A/N: Thank you all so much for the awesome reviews. This story has reviews over 100 and that makes me so, so happy. They all mean the world to me. I hope you guys like this chapter, and Dan's wife is revealed because I know a lot of people had a lot of questions regarding that. Enjoy!
~Alex
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Chapter Ten
"You little whore!" Agnes shouted, a proud grin across her face. "You totally was about to sleep with him."
Jenny covered her face with the palms of her hand, completely mortified. "A little louder, Ag, I don't think all of New York heard you."
The saucy brunette smiled apologetically. She grabbed her friend's wrist, pulling her hands down. "Sweetie, having a sexual attraction to a man is not a crime."
The mortified blonde glared, cobalt eyes shining with anger. "I don't have a sexual attraction to him. I hate him, and I work for his family."
"It's not like you're the maid, Jen," Agnes pointed out, sipping from the coffee in her hands. "You're the babysitter."
The two girls were walking along the crowded street, Jenny pushing Mathew in a stroller. It had been three days since the party, and Mathew was feeling much better than he had. Once she was clear to take him into the outside air, Jenny called Agnes, recapping all that had happened. She hadn't seen Nate since that first night in the hospital. He hadn't came back to the house. Anne and the Captain hadn't mentioned him either. Jenny assumed that he'd gone back to Europe with his band.
"They didn't even say anything about it to me." She found it strange that she hadn't been fired yet. "I was in there son's bed, and they said nothing."
Agnes shrugged, sipping more of the coffee from the cup in her hands. "Maybe they don't give shit."
"Language," Jenny scolded, nodding her head towards the stroller. Agnes simply rolled her eyes. "Why wouldn't they care, though. He's their son and "I'm an employee."
"He hasn't been home in a while, J, maybe they don't care about him," the girl concluded, as they crossed the busy street. "Mattie is basically your child. You do more for him than his own parents."
She though about this, concluding that her friend was correct. Nate hadn't been home in years. "That's sad, though."
"You are the one that signed up for it," Agnes stated, tossing her empty cup into a nearing trashcan, "you're apart of their world now."
CONFESSION NUMBER TEN: No matter what your role, salary, or hierarchy was, the moment you became an employee to the Upper East Side's elite, you were officially apart of their world. There was no escaping it; no hiding from it. All scandals and tragedies were apart of you.
Jenny sighed, tilting her head back. This job was more stressful than the one she really wanted. "I know that Serena girl was his ex. She had to be with the way she was questioning me."
"Oh, don't get me started on that bitch, I mean witch," Agnes tried to cover up, when Jenny sent her another death glare. "I hate girls that act all territorial towards their exes."
"I was really not looking forward to being in that drama." The blonde admitted, as they neared a penthouse building. The doorman greeted Jenny by name, as he pressed the button to the right floor. The elevators dinged open, revealing a lavish penthouse apartment. She knelt down, un-strapping Mathew from the stroller, and grabbing his hand, as they walked towards the living room area. It was decorated impressively with pink and green streamers, and other decorations fit for a little girl's birthday party.
"Aunt Jen-Jen!" Tallulah squealed, tiny feet barreling towards her. She grabbed a hold of Jenny's leg, squeezing tight. When the little girl noticed Mathew, she embraced him in a tight hug, screaming, "Mattie! Mattie!"
Jenny smiled down at the two, before placing her present for Tallulah onto the table with the others. She waved to her father sitting in the corner of the room, surrounded by children. She pulled Agnes into the kitchen, where her sister-in-law stood placing food onto a large platter. The woman looked up, smiling at both girls. She wiped her hands on the apron around her waist, and embraced both girls in a hug.
"How are you?" Jenny asked, placing a hand over the older woman's swollen belly. "How is my niece or nephew?"
Olivia Burke-Humphrey smiled, placing her hand to the side of her stomach. "We are both doing alright."
Agnes hopped onto the counter, stealing a cookie from a platter nearby. She bit into the cooking with a smile. "It's shocking how Dan Humphrey makes adorable children."
"Shut up, Agnes," Dan scolded, as he entered the kitchen. His arms circled around his wife's stomach, placing both hands on her bump.
Agnes stuck her tongue out at him in response, before shoving another cooking into her mouth. "It's a really good thing that Liv is pretty. It cancels out your unfortunate looks."
"You two should be the ones that are married." Jenny joked, causing Olivia to nod with a smile. She grabbed one of the cookies on the platter. "How long have the monsters been here?"
Olivia laughed, continuing with her earlier job, despite Dan unwilling to let her go. "It's been nearly four hours."
"That little girl loves the attention," Dan chuckled, placing light kisses along his wife's neck and cheek. "Just like her mommy."
