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I was in my house in boring old Croton. I walked in and no one was home. When I arrived at the kitchen I saw a girl with Blonde hair and blue eyes holding a knife. I turned to run but in my way was another girl with dark hair and green eyes. She held me down while the other girl tried to kill me with the knife.
Ariana…Sabine…Ariana…Sabine…
I woke up with a scream.
"What happened Reed?" Josh asked sounding concerned.
"Nothing, just a nightmare." I said.
"Ok do you want to go back to sleep or do you want to start packing for tomorrow?" He asked. Oh yeah, I was going to New York tomorrow. I was so excited. I haven't seen Josh's family in forever.
"Let's start packing.' I said. I would pack and hen Noelle was bringing me to the mall considering all of my clothes were ruined.
"That works." Josh said with a smile leaning over to kiss me. He had a grin on his face and I had no idea why.
We started packing everything into my suitcases which wasn't much, just what I had gotten yesterday.
"Reed, make sure to save some shopping for New York." Josh said.
"Will do, I don't know how many winter items I can find here." I said with a giggle. Josh was the only one that ever made me giggle.
Then I opened one of my empty suitcases and found a blue jewelry box.
"Josh…" I stuttered.
"Just open it." He said. I did as I was told and found gorgeous blue topaz earrings. Now I knew why josh had such a big grin on his face.
"Josh these are beautiful. Thank you so much." I said leaning over to give him another kiss.
"Reed we are leaving in like an hour to go shopping. We will pick up Constance and Astrid. The guys are coming but it is their choice if they want to stay with us or not." Noelle said popping her head through our door.
"Ok Noelle I will be ready." I said.
"Yeah, I guess I will be too." Josh said.
"I didn't know you were coming." I said to Josh after Noelle left.
"Neither did I, the other guys must have made that decision." He said.
"Do you not want to go?" I asked.
"Well if you are going I will be happy. Is your brother used to carrying shopping bags?" He asked.
"No, but he is so crazy for Taylor that he won't care." I said.
"So I think we are done with packing so let's take showers. You can go first." Josh said.
"Ok, thank you." I said.
I took a 10 minute shower and walked out. Josh had laid an outfit out on the bed. He walked into the shower and I went to get changed. Josh had picked out a dark jean skirt and a white tank top with silver flats and a silver belt.
Josh was still in the shower and I decided to check my email. I had 7 unread messages. 1 of them was from my mom and the other 6 were all from...not that again. I read my mom's message. It was one of those forwards that everyone had gotten like 100 times. I decided to look at the other six.
Dear Reed,
I can't stop thinking about you. I know I have someone and you have Josh and that isn't going to change. We could try. I am crazy about you and I need you. You are a part of me now. Even though we were drugged it meant something to me. Reed I love you.
Love Dash.
No. Not this again. I deleted the message right away. I read the next and it said:
Dear Reed,
I may have come off pushy in the last email but if you are willing to get back together with me I will dump Noelle. Reed I need you.
Love Dash.
I deleted that one to and read the next:
Dear Reed,
My love I really need you. If you read this email meet me outside tonight. I need to feel you and see you and hold you as if you were mine. I want you Reed.
Love Dash.
I deleted it. It was really creepy and I decided I should at least read the rest they were as followed:
Dear Reed,
Come to me tonight. I am guessing you didn't get the other email. Come to me. I need you. I know that you have feelings for me. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come to me PLEASE.
Yours and yours only Dash
Reed,
You are my one true love. I will always love you. If you have any feelings towards me meet me tonight. Whether or not you have feelings for me come to me. I need you. I want you. You will be mine.
Love Dash
Dear Reed,
I suppose you may have not gotten these past emails. I don't care. I love you and since you aren't coming to me I will come to you. Tomorrow at the mall expect to see me there. I will get all of the guys to go. I need you and I love you.
Love Dash.
Oh. My. God. I deleted all of the emails and closed the computer.
"Hey what's up?" Josh asked, coming out of the bathroom. He was all dressed but his golden curls were wet still.
"Nothing, Are you ready to go." I asked. I was lying. Everything was up. Dash still loved me. I had no feelings for him and it was really weird that he did that to me. I had six emails from him begging me to leave Josh for him.
"Yeah, let's go." He said. I went over and kissed him. It turned to a deep kiss very quickly.
We walked out and I was holding his hand. I didn't know what I was going to do to avoid Dash. Hopefully the hand holding thing would tell him that I was Josh's not his.
When we met in Noelle's living room I shot Dash a glare. He gave me a pleased look back. He had figured that I had gotten the emails. It didn't matter I hugged Josh just then.
