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"Ephram!"

Christopher and Nate quickly pulled him away from Logan, who now had a bloody nose. Rory kneeled next to him, trying to help him up.

"Are you ok?" Logan gave her an incredulous look as he leaned on her shoulder for support. "Of course you are not."

"Get away from her!" Ephram shouted.

"Ephram, don't do this here." Christopher whispered into his son's ear as he pulled him out of the room. The attending guest started whispering about what had just happened and Rory couldn't feel more embarrassed.

Lorelai appeared by their side, looking at her daughter partially worried and upset. She gave Logan a napkin and leaded them both to the office. When they were inside, Lorelai got an emergency kit out and proceed to cure Logan.

"I'm really sorry about this." Lorelai said to Logan, who just shrugged it off.

"I'm used to this."

"You are used to having a guy punching out of nowhere all the time?"

"No, I'm used to fighting with your son all the time." Logan corrected, wincing as Lorelai cleaned him up. "I'm sorry about all this, Mrs. Hayden. I shouldn't have come."

"No, you were invited. Ephram is just so immature." Rory snapped.

"We need to talk." Lorelai said. "I'm going to get your father and your brother. Plus others, Logan you want me to call your parents so they take you home?"

"That depends, is Ephram going to kill me? Because that's the only way I'm walking out of here alongside Mitchum Huntzberger."

"I'll see if I can fetch one of your friends to take you home then." Lorelai had experience dealing with society kids, they wanted to pretend they had no worries in the world but inside they were hurting. She squeezed his shoulder. "I'm really sorry my son tried to break your nose."

"It's ok, Mrs. Hay…"

"Lorelai, call me Lorelai. I'm not as old as you may think. Now, Rory take Logan upstairs, so Ephram doesn't see him. I'm going to try to fix this."

"Blair! What happened?" Her mother urged her. "Everything was just fine a couple of minutes ago."

"I don't know what happened mom." Blair said, she was standing between Lilly Van Der Woodsen and Eleanor, biting her upper lip nervously. She had a feeling this was all about the box of condoms.

"Ephram must have a reason, I mean… is that Carter Baizen?" Lilly cut herself off and stared at the young man standing next to his parents. "Where is Serena?"

"Oh, Dear."

"Let go of me." Ephram shouted, untangling from his father's grasp.

"What is wrong with you, Ephram?" Christopher yelled. They were outside away from the party and he had no intentions on letting his son be. "This is your mother's event! You wanted to ruin it? Because I think you just did."

"Uncle Chris, give him a break." Nate tried to reason.

"No, I'm not giving him a break Nate! I'm not giving you a break, because I know you, Ephram Hayden and that kid who tried to strangle his sister's friend in there was not my son!" Chris took a deep breath. "Look at me straight in the eye and tell what this is about."

Ephram and Nate exchanged looks, Chris had a feeling he wasn't going to like this.

Lorelai had found one of Logan's friends who was sober enough to drive him home. She had sent him upstairs to get her daughter's boyfriend when she ran into her husband in the lobby, Lorelai couldn't be more relieved to see him

"Where's Ephram? Is he ok?"

"Where's that little punk?"

"What?" She looked at her husband's face and for the first time noticed Christopher looked extremely angry, she glanced at Ephram and Nate standing behind them. "Look Chris, calm down …"

"You knew it too? She is seeing Logan Huntzberger, Lor. That kid is…" Chris struggled trying to find an adequate word. "I don't know, the point is I'm going to kill him, Lore. After I kill him I'm going to put his head in my office as a trophy."

"Chris, you can't get away with murder. Honey, look at me. I don't know what the kids told you, but you can't kill Rory's boyfriend."

"Boyfriend?" Ephram scoffed.

"You better keep your mouth shut, Ephram; I have very embarrassing pictures of you when you were younger and you just ruined my opening, don't make Mommy turn to the dark side."

"You knew they were seeing each other?" Chris interrupted.

"Yes, but I couldn't tell you. Rory is the one who needs and wants to tell you." Lorelai reasoned.

"Why didn't she tell me? I'm her dad; I mean she tells me everything, even the little things." Christopher sounded hurt. "She wants to go all the way with this guy…"

"She wants to go all the way?" Lorelai stepped away from Chris and faced her son. "Ephram Straub Hayden-Gilmore, what did you tell your dad?"

"Huntzberger is playing Rory! He is only with her to piss me off; she bought a box of condoms mom." Ephram hissed the last part. Then everything clicked inside Lorelai's head.

