Disclaimer- I do not own the private series. Kate Brian does.

"Taylor what happened to her?" I asked shouting now. Taylor was just frozen with the phone in her hand. Noelle took the one from her as Kiran tried to shake her awake.

"OH MY GOD!" Noelle screamed.

"What?!?!" I shrieked.

"Well for starters Leanne was murdered and well I can't read this text or..." Noelle started getting hysterical. Just then Taylor awoke from her stare and screamed.

"I'm going to die. I'm going to die." She screamed. Kiran and I looked quizzically at each other and then decided to take the phone away from Noelle.

The text read:

Leanne was murdered. It was me. I can't let you stop me. You're next Taylor- AO.

I screamed so loud I think that the Ryan household must have heard me because Mrs. Ryan and Paige came running out. Daniel hadn't read the text yet but he could probably guess. Noelle, Kiran, Taylor, and I were all hysterical and Daniel had just read the text.

"No. No. No. NO!" He muttered.

"What happened? What did you do?" Paige asked looking at me.

"Paige she didn't do a thing!" Daniel practically screamed in her face. Then he showed her the text message. Her jaw dropped.

"Oh my god." Was all she could manage. "It looks like Reed could possibly ruin one more life on our vacation." She finished.

That was all it took for me to be at her throat. We were fighting. Pulling hair, kicking, screaming. Then Noelle pulled me off and Daniel pulled Paige off. At that point Mrs. Ryan had the phone and was reading the text.

"Paige I am shocked at you. That was completely inappropriate." Mrs. Ryan said.

"Sorry." She said sounding like a three year old.

"Reed you might want to go to the police about this." Mrs. Ryan said. Why was she all of a sudden somewhat friendly to me? Then I wondered, she might have felt guilty about her son's behavior or realized that I was a Billings girl and she should treat me like one.

"Daniel, Paige lets give the girls some space. We can talk to them tomorrow." Mrs. Ryan said.

The ride home was silent but depressing. We were about five minute's way.

"Taylor, this is my entire fault I am so sorry." I said

"No Reed it isn't your fault at all. It's this psycho's fault. Well I do know that it can't be Ariana. But I don't know what to do." Taylor said looking like her puppy just died.

"Well Taylor why don't you come back to Easton with us we are returning tomorrow." Noelle said.

"I don't go there anymore." Taylor was starting to cry again.

"Well we can change that. After everything that has happened I think that the headmaster and school board will be doing anything to not get sued." Noelle said.

"Plus it would be awesome to have you back in Billings." I added on.

"But there won't be any room." Taylor said.

"Hey I am sure that some people will be willing to give up a room." Noelle said. "Like for example Amberly will be out and you guys can have her room."

"Wait where will I stay and what do you mean you guys?" I asked.

"Well Reed you are rooming with me. And if Taylor was threatened I am almost positive Kiran will be too. Won't it be fun to be like reunited again?" Noelle asked.

"Yeah definitely." I said.

"I am so in." Kiran said.

"I guess I am to." Taylor said.

"What about Amberly? How are you going to get rid of her?" I asked.

"Well she can get an automatic invite for when she is a junior." Noelle said. "Plus she will do just about anything for me" Noelle finished.

"This will be so much fun, aside from the drama." I said.

"Hey Reed I forgot to ask you. Is that your brother that was in the limo with us?" Taylor asked.

"Yeah, why?" I asked

"Because he is really hot." She said

"Well I am not positive but he probably thinks the exact same thing about you." I said.

Taylor blushed as we pulled up to Noelle's house.

When we walked through the door everyone went to there own rooms but Scott and Josh followed me to mine, even though Josh was sharing it with me.

"So what happened?" Scott asked.

"Well where to begin." I said.

"How about with this drama and you choosing sides or whatever. What Gage apologized for?" Josh said.

"Well when I was having a fling with Upton Poppy, Paige, and Sienna were extremely jealous. They pulled little pranks on me. Then once I was riding horses with Upton. My horse went crazy because of a human made noise in the woods. I almost went off a cliff. Later that day we went Jet Skiing with the whole crowd. My Jet Ski went haywire too. I accused them of doing something. It came down to choosing sides. Of course Daniel chose to go with Poppy, Paige, and Sienna. So did Sawyer and his brother. Then Gage went over there shocking us all. On our side it was Noelle, Kiran, Taylor, Tiffany, and me. Then Amberly was making a decision she actually chose us." I said.

