Chapter Two:
What I've Done to You
It was noon and Anne kept looking up the stairs for Nate and London to come down. She walked back into the living room shaking her head. If they didn't wake up soon they wouldn't sleep that night and be ready for school tomorrow. Finally after the tenth time of looking up the stairs she climbed them. She knocked on Nate's door and got nothing in response.
"Nate? London?" She asked slowly opening the door. There they were just as she suspected curled up together on Nate's bed the TV blaring. She smiled and walked into the room, she found the remote clicking off the TV. "Nate?" she said shaking his shoulder. He blinked and stretched his arms above his head.
"Mom?" he asked as he looked up at her. London stirred next to him, and then she shot up looking at Anne with wide eyes. She relaxed once she remembered where she was and she looked down at Nate smiling.
"Morning." She mumbled collapsing into the pillow next to Nate.
"Actually its noon, London get up and get dressed I'm taking you down to the school and getting you registered." She turned to walk out the door as she heard Nate laugh. "Your coming with Nathaniel." She said as she closed the door.
"Ha ha." London said sitting up.
"You can't laugh at me." He said as he grabbed her by the waist and flipping her over him and tickling her.
"Okay, okay truce." She said laughing.
"Fine." He said sitting up and looking around his room. They had soda cans scattered around the room and both of their sweaters were thrown on the floor and their ice cream bowls lay forgotten on his desk. "Wow my room is a mess." He stated.
"And you get to clean it all by yourself." London said as she skipped to his private bathroom and locked the door. Nate sighed at the closed bathroom door and smiled. He really had missed her. He got off the bed and started to pick up the scattered soda cans. An hour later they were both showered dressed and primped well they were almost primped.
"Ow you just poked me in the eye." Nate whined.
"Oh stop complaining you big baby." London said as she squeezed more gel into her palm. "Turn around." She said he turned his back toward her and crossed his arms. London rubbed the gel into her hands and grabbed Nate's hair spiking the back. "Okay turn around." She said he stood there in between her legs pouting. London laughed at the look on his face as she styled his hair.
"It's not funny I was getting by great with my hair while you weren't here." He said. London shook her head.
"Yeah well you needed a new do, your old one was so outta style." She smiled. He smiled at her as she reached beside her to wash off her hands. She grabbed the hair dryer. "Okay turn around again." He did as he was commanded and London turned the dryer on low running her fingers through his hair making it a beautiful mess as she always use to say, he smiled at the memory. "Alright you are officially a-"
"Beautiful mess," He finished for her. She smiled at him and nodded. She jumped of the counter in front of him he didn't move.
"Nate," she said. He didn't say anything he just looked down at her. "What?" she asked. He leaned down and touched his lips to hers again. He pulled back and smiled at her. She looked uncomfortable she was looking anywhere but at him.
"Nothing," he whispered she looked back up and at him and he looked very pleased with himself. As hard as she tried not to she cracked a smiled and hit him in the stomach.
"Uh cheap shot." He smiled as he followed her out of the bathroom. She grabbed her purse off the bed and smiled at him over her shoulder. They walked down the stairs meeting Anne in the living room.
"Finally," she sighed as she noticed the teenagers. She grabbed her purse and put on her coat and walked out the front door. Nate put his hand out for London to follow and she smiled at him shaking her head hitting him in the stomach again as she passed him.
"Uh," he puffed rolling his eyes smiling as he followed her. They all got into the car and pulled up to the school 10 minutes later. They got out of the car and Anne started to walk toward the office, Nate started to follow when he noticed that London hadn't moved she was staring at the school with resentment. "Come on Princess." He smiled as he walked back over to her grabbing her arm. She gave him a pouty look as she let him drag her into the school.
"You know if I was staying with my mother I wouldn't have to come back to this god awful place." London said looking around her in disgust.
"If you were staying with your mother one of you would be dead already." He said sitting down on the bench outside the office. She stood in front of him giving him a smirk. "Does your mother even know that your back?" he asked smiling already knowing the answer.
"Yeah right," she said collapsing next to him. "I will be happy if I never hear, see, or speak to her again" she huffed blowing her hair out of her eyes.
