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"What… huh?" I mumbled like a complete idiot.
"Why are you mumbling like an idiot?" Sabine asked sweetly.
I saw Noelle's jaw drop and it hung open. We both took a seat across the table from Sabine.
"Why don't you want me dead?" I asked.
"Well, I should have suspected that would come up." She said.
"Why are we here?" Noelle asked.
"Ok, I am not saying you are my favorite people but the thing is someone wants you gone Reed but not just you, its all of us. Anyone who was ever in Billing's with you. Even some others." Sabine said.
"But, why are you not threatening me, or telling me I ruined your life?" I asked.
"Simple. I need you guys to help me. I don't want you dead. Neither did Ariana. At one point we both did. We just needed to get out of that insane place where they treated us like infants who couldn't talk or walk without help." Sabine said.
"Why would I help you?" I said a lot meaner than intended.
"That I expected. It is a long story but you need to know that someone is out there and they want us dead. Not just you, all of us and I have no idea why. You should also know that the little 'Taylor is next' thing isn't true. It is someone else. It is Tiffany. She was in St. Bart's with you and when she leaves she might not make it." She said.
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"I'll explain but please tell me that Tiffany is still in St. Bart's." Sabine said.
"She left two days ago." Noelle said.
"Crap. It is too late. She might not be ok." Sabine said.
"I swear I will blame this whole thing on you and say I got your confession unless you tell me what the hell is going on." Noelle said.
"How do you know all of this?" I asked. So she obviously didn't want me dead. What did she want? She said Ariana didn't either. This is weird.
"First let's start with the obvious. You guys are smart and probably already know that I got caught on purpose. I couldn't let this go further. This person isn't afraid to kill anyone. Also as I am sure you already know Ariana didn't commit suicide. She was murdered. However the person you saw wasn't Ariana. Ari died her hair auburn and took the place of someone else. She isn't dead. She is very alive. She goes by Brianna Leigh Covington now. That is who was dead. Ari didn't kill her. Our stalker person got confused and made a mistake. I have however lost all contact with her and we can no longer stop this person." Sabine said.
"Why do you want to help us?" I asked.
"Well even though we hated you Reed, people like Noelle, Kiran and Taylor were actually Ari's friends and other people were mine too. No offense but we aren't completely heartless." Sabine said and stuck up her nose. Aw shucks. I felt so special and loved.
"Why thank you for pointing out such obvious facts." I said and started to get up.
"Wait! I'm sorry but we need help. So do you. We have information you could use." Sabine said.
"Ok what do you have that can help us." Noelle said.
"Hey, we need your help too." Sabine said.
"We owe you nothing. You single handedly broke my heart and Josh's and made me suffer and now Ivy too." I said.
"Look, I don't like you and I get that you don't like me but you need me so I would suggest just suck it up because I am willing too. I won't be out to get you or anything but after it we can just hate each other from a distance." She said.
"That isn't good enough. People hated her for such a long time." Noelle said.
"What if I said that I was sorry?" She said.
"Fine." I said.
"Whatever." Noelle said.
"Good so now where were we, oh yeah Ari not being dead." She said.
"So what, how can you have lost contact with her?" I asked.
"Well she was on her way o deliver a message to me. That is when someone came and called her out. However it wasn't her they were calling out, it was the real Briana Leigh Covington, who had conveniently died her hair to Ari's color and had the same color eyes. Anyway, she must've run and dropped her phone and the message because I can't contact her. I ended up getting the message and I heard about the death and figured out that it happened the night I was expecting the message." She said.
"So basically you can help us but you can't because your sister wasn't careful enough." Noelle said.
"No. basically I could let you all die before this person finds me but I am deciding to help you in exchange for your help." She said.
"Fine what do you need?" I asked.
"Our plan in the message I received was to somehow get you guys to help both of us. We will have to work together until we get this psycho caught. Now our idea was to fake our death but we never planned on someone who wasn't already dead dying so this can't be pinned on us. Anyway, we need you Kiran and Taylor to show up at Ari's 'funeral'. She will meet all of you there and you will need to bring her back to your place somehow. I will meet with you guys again. I am going to claim for the need to apologize and forgiveness. They will buy it if you go along. Anyway, Reed while they are at the funeral I will need you and Astrid to do something. I trust you two. I don't know how she got that letter. It was supposed to come to me but she got it…" Sabine was saying.
"Wait, how did you know about the letter?" I interrupted.
"Oh, when you are in police custody you hear things. Detective Hauer mumbles to himself sometimes." Sabine said starting to giggle.
"So what would me and Astrid have to do?" I asked.
"You guys need to make sure that no one finds out about Ari. You can have help from only one or two people. But you need to trust them. Tell me who." She said.
"Josh and Trey." I said.
"Trey…not bad, so you are back with Josh. Weird. You guy's have to make sure that no one asks questions. Briana Leigh will be one of your friends from Croton or one of Astrid's buddy's from her old school. You have to all be able to keep this secret and you have to find a place to meet and a special code. This secretiveness is all up to you Reed. Our next meeting may be somewhere else. Noelle, are you ok with this?' Sabine asked.
"I don't like it but it will be ok. I will endure it." Noelle said.
"Reed," She asked.
"I really don't like it but if it can save my friends I am in." I said.