"Oh Lord, this is so twisted! When did this family turned into an episode of Jersey Shore?" Lorelai mumbled under her breath. "Ephram, those condoms are not Rory's. She bought them for a friend."

"Why would she buy one of her friends, condoms, Lore?" Chris interrupted, his wife knew something, he could tell. Lorelai turned and with a slight movement of head pointed at Nate, who was looking rather pale. "Oh my God!"

"I know!"

"Blair and Nate?"

"Chris I want you to take Ephram upstairs, make sure he changes into his pajamas and gets into bed. You." She pointed at her eldest child. "Are very much grounded, young man.
I'm not yelling at you right now, because, frankly I don't have time or patience to do so!"

"Lorelai, what's going on?"

"Great, mom, join the party!"

"Ephram, why would you punch Logan?" Emily exclaimed. "Are you out of your mind?"

"It was a very nice throw, I must say." Richard commented like he was talking about golf. "Very firm."

"Absolutely." Straub nodded, but rectified himself when he noticed his wife glaring at him. "But inappropriate."

"Totally inappropriate!"

"We are very disappointed in you, son" Straub said, winking when Francine looked away.

"Well, since we have cleared that up. Lorelai you and Chris have to go back, you two are going upstairs." Emily ordered.

"Careful there." Rory's voice came from the stairway. Colin was helping her get Logan downstairs and into his car so he could be driven home. But he was far too dizzy and couldn't walk in a straight line.

"On my way upstairs." Ephram growled. Richard got a hold of his arm and held him back.

"You look terrible, Huntz."

"Tell me about it."

Rory looked up and noticed Ephram, Nate, her parents and grandparents staring at them. "Oh this is just great."

Camus said that life is the sum of our choices. Choose wisely and fortune smiles upon you. But choose poorly? You never know what price you'll have to pay.

Ephram and Rory groaned when Lorelai opened the doors to the outside gazebo, and sunlight hit them straight on the face. They had both been sent upstairs around 11 and put into bed. It was now 8:30, after the embarrassing disaster that was the Inn's opening night.

Things were awfully tense between the twins. Lorelai and Christopher exchanged a look as Rory took the morning paper, took out the sports section and started looking through it.

That was Ephram's page.

But before that he had finished the entire coffee pot before Rory could fill her cup. Tension was so tick between them it could only be cut with a chainsaw. Lorelai cleared her throat and Chris took the hint, putting his own paper down giving his offspring a hard look:

"Now, you seem awfully quiet. Funny, last night you were at each other's throats."

"I have nothing to say to him." Rory said simply.

"Don't you have something to say to me instead?" Rory shivered under her father's gaze. "About Logan Huntzberger."

"I was going to tell you eventually."

"When? When he dumped your sorry…"

"Language, Ephram! I know you are upset, but you both are in trouble. Massive trouble. You." Lorelai pointed at her son. "For what you pulled during my opening night. And you" It was Rory's turn. "For lying to your dad and your brother, and provoking this situation!"

"This is ridiculous! You two are so close. Rory why would you lie about your… Logan!" Christopher was still in denial.

"Weren't you there last night? I knew Ephram would react like that and I didn't want to tell you if I wasn't sure it would work out between us. Ephram hates Logan; you can't even mention his name in front of him."

"Last night wouldn't have happened if you had told me. I would have listened." Ephram looked hurt. "I thought we could tell each other everything, I guess I was wrong."

"Ephram! You are my brother and I love you, you know how much I trust you I just couldn't tell anyone about me and Logan." Rory sighed and gathered all her courage. It was time to come clean. "Logan and I sort of hooked up while I was with Jess."

Her parents and twin had their eyes wide open. They all looked shocked.

"Is that why you broke up with Jess?" Chris asked in a small voice.

"Partially, our relationship was in the rocks way before Logan. I thought about it, telling you about it but I didn't want you to judge me. Then things with Allison happened and everything got so messed up."

"You have been seeing him since then?" Ephram asked. Rory nodded and Lorelai took her turn to speak.

"It was still wrong lying to us."

"I didn't lie to you!"

"You never told me you've been seeing him for that long." Lorelai said. "Now this is what we are going to do. You two are grounded."

"Great." The twins groaned at the same time.

"And Logan is coming over for dinner."

"Well this is awkward." Tristan tried to joke as soon as he got to Ephram's locker on Monday. The oldest Hayden twin looked awful, as if he hadn't slept in days; he had hot coffee on one hand and kept hitting his face with the other.

"Huntzberger is coming over." Ephram said as if he was a zombie. "They invited him for dinner; my parents invited Huntzberger to my house."

