Chapter 4: How the mighty have fallen

A/N: I used some dialogue from an episode of Gossip Girl, maybe like two sentences. The thin line between Chuck and Nate

Fox was still half asleep when his limo pulled up to school the next morning. He had gotten the equivalent of maybe two and a half hours of sleep. If it wasn’t for his phone going off, he probably would have decided to skip school. No doubt it was another one of those Gossip Girl messages, those things were starting to annoy him. He stepped out of the limousine and all eyes were on him.

“What?” He checked his appearance and made sure nothing embarrassing was attached to him. He didn’t notice anything out of place, but they were still looking at him. And now they were whispering among themselves. That’s when he noticed Ethan in the distance and he walked over to him. “What’s with everyone staring at me?” he glanced behind him when someone shrieked OMG

“You can’t be serious” he looked up at him with complete astonishment.

“Did I miss something?” he glanced around noticing how everyone was so interested in this conversation.

“Did you sleep with her? You think you could do to Whitney what you do to those other girls?”

“What…are you talking about?”

Ethan reached for his phone and opened the text pushing it in front of Fox’s face.

Spotted: the Queen making out at two in the morning with a certain bad boy named Nicholas Foxworth Crane. Yes, you read right, it seems like W has a thing going on with F. What happened to E? Best friend and Girlfriend, it doesn’t get any juicier than that. Picture attached, it says so much more than I ever could.

You know you love me

xoxo

Gossip Girl

“You son of a bitch, you slept with her, didn’t you? Why? You just used her for what? One roll in the hay, a notch on your I’ve slept with every girl on the East Side. You really are pathetic.”

Fox knew that Ethan had every reason in the world to be angry at him, but he just couldn’t be talked down to, not by the not so virtuous Winthrop. “It happened and if you were more attentive to her maybe she wouldn’t have come to me.”

“Oh, somehow you screwing Whitney for sport was my fault?

“It wasn’t for sport. She needed someone and I was there.”

“Oh so you cared about her?”

“Yes, Dammit if you must know. I cared about her.”

“How long” Ethan demanded.

“It doesn’t matter because we both know you weren’t the faithful boyfriend.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with this.”

“Doesn’t it?”

“None of that changes the fact that you slept with my girlfriend.”

“Don’t you mean your ex-girlfriend.”

“And I bet you were just too excited to pick up the pieces after we broke up. Taking advantage of Whitney when she was in a vulnerable place, because we both know she wouldn’t give you the time of day otherwise.”

He laughed. “You would think that, but you would be completely wrong like you usually are. If you must know I knew Whitney in the biblical sense almost a year ago.”

“For a year you’ve been betraying me”

“Don’t stand there acting as though you gave a shit about Whitney, because if you did you wouldn’t have been bugging me about your one night stand every five seconds.” He said eyes narrowed. “You’re nothing but a spineless coward.”

Ethan slugged him.

Stroking his jaw, Fox straightened up and lunged at Ethan. They found themselves rolling around on the ground with a million phones taking pictures at one of the intriguingly decadent stories the UES had ever seen.

Whitney had no idea what she was going to say to Ethan when she got to school. As she reached the gate she could hear the commotion, she wiggled her way through the crowd to see Ethan and Fox fighting. She tried to physically stop them, but all she got for her troubles was a bloody nose from somebody’s elbow hitting her.

Fox immediately stopped and went over to a bleeding Whitney. He took off his scarf and held it up to her nose trying to stop the bleeding. “I’m sorry”.

“So this is what you meant when you said that you found something different”

Whitney nodded.

“I can’t believe you slept with my best friend. How could you betray me like that?”

“You don’t get to play the victim after you slept with Gwen behind my back.”

The eerie silence was broken up with a lot of gasps coming from their fellow students surrounding them. The bell sounded and the crowd slowly broke up and went their separate ways to class.

Theresa had watched the whole scene play out. Her mind was still racing with the possibilities this left her with to get Ethan to be hers. She never thought that all she would have to do was to let Whitney self destruct and that would put her in the direct line of everything she had ever wanted. Tonight Theresa would definitely have something to smile about.

“What are you so happy about?” Her brother asked.

“Nothing.” Theresa said while whistling.

