Disclaimer: Kate Brian owns private…not me.
I was having difficulties putting the last chapter up so sorry if this chapter is coming late. It is Saturday hopefully this one will com tonight. Sorry if the story seems rushed but I need to get it finished before Tuesday. So sorry: (
I woke up early in the morning and Josh was already awake stroking my hair.
"I am going to shower." I said.
Josh nodded and got out of the bed the same time I did.
I took a ten minute shower letting the warm water inhale me. It felt really nice. I dried my hair and didn't worry about straightening it yet. When I went back into my room Josh was there picking out his outfit. On the bed was a pair of jeans and a blue sweater.
"It is brunch we are going out for and it isn't until like 11:00 and it is 8:00 so just wear that for now." Josh said slipping past me to take a shower. I got changed into my clothes Josh laid out for me.
I checked my phone for any messages. Just ones from Noelle saying they would all be here at like 3:00 so we should be home around then. The party was at like 5:00 so we had plenty of time to get ready and stuff.
About ten minutes later Josh got out of the shower and quickly changed into his clothes. His jeans were slightly splattered with paint and his sweater had paint at the bottom. He held my hand as we went down the stairs. No one else was awake so we turned on the television but we didn't really watch it because about five minutes into some show Josh kissed me and we had been pretty much making out for like an hour.
"Ahem," We heard.
Tomas was standing at the end of the stairs. Josh and I pulled apart ad I leaned towards him and Thomas sat on the next couch over.
"So have you thought of revenge yet?" I asked Thomas.
"Yes, a snowball war. Right here right now." Thomas said with a grin on his face. Josh and I looked at each other. I quickly pulled on my boots and jacket. Both Thomas and Josh did the same. We sprinted out side to the Hollis's snow filled lawn I made as many snowballs as I could in about two minutes before I started whaling them at Thomas.
He threw some back at me so I threw more back at him. Then I snuck up behind Josh and got him too.
"Oh so it is one on one on one?" Josh said.
I nodded with a devilish grin on my face before Josh shoved a snowball in my face. I threw another one at him then at Thomas. We had been at it for like 45 minutes when Thomas ran inside to go to the bathroom. He said he was done. He was just going to get ready for brunch after he was done.
It was just me and Josh and I lost sight of him in his huge yard. Suddenly I felt something hit my back and as I turned around Josh threw another snowball at me before coming and playfully tackling me.
He had me pinned to the ground and he kissed me softly on the lips. He lay down next to me after that. I discreetly got a snowball in my hand and bent over like I would to kiss him and shoved the snow in his face.
"I win," I said getting up to dance.
"Fine, fine you win let's go get ready." Josh said smiling at me.
When we got inside I ran upstairs to get my dress on and my silver heels. I straightened my hairs so it was pin straight. About a half hour after I went upstairs I came back down to sit next to Josh on the couch.
When I plopped down next to him he kissed me on the cheek. The spot where he kissed me burned from the heat and sparks he sent through my body. In about fifteen minutes we were all leaving to go to brunch. Josh, Thomas, and I were in the car again.
When we arrived at brunch there was a private table set up for us. We sat and ate and it was delicious. I had some Italian breakfast I couldn't pronounce and we chatted for quite some time. By the time we got home it was already 2:45.
I ran upstairs followed by Josh to get changed back into our clothes from before. I had o change into different jeans and I had on a gray sweater over a black tank top. We went back downstairs hand in hand smiling at each other. At the bottom of the stair case was Noelle Lange and a small bag for the party tonight.
"Noelle," I said as I ran down the rest of the stairs giving her a hug.
Behind her was Gage so Josh went and talked to him.
"Where is everyone else?" I asked.
"A hotel room but guess what?" Noelle asked.
"What?" I asked.
"They announced the theme for prom." Noelle shrieked.
"No way, what is it?" I asked really excited.
"Masquerade. We all have to like where masks and stuff. When the clock ticks to midnight we take off our masks and reveal ourselves." Noelle said.
