on her lawn chair. We all stopped what we were doing and looked over at her, a little scared. What was she mad about now?
"All in favor of voting Amberly Carmichael out of Billings House raise your hand." Noelle smirked.
Everyone's had shot up. I smiled and raised mine proudly.
"Well, well, well, look who we have here. Reed Brennan wants Amberly out. Even though it would crush her brother." Noelle said sarcastically. She knew how much Amberly was a pain in the ass. She wanted her out just as much as I did.
"Let's just hope the two don't get married, I wouldn't want to ever see her at Christmas." I rolled my eyes. The girls laughed.
"Ok, then what's done is done." Noelle sat up. "We are freshman free." She lay back in her lawn chair. We all let out a few of the original "Yes!" or, "Finally!" Then tapped our glasses together in a toast. Then everyone shifted in their lawn chairs and went back to tanning. We were in two rows, facing each other. Noelle was dead center, I was next her. Next to me was Rose. My vacation was going so well. I couldn't believe it.
"So are you guys excited for my wedding?" Noelle asked.
"Yes!" Everyone said at the same time. Oh, how much everyone sucks up to Noelle…
"You're all bridesmaids." She smiled.
"Can you even do that?" I asked her.
She looked at me. "I'm Noelle Lange." She smirked. "Of course I can. And besides, this isn't going to be a traditional wedding." She shrugged and lay back down.
"Well, of course it's not." Kiran smiled. "It's you're wedding now."
"I know you guys aren't going to believe it. And I got the wedding planner that planned Gwen Stefani's wedding." Noelle smiled.
"Ohmigod!" The twins gasped.
"I know, amazing." Noelle smirked.
I smiled. "This is going to be on hell of a wedding."
"Oh you know it." Noelle settled back in her seat. I smiled and looked up someone was glancing over at us. They were lying in the sun a few feet away. They kept looking over at us and then looking away. I squinted. It was a guy and I couldn't make out who the other person was. I sat up and leaned forward. My back started to hurt from the curiousness that was rushing through my body.
"Noelle," I hissed and touched her arm on the armrest.
"What?" She asked not looking over at me.
"Look," She frowned and then forced herself up to see what I was talking about.
"Yeah, Reed, I don't know how far away Pennsylvania is from here, but we call that an ocean." She laid back in her lawn chair.
I rolled my eyes. "I know that's an ocean, look at those two." I said.
"The guy and girl?" She asked.
"Yeah."
"What about them?"
"They keep looking over here." I told her.
"Their probably jealous." A few girls nodded.
"But, don't you think it's weird?" I asked.
"Not at all." She said. Then she looked over at me. "What? Do you think they're out to get you?"
I laid back in my lawn chair. She's right. Who ever was stalking me, certainly didn't come to Italy with me. I was on the plane alone.
Who where they though? They both got up and walked away. I noticed it was a girl and a guy. A girl with long blonde hair that went down to her lower back and a guy, who had a hat on. I couldn't make out his face. I leaned back when I couldn't see them anymore. All they where were worthless dots in the sand now. Someone came up behind Noelle and sprayed us with drops of water.
"Ah!" The girls cried. I just stretched my neck up to see who it was. Gage. Of course, he was shaking out his damp hair over us.
"You jackass." Noelle snarled and wiped off her bathing suit. I laughed. Heaven forbid they get wet on a beach.
"Noelle, wake up, you're in Italy." Gage snapped back.
"Well, Coolidge, I noticed that, but I don't waste my time trying to walk on water." She flipped around and laid back down on her lawn chair. I turned around and looked at who was there with Gage. The normal group of guys walked up with smiles on their faces.
"What did you guys do?" I asked him.
"We made sandcastles and held hands while we ran down the beach." Gage gave me a 'yeah right' look. "No, we went surfing!" He said. Josh walked up next to him.
"Reed, you should of seen Gage, total wipe out." Josh said, him and the guys laughed and high fived.
"We couldn't find him for like 10 minutes." Trey added.
"We thought he was going to be lost at sea!" Dash shouted laughing. They all cracked up. Too bad they didn't really lose him.
"It wasn't that long! I just was trying to scare you guys." Gage said sticking his chest up. "It was all a joke."
"It didn't seem like a joke when you had a panic attack on the beach when we brought you in." Josh smiled.
