"Wow." That was all I could say. I stepped into the big party room Noelle recently had decorated. It was filled with silver and blue balloons filled the ceiling and the corners. There was a long table full of food, and a bar with drinks. Note to self, don't have friends get your drinks. I shook the thought out of what happened last time.
There was a huge DJ booth, ready to play Noelle's play list and some requested songs. There were waiters preparing trays of food to walk around with. The room was quiet, only a few murmurs from the workers, or someone else. There wasn't anyone here yet, because the party didn't start for another 2 hours. I had no idea what Noelle wanted us to do in that time.
I spotted Noelle and Kiran walking out of the door leading to a hall to the kitchen. The wonderful and rich smells from the food came with them. And I noticed the champagne flute in Kiran's hand. She already started drinking.
As I walked over to them, I noticed more. There was a huge TV screen, probably to catch clips of the guest. Huge speakers hung in the corners. There where 4 long marble columns, near each corner. There wasn't much to the decorating. But there were streamers. Noelle hired a nice decorating committee.
"Reed! Hey!" Kiran smiled she gave me a hug, and then Noelle gave me one.
"I'm a genius, that dress looks great on you." Noelle said stepping back to admired the dress.
"Thanks," I smiled and looked down at myself.
The dress did look good on me. The white popped against my St. Bart's tan. Even the gold strappy heels looked great. I swung my silky, shiny, brown hair over my shoulder.
"I swear," Kiran laughed and gulped down the rest of her champagne. "She starts to look and act like you more and more everyday."
Noelle laughed, "That means I'm going to leave Billings in the right hands."
"Huh?" I asked. She wasn't leaving any time soon right?
"When I leave the school, everyone in Billings already knows I'm going to give you the presidency." She said as if it was obvious.
Which it kinda was. I was the president of Billings once. I could be again. But I'm not sure if I want to be that again. Looking back on how it was, I winced. "I don't think I want to be the president." I mumbled.
"What?!" Kiran and Noelle shouted at the same time. They both looked as if I just told them I was going to wear the same shirt two days in a row.
"I'm just kinda… after what happened last time. The presidency doesn't seem to be the perfect job for me." I sighed.
"Who else is there that's going to be left? Everyone else who could possibly be the president is going to be gone." Noelle bolded her words verbally. "You're the only adequate candidate." Noelle pointed out. We started to walk over to the bar.
"I know, but it just seems…" I trailed off.
"Fine. Maybe Missy Thurber would just loveto take that job instead of you. Would you really want to suck up to Missy!?" Kiran asked.
"No," I sighed.
"Then you're going to have to take the job." Noelle settled.
"I don't know, next year's going to be stressful for me." I sighed. That was true, no Josh. Or Noelle. Or anyone else for that matter. All of my senior friends where going to be off and graduated.
"Next year will be fine, there's no one that I have to save your ass with. You'll be fine. And I'll make yearly visits." Noelle smirked.
Ok. I had to laugh at that one. "Yearly?" I smiled.
"Yes, yearly! I'm not coming back to Easton every weekend." Noelle spat. Then smirked, "That's Hollis' job."
I smiled and shook my head. "I'm fine with that."
"You'll have to tell us who the new Billings girls are." Kiran said.
"They won't be dropped in there. I know that for a fact." Noelle smiled, showing she knew something we didn't. Which was highly likely because the girl knew everything.
"What?" Kiran asked.
Noelle looked back and forth from me and Kiran as she said, "The Crom isn't coming back next year. Let alone next semester! He's sending out a letter to all of the parents soon. Since when we come back, he'll be gone. I think Dean Marcus is coming back again. Or the school's going to try to get their asses together and hire another Headmaster before winter break is over. Oh, and we're out of finals!" Noelle cheered.
"Where did you hear that?" I asked her with a hint of being appalled in my voice. I seriously didn't know how she did it.
"Reed, please. I know everything." She rolled her eyes.
I smiled, she was right. Still, I didn't know how exactly she knew.
"But enough about school, let's talk about my up coming wedding." Noelle smiled. Me and Kiran turned to each other and smiled, while Noelle ordered a drink.