"Just like her daddy," all three woman said in unison. They all laughed, calling out 'jinx.' Olivia set out milk for the two girls at some point, as they continued to eat all of the cookies meant for her daughter's birthday party guest. Soon enough it was time to cut the cake and for the birthday girl to open the presents. Tallulah squealed with delight at every singe present she'd received, thanking her friends over and over again. She gave her Aunt Jen-Jen a big sloppy kiss when opening up the huge teddy bear dressed as a princess. Tallulah was currently in the 'I'm A Princess' faze. When the party was over, Jenny handed out take-home gift bags to the little children, and thanking them and their parents for coming. Olivia was too tired to do so, and somewhere near the end of present giving, Dan escaped towards his office. After the last snot-nose kid was gone, she thanked the heavens no one was long there to tug at the ends of her hair. Tallulah and Mathew had ran up to her room to play with the new toys she'd gotten.
Jenny flopped down on the couch with a sigh. "Thank god that train wreck is over."
"Remind me again why I volunteered to help with this?" Agnes moaned, rubbing balls of her feet. She was slumped over the chaise, body limp.
Olivia laughed softly, soothing the bump of her tummy. "Just imagine what it will be like when you've thrown your own children's birthday party."
"That's right," Rufus agreed, high-fiving Olivia. "I had a hell of a time planning for Jenny and Dan when it was their day."
"Speaking of children. I have to go and get the little monster." Jenny sat up, tucking strands of hair behind both ears.
She took the stairs up to Tallulah's bedroom, where she and Mathew were playing with toys on pink rug. She smiled down at them, telling the little boy to put his shoes back on and get ready to leave. She could tell he was getting tired, his small lids drooping. While the two little children were getting ready, Jenny crept to her brother's office, preparing to scare him by sneaking up unannounced. When she pushed open the door to his office, Dan was sitting with his back to her, his cellphone clasped against his ear.
"…I can't have this getting out to the pubic," he was saying into the phone angrily. Jenny could feel her brows furrowing with confusion. "You have to make sure he won't say anything."
Jenny backed away from the door, feeling slightly uncomfortable. Jenny thought deeply to herself, What the hell was going on? What was Dan talking about? What didn't need to get into the public? And who needed to keep it quiet?
Jenny pushed the stroller down the street, Agnes beside her holding Tallulah in her arms, as the night's air flowed around them. They were just leaving Tallulah's birthday party, on their way back to the Archibald's home to drop Mathew off for the night. Anne and the Captain had given her the next five days off, while another woman watched Mathew. She'd often came during the school year when Jenny couldn't take off time from her classes. Tallulah had insisted on spending the night at her Aunt Jen-Jen's house. The little girl was very disappointed to find out that Mathew wouldn't be joining them. She'd gotten over it quickly when the little girl was promised free access to her wardrobe to play dress up and fairy princess.
She couldn't for the life of her get what Dan had said out of her mind. What was her brother going through? Jenny hated this. She hated knowing something that seemed to be someone else's secret. And now she felt like there was a certain way she had to act around him now. Did she mention what she'd heard him say? Ask him what was going to on? Jenny felt sick just thinking about it all.
"You know what I love about New York?" Agnes asked to no one in particular. "That's so busy even at night."
"It's the city that never sleeps, remember?" Jenny laughed, bending slightly to see if Mathew was still asleep in his stroller. The little boy was sound asleep, head tilting to the side.
"That's the name of Mommy's movie!" Tallulah clapped her hands together. The little girl refused to sleep during the night, considering all the cake and ice cream she'd engorged. She was the only four year old Jenny knew of that didn't crash after eating sweets. Jenny smiled worriedly at her niece. Was this thing Dan was going through liable to affect the little girl?
They were crossing the street, just in time for Jenny to see three slightly familiar forms and one very familiar one. Her heart rate increased. "Jenny?"
She stopped a few feet away from them, hands clutching the bars of the stroller tightly. "Nate. Hi."
The light from the hotel in front of them shined against them. "What are you doing out so late?"
She glanced towards Agnes who was smiling. "Tallulah had a birthday party today," she pointed to the little girl.
"I'm four," Tallulah confirmed, holding up four tiny fingers. She smiled brightly, playing with the ends of her dark hair.
"Congratulations." Nate smiled at the little girl. He turned back to her aunt. "How is Matt doing? He any better?"
She nodded, glancing towards the stroller. "Yeah. He's fine. The fever is way down. He's tired a lot though."
"That's good," he said, eyes staring into her own. "I was going to come by the house, but I didn't."
Jenny nodded with understanding. "Yeah. I've noticed that you haven't been to your house in a while."
He was just about to say something, when Serena placed her hand in his, making it a point to let Jenny see the action. Jenny glanced up at his face, her eyes sad, before she quickly covered it.
"We gotta go. I have to get Mattie back home," Jenny said quickly, as she maneuvered around them. "Goodbye, Nate."
A/N: I'm already working on the next chapter of the story, and since you all seemed to like the previous chapter in Nate's point-of-view, I'm going to work that into the next chapter!
Until next chapter. Love you guys!
