Blair Waldorf stood before a dark limo and looked with a sad smile at her boyfriend, Louis Grimaldi. "I don't want you to go," she whispered when he kissed her in silence.
"I know," he replied kissed her cheek. For a second, he just stared at her and looked worried. "Sure, you don't want to go to Paris with me?"
"It's just a week, Louis," Blair said and smiled a little bit. She would love to go with him, but there was Columbia, and it was also New Year and she wanted to spend that day with her family and friends. And she just didn't want to see Louis' mother again … "I guess your mother will be happy that I won't join her little royal party."
Louis looked worried again and stroked her cheek. "She will love you, I promise," he said and whispered: "I already do."
Blair bite her lower lip and looked at the ground. She couldn't say those words to him, she just couldn't. And she had no idea why. "Goodbye, Louis," she whispered. "I'll miss you."
Louis took her face and just kissed her for a while after he let go of her and drove away. It felt good to know that he loved her. But it was torture to not tell him how she really felt since the year they were together … A year without Chuck Bass.
While Blair Waldorf walked along the streets to get home, Chuck Bass was at the Empire, sitting on his couch and was talking to his girlfriend, Carey, on the phone. She sounded ill, as she whispered: "My mom always says to everybody that her stepson is Chuck Bass." He could hear her laugh through the phone and smirked.
They first met one month ago; Carey's father invented some stupid thing Chuck didn't remember anymore and her mom started to fell in love with him. Probably because he was a rich businessman and bought her and Carey expensive things.
"Well, she can be proud of you," he replied and could imagine her smile. She was a beautiful girl, but it hurt to see her. She just looked like a girl, Chuck once loved. And probably never stopped loving …
"When will you come?" Carey whispered and kissed her handy with a smile on her lips. "I miss you." He had to admit that he only thought about one girl the whole month; someone who wasn't Carey and he hated himself for doing it but he just couldn't stop. Those thoughts were like drugs to him and consumed him literally.
"Next week, probably," he said and sighed. The only thing he wanted to do now was to be with someone who actually cared about him. The next day was Sylvester and he wasn't even excited about the party Lily gave! It was at a skyscraper and he didn't give a fuck. "I have to do some things first, okay?"
Carey sighed and then finally said: "Okay, I will see you next week. Bye." And with a smile she whispered: "I love you."
Chuck just kept staring as she said that and then just put off the phone. He was a little bit pleased she couldn't see his face right now.
The hole in his heart hurt again and he growled in pain. "Fuck those three words!"
Blair went home and lay on her bed while she texted with Louis.
God, how much I hate paparazzi …
Blair smiled and tipped something in her handy as the phone next to her rang. It was Serena. "Hey, S! What's wrong?"
"I just wanted to know if you have some Sylvester plans," Serena replied with an innocent voice.
"You mean Lily's little skyscraper party?" Blair whispered and bite her lower lip. "I think I won't go … Chuck's there. And probably with his girlfriend …"
"But Chuck is not even in town!" Serena lied – of course, Blair believed her. "He's at Carey's family's house and won't come back until next week."
"Oh, really? Finally some good news!" Blair said and smirked a little bit. Her plan had been not see Chuck this year and she was surprisingly successful! No talks, no calls, no visits, a full year without Chuck – and with a prince on her arm.
"What about Louis?" Serena asked and sounded a little bit too excited.
"He proposed to me," Blair lied and grinned as she heard Serena's 'Oh'. "And I'm pregnant."
"Wait … you are lying to me, right?" Serena asked in shock and Blair just had to laugh. "I guess that's a Yes."