Author's Note: This is a GG fanfiction and also a Chuck Bass fanfiction. There will be no Chair. And I'm excited because I'm going to be writing interesting ships that I've always been curious to write about.
Eventual : Nate/Jenny. MAYBE a little Dan/Blair (not sure yet which couples will end up with who yet, besides my own character. I'm not sure yet who Serena will be paired off with. She might end up with either Nate or Dan, maybe someone else, who knows. Lol.
I don't care for Vanessa's character, so I'm not worrying about her love life at the moment.
I have never read a story like this before. If there is one similar to any of it then it is merely a coincidence. I'm not one to copy other's work.
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy. (:
Also as a disclaimer I do not own Gossip Girl. I'm just obsessed with the television show.
Chapter One:
Elisa's bright green eyes flutter open as the sun light drifts through the large window beside her bed.
The young girl instinctively wipes her sleep filled eyes with the palms of her hands. She looks up and in shock, as she finds a tall blond sleeping in the chair beside her bed.
Elisa sits up and leans her back against the head board letting the white sheets fall comfortably on her lap. Leaning over she grabs the older girl's knee and shakes it gently.
"Serena, hey. Wake up."
After a couple more shakes Serena awakes from her deep slumber. Smiling sleepily towards her younger brunette hair colored sibling.
"Elisa, hey! How are you?" She speaks up, completely awake now as she sits up in the chair straightening out her back.
Elisa gives her a knowing look and a half-hearted shrug. "I've been better."
"'Lis, I know I've been a terrible sister. I'm so happy to see you."
That was all Serena can say at the moment. She knew she had problems she had to fix with her two younger siblings, yet she didn't know how or what to say to them exactly. Especially since she felt as if it was too late to fix anything between her and Elisa now.
There was silence for a long moment before Elisa finally replied.
"Everyone must be wondering why you're back."
Elisa knew that rumors must be spreading around on Gossip Girl this very moment. Everyone wondering why the Serena van der Woodsen had came back after being gone all this time. To be fairly honest, Elisa herself is a little surprised to see Serena came home so quickly after the...incident.
Serena nodded, "Yeah, but none of them mentioned you."
"Just like Mom wants, right?"
Their Mother Lily enters the room, catching Elisa's comment. She's a tall blond woman with wide eyes an intimidating calmness that simply radiated off of her.
"What do I want, baby? For Serena sleeping in her own bed, like Eric is. Possibly wearing pajamas."
Serena responded, oblivious to Elisa looking down at her interlocked fingers sadly. "Morning, Mom. I was just about to ask the doctors if I can take Elisa to breakfast. Want to come?"
"Uhm, what I think I'll do is get her a croissant down the street." Lily replied, her voice even and calm. She leaves the room and an angry Serena storms after her.
"Serena, don't!" Elisa exclaims as the doors shuts behind her older sister, leaving her suddenly all alone. Again.
After walking down the hallway fairly quickly, Serena had caught up to her mother.
"Let me guess. You told everyone Elisa is visiting Grandpa in Rhode Island." Serena glares at her mother, crossing her arms above her chest.
"Your Aunt Carol in Miami." admitted Lily.
Elisa has been staying at this Ostroff Center for rehabilitation for a couple weeks now. As far as she knows, Elisa barely gets to leave her room and has been hiding there ever since she left the hospital.
Serena gasps. She can't believe her own mother is treating her sister like this. "So you're actually hiding her. She tries to take her own life and you're worried it will cost you Mom of the year?" she spat.
Lily glares at her oldest daughter. Disapproving of the attitude she is receiving from her. "Serena, you've been gone. Doing who knows what with God knows who-"
"I told you. Boarding school was not like that."
Lily sighs. It was clear to Serena now, how stressed her mother has been lately. "As happy I am to have you home, you have no idea what it's been like."
"How is Eric dealing with all this?" Serena asks. She hasn't seen or talked to Eric yet since she's been back.
Lily closes her eyes for a second. Rubbing the creases on her forehead, soothing what looked to be a tension headache.
"Eric's been avoiding coming to see her. He feels guilty. He's sent her flowers every few days now since she's been admitted, but that's the only form of contact he gives her." A sad frown now upon her lips.
Serena's eyebrows crease together in confusion. "Guilty? Why would he be guilty?"
"Eric has been off doing his own thing since you've been gone. He's been secretive lately and was never around much. I mean, they're twins and he feels like he hasn't been taking care of her like he should have. He was the one who found her in the..." Lily trailed off, suddenly not able to say the words. She couldn't speak of the worst day of her life. She didn't want to relive it again.
Serena shook her head, feeling tears well up in her eyes. She remembers the dreadful phone call she received from her little brother that day. The way his voice cracked over the phone, and how he couldn't explain what he had seen because he would break into a sob. It was the first time she had heard from him in months. And she is sad to say that it was about her sister dying, that made her brother call her one late afternoon.
She sniffed, wiped her nose with a tissue in her purse. Her and Lily were silent for a lone while. Until Serena finally got the courage to ask her.
"Do you know why she...?"she trailed off, not wanting to say those words.
Lily was staring down at the ground. Her eyes filled with pain and sorrow. Something so serious, that Serena has never seen before in her mother's eyes.
"She felt alone."
The next day while Elisa is in the room by herself, reading a Vogue magazine, Serena walks in with a broad smile on her face.
"I talked to the nurse and I'm kidnapping you."
Elisa's green eyes widen. A feeling of excitement and fear well up in her all at once. Feelings she hasn't felt in a very long time.
"We're going shopping. Aren't we?" Elisa asks, laughing lightly. Oh, how good it felt to laugh again!
"We're going to Wendells. Just for an hour though. I've had a bad day." Serena explains as she smiles, glad to see her sister laugh again.