"When do you want to have it?" Kiran asked, sipping her freshly filled glass of champagne.
"I'm thinking over the summer, outside of New York of course." She scoffed, "Somewhere like daddy's beach house in Kaş. Turkey isn't that bad." Noelle smiled.
A wedding in Turkey? I shot her a confused look.
"The sea is so blue, it's amazing." She smiled.
"Mediterranean!" Kiran cheered. "Sounds fab!"
"I know," Noelle had a proud look on her face. "We've got an hour left. Let's go check on the waiters." Noelle said putting her glass down on the granite table and strutting over to the waiters hang out. I quickly followed her and Kiran.
"Are you guys all prepared?" Noelle asked.
They shook their heads. Terrified much?
"You should probably go start making back up treys, Kiran's gunna want more champagne soon." She laughed and then walked over to the kitchen. I found my phone in my bag that I was still carrying around. Someone was calling me.
"Astrid?" I whispered, looking at the screen. I pressed answer and held the phone to me ear. I stopped following Noelle and Kiran and stood on the dance floor. Which looked more like a ballroom floor because there were no crazy lights.
"Hello?"
"Reed!" Astrid's voice chimed.
"Hey! How are you holding up?" I asked her.
"I'm doing better. I'm still invited to the party right?"
"Of course! Why wouldn't you be?" I asked.
"Well, with everything that happened. People might think things."
"Astrid, no one knows beside you, me, Josh, Trey, and Josh's family." I told her.
"Oh that's ok I guess. I just hope that's the only time he'll ever do that to me. I… I miss Trey so much. I haven't seen him in forever." She sighed. On the verge of tears it seemed like.
"Well it's not the only time he ever did that." I sighed. Ready to tell her the story.
"What?" She asked.
"He did the same thing to me last night. But it was a lot more than a kiss." I begun. "It ended with a fist fight between him and Josh, and Mr. Hollis had to come break it up. I was like freaked the whole night." I choked on my words as I explained to her. I winced quietly. Ok, not too ready to go over that.
"Oh. My. God." Astrid hissed. "I'm so sorry."
"It's ok, it's not your fault. But he's not living with us anymore."
"Josh must have been so pissed."
"He was." I said.
"I'm sorry. Hey, I got to go. I'll see you at the party! Bye!" She hung up and I placed my phone back in the bag.
"There you are!" Noelle shouted. She walked over to me. "I thought I lost you." She hooked her arm through mine. We started to walk to the bar. "I think our guest will be arriving in 45 minutes. Shall we go cue the lights?" She asked.
"I think we shall." I laughed, we walked all together.
Ready for a great party.
About a half hour into the party, it was off full swing. Kiran had gotten pretty much everyone drunk from just her breath, and Noelle was somewhere talking about her wonder planning.
I haven't found Josh yet, Astrid yes, Josh no. We were guessing him and Trey were hanging out with the guys. We went searching. I finally found that head of blond curls talking to people. I walked up to him, guys trying to grab at me already. I fought them off and got up to Josh safely.
"Hey!" I smiled at him.
"Hey!" His face lit up, he gave me a sweet peck on the lips and then he leaned down to my ear and asked, "Where's Astrid?"
"She's over there." I said in his ear.
"Trey wants to talk to her." He had told me.
I leaned to the side to find Trey standing, talking behind Josh.
"She probably wants to talk to him too." I guessed. I turned away from Josh trying to find Astrid again. The girl was clinging onto me the whole night so far. And she chooses now to leave my side? Then I spotted her hair brown hair and walked over to her.
"Astrid! Come on get over there." Then I whispered in her ear. "Trey wants to talk to you."
She looked up at me with hope. A lot of hope and happiness. Before I knew it she was over at Josh and asked him something. I started to walk over there and she went off.
"I think they'll be back together by the end of the night." Josh smiled.
"That's good." I smiled. Josh was right, he didn't like his tux jacket. He had on an oxford shirt. The arms where rolled up to his elbows, and he looked older. I liked it.