“Don’t think that things between you and Ethan are going to change.”

“That’s where you’re wrong.”

“Are you going to enlighten me as to how?”

“Fate”

“Fate?”

“Yeah it all comes down to fate and this just proves that we are going to be together.” She smiled leaving her brother pondering his little sister’s sanity. She always had a way to see the light at the end of the tunnel even when there wasn’t even one.

Gwen was standing just a couple steps away from her schools front gate when she read the latest Gossip Girl message. She was shell shocked at the information that the latest text provided. Her once best friend had betrayed her boyfriend with the “manwhore” of East Side Academy. She just couldn’t believe it that Whitney would be ever be taken in by the charm of the devil especially after her devotion to the princely Ethan Winthrop. Her feet finally moved to rush to class before she was later than she already was. She noticed Fox and Whitney talking a little ways outside of the schools campus. At first she just looked at them before she realized of how much of a hypocrite Whitney acted toward her. Playing the whole victim, when Whitney did the same thing with Ethan’s best friend. She couldn’t help but to laugh at how all this sounded like some soap opera. All the anger she had built up dissipated. She just wanted her best friend back.

Gwen walked over to them. “So, you two?”

Whitney looked at Gwen. “I guess I was a hypocrite”

“You guess?”

“I’m sorry”

“Me too, Whit” they both smiled at each other

“Ah, a Kodak moment” Fox said wrapping his arms around both of them.

“Friends” Gwen asked.

“Sisters” Whitney said pulling her into a hug.

“Tell me you had nothing to do with this?”

“Of course I didn’t.”

Kay searched her best friend’s eyes looking for the truth. She wasn’t sure if she was telling the truth or not, but she let the subject go. Kay’s eyes ventured onto Miguel who was kissing Charity. The sight of those two made her stomach cringe, it was repulsing. She fought the urge to scream and cry at the same time.

“Kay what’s wrong” Simone said noticing the look of distress in her eyes.

“I…...” Kay tried to find words that would release this feeling of pain and confusion. She had to tell somebody, but she didn’t know how to even start.

Simone knew whatever it was, it was serious. Kay seemed dazed and lost in her own thoughts. “Kay look at me. Just tell me.”

“I can’t”

“Yes you can. You know you can tell me anything.” She moved in front of her

“I…. did..I have been doing something that I shouldn’t have done.”

“Kay it can’t be that bad. You’re the good one between the two of us.” She smiled. Taking a look at the seriousness of her face, she let the smile go. “Okay you’re really scaring me.”

“I’ve been seeing this guy” Kay blurted it out.

“Okay that’s not the end of the world.”

“He’s got a girlfriend”

Simone gasped. She couldn’t believe that her best friend would ever be the so called other woman. She didn’t know what to tell her. “Do you care about him?”

Kay nodded.

“Does he care about you?”

“I think so” she said while moving her eyes to her feet.

“You know what you have to do, don’t you”

“But I need him.” She looked up to meet Simone’s eyes with tears in hers.

“Oh Kay, how deep are you?”

After talking with Simone about her situation, she knew she had to end things with Miguel. Being wrapped up in his arms she was coming to the conclusion that was easily said then done.

Kay had come over a little while ago telling her grandmother and anybody who would ask, they had a history project to work on. Another lie added on to a bunch of other ones.

Kay loved being with Miguel especially the kissing part they were wrapped up in, but the deception had finally gotten to the point she couldn’t look at herself in the mirror.

“I’m breaking up with you.” She blurted out in between their kisses. “I’m serious this time.”

He smirked and starting nibbling at her neck.

She used all her brain power to make herself forcibly push him back. “Miguel I need you to listen to me. I can’t do this; it goes against everything I stand for. I’m better than this, you’re better than this.”

He leaned in for another kiss and he caught her cheek. “I’m going to break up with her.”

“When?”

“Soon.”

“That’s what you said a month ago.”

“I know. Be patient. I just don’t want to hurt her.”

“And what about me? You do know this hurts me. I want to go out on a regular date with my boyfriend, not hiding behind closed doors so no one will catch us.”

“Kay. I love you.”

“I know you do, but that’s not enough anymore.” She reached for her purse glanced at him before walking out the door. “I deserve better.” She slammed the door shut.