Caught In The Flame

The Gossip Girl Blast

Authors note// We had already written this when we first started the story so we decided to post it a little earlier. Hope you enjoy!

Merleah's POV

First thing I did was check Gossip Girl. It was this website where some blogger posts things about anyone. Private things, things that most girls kept secret about themselves that they didn't want anyone else to know, things that no one else knew. How GG got that kind of information/ secrets was beyond me. 99.9% of what GG says is true, although that .1% where GG was wrong, she was pissed. If there was one thing Gossip Girl hated the most it was having and giving false information. The person was anonymous so no one knew who it was, but everyone assumed they were a girl because well duh.. 'Gossip GIRL'. It just made sense, but you never know. Almost everyone knows about this website so it kind of makes us have no private life what so ever. Anyway the following update read:

Good Morning my Little Pretty Gossiping Girls, welcome to the start of your first day back to school. I know you all remember Merleah Winslow, Darcy Caldwell, and Claire Jackson, and who could forget when they decided to spend this school semester in Paris? Well you can wipe away all of your tears because now they've decided to go back to Ridgewood Preparatory in Calabasas. Rumor has it, something tragic went down in Paris, with Calabasas' it girls. So what really happened? Didn't you know there are no secrets at Ridgewood Prep, or even in Calabasas period? I can't wait to discover their dirty little secrets. You know you love me xoxo, Gossip Girl.