"I'm surprised." Josh said in my ear.
"Why?"
"Because it isn't a full out party. Like the Legacy." He said looking down at me.
The Legacy. My heart suffered a moment of pain. The Legacy. As in, the place we broke up. I just nodded though and looked away.
There where specs of white lights grazing over the room. I told Noelle not to go all out on this one. It looked more like a High School Dance to me. I knew it was going to get more wild at midnight. And, I think, that's about the time Josh and I are going to flee.
I saw Noelle say something to Amberly and Amberly pointed at me. Noelle fiercely walked over to me.
"That little bitch." She said under her breath.
I had to laugh, "What did she do?"
"She's such a freshman. Straight out of middle school. She's trying to get gossip out of me as if I know everything in the frickin' world!" She complained.
I smiled, "Noelle, you do know everything in the world though." She had just said so earlier today.
She quickly, and stiffly looked over at me it pursed lips. Then looked down at the ground and smiled. "Yeah, I do. But, I have to be nice to her for the rest of the vacation. Because daddy's friends with her dad. He doesn't want fights between the families. We have enough of those with the Trigrelos." Noelle laughed.
"What about her and Billings?"
"Oh please, Reed. I'm not going to keep her in there. I told daddy fine, but there are just some places, where I draw the line. He said ok. Then I had to leave because he got a call." Noelle recalled.
"Oh, ok." I shrugged. Noelle waved bye before fleeing. I turned to face Josh, he was still there.
"So your powers aren't being used for good?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
Not this again.
"Josh—"
"I know, I know, it's all Noelle. You didn't want to do it." He mocked me.
"Josh, not tonight!" I said over the music. The scene wasn't helping.
"I can't even hear you." He said. I took his hand and brought him back over to the kitchen. All you could hear was the chopping and shouting of cheifs. And the muffled beat of the music.
"Better?" I asked in a normal voice.
"Yeah," He sigh. Cooling off just a bit.
"Look, I'm sorry. But I don't like Amberly. I don't like her, she's like the biggest bitch I've ever met." I mumbled.
"Why? What did she do to you?"
"More like what she did to you! Didn't you see her flirting with you at your parent's party?" I asked him.
"Flirting?" He scoffed. Then laughed. "Reed, we where just talking. Wait, you aren't jealous or anything right? Reed. She's a freshman."
I looked up at him. "No, Josh I'm not jealous, I just don't like her."
"What else did she do?"
I bit the inside of my cheek. "That time, when everyone hated me at Easton. I had like no friends. Amberly was just horrible to me. She was like, I can't even discribe it." I shook my head. "It's bad though, I just remember the stares."
Josh put his around my waist. "It's ok. She's a freshman, Reed, she won't hurt you or anything." He said referring to the fact that Ariana and Sabine where either a year older or my age.
"I know. I know, I don't think she's gunna try to kill me or anything, I just think that she may be a little too much. And even though I have friends again, and I have you, she still isn't all that nice." I explained.
"Just, if you're going to do all of this Billings crap, just don't go to far. Remember, she's only a freshman."
"She's only a freshman." I repeated.
"Let's go back in, it's getting awkward with the cooks watching." Josh whispered.
I laughed, "Ok." So we went back in the party hand in hand.
Ok, first off, I'm soo sorry it took me longer to update. But yesterday i had the most amount of homework all year, besides finals and mid terms, and I didn't have anytime to go on the computer. I fell asleep right after it all, and a shower. lol. So it would of been up yesterday if it wasn't for my teachers! NO it would of been up sunday night! I couldn't log on to Fan Fiction!! It had a problem or something, so ya then this is fan fictions fault! Grrrr....
Second, about the whole fight I placed in there neatly, sorta. I'm sorry, but I'm getting tired of how frickin perfect they are!!! LOL srry. I had to. but hey, they kinda made up. And this was a longer chapter! I could be like some of u and write a half of a page chapter! lol. I'm sorry I'm kinda hyper, and when I get hyper I get very out spoken. :] lol.. And I just added a really good pic on myspace. HA
review plz plz plz!!
~Lauren