Jenny awoke to her phone buzzing on the side table; she rolled herself over and grabbed her phone not looking at what she was hitting and pushing off the counter.
Why aren't you texting me – you told me you'd tell me everything about your trip?
Still meeting up with me in Rome, Italy?
Jenny's eyes widened.
"Shit." Jenny whispered.
She picked up her phone to reply to his text message – she didn't know what she was going to say.
SORRY :)
I don't know, my dad has me under a tight leash at the moment.
"Who are you texting?" Nate asked Jenny
Jenny looked up shocked she hadn't realised he was awake.
"Just someone in New York" Jenny smiled at Nate and returned to looking at her phone.
"That's impossible you can't receive messages from international areas – only from the boat."
Jenny's facial expression just dropped. On the boat, he said boat right. As in Damien is on the boat.
"Are you sure? This person is in New York."
"I'm sure." Nate smiled at Jenny she returned the smile with a fake one and rolled back over flipping her phone open and texting him once more.
You are on the BOAT!!!!!!!
She sat on her bed waiting for a reply.
10 minutes past and nothing, Nate started to look at Jenny weirdly.
"What are you waiting for; the phone isn't going to run away."
Jenny went to answer but her phone buzzed; she flipped it open and read out Room 279.
"I have to go... do something." Jenny grabbed her jacket and walked out the door.
"Bye" Nate gushed
Jenny knocked on the door of room 279; she couldn't believe he was here – on the boat – how long had he even been on the boat.
The door creaked open and Damien's face appeared – he had a wide smile on his face. Jenny smiled back.
"I was expecting you." He gestured for Jenny to walk in.
"How long have you been here?" Jenny squealed
"I booked the room for Lisbon, Portugal and am staying on til Rome – just like you." He smiled at Jenny and pulled her in for a hug. Jenny hugged him back
"You are still doing the deal with me right?"
Jenny twisted her face around. "I want to, I do. But I don't think I can with Dan and my dad watching me and the fact that I have to share a room with Nate – it isn't easy just to disappear for a day and never return. "
"It's not like you're never going to see them again." Damien spoke sounding irritated.
Jenny didn't answer.
"You have today and tomorrow to think about it – then the day after its go time."
Jenny shook her head.
Damien pulled her in for another hug – he looked down at her and she looked up he kissed her lips and Jenny kissed his back.
"I missed you." Damien whispered to Jenny.
Jenny didn't return the words, although she cared about him he hadn't been in her thoughts most the time – instead there was another boy she couldn't get out her mind.
"You can't leave this room." Jenny muttered to Damien
Damien pulled away from their embrace and gave Jenny a frazzled look.
"Why can't I do that?"
Jenny raised her eyebrows "Because my dad, Dan, Lily, Nate, Serena, Chuck, Blair and Vanessa if they see you – they'll either kick me off the boat or you."
"Don't you want to act more like an adult instead of a child – if we go out their together, they'll see that you're not a little girl and that our relationship is serious?"
'Relationship' 'Serious' were the only two words Jenny got out of that sentence.
"It will ruin the plan – if I am seen with you and I disappear the next day my dad will know I'm with you and Chuck will get his secret agents involved. If we keep this on the down low maybe we can get away with the plan."
"So you sure you want to do this?" Damien looked at Jenny with so much seriousness in his eyes.
Jenny's phone buzzed and it was a message from Nate.
She looked back at Damien "I'm sure." She smiled and kissed him again.
"I have to go, Nate is wondering where I am." She kissed Damien on the cheek and headed towards the door.
"Where'd you run off to?" Nate asked Jenny as soon as she stepped inside the room.
"Just felt sick, needed some fresh air." She smiled at Nate and went and sat on the couch.
"Are you ang-"Jenny interrupted Nate.
"Nope. I'm not angry at you – just sick."
Nate nodded his head and sat next to her on the couch.
Jenny lifted her legs up onto the couch and out her head down onto Nate's lap. Nate stroked her hair – trying to make her feel better.
"What are we going to do in Rome?"
Jenny choked a little "mm... I don't know – don't really want to think that far ahead right now just rest.
Her phone buzzed again.
"Who keeps on texting you?"
"No one" Jenny got up from Nate and moved across the room.
"Let me have a look then." Nate got up and walked over to Jenny, she ran away.
"Let me look if it's no one."
"Fine – I'm texting this girl I met on the boat ok, she works here so we can't hang out so we just text."
Nate smiled "That's all you had to say, why keep it a secret."
"Why be so nosey." Jenny shot back at Nate
"You might be texting another boy dirty talking or something."
Jenny laughed. "Jealous. I'm not texting a boy and I definitely would not do dirty talk via SMS"
Nate rolled his eyes "Damn."
