Chapter 1:

"Come on, B" Serena Van der Woodsen yelled up the winding staircase of the Waldorf's pent house. "We're going to be late!"

Blair sighed from her expanse room manically looking for her new pair of Jimmy Choo sandals, the ones her father and his partner, Roman had shipped in from France.

"Are these what you're looking for?" Serena asked from behind her, eyebrows raised. Dangling from her long manicured fingers were the shoes Blair, was so desperately searching for.

"Yes! Omigod, S, what would I do without you?" Blair asked, snatching the shoes out of Serena's grasp and throwing them into one of the many Louis Vuitton suitcases laying by her feet.

"Hey there," Tyler, Blair's little brother, said from the doorway.

"What do you want you little creep?" Blair demanded, her hands on her thin hips.

"Oh nothing…" Tyler said, "so do you have room in the limo for me?"

Blair laughed in his face, "I don't think so, little bro." She said haughtily. "Looks like your stuck going with mom, Cyrus, the baby"

Cyrus Rose is her mothers fairly recent husband, and the baby in question is the little demon spawn; Yale, whom they produced in less than a month after the wedding.

"Ugh…" Tyler moaned, "Aaron won't even be there till July!"

Who is Aaron you may ask, Blair and Tyler's stepbrother. Cute and a total sweetheart, it was hard for even Blair to hate him.

"Sorry big guy," Serena said ruffling his brown hair, as she and Blair shuffled out of her room, luggage in hand.

Together Blair and Serena got all of her stuff out the door and into the limo where Chuck was waiting for them with a devilish smile played out on his shaving cream commercial handsome face.

"Ladies…." Chuck bellowed as they slid into the buttery leather seats of the limo.

"Blair," He nodded, "sis," He nodded again.

Blair smiled across at Chuck fighting the urge to touch him. It's been three months since she and Nate had broken up and surprisingly she was totally over it.

"Ready to celebrate?" He asked pulling out a flask of vodka.

"Chuck, it's nine in the morning," Serena said as her iPhone let out a soft chime. She pulled it out of her white limited-edition Chloe bag. The screen read 1 new txt: Dan, she lightly tapped the screen bringing up the message.

I miss u alrdy! Cant w8t till Aug.

Love you,

D

"Aw," Serena sighed, quickly typing back.

Me 2 I'm countin the days.

I love you too!

- S

"Dab," Blair said simply rolling her eyes to Chuck who laughed. Blair's stomach tingled, god did she love Chucks laugh! She could listen to it all day everyday.

Suddenly energized Serena cranked up the song Superstar by Lupe Fiasco and grabbed the flask out of Chucks hand, greedily taking a sip.

"Woo!" She yelled grabbing all the available bottles of liquor in the limo.

This would be one hell of a ride.

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A half hour later she was fast asleep. Serena was never a lightweight in the drinking department so Blair and Chuck decided she was just tired.

Blair was staring out the window when she felt a warm hand on her knee. Surprised she looked up to see Chuck contently watching her. She was going to push him away like she did after she and Nate broke up but when she looked into his dark brown eyes a sense of comfort—she didn't feel too often—washed over her and she found herself moving closer to him, letting him past the iron gates guarding her heart.

"Blair," he murmured. The way her name rolled off his tongue made Blair want him to say it forever.

Blair nodded.

Chuck pushed back a wavy brown lock of hair off her face, then slowly slid his finger down her cheek, sending shivers down her spine.

Before either of them knew what they were doing they were kissing, and it felt so right and familiar but different at the same time and so safe yet dangerous. Which had to be the sexiest combinations of all.

"I've wanted this for so long." Chuck whispered, their foreheads pressed together.

It was so unlike Chuck that Blair found herself wondering if this was some odd dream. Then they were kissing again and the butterflies in her stomach were telling her this is no dream.

When they pulled away again Blair huskily whispered, "me too." Surprising both herself and Chuck.

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"But mom, I'm supposed to be staying at our place in Georgica Pond all summer," Nate said which was mostly true: Yes, he'd be in Georgica Pond in the Hamptons. No, he will be staying with Chuck and the rest of the gang at Chuck's place.

"Sweetheart, your father just went through an extremely hard time. I think you should spend some time with him. You know building boats on the Cape."

Nate smiled wanly at himself remembering when he and Blair talked about their future and how they would have three golden haired, blued eyed boys who would all help their father—Nate—build ships.

Then he realized he was thinking about Blair again and not his beautiful curly haired girlfriend, Vanessa Abrams.

"I don't know," Nate said finally.

"I think it would be nice but do whatever you think is right." His mother said as she fastened a diamond necklace around her long graceful neck.

Nate nodded.

"Okay we're off to the opera, now. Ciao baby." She said before kissing his cheek and heading out the door.

Nate sighed and headed to his wing of the family's brownstone on 5th and Park.

He threw himself onto the bed, instantly looking to his left where above his desk hung a corkboard with everything from his lacrosse schedule to random pictures, were tacked.

On the lower right hand corner was a picture of him, Serena and Blair in front of the Eiffel tower, two years ago. He and Blair's hands were entwined and they both had a bright glint in their eyes, Serena was on the other side of Nate striking a sultry pose her hip jutted out and her lips were in a sexy pink pout. Ever since getting together with Vanessa they hadn't hung out all that much. Then he made up his mind. He called Vanessa and told her to pack a months worth of clothing and that a car would pick her up. His second call was to Chuck telling him that he'd be there before it got dark.

