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"I'll go get you a drink," Jake whispers in my ear, before kissing my temple and heading towards the bar.

I close my eyes and rub my forehead, silently cursing myself for keeping up with this ridiculous charade and not coming up with an excuse to back out of coming to this part. I'm grateful that at least Jake's here to run interference between Rufus and me.

I sighed and opened my eyes to see Nate approaching me. I gave him a small smile which he returned.

"Hey," He greeted.

"Hi," I dutifully replied back. "How are you?" I asked.

"Okay I guess. Just bored out of my mind." He said widening his eyes in an exaggerated manner.

"So what? You thought I'd be able to entertain you?" I teased.

He stroked his chin and looked deep in thought before replying. "Don't you know that you're here solely for my entertainment?" He asked with a smirk that could rival Chuck Bass' when he was in one of his devious moods.

I clutched my left hand to my chest in mock offense and playfully swatted his arm."How dare you make up such ridiculous lies? I'm here for everyone's entertainment." I said breaking into a bad Russian accent making us both laugh. I closed my eyes and clutched my stomach as the muscles started jumping from the laughter bubbling from my throat. I stopped laughing when I felt Nate's hands on my cheeks causing my eyes to snap open and meet his.

He had a soft look on his face as he moved a loose piece of hair that had fallen in my face behind my ear, eyes focused on my lips in such a mesmerized way that I had to swallow back my gasp.

His hand left my face and our eyes locked in a silent staring contest, neither of us blinking so we didn't break the moment.

I broke first, my eyes unintentionally straying to his pink lips. His tongue peeked out at the corner and he wet his lips. They were practically begging me to lean forward and—"

I blinked and gave a startled awkward laugh as I realized where my mind was going. Nate looked slightly disappointed for a second before his expression abruptly shifted, so fast that I almost thought I imagined it, to his regular easy going smile.

My eyes drifted over his shoulder and saw Jake walking towards me with two glasses of champagne in his hands and a curious expression on his face.

I breathed a sigh of relief that he didn't notice what happened a moment ago and then I felt guilty for that thought.

'But there's nothing to be guilty about,' I silently amended myself. 'Nothing happened.'

Jake, who now stood next to me, handed me a glass and looked at Nate before looking back to me obviously waiting for an introduction.

"Oh, sorry, Jake this is Nate Archibald. Nate this is my boyfriend Jake Cooper." Hearing Nate's name Jake looked at me with a look of recognition on his face.

"Hey man," Jake put his hand out for Nate to shake, which after a moment of hesitation Nate did.

"Hey."

They let go of each others hands and Jake put his arm around my waist while Nate's eyes tracked all of his movements. A moment of awkward silence fell over us and I quickly downed my drink before handing the glass back to Jake.

"Baby, do you mind getting me another?" I asked.

"Sure," He gave me a small smiled before pecking me on the lips and walking to the bar again.

"You know I'm a little thirsty too. I'll be right back," Nate said as he walked to the bar to stand right beside Jake.

I sighed once they were both gone and pinched the bridge of my nose as I felt a headache coming on. I breathed out through my nose slowly and tried to suppress the pounding tempo playing in my head.

There was a loud crash and my head snapped up to see Jake standing over Nate punching him in the face as Nate was laid back on the counter of the bar. Everyone in the bar was shocked except Dan who came out of nowhere and started pulling Jake off of him. Jake was trying to squirm out of Dan's arms and get at Nate again but Dan must have said something to him because he stopped struggling and righted himself only shouting one last thing at him.

"Stay the hell away from her!" He shouted at Nate before turning around and walking towards me. "We're leaving." He said grabbing my hand and pulling me with him out the door, not giving me a chance to respond.

This is fine because I don't know what I'd say.

A/N: Sorry for the hiatus everyone. I'd had a bit of writers block and I'd started a new story so everything was kind of out of wack but now I'm back. Reviews are appreciated.