"He is been like this, since he got out of his car." Nate explained. "I thought if I gave him coffee he would snap out it. But he is still the same."

"Watch and learn, Nathaniel." Tristan grasped Ephram's face with both hands and looked him right in the eye before slapping him. "Wake up, Hayden! You have other things to worry about!"

"What's wrong with you?" Ephram shouted touching his face. "Why did you do that?"

"You were starting to freak me out, I wanted you to stop. Now drink your coffee and put on a smile, because Amy is coming your way." Tristan smiled and stepped aside. Amy was indeed coming their way, her face expression was blank.

"I'm not liking this. She looks like Blair when she's up to something." Ephram let out a breath when Amy was stopped by Paris Gellar. "This is not good."

"Why isn't this good? What did you do, Hayden?" Nate asked looking from Ephram to Amy.

"I kissed her and I didn't call her back." Ephram slammed his locker's door closed and drank what was left of his coffee in one sip. He made a face. "What did you put in this, Archibald?"

"It's black coffee, no sugar."

"Great just what I needed. See you later boys."

"Is he seriously going over there?" Nate asked. "I mean, he is willingly walking towards Paris Gellar."

"Hughes, right?" Amy's face consorted into a frown. This girl had walked up to her and blocked her path, giving her an intense stare. Her face looked familiar.

And then it hit her.

"Paris Gellar" The blonde looked pleased after the acknowledgment she had received. Ephram had told her to stay far away from this girl, she did seem a bit insane.

"Exactly, I was just wondering if you were interesting in joining our…"

"She is not interested in nothing you are offering her, Paris." Ephram Hayden said as he stood between them, both girls gave him a cold stare. "If you excuse us, I really need to talk to Amy."

"Well…" Before she could say further, Ephram had dragged her down the hall. "Where are you taking me? Ephram!"

He opened a door to an empty classroom and pulled her inside, quickly locking the door behind them. Ephram turned to her and Amy blushed at his intense blue stare. 'Focus Aimee, you're mad at him!' She thought.

"I'm really sorry I didn't call you after…"

"Attacking some guy at your mother's opening?" She said sarcastically. "Look, Ephram, I don't get you. What's wrong with your sister talking to a guy? I've heard about overprotective brothers but that was ridiculous."

"Look, Amy, I hate Huntzberger guts since seventh grade I think. It's a grudge I've carrying for too long and I'm not intending to let go any time soon. I know what I did was totally immature, my parents informed me, but you don't know why I did what I did so please don't judge." Ephram said rolling his eyes.

Amy scoffed and walked past him towards the door. Ephram sighed and grabbed her hand pulling her close to him, suddenly his scent engulfed her and she felt small, very small. "Let go of me."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean that. I can't bear the thought of my sister going out with Logan Huntzberger, it makes me sick." Ephram said close to her ear, making her weak on the knees. This boy knew how to play dirty. "I really regret not spending the rest of the night with you, forgive me?"

She looked up to meet his eyes and knew she was lost when he leaned down and kissed her softly.

Here's an inside tip, Little New A: Never look right into the devil's eyes, the longer you look, the harder you fall.

"Good morning." Serena mumbled under her breath as she took a seat next to Rory on the steps. It was sort of an unwritten rule; no one could sit higher than them. To Serena it was stupid but Blair thought otherwise.

"Hey." Rory said blankly. "Would you like to share any misadventures you suffered this weekend? No? Well I will. My parents grounded me and Ephram, Logan is officially invited to Friday Night Dinner and he wants me to hang out with his friends if he has to sit through dinner with Ephram."

"Nate thinks I don't trust him enough to believe he's going to wait for me and that if I have doubts about our relationship maybe we shouldn't have one."

"Aaron is Carter's brother."

"Now that's messed up." Rory voiced. "Didn't you know?"

"Do you think if I had known Aaron was Carter Baizen's freaking Brother I would have flirted with him? No!" Serena rubbed her eyes. "The deal is I really like him. And he is Carter Baizen's brother! I have horrible taste in men."

"Yes you do."

"Blair!" Rory shoved her best friend's shoulder.

"Excuse me, but Carter is the guy to whom Serena lost her virginity to, who turned out to be the greatest asshole ever. And now she likes his younger brother, that's having horrible taste in men to me."

"You don't need to shove it in her face." Rory rolled her eyes. "S, it's best if you forget about Aaron. I mean you don't have anything serious going on."

"I guess you are right." The blonde sighed rubbing her eyes. "So Nate gave you an ultimatum."