Jenny laughed and put her arms around his neck kissing him on the lips for a while.
"I don't get why we receive messages from the boat, but not overseas."
Nate shrugged and kissed Jenny on the lips again. "Don't know."
He kissed her neck softly and passionately.
"Nate... stop." Jenny giggled
"But we haven't... in nearly 12 hours."
Jenny raised her eyebrows "You might need some AA meetings." She laughed "You're a bit obsessed."
Nate pulled her into his body "Never."
They fell back onto the couch and had sex – whilst Jenny's phone was constantly going off underneath them.
She got up and looked down at her phone 5 new text messages and 2 missed calls.
What are you doing?
Come see me.
I miss you x
Don't ignore my messages or calls. Are you with Nate?
We need to talk about Rome – meet me at my room tonight 7?
Jenny deleted all the messages; she didn't know what she was doing.
"I am meeting up with this girl tonight at around 7. So I probably won't be here." She looked down at Nate who was lying shirtless on the couch.
"Ok, I was going to order room service anyway. Chuck wanted to go to the Casino but Blair has him wrapped around her finger and made him change his mind... once again."
Jenny scrunched up her face and hit Nate on the stomach "Ohhh, poor baby." She got up and walked away to the bathroom turning on the shower.
"I think I have to go see Vanessa today or maybe it was Serena one of the two!" Jenny shouted over the water.
Jenny jumped out the shower and put on some proper clothes.
"I think it was Serena." Jenny smiled and kissed Nate on the cheek repeating what she had done to Damien. "I'll see you later." She walked over to the door and slammed it behind her.
Jenny walked into the restaurant and saw Serena at the table.
"Hey." Jenny pulled out the chair and sat down on it.
"Hi."
"So what's happening?" Jenny asked Serena
"Nothing just thought maybe we could talk about you and Nate." Serena smiled.
"Oh yeah sure ok"
"I don't want to be nosey; we can talk about something else if you want."
"No, no that's ok." Jenny smiled. "Everything's fine really – we have our arguments but we overcome them about 2 minutes after they start."
"He's a great guy. People mistake him for something he isn't. He's genuine." Serena explained to Jenny
"And good at geography" Jenny added.
Serena looked confused "Ok, then. I didn't know that."
"Well neither did I til the other day when he basically told me everything I needed to know about Lisbon." Jenny smiled, just thinking about him made her happy.
"What's you know, the... you-"
"Sex like?" Jenny interrupted "It's good – I mean I think he has an addiction to it, but other than that it's good, brilliant."
"If anything Jenny – it's not addiction to sex; it's an addiction to you." Serena smiled and laughed "You should be happy he wants to be with you all the time."
Jenny nodded "Yeah, but when we get off this boat – it's going to be a thing of the past something that doesn't count."
"How do you know that?" Serena looked at Jenny
"Because. Dan will find out, Nate will feel bad won't want us to be together and he'll end it."
"Jenny he has a bigger heart than that. He was the first person you ever slept with and he would never do that if he was going to hu-"Serena stopped what she was saying.
"Going to... what?" Jenny questioned Serena.
"Sorry, I forgot what I was saying."
"Oh."
Their food arrived and Jenny began to eat her salad.
Why hadn't Serena finished off her sentence?
After they had eaten they talked about numerous things that had been happening on the boat – how Serena had met a few guys but none that she was majorly interested in.
"I have to go; I'm meeting with a friend." Jenny smiled and got up from the table.
"See you later then." Serena smiled.
Jenny went back to her room. It was 5:00pm and she had to meet Damien in two hours. She didn't know if to dress up or stay the way she was – in fact she didn't even know why she was going, she didn't have feelings for him, she was enjoying the trip why would she even think about leaving the boat, her brother and dad and Nate.
"Hey, you have fun with Serena?"
"Yeah we just talked about y-"Jenny stopped. Nate didn't know that Serena knew.
"Talked about me? You told her about us?" Nate looked a little angry.
"No well yes – we spoke about you but I didn't tell her. She guessed when she was talking to Vanessa one day."
Nate looked at the ground and tightened his jaw. "Who else knows?"
Jenny didn't want to reply she knew he would get angry "Eric. Serena told him."
Nate started to nod his head "we were supposed to keep this to ourselves."
"You're the one that admitted it to Vanessa. Plus Nate they promised they wouldn't tell anyone and I trust them."
"Well I don't. If Serena knows she will tell Blair who will tell Chuck, people are going to find out before the cruise ends."
Jenny looked out the window and back at Nate.
"I'm going to go for a sleep I'm tired." She walked over to the bed and lay down.
Nate followed after shortly lying next to her; he wrapped his arms around her body and kissed her nose.
"I'm not in the mood." Jenny lay it out there "I'm tired."
