A/N: I do NOT own Gossip Girl.

The fic is about a year in the life of Nate and Vanessa full of surprises. Some little some big. How i like to imagine them. Please excuse the extreme cheesiness. I can't help it. :)

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I was floating on cloud nine since he said he wants to be with me. The whole ride we sat in silence; glancing at on another and smiling. Nate held me close, kissing every tear of joy that trickled down my face.

The taxi dropped us off in front of his house. His mother was away for the weekend, so we had the house all to ourselves. He escorted me upstairs to his room.

"Uh, I hope you don't think anything's going to happen up here, just because you gave another great speech?" I quipped placing my purse on his desk and kicking my shoes off.

He turned around and moved in close backing me against the wall. "Oh, Ms. Abrams, After all we've been through, I'm still surprised by how much you underestimate me." Then he kissed me on the cheek.

"As gorgeous as you are in that dress, let's get you out of it…" he said walking across his room.

"Nate! I'm serious."

"I am too." He returned placing a t-shirt and sweatpants in my hands.

"Oh."

"You get changed up here and I run downstairs and grab those drinks. What would you like?"

"Uh…Hot Cocoa."

"Seriously?" he laughed.

"Seriously!"

"Gosh, I don't even know if we have such a thing in this house. But if that's what you want…"

He closed the door and left me up there alone.

I walked over and sat the clothes on his bed. I slipped out of the dress and pulled on the shirt. I turned to grab the pants when the bedroom door opened.

"I'm not dressed." I screeched.

Nate popped his head in then covered his eyes. "Oh, I'm sorry. I want to see if you wanted marshmallows in your cocoa."

Putting the pants on and walking over to the door, I removed his hand from his eyes and kissed him on the lips. "Yes, I would like marshmallows in my cocoa. I'll go with you."

I took his hand and walked down the stairs to the kitchen.

As we walked into the kitchen, I saw two empty mugs and a bag of marshmallows.

"Where's the cocoa?"

"Uh right, um…we don't have any."

"Oh. Ok. Well what do you have?" I asked letting go of his hand to search for edible goods.

"Not much. With mom not here and we haven't exactly hired back all the help, I usually eat out or order in." he mumbled looking down as if he were ashamed for not having servants at his beckon call or for ever having them to begin with.

"Ok well that's cool." I walked back to him and wrapped my arms around his neck. "Do you know of any convenience stores that stay open after 1 am around here? I just got a crazy idea."

"What?"

"Not telling."

"Yeah there is a 24 hour store about a block and half down the street. What do you want me to go get."

"I told you, I'm not telling you. Now go get changed and we will go there together." I turned him around patted him on the butt sending him on his way.

He turned around in shock. "Oh that's how you want to play now? You'll pay for that later." He said with a wink and proceeded up the stairs.

I waited about ten minutes for his return. When he returned he was carrying a hoodie and a pair of shoes. "Here, I thought you might need these for the walk."

"Thanks."

Walking down the street, Nate's arm draped over my shoulder, my arm around his waist, we couldn't be any happier. I didn't care if someone saw me walking around the UES in clothes that were way to big on me and shoes that clunked with every step I took.

When we reached the store, I told him to wait outside. I ran in and got the few things needed for my idea and ran back out.

"Let's go." I said grabbing his arm.

"So what the big idea?" he asked trying to reach the bag of stuff.

"It's a surprise. You will just have to wait and see."

"Just tell me. PLEASE????" He begged flashing his puppy dog blue eyes.

How could any girl resist those baby blues? I stopped walking and pulled him closer to me and hung the bang in his face. "You want to know? You really want to know? Well you are going to have to catch me to find out."

I ran about half a block when I was swept off my feet. Nate had caught up and picked me up and spun me around. He put me back down on the ground and kissed me again flashing his puppy eyes. "I guess I can wait…"

He took my hand in his and we walked in sync the rest of the way back.

We went into the kitchen and I told him to go sit in the other room while I prepared the surprise.

I found a kettle to boil some water in and a plate for the treats. I opened a box and broke 4 of the contents in half. Then broke the two candy bars in half. I made two mugs of hot cocoa adding a marshmallow to each one. Then I put 4 marshmallows in the microwave to warm up. I placed the marshmallows on each half of the candy bar and made it into a sandwich with the 8 halves of the box content.

I sat them all on the tray along with the two mugs and walked into his bedroom.

I almost dropped the tray when I saw what he had done. He dimmed the lights and had candles lit all around and was sitting on his bed with a red rose for me.

"Oh my Gosh!"

"Surprise!" he said getting off the bed, walking towards me. "Let me help you with this."

Still in shock from the sudden romantic side showing, I didn't notice Nate doubled over laughing by the bed.

"What's so funny?"

"S'mores, Vanessa?"

"Surprise!" I blushed and giggled.

"I LOVE IT!" he said shoving one in his mouth

"Glad you like it."

We sat on his bed right next to each other and ate the last few s'mores and sipping hot cocoa.

"So you really like the surprise." I asked as he cleared the tray from the bed.

"Loved it!" he said crawling back on the bed, now hovering over me. "Thank you."

I kissed him firmly on the lips that still tasted of s'mores and pulled his body close to me. "You're Welcome. And thank you for forgiving me. I thought you would never talk to me ever again after what I did."

Lying on his side next to me he sighed "I told you I was happy with this. And if you can forgive me for all the things I've put you through, I can forgive you one. You are the one I want to be with."

Running my hair though his hair and down his face, "I want to be with you too." tears falling down my face again.

He wiped the tears from my cheek and pulled me in tighter to his body. As our lips collided with passion, I couldn't feel more alive. I suddenly felt his hands creeping up my shirt. I pushed it away and he tried again.

"Nate…I'm not ready for that." I said breathing heavily between kisses.

"I know. But I can't help myself. You look so good in my shirt." He said kissing my neck.

"Well if you can't control yourself, then maybe I should head home." I tried to move away but he was not letting me go anywhere.

"Don't leave. I'll behave."

And he did. We kissed until we fell asleep still holding each other as close as possible face to face dreaming of the many days ahead together.