Disclaimer: Private is Kate Brian's…not mine.
We arrived at josh's house soon after talking to Dash. He was on his way out still when we arrived. We had to hide behind the bushes.
"I thought Dash already called him." I whisper screamed.
"Yeah, maybe he just got held up." Noelle said.
Josh was holding a big bouquet of flowers as he got into the car. They were so beautiful. They were probably for Ivy. I was so mad. They were my favorite kind of flowers too.
"Those are nice flowers." I said.
"Reed, don't get down. We are getting him back." Noelle said.
She said it a little loud because Josh turned over to where we were hiding but didn't see us. We got lucky. He got into his car and pulled away. His beautiful blonde curls and eyes that were either green or blue depending on the day. He was going to get it big time.
"Let's go." I said.
We found an opened window so I got on Noelle's shoulders and peered in. No one was in the room I so I climbed through the window. When I actually got to look at the room I laughed really hard. It obviously wasn't Josh's room because it had pictures of rainbows and unicorns all over. Noelle burst into laughter when she saw it too.
"Wow, Hollis is girly." Noelle said.
"No we just have terrible guessing. This is one of his sister's rooms." I said.
"Well then let's search for his." Noelle said.
We snuck into the hallway but we could hear the TV so we were really quiet. Then we heard giggles. I mouthed to Noelle 'sister's'. She nodded and we went a couple doors over because we had no idea which room was his. We listened and no one was there. When we opened the door there was a bunch of art supplies, but no bed or anything. There was a door within the room so we went there. It was Josh's bed room. It was connected to his art room. There were a ton of pictures of when we were together. There were pictures from when we were alone during thanksgiving.
Noelle had brought a draw string bag and put all of the pictures of me in it. Then we moved to the art room. He had four or five paintings of me that I knew about before so we put them all in when I walked past another picture of me. It was from the day we got back together in the hospital. He still cared about me. Then why was he with Ivy. The paint on it was still wet.
"Noelle, there is another one." I said.
"That is the day you guys made up. And it is still wet." Noelle said.
"Maybe he wasn't 'with' Ivy." I said.
"Well we should leave this one, but only this one." Noelle said. I nodded in agreement.
We heard footsteps coming up the stairs. They sounded like more than young girls. Josh.
"Tess…Tori you weren't in my room were you?" Josh yelled. Crap he saw the pictures missing. Noelle and I ran to hide. Luckily the first door we opened was a bathroom.
"No, we didn't, why?" I heard a girl's voice ask.
"Well some of my pictures are gone." Josh said. We heard him open a door and close it again.
"Seriously girls, you need to give me back my things." Josh said angrier than before. I heard Noelle snicker.
"Josh we didn't take your stupid pictures or paintings." Another girl shouted up at Josh.
"They weren't stupid and who did?" Josh asked.
"I don't know. Check all the rooms in the house." One of the girls said. We heard footsteps coming our way. I pushed Noelle into the shower and closed the curtain. Josh opened the door and came closer to the shower. I pushed Noelle further to the side and Josh partially opened the curtain and still didn't see us. He walked out and we let out a sigh.
We waited by the door for Josh's steps to move further and further away. We opened the door to peak out and Josh had just turned down a hall way. We heard two pairs of foot steps come up the stairs. We hid behind the door. It was Tess and Tori. They went into one of their rooms. Noelle and I ran down the stairs and out the door as fast as we could. We made it out. But just barely.
We kept running until we got to the car and when we got it we started to laugh hysterically.
"I can't believe Hollis walked in while we were taking the stuff." Noelle said.
"I wonder what he came back for." I said. Just then Noelle's phone rang.
"Hello," I answered for her.
"Hey Reed, hurry out of the house. Josh called. He forgot something." Dash said.
"We realized. We had to sneak out." I said still laughing.
"He actually was there when you guys were?" Dash asked.
"Yeah, he just missed us and he blamed his sister's for his missing pictures and stuff. They told him to check each room and he came so close to us. We were hiding in the bathroom but we had no idea that that's what it was." I said.
"Wow, how could he miss you guys?" He asked.
"I have no idea. By the way, what was he going back for?" I asked.
"He wouldn't tell me, but he did ask if you were going to be there." Dash said.
"Oh, that's weird. Well I guess I will come now." I said.
"Ok, I will see you shortly before I see him." Dash said.
"Ok." I said and hung up.
"Wow, he asked if you were going to be there." Noelle said.
"Yeah it is weird. I wonder what Ivy would think of that. Oh wait she wouldn't care because she would be throwing herself at Gage." I said. Wow, I was mean when I was jealous.
"Almost as weird as the new picture of you." Noelle said.
"How do you think he is going to react to knowing we stole his things?" I asked.
"I don't know. Maybe he will be happy to just know that they are ok. That is if we decide to let them be ok." Noelle said with a smirk growing on her face.
"Noelle, I won't ruin the pictures. I don't want to go that far." I said.
"Ok, fine." Noelle said.
"Good," I said. I sat silently for a while. I hope Josh doesn't get mad. I don't want to ruin his things. That would be unlike me and he would never ruin anything but my heart. He didn't even realize he was doing that though.