She closed her eyes and fell asleep shortly afterwards.
As her body rose and fell Nate watched on, stroking her face and hair at times and watching her beauty.
"Jenny, get up you have to meet your friend in 10 minutes."
Jenny rolled over and opened her eyes.
"WHAT!" she shouted "You only just wake me up."
She jumped out of the bed and into the bathroom she changed her clothes and re applied her make –up.
"Do I look nice?" Jenny asked Nate
"Yeah you do, why you even care it's a friend who's a girl she doesn't care what you look like."
"I'm going to be late. See you later." Jenny ran to the door and ran out the room.
Jenny's phone buzzed on the coffee table in the living area, Nate walked over to get it – as he bent down he noticed that there was a message from Damien on there. He unlocked Jenny's phone and went through her messages, he slammed the phone shut and through it on the floor.
"You're late."
"I'm sorry; Nate forgot to wake me up." Jenny explained to Damien
"You're sleeping with him now?"
"No, I went to sleep for a while – I was tired." She smiled at Damien and sat down on his couch.
"So why am I here?" She asked him
"Because we need to talk about Rome what's going to happen, what you are going to do."
Jenny nodded her head.
"But first I thought we would have a few drinks and just talk about your trip so far."
"I've only been on the boat for 10 days so far – not a lot to talk about."
"Sure there is." Damien passed Jenny a beer bottle over.
"What, no scotch?" Jenny smirked
"Nope, just beer in this fridge"
Jenny sighed.
"What's wrong?" Damien asked her
"Nothing, nothing is wrong. I'm just tired." Jenny explained
"You're always tired, it's no longer a good excuse people are going to start to believe that you have insomnia."
"Maybe I do." Jenny replied bitterly
"You're angry at me."
"No I'm not. I'm just frustrated and I don't know why. Maybe because I'm nervous about what's going to go down in Rome – leaving everyone on the boat and not telling them where I am going – it would kill my dad."
"Isn't this whole thing about proving to your dad that you are no longer a little girl – that you're grown mature women?" Damien raised one of his eyebrows.
"Yeah but... there are other ways of proving that to him"
"But this is the best way." Damien smiled.
"You're only saying that because you need my help, because without me the deal would fall apart."
Damien sighed. "True. But I'm also helping you along the way"
"How's that?" Jenny questioned him.
"Getting you away from this boat, Nate, your dad and proving to everyone that you're no longer Little J." Damien walked over to Jenny and stroked her cheek "Show them that you're beautiful and more intelligent than they thought."
Damien pushed against Jenny's lips biting them as he pulled away; Jenny kissed him back and pushed him onto the couch.
"I don't want to do this." Jenny stopped what she was doing and got up.
"Why?"
"This isn't how I planned my first time, that's all." Jenny looked at him.
"Don't try and fall me – I'm not stupid."
Jenny scrunched her face up. "What do you mean?"
"This won't be your first time; you are stuck in a room with Nate Archibald – the ultimate sleaze bag of New York City for 10 days something has happened."
"No it hasn't and he isn't a sleaze. I can control myself." Jenny touched her lip it was bleeding.
"I should go back to my room; we can talk about this tomorrow morning or something."
Jenny walked over to the door and opened it; Nate was stood outside the door waiting for her.
"So, who's your new friend?" Nate asked angry more angry then she had seen him before.
"Nate stop ok, I don't want any drama let's just go back to the room." Jenny pleaded with him.
"Does her brother know about you two?" Damien asked cheekily
"DON'T!" Nate shouted.
He walked past Jenny and into Damien's room.
"Why are you here?" Nate questioned Damien
"Oh, she didn't tell you. Jenny why don't you tell him."
"There's nothing to tell him." Jenny yelled at Damien
"There is though." Damien laughed
"What's happening?" Nate looked confused.
"You see Nate, your girlfriend or sexual partner whatever you like to call her is leaving you in Rome, she's helping me with a drug deal and then she's coming back to New York City with me – she can't stand to be around you any longer."Damien laughed even more "Seems that you can't always get the woman you want."
"That's not true Nate. Don't listen to him."
Nate walked over to Damien and hit him in the face. He turned around and walked out of the room.
Jenny chased after him, she entered the elevator and ran into the room before he closed the door.
"NATE LISTEN TO ME HE'S LYING!"
"Really Jenny is he, if he was lying he wouldn't even be on this boat."
Jenny looked at the ground.
"We planned it before this happened, before I started to enjoy this trip."
"You see Jenny that's the problem with you; you make these stupid mistakes because you don't give anything a shot or a chance you were never told not to judge a book by its cover obviously."
"I get that you're angry at me Nate but you're over reacting – punching him in the face."