"Let's go." Noelle said when Kiran came in with Sawyer. Everyone was there and we were going to pick up Constance, Whit, Trey, and Astrid. There was no way Dash could make a move because if he did then everyone would see.
About an hour later we arrived at the mall.
"So who wants to go where?" Noelle asked.
"It doesn't matter to me." I said.
"Well then let's separate." Noelle said. That was a relief. I just had to go wherever Noelle wasn't because Dash would be following her around. Noelle however looked really irritated. As people started fanning out Noelle just sat there.
"Reed, can I talk to you?" Noelle asked looking really upset.
"Sure." I said. She brought me into the nearest store and t looked like Josh and Dash were talking and getting along fine. I wish that Josh could just punch him.
"Reed I have to tell you something." She said.
"Yeah anything. What?" I asked.
"Well I kind of have been looking at Dash's email again." She said. She looked like she was about to cry.
"Noelle you have to know that I have not led him on at all." I said.
"It is just so sad. He said he would dump me if you wanted him. Did you go to meet him?" She asked.
"Of course not, I am a loyal friend and my heart belongs to Josh." I said.
"Ok that's good. That means I can fix this. He sent you five emails and it scared me but thank you." She said. She must have not known about today's. I wasn't going to tell her because it might actually break her.
"That's ok Noelle. Maybe he got the picture. I just read them today and they scared me and I didn't tell Josh because I don't know what to say." I said.
"Well let's just stick together today. If nothing happened you don't need to tell Josh." She said. Crap, now she was going to want to hang out with me and I couldn't avoid Dash.
"Thank you for not being mad Noelle." I said.
"It's not a problem. It is for Dash but that is my business. I can torture him however I want. So let's go." She said.
We walked back to the boys.
"Hey so where do you girls want to go first?" Josh asked.
"I don't care. Noelle you pick." I said.
"Ok, let's go to Juicy Couture." She said.
We were shopping for about three hours before we decided to drop things off at the car. I had gotten almost enough to fill a suitcase so I didn't need that much more. Plus I needed to save room to buy things in New York. I wasn't only happy because I had gotten to buy anything I wanted. I was also happy because Dash hadn't done anything yet. That is until I saw Dash walking towards me. We were back inside the mall in the lobby I couldn't see Josh anywhere. Oh yeah, he had gone to the bathroom. It looked like Noelle was headed there too. Crap. I tried to run into the bathroom but Dash grabbed my arm and pulled me into a different store where Noelle and Josh had no chance of finding us. I couldn't find the power to scream.
"Dash, let go of me." I demanded once we were in hiding.
"No. Why haven't you responded to my emails or met me?" He asked.
"I just got them today. Even if I got them sooner I wouldn't have responded. Dash I love Josh not you." I said kind of coldly.
"Well I guess I have to change that." He said with a grin.
"Wipe that stupid grim off your face you can't change my…" I was interrupted by Dash's forceful lips on mine. I tried really hard to pull him away and push him but I couldn't he was too strong. Finally he took a breath and I slapped him.
"What the hell. I don't love you and I never will." I said.
"Reed, I love you. I am not done with you today." He said with another stupid grin. I slapped him again. Right across the face and ran into the bathroom. I splashed some water on my face as Noelle walked up to me.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine, just a little overwhelmed by all of the shops." I said lying.
"Ok, well let's get shopping. We met the guys outside of the bathroom. Dash was smiling really bright. He had a red mark on his face. He told us that he ran into a clothing rack. Amazingly Josh and Noelle believed it.
We started to shop again. We saw Kiran, Sawyer, Astrid and Trey at one store and Taylor, Scott, Constance and Whit at another. Before we knew it we had been shopping for another four hours. We all met up at the lobby again.
"I'm pooped let's go get a bight to eat." I said.
"I agree I need food." Josh said.
"Ok let's go." Noelle said.
We arrived at a casual restaurant. When we sat down I sat as far away as possible from Noelle and Dash. She gave me a confused look. I decided to text her.
Meet me in the bathroom. I have to tell you something.
She replied:
Is it bad?
I hated to say it:
Yeah it's about Dash. Trust me when I say I had nothing to do with it.
Her reply was:
Ok let's go now.
"Well I am going to go to the ladies room." Noelle said.
"I have to go too. I'll come." I said.
We walked into the bathroom and I could fell Noelle's anger.
"What happened?" She was crying already.
"Well when you went to the bathroom at the same time as Josh he came towards me. I tried running to the bathroom but he grabbed my arm and dragged me to this one store with so many clothing racks you would have never found us." I said.
"Please tell me that nothing happened." She said.
"Noelle I am sorry. I told him I could never love him, that I loved Josh. He forcefully kissed me. I tried so hard to pull away. I pulled and pushed but it didn't work." I started crying.
