Hey everyone, here is the next chapter for you! Enjoy :] BTW I read in one of the stories that Josh's brother Lynn's gf's name is Gia so I'm going to go with that.
Disclaimer: I don't own the private series, Kate Brian does!!
Party to Plan
The next morning after breakfast Josh and I made our way back to Easton, even though it was still snowing a bit we knew we couldn't stay longer. The night before had been amazing, Josh had asked me to go to New York City with him! Even though I told Noelle I would go to Aspen with her, I knew she would understand.
A short while later we where home, we kissed each other goodbye quickly and then I made my way back to the Billings. "Guys I'm home!" I said as I pushed open the door. In the living room, my friends sat drinking hot coco in front of the fire.
"Reed! Sit down, we need details!" Noelle said pulling me down on the couch with them. So I told them what had happened leaving out the stuff they didn't need to know.
"Noelle, please don't get mad, but Josh asked me to spend Christmas with him and I really want to. I know I said I would go to Aspen with you but you got to understand. Right?"
"Yeah, I understand but now what am I going to do in Aspen by myself?" She asked.
"Invite Dash?" I asked looking at her to see if she liked the idea.
"Perfect!" she exclaimed.
"I have another idea how about a New Years Eve bash in the city? Rent a space where there's a roof deck and watch the apple drop from there. How does that sound?" I said looking around to see the expressions on my friends faces.
"O' my god, Noelle don't you think that would be perfect? And my step-mom owns a huge loft with roof deck in Times Square. I mean the downstairs is here office but the upstairs can hold about 500 people comfortably. Plus the roof deck is huge, and it includes a heated pool!" Vienna said, with hope in her voice.
Noelle smile her knowing smile, "That would be perfect! Yes, we are going to have a party!"
"How about we split the work up?" Astrid said, "Like for instance, I would be in charge of music. Making sure the DJ plays good music and getting together a descent playlist. And then maybe you and Reed can do décor."
"Yeah, I could invites done, from the same place that did the Legacy invitations." London said.
"I could make the guest list and rsvp list!" Vienna said.
"O' my god! I am so doing drinks!" Shelby said, then she looked at Constance, "How about you do food and then we'll see what drinks and foods go together well."
"Okay!" Constance said, happy to be included in the planning of the party!
"Wait! What am I going to do?" Portia questioned, looking a bit sad that she didn't have anything to do.
"I got it! Fireworks! We are going to need fireworks!" I said looking at her.
"This sounds great, how about I take pictures; I mean we are going to get all pretty and dress up, don't we want to have to pictures to prove it?" Tiffany said pulling out one of her many cameras.
Noelle smiled, "It's a done deal! Girls we have a party to plan!" And so for the afternoon we planned our party, and instead of going to dinner we ordered in! This party was going to be amazing and the best part was it was something they could work on as a team, this was their bonding time.
The next morning, it was Sunday which meant after breakfast we moved to the Chapel for a short time.
"Hey, I missed you at dinner last night." Josh said putting his arm around me. We were in line for apple pancakes.
"O'yeah sorry about that, we were planning a New Years Eve bash, with fireworks and watching the apple drop from Vienna's step-moms home." He could tell that I was excited about this, but of course he had to think of a reason to make it negative.
"Sounds great, a bunch of drunken idiots shooting of fireworks!" he said sarcastically.
"Josh! Why can't you be happy for me? I mean this was my idea and they loved it, and I'm not planning on getting drunk anyway." I said grabbing a plate. His negativity was not really what I needed at 8:30 in the morning.
He pulled me close to him, and even though I tried to resist I couldn't not only was he stronger than me but he smelt like Burberry Brit and slightly like paint. Very delicious! "Come on, don't mad. I was just thinking ahead." He wrapped his arms around me and kissed ever so delicately.
"Gross, please too early in the morning for all you touchy lovely crap." Noelle said walking up behind us.
"I was just telling Josh about the party." I said giving her a glare as if to say be nice or else.
"Or else what? So did you tell Hollis that your ditching me for him over Christmas?"
"Noelle, please don't start with this now." I said turning my back on both Josh and Noelle.
"Why are you yelling at me? I'm not the one happy dancing over here." She turning me around so I could see Josh shaking his butt.
