He is with a girl. She is one of those too happy, too optimistic, too radiant girls that Blair always hated. She isn't exactly like Serena. She is worse. The girl seems like a Vogue model – her hair is messy and is light ginger, some hideous rhinestones are sparkling in between her ginger locks, her eyes are catty green, her lips are full and she has freckles over her nose. If she would have seen her in a magazine, she'd liked her looks. Now she can't help but loath her existence.
It's a silly garden party, people are dull and annoying as always, or maybe it's just this party, Blair can't really tell. She is alone there. Chuck and she had their little agreement. She has to wait for him to win back his Empire and in meanwhile to become a powerful woman. She is goddamn tired from her own self and all the repetitive bullshit her life has become. Chuck doesn't know that she already gave up on his Empire State Building ego, and couldn't care less about him, or them or anyone in general.
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When he turns around, she hides behind people so he won't see her. Blair Waldorf never runs or hides from anyone, and what she is doing now is something she can't explain. She goes to the bathroom, locks herself in the cabin and decides to stay there for a while in hope that when she goes back, he won't be there.
Look at this - she thinks. Blair Waldorf hiding in the ladies room, sitting in an expensive silk on a toilette seat like a mediocre teenager. But she doesn't make a move. She keeps sitting in there and when someone gets inside the bathroom, she instinctively raises her feet up, resting them on the wall, so whoever is outside won't notice her.
There are two girls outside the cabin, she can tell. They talk something she doesn't care about, when one of them (the one with the annoying high pitched voice) mentions Dan. Her eyes widen and she turns her head a bit to the direction that the voice is coming from, so she can hear well. Dan…something, this, that…Blair can't really hear good. Once door is closed, the girls start to talk a bit louder.
"He came back from Europe?" – One of them says.
"Yes, he went there to some writers' stuff, you know, to get inspired." – The other one says, and Blair can tell it's the ginger.
"So how did you two hooked up?"
"My agent is friends with his agent, so she told her that he was single, and we were on a party you know…" – The girl giggles.
"I so envy you…He's brutally hot" – Blair raises an eyebrow and pouts. She desperately wants to go out and pull their hair, but she keeps quiet inside.
"Ah, and the sex is ah-ma-zing" – She divides the last word in syllables.
"I've heard already, from other people" – The other one teases. Blair widens her eyes and this time is really hard for her to keep herself inside.
"Who did you heard from?"
"Georgina Sparks. Serena van der Woodsen…right before she vanished somewhere in California so she can use drug in peace" – They're giggling and Blair bites her lips in order not to scream.
"What happened between him and that one…" – That one, rings in Blair's head and she is biting her fist in order not to explode.
"She is in Europe. I think she married a Prince or some blue blood."
"Didn't she divorce him? So Kim Kardashian" – They chuckle and Blair is beyond offended to be compared to a television dumb personality. She is angry and tears are burning her eyes caused from anger and jealousy. There is a phone that rings, and one of them talks quieter and Blair almost fails from the toilette seat in order to hear her better.
"Let's go, Dan wants us to leave. He's so gonna be surprised to see that I don't wear anything under the dress." – Her friend does some annoying amused sound, which makes Blair even more pissed off. – "He said he had a thing for elevators, so I'm gonna give him a nice hot sex in the first elevator that comes our way." – Her accent doesn't sound like she's from New York, but Blair can't really think and analyze that right now. All she knows is that she has to get out of there and just scream and scream, or maybe slap him. Once the girls are out, she kicks the cabin door with her Jimmy Choos, gets out all claustrophobic, furious like never before and all she wants is to find that stupid ginger and make her suffer. Inner Queen B swims on the surface and Blair is ready to fuck things up. She inhales deep, applies a coat of her red lip gloss, puts on her bitch face and laves the bathroom.
People are staring at her, she can tell. It's not the dress (perfectly couture Ellie Saab), or her loose spiral curls, nor her flawless make up. She walks as she owns the place, her chin is up and she forgot how good it felt to see their admiration mixed with fear and respect. She walks among them and they are moving aside to make way for her.
Blair Wladorf, distilled into one 95 pound, doe-eyed, red lipped, label whore, walks past them and spots Dan standing by the bar with the ginger who is whispering something into his ear. She can imagine what she tells him and it causes a smirk on his face, which causes nausea in her guts. But she keeps walking and then he sees her. The light scoff turns into confused face and right before he or his leggy girlfriend can say anything, she stops in front of him, not paying attention to the girl and slaps him so hard, the entire party dies from the sound. People are staring at them, the ginger has her mouth on the floor, and his head is still turned aside, his eyes closed in pain. The silence is incredible, even the music is quiet. She stands in front of him gloating and with a proud smile, till he pulls himself together and looks at her. She doesn't say anything, she just looks at him, then turns around and walks away.
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The party slowly comes back to life, seconds after Blair leaves the garden. The ginger girl demands him to say anything, to answer if that is that girl he dated before. He doesn't say anything. His cheek hurts like hell and once Blair is out of sight, and people are talking a bit louder, he heads to the exit. Luckily, he spots Blair, walking down the empty hall as if nothing happened.
"Waldorf!" – He shouts and she stops walking, turns around on her heel and she has a polite smile on her face. He walks to her, and she can see the red print of her hand still burning on his cheek.
"That was for Serena and Georgina and because your ugly girlfriend compared me with Kim Kardashian. Oh and you had a thing for elevators? Really Humphrey? I put embargo on elevators. I hope you won't ever be able to have sex in any elevator without my face coming in front of you. Good luck with that!" – She says in one breath still not losing her polite smile. He listens to her and when she is done he just sighs loudly.
"You have spent too much time with that Basstard of yours, now you act just like him. Mind if I remind you, you left me. What I do now is none of your business!"
Blair smiles ironically and goes a step closer.
"You might be right." – She says. With the corner of her eye she notices the furious walk of the ginger girl and when she spots Dan and Blair in the hallway she starts walking faster. Too bad Blair had intention to argue with Dan. Now she tells herself, she has to do the next best thing. She waits for the ginger to get close enough, like five steps close and she grabs Dan's face and kisses him like she never kissed anyone before. At first she has her eyes open just to see the ginger's face. She can tell Dan is confused and doesn't respond right away, but when she runs her nails down his neck he puts his hands around her waist and Blair finally shuts her eyes. The rest of the world doesn't matter anymore.
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When she opens her eyes, she can't tell if anyone is around, she just stares into his eyes and she can swear she sees his pupils getting wider.
"Just so you know…" – She whispers. – "Your girlfriend brags that she doesn't wear her underwear." – He doesn't understand her words, but it doesn't matter, because he isn't sure if he can hear her words, because the adrenalin in his body does miraculously crazy job. – "There, I ruined your surprise!" – She says and pushes him lightly away from her. Dan stands there alone in the hallway, watching her black gown floating around her while she walks out the door.