Gossip Girl 1
Whisper Sweet Nothings....
"Well you're just going to have to trust me..."
"Archibald let's go...!"
"Well? What do you think...?"
"I know that look...."
We're so lost Abby thought, tucking a piece of her coffee coloured hair behind her ear. She was listening in a detached half hearted way to her best friend Selena rambling on about how she was determined to find the English class by herself. Abby would have given her bonus points for being independent but they had been walking around for the last hour. It was the first day of a new school year for the girls at Constance Billiard Private School.
"Abby! I found it!" Selena's excited voice rang though the empty halls, as she grabbed her friend hauling her in to the class room. Abby didn't have time to argue with Selena seeing as how the professor was talking. . "Alright everyone, I want a 500 word paper on my desk Friday, about your favourite author and why you like him or her, alright everyone have a good day." After the bell had rung, there was no one left, but them. Selena had made her way towards the professor, she loved to know what she had missed while she was looking for the room, and being the girl that loved school she was always asking questions.
Abby sighed. This could take awhile. She silently excused herself, knowing Selena could be there for ages. Abby wasn't in the least bit interested in sitting at a desk listening to her best friend go over what they had missed. Not worried that she wouldn't know what she missed she continued down the hallway of the school, she knew Selena would fill her in later. Since moving from Ohio's St. Margret's Private School, she had heard that there was a boy's school right next to the girl's school with an adjoining hallway connecting them. Abby headed down a hallway, in search of St Jude's, curious on what the school's history both academically and in sports. Fortunately, both Abby's and Selena's parents had accepted a promotion with the pharmaceutical company they worked for and so while moving to Manhattan, New York, had been hard on the girls it was less traumatic because they had each other for support as only best friends can. One of the reasons Abby's parents had picked this school was for it athletics' program, mainly the girls lacrosse team. It was supposed to be the best in New York.
Abby had found the hallway that had led to the boy's school, and started to roam around looking at all the old wooden lockers, and the pictures on the walls of the team star players. With Abby's head in the clouds about the school's history, she never saw anyone else in the hallway until it was too late. After nearly being knocked off her feet, she collected herself while looking around for the source of her collision. The first thing Abby noticed was the piercing blue eyes that stared down at her. Before she had a chance to say anything, her mysterious man apologized himself. However, feeling a little vulnerable, she shook her head, telling him that it was entirely her fault, as she wasn't really watching where she was going. He was about to reply when the moment was interrupted by another good-looking guy who was watching them and laughing.
"Archibald, come on let's go!" Guessing that was his last name Abby smiled, knowing at least something about him. Before turning away he gave her a gorgeous grin and said, "Gotta go". Abby tried to discretely watch him leave. From the security of her bangs Abby discretely watched
Deciding that she had probably been longer than she had intended exploring the boy's school and thinking that Selena was probably done she headed back to were she'd come from, hoping it wouldn't take her too long to find her way back.
As Abby came walking down the hallways of Constance, she saw the mop of red hair coming out of the classroom, with a look of accomplishment written across her face. Abby gave a wave, and Selena headed over towards her.
Scrutinising her friends face Selena said, "I know that look. It's the look of; I've seen a cute boy. So tell me everything. What's his name?" as she linked her arm through Abby's and started walking. Abby rolled her aquamarine coloured eyes. She did have a hint of a smile on her face, but she shrugged, she didn't really know who he was except maybe his last name.
"Well? Come on dish it out Abs" Selena said using the nickname she had for Abby since they were little.
"Uhh...he had gorgeous blue eyes, brown hair" she stated, and continued walking, that about sums him up. "Oh! And he was about six foot" she finished.
"Does he have a name?" Selena inquired. "Something, even a last name would help"
Abby didn't know how a last name could help anyone, and with the description she had given Selena she figured it would probably need a miracle to find out. "Archibald, his last name is Archibald or at least I think that's his last name". It could be his first name, but surely in this day and age no parent is that mean right?
She heard Selena repeating the name out loud over and over again. "Archibald, Archibald, where have I heard that before?" Selena said more to herself than to Abby. Abby shrugged, she hadn't the slightest idea because unlike Selena, she had no desire to read all the gossip relating to the rich and famous who lived here in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Selena was so convinced this was important to their social status she had insisted on hooking herself and Abby up to a site called Gossip Girl which in Abby's mind just took up valuable space on her cell phone.
"Aha! I knew I recognized that name from somewhere!" Selena declared jumping Abby out of her thoughts.
"There was a story about the Archibald's in the paper a few months ago, when I was checking out the Gossip Girl website. It belongs to a family that lost all their money because of the father, Captain Archibald was involved in. They have a son named Nate, who was probably the one that you met Abby." Selena finished a big smile on her face. "I believe there was a picture with the story, wasn't a very good one, but Nate did look cute, nice job Abs," Selena gave her a side hug, before, going though her cell phone for anything interesting she might have missed while it was turned off during the time spent with the professor while he told her about the school year.
"So how was the professor?" Abby asked changing the subject, she really didn't know what to say to that piece of information, though she couldn't help but think that it must suck to lose a lot of money. Shaking her head, because the stupid gossip was making her head hurt she waited for Selena to answer.
"Oh, he's good, the same basic English class, though the project that he mentioned sounded interesting, I think English is going to be the most entertaining class of all." Since Abby thought that the only interesting class here was gym, she could debate on whether English was going to be all that fun.
"Come on, let's go I already called the limo it's probably already here," she said tucking that same piece of coffee coloured hair behind her ear once again. With that the two girls walked out of the school's front doors, and down the steps.
