A/N: Just so you are not confused this is a Second Generation story, but the couples and children and all derived from my series of stories starting with So Close, Learning to Breathe, and To Ever Live Without You.

Waiting Wanting

Chapter 1

Welcome Back

Well look here the summer is over and I am happy for one it's the celebration of a year since learning of my mom's secret blogging controversy and I decided to take up where she left off and report on the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite and we sure have some juicy stuff today…

It's common knowledge that William Humphrey and Katherine Bass have been the best of friends since they were basically babies, but things may have gotten a little steamy while they traveled Europe together this summer. Word is that Will and Kat got a little hot and heavy and they were surprisingly spotted all the way in Sicily having a fun little make-out session. Will being back at home change their new found love? We shall see especially when it comes to Katherine's relationship with the very sexy Josh Richards.

XOXO, You Know You Love Me,

Gossip Girl v2.0

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Rushing through her bedroom Katherine Bass growled as she searched through her many closets for one particular sweater. Her chocolate brown curls bounced around as she threw many shirts, dresses, and sweaters out of her closets onto her bed. She hadn't noticed that her younger sister had walked in and stood in the doorway silently laughing at her sister who's perfectly clean room was now a complete disaster of a mess. Finally it seemed as if Katherine had given up and she sat onto her bed with a gruff of defeat.

"Looking for something." Katherine's little sister Lizzette asked as she pulled her short black hair that was streaked with blonde from her ponytail.

"My favorite sweater. The one mom got me from London." Katherine asked as she looked at her little sister with a frustrated look on her face.

"You threw it away." Lizzette said with a small laugh.

"I what?" asked Katherine with a screech.

"Do you seriously not remember when you got home from Europe you went on this whole rant about how it made you look fat and you tossed it." Lizzette said in a matter-of-factly tone.



"I totally forgot that." Katherine said with a growl. "I really wanted to wear it to school today."

"You seriously don't need a sweater it's going to be like a hundred degrees today." Lizzette said.

"True, I guess I am just stressing." Katherine said with a sigh. "Mom is going to kill me for making this mess."

"She will totally kill you." Laughed Lizzette. "Don't be stressed it's only the first day of school."

"Have you seen Gossip Girl this morning?" Katherine asked with a look on her face that seemed like she was going to pull out her hair.

"Yeah, pretty much everyone knows about you and Will." Lizzette said.

"Sadly and that means Josh knows so we will be pretty much over." Katherine said with a sigh.

"Why are you freaking you never even liked Josh that much." Lizzette said with a laugh.

"True." Katherine said. "I might just dump him this morning." She said with a shrug.

"Kat that's horrible!" Lizzette said.

"Hey some people are just disposable, Aunt Blair taught me that when I stopped at her villa this summer." Katherine said as she stood and walked over to her vanity where she picked up a black headband that she put into her hair.

"Girls your car will be here soon. Come down if you want breakfast!" called a voice from downstairs that both of them recognized as Georgia.

"You are seriously going to listen to Aunt Blair, she has been married like 5 times." Lizzette said as both girls exited the bedroom and made their way downstairs into the dinning room where they saw their parents sitting at the table. As everyday their dad was dressed in a designer suit with his morning coffee and the paper while their mom sat with her morning faxes and a glass of low fat milk. Kaelyn and Chuck Bass hadn't changed too much except for them looking a bit older, but as all women in the Upper East Side Kaelyn had already started getting work done.

"Morning girls." Chuck said smiling at his daughters.

"Morning Daddy!" both Lizzette and Katherine chimed together as she sat down in their normal seats where their breakfast of granola, yogurt, and fruit was waiting with a glass of low fat milk.

"Ready for your first day of school?" Kaelyn asked as she looked up from her faxes.

"Totally." Lizzette said happily,

"Pretty much." Katherine said with a sigh and as soon as Kaelyn went to open her mouth with a question towards Katherine's sour mood there was Georgia.



"Girls your car is here." Georgia announced.

"We will chat later. Love you." Katherine said as she picked up her apple and rushed out from the dinning room.

Lizzette simply laughed at her sister. "See you later. Love you." Lizzette said as she stood from the table taking her yogurt and a spoon.

"Love you." Both Kaelyn and Chuck said to the youngest daughter.

Sitting in the car Katherine was very apprehensive and all Lizzette could do was silently laugh. Katherine then turned to her sister. "We didn't get to talk last night since you got in so late, but how was dinner with your dad?"

Recently Lizzette had started having an actual relationship with her biological father who was a photographer and always traveling around the world. It was never a big issue in their house that Lizzette wasn't Chuck's daughter because he treated both girls equally even though sometimes Lizzette did feel a little different.

"It was alright. It's always pretty weird spending time with him." Lizzette said. "He always has so many questions about mom. I think he still loves her."

"Maybe." Katherine said and then she gasped as they pulled up to the school. "I'm so not ready to be here."

"It'll be alright." Lizzette said as the driver opened the door. Both of the girls exited the car and immediately eyes went their way.

Katherine looked around for her friends who she spotted at the stairwell. She gave Lizzette a small wave and hurried off where they were standing. She had a pretty good group of friends and of course they were all girls who yearned to be friends with her since she was signally the most popular girl in school. Katherine was basically the one who all approval went through and she embraced her position fully even with all the drama that was thrown her way.

There was only one person though that Katherine felt she could trust and that was her best friend who was a girl Ashley Walters who she had known since the first grade. Though she didn't completely trust Ashley with everything some things were only meant for your all time ultimate best of friends and for Katherine that was William, but at the moment there was something that kept her from him and that was the fact that she was head over heels in love with him. The problem with being in love with him was the fact that he had a girlfriend who he claimed to love with all his heart. There was something different about the summer for both of them as they spent all their time together while traveling Europe and they had found themselves wanting one another and during a hot night while staying on the island of Crete they had broken that barrier and in a rush of passion they had slept together and Katherine could only describe it as the best night of her life and after they couldn't keep their hands off of one another, but the trip ended for William and in turn Katherine abruptly.