"Very mature. Both of you!" I grabbed my pancakes and made my way to the table where the Billings sat, not caring or waiting on either of them.
"Noelle and Josh already fighting?" Astrid asked pulling in a chair next to me. And Trey doing the same, only he pulled his next to Astrid.
"Course! As if all we want them to do is fight." I said angrily as I shoved a spoon full of cereal in my mouth.
"Whoo easy there tiger!" Josh said sitting down on my lap.
"Josh! Get off your heavy!"
"Fine, but I wanted to say; this morning has not been my finest hour and I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" He pouted his lips, and I pulled him into a quick kiss. Maybe just maybe someday Noelle and Josh would get along. Just maybe.
Getting There
The rest the week went by fast, luckily I kept Josh and Noelle apart most of the time. Josh and I would go on walks at night, kissing, touching and exploring. We also talked about things, and I got to see another side of Josh. I had really broken down his wall, and now we talked about anything and everything.
Noelle and I hung out during the day, as we were busy planning the party of the year! We came up with more ideas and the thank god for London's connections we were able to send out 550 invitations by Friday of that week. Josh and I had made one last doctor's visit and now it was Saturday the day everyone was leaving for break.
I was about done packing when Noelle walked through the door and plopped down of my bed.
"Umm Noelle your bed is like 7 feet away." I said pointing to her never-be-made-in-my-life bed.
"Yeah, well I wanted to talk to you. Anyways, do you think Hollis and you are going to seal the deal? Because if you are you better not be wearing that." And she pointed at my Aerie pajamas.
"Noelle, why do you have to bud into by business? And don't you have to pack too?" I said looking at her; she was just lying on my bed doing nothing.
" Reed, I've had all my new clothes ready shipping there. They are just waiting to be taken of that hanger and be shown to the world! Now back to subject, since I knew you would be a total prude about this! I hope they fit."
She walked over to her closet and brought back 2 bags, I looked inside and saw the label. La Perla. I saw brightly colored silks, and o'my god.
"Noelle, I can't wear this. We are living in his parents' house. This looks like stuff you wear when shooting a porno."
"Reed, stop being so dramatic, this is tasteful, come on Josh will love it! Please, you know you wanna take it."
The truth was I was self- conscious, and maybe a bit nervous. "But I'm not taking all of that."
Noelle knew that she had broken through my barrier. "Yes! I knew it. By the way you have nothing to worry about, Josh loves you and you have an in shape body. It will be fine. "
I thanked her and went back to packing. I did take most of the lingerie, because I knew I didn't have anything to worry about. In fact I thought, why not put some on right now? So I did and before I knew it, it was time to leave.
Josh picked me up right on time helping with my bags, and then we were on our way.
The drive to the city wasn't too bad; Josh and I talked almost the whole way there.
"Josh?" I asked him after a while of talking.
"Yeah?" he looked over at me and knew I was about to have a hard time saying what I was about to say. I knew I was going to have a hard time too, but I had to say it.
"Do you think you can ever forgive?"
"Reed, forgive you about what?"
"Josh, don't play dumb. You know what I'm talking about. The Dash thing."
His expression went from to confused to his poker face. He always put on that face when he wasn't sure how to answer a difficult question.
"Reed, that is history, and anyway Sabine drugged you. You forgave me for Cheyenne. But now let me ask you something. Can you forgive me for Ivy?"
I thought for a minute. Ivy. Had he ever slept with her? All of the sudden a million questions went through my head.
"Reed?" He said intertwining his fingers with mine.
"Yeah, I guess I do. I mean, it hurt seeing you with someone else but," o'crap my voice started to crack, "On the other hand I had hurt you even more. So yes, I forgive you."
"Good, because Ivy didn't mean anything to me compared to you."
"Okay, enough talk about that, how much farther?" I said opening the window, and then closing it again because it was quiet chilly.
Josh laughed, "Umm about an hour and a half. You should try to sleep. I'll wake you when you can see the skyscrapers."
"Sounds good." I said, Josh gave me his jacket and I balled it up against the window and drifted off into sleep.
A short while after I drifted off, Josh woke me gently. "Reed, we're almost there, you what to see the skyscrapers?"