"He did. I mean I know I must have looked completely desperate but still not fair, I'm the drama queen not him." Blair supported her head on Rory's shoulder for support. "I love him, what am I supposed to do?"

"You have to talk to him and tell him that." Serena said. "Nate's a great guy and if he told you he was willing to wait, it's because he will."

"Blair, relationships are not about sex, they are about trust and commitment. You need to let him know you trust him and that he can trust you." Rory hugged her shoulders. "And remember you've got your best girlfriends here to support you and kick ass if needed."

"I don't know what I would do without you." Blair smiled.

"I do, destroy our reputations and make our lives miserable until we move to another state." Serena teased, blowing her friends kisses. "I have to go. I have to grab a book in the library before class."

"For what? In the years we've been attending Chilton you've never set foot in the library." Rory said, wrinkling her nose. "S, quit it. Aaron is no good for you."

"But he is so handsome and interesting, and sexy and hot. I promised him I would meet him there to explain my behavior." Serena whined. "Did I mention how sexy he is?"

"Serena you don't need to explain your behavior to him, he is not your boyfriend." Blair squinted her eyes at her. "Did you tell Tristan about it?"

"No I didn't. You know how he gets when the name Baizen comes into the picture. He flipped out on me Saturday night; he had me home in a blink. I have a feeling Aaron is different you know."

"S, Aaron is the same. Same content inside, different wrapping paper on the outside." Blair argued. "You can't trust him."

"Serena, we are not letting you commit the same mistake twice. Come on we are going to class, give me your phone." The younger Hayden twin demanded in her cold Queen Bee tone. After getting the phone she scrolled to Serena's contacts and wrote a short text to Aaron:

Can't make it, sorry.

Why is it that friends of Serena van der Woodsen have to approve of her suitors? Sorry S, Fairy Godmothers R and B have rejected your Prince Charming.

"Nate!" Blair called after who she hoped still considered himself her boyfriend. He turned around and scanned the crowd of Chilton students until he found her. He stood still until Blair caught up with him. "Hey."

"Hi."

"Can we talk?"

"Now is not a good time, I'm late for class. How about after school?" He raised an eyebrow waiting for her answer.

"Works for me."

"Good, I'll meet you at the lacrosse field." Nate leaned down and kissed her cheek and left. Just like that he was gone. Blair groaned and glared at a group of giggling freshman girls who passed by, whispering and looking at her.

She was Blair Waldorf, if they didn't know that they were going to find out.

Spotted: Nate Archibald walking away from Queen B? There's a weak link in every chain. And it's just a matter of time before this one snaps.

Serena had done well for most of the day. If she wasn't with Rory or Blair, she was with Tristan. If it wasn't Tristan, it would be Nate or Ephram. Her friends were serious about keeping her away from Aaron. There were reasons why the name Baizen was a delicate topic.

Carter Baizen attended Andover Academy, when they had started their freshman year at Chilton. He was a senior, popular and hot. Somehow he seemed interested in her; she had been crazy enough to accept an invitation to one of his parties, she went with Allison behind Tristan's back. Even at that age she could handle her alcohol properly, but Carter must have slipped something into one of her shots.

Next thing she knows, she's completely naked in a strange hotel room with a note thanking her for the great time. That was only the beginning of their tumultuous relationship.

Serena had done anything and everything Carter had asked her to do.

She had been crushed when it ended. He was her first everything and he hadn't given a damn about it. Since, everything Baizen related was banned and that of course had to include his younger, sexier brother.

Serena was making her way to the cafeteria for lunch after a quick visit to the ladies rooms to re-apply her lip gloss, when someone suddenly intercepted her.

"Hey! I finally caught you."

"Aaron! I…" She looked around the crowded hallway; none of her friends were there to save her.

What is it with S and the Baizen boys? Classy, jumping from one brother to the other. Are you sure he is Prince Charming, S? Or not just another Villain in disguise?

"Hey, have you guys seen Serena?" Tristan frowned as he dropped next to Blair at their usual lunch table. She wasn't the only one missing: Ephram and Nate were nowhere to be seen.

"We left her in Algebra." Rory said not really paying attention as she texted furiously on her phone.

"Where is Nate?" Blair snapped.

"He and Ephram said they had homework to finish and went straight to the library." Amy said, looking a bit dazed.

"May I ask what's wrong with you? You've look like a puppy on drugs." Blair said squinting her eyes at Amy.

"And you look like some desperate housewife." Tristan intervened. "Chill, Blair. Nate doesn't hate you; he has homework to work on."

