It's not like they were thinking about each other like that, they had moved on, they had other people, other priorities, and other things on their minds. But sometimes, love just won't let you walk away.
They were walking down the street; she had just recently gotten of jail due to a huge misunderstanding, and some trouble.. And was going into " Tiffany's " to grab some breakfast for herself and Blair before heading to Blair's place. That's when he saw her..
She was beautiful, he always knew it. There was never a question of her not being gorgeous, it's just he knew that she needed some time, and he just got caught up in other girls waiting for her.
"Sareena!" Nate said. She turned around; her gorgeous blond hair straightened and said, "Nate! Hey, how are you?" Sareena ecstatically said. "I'm just getting breakfast and then heading to Blair's place." Sareena pouted, "You stole my idea." "Well, we can head over there together, it would give us some time to catch up anyway."
After they had bought their breakfast, they headed out of Tiffany's to the street. "Do your magic and call a cab Sareena." Nate chuckled. "No, let's walk." Sareena said as she looked into Nate's eyes. Almost like a silent understanding that she missed him and wanted more time before returning to their lives where there was not enough to time to have mornings like this. "Okay."
"So how have you and Dan been doing?" Nate questioned. "I can't be with Dan. I love him, and I still have feelings for him but Rufus and my mom seriously want to be together, and I gave her my word things were done between me and Dan and then we got together again, and I just realized it wasn't fair to my mom. You should come by and see her sometimes, she's just so happy. It makes me happy, she loves the idea of this family, and I guess there's someone else out there for me, cause I can't see anyone but Rufus for my mom anymore." She said as she looked at Nate drinking his hot chocolate.
"Sometimes Sareena, you lose something you really care about; with all your heart and you don't think that you're ever going to be whole again without it, and then one day: a day quite like today, you open your heart, and you let yourself believe that you deserve more, and you'll see that you're heart is finally trying to recover, because you see that there is someone even more special, and you begin to remember how to love again." Nate said as he looked at Sareena who was surprised. "What?" He said as he chuckled. "You! When did you become so.. awesome?" They laugh as they sip on their hot chocolates.
"I would tell you all the awesome things about me, but then I would have to kill you." He said while holding in a laugh. "Not if I drown you in your own hot chocolate first." Sareena said while maliciously looking at Nate's drink. "I dare you." Nate said daring Sareena with his eyes, and his lips curving into a smile. "Double dare me." He rolled his eyes and said, "Are you ever going to change? You know you're just scared and you're stalling." Laughing, he shook his cup. "Really?" She said as she struck a model pose without even trying, with her hand on her hips and her other hand on her neck. "Really." He almost knew what was going to happen next.
She tried to grab for his cup, but he moved, and she almost fell, and while she recovered he started dying of laughter in her face. "How are you going to graduate? You should really stop spending your money, so you can save up to blackmail the school into letting you make it to college." He said while trying to stop laughing. Then, she quickly spread her lips into the wild, feisty, exciting grin that only Sareena Van Der Woodsen could make – and opened the lid to her own cup, and threw it at Nate. He just stood there, wondering what the hell happened, and than looked at her. "I'm going to kill you. 10, 9, 8.." Sareena ran into a near-by park, and tried to climb up onto a jungle gym and hide near the slides.
Nate came to the park, and spotted her. As he looked at her he was taken aback for a second, this was his dream girl; she is, as wild, crazy, and insane as she's always been, and he wouldn't like it any other way. "You really should have picked a better hiding spot." He said smugly. "Damn you!" Sareena said as she slid down the slide, and he was at the bottom of the slide before she got down. She right into him, knocking them both onto the sand.
Laughing, they got up as she threw sand on his shirt and tried to run away but he held onto her ankle. She looked down, and then just sat there. "There's so many ways to explain how ridiculous you are, but they would never be enough." He said amazed. "There's so many ways to describe how ugly you are, but they would never be enough." She said as she started laughing, and pulled her leg away from Nate and ran away. He just looked at her running, she was a free spirit, she was crazy, and all over the place, and a beautiful mess and it was just her.
He looked at himself after a couple minutes, and saw that he was covered in hot chocolate, and he needed to go home and change. He smiled thinking about what an idiot she was, and what an idiot he was for daring her to do it. He looked at his phone, and it was a text from Blair. It read:
Where are you? Are you still coming by?
He typed up a quick response that read:
Be there soon.
Sareena was still running until she looked back, and realized she had run so far she was almost at Blair's house. She was a mess. Of course, you should have seen the other guy. So she decided that instead of making a trip back home, she has plenty of clothes at Blair's place, so she could just get dressed there. She was out of breath, so she really wished she had that hot chocolate right now. Then she thought about Nate, he was the one who made her want to be free, made her want to be crazy, and she really missed him. They hadn't been spending much time together, but she knew that no matter what they would get back in sync cause they were best friends, and nothing would ever tear them apart until the day each and every last one of the foursome faced the end, and that was the most comforting thought.