"Holy crap. This is messed up. Someone was sabotaging you?" Josh asked.

"Pretty much." I said.

"Wow so then what happened?" Scott asked.

"Here it gets interesting. Poppy disappeared. She came back eventually. Then she got upset and Upton ran after her. Then I realized he was just a player. He was worse than Thomas." I was barley able to choke out his name.

"Continue," Josh joked.

"Ok so well I was pushed off the boat as you know. Poppy found me and we could conclude it wasn't her. Then when Sawyer told us his information things started to become clear. Daniel used to be pretty serious with Ariana. She went after Thomas. She was texting him and telling him to hurt me. He scared the horse. Then after the Jet Skiing thing he hadn't heard from her. He wasn't involved in that. Then he saw her on the boat. She told him to push me but he refused. His family was threatened so he agreed to pull my necklace. She then pushed him super hard into me. He almost fell but I did. He heard Poppy and ran. Then he felt like an idiot when Sawyer found the wig and contacts. Whoever the real girl was she had blond hair but definitely a different shade. We went over a list of suspects. We thought Leanne. That was when things got really weird." I said. I started to break out in tears.

"What got weird?" Josh asked while he was trying to comfort me.

"Taylor got a text. Leanne was murdered. The text was signed AO the same as Daniel's texts. It also said that," I said now crying harder.

"What else did it say?" Scott asked.

"It said that Taylor was next." I spat out.

"WHAT!" Scott screamed. That made me laugh a little. He had such a huge crush on her.

"Scott you should try to comfort Taylor." I suggested. "I think she likes you." I said.

"How could she like a guy like me so not in her league?" He asked.

"You are not that hard to like." I said.

"Thanks little sis." Scott said before he practically ran out of my room.

Josh and I both laughed.

"I can not believe this all happened. It is all my fault." Josh said.

"No it isn't." I said.

"Yeah it is. I left you. No one would have been jealous if it weren't for me not being there." He said.

"Don't beat yourself up." I said. "I'm tired." I finished.

"Ok. Let's sleep."

We both got changed and got in the bed.

"I love you," Josh said, "and I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"I love you too." I said.

When I woke up in the morning Josh was already awake.

"Good morning." He said

"Good morning." I said back.

We were interrupted by Noelle barging in.

"Come on love birds. We are going out for dinner. Hollis, before hand you can hang with the bays but we need Reed for some serious therapy. Dress nice it's fancy. The earliest flight I could find is in three days so be ready then." Noelle said

"Ok let me get dressed. I'll be ready in a half hour." I said. Noelle nodded and walked out.

"Well I guess I will see at dinner." Josh joked. "You can have the first shower." He said then he kissed me.

I took my shower and was out 10 minutes later. Josh had picked out my outfit. I was wearing a white mini skirt with a pink cherry top and pink Gucci sandals. Josh had good taste.

"I'll see you later." I said to Josh I said as I headed to Noelle's room.

"Reed guess what." Taylor shrieked as I walked in.

"What?" I asked.

"Your brother, he asked me out." She said.

"Awesome." I said. That boy did have courage.

"Ok let's get going we need dresses for tonight." Noelle said.

We arrived at the mall a half hour later. We went right away to get dresses. I found a perfect silver dress with a beaded cross neck strap that hit just above my knees. It had a zigzag back with the same beading as the straps. I got silver high heels with diamond rows at my ankles. Noelle got a low backed halter black dress with black sandals. It hit right above her knees and had a sequence row near the waist. Kiran got an orange strapless dress that had sparkles all over and it hit right above the knees. It matched her skin tone perfectly and blended well with her hair. She as well had silver shoes. Taylor got a sparkly white dress that was spaghetti strap and was flowy at the bottom. It touched just below her knees and was topped off with the perfect white sandals. Noelle got a small black purse with a gold chain strap. I got a silver clutch with a metal handle. Kiran got a purse like Noelle's but in silver. Taylor bought a white handbag with a silver chain strap. Noelle bought my things for me. We looked drop dead gorgeous.

"I am so excited for dinner tonight." Kiran said.

"Who are you going with Kiran?" I asked.

"I am going with…"