Looks like we know where this golden haired boy has his priorities.

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"Dad! I'm going out with Erik," Jenny Humphrey yelled grabbing her new Botkier handbag and headed out the door of their old spacious apartment.

Erik was waiting with a white rose a town car parked behind him.

"Hi!" jenny greeted him jumping into his outstretched arms, his clean smell making her never want to let go.

"for you," he said handing her the fully bloomed flower.

"Thank you," she replied as they got into the car.

"where are we going?" She asked as they pulled off her street.

"you'll see," Erik promised and kissed her hand.

After five minutes the car pulled up to Sheep Meadow in Central Park.

"Thanks, Roger," Erik thanked his driver. "Be back in an hour and a half."

"Yes sir," Roger replied with a tip of his hat.

"Come on," He said as the car pulled away, taking Jenny's arm.

After a little while they reached a clearing, revealing a big cashmere Hermes blanket, and a picnic basket.

Jenny looked at Erik eyes wide he nodded. "Aw, Erik!" Jenny gushed, "this is SO nice!"

Erik smiled, "I'm glad you like it." Then he planted a soft kiss on her lips.

He opened the picnic basket and took out a gourmet selection of deli items, pomegranate soda, and cupcakes from The Magnolia Bakery in the village. They dug into their yummy lunch, talking and kissing.

"Jenny," Erik said seriously. Once he had her attention he continued, "I'm going to be in California all summer."

Jenny was so surprised she nearly chocked on her sandwich. "What?" She sputtered. "Why? With who?"

"My mom and Bart want to travel Europe—for the trillionth time—this summer. So I'm going to be staying with my dad and step-mom in L.A."

Jenny just stared at him. A whole summer without him? By herself. "But Serena doesn't have to go to L.A"

"Yea well my mom thinks I need 'adult supervision' considering—well, you know." Erik said a shadow of sadness clouding his beautiful gray-blue eyes.

Jenny nodded, "When are you leaving?" she asked.

"Tomorrow morning." He answered sadly.

She was going to slump and be depressed when her inner- Serena came out. "Looks like we better get busy then," She said a mischievous glint in her sparkling eyes.

Poor J, do you think she can handle a whole summer alone? Or will her wild-child streak stick its ugly head out again? You know I love a good scandal!

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Vanessa Abrams just got off the phone with her recent boyfriend, Nathaniel Archibald; emerald eyed hottie and the Upper east Sides golden boy, captain of the St. Jude lacrosse team and best friend of Blair Waldorf (Rose) and Serena Van der Woodsen. But to always cool Vanessa the last part is nothing to get jealous about.

Don't we all wish we could be that self-confident and care free?

"Ruby!" Vanessa called to her sister.

"In here!" Vanessa called from what she called 'her studio'

Ruby is the lead singer of a band called 'Lady Luck'. She stood in the middle of the room clad in skinny leather pants, a bright red Ed Hardy tank top, and 4 inch heeled Loubutin stilettos strapped to her size eight feet. A microphone in her hands and her band behind her.

"What's up? She asked, as Vanessa entered the room.

"Nothing, well I'm not sure where I'm going but I'll call you when I do." Vanessa aid grabbing her bags.

"Ok. Love you, baby sis!" Ruby yelled.

Nate's town car was waiting for her outside, like he said.

"Miss. Abrams," The chauffer said.

"Where is Nate taking me?" She asked when all her stuff was placed in the trunk.

"Nathaniel, asked me not to tell you." He said robotically.

"Oh," Vanessa nodded.

In minutes they were in front of Nate's brownstone. Leaning against an Aston Martin convertible looking absolutely edible was Nate, wearing Brooke's Brothers khaki shorts, a navy blue Lacoste polo shirt and on his feet were a pair of worn brown leather boating shoes. Vanessa smiled at the gorgeous site. As soon the car parked she leaped out of the car and into Nate's arms.

"wow, I'm happy to see you too." Nate said jokingly.

Vanessa laughed. The question she'd been thinking since he called, escaped from her pretty pink lips, "Where are we going?

Nate smiled mischievously, "You'll see."

Together with the chauffer Nate got all of Vanessa's things into the back seat. Thankfully, unlike Blair, Vanessa was a light packer. When they were all buckled up in the front seat Nate gave her a small kiss and pulled off his block heading for the highway and a new adventure, leaving the boring city behind.

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Hey there! Gossip Girl with the latest dirt here:

Summer is finally here! We're all packing up our new Missoni bikinis and slipping on an oversized pair of Chanel sunglasses and jetting off to the best of the best vacation spots. Especially the always-chic Hamptons. B and S were spotted carrying tons of luggage into a limo and leaving the city with C. New lovebirds E and little J were spotted sharing a romantic lunch at Sheep Meadow. Things looked to be going great until E dropped some news, what you may ask? Well something about leaving the city poor J looked crushed. I think its safe to assume that this youngster will definitely become thee party girl of the summer. D? he's been in hiding only coming out for cheap coffee. If anyone has a scoop or spots anything you know where to find me.

You know you love me…….

Xoxo, Gossip Girl.