Song: We are family by Sister Sledge

"I just want to be the person you can bring anything to." Nate Archibald Gossip Girl 

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I quickly call Blair once he leaves. "What?" She says once she answers.

"Hey Blair,"

"What do you want?" She asks sounding irritated.

"Nothing just wanted to say hi,"

"You did not just make me stop talking to the hottest guy ever, just to say hi," She says to which I chuckle.

"It's not funny," she says causing me to giggle some more.

"If you are just going to keep laughing I'm going to disconnect," She says to which I immediately stop laughing.

"No, don't. I promise I have important stuff to discuss," I say settling down. "I wanted to ask you something," I say.

"Yah no," She quickly replies.

"What?"

"Whatever your question is, the answer is NO. No, I can't do it, I can't give it to you, I won't, I can't, I will never, forget it. Does that answer your question?" She asks to which I chuckle.

"Dude I don't need anything from you!" I state flabbergasted.

"Oh, then we're done here," she says and disconnects the call to which I stare speechless at the phone screen and shake my head and proceed to dial Luther.

"Hey you!" He answers on the first ring, unlike Blair.

"Why is Blair my sister and not you?"

"Because I'm a dude?" he replies to which I chuckle.

"I'm glad that got you laughing, cos I'm guessing she hung up on you again didn't she?"

"How'd you know?" I ask.

"Seriously?" He replies to which I chuckle. He knew because each time Blair hung up on me, I called him next.

"I told you to just call me instead of Blair whenever you need to talk," he says.

"I know, but I can't help calling her first. It's instinctual, plus she's not always cranky," I say to which he chuckles. "If you say so," he says to which we both chuckle, "So what's up?" he asks.

I brief him on everything that had occurred with Helix and Steven. What follows once I'm done is silence.

"Hello? Are you still there?" I ask.

"I'm just gathering my thoughts together. I mean you just told me about being kissed by a guy who doesn't take relationships seriously, seeing him kiss someone else and then finding out he is a bully. I need a minute to get myself together, so I don't come over there and drag you back home or punch him in the face,"

"Luther!" I exclaim.

"You told me, you can't blame me for however I react to the information you provide," he says to which I exhale. I must have been crazy telling Luther everything. This was why I called Blair, but Blair was not in the mood for me today, as she usually wasn't...

I sigh. "Don't sigh, now I feel guilty. Okay, so what do you want from me? What was the point of telling me this?" he asks.

"I don't know," I say realizing I truly didn't know. I just wanted to speak to someone close to me as I was agitated.

"How about this, did you just want a listening ear or are you open to opinions?"

"I'm not sure," I reply honestly.

"Well, how about I tell you what I think about the whole thing and you take whatever you'd like from that?"

"Sounds good," I reply hugging onto a pillow and picking at my thumb's nail bed with my pointer finger.

"You made the right decision to tell him what your thoughts are on your situation-ship. I don't want you being in a relationship like that. It's not healthy, especially not for you. You need stability and security and what he's offering isn't that," He says.

"To be honest I wish you could stay away from him, but I realize I can only advise you and the decision is ultimately yours. So, no you have done nothing wrong and I support your decision. You made the right call Hestia, don't doubt that" he says.

"Thank you," I say sincerely grateful. "How is it you always calm me down and make me feel ten times better?" I ask in awe.

"Because I'm know you best and I'm not Blair," he says to which we both chuckle.

The next day after my first two classes, I head over to my professor's office to wait in the hallway. To get his assistance during his office hour when I notice Helix seated in another office with a professor as I stop in front of my closed professor's office.

"I'm being serious here. I can't believe you cheated in an exam," The professor says looking frustrated. My eyes widen, cheat?

"Are you going through some midlife crisis? How do I even begin to explain this to your mother?"

"How about, your son...no your liability was caught cheating. A thirty-million-dollar check would suffice to make it go away," Helix replies causing me to pause, liability? What sort of child thinks of themselves as a liability to their parent?

"Does this seem like a joke to you?"

"You asked, I was just trying to help you out," Helix says to which I shake my head.

"This is your final year; this could ruin everything for you. All your dreams would be gone in an instant if you get expelled,"

"Dreams?" Helix responds. "That's not true," He adds.

"You don't believe me? Do you really think you'd get a degree if expelled? No Helix, you won't and with that all your dreams will die,"

"Do you know what my dreams consist of?" Helix asks.

"Of course, I do. Architecture and engineering,"

"That's your dream, my dream consists of me with a bunch of girls having a foursome in the Bahamas. If anything, expelling me would speed that up,"

"You know what, just leave. I am absolutely done, I give up. Whatever happens will happen,"

I glance around the office wondering whether to leave or stay. Second later helix walks out of the office to in and pauses his eyes meeting mine. A look of shock then another expression shame, anger? I wasn't sure quickly masks it followed by a smile.

"Nice shoes," he says to which I glance down at my feet not expecting the compliment or any words from him after our last conversation.

"Thanks," I reply. He stands still and I stay silent wondering if he was going to say anything else or leave. After a few minutes of silence and him not leaving I ask.

"You cheated?"

He shrugs.

"Why?" I ask knowing it was not my place to ask but having nothing else to say.

"Do you really want to know?" He asks.

At first, I didn't and simply asked to make conversation, but now that he'd asked, I was curious. Hence, I nod in response.

"I was up having crazy sex with two hot girls last night and couldn't study,"

"Helix,"

"You asked," He replies to which I sigh. He was right I did.

"I'm sorry," I say and turn around to leave.

"Wait," he says softly causing me to pause.

"I didn't cheat," he says.

"What?"

"Pete was cheating and his paper fell. I helped grab it and was about to return it to him when I got caught," he says.

"What? Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"B'Cos you were the first to ask,"

"Ask what?"

"Why, everyone else just assumed I for sure did it," he replies causing me to pause. 

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A moment to reflect....

- A