Chapter 1: Fear of a familiar face
Gossip Girl Set, Kelly followed the indications which led her to where the cast's trailers were situated. Without lifting her head, she went straight to her private trailer. Luckily she didn't run into any of her colleagues. She didn't want to see anyone, well that's not quite true. She didn't want to see Matthew. She had missed his presence during the summer break and after their lovely holiday in Cannes together, she couldn't wait to start shooting Gossip Girl again. But things had changed in the past few weeks. She hadn't heard from her male co-star in weeks. Not directly anyway. Kelly sure knew what he was up to, thanks to Lightt. It had been a shock to her to constantly see him with this unidentified woman whose legs didn't seem to end and whose hair was dark as chocolate. Matt had never mentioned this woman to her before. She didn't think there was someone special in his life, but the footage she saw proved differently. Who was she? And why hadn't he told her about this girl?
Kelly drank her iced tea in the private comfort of her trailer. She stood up and went to wash her hands. She looked in the mirror and told herself to stop it. What was she even thinking? Hiding out here, for whom? For Matthew? Because he was with this other woman? 'This is your own bloody fault, Rutherford', she told herself. Matthew had wooed her numerous times before and although she had always enjoyed that, she kept her distance. All because she didn't want to jeopardize their friendship. Why? It's not like they were close friends now. She hadn't heard from him in weeks. Kelly ran some cold water over her face and took her iced tea. It was time to head out to make-up and to face her fears.
Kelly was sitting in a chair while Sarah was doing her make-up. Both were talking about their holiday when Blake entered and hugged Kelly. Both women were happy to see each other again. 'So', Blake asked, 'are you excited about your first upcoming scenes?' 'Yeah', Kelly lied. 'I wonder what else the writers have in store for our characters'. Truth was that Kelly was scared about Lily's future. What was going to happen to her character? Her character decided to leave Rufus in the last episode of the previous season but were the writers going to keep it that way knowing that if they did thousands of fans would be immensely disappointed. Kelly wanted to give her fans a happy Rufly ending for sure, but it would probably be better for her if she didn't have to do any intimate scenes with Matthew anymore. Maybe it was even better if she and Matthew didn't have any scenes altogether. But that wasn't going to happen since her first shooting would be one involving Matthew. In less than 10 minutes she would have to face him…