"Really? Cause I had a great day. A couple of pills, a Vogue magazine was given to me by mother, and they had this green jelly for lunch." spoken sarcastically by Elisa.
"Mmm. Yummy. Come on, lets go before Mom shows up."
Serena drags Elisa out of bed and Elisa gets dressed in skinny jeans, a white tank top, and a gray cardigan that was given to her by Serena.
Elisa honestly didn't know how she felt being back with her sister again. A part of her was still angry at her for leaving and wasn't ready to forgive her yet. But another part of her is really happy that Serena is at least trying with her and is showing that she is here for her. She decided to simply put her emotions on hold for a moment and just spend a nice afternoon with her sister.
Walking into Wendells, Elisa and Serena take a look around. Both oohing and awing and the fabulous dresses.
Serena glanced at the dresses, telling her which ones she wanted to try on not bothering to glance at the prices. The two of them had enough money to buy hundreds of dresses if they wanted to.
"How was boarding school?" Elisa decides to try to make small talk so that this evening doesn't turn out as awkward as she suddenly started to feel.
Serena smiles slightly. "It was alright. Nothing like home, that's for sure."
"Have you seen Blair or any of your other friends yet?" Elisa asked, slightly envious of her sister's freedom, but at the same time she knew she wasn't ready to face a bunch of people yet.
Serena sighed before explaining everything to Elisa about what happened when going over to Blair's house during her mother's party and what had happened earlier that day in Serena's first day back at Constance-their rich-fancy private school.
Elisa is a freshman along with her twin brother while Serena is a junior. Elisa hadn't started school there yet since she has been at the center.
Serena's best friend Blair seems to be giving her a hard time because she had gone away, without much of a phone call or a letter explaining her departure.
Elisa nodded her head as she glanced at few short violet colored dresses with spaghetti straps. A frown now making it's way to her face when she realizes she can never wear a dress like that.
Serena, now noticing her sister's frown, raises a questioning eyebrow her way. "Elisa, are you okay? What's wrong?"
Elisa absentmindedly scratches her left forearm as she continues to stare at the violet colored dresses. When she feels Serena's cold hand now over hers, she backs away quickly. Shaking herself out of her reverie.
"No-nothing." The younger girl stutters out as she walks away and continues to glance at more dresses, as if nothing had just happened.
Serena opens her mouth to question her but stops when the two of them hear a loud voice from across the store.
"Hi, Serena!" The two sisters look over to seen a tall skinny blond who looked to be about Elisa's age.
"Hey, Jenny, right?" Serena asks as she walks over to the girl, leaving Elisa confused that Serena knew the younger girl.
The girl now known as Jenny nods her head, "Yeah."
Serena gestures towards Elisa. "This is my..."
"Stylist and personal shopper. Elisa, hi." Elisa introduced herself, laughing lightly.
Jenny turns around and then turns right back to face them with an odd look on her face. She was carrying a pretty dress in her hand.
"So, is that your dress for the Kiss on the Lips Party?" Serena asked her while Elisa mentally frowned. Jenny was going?
Jenny shrugged. "Sort of. Speaking of that." Jenny hands Serena an invitation. "Here, I made you one during free period, but if anyone asks, I know nothing."
Elisa laughed lightly and Serena smiled.
"Thanks." she told Jenny.
Elisa and Serena start to walk away, but Serena stops and turns back around to tell the young freshman. "Jenny, that dress would look even better in black."
Walking out of Wendells quickly, hoping to get back to the center before their mother gets there, Elisa accidentally bumps into someone who was passing by quickly on the street.
"Hey, watch it-" the stranger starts to say until his dark black eyes meet the light green hazel ones. A feeling of familiarity reaches him.
A wide smirk reaches the corner of the familiar man's lips. Suddenly Elisa feels sick to her stomach and Serena groaned aloud at their bad luck.
"What are the odds we'd bump into Chuck." Serena grumbled under her breath.
"Well, well, well. What's little van der Woodsen doing in Manhattan? I thought you were in Miami?" Her narrowed his eyes questioningly. Causing Elisa to quickly feel uneasy.
"Uh..." Serena's mouth was gaped and she couldn't think of anything quick enough to say.
Luckily for her, Elisa had been thinking of a cover up incase of getting caught by someone they know the moment she left the center.
"My Aunt Carol has business here in New York. I'm just visiting and heard Serena was in town again so we came to Wendells to shop for an hour for some bonding time. My flight leaves tonight and I return back to Miami with my Aunt."
Chuck looked like he didn't buy a word Elisa had just said.
He sneered down at her, "Why are you staying in Miami anyway?" he asked. He hadn't heard the reason for her stay there from anyone. No one seemed to know why both the van der Woodsen sisters aren't staying in the Big Apple.
Elisa gulped. She hadn't expected that question. "Just wanted to visit my Aunt. I didn't want to stay at The Palace for the time being with my mom and sister while we're renovating."
Chuck scoffed, "What's so wrong about The Palace?" he said, clearly offended by her remark of his father's hotel.
Chuck Bass in the definition of trust fund play boy. He's slept with half of Manhattan- at the least- and rides a long stretch black limo every day to school. He's a junior like Serena and they've all known each other practically all their lives. They're acquaintances'-at the most.
"Nothing." Elisa replied back cooly. "I just didn't want to be under the same roof of scum like you." with that, Elisa bumped his shoulder purposely and walked off down the street. Never turning to look back.
Serena follows her sister quickly, not looking in Chuck's direction. Even though she knew, without having to look back behind her, that he was glaring daggers at the both of them.
Spotted: Little E back in the upper East Side. What are you and S hiding? I'll be the first to know. You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl