𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 (𝐌𝐚𝐱. 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐞)

XI

I walked over to JC, Monet, and Luna. I hated that JC's party was combined with Zoya's but their dads had insisted. Things already weren't going well and I could tell that it wasn't going to get any better. 

"Ugh" JC cried "I'm being attacked by Russian bots" she handed me her phone

"You're being Venmoed for BJ's, HJ's, poppers, urine, your celebrity flashlight, and seven grams of better coke" I wrinkled my nose, this was weird 

"It's not Russian bots" Monet spat "it's that regional bitch"

"Good thing here life will be over by the end of the party," I said glaring at Zoya who had a smug look on her face. We walked over to the buffet to grab some food 

"I'm starving" JC groaned "Thank god my dad took care of the food, at least we know it's not Pret" 

"But it is a buffet" Luna sneered looking at the pasta 

"I lost track of Zoya which means she's up to something," Monet said turning to JC "hey, when are you going to give the birthday girl her birthday gift?" 

"When the time is right" JC assured her 

"Ok, well, here's our gift to you" I started to say "we contacted the videographer herself, and turns out, there's a director's cut and unlike most of them, this one is much better" suddenly the lady from the buffet handed me a random plate of food "oh thanks" I stuffed it into my mouth quickly. Monet and I turned when we heard a big commotion outside. I went to check it out and of course, it was Max.

"There must have been a mistake" he yelled at the woman with the guest list 

"Nope, no mistake" I grabbed his coat "I took your name off the list," I told him reaching into his coat to grab the 'Altoids' I opened the container to reveal a lot of drugs "how many of these are you on?" I rolled my eyes 

"It's not for me, it's for inside" he slurred 

"I'm sure that half will find its way inside your mouth" I sighed 

"I'm on a Nemo and I'm on a Dory" he rambled "honestly right now you kinda like both of them" 

"You're so broken aren't you" I looked at Max sadly, I could tell he wasn't ok, no matter how much he giggled or danced 

"You used to be so hot" he groaned "now you're just a bad trip" he tried to grab his drugs but I pulled them away and they fell to the ground emptying on the street "oh look at that, it's all on the sidewalk" 

"You need to leave," I told him pushing him backward and away from the party "now"

"Fine" he put his hands up "but don't come crawling back to me" I walked back into the party angrily but my anger faded when I saw how baked JC was, someone must have drugged her, she was talking to princess Nokia with Luna and Monet. Luna was doing something frantically on her phone 

"What's got you three so excited?" Milo Sparks walked up

"Of course" I scoffed "son of Georgina Sparks" My father and his mother hate each other, they had tried being friends a little before we were born due to some elite group of people that wouldn't let them in their group but they were not compatible, "I think you should mind your own business and stop helping Zoya" 

"Why's that?" he asked cockily 

"Because my dad was the only one who would hire your mother and if he gets wind of this, well, he just might have to fire her" I fake pouted "bye-bye Upper East Side" 

"Jolien's about to show the world Zoya's real colors, a whole rainbow of crazy" Luna told him

"Give me a hint," he said "You owe me, don't forget" 

"The real reason Zoya had to leave buffalo" Luna held her phone out for him to see "from gossip girl herself" Milo watched the video and then walked away suspiciously. I wasn't a huge fan of his mother either, I had never met her but my dad told me a story about how she tried to blame her pregnancy on Dan Humpfrey, the old Gossip Girl

"Showtime ladies" JC smirked before walking onstage, Luna was plugging her phone into the projector, we were getting ready for the main event "Thank you," JC said to the crowd that was cheering for her "In honor of my sis's 15th birthday, I wanted to talk a little about the woman who really made all of this happen, our mother" the crowd awwed "Calloway Marion, there's a lot Zoya and I never got to learn from her, but we know, from our dad's and deep inside our hearts that she was amazing. But, like every person, she had two sides to her, she was brave beautiful, brilliant, but she wasn't always honest" JC looked down at Zoya who seemed to be pleading for her not to show the video "She wasn't always good, I mean, she left her own baby, me, to run off with another man. now, that reckless irresponsible, unreliable part of my mom, I didn't inherit, thankfully. But someone did, and now, thanks to this video we will all get to see just how much of my mom the supposedly, upstanding, righteous Zoya really got." 

The video started playing and a bunch of girls were yelling and shouting while Zoya spray painted Fuck School on a white wall in their school, in blue paint "This school sucks" Zoya yelled in the video

"Tag the chem lab" one of the girls shouted while laughing, the shut the door to the chem lab on Zoya who rolled her eyes 

"Come on Emma, this isn't funny," Zoya said through the door

"Mother killer" one of the girls yelled 

"Let me out guys, this isn't funny, let me out" 

"Hey, are you upset mother killer?" 

"Open the door"

"She's gonna cry" 

I closed my eyes and turned away, I thought the cut was just when she got in the chem lab and said that it wasn't funny, that's all I had seen, that's all Monet had shown me. I saw Zoya start to cry but in real life as well as in the video 

"Let me out" Zoya screamed in the video throwing things at the glass, I had to do something, it was traumatizing for Zoya and it was hard to watch 

"What is this?" JC asked "I didn't see this part"

"Luna stop" I grabbed the phone but she grabbed it back "turn it off" suddenly the fire alarm went off in the video, Zoya was standing there watching her past self in tears while Julien was freaking out onstage. JC ran over and turned the video off, it seemed Luna would only do that at JC's request

"Hey everyone" JC walked back on the stage awkwardly "I know that video was traumatic, you're probably wondering why I played it, I'm wondering that too"

"We hadn't seen the whole thing," I said coming on the stage, I didn't want JC to take all the blame for what happened "but that's no excuse" 

"I didn't know she was being bullied" JC wiped her eyes "I guess when you're a bully yourself, you don't see that, I'm a bully, I expect you to want what I have but not be able to get it, I am a bully, I bully my sister, I bully my friends" she touched my hand sadly "I bully my fans, and I'm never going to do it again so long as I live. Now, how about we put all this pain behind us and bow down to the princess, she's why you're all here, Z I love you this is what your birthday was supposed to be. Nokia!!"