"That will be so much fun!" I said.
"I already got both you and Hollis masks because you weren't there. Yours is a dark blue mask with sparkles and diamonds on it and it is tied in the back with a ribbon. We got Josh a phantom of the opera style mask." Noelle said.
"That is so cool." I said.
"Oh and guess what?" Noelle said.
"What?" I asked.
"Well his you might not be happy about but since Mr. Hathaway is going to be headmaster of our school next year he is letting the whole St. Barts crew come to prom. Upton, Poppy, Paige, and Sienna." Noelle said.
"I'll deal but now that I have Josh it won't be a problem." I said.
"Ok just watch your back." Noelle said.
"I will," I said rolling my eyes at Noelle. She laughed at me for the childish response.
I pulled her over to where Josh and Gage were talking. Ivy was at the hotel. She must not have wanted to come with Gage. He must have wanted to see Josh.
"Gage," I said.
"New girl." Gage replied.
"I'm not even close to being the new girl anymore." I said.
"Whatever." Gage said jokingly.
"Haven't heard from you in a while." He said.
"Yeah I know and you seem to still be the obnoxious guy I know and love." I said sarcastically.
"You are the same new girls I would like to know and love." He said looking me up and down.
I playfully punched him.
"How is Ivy?" I asked.
"Hot as ever." Gage said. I rolled my eyes.
"Well everyone else is getting ready at the hotel except me and if we were going to try and do hair and make up and everything on all of us girls we better get going." Noelle said to me.
"I Guess I'll get ready here." Gage said.
He and Josh sat down and turned on the television. It wouldn't take them as long to get ready.
I led Noelle up to Tess and Tori's room that was in between their bedrooms. They could get to it form each of their rooms like with Josh's art studio. In the room was all of our dresses besides Noelle's and all of our shoes. There was also a hair station, a make up station and a final check station.
Noelle put her stuff down with all of ours.
"Gia, Tess, Tori, this is Noelle." I said.
"Noelle this is Gia and Tess has curlier hair and Tori has straighter hair." I said. The twins smiled up at her and shook her hand.
"Who is going first?" I asked.
"Can I?" Tess asked.
"Sure. Let's get you in a robe." Gia said handing Tess a robe. Tess put it on and heeded over to the hair station. Noelle, Gia and I worked on straightening her hair and putting it up in a swirly type of bun leaving some strands down around Tess's face. Tori watched carefully as we did Tess's hair. We curled the hair on the sides of her face and she looked gorgeous with her hair alone. Then she moved on to make up where I put a subtle blue-ish color eye shadow on and Gia applied blush While Noelle applied a pink lip gloss. Then Tess slipped carefully into her party dress. The turquoise blue rose taffeta dress. It looked awesome with her hair.
"Tori do you want to go now?" I asked. She nodded.
We all had changed into our robes already.
Tori sat down in the hair seat and Noelle put her hair up into one of the ponytails with hair wrapped around the outside of the base to hide the elastic. Then we straightened her hair so the pony tail was pint straight. There wasn't a bump in sight. We moved her over to make up where we matched colors to her look and her dress. When she slipped he dress on she looked fabulous too.
"Reed your turn," Noelle said.
"Fine," I said.
"Can you curl my hair putting it up but leaving like quite a bit down?" I asked.
"Of course," Gia said.
My hair ended up in a bun with the front hair down and curled. It was the same idea as Tess's but it looked a lot different. Noelle and Gia put my make up on again with subtle colors and I slipped into my dress. I looked really nice.
"Noelle your turn," I said.
She wanted her hair down and straightened. When we were done wither hair it was completely pin straight. We did her make up to match her skin tone and eye color because we didn't know what her dress looked like. It turns out it was a tight green dress that hit about mid thigh. It was strapless and like a wrap. She looked awesome when she was done.
