Chapter One- Home "sweet" home?

(This chapter is set episode 6. However, Vanessa does not exist.)

Lucy shrieked as she ran up the stairs in her old penthouse. Everything was just as she remembered it. She picked up a calendar and displayed it onto her wall. Perfect. Her floral walls and pink carpet looked very boho, as did the curtains over her bed. She giggled and ran over to her lip-shaped phone, as her maid, Senrita, unpacked her luggage.

"Hey?" The other caller said.

"Serena! It's Lucy!"

"Oh my God! How are you?"

"I am okay and back home!"

"Back home as in here, home?"

"Yes!"

"Oh my god!" She shrieked.

"Who is that?" Said a manly voice in the background.

"Dan, it's Lucy!" Serena cried out. Lucy held the phone away from her ear, to stop herself becoming deaf.

"Who is Dan?" She asked Serena.

"Well… he's my… boyfriend."

"Awesome! Now when is the next party?"

"Tonight actually! It is masquerade and you should totally come. I'll get Blair to put you on the list. I will email the details now. Bye!"

"See you later."

Lucy hung up her phone and jumped off her bed. Masquerade? What was she going to wear? She opened her closet and looked at the clothes her maid had just finished unpacking. She had nothing to wear that was decent.

"Dad I'm going shopping. You coming?" She shouted down the stairs.

"Yeah I guess I could treat you." He smiled and pulled on his coat.

"Great! I am going to a masquerade tonight!"

"Not that you're jetlagged at all…"

The club looked luxurious with curtains draped and masks decorating. Lucy looked around, but really, it was difficult to find anyone in a mask.

"Serena?" She called out, waiting for a reply. Then she spotted Blair; her mask was on a stick and was held towards the floor, not her face. Lucy hurried over.

"Blair!" Lucy pulled off her mask, revealing her face.

"L! Wow Serena said you were back but you look great!" They hugged for a second, until Serena came over.

"Wow L, I love the make-over!" The three girls giggled. A dark haired boy, his eyes covered by a black mask, stood there looking confused.

"Oh Dan, this is Lucy!" Serena introduced them and he waved, oddly.

"I love the party." Lucy said, admiring the decorations. It had always amazed her how wonderfully decorated the Upper-East-Side parties were, even when she was fourteen.

"Has anyone seen Nate? I made him a trail and it's almost midnight." Blair looked worried.

"I'm sure he will find you soon." Lucy comforted her, delirious of the fact Nate and Serena had slept with each other the previous summer. Blair glared at Serena, making the Blonde head and dark-haired boy quickly hurry away before the bomb exploded.

"What was that all about?" Lucy asked, tucking a curl behind her ear. She covered her face with her silver mask, hiding her identity, not that she was recognisable after three years anyway.

"Didn't you read on Gossip Girl? Nate slept with Serena. I told him I trusted him and he was going to make it up to me by following a trail. Now it's midnight and he still hasn't turned up." A tear rolled down Blair's cheek. Lucy hugged her old friend and pulled away.

"Hey, isn't that Nate?" A boy was taking off his half of a hold mask. He had the same emerald eyes and the same shiny brown hair as Lucy remembered.

"Hey Blair, who is your friend?"

"Nate, it's me Lucy! I am back for good!" I smiled, happily. Nate smiled but then looked at the upset brunette standing next to her.

"Blair, I'm sorry. Can we go home now?" He was fed up with the treasure hunt and wanted to go back to her house and start all over.

"It's gone midnight. It's too late Nate." Blair walked away, Nate rushing after her.

Boy had Upper-East-Side changed. All these couples smooching and dancing instead of trying out halter neck tops, skirts and make-up or playing soccer on the fields. Boys had always been afraid of dancing or kissing, but now everyone seemed so experienced.

A blonde-haired girl in a purple mask and yellow dress gracefully walked down the stairs from the roof. What had she been doing up there? She had a smirk on her face and hurried past, her hair flowing behind her as she disappeared out back.

Lucy sighed and walked up the stairs. The door to the roof opened with a creak and she could hear someone shouting.

"Someone help me please! Jenny Humphrey get your arse back here now! You can't leave me like this you bitch!" A boy shouted.

Lucy walked onto the roof and spotted someone wearing just a white vest and matching boxers. She laughed at the sight, but stopped when she realised who it was.

"Wow you've changed in the past three years!" She gasped; his brown, tame hair and brown eyes made her want to melt. He even had muscular arms and muscles visible through his vest.

"Lucy?" He gasped, attempting to cover himself up with his arms hugged around himself. Lucy took of her mask, revealing her identity.

"That's me!" She giggled. "Well this is interesting. I am not going to ask!"

"Please don't. Just get me my clothes. The bitch wouldn't have taken them too far."

Lucy walked off the roof, searching for Chuck's clothes. He gawped as she turned away, shaking her hips. She was hot! What ever happened to the tracksuit tomboy he had been practically best friends with? Her hair looked silky and angelically curled, she had a thin, curved figure and her eyes twinkled with eye shadow on her lids.

The girl returned a few minutes later holding Chuck's tuxedo and devil mask.

"Feeling horny, were you?" She laughed, knowing it was referring to the mask as well as what he had expected that Jenny girl to do with him. He smirked; did she always talk dirty?

"Well I have changed and matured whilst you were gone, in more ways than one." He pulled on his trousers and began to button up his shirt.

"And I do not want to hear it."

"Surely in London they all talk about their sex lives. I bet you've heard all kind of dirt from the princes."

Lucy shuddered at the thought, making Chuck laugh. He buttoned up his shirt and threw on his dinner jacket.

"I didn't talk to the princes or many boys to be honest. They were all arseholes."

"Slept with them then?" He laughed even harder. Lucy launched his mask at him, but he caught it before it hit his face.

"I'm not a whore, Chuck." She frowned.

"Great to have you back Adams." And with that he disappeared down the stairs and into the emptying club below.

Spotted: L making a grand entrance at the Masked Ball. Sleep with too many Princes and end up kicked out of England? Little J running out of the Ball like Cinderella. I thought the handmaiden wasn't invited. B and N leaving in seperate directions. Is B ever going to lose it?

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