Beautiful - Nate Archibald

𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓫𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓭

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓪'𝓼 𝓟𝓸𝓿

Saturdays are my favorite days, for the simple fact it's one of the only two days out of the week where no one expects much from you. "Christina, could you come here?"

That's of course if you didn't have a father and a stepmother like Lily

I marked my page in my book and shuffled out of my room, as I walked down the hall I seen my father and Lily standing under the arch-way. "Chris and Eric, come meet the new neighbors.

As they moved out of my view, I expected to see a stuffy old couple but instead I met with Beau Buckley and his family. "We should really stop meeting each other like this." I said to him.

Beau smiled "I like it this way, it keeps us on our toes." he joked

My father cleared his throat, signaling us to get back on topic and greet the others "Uh, Christina, this is my father Brandon, Step mother Marcella and sister Giselle."

I sent them all a small way "This is our eldest daughter Christina and youngest son Eric."

"Weren't you the little girl that put Teddy in a headlock during that whitehouse football game?" Mister Buckley asked, Eric snickered and my father was practically staring bullets into my head.

"That must have been someone else."

"You put teddy in a full nelson because he tackled that scrawny Vanderbilt kid and made him cry." I internally cringed, it wasn't my proudest moment. "I cannot confirm nor deny that allegation, unless you thought it was hilarious then yes I did."

"I'll pay you a thousand dollars if you can do it again." Beau interjected, putting a large smile on my face.

"We'll talk logistic later."

Mister Buckley and his wife laughed "Bart, your daughter is hilarious."

"Yeah, she's something." He said, unenthusiastically, I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

"Uh, I have a wonderful idea." Lily announced, trying to cut the tension between my father and I "Since we're all going to the gala tonight, why don't we get to know each other better-"

Brandon and I nodded towards the door before bolting to it "Be back in time for the gala!" Lily yelled after us.

𝔁𝓸𝔁𝓸

"Thank goodness we got out while we could, or else we'd be stuck doing whatever ridiculous idea Lily had." I said as we sat down in my favorite coffee shop on the upper east side.

Brandon looked around the surprisingly humble establishment, "I never thought the great Christina Bass would love a place like this."

"I'm really not like most of our bougie classmates, despite me being bestfriends with the bougiest of them all." I said, steering my coffee. "Anyways how are you settling in at St.Jude, make any friends?"

"Kind of impossible, with a target on your back." He said nonchalantly.

"Nate put a target on your back?" I asked, Beau didn't say anything, only continuing to sip his coffee.

I placed my hand over his free-hand "You need to show Nate that you are Beau Buckley and that he doesn't control shit."

"How so?"

"By being my date to tonight's gala" I proposed, Beau pondered the idea for a moment before a smile appeared on his face.

"Before I accept, is this a date date or a date to get back at your ex?."