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I turned and started down the hall, my footsteps heavy. A few doors down, I paused and looked over my shoulder. He was still standing there, watching me. Watching me walk away from him. "Keep me posted, okay? On how she's doing."

"I promise."

So there it was. Goodbye. I was going to be strong. I was not going to pine and whine and wish. I was going to be good. For me, for Josh, and for Ivy. That was my promise to myself.

I carried on walking the farther I walked a way from Josh the colder I felt, I was about to walk in to the waiting room when I felt the very little food I had eaten in the last 2 days begin to rise out of my stomach at an extremely fast pace up my throat. I turned and dashed in to the lady's room hoping Josh hadn't been watching long enough to see me. I heaved in to the bowl of the toilet, trying to hold my hair back at the same time. Suddenly I felt long, thin fingers take my hair in them and hold it back for me.

It was Noelle.

This was the girl who I had become so close to she even had said I was like her little sister that was until the legacy when I had been under the influence of ecstasy and nearly slept with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Dash. But, all of that had happened because the drugs had been slipped in to my drinks by my "best friend" Sabine.

I stood up after I was sure there was nothing left inside of me to come up, flushed the toilet and went over to the sink to rinse my mouth out. I turned around to see a very worried Noelle.

"Hey", she said in a soft voice, like she was scared I would brake down by the softest sound.

"Hi", I tried to answer in a strong voice, but it cracked.

She gave me a soft smile, like she was saying I know you're hurting and don't worry I can keep a secret, I reflected her smile but mine was saying thank you.

I lifted myself on to the basin and sat there, it was a comfortable silence.

"Um, how are you holding up?" Noelle was the first to speak up.

"I'm holding and you?"

"I don't matter right now, you do though. So, I wanted to ask, do you think Astrid needs a roommate?

"I don't know, why ask me? Ask Astrid, I bet she could actually answer that question."

"Oh My Word, Reed I was asking if you wanted to be a billings girl again!"

"What! Are you serious? Or is this just another one of your jokes that aren't funny?"

"I'm serious. Duh. So, do you?"

"Of Corse I do!"

"Then it's settled. Welcome back to billings Reed Brennan." She said with the biggest smile I had every seen on Noelle's face before. Then she gave me a hug. This hug made me realize that my life would soon go back to how it was meant to be and that maybe, just maybe I could make it without Josh and I could find true love again.

With who though?