Gossip Girl

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Part Four

Blair sighed as she picked up her best friend's phone before following her trail outside while Serena got everybody out. Nate was sitting on the couch with his head in his hands.

"The guy's an idiot." Sam turned at the sound of her best friend's voice, Blair went over and sat next to her friend, noticing the tear tracks on her cheeks.

"Told you he cheated." Sam said lightly, Blair sighed. "And with her." Sam grimaced and made a gagging sound, Blair smiled.

"How about we humiliate her at school?" Blair asked, Sam cracked a smile before standing up and leaning on the balcony, looking down at the people leaving her party.

"Blair, I must have the worst luck in the world." Sam said, Blair stood and went to stand next to her friend.

"How so? You have pretty awesome friends, if I do say so myself. Your family isn't that bad. And you just turned sixteen." Blair said nudging her friend lightly, they were a lot alike.

"He knows I can kick his ass from here to wherever the hell I want and back, so why take that chance?" Sam asked, Blair looked down and hoped it wasn't the same reasons as Nate.

"Chuck is just naturally stupid." Blair said, Sam shook her head before looking down at the moving cars below them.

"Its not my fault but I cant help but think if I would've been ready…"

"Sam, we're young, its okay to not be ready." Blair said firmly, Sam looked over at her cautiously.

"Have you and Nate…"

"No. Not yet." Blair said, Sam nodded and Blair narrowed her eyes. "Don't you dare even think that."

"What?" Sam asked innocently, Blair shook her head.

"Its not our fault we fell for idiots and its in no way our fault they cheated on us. Do you hear me?" Blair asked, Sam nodded.

"Happy Birthday to me, right?" Sam asked with a wry laugh.

At school the next day three people were constantly talked about: Jenny Humphrey, Chuck Bass and Sam Rush. Sam was flanked by Nate, Blair and Serena as they all went into their first class. Chuck had come in at the last moment possible and instead of sitting in his usual seat behind Sam, he walked over to the furthest seat away from her.

"Okay, today we will be getting to know each other better…" The teacher started, Sam, Blair and Serena traded bored looks. "I'll be assigning them today. Blair Waldorf and Jennifer Humphrey." Jenny was actually smart and had skipped up to their grade. Blair dropped her head onto the desk and Jenny gulped.

"At least I don't have her." Sam said with a sympathetic smile.

"Nathaniel Archibald and James Linton." Nate sighed deeply, him and James had never gotten along, most likely because he had a thing for Blair. "Serena and Daniel Humphrey." Serena smiled at the dark haired boy, the teacher never said Serena's last name due to the fact he had been in love with her mother before she married Serena's dad. "And Samantha Rush and Chuck Bass." The class immediately stopped everything they were doing to look at the two in question, Blair even looked up at her best friend. "Is there a problem? Please sit with your assigned partner." Blair, Serena and Nate all chose seat near Sam and Chuck, most of the class had gotten as close to the couple as they could. Sam looked down at the sheet of questions before picking up her pen.

"Full name." Sam said emotionlessly, Chuck sighed as he picked up his pen. "Samantha Louise Rush."

"Charles Alexander Bass." Chuck replied in the same tone. "Parents names. Bart and Sandra Bass."

"Amy and Walter Rush." Sam said, they both scribbled down their answers.

"We already know all this about each other, why are we wasting our time with this?" Chuck asked dropping his pen and looking up at Sam, she looked back up at him.

"One more question, why'd you do it?" Sam asked, Chuck dropped his gaze back on the paper and most of the class leaned in to hear his answer. "And don't try that you were drunk excuse because you were the one taking the video."

"It was when I had found out, that I was in love with you." Chuck looked up. "I didn't know what to feel, I was confused. And Jenny was…just there. It didn't mean anything to me, honest."

"Yeah, well, it means something to me." Sam said quietly, Chuck looked back down at his paper.

"Favorite color and why." Chuck asked, Sam looked at him.

"Clear because its not distorted and cant lie to you." Sam said, there were a couple 'oohs' at this.

"Favorite season and why." Chuck asked pretending her answers weren't related to him in any way.

"Summer because you don't have to cover up." Sam replied, her signature smirk was slowly building its way onto her face.

"Favorite game growing up and why?" Chuck asked through gritted teeth, she knew she was getting to him and she loved it, this is why most people didn't take their relationship seriously because they both knew how to get under each other's skin.

"Hide and seek because I always find out the truth." Sam said, that's all it took for Chuck to explode.

"That's it! Will you stop it! I'm sorry I slept with Jenny, okay? So can you drop it!?" Chuck yelled, Sam actually burst out laughing which only succeeded in getting Chuck angrier. Blair and Serena traded worried glances. "I cheat on you and you find it funny?" Chuck asked, Sam stood up with a shake of her head. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Sam said and grabbed her bag. "And we're over, just in case you didn't know." With that, Sam walked out of the room.

Sam was lying on the couch watching something on TV when she heard the door open. She glanced at the clock and saw it was only twelve, no one was suppose to be home yet.

"Sammy, Sammy, Sam, Sam." Nate said in a sing-song kind of voice as he dropped his keys on the counter and walked over to her. He picked up her legs and sat down before dropping them again.

"Shouldn't you be at school?" Sam asked as she started eating her Doritos.

"You should too." Nate said as he took the bag away from her, she glared at him. "Chuck left too." Sam snatched the bag back.

"Not my fault. And don't you dare try and guilt trip me." Sam said moving her eyes back to the TV.

"I'm not trying to do anything, Sam. But like you said to me before, you need to decide what you want. And this isn't me sticking up for Chuck, because what he did was wrong…"

"You knew." Sam hissed, Nate looked over at her confused. "That's what you guys were talking about at my birthday party."

"Don't be mad at me." Nate said quietly, Sam sighed and ate another chip.

"I'm not. Its just, I'm really hurting Nate and I get that I'm acting like a total bitch right now but that's the only way I know how to deal with this." Nate looked over at her. "I'm insanely in love with Chuck, and knowing that he knows that just makes it hurt even worse. Is it something all guys do?" Sam asked standing up.

"What?" Nate asked confused.

"When their girlfriend tells them they're in love with them they go off and sleep with another girl? I mean you've done it, Chuck's done it." Sam asked before looking at Nate. Her face soften at the hurt look on his face. "I'm sorry Nate." He nodded.