"No Jenny I'm not over reacting – I'm trying to help you, if you're trying to prove to us that you're not little anymore maybe you should stop acting like a child – drugs... if that's your last resort than obviously you need help."
Jenny looked at the ground.
"You should probably go stay with someone else for a while or should I say something along the line of 36 hours – since your leaving."
"I'm not leaving because I don't like you Nate – I don't want to leave because I like you."
"Well don't like me ok Jenny, this relationship is built on sex anything else, I have no feelings towards you – this was all a huge mistake."
"YOU'RE PATHETIC!" Jenny screamed at Nate "GOD! NO WONDER NO ONE KNOWS HOW SMART YOU ARE – I KNOW THAT YOU CARE ABOUT ME – IF YOU DIDNT YOU WOULDNT HAVE TOLD VANESSA THAT IT WAS MORE THAN SEX, YOU WOULDNT HAVE SPOKEN TO BLAIR ABOUT IT AND YOU DEFINATELY WOULDNT HAVE SPENT A WHOLE DAY WITH ME IN PORTUGAL!!"
"I HAD TOO." Nate shouted back "I had no choice. If I had have told Vanessa it was just sex she would have told you and she would never have spoken to me again, I had to spend time with you in Portugal you were the only one I could spend time with since everyone else was busy."
Jenny looked hurt; she couldn't even look him in the eyes anymore.
"So that's it, you're just going to let me go with Damien." Jenny whispered
"Yep, I don't care what you do Jenny I've tried to stop you before and it didn't work, you're making a mistake – but that's your choice as a grown up lady... right?"
"Don't make fun of me."
Nate laughed "I'm not."
"Yes you are mimicking me, you have no idea what I'm like just because you have been stuck in a room with me for the past 9 days doesn't mean they you know me off by heart."
"This was a mistake, Jenny I've known you for over 3 years – I know you."
"Then you'd know that it's time for me to be treated like a sixteen year old girl."
"You are!" Nate shouted back
"When you were 16 you were out drinking, doing drugs, having sex with random girls, invited to luxurious parties –my dad treats me like I'm 10 again."
"Obviously you don't know me. And the reason your dad does that is because your his daughter and all fathers act the same way around their daughters they don't want them to be hurt – if anything he is protecting you from how superficial the people are in New York City. I didn't want all that stuff that happened to me, it just happened."
Jenny rolled her eyes.
"You should go now, take your stuff as well. I don't want to see you before you go."
"You're being serious."
Nate widened his eyes.
"Are you going to tell my dad?"
Nate shook his head.
Jenny walked over to her bag and started to throw her things in it. She took picked her phone up off the ground and texted Damien.
Come help me with my stuff Nate is kicking me out.
She moved into the bathroom and grabbed her toiletries and moved back into her room picking the things up from around her bed.
"I hope that one day you give up on all this crap and learn that you are treated like an adult and you never ever have to prove yourself to me to anyone for that matter of fact. You're a great girl Jenny and I don't want to see anything bad happen to you – if you decide to leave with him in Rome you're going to break your dad's heart, he wants nothing but good things to happen for you – don't push them away."
She grabbed her bag and started to roll it to the door.
"I'm leaving the other two behind." Jenny turned around and dropped her bag on the floor.
"Damien's coming to help me, so if you don't want to see him you should maybe go somewhere else."
Nate nodded his head and started to walk away.
"You ready to go."
Jenny turned around and saw Damien.
"Yeah" Jenny whispered and walked out the door.
"Guess this means you're definitely coming with me." Damien smiled and grabbed Jenny's hand with his free one.
Jenny stopped and looked at the floor "I forgot something – I'll meet you in your room." Jenny smiled and turned back around heading towards the room that she once shared with Nate.
She opened the door and walked in looking for Nate.
He was sat on the couch watching sport. Jenny stood on the top step and looked down at him; he moved his eyes from the TV set to her.
"I forgot to thank you so thank you."
Jenny walked down the step and Nate stood up from the couch she walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him in for a hug.
Jenny moved her forehead so that it was pushing against Nate's she moved her lips in closer until hers were perched on top of his, he put his hands behind her head and pushed his lips against hers harder than he had ever before. He never wanted it to end the subtleness, the sweet taste, and the chills that it brought to his body. Jenny broke away and Nate moved his hand to her cheek. They looked at each other like they were the only two people in the world.
"Bye."
Jenny moved away from him and walked towards the door heading back to Damien's room.
"Only one more day left and we will be out of this place and back to the simplicity of New York." Damien smiled at Jenny.
Jenny looked down at the clock and saw that it was 10:45 she was tired and upset and all she wanted to do was sleep.
"I'm going to bed."
She crawled into the covers and shed a tear as she fell asleep.
To Be Continued...