"Good. You have to fill in the others soon because the funeral is in only a few days. Today is Tuesday and the funeral is Saturday. It is back in Easton. You can all get back there and sorry if it ruins any plans you may have had." Sabine said almost knowingly of Josh's plans to go to New York with me.
"Now if we agree, what do we get?" Noelle asked.
"Once you meet Ariana you will get information she has and it should be helpful. Thank you and you won't regret this." Sabine said. Just then a man walked in.
"Time's up." He said and got me and Noelle up so we could leave.
As we walked out I was scared. For my family, friends, and even my enemy's because absolutely no one was safe. I couldn't believe what I had just agreed to. It was crazy. I was helping two criminals, not only that but two criminals that tried to kill me over a boy.
"Noelle, do you think this is crazy?" I asked.
"Absolutely, but if it means saving our friends and family then so be it." She said.
"I just don't feel right. I mean Ariana dangled me over a building practically and Sabine cause me and Josh to break up, pointed a gun at me, ruined our friendship, hurt you and Dash, and hurt Ivy. It just doesn't seem right helping fugitives." I said.
"Well there are reasons for this Reed. We can't hurt everyone because of a funny feeling we get. Like Sabine said, we used to be friends with them. Even you did. You used to like both of them and at one point I am sure Ariana like you too." She said.
"Why are you defending them?" I asked. I was mean but they did try to kill me.
"Because Reed, Ariana was my best friend at one point, I am not just going to let her die. She didn't let me just die." She screamed at me.
"What do you mean she didn't let you die?" I asked.
"It isn't important." Noelle said and started to walk off.
"See this is what I mean. You have been saying for so long 'no more secrets' well what is this? A huge secret that you aren't telling me. You are defending the person that tried to kill me. The least you could do is tell me the truth. Not just halfway this time, the full truth." I said.
"Kiran and Taylor don't even know. Just Ariana knew. I was really close with her Reed. I don't know how to describe it but when I found out she was the one who killed Thomas and had lied to me I felt like an idiot for having trusted her. She saved my life." Noelle said starting to cry.
"I know how you felt." I said.
"How could you possibly know how it felt?" She fired back at me.
"Well how about when I heard my boyfriend was missing and didn't say goodbye. Or when I found out he was dead. Or maybe when my new boyfriend was accused of murdering him by my friends. It could have also been when I found out that my best friends had taken him drunk and tied him up somewhere. Maybe even when I heard Ariana's confession, or when she tried to kill me. Maybe it is the feeling that I got when I saw Josh cheating on me. It might have been when I saw Cheyenne's dead body on the floor. The suicide note I got from her on my computer that was always sent to me. Maybe it was from all of the other things I got from Cheyenne. It could have been the look on Josh's face when he broke up with me. Maybe seeing him with Ivy everywhere I turned. Maybe losing you when I tried to explain things. Maybe having a gun held to my head hearing a confession. The feeling I had when I had known I wouldn't get Josh back because his girlfriend was in the hospital because of Sabine. Even after her confession the guilt and pain I felt. Maybe almost falling off a horse or a freak jet ski incident. It could be the threatening I got. Maybe it was from when I got pushed off of the yacht. Or the most likely reason is for knowing all of this is my fault. Knowing that because of me coming to Easton and being in Billings and at one point dating Thomas caused so many people misery and some people there lives. Maybe that is how I know how you feel." I screamed at her. I was crying hysterically and I fell to the floor. I was lucky that the rooms were soundproof so Sabine couldn't hear this.
Noelle was silent. I knew I had gotten her there.
"So, yes Noelle, I do know how it feels." I said.
"Ok maybe you do know ho it fells but you don't know my whole story." She said.
"Well then tell it to me. Let me know so we can stop this madness." I said.
"I will but not here. It isn't private enough." She said.
I felt so much better after getting everything off my chest. Noelle sat next to me and we both tried to wipe our tears away before we walked back to our car.
"Noelle, I am sorry. I know you didn't realize how much I had been through and I don't realize what you went through." I said.
"Don't worry about it. You were right I do need to tell someone else about this. The only other person that knows is crazy. She also tried to kill my best friend. Reed I am sorry." Noelle said. Then she hugged me.
We started to walk back to the car to Josh when he came running down the hall to see us.
"What's the rush Hollis?" Noelle said. Glad to see she is back to her normal self.
"It's Dash. Some nurse went into his room and she must've been new or something ad he is crashing now. I have a feeling it wasn't a nurse but we need to hurry back. We also need to get Dash into a hospital at Easton they are having him mercy flighted as we speak so let's get back, pack our bags, and get on the next flight to Easton." Josh said.
"Noelle almost fell to her knees bit I caught her and Josh helped me and we ran like the wind back to the car.
"Where is everyone else?" I asked.
"Getting ready to leave. Once we are packed we are taking Noelle's plane back to Easton." Josh said.
"When we get there I need to talk to you about something." I said.
"What?" He asked.
"It is too private to say here." I said. For the rest of the car ride I laid my head on Josh's chest and cried. Noelle was in a ball next to the door crying her eyes out. Josh was stroking my hair. Detective Hauer was mumbling something to himself.
Why can't I ever have just a normal life?
What is Noelle going to tell Reed?
How is Josh going to react to the plan Reed and Noelle have?
Is Reed going to be able to keep the secret?
Update and tell me your ideas!!!sssss