Disclaimer: I do not own Gossip Girl. If I did Nate and Jenny would already be together.
I walked through the gate and was greeted by one of the greatest sights in the world.
"Aunt Jenny!" Squealed my adorable nephew. He ran over to me and I dropped my bags and lowered myself to the ground to pick him up and spun him around in a circle.
"Hi handsome!" I exclaimed loudly, giving him a kiss on the cheek. He pretended to wipe it off and muttered gross under his breath. "Where's your dad?" He rolled his eyes and pointed behind him and I looked over his shoulder to see my brother running towards us with a book bag in his one hand, a caramel latte in the other and a wide smile on his face. I couldn't help but return it with one of my own. I lowered my nephew to the ground and stood up to hug him.
"Hey Jen," he greeted, looking me over to see if I'd changed in the two weeks since I last saw him.
"Hi Dan. So Will just get out of school?" I asked picking up my discarded bags and grabbing the latte and taking a sip of it before he could protest. Dan just shook his head at me.
"What gave it away, the book bag in my hand or the gleeful expression on his face?" he asked sarcastically.
"Ah. There's that Humphrey sarcasm. Hopefully Will takes after his aunt Jenny and will be immune to its seductive powers," I said wiggling my fingers in front of me.
Dan just shook his head and called me a weirdo while taking my bags from me and opening the door to the cab for me and helping me slide in first, then helping Will get in the middle before putting my bags in the trunk and getting in himself. I gave the driver the address and we started the short ride to Brooklyn.
"So Jen how's the boyfriend?" Dan asked after a short silence.
"He's great. He's moving up in a few weeks after visiting his parents in Pittsburg." I was trying not to get to excited about the thought of what I have planned for when he gets here. I could tell I failed when Dan rolled his eyes at me. Will was apparently transfixed by the sights outside the window from where he was leaning over his dads lap and appeared to be pretty oblivious to anything we were talking about.
"I thought Ana was supposed to be with you," said Dan referring to my roommate/best friend who was supposed to arrive with me today.
"She should be getting in later tonight, provided she doesn't get distracted by pretty things in store windows. Apparently she had a few last minute errands to run which is code for a sale at Copper Penny,"
I said as the cab pulled up to my building. We paid the cabbie, got my bags out of the trunk and walked together up the steps to the main door. We entered the building and walked up the stairs to the door of my apartment.
"I can't believe you were able to get this place," Dan said putting my bags down while observing the loft that had been our childhood home and Dan place in college before he couldn't afford it and Will's baby stuff and had to much pride to ask dad for money.
"Just got lucky," I said looking around and couldn't help getting caught up in the feeling of nostalgia I got looking around at the only place I ever felt was home. "Can you believe it still looks the same?" I asked him. "Albeit without furniture to give it that homey touch." I added quickly.
"Yeah," he chuckled. "I can almost smell dad's chili." He said. I felt a wave of sadness hit me at the thought of my father. I'd like to say that my moving away improved our relationship, but I'd be lying. While my relationship with Dan was better than ever, I couldn't say the same for my relationship with my father.
"Yeah, me too," I said trying to hide the quiver in my voice. "Hey, Will you want to see the balcony?" I asked quickly trying to change the subject.
"Can I dad? Can I?" Will asked excitedly.
"Sure son," Dan said, clearly catching on to me changing the subject and gave me a sad smile that I returned. I hate feeling pitied when people hear about the situation with my father but Dan's the only one that knows the whole story and I'll always be secretly thankful that he chose my side in the argument that lost him a father too.
A/N: Okay so this was a completely different from what I originally wrote for this chapter but I'm definately happier with this one than the original. Also in case your wondering why Amanda Seyfried is in the banner (if you look at them on my profile) well I see her as the older more mature Jenny and not that I don't love Taylor Momsen I just don't really like her look right now. So what did you think of this chapter?