I woke up the next morning, and looked at the clock it was 9 in the morning. I turned around in my place to see if Josh was still there. I saw him sleeping still. His hands very close to me. I took them and started to play with them, soon enough, he moaned.

"Reed?" he asked opening his eyes and smiling.

"Good Morning sleeping head." I smiled and kissed him.

"Good Morning." He smiled and kissed me again. I smiled and leaned father in, wanting more of him. He pulled away once it started to get intense.

"Are you hungry?" He asked.

"Sort of."

"Let's go get food." He said, sitting up.

"No, let's stay here for a while... together." I smiled at the last word.

"Ok." Josh raised his eyebrows and laid back down next to me. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him. I smiled and wrapped my arms around his arms; I moved my hands up and down his muscular arms for a minute and then wrapped my arms around his neck.

"What are we going to be doing today?"

"Hanging out," Josh shrugged.

"That's fine." I sighed. I kissed him again, and again, and again. Then I rolled on top of him. I don't even know why I did such a bold move, but I didn't even think about it before I did it. Josh just let me lay on him and continued to kiss me. But this time I pulled away, we where going too far. I smiled and got out of bed.

"Let's go get breakfast." I told him. He got out of bed also. We both walked downstairs, I was in my fleece pajamas and a tank top, and Josh was in his boxers and a white tank top. The kitchen in this townhouse was exactly like Josh's parents. The bar stools, and center island, the fridge and cupboards where even the same.

"What do you want for breakfast my love?" Josh asked as he looked in the fridge.

I walked up from behind him and wrapped my arms around his waist and he chuckled.

"I think we should have—" My phone rang and we both looked at it at the same time. I took my arms from Josh's waist and walked over to pick up the phone. Noelle's flawless face and perfect white smile showed up on the screen. I poked the answer button and placed the phone by my ear.

"Hey!" I greeted.

"Reed! I can't believe I slept in so late the day you left." Noelle said.

"It's ok. At least I made it to New York in one piece." I smiled.

"Yeah. I read the note." She said casually.

"Why aren't you wearing your engagement ring?" I asked her smiling. Josh looked over at me shocked and confused. I just smiled and went back to the conversation.

"Because, I didn't think that my St. Bart's kitchen was the best place for him to propose. So he said he'll do it later. In a better place. The rooms looked great, but I still made it up to him, I think you know how." Noelle said. I could hear the big fat smirk in her voice. I took a seat at the kitchen table. "He must have just left the ring there when we started making out."

I forgot about the last comment and went back to the whole room situation, "Like when? You know I helped him make this all possible." I told her.

"I know, and it was beautiful, but I just didn't want to say yes Dash I'll marry you in my kitchen. I know he could think of something much more creative. And I want you to help him. You know what I would like right?" She asked.

I don't know what the hell Noelle's would want. Wait! Didn't she say something about a beach? No, that was for her wedding.

"Yeah, I know what you would like." I lied.

"Great! Well, I'm going to go, later!" Then she hung up. I let out a big breathe came rushing out of my mouth. I set my phone down on the table with a clunk and then let out a small moan.

Josh walked over to me and started rubbing my shoulders. Then he took the seat on the bar stool next to me and took my hand.

"What is this about an engagement ring?" Josh raised his eyebrows.

"Dash proposed to Noelle the night before I left, and I helped him plan it." I saw Josh tense up. "He really loves her, he doesn't care where he proposes but, she does. So we made this whole thing in her kitchen, and she didn't want him to officially ask her to marry him in her kitchen." I took a deep breathe and let it out. Trying to calm myself down.

"Reed, we're on break from school and Noelle is still stressing you out?" He asked.

"She's not stressing me out." I said.

"Reed." Josh said.

I looked into his blue concerned eyes. "Ok, she's stressing me out." I let out and dropped my head into my hands, and ran them over my face.

"Come here." He held his arms out, and I fell into them.

"I don't want you to get stressed to melt down mode ok?" He asked. He stroked my hair and kissed my head.

"I won't." I promised and sat up. I looked at him, my hair a little flipped over.

"Ok." He smiled then we kissed, which as usual turned out to making out. We moved over to the living room which looked just like his parents. Just the furniture was switched around a little.

We laid on the couch; Josh was on top of me. I was enjoying every seconds of everything on my mind quickly fading away. All that was left was Josh.

"Ehm." Someone was hovering over us. I could feel it now. We pulled our lips away from each other and looked over to see who it was. It was only Tess.

"Tess." Josh said annoyed. "What are you doing here?"

"Ok, so Tori kicked me out of our room because I told her that Ryan Taylor isn't going to ask her out, because he already told this girl Amanda, and he was going to ask Liz Stellar out. And Amanda told Regina, and Regina told Mandy, and Mandy told my best friend Macy who told me! And so I was trying to explain that but she didn't believe me. So she kicked me out of our room." She said in a rush. Josh was now sitting next to me, and I was sitting with my feet behind me.

"So why are you here?" Josh asked.

"Because mom said that it would be a better choice to just have space from her because we're twins and you know, we spend all of our time together and she's like my best friend. But we spend way too much time together, so I'm thinking why only take measures to a different room? Then it hit me why not a whole different townhouse!" She smiled.

"Why did you pick our townhouse? Mom and Dad's have like 5 floors just take one and leave it with that." Josh said.