Oh great. I wonder how Gossip Girl even knew anything had happened? I was 100% positive Darcy or Claire would never tell anyone and I sure didn't say anything. Ugh. Anyway I hopped out of my king sized bed, and walked over to the next room down that I use as my closet. Yes yes I know most people don't need a whole other bedroom for a closet, but if you have as much accessories, clothes, and shoes as I do, you'd understand. It also has my vanity where I do my hair and makeup. My friends portray me as the fashionable one out of the three of us, which I can't argue no matter how hard I try. I now picked out my outfit, which is a white floral spaghetti strap shirt with peach and black colored flowers, white distressed skinny jeans, and peach open toed strapped around the ankle pumps, with a matte black Givenchy hand bag and for my hair, it is going to be down my back in a thick braid. As for makeup I just did my everyday basic winged eyeliner with light mascara with my shimmery pink MAC lipgloss. As I was walking downstairs to get breakfast I saw Darcy wearing a white Dodgers jersey, denim shorts, along with Tims that had studs on the side, with a brown Rebecca Mikoff bag and gold hoops with a matching gold watch. The outfit totally defined her natural black tight spiral curls which she pulled into a half up top knot. Needless to say, she looked AH-mazing! "Hmm love the outfit, but it would look better with navy blue shorts instead but whatever, you still look great." I commented coming down our spiral staircase. She smiled looked me up and down and said "hmm well you could do better." Then I said "Yea you're right but even on your best day you still wouldn't be able to compete with me." Then we both giggled and playfully pushed one another until Claire stopped in the middle of the staircase and told us "alright alright that's enough." Claire was wearing her white shirt with a pink sleeve that came down to her elbows, with a jean jacket over it, black and white Jordan's, with her brown Balenciaga handbag, with a gold chain, gold MK watch, a gold tiger bracelet, and diamond earrings. "That outfit is perfect Claire!" I stated as she made her way down the rest of the stairs. "Oh yea her outfit is perfect but I need to change my shorts." Darcy muttered. "Oh shut it D." I replied. Then Darcy added "You do look great though Claire!" Claire smiled and said "Alright alright thanks girls now come on let's go into the kitchen." We separated and all went into the kitchen to talk. I pulled myself on top of the kitchen island to sit on while Claire sat in a chair and Darcy leaned her back against the counter in front of me. I decided to tell the girls about the Gossip Girl blast, "Did you girls see Gossip Girl this morning?" Darcy and Claire looked at each other briefly before pulling out their phones, Darcy's eyebrows scrunched together as she was reading while Claire's mouth was hanging wide open. I decided to lighten up the situation "Claire close your mouth before somebody puts a dick in it." I said with a side smirk and a wink. Claire immediately complied closing her mouth, while Darcy said "Merleah this is serious, did either one of you say anything to anyone?" I quickly got serious and looked at both of them and said "Of course not." while Claire said the same. Claire then said "Well we have to be extra careful about who we talk to and what we say." Darcy agreed adding "Yea we can't risk anyone finding out." I agreed also. My stomach then made a sound reminding me we haven't had anything to eat yet. Claire heard it and asked "Okay okay off of this subject, Darcy whats for breakfast?" Darcy snickered and said "hmm ask the maid. Or maybe I don't know you guys could make your own breakfast for a change?" Claire and I both looked at each other with confused looks and yelled "Not a chance!" "Okay fine" Darcy said walking over to the fridge pulling out a variety of breakfast foods asking us "well, what will it be?" As if on que Claire and I both said at the same time "Egg sandwich with a fruit salad." Even though she already knew that, but for some odd reason she always asked us the same thing every morning and I suppose expecting the same response. Things were getting kind of dull so I decided to spice things up with an interesting conversation I've been meaning to talk to Darcy about, "Sooo Darcy, how was that late phone conversation you were having last night?" I added with a wink. "What conversation?" Claire added with a smirk, obviously knowing what I was talking about, so I suppose she heard it to. Darcy decided to play dumb, "Uhm what do you mean? I have no idea what you're talking about." We all knew she was lying, acting would never be one of her career options. I chose to dig a little deeper seeming as I sparked a nerve in her, so I walked closer to her and grabbed her shoulder to bring her down to eye level, even though with her wearing Tims and me in heels I was still shorter than her, and said "Awh Darcy is that a little blush creeping upon your cheeks I see?" I said talking, to her as if she were a child. Then Darcy got a mischievous glint in her eye "You guys are so busy talking about my night, and we all know Claire is the only innocent one here.. Merleah." She said as she turned to look at me. All of a sudden I felt very uncomfortable and wanted to change the topic, and not because of something involving a boy because I haven't talked to my boyfriend since yesterday morning, but because talking about the dream was kind of a touchy subject for me. Although I have told them before about a different dream with the same girl, I had weeks ago, but I still didn't want to mention it yet. I glanced at Darcy with wide eyes, and it was obvious she had gotten the hint that I was uncomfortable so she quickly switched the subject back to her and eventually caved and decided to tell us all about her last night conversation with Zig, her boyfriend, but not before she shot me a look saying we would talk about it later whether I wanted to or not. "Well we talked for hours and you know Zig he's always lovey dovey around that time of night. He was telling me how much he missed me and how we totally have to meet up when he gets back from Florida with his parents." Claire and I looked at each other and made gagging sounds. Then Claire decided to put on her innocent act saying "wait so that wasn't a moan I heard?" Meanwhile I was trying to hold in my laugh while trying not to pee on myself. Darcy replied "Pssstt what moan? How could you ever think that?" Okay it was my turn to speak up, "Oh come on D, you know you were never a good liar, we see right through your little phony act." Not a second later Darcy turned around, made our plates and walked right out of the kitchen screaming "I have no idea what you all are talking about, yall are just crazy!" Claire and I were so high off of laughing we decided to skip breakfast. So I grabbed my keys to my 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo, and shouted for everyone to be down in 5 minutes so we could leave for school. Not even 2 minutes later after Claire had already gotten in the backseat Darcy was the last one out, as usual, she locked the door to our house in Calabasas and scurried on over to my car and jumped in the front seat. She smelled like she bathed in Victoria's Secret's perfume, which by the way smelled really good and was also a lot stronger than her usual taste. We buckled up, and I reversed out of our car garage, turned around and drove down our long stone driveway leading to the gates of our house. I punched in the pin number to open the gates and turned up the radio to our favorite station and blasted the music all the way to school.

•ohhhh I wonder if Merleah will tell them about her dream? Or will she make an excuse as to why she didn't want the attention on her? And what about the Gossip Girl Blast? Could one of them really have told someone about last summer? Or was it just a coincidence that Gossip Girl 'made up' something for her gossiping website and it happened to be true that something tragic happened? More importantly what did happen with Calabasas' it girls in Paris last summer? Also what about the romance between Darcy and her boyfriend Zig? *Raven Baxter vision* Hmm I see a love triangle forming in the near future.. But with who? Keep reading to find out more! Well what do you guys think so far!!!?? I hope I'm not boring you to death, but it gets better I promise. This is ony the beginning.