It's terrible but I haven't updated my stories in forever and felt guilty so I wrote whatever I could!


Chapter 2: This Ain't a Love Song V!

"Why?" Vanessa asks, crossing her arms. She was sick of this. Of it all. Of him.

"Look, I didn't plan for my grandfather to bump into me and then ask me to have lunch with him" Nate explains, desperately hoping she will buy it. He doesn't want to break up with her, not yet at least. He needs to make sure that Serena will be there for him when he does let go of Vanessa.

"But I thought you weren't on speaking terms with him or the rest of the Vanderbilts?" She asks, suspiciously narrowing her eyes.

"Look, things are complicated with my family. It's not as simple as, "I'm not speaking to him ever again". There are rules, morals that my family religiously follow." He says, flustered.

"Cut the crap Nate. I know for a fact you weren't with your grandfather or any member of your family for that matter. Dan got a gossip girl blast when I was serving him at the cafe. I know you were with Serena."

Nate curses Gossip Girl under his breath. The girl was a monster. It was like she lived off of other people's despair.

"Yes, I was with Serena. When we both know that Dan should have been with her. But no, your best friend broke my best friend's heart and as usual I was left to pick up the pieces. If you have a problem with that then take it up with Dan." Nate says angrily.

"Don't blame this on Dan. The fact of the matter is that you stood me up and then lied." Vanessa says angrily.

"Well I'm sorry that I can't trust you. That I can't honestly tell you where I am because you're so uptight and close minded and suspicious of me that you would automatically jump to conclusions like you are now" Nate says.

He doesn't want to have this conversation and certainly not in the middle of Central Park where Gossip Girl spies were most likely lurking in the shadows just waiting to humiliate him. So he lets go. He doesn't care that Serena might not want him and he certainly doesn't care that Vanessa won't be there; she was, after all, a time pass and a feeling of being wanted. It wasn't until today that he realized that he didn't need that. He didn't need her.

"Nate. You have put me through hell and back this year with all your stupid excuses and pathetic issues. There was the whole cougar situation and then the situation with Jenny not to mention with Blair and now Serena? I'm just supposed to sit back and listen to you apologize time and time again and then promising that you won't do something that inevitably you will once again." Vanessa says, tears stinging her eyes.

"Yeah well Vanessa, I don't see you rushing to my side all the time. I don't see you calling me and I certainly don't see you accepting the fact that maybe I've had an unstable life and that sometimes I don't know where to go and end up back with those who have known me my whole life. So you know what, you don't have to sit back and listen to me because I think it's best if we stop whilst we're ahead. Don't you?" Nate says.

And when Vanessa just stands there disbelieving Nate's reaction he just turns around and walks away. He can't deal with the daily drama of the Upper East Side. There's a point where too much is too much and he just can't take it anymore.

XOXO

She's somehow ended up at the Hamptons. A week early but not a day too soon. She's told Nate, Blair and Chuck to meet her at the Bass estate in the Hamptons so that she can drown her sorrows, but Nate's the only one who can make it in the next 24 hours. Blair and Chuck have some unsettled disputes that they are trying to get past, but promised Serena they would be there within a week no less.

She's lying on a floating chair in the pool basking in the summer sun. Her endless tanned legs are crossed, one over the other, an umbrella drink in one hand and a cell-phone in the other. She's peeking through the brim of her sunhat and flicking through the numbers in her phonebook desperately seeking company. She's been alone for the past two days and not even the maids will speak to her. She's craving someone's presence and the only thing she can possibly think of is calling someone to relieve her discomfort. The problem is who. Nate's most probably with Vanessa, Blair with Chuck and she has no desire to speak to Dan. She had never been that close to Jenny and there weren't many others she would be able to speak to openly.

It's when the latest Gossip Girl blast reaches her is when she smiles.

A scorching hot summer's day and a sorching hot secret to tell. Looks like V has been stood up one last time. Turns out N isn't as gutless as one might think. Rumor has it he's grown a pair and broken up with our resident hippie. Congratulations baby! You're free!

Spotted: S, soaking up some sun at the Bass' Hampton estate. N walking away from V in Central Park. C in Tiffany's looking for a diamond necklace (a present for B perhaps?) and D sitting on a bench in Central Park consoling his gal pal V.

You know you love me!

XOXO

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