"So, Reed what should we talk about while we drive back to the hospital?" Noelle asked.
"I don't know, what do you think we should talk about?" I asked.
"Well, I told you my story, why don't you tell me yours. Like what your family aside from your brother is like. What you used to do for fun. Old friends, old boyfriends." Noelle said.
"You don't want to know about my story. It is boring." I said.
"Not so fast. You are telling me your story." Noelle said.
"Fine, I'll tell you. At home when I was younger my mom got into a car accident. It screwed up her back and today it is still screwed up. To get over her pain she pops prescription pills. She hated me." I said.
"Reed, I am sure she never hated you." Noelle said.
"No, she did. She told me so in one of her tantrums. How she hated me being young and having a life." I said.
"Wow that is bad." Noelle said.
"Yeah but she is sober now. My dad has always been good. My brother and I were all we really had for a while. Anyway he is kind of the reason I went to Easton. Well more like his ex-girlfriend. She sent in an awesome recommendation." I said.
"That is cool. Mow for the juicy stuff like ex-boyfriends and stuff." Noelle said.
"Well my boyfriend that I had to break up with to come here was Adam Robinson. He was one of my brother's friends. We got along well. He really liked me like when I came back from Easton after the incident with Ariana I was with him and my brother when you called. He was cool. I didn't really have any friends that were girls since I couldn't really have slumber parties not knowing if my mom was going to be passed out or if she was going to scream. I basically stuck to guys as friends. I got along with them and they didn't mind not ever coming over my house." I said.
"Wow, that kind of stinks. That you didn't have girl friends until now." Noelle said.
"Yeah, but I lived. I have lots of friends that are girls now." I said.
"Well we are about five minutes away from the hospital." Noelle said.
"How far behind do you think Josh is?" I asked.
"Well if I am not mistaking he is in the car behind us. He hasn't realized it is us yet." Noelle said.
I looked in the rear view mirror and sure enough Josh was in the car behind us and was looking worried. I caught a glimpse of the back seat. I recognized something.
"Noelle, the picture that we saw, the new one, is in the back of his car." I said.
"No way. That is weird." Noelle said.
"Well I am going to get in the back of the car ad change into the dress I bought." I said.
"Where should you say you are going?" Noelle asked.
"To dinner with you." I said.
"Well why won't I be in a dress?" Noelle asked.
"I picked one out for you. On Billings budget." I said.
"Thank you so much." Noelle said.
"It is black halter and goes really low in the back." I said.
"Yay. Thank you." Noelle shrieked as we pulled into the hospital.
Josh had gotten caught behind a red light and I was dressed so I through Noelle's dress at her. She got dressed really quickly. We walked into the hospital as Josh pulled the car in. We practically ran to Dash's room.
"Well those dresses look nice." Dash said.
"Thank you, Josh will be here any minute. He was right behind us." I said.
"Yeah, he still didn't recognize us." Noelle said. We both took a seat next to Dash's bed when Josh walked in. He was holding a bouquet of flowers and something square.
"Reed, you are here. Can I talk to you?" He asked with pleading in his eyes.
"Sure." I said.
He walked me over to the waiting room.
"Reed I am really sorry. I overreacted and I was stupid. I will help you guys with the plan thingy on one condition." He said.
"What would that be?" I asked.
"You accept my apology." Josh said handing me the flowers and the square object, which was the painting of me.
"Josh, I saw you with Ivy at the mall." I said. Josh sighed.
"Reed, I called her there to help me think of a way to apologize to you." Josh said.
"That would explain why she was kissing Gage." I said and laughed.
"So do you accept my apology?" Josh asked.
"I guess so." I said.
"That's good because I need your crime fighting skills to help me. Someone broke into my house and stole some pictures and paintings I had. My favorite ones." He said.
I started laughing. I couldn't control it. This was just a big misunderstanding.
"What's so funny?" He asked.
"Well, just that I might have had something to do with the missing pictures." I said.
"What?" Josh said.
"Well when I saw you with Ivy I was mad and wanted revenge so me and Noelle broke into your house, which was easy because your sisters window was open, and took all of the pictures and paintings of me that you had. You had come back though. That is why Dash called you. When you went into your room we were in the art room. Then we hid in the bathroom. You didn't look in the shower far enough. When you and your sister's were out of sight we ran like the wind." I said.
"I guess that explains the dress. You guys scared the crap out of me. I thought it might be your stalker." Josh said.
"I'm sorry. I hope you aren't mad." I said.
"No I guess not, as long as I can take you to dinner in that dress." Josh said.
"Deal, I'll get your pictures out of Noelle's car." I said.
"Ok, well let's go tell the other aster minds our plan." Josh said.
We walked back to Dash's room hand in hand. When we walked in I caught Noelle smiling.
"So Josh notice anything different when you went back to look for whatever you were missing?" Dash asked.
"Way to not make it obvious." Noelle said.
"He already knows. Can I get the pictures from your car Noelle? We are going to head out for dinner." I said.
"Ok, you kids have fun. Call me if you need anything." Noelle said.
"Will do," I said.
Josh and I walked out to Noelle's car. One of the windows was broken. Nothing was missing except one thing…
The fight is over!!!
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