Next up was Gia. She wanted her naturally straight hair curled to perfection. It was pretty easy and it made her look gorgeous. We put subtle colored makeup on her too. When she slipped into her dress we were all done getting ready. We all looked really good. We headed downstairs where the party had just started.
I saw London and Vienna at the bottom of the staircase. I hadn't seen them in like a month. They turned up at me and shrieked.
"Reed," They both said excitedly.
"Hey guys," I said.
"Ohmigod Noelle told us all bout Thomas and Josh and stuff. It is like totally crazy. How in the world did Thomas like survive the blows to his head?" Vienna asked.
"I have no idea," I said.
"We totally have to catch up later." London said and they both trotted away.
I was looking for Josh to hang out with him. I wanted to make it known by everyone that we were back together and going strong.
I spotted him near the open bar. It was an adult party too so they were drinking but they knew Josh and his friends and Lynn and his friends drink. They didn't care as long as it wasn't too much and they didn't want Tess and Tori drinking so they put X's on the younger kid's hands.
I ran over to him as fast as I could in my high heels. I almost fell but he caught my arm. I blushed a little and he laughed at me.
"What would you without me?" Josh jokingly said.
"Oh I don't know trip over like a carpet and get sent to the emergency room and end up paralyzed because some psycho would come and stab my back or something." I said.
We both laughed and Josh grabbed me a drink. A strawberry daiquiri to be exact.
"Well let's hope not." Josh said.
"I don't know what I would do without you." He said blushing a little.
"Hey like I said not only would it kill my heart but I would probably die of clumsiness." I said.
He took my hand and ked me out to the dance floor. We danced for like an hour before we were all called to the dinner table. I was place next to Josh and Tori.
"This looks delicious." I said referring too the plate of food placed in front of me. It was a small steak with a fancy salad on the side. I loved it.
After eating the wonderful steak we had desert brought out. It was a regular cheese cake with chocolate drizzle and two strawberries cut in half filled with cheese cake filling and drizzled with chocolate. My mouth was watering just thinking about it. It all looked as good as it tasted.
About fifteen minutes after everyone ate their desert we all went back to dancing and what not. Josh held a glass of champagne out to me and I took it. He had a glass in his hand too. We danced together for like another two hours before taking a break.
"This party is awesome." I said.
"Yeah it is going really well." Josh said.
"I am so going to miss your family. I am having a blast here." I said.
"Well since you like my family so much I was thinking maybe you could spend like a few weeks here this summer." Josh said.
"Ohmigod, I would love too." I said happily.
"And well when my dad let me come here he said one condition was having you stay at my house for a week this summer so do you want too?" I asked.
"Really I have been dieing to meet your family." Josh said.
"Awesome," I said smiling up at him. I looked him in the eye and I couldn't take my eyes off of him. He slowly leaned down and kissed me tenderly. A few minutes later broke apart. It was already like midnight and everyone was getting ready to go.
We broke apart to tell everyone goodbye.
I went over to all of the Billings girls and we talked for a few minutes and they all went back to the hotel. We were all flying back on Noelle's private jet. It left at like 6 in the morning. But it landed at like 7 which was perfect because chapel started at 8 and it was going to be Monday.
I didn't know how school was going to be after everything that has happened. After everything with Sabine and it St. Barts which I am sure the whole school knows of by now. Everyone was gone and I was tired.
I walked back over to Josh and we went up the stairs together. Once we made it to his room we both changed quickly and fell asleep right away.
I was boarding the plane when I saw someone out of the corner of my eye. It looked like fake blonde hair and blue eyes. They went to the back of the plane and I followed. I felt a pain in my back and fell to the floor bleeding out. I got one last glimpse and the person ripped their wig off to reveal Sabine looking over me.
I sat up in a rush. It was 4 in the morning and I had another bad dream. Another bad dream about Sabine killing me. It was getting really weird.
