Gossip Gay

Two: Catching Up

An hour or so later, Rufus is on the phone with his tour manager. He's already planning a tour around thanksgiving. Something he never used to do when he was still married.

Jenny, finally finished with her own packing, wanders into her older brother's bedroom. He glances to her from his position sprawled beside the suitcase on his bed.

"Dad came and told you before you unpacked?" She asks. He knows she wants to talk about last year and the real reason Dan left. He nods to her, sitting up and motioning for her to come and sit. She does, adding: "You been on Gossip Girl lately?"

Dan shakes his head. "No, Serena and I swore off it while we were away."

Jenny grins a bit. "Must've been nice to get away from it all for a bit. Anyways, the Nate Archibald problem has been resolved."

The Nate Archibald problem started when Dan realized he had a crush on Blair's boyfriend. And at first, only Serena, Eric, and Jenny knew. 

At least that's what they all thought. But then came the anonymous Gossip Girl tip that 'D.H. liked Nate Archibald'. Dan blamed Georgina, as he could guess he may have told it to her when drunk one time or another.

"How?" he frowns. When he'd seen the post, he'd thought his life was over.

"Well, turns out Constance-Billiards had a D.H. too," Jenny replies, stretching. "A senior named Dianna Hartford. Blair made her life miserable, which was kind of okay because Dianna was a massive bitch."

"Better her than me," Dan muses; Jenny nods, sighing some.

"I got featured on Gossip Girl again, too," She states softly. "Dad was pissed because it was pics of me tonguing some girl, but that seemed better than Eric's incident showing up every where."

Jenny's own incident- part of her fall from Queen of Constance-Billiards- had been the first time Jenny made it onto Gossip Girl. It happened when the boy she turned out to be dating was actually gay and into Eric. That was when the two were in their freshman year.

Eric's incident this year was a suicide attempt.

Dan nodded. "Serena told me, you did good," that made his sister smile. He  then added: "We'll keep him safe, especially from people like Georgina."

"What'd she do to Serena and you anyways?"

"Serena's side of that isn't mine to tell, but I'm pretty sure she tipped Gossip Girl about my feelings for Nate," Dan says, sighing softly.

Rufus pokes his head through the door, finally off his phone. "You two ready?"

"Guess we kind of have to be," Jenny mutters before retreating to her room to grab her things. Dan stands, heaving his bag off the bed, once again in a bad mood. He's been home no more than three hours and he's already leaving again.

"You talk to Blair at all?" Dan asks, stretched out on Serena's bed in his blue, black spotted pajamma pants and black tank top. Serena, who is in the process of brushing her hair, frowns a little. 

"I've called four times, Derota says she doesn't want to talk to me," she sighs.

Sighing too, Dan rolls onto his back. "Well, she would know, she has been Blair's nursemaid for quite a while."

"Yeah she has, sleep in here tonight?" Serena asks, flopping down beside him.

"Will me, you, and Jenny all fit?" Dan asks. Lily knows that he and Serena are more like siblings than they are anything else.

"We should, this is a king size after all," Serena says.

"Alright," Dan yawns, stretching some. "Maybe we'll get lucky and B will forget to make our lives totally miserable tomorrow."

"Blair?" Serena shoots him an incredulous look. "As if."

"Yeah, you're right," Dan says, shifting to crawl to the end of the bed and pull Cedric out of his bag. "We'll have to change our names. I'll be Stan Lumphrey and you can be Selena Van Der Hoosen, we'll be from Sweden." 

This statement causes them both to burst out laughing, Serena imitating his statement in a horrendous accent. 

"Stan Looomfree and Selener Van Der Hoosen, at yer service," She says, causing Dan to laugh harder. Jenny, who's just walking in, smiles at them both.

"What did I miss?" She asks, plopping down on the other side of Dan.

"Serena and I are changing our names and posing as transfer students from Sweden so Blair can't ruin our lives.

"Good luck with that," Jenny teases, flopping back onto the bed. Dan soon joins her, Cedric seated up on the headboard, watching over them. Neither girl teases Dan about it because they know that Cedric is sort of Dan's security. His connection to his mother, who bought the doll for him when Rufus refused because he thought it would make people think his son was gay. Hence, Dan's apprehension to come out of the closet.

Soon after, the chatting dies down and all three are fast asleep. Life finally feels somewhat normal.