𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 (𝐌𝐚𝐱. 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐞)

VII

"I thought you were leaving" I stepped into my room after my shower

"Yeah, sorry, I couldn't find my tie," Max said with a slight smirk. I couldn't believe what I had done, I let my feelings get the best of me and I slept with my best friend "thank you, by the way, I was pretty pent up" 

"I could tell," I told him as I stood there in his baggy sweatshirt, I knew I had to give it back but it was really comfortable "I guess I was too, Max, you can't tell anyone about this" 

"Ok," he said sounding rather amused, he threw his jacket on and walked out of my room

"Fuck" I flung myself on my bed, why, why had I done this, this isn't even the type of relationship I want. I don't want some casual hook up I want a real relationship that would never happen with Max, this could never happen again. 

Morning followers, Gossip Girl here. Marquez once said, "we all have three lives, a public life, a private life, and a secret life." But he left out the most important one, our dating life, and ever since JC got ditched by Noble O for Little Z, she's been on an international manhunt for a worthy replacement...

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"Maybe it doesn't have to be a man" I heard JC say "Millie Bobbie Brown isn't defined by who she dates"

"Still looking for a new boyfriend I see" I sat down next to Luna 

"Millie Bobbie Brown is pre-sexual," Luna told her "you need a new Brad or it's Havisham for you, also fuck the patriarchy"

"Hey, guys!" Audrey walked up to us and I jumped up

"Jules, Audrey, do you have to pee?" I asked grasping their arms 

"No"

"No, I-"

"Good, I do too" I whisked them away and into the girl's bathroom "If I tell you guys something, do you both swear on your Loewe not to tell anyone?"

"Did you kill someone" JC whispered 

"No, worse" I gulped "I may have slept with Max"

"What?" JC asked 

"May have or did?" Audrey looked at me 

"I did, I did" I confessed, "I slept with Max, I slept with Max many many times and now I've ruined our friendship and I don't know what to do, JC, Audrey what do I do?"

 "Why would you do that?" Audrey asked me softly "when? basically all the interrogatives, you've known him for a decade, why now?" 

"I don't know what happened," I told them rubbing my eyes "but it happened and I've screwed everything up, it was one night, one long night" I widened my eyes 

"I hope Gossip Girl doesn't find out," Audrey said "but it's fine, I mean you're not dating anyone, you didn't cheat, you didn't do anything  wrong"

"I know but I want a real relationship, not just casual sex or a friends with benefits type of thing" I groaned 

"Listen you are ok" Audrey grasped my arms firmly "you have nothing to worry about, let's just go find our friends and forget that you had sex with Max" I nodded and took a deep breath. We walked out of the bathroom and to the courtyard, of course, Max was already there. He waved at me awkwardly and I waved back

"Yeah, that wasn't awkward" JC sniggered 

"Shhh" Audrey hit her "Gossip Girl could be listening"

"Yeah, she's everywhere" I whispered, we did a lap around the school and went back to the courtyard, Max wasn't there anymore so we sat down, Audrey and I had our back to the entrance of the courtyard 

"Are you talking about me?" I heard JC ask

"Totaly and completely, yeah," Max said, shit, he was back 

"Audrey" I whispered "what do I do"

"Just stay calm" she whispered back "don't do anything

"Wanna know why no one you've been on a date with wants to get to know you better?" Max asked "it's cause they can't, you're a billboard not a body, curated, untouchable, willingly filtered by you, your stylist, and publicist"

"PR representative" Monet corrected 

"It's like I lost myself somehow" JC sighed as Audrey and I walked closer to her 

"Which is why I propose we find her all together" Max smirked "a Manhattan Maxploration tonight, you, me, and Cat. Consider me your White Rabbit" I looked at Audrey in alarm, she gave me a sympathetic look "we are going to do things that you've never done before in places you have never gone before and when we are done you are going to be so real that even Obie will remember why he loved you in the first place. Cat can vouch for how good I am at demolishing inhibitions"

"Fine, go out" I snapped, and Max looked taken aback "but I am not coming, you've lost your mind if you think I will, and don't worry about how you look, do it for yourself and do not document it"

"Document it" Luna and Monet cried 

"You in?" Max asked 

"I'm in" JC agreed, they all smiled and began to head out, I started to follow JC, when Max grabbed my wrist 

"Cat, talk to me," he said, "did I do something wrong?" 

"N-no" I shook my head 

"You've been weird ever since last night"

"Maybe it's because I slept with my best friend," I said, "ever think of that?"

"is that not what you wanted?" he looked at me 

"At the moment it was, but I don't want random hookups Max" I frowned "so it can never happen again" 

"Who said it was a random hook up," he asked sincerely 

"No one Max, but you aren't exactly known for starting relationships, and I want a real relationship so I'm the one who going to wind up getting hurt in the end and I really-" I was stopped when Max pressed his lips softly against mine, there, in the middle of the courtyard, where everyone could see

"What if that's what I want too?" he said tucking a piece of hair behind my ear and smiling "I want you Cat, and not just in a random hookup kind of way"

"Well, I want you too Max" I grinned as he leaned his forehead against mine. 

Hey Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here and I have the biggest news ever. Someone spotted the one and only Max Wolfe locking lips with none other than Catherine Baizen. Could this be a casual hook-up or so much more? after all,t Max isn't known for sealing the deal, and wasn't Cat rumored to be pining after Aki?  I guess you'll just have to wait and see, as I said, no good secret goes unpublished, -Xoxo Gossip Girl