My eyes popped open, "O'my god it looks so wonderful, even though that high up. Nah I rather stay ground! In those couple times that I've gone to the city, this one is probably the best reason!"
Josh smiled at me, "I'm glad you're excited!"
" Excited? That doesn't even cover it! I'm practically jumping off the walls here!"
Josh laughed, looked open to see a red light and pulled me in for a kiss. Ahh his tongue touched my and fireworks went off. I had to pull away though and show him the light had turned green again. He moaned but reluctantly focused back on the road.
I was like a kid and a candy store. I had never been able to see the city, the way I was when I was with Josh. He pointed out famous buildings. A short while later, after driving slowly through 5th Avenue, we headed for Central Park where the Hollis family resigned.
We pulled into a row of 5 story brick buildings. They were HUGE! Like my-house-could- fit-in-here-several-times huge!
Josh saw my expression, "Don't worry it'll be fine." He gave my hand a squeeze and we made our way to the front door, he pulled out his keys and unlocked the door. We walked in and he called his parent's "Mom, Dad! We're home!"
He took my jacket and with his hung it up in the coat closet. We walked through the foyer, past a room that looked like a living room, and then into a stainless steel kitchen. Everyone seemed to be there. I recognized Josh's parents. And then I saw two teenage girls about 13 or 14, and then two older versions of Josh. Except Josh was the best looking out of the 3.
"Josh, it's good to have you home! And Reed it's so nice to see you again!" Josh's mom pulled me into a tight hug. Then Josh introduced me to his siblings. "Tess and Tori," he said pointing to the two girls, "You can tell them apart from the eye color. Tess has green eyes like my mom, and Tori has blue eyes like my dad. Then to my brothers; Hunter" he said pointing to the shorter of the two, "will be flying solo with Christmas, while Lynn," he said pointing to the taller and more friendly looking one, "has Gia. But I don't know where she is not now."
"She split milk all over herself, she should be back down soon." Lynn said, he smiled at me, "So you're Reed. This major hottie my brother talks about each time I see him. Not bad lil'bro. Not bad at all."
I blushed, so Josh talked about me at home; that's sweet. We spent a short time downstairs, I got to meet Gia, and then Josh brought our stuff from the car and we headed upstairs. He explained the levels of the house. "Well, level one is kitchen, living room, dining room. Stuff like that, it's were my mom has her parties. Then my parents are on level two, it's the level that's farthest away from all kids. Then level three is our entertainment area. It's just one huge room filled with games and stuff like that. Level four belongs to the twins. Then level five belongs to my brothers and me."
We arrived up at the fifth level of the house and made our way to Josh's room. There were five rooms upstairs, one bedroom for each of the brothers, Josh's art studio and then one was a mini theater. It had 8 big movie seats, and there must have been over a 1,000 dvd's. It also included a popcorn maker, candy machine, and a soda dispenser.
We entered Josh's room. It was dark blue, there were sleeves filled with all sorts of stuff; from pictures he had drawn to signed baseball cards. Then I stopped at what saw, it was a picture of me and him last fall, before our first soccer game. Both smiling and hugging. That was before Sabine and that nightmare with Cheyenne.
"You still have the picture. I remember Tiffany taking that last year." I said point to the picture.
"Yeah, I always hoped we would get back together I didn't even bother to throw it away." He said causally. I walked over and pulled him into me.
"Well it's a good thing you didn't throw it away." I said, he pulled me in for a kiss. Fireworks went off in my head; a moan can from my throat. He pulled me up farther so that I could wrap my legs around his waist. Gently he laid me down on his bed, and pulled of his shirt. We kissed a moment longer until I pulled away.
"Reed!" He moaned as I pulled away.
"Josh, please. I mean I need you as much as you need me, but can't we wait? Till Christmas please."
"Fine, I guess I can wait. And this way it will be more special. Okay, I'll be on my best behavior."
"Good, now you wanna go grab something to eat?" I asked taking his hand.
"Genius, just what I was thinking!" He said laughingly.
OK what did you think?? PLEASE REVIEW!! O and can you give me some ideas of what reed and josh should give each other for Christmas.