A/N: Hi, just want to let people know I just updated this chapter :) Thanks to everyone that sent me private messages for suggestions and help! I really appreciate it. So I just wanted to explain a few things. This AU takes place before 5X24 in Gossip Girl and has an alternative ending to the episode. Blair has a heart to heart conversation with her mother and is trying to decide who she wants to be with: Dan or Chuck. Blair's mother gives her advice and tells her to pick who makes her the best and she decides to be with Chuck. Afterwards her mothers tells Blair that she's moving the company to Paris and asks if Blair want to take over. Blair agrees and wants a second shot with Chuck. She meets up with Chuck and confesses that she's still in love with him. Chuck tells her his feelings as well and she tells him about her plans moving to Paris. Chuck looks disappointed but she meets his gaze and asks if he would go with her. At first Chuck hesitates but in the end he agrees to go. When he goes home to pack his bags, his father convinces him to stay and run the company. The next day, Blair is waiting at the airport for him and leaves without him.
Prologue
It was a typical morning for Chuck; he got out of bed and left the hot blonde sleeping. Took a quick shower and ordered room service for breakfast. Chuck was eating his breakfast in the living room and looked through the paper. He stopped when he saw those two words "Blair Waldorf". There was a smile on his face by the time he finished the article.
Blair Waldorf surprises everyone with the new collection, once a falling designer has quickly risen to the top again.
Chuck always knew that she could succeed in her mother's footstep. He folded the newspaper and finished eating. The blonde from last night came out of the bedroom and began rubbing her head. It was probably a hangover. Chuck and she have been drinking all last night and when they arrived at his penthouse they finished a bottle of vodka.
"Did you want breakfast?" Chuck asked as he pointed to the plate across from him with his fork. The girl looked over at the food and shook her head.
"No I'm just going to go home" she said as smiled.
Chuck was about to get up when the girl said she can walk herself out. That was the first time a girl offered to walk herself out. He looked at the time and had to get ready for work now. When he arrived at Bass Industries, Serena was sitting at his desk already.
"What can I do for you sis?" he asked.
"Blair came back from Paris" she said as he sat down at his desk.
The last time he's seen Blair was five years ago and they ended on a terrible note. On the last day she was in the Upper East Side she asked Chuck if he wanted to come to Paris with her. Blair was waiting for him at the airport and he never showed up. He regretted his decision but in the past five years he never jumped on a plane to find her.
"Okay" he said quietly.
"Don't you want to see her?" Serena asked.
"I just don't think she wants to see me" Chuck said as he clenched his fist.
"Here" she said as she handed him an envelope.
"What's this?"
"It's an invitation to her fashion show" she said.
"I don't think that's a good idea", he tried handing the invitation back but Serena wouldn't accept it.
"Keep it, even if you guys ended horribly, I still think she would want to be friends again" Serena said as she left his office.
He tossed the invitation on his desk and looked out the window. There were many things that went through his head. The one that appeared the most was a "what if" question. What if I did go to Paris with her? He had imagined so many scenarios that some of them even repeated each other. Blair even appeared in his dreams sometimes, reminding him what he lost. Chuck picked up the invitation and looked at it again. He decided he'll go but he won't say a word to her. That privilege has been revoked.