"Oh come on L you can't really mean that." He said rolling his head toward her.
"Yes I do mean that." She said looking over at him. "The woman is crazy. You know that the only reason she found out about what happened to Kaden was because my grandmother forced me to call her." Nate's eyes went wide and he sat up to look at her better.
"Well what did she say?" he asked.
"What do you think she said?" London answered leaning her head back against the wall. After a few seconds he didn't answer so she rolled her head toward him and he gave her an expectant look. She huffed and looked back out in front of them. "She said 'it serves you right for spreading your legs before your married, did you even think about what this would do to me?' I hung up on her; haven't talked to her since." She explained. Nate wasn't that shocked; to be honest Julie Drake was a bitch and had become a slosh ever since London's father had killed himself 8 years ago. Julie was a closet alcoholic as London likes to put it; she hides it pretty good only a select few know about her habit. As long as Nate has known Julie he had never seen her show real affection toward her daughter. London says that Julie was jealous of her relationship with her father; Robert Drake loved his daughter more than anyone. Nate smiled and leaned his head back against the wall too.
"And you want to live with her so that you don't have to go to school?" he asked. She scoffed and looked over at him.
"Shut up." She said, at that moment Anne walked out of the office handing London her schedule.
"I had them put you in all of Nate's classes." She explained, "Here is your book list, and my spare credit card I want you two to go get the books and be back at the house for dinner." She said as she started to walk past them. They stood up and followed her.
"You know mom Nate already has a credit card, I don't need your spare." London said trying to hand the card back.
"Well you and Nate won't be together all the time, what will happen when you see a pair of shoes you just have to have." Anne smiled; Nate rolled his eyes and bent down to London's ear.
"Me and you not together yeah right." London smiled at him as he slung his arm around her shoulders. Anne got back into the town car after she bid them good bye. Nate started to hail a cab when he noticed London walking down the street.
"Hey." He yelled after her, she didn't turn around and Nate huffed running after her. "I was going to get a cab." He said when he reached her.
"I wanted to walk." She said not looking at him.
"I can see that." He said smiling down at her. They walked for a couple of minutes in silence when London saw a coffee shop.
"Oo I want some ice cream." She said walking into the shop. "One scoop of your swirl ice cream please." London said looking over at Nate.
"And I'll get an iced vanilla mocha." He said winking over at London, she rolled her eyes smiling he ordered her favorite to prove he remembered it. They got there order and finished their journey to the bookstore in silence, looking over at each other every few minutes and smiling. As soon as they got into the store London's green eyes started to sparkle. She loved reading; it was her most favorite thing, besides Nate of course. She grabbed a basket handing it to Nate as she took off in the academic section to get the school books out of the way. Ten minutes later they were combing through the teen section. Nate after five minutes finally noticed the sign.
"Don't you have all the books on the list already?" he asked holding up the basket full of books.
"Duh," she said still skimming the titles, "These are just for me." She answered throwing three more books into the basket smiling at him.
"You know I was thinking we should go see your mom." He stated following her to the next aisle. She scoffed taking his drink from him.
"Why on earth would we do that?" she asked biting his straw, he hated it when she did that, he ripped the drink from her hand and straightening the straw. She smiled and took in back from him only sucking this time.
"I don't know to show her how good you're doing without her, and she always did love me." London snorted as she picked out two more books.
"Yeah she loved you alright. Every time you came over she would pretend you weren't even there." London said looking at him.
"I know, I wonder how much she would love me if she knew I took your v-card." He said smiling at her.
"V-card really Nate that is so last year and she already knows." She said looking back at the books.
"What since when?" he asked wide eyed.
"Since it happened," she said looking back up at him.
"Well then it's your fault that she hates me." He said pointing at her.
"Please Nate she said at least he's rich and good looking. Then she asked if I had taken your virginity because if I hadn't we needed to get me checked out." She said in a mocking tone. They started to walk out of the aisle when he chuckled; she looked at him over her shoulder smiling when she ran right into someone. "Oh my I am so sorry." She said becoming a prefect lady, Nate smiled at her transformation.
"No it's alright." A boy said London bent down to help him pick up his books.