"Reed, how could he do this? How could you do this?" She asked.
"Noelle I swear I tried so hard to get him off me. I slapped him and that is why his cheek was red. Then I ran into the bathroom and found you." I said.
"Why didn't you tell me then?" She asked.
I didn't want to make a scene at the mall. I couldn't hold it any longer. What should I tell Josh?" I asked.
"I don know Reed but I do believe you. What do I do about Dash?" She asked.
"Well I don't know but I need to tell Josh. He has to understand. He probably will not want Dash anywhere near me." I said.
"That is fine with me. I am so sorry he did that to you." She said.
"I'm sorry he did this to you. Are you going to try to fix things with him?" I asked.
"Well I will try. I mean I love him. I have been different since the whole Ariana thing. Maybe I should go back to normal." She said.
"That could work but let's get cleaned up and go back out there before questions start flying." I said.
"Ok, we can fill each other in on what's what when I come to New York." She said.
"Ok that works." I said. We both splashed water on our faces and reapplied some make up that had been smeared from crying. We looked normal again and went back to the table.
"Hey Reed, we ordered for you. I got your favorite." Josh said.
"Thank you so much." I said. The whole table was in separate conversations.
"So we just need to get things packed up when we get home then we leave first thing in the morning." Josh said.
"That's great. Josh when we get back I need to tell you something and I promise you that I am telling you the full truth. Please don't get mad at me." I said, well practically begged.
"I promise. Reed is this going to make me mad?" He asked.
"Yeah it might. Actually I m pretty sure it will." I said.
"Ok, did someone hurt you?" He asked. I thought about and emotionally Dash really did hurt me.
I nodded because I was so upset.
"Ok Reed this will definitely make me mad so let's not think about it and enjoy our dinner. We can talk about it later." He said. I nodded and then smiled.
"So Reed, did you get a lot of things?" Astrid asked in her accent.
"Well yeah I got enough to fill at least a suitcase and a half." I said.
"Wow, that's cool. I think I have to get rid of some stuff to make room for everything I got." Constance said.
"You should just get another suitcase." Astrid said.
"I never thought about doing that." Constance said and we all laughed.
"So did you get anything good?" I asked Taylor.
"Yeah I got a couple of bathing suits and a few bottoms and tops." She said.
"That's all." Kiran said.
"What did you get?" Taylor asked curiously.
"Well about 5 tops, 5 bottoms, 6 skirts, 3 dresses, 7 shoes, and 8 bathing suits." Kiran said nonchalantly.
"Wow. That is a lot." I said. We chatted about who got what for about 10 minutes before our food came.
"This is delicious." I said.
"Yeah it is great here." Constance said.
"I love it in St. Bart's in general. It is just so beautiful." Taylor said.
"Yeah I can't wait to hit the beach tomorrow." Astrid said.
"I think it will be fun." Trey added in.
"I am just sad you are leaving Reed." Constance said.
"Well you guys will join us. Plus I am excited to see New York around this time of year." I said.
"It's beautiful there too." Noelle said.
"Well this has been such a great vacation. Thanks so much for inviting me Noelle." I said.
"No problem." She said.
"Thanks for letting me stay with you as well." Scott said.
"Wait I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?" Constance asked Scott.
"Oh I am Scott Brennan, Reed's brother. May I ask who you might be?" Scott asked politely. It almost made me laugh.
"Oh I am Constance Talbot, Reed's good friend." She said.
"Well it is very nice to meet you Constance." Scott said.
"It's nice to meet you too." Constance added. I was bout to crack up but the waiter came by with the check for our dinner. Noelle and Josh split the bill. After they paid we headed home. I was very nervous because Josh and I had to talk about what happened. I was on my way upstairs where Josh was waiting for me when someone pulled me aside.
"Hey lovely," Said a voice I recognized as Dash.
"Get away from me." I said, well shouted.
Then he kissed me very hard again. I tried pushing and pulling. When I finally got him off of me I saw Josh looking down on me with tears in his eyes. He punched Dash and I slapped him again.
"Josh!!!" I yelled.
"What the hell was that Reed?" He yelled back.
"Josh he threw himself at. That is what I wanted to tell you. I got a ton of emails from him professing his love to me. At the mall when he had a red cheek it was because I slapped him. He tried to kiss me then. You have to believe me." I said.
"Ok but does Noelle know?" He asked.
"Yeah that's what I told her in the bathroom at the restaurant." I said.
"Well this is aggravating but I also make's me glad that we are leaving tomorrow." Josh said before he hugged me. Then we started packing are things when we heard a scream.
"REED!!!!!" Noelle screamed.
"Noelle what happened?" I asked.
"Reed come quick…"
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