#i'm going to reply to the OOPS text in a sec - i've thought of an extra & brief spanner to throw in the mix tehe

[samuelswatts]

Something was off about Roni but... Sam couldn't put his finger on it. They hadn't seen each other in what felt like forever, that was probably it. Besides, she didn't owe him anything. If he wasn't the same person he was in high school (he thought, he hoped) then Roni might not be either. Still, he felt that old twinge to reach out to her. To hold onto her hand, crack a joke to make her smile.

Man, he had to get outta here.

That's when his phone vibrated, again. And then she said that. Sam should have known. A part of him was relived, there were far worse things Gossip Girl could have revealed about him. Then he felt guilty, again. Sam and Juliette, Sam and Roni... It had been a mess. He wasn't gonna get into this mess again.

"I don't... Me and Jul---iette aren't together, despite anything Gossip Girl has to say-," he said before adding- "I'm not with anyone and I don't want to be. I'm focused on football right now. On school. On... I don't know, a future. I don't have time for drama anymore."

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’How’s Juliette’ hit him like a freight train. Things had been nothing short of complicated between the three of them. A tangled mess of feelings and betrayal. Sam hated that he hurt Roni. And he hated that he hurt Juliette (that Juliette hurt him). That night, at the Fairchild Ball, when he and Juliette kissed had weighed down on his guilty conscious for a long time. He felt guilty about feeling guilty (and sometimes not feeling guilty). If time was supposed to heal all wounds, Sam was still waiting. “I don’t know,” he replied which wasn’t not true- “Busy, I guess. Modelling thing.”

After a pause, he raised a brow in her direction– “Are you two, ah, talking again?”

Sam smiled again when she laughed. It was nice. The implications of Veronica Ravenwood being on the Upper East Side again hadn’t hit him yet. Maybe there weren’t any, right? Everyone had moved on. (Right?) When she asked, he immediately thought about the bonfire and the scene he kinda caused at it. He opened then closed his mouth again. “Just… Training. Gotta stay in shape for next season at college. Plus my dad’s on my back about keeping up my grades as well so I’m doing some extra stuff for that too. This summer’s more work than play, y’know?” He smiled at her again- “You?”

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Roni listened, though she knew fairly well how Juliette was doing after all she had met her before mr handsome found his way in front of her again. she was hated, and a part of her wasn’t fine with it - Juliette had no idea what happened behind the scenes, heck even Sam wasn’t aware that he was a father. Her hands moved to her stomach, where her child had been safely seated for nine months, yet she acted as if she wanted to wipe something away. Some things didn’t change. Her body did, but she worked hard to keep it back in her original shape.

“Not really.” She shook her head, they talked but they weren’t talking like they were in the past. “I’ve been busy with…things.” Coping with a severe depression for one. “But you know, I’m managing.”

She stood on her tiptoes, her heel off the ground for a second before it clicked back on the ground. “Heard you still had a thing for Jules - considering GG posted something about the two of you on her blog.” Her smile faltered. “Guess some things don’t change, huh.”