"But you don't see, we may be on different floors but we're still in the same townhouse." She pointed out.

"So what do you want us to do about it?" Josh asked.

"Oh! Go on with what ever you two where doing, I'll just be upstairs watching TV! Ciao!" She smiled and waved she started to walk away then she stopped. "One more thing,"

"What?"

"Please tell me that's the amount of clothes you guys started out with on." She looked a little disgusted.

"Yes! Now go!" Josh shouted and pointed to the doorway that leads to the main foyer.

We listened to her run up the stairs and shut a door. I looked over at Josh. He looked at me.

"I'm so sorry. My sisters are ruining our trip." Josh apologized and dropped his head in his hands. I crawled over to him, and wrapped my arms around his strong waist.

"It's ok; it's not like their brats." I told him.

"But that's the thing. They are." Josh said.

"Josh, their not. And it's ok if they barge in once and a while but as long as we're together, its fine. Hey, I'm a little sister too, and trust me I annoy the hell out of my brother. But we still get along most of the time." I laughed.

"I guess you're right. What would I do without you?"

"I ask myself the same thing about you everyday." I told him. Then he grabbed my face and kissed me. I was kissing him back in a flash and we where soon in the same position we where before his sister came in.

"Josh?" Tess' voice filled the room. Josh pulled back and groaned.

"What now Tess?"

"You're TV's broken." She said.

"Then go—"

"Josh, just let her watch TV down here." I told him. He looked at me with his eyes screaming "No!" but I gave him a look back telling him to cut her some slack once.

"Fine." Josh said unwillingly.

"Yay!" She shrieked and she took a seat next to me on the couch and turned on the TV. As she flipped through the channels, Josh wrapped his arm around me and pulled my close to him. But Tess just scooted closer to us. I smiled and looked at Josh; he looked like he wanted to kill himself. I smiled again and before I lay my head on his chest.

"I'm going to get popcorn!" Tess said and she was in the kitchen within seconds.

"She's reached the point where we fight non- stop." Josh told me.

"Just let her watch TV with us, how long cane it really take?" I asked. He sighed and kissed me. We kept kissing until we heard Tess' footsteps into the living room. Then we quickly pulled away and went back to just cuddling. Tess just came in and suspected nothing. But this time she sat on the love seat instead of on the same couch. We all just watched TV for a while. Then Josh kept looking over at Tess. And she would look over at us.

"What?" Josh asked.

"Nothing." Tess shrugged.

Only a like a half hour Reed. Half hour, you can do it.

Well, I can tell you one thing. It definitely was longer than a half hour. 3 hours, and the worst three hours of my life. Josh and Tess really can fight. I thought they where going to start wrestling on the floor in front of me. They seemed to fight about everything, channels, movie thoughts, characters, staring, anything. While I sat there in between them. The whole time.

So that night, we let Tess stay the night. She chose the room next to ours, and Josh just had to let it go.

I heard my phone ring while I was brushing my teeth; Dash's picture came up on the Caller ID. I pressed answer.

"Hello?"

"Reed, did you hear what she said?" Dash asked.

"Yeah, she didn't like it."

"Well I have a new idea; I'm going to propose at Hollis' party! On stage! In front of everyone! Noelle would love it!" He said excited.

"Ohmigod! Dash! That's perfect." I told him. Josh walked in the door and looked at me, with rage in his eyes.

"Uh, you keep planning, I have to go." I hung up the phone and walked over to Josh. "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? My sister is what's wrong! She doesn't like that brand of pillow; she has to have the one that's not too big or small. Or not too foamy or fluffy. She's so damn picky!" Josh shouted.

I could tell he was really mad. He never really swore unless he was really mad. That or,

"Did you take your pills today?" I asked.

"Damnit." He swore under his breath.

"Josh,"

"I'm sorry. That's why I've been on the edge. I'll just go downstairs and take them. I'll be right back." He left quickly and I was left standing there. Flashback, the day he was arrested. When he didn't take his medication. He was in quick mood swings, I was so scared. I turned off all of the lights and crawled in bed. I curled up in a ball and took a deep breath. About 5 minutes later, Josh came back he didn't turn on any of the lights, just took his pants and shirt off and got in bed. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my cheek.

"So about the Hollis Christmas parties." I said rolling over.

"I'm so sorry I didn't tell you. Who did?"

"Noelle, she said that she wasn't going to go to this party in St. Bart's for her family because she's going to be in New York too." I told him.

"Oh, I'm sorry again. But hey, how about we get out of here and go shopping for a while? We can just hang out in the city." Josh suggested.

"I can't wait." I told him closing my eyes.

"Me too." He said. He then wrapped his arms around my waist like last night and pulled me to him. I kissed him and then fell asleep in his arms.

Ok, so you know why Noelle didn't wear the ring. And I'm very happy with all of the great reviews everyone is leaving! I don't think there's that many spelling errors in here because I went over a few parts a couple of times. Please review for this chapter! Next chapter is shopping, then the party then Christmas eve! I'm so mad this story is behind on the whole Christmas thing. So I'll definitely update later today and probably tomorrow too! And just to let you guys know, I'm not going to have Dash fall for Reed, ever! I hate them together, I'm all Hollis over here. And it's kinda obvious by now because, well Dash is proposing to Noelle! :]

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Lauren