It had to be incorrect. Maybe I was seeing things wrong. Or maybe Sabine could lead me to AO. That had to be it. I got up and packed quickly throwing everything into my bag without looking or checking if it was folded. Josh was already in the shower. I grabbed some clothes I would wear to school that day and waited for Josh to get out of the shower. We were going to have to go to chapel like right after we got back. We would only have a half hour or something like that. We needed breakfast too.
Josh got out of the shower and I jumped in letting the warm water comfort my body and feel less weak after my dream. When I got out and dried my hair getting changed quickly I met Josh outside his door.
"Let's say goodbye." He said.
We went to his sisters' bedroom and said goodbye Once Josh walked out of Tess's room she came and gave me a hug.
"Thanks for everything." She said. I waved goodbye and joined Josh saying goodbye to his parents and his brother and Gia. We walked out of his house and got in his car. He put his hand on my knee for our short flight to the airport. It was almost 6 when we got there. We met up with everyone. We were all about half asleep so we didn't talk much. We boarded the plane almost immediately. We all slept on the plane.
Josh nudged me awake. We were just landing in Easton. It was about 7 and we all got off the plane. There were two limo's waiting for us.
Noelle, Josh Thomas, Kiran, Scott, Sawyer, Taylor, Gage, Ivy, Ariana and I were in one limo and everyone else was in the other one. We drove back to Easton.
"So how bad do you think it will be?" I asked.
"I say worse than after the first experience. Maybe a little worse than after Thomas. The biggest thing will be you and Josh." Noelle.
"But hey who knows." Gage said.
"Well Thomas can't you just explain everything and be Thomas again?" I asked. It would take people's minds off me.
"Um I might just change my eye color but not yet." I said. He had green contacts in. They went surprisingly well with his brown hair.
"Let's hope for the best." Josh said. We arrived at Easton and the campus was full of people.
They all turned to look when Noelle got out of the car. There jaws dropped when they saw Kiran and Taylor. When Thomas came out we all heard murmurs saying, it can't be. All the kids would know. Maybe officially he wouldn't be Thomas but everyone would know who he was. But when I stepped out of the car, much less without Josh, I heard gasps and I knew they would get back together's. But the stares I got as Josh carried my bags to Billings were weird and made me feel uncomfortable. He left me at the doorstep giving me a quick hug.
"We'll get through it." He whispered in my ear. I ran up to my room in Billings forgetting about how I was now with Taylor and Kiran for the time being.
I remembered and went in there. They were already unpacking.
"I need breakfast." I said.
"Me too," Kiran said.
"Let's go to breakfast then. Reed we will all get through this. There are going to be rumor's flying but who cares." Taylor said. Scott had gotten a flight from Easton to our house so he could go back to college. I nodded and we went to get Noelle and Ariana.
Shortly after that we were walking across campus to the dining hall. Josh was waiting outside the building. I went up to him and we walked in hand in hand followed by the other girls. Sawyer had transferred to our school so he was walking with Kiran.
On my way to the lunch line I heard a bundle of different things.
"I heard that like he only took her back because like the other girl was cheating on him and made him. Who would go out with that slut?" Some jealous non billings senior girl said.
"I heard that she was like pushed off a boat and is just using him to get the guy who pushed her to stay away. I heard it was a weak moment for her and it is like some geeky nerd who proposed to her." Another senior said.
"I heard she had like sex with every guy on the island she stayed on." Some guy said.
"Well dude she is hot." His neighbor responded.
"But dude she has been with so many guys it would be disgusting." The first guy said. The rumors were flying and I knew it but I wasn't going to be weak. I wasn't going to give in. I just couldn't wait until chapel where it was harder to hear the rumors…well sort of.
One more chapter of at school then the getting ready for prom, prom and ending intense prom chapter. Characters will return. Someone's life will change dramatically…maybe even end. And no one will ever be the same after this experience.
So a question…for my next story should it be called:
A: A Scandalous Life
B: A New Kind of Scandal
Or
C: Never a Scandal like This
I want it to definitely have Scandal in it so please vote and review.
Now who do you think AO is?