Katherine felt like she was complete and she knew that William felt the same way and one morning she woke up and he wasn't there nor where his things, but only a note that he left with all his reasons for leaving. From that moment on Katherine was crushed into pieces, but to keep appearances she continued her traveling alone before returning back to New York and she still hadn't seen William.

"So what really happened with you and Will?" asked one of Katherine's friends Francis.

"Nothing happened at all." She said rolling her eyes and giving a simple look of disgust. "I wish that Gossip Girl would just get the real facts, seriously. Just because Will and I are best friends and traveled together doesn't mean that we slept together or anything like that."

"Totally Gossip Girl should get the facts right." Chimed Francis's best friend who was seriously like a twin to her. It sometimes scared Katherine to see how the two of them could be so much alike, but not come from the same household.

"Katherine." Said a voice and she turned around to see her perfect boyfriend behind her. She hadn't seen him all summer due to he spent the entire time with his grandparents who lived in LA.

"Honey." She said cheerfully as she walked over to him and planted a huge kiss on his lips. "I have missed you so much."

"Kat seriously save it." He said angrily.

"Josh you seriously don't believe this Gossip Girl's garbage. You know that Will and I are just friends and he didn't even stay the entire trip." Katherine said as she looked at him with her sweet blue eyes.

"It is garbage isn't it." Josh said as she pulled Katherine to him by her waist.

"All garbage." She said with a smile as she stood on her toes and kissed him again. "I've missed you like crazy." She said happily and then she saw him over Josh's shoulder. There was William who was walking up the stairs holding his girlfriend's hand. Katherine felt dizzy suddenly. Her eyes then met his and there was that passion she remembered from the last time she saw him when they were making love. She quickly put her eyes back on Josh. "We've got to hang out tonight. I was thinking of getting a suite at grandpa's hotel just for you and me. We can have dinner and hang out."

"Sounds like a perfect plan." He said as he held her close. "I've missed you and it's a date."

"Perfect we can meet there tonight at about 8ish." She said happily as she was proud of herself for taking control of the situation even though she knew her real desire was to confess her love for Will and completely leave Josh behind.

Lizzette had found her way over to the corner where all her friends hung out. Lizzette and Katherine got along fine, but there were completely different people. They normally said Lizette was the brains and Katherine was the beauty though Lizette was extraordinarily beautiful, but she wasn't hung up on it and she wasn't known for it.



"Lizzie!" came a cheerful voice and Lizzette saw her best friend coming her way, Amanda Humphrey was of course William's little sister.

"Manda!" Lizzette said happily as she hugged her best friend who she had known pretty much forever.

"So this drama on my brother and your sister, what is up?" Amanda asked as the two girls made their way over to the corner where the rest of their friends sat.

"No freaking clue. Kat has been pretty stressed, but she hasn't given me enough information to work on." Lizzette said as they finally made it to where their friends were.

In school their crowd was known for being the artsy ones. The guys they hung out with were in bands and the girls were pretty much into the whole music scene along with other arts. Lizzette figured she got her love of art from her biological dad who was really into his work as a photographer because her parents weren't much into art at all unless you counted her mom and fashion. Amanda got it completely from her dad and grandparents. Her grandma was a painter while her grandpa ran an art gallery in Brooklyn and was a musician. Her dad on the other spectrum was a best-selling author. Lizzette and Amanda spent the summer working at Amanda's grandfather's art gallery and the both of them had the best time.

"So I had a date with Justin last night." Amanda said happily as she put her blonde hair into a ponytail.

"And?" Lizzette asked excitedly as she took a seat on top of a table.

"Amazing. He wrote me a song and he played it for me at his show." Amanda said happily as she talked about her new boyfriend she met while working at the gallery. He had come in to meet her grandpa who apparently was his idol.

"You are so lucky to have him." Lizzette said happily.

"Were you are lucky to have one of the hottest guys in school always looking your way." Amanda said as she nodded her head towards the top of the stairs where looking down straight at Lizzette was Dominic Moreshire the son of the all time ever popular Blair Waldorf and her first slash third husband Landon Moreshire.

"I know him too much to ever date him plus Dominic has always been known to be such a player." Lizzette said as she looked up at him and he gave her a smile. She quickly turned away. "Also I am way too focused on school to date anyone right now." Saying this only made Lizzette's heart hurt more for Dominic. She had liked him for a while, but so many things kept her from him including his past dating record and what happened to her the year before. The only people who knew about her trauma were her sister, William, and Dominic who she forced them all to swear not to tell even though her mother knew something was wrong with Lizzette having the nightmares that she had.

"But he so loves you." Amanda said and then the bell rang.



"Well off to class. We will talk in biology." Lizzette said as she picked up her book bag and started making her way towards the stairs to get to class. As she walked into the building she wasn't paying much attention to where she was going and ran into someone. "Sorry." She mumbled.

"Hey Lizzie." Came a familiar and wonderful sounding voice that she noticed right away to be Dominic.

"Dominic hey, nice to see you." She said with a nervous smile.

"Lizzie I was thinking that we could maybe hang out sometime. Maybe talk." Dominic said.

"I am busy all this week. I don't know where I would fit it in." there was a very awkward pause. "Well class is waiting. See you around." Lizzie then said quickly before making her way up the hall as fast as she could without bumping into anyone else.

A/N: Well that was the first chapter. I know since posting before I ended Than To Ever Live Without You that you kind of get a feel of how it ends, but wait there will be more drama to come in that story, but I hope you liked this one.