"Shut up, man." Gage snapped at all of them and walked over to a lawn chair next to Tiffany.
"We had fun though." Trey said.
"Did any of you actually catch a wave?" Astrid asked lowering her sunglasses to look at them.
They looked at each other and laughed. "No." Dash said and walked over to Noelle.
"Well, we are going back to tanning." Noelle said. She laid back down in her lawn chair and Dash rubbed her shoulders.
Josh came up and sat at the end of my lawn chair.
"Hey." He smiled. I leaned in and kissed him.
"What are we doing the rest of the day?" I asked sitting up and crossing my legs.
"We could go shopping." London shrugged.
"Eh." Portia groaned. "I'll only go if we go somewhere outside of the mall. They have everything there is back home." She pointed out.
"We could go to those shops in the village thingy!" Vienna suggested.
"Sounds like a plan. What time you guys?" Noelle asked.
"It's 12 right now, let's go at like 3 and then go out to dinner after." Portia said.
"WHAT?!" Gage shouted. "We're spending 2 hours shopping?!"
"You don't have to come." Noelle spat.
"But what am I going to do?"
"Sit here and wonder where you went wrong in your life. Just to help you out, I think it was in the early years." Noelle smiled.
"Fucking A. I'm not sitting around for two hours. I'll find something… or someone to do." Gage smirked. We all rolled our eyes.
"Well, how about we go back in in about a half hour. Then we'll be gone by 2:30. Be there at 3." Noelle shrugged.
"But, seriously, what are we going to do?" Dash asked.
"You guys can stay behind if you want and come up after our shopping to go out to eat." Tiffany suggested.
"Let's just do that. Hey! Who wants to play some volleyball?" Trey asked.
"With Italian hotties?" He asked winking at a girl walking by. She smiled and blushed. Her and her friend waved before scampering away.
"Hey, I thought you and Ivy were together now." Dash asked squinting from the sun. Everyone turned all eyes on Gage, to see what was going on.
"Well, she was supposed to come. I have no idea when though, but right now, we're friends… with the nightly benefits." Gage grinned. Ew. I squirmed a bit and Josh looked away. Obviously making this all too uncomfortable for all of us.
"Typical." Dash scoffed silently.
"Well, lets go." Trey shrugged. All the guys got back up to play.
Josh gave me a sweet firm kiss on the lips and then jogged away to catch up with the guys.
"Hollis is whipped!" Gage whooped.
"Am not." Josh gave Gage a shove causing him to trip over his foot and fall into the sand. All the guys started to crack up and the girls smiled and giggled behind our palms.
"Gage is so annoying." Kiran rolled her eyes and refocused on her glossy, thick magazine.
We all mumbled our agreements.
"So, how long exactly are we going to stay out to shop?" I asked. I wasn't really worried about my sleep. Me and Josh went to bed at 4:30 in the morning and woke up around 1. It wasn't that bad. But, still.
"Only for 2 hours. Where were you?" Noelle asked.
"Gazing into Hollis's eyes?" Kiran gushed sarcastically, holding her open magazine against her chest. The girls started laughing. I gave them a small smile and blushed.
Maybe.
"I'm just making sure. I didn't know we always told Gage the truth." I shrugged.
"We shouldn't, since he's cheating on Ivy." Tiffany pointed out.
I nodded. I still couldn't wrap my mind around that. I watched the guys throw the volleyball over the net back and forth.
I saw the girl again. The girl with the long blonde hair. She was alone, stealing gazes at Gage, and then quickly pulling her book back up. Maybe she knows him. Maybe she's harmless.
Let's hope for the best.
Hello! How is everyone? I am sorry it was a week's worth wait. It wasn't much in the chapter. I didn't like it. I think in the next chapter, BIG things are going to happen. Really long one I think, people are coming in, and people are having other issues. It'll be great! Well, i'm so sorry for the crappy chapter. I'm so tired. And I've been trying to work on this when I can. But, this week has been the toughest. And I'm exhausted (like i've said earlier) so I'm going to go now.
It would mean A LOT of you guys reviewed. That way, I can have the inspiration to type up another chapter, and hopefully have it up tomorrow or sunday :]
oh! And I got suspicion. And I'm reading it right. now. I'm only on ehh, about the 6th chapter, and I hate it.. UGH.
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~Lauren
