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Slowly I opened my eyes; I couldn't ignore the sound for much longer. It felt like a bird was sitting next to my ear and singing. Then I realized it was my phone and it really was right next to my ear. I picked it up and didn't even bother to look at the caller ID.

"Hello?" My morning voice must have sounded terrible to the person on the other side, because it sounded even worse than me.

"Hello!" The cheery voice of Josh sang right through me and I think it was the first time I wished he would leave me alone.

"Josh, it's a Saturday, why are you phoning me this early?"

"It's not that early, it's already 10.30."

"Oh. Then I'm up. Ok, so why are you really phoning me?"

"Well, you see Ivy has already left for Winter break. This means we have 4 days till I leave." I could hear the smile in his voice.

"Actually, we only have three."

"Why three?"

"Well I'm going to St Barts with Noelle and we are leaving a day early. But I actually think it's only because Noelle wants an extra day to shop."

"Oh, well threes enough for me as long as you get up right now and meet me in the Art Cemetery. Oh and by the way I like the jimjams", I blushed and then wondered how he knew that. "Reed, I thought you knew that our rooms were facing each other? At least Astrid figured it out"

"Ok, smarty pants, I'm going to get dressed, so I'll meet you there in half an hour?"

"Perfect", then he hung up.

I walked out of Billings at 11.03 leaving myself very little time to walk to Josh. I was wearing grey skinny jeans, a floral but trim top, a distressed bomber jacket, my star print scarf and my checker splatter tennis shoes. The biggest reason I had taken so long was that I didn't know what to wear under it. When Josh and I had first started going behind Ivy's back I had not told anyone. But, it was hard to keep it from Noelle so I told her and she said she didn't care about Ivy, but she did care about me, so I mustn't let myself get hurt again. Then she took me out to buy some lingerie.

I was so deep in thought I hadn't realized I had walked in to the AC and sat on Josh's lap until he started waving his hand in front of my eyes and saying my name. I snapped out of my day dream and looked at him, he smiled.

"What you thinking about?" He whispered this in my ear seductively.

"You", I smiled at him, then he started to kiss my neck, he kissed all the way down to the end of my collar bone, then he started his way back up. Slowly I lifted his shirt over his head and turned to fully face him, which meant I was straddling his lap. He then kissed me on the mouth and slowly started removing my jacket and then my shirt which revealed the sweet cherry pink ruffle bustier from Victoria Secret. After he saw that it wasn't long before it was to on the floor with the rest of our discarded clothes.

I was now laying in his arms my chest heaving up and down, showing that I was clearly out of breath. I could feel Josh's chest doing the exact same thing as mine, our chests even went up and down at the same time, we were perfectly in sync, two halves to one whole. I turned to face, he was staring at me in this loving way, the way he use to. I reached up and toyed with his hair. Then I remembered that he said Ivy had already left, but wasn't he meant to go to Paris with her?

"Hey, Josh?"

"Mmhmm?"

"Why didn't you leave with Ivy? I thought you were going to Paris with her."

"I was, but I decided not to, everything has been kind of stressful lately, so I'm just going to go to New York for the Holiday."

"Are you going to be in New York for New Years?"

"Yep, why?"

"Noelle and I were thinking of throwing a huge party, nothings been finalized, but if we do we want to throw it in New York."

"That would be so cool! I would get to spend New Years with you! Now you have to throw that party", he said smiling.

"I guess I do!"

He smiled, then kissed me. I pulled away.

"I love you, Joshua Hollis", I was sure my smile was so huge that it looked like the size of the planet.

"I love you more, Reed", He had that most beautiful smile on his face.

I kissed him slowly and that's what we did for the next 45 minuets.

One hour later I tried to sneak back in to Billings, hoping no body had seen me walk out the AC. I got half way up the stairs, when Noelle's voice sang loud and clear, "Reed, I saw you try sneak in. Come here please." I walked back down that stairs, in to the lounge and over to where Noelle was.

"Hey"

"Ok, so, Reed how's Josh?"

"When did you start caring how Josh is?"

"I don't, I was just trying to be nice. But, anyways did you have fun?"

I just blushed.

"I'll take that as a yes", she said with a laugh.

I was about to get up when I remembered about the party.

"Noelle, remember we talked about having a New Years party in the city?"

"Yes."

"Well, I was thinking that we should do it. What do you think?"

She just smiled. With that smile I knew that this party was going to start the year off with a bang! Hopefully no real bangs.

Sorry I haven't written in a while, but this was a nice long one. So, hopefully it makes up for lost time.

Jess

xxx