Sareena got to Blair's house, and rang the bell. Darota answered, "Miss. Sareena, you look like you feel on the ground 3 times." Laughing Sareena said, "It was a bit more than that. How are you?" "I'm good Miss. Sareena, Miss. Blair is in room, changing, she waiting for you." "Thank you Darota." Sareena flashed her own of her original smiles, which made anyone feel happiness.
Sareena went up to Blair's room, and opened the door. "Sareena, where have you been? We were supposed to go shopping remember, we're all meeting at the palace's pool tonight, and I don't have a single attractive swimsuit." Sareena glanced at Blair's bed that was so spread with swimsuits, that she couldn't even see much of her bed sheets anymore. "Well, I bought you breakfast so that could save us some time." She chuckled. "And why do you look like that, like you should dipped in the toxic-pool dirt, and mud. And tried to make it look like a trend. No sweetie, dirt is not cool, we went over this in the first grade S!"
Sareena started laughing, "Sorry, I was just hanging out with Nate, and we were playing in the park, and I got messy." She curled her lips to make a sad face. "You were with Nate?" Blair asked intrigued. Sareena then realized that her being around Nate alone, no matter how much time had passed, would maybe not be a problem but would still make Blair insecure. "Yeah, we ran into each other outside of Tiffany's. Coincidently, we were both buying you breakfast." It comforted her knowing that Nate was buying her breakfast, which meant that he would care if she starved, or not. Blair laughed and said, "Oh, that's great – Now my best friend and my boyfriend want me to get fat." Sareena giggled and said, "That's exactly it."
So while Sareena was going to a part of the closet that had Sareena's clothes, Blair asked, "Is Nate coming?" Sareena stuck her head out the closet and said, "I don't know, did you ask him?" "Yeah, but he's so late I think he forgot." Sareena then shyly said, "Umm.. I think that would be my fault. You see Nate dared me to throw my drink at him, and you know how much I hate feeling like I can't do something so I did it. He was a mess, he's probably at home changed." "Was it coffee?" Blair asked. "Hot chocolate." "Hot chocolate?! He better not have any burn marks, or it's me, you, and a heavy hammer." Sareena died of laughter and said, "You know the worst part? It sounds like you're serious."
Sareena changed into dark blue skinny jeans, a white tank top, and a navy blue cardigan on top, and she accessorized with silver hoops. There was a knock at Blair's door, and she opened it. Sareena was still in the closet so she only heard Blair exclaim, "Nate!" When she looked out, she saw them kissing and she was up against the wall. "Hey Nate." She casually called out, and he immediately stopped. "Sareena, hi." He heard her, but he couldn't see her. She came out the closet and said, "I really think I should buy one too, cause I have nothing to wear." Blair looked from Sareena to Nate and said, "You're coming to the palace's pool tonight, right?" "Yeah." He said.
She smiled, and said, "Okay, me and Sareena are going shopping would you like to join us." Then her phone vibrated; there was a text message from Chuck Bass reading:
I miss you, when can I see you again?
She closed her phone before Nate saw it, and got mad. I just have to make a quick call, I'll be right back, and she stepped out the room. When she was in her living room, she called Chuck. "Can't resist me, can you?" Chuck said smugly. "Yuck Basstard, what the hell do you want?" she said impatiently. "You know what I want." She could hear him smiling through the phone. "No Chuck, You know I had strong feelings for you, but you played too many games. This has got to stop, you have got to stop. I'm really happy with Nate, and I don't want you messing it up for me this time. We said we were going to be friends, and if you can't respect, than we won't even be that. Bye." She hung up her phone. She knows she has feelings for him, but she finally found something stable with Nate.
Before she could go back into her room, she got another text from Chuck:
It's only a matter of time. See you tonight.
She just looked at it, and didn't respond. Blair would always have feelings for Chuck, he was danger, mystery, and excitement, but right now – she was with Nate, and he was sure as hell going to accept it. Blair walked into her room, and grabbed Nate and kissed him, and Sareena stood there. It was kind of weird to see them kiss, and she felt some form of jealousy. Nate looked at Sareena right after he pulled away, and than back at Blair. She smiled, and felt the spark and grabbed Sareena's hand and said, "We'll talk to you later Nate, we're going to go shopping. Wait, are you coming?"
He thought about it for a second and said, "No, I'm going to go hang out with Chuck." Blair felt uneasy at the thought, but what could she say? "Alright, see you tonight, and they shared a quick peck." All the while, Sareena kept looking back, and Nate kept looking right at her ..
PARTY NEXT CHAPTER .