[ UNDER WORK ] 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 , jack champion

- ❛ FOURTY TWO ❜ : 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙤𝙮

CH . 𝙁𝙊𝙐𝙍𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝙒𝙊 act 3
— ❛ 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 ❜

imessage—
rainey 🍓 has sent a message!

lets hate on the hockey boy!

rainey 🍓
let's get talking
i have my first eras
performance tn,
you guys are going together?

rutger 🏒
first off i don't like this gc name???
and secondly
i mean yeah as friends, right blair?

blair 🌟
absolutely!
oh this is so exciting!
ur right rutger is really sweet

real life —
blairs pov

      I dashed through the hallway of the home to grab my shoes. I swear I had them a few minutes ago and now I couldn't even find them. Raine set up a 'hang out' with me and the boy she was talking about. Although, I didn't agree with it, I had no choice either way. But, she talked highly of him, said how amazing he was, great at communicating, etc.

       A text pops up on my phone from Raine.

      Raine: We're outside! he moved from the passenger seat so you can sit there btw.

     Aw. How sweet of him. I peek my head through the blinds trying to catch a glimpse of him but I couldn't. All I had to do was walk out of the house and go on this hang out with the two of them.

      Luckily, Jack and I weren't filming, yet. We had another week for costuming updates—so they'd make it perfect, pushing the actual filming dates behind.

      I grab my purse and head out the door. Raine greets me as I get into the car, and so does he. "Hey, it's nice to meet you".

      When I look back at him—I smile. He had blue eyes, he was brunette, and looked very good looking. "It's nice to meet you as well...."

      "Rutger" he shoots out. "Rutger Mcgroarty".

       "Rutger, okay" I purse my lips together.

       "— right okay" Raine interrupts. "I'm leaving you guys alone, okay?".

       I quickly turn around towards Raine as she's getting off the car. She quickly skips over to my side and hands me the keys. Was she really making me switch seats again.

      "I'm hanging with your mom!" she smiles, "bye! have funnnnn".

Well of course. Who wouldn't wanna be hanging out with Serena? Blake. My own mother.

I smile at Rutger as i take Raine's side, he comes over to the passenger seat. This was way more extra work for nothing.

"Wait" Rutger pauses, I start driving, and turn to him when i reach the stop light. "Why is Raine hanging with your mother if she has her performance tonight? Doesn't she need to be rehearsing?".

I shrug. "My mother's in town to see Taylor. It makes sense for her to be here. And raine loves my mother, really. Can't get enough of gossip girl".

"You're named after Blair" he laughs. It was a cute laugh, not in a joking sense. "It's a pretty name".

"Thank you" I blush. I start to drive again, I decided it'd be best to get dinner before the show started. It wasn't starting until 6'oclock pm, though I didn't know if Raine was first to open. "Have you seen Gossip girl?".

He shook his head. "From time to time. My sister plays it, but I've personally never seen the entire 6 seasons".

"I suggest you watch it" I recommend. "Although it's weird to see my mother on screen, I still love the show".

"I'll put that on my list" he tells me. "Or, we can watch it together". He smiles at me as he finishes his sentence. Rutger was actually easy to talk to. There was no awkward conversations going on and it was amazing.

"Awesome! I love Italian food" Rutger claps his hands.

"Oh great!" I sigh with relief. "I honestly just picked this because this place has a private booth from what i know of".

Rutger looks taken back. "Ah, you don't wanna be seen. That's okay".

"Omg please don't take that the wrong way" I immediately tell him. "It's just, there's just so much going on with Jack and even Louis....".

"Yet we're going to Taylor's show together".

Jesus, he got me there. And he was absolutely right.

•••

After a small dinner, him telling me about hockey and his love for the sport, and me telling him about going into film studies—we passed a decent amount of time. The dinner was great I offered to pay but he quickly shut it down and gave the waitress his card instead.

"You didn't have to do that" I say to him, I pull into the parking lot of the stadium. I was in absolute awe as I saw everyone in their amazing outfits. After months and months of talking about the tour it was finally happening. In fact—Raine was excited because she was finally releasing in between tonight—and performing it live for everyone.

"It's dinner" he smiles, "you took me out. Thank you. But I wanted to pay....also i feel very undressed. Everyone is looking amazing".

"Awe" I slap his arm. "Hmm you're giving fearless! So don't worry about it". I go around in the back, Raine had given me directions on where to park and enter. However, there were many fans behind the rails waiting to see more celebs showing up.

This was going to be difficult. Rutger noticed the small panic on my face. "Hey, it'll be okay, alright? No one knows who I am, kinda...so it won't matter".

"Seriously" I roll my eyes. "You got selected into the nhl, people know who you are".

It looked like I flattered him because he smirked at me. "You ready?".

"Let's go see Raine and Taylor!".

As we get off the car, screams became louder and louder and I wave at everyone else. I wanted to stop to take pictures with them but security had pushed me to walk faster. Cameras were also pointed at Rutger and he gave them small waves, even if no one knew him. As we get inside the lower level even more security was inside. I was greeted by my mother.

She takes a glance at Rutger and smiles at me. "This is the charming boy you went on a date with? Way to go, B".

"Oh, mom , no—"

"—it's nice to meet you , Mrs Reynolds".

"Oh please, call me Blake. I hope you treat my daughter well and....oh look, there's Jack!".

I shut my eyes. This wasn't happening. She said that right in front of Jack. I was here, standing, with Jack and Rutger. The only thing I had in my mind was what he was thinking at the moment.

Did he think me and Rutger were actually here together? Because when I turned to Jack, he wouldn't even dare look at me. Great just great.

CHAT WITH ME !
guys college is SO difficult, i hate it so much. im so sorry for the slow updates </3

i will NOT make rutger a bad guy he's the actual loml and you're gonna love him I PROMISE !!

also im going to ny in December! im SO EXCITED

again sorry for the slow updates ill try my best to update faster 🤍🫧❕

xoxo, lena <3