"Stop your bickering and hear me out. You are accompanying me to some party, Logan's friend is throwing." Rory announced. "I refuse to face the Andover bunch on my own. You have to options: you agree to come nicely or I'll blackmail you."

"Is Juliet going?" Tristan wondered.

"Why are you suddenly interested in Juliet Whatever-her-last-name-is?" The other brunette spoke again, frowning slightly. "What's so special about her now?"

"Well, my dear Blair, if you must know. I've always found Juliet attractive, but since people from Andover were off limits, especially people who were friends with Huntzberger, I kept my feelings at bay. Now that, Rory here is seeing that prick, I'm aloud to profess my undying crush on Juliet and make my move!"

"Please, restrain yourself from using insulting names for my boyfriend in front of me." Rory warned. "Agree?"

"I'll try my best. Now answer my question."

"Yes, she will. It's her party actually." The youngest twin rolled her eyes as Tristan did some stupid victory dance. Rory sighed dramatically and rested her head on Blair's shoulder. "What shall we wear to outdo the Andover skanks, B?"

"A shopping session is in the agenda. I'll need it after whatever will happen with Nate, happens. So Amy, are you free today?"

Amy looked up from her salad shocked. "Yeah, I'm free.."

"Good, we'll meet up at Rory's at 5." Blair smiled.

Nate and Ephram had actually made up an excuse. They were lazily lying on their backs on the lacrosse field; they didn't have any homework to on. They needed a manly talk to clear their heads.

"I just don't know where this leaves Blair and me. I love her; I'm just not sure if she loves me back or if I'm just her boy toy." Nate sighed closing his eyes. "I'm afraid she'll dump me, after the ultimatum I gave her."

"Wait you gave, Blair an ultimatum?" Ephram raised an eyebrow. "What did you tell her?"

"Serena told me, Blair felt it was an ultimatum. I wanted to set the record straight, I'm sick of playing games I told her if she had doubts about our relationship maybe we shouldn't have one."

"Ouch."

"It wasn't that harsh."

"No it was the Mother of Harsh. You guys need to get over it and just do it."

"It's not that easy."

"It is Nate. Blair has been on edge since she found out about your little adventures with the cheerleading team last spring. I know you love her and she loves you, sex shouldn't tear you apart. It should push you closer or some crap like that." Ephram snorted. "Haven't you noticed all your fights are about or related to sex?"

"I hate it when you are right." Nate sighed. "We'll talk today after school and see what happens. But maybe we need a break."

"If that's what happens never mention you had this conversation with me. Blame it on Tristan." They both laughed as Nate shoved Ephram.

"What happened with Amy, anyway? Was she mad?"

"She was, but I convinced her of otherwise." Ephram smiled. "I'm asking her out."

"The great Ephram Hayden-Gilmore going on a date willingly?" Nate said sarcastically. "That's shocking."

"Shut up."

"We are so whipped."

"You've no idea."

Blair chewed on the inside of her cheek, classes had officially ended for the day fifteen minutes ago and Nate was nowhere to be seen. She scoffed; she couldn't believe he was making her wait.

Unbelievable.

When she finally saw him approaching, she rolled her eyes and sat on the bleachers. Nate appeared by her side, sat next to her and cleared his throat:

"Hey."

"Hi."

They stayed in silence for a couple of minutes, before Nate finally spoke:

"So we need to talk, Blair." He rubbed his neck nervously; she didn't take this as a good sign. "Seriously, not like last time. Are you sure you want to be on this relationship?"

"Yes." Blair sighed and looked down at her designer shoes, trying to focus her gaze on their pointy ends. "Natie, I love you. But sometimes I feel like that's not enough."

"To me that's enough. I love you and I want to be with you, but you need to trust me. I said I'm going to wait for you. Why can't you believe me?"

"I want to believe you, but I'm so plain, you could find someone 10 times better than me. Half the time, I work so hard to feel like I'm the girl you should be dating." Nate's hand found hers and interlaced their fingers.

"You are not plain; to me you are the most beautiful girl in the world. I don't want someone else I want you, with all your flaws and your evil nature. It's kind of hot." Blair laughed and looked up to meet his eyes for the first time during their conversation. "Blair, I love you and you have no idea how much you mean to me."

"Then it's two of us." He chuckled and brushed his lips against her forehead.

"We are going to let this take a course on its own." Nate said. "Whatever happens, happens?"

"Whatever happens, happens."

B and N making up in the bleachers, isn't that a bit cliché? But you know my motto: if it's not broke, break it.

You know you love me.

Xoxo

Gossip Girl.

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