Disclaimer: Kate Brian owns Private, not me.
I am so terribly sorry for the long wait before update. I have been uber busy and I know that people don't want to here excuses. I feel like this story was going somewhere good so I have ultimately decided to finish it. It might not be as long as other stories I have and there won't be a sequel. I decided the one book I will continue to write on was the one that started out Suspicion: A Vacation Lost. So that means there will be a book following Never a Scandal Like This. Again I am terribly sorry. Hopefully updates will come sooner and sooner.
Josh POV
The girls left in a complete rush this morning. I am surprised Dash weaseled his way out of going shopping. Not only am I surprised but I am happy too.
"So what exactly are we doing?" I asked.
"Well I have some errands to run but after that I was thinking we could get a game of neighborhood basketball going for old time's sake." Dash said. Of course by neighborhood he meant just us messing around.
"Whatever," Sawyer said. He was becoming more and more like us. Or at least he was trying.
He had only known a small number of people that go to Easton before he came there. I gave him a lot of credit warming up to all of us.
"Let's go," Dash said.
I gave Sawyer the passenger seat next to Dash.
"Where are we going anyway?" I asked.
"It's a secret mission," Dash said. I chuckled. Sawyer knew to play along as well.
"Well sir what is our assignment then?" He asked.
"I can't tell you or I'd have to shoot you." Dash said.
"Seriously what's up?" I asked again. My question was however answered when we pulled up to the fanciest jewelry store in town. It was also the biggest with many entrances. This particular entrance was the ring department.
"A jewelry store?" Sawyer asked confused. He didn't live here and know the stories about this store. It had too much respect to be robbed from and the prices were too high for some people to even look at it. No one ever vandalized it. This store was the shiz.
"He's going to propose to Noelle," I said.
"Yup and you need to call Reed and make sure she is alone. I know what Noelle wants and what I am going to get but I need to get approval first.
I was still shocked as I dialed Reed's number. She answered on the third ring.
"Hello," She said.
"Hey," I said back. I heard oohs and ahh's in the background.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"I just found my dress for the pageant. It's a blue dress that's very tight. The back is very low and the straps meet in an x formation. There are silver rhinestones on the edge of everything. It's a dark blue so it matches my skin tone and hair color and there is a slit up the leg. It goes up to mid thigh or higher. There is a slight train on the back of the dress." Reed said seductively. I smiled at her describing so carefully her dress. I heard the ring of excitement in her voice.
"Ok, are you alone?" I asked.
"Um so not where this was going Josh," She said confused. I smacked myself.
"No I mean I am somewhere with Dash and we need an opinion of yours to make sure that what Dash is getting is ok." I explained.
"Oh man, I fee; stupid." Reed laughed.
"Ok Dash said he was sending you a picture on your phone." I said.
"Ok, no way," Reed said.
"I guess you got it. Is it ok for Noelle for you know what?" I asked.
"Perfect, Josh this is perfect for her, tell Dash a million times yes." Reed said.
"Ok awesome, make sure Noelle doesn't see that. Dash is going to call her and set up a dinner. Sawyer and I are going to take everyone else to the same place but Noelle won't know so we will be in disguise. He is taking her somewhere later so we are all getting like wigs and stuff." Josh said.
"This is going to be so much fun. I'll text you in a few minutes. Love you bye." Reed said urgently hanging up the phone.
"She said definitely," I told Dash. He held the ring in his hand. It was perfect for Noelle.
It was a huge diamond in the middle with a vine or leaf like pattern on the sides with smaller diamonds and in between the leaf patterns was a slim band with very small diamonds. It was all real. And all connected together in the back with a pure silver band. Dash had ordered it to have I Love You engraved into it.
"So Dash you should call her now." I said.
He did just that as the jeweler found a black satin box lined with silk from china and began to wrap the ring in it.
Dash put the phone on speaker.
"Dash! Guess what? I just got my pageant dress. You'll love it. It is black and tight and has a slit up the leg that goes to about mid thigh. There are three white belts above the waist and the straps are slightly thicker and white and there is a train in the back that is white. I love it so much. My day is going great. How about yours? We are going to pick up some dresses for the date portion." Noelle said. She was just as happy as Reed.
"That's wonderful; I was thinking we had a date night. Sawyer and Josh offered to take everyone else somewhere else. I want to take you for a stroll in the park then to your favorite restaurant. Just us two." Dash said smirking a little bit.
"Oh that sounds awesome. I'll pick up a dress now for that then too." Noelle said. "I'll tell everyone to grab a dress now too just for fun."
"Ok, I love you baby, meet me in the park in two hours." Dash said.
"Ok," Noelle said and she hung up the phone.
"Good now one more thing, we are going to a wig store and we are going to get the girls their wigs because we won't have much time." Dash said.
"Ok fine," I said. We got back into Dash's car and I began to feel like a girl. We were going jewelry shopping and wig shopping. I needed to play some basket ball or something.
We pulled up to a beauty shop. It was the one that Gia's sister owned.
"Hey I can probably swing I discount here," I said.
"Ok do your magic," Sawyer teased.
"Hey newbie lets not go there." I said laughing.
"Erika," I said walking into the shop.
"Josh, what brings you and plural guys here?" She asked confused.
We explained to her our story.
"Aw how sweet. Well we have a ton of wigs in the back room. Help yourself. No charge! It's for a proposal. I am a sucker for weddings." Erika said.
"Thank you," I said waving and going to the back room with Sawyer and Dash following.
We looked around and decided on certain wigs. Since Tiffany currently had a few inches past the shoulder length hair we got her same color but in a choppy uneven bob style. We got Taylor a really choppy hair do that was completely black. We got Kiran a shoulder length strawberry blonde style hair do. We got Reed a very blonde waist length wig.
"I'll text Reed to make sure they match." I said.
To: Reed
From: Josh
Hey we got the wigs. Make sure the dresses match the following:
Tiffany: Same color but like the bob length.
Taylor: Black and choppy
Kiran: Shoulder length strawberry blonde
You: Waist length very blonde
Love you
In a short amount of time she texted back.
To: Josh
From: Reed
Thanks, I gave everyone the information while Noelle was changing. They are all being good about it. I'll fwd that text. I'm so psyched!
Love you too
I smiled reading her text as we quickly made our way back to Dash's house.
"Ok no offense but I feel like we have been way to feminine these past few hors so let's do something slightly more manly." Sawyer complained. I laughed and nodded in agreement.
