Hey everyone, this is my first Gossip Girl fanfiction and I hope you all like it. It's mostly Lily and Rufus fluff and romantic, a little story on their break up and their lives in California! This is planned to be a 2 part fic and I'll be updating as soon as possible.
Oh and I know Lily's maiden surname is Rodhes, but I always prefer to think it was Van Der Woodsen, it sounds better to me. Please don't kill me haha but I'll always see Lily as a VDW of nature so for this story this is her father's last name alright? Can we pretend?
Please read and enjoy!
Alright, enough with author's note, now to the story:
Love at first picture
Chapter 1By Érica
It all started on a summer morning. Little did she know, that day her life would be changed forever. Was it a good sort of change?Or perhaps a bad one? She couldn't quite figure out which path her life would take.
Lily Van Der Woodsen was being pressured by her family to leave her musician boyfriend Rufus. Oh Rufus, she loved him so much, she couldn't even bear it. They certainly weren't the perfect couple. They were anything but perfect. They fought sometimes(ok, a lot). They were completely the opposite. But I heard somewhere that opposites are attracted right?
She slowly got out of bed as she took a glance at her nightstand, there he was with all his glory. There sat a picture of Rufus Humphrey taken by Lily herself when Lincoln Hawk was playing one night.
The Van Der Woodsen household wasn't a very morning friendly place. It went against nature, it was dead silence at 7am but 4am was just dinner time. Noticing the quietness around, the younger VDW tiptoed out of her room in search of a glass of water. When reaching the kitchen, she noticed the balcony lights on. Mom must have left them on by mistake, she thought. She turned them off and pondered wheter to go back to sleep or not. She decided for the latter. There was a lot she could do if she started to wake up earlier, that's what Humphrey always told her. She took the phone from the kitchen counter and quickly dialed Rufus' home number.
"Hello" a groggy, sleepy voice answered
"Hey you" Lily answered with a little chuckle
"Lil! Hi!" Suddenly, he did not sound so tired. Surprised? "You up?Is it midday already?" He added
"No, you silly. It's seven thirty. FYI I can totally wake up early! See?I was up while you were still lazing in your bed!
" It's because I had to perform until 3am yesterday, I mean today. Or yesterday. Whatever."
" I was there too, don't you remember?"
"Oh yeah, you're the paparazzi" He knew how much she hated when he referred to her as a paparazzi
"Excuse me, I'm the band official photographer" she said trying to hide that she was indeed a bit offended
"As you'd like to call it Lil" He teased.
"Also known as the guitarrist's amazing, gorgeous, perfect girlfriend"
"I'd have to agree with that." He gave in.
"Oh really? What do you say you go pick her up right now, she's a bit bored"
"Come on Lily, I'm so tired" He resisted but he knew there was no way he could say no to her.
"You can sleep later! Come on! I'll be at the door in 20 minutes" With that, she quckly hang up before he could protest again.
Lily directed herself to her closet, picking an outfit she settled with a charming jumpsuit and a yellow headband. After applying a touch of make up and making sure her mother was still asleep she wrote a little note "Went out with a friend, I'm sorry about yesterday, we'll fix everything when I get back, love, Lil" friend, she used the word friend, not boyfriend, friend.