"No really I should have been watching where I was going." The boy stood up and looked at Nate.
"Hey Nate." He said,
"Hey Dan" Nate said as he looked back at London, she turned her head to Nate so Dan couldn't see her face and gave him and you-know-him look. Nate smiled and raised his eyebrows in a yes.
"I'm London, London Drake." She said putting out her hand, Dan awkwardly balanced his books in one arm to shake her hand.
"Hi Dan Humphrey." He said giving her a knee weakening smile. She shyly smiled back at him; Nate noticed the look on London's face and grabbed her hand.
"Well we better get going see you at school Dan, tell Vanessa I'll call her tomorrow." He said as he marched London up to the counter.
"Whoa what was that?" she asked leaning sideways against the counter smiling.
"Nothing." He answered not looking over at her, she stared at him smirking. He glanced over at her. "What?" he asked turning his attention back to the lady behind the counter.
"Nothing, nothing." She said putting her hands up in surrender turning her body to face the counter. She looked at him from the corner of her eye and he was looking at her the same way. She burst out laughing and grabbed him by the arm shaking him. "You're going to be the death of me Archibald." She said, he grabbed the books and tried not to laugh with her. She linked her arm with his nudging him with her shoulder. "Come on Nate smile I know you want to." She said he turned his head away from her trying to hide it. She grabbed his chin trying to turn his face back to her. "Haha I told you, you wanted to, come on Nate." She said stopping in front of him, he kept trying to keep his face away from hers. Finally he looked at her with a serious face. "Oo so serious." She said pouting her lips and bringing her eyebrows together, finally he smiled and she threw he head back with laughter. "Ah ha victory." She said putting her arms in the air. He laughed at her wrapping his arm around her shoulders she wrapped her arms around his middle as they walked toward the street to hail a cab. Once in the cab London looked over at Nate and smiled.
"So that was Serena's Dan right, the best friend to your girlfriend?" she asked clasping her hands in front of her on her lap. He looked over at her raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah," he answered.
"Well you could have told me he was so cute in person." She said shrugged her shoulders.
"Didn't know you were interested," He answered turning toward her. She smiled at him.
"So you think Serena is over him?" she asked, Nate scoffed.
"No I don't." he said turning back to look in front of them.
"Too bad." She said copying him. He looked over at her with a sad look; he was on the verge of saying something but thought better of it and just turned back to look out the window. They didn't say anything else the whole car ride. Once they got home Nate took off her coat for her hanging it in the closet, they still hadn't said anything to each other.
"Kids?" Anne asked as she came down the stairs. "Good, dinners almost ready." She said going to the living room. London grabbed her books and started up the stairs. Nate stood there debating whether or not he should go with her or go sit with his mom. He was still upset that she was already looking for someone to be with when he was standing right in front of her.
"You coming?" she asked half way up the staircase. He looked up at her and gave in following her. Once in her room he collapsed on her bed and she sat down at her desk sorting through her books. "What did I do now?" she asked turning in her chair to look at him. He sat up looking back at her.
"Nothing," he shrugged as he started to trace the pattern in the bed spread.
"Nate," she said warningly. He looked back up at her slightly mad.
"I just don't understand why we can't talk about what happened before you left." He said his eyes pleading with her to talk to him.
"I just don't want to. Nate you could do so much better than me." She said sitting down on the bed in front of him.
"Like who? Blair?" he asked sarcastically.
"No come on Nate you know what I mean." She said standing up.
"No London I don't." he said standing up too. "Look me in the eye right now and tell me that you don't want to be with me." He said grabbing her shoulders making her face him. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes.
"You know I can't do that." She whispered.
"Then dammit London be with me." He pleaded. She shook her head and walked out of his grasp.
"I can't Nate." She said. He looked at her in disbelief, he loves her and he knows damn well that she loves him.
"Fine," he hissed. He walked out of her room slamming his bedroom door shut. London jumped from the impact as tears started to run down her face.
"You have no idea what I've done to you." She whispered looking at his door. She slowly closed her own door sliding to the floor letting her tears take over.
A/N: So that was a just Nate and London chapter next chapter will be better and juicier. REVIEW PLEASE!!