Chapter 2:
Chuck and Blair sit quietly in the kitchen. They drink the tea, and eat something Blair has pulled out of the fridge.
"I'm guessing you don't want to go back home?" she asks carefully. He shakes his head no. "Nate and Raina are going to be there, I really don't want them around".
The Raina comment stings, she cant deny that. "Okay' I'll get you something to wear, you'll sleep with me tonight."
Chuck takes her hand and smiles weakly at her.
"Finish this" Blair tells him "I'll go look for clothes." And she walks upstairs.
She finds the clothes she wanted and put them on her bad. Then she looks at her bathroom door. It was open. She couldn't avoid thinking about Dan and Serena. She walked over to Serena's door and knocked.
"Come in" she heard. So she did.
Blair opened the door to find them sitting next to each other on the bed. Serena's legs on Dan's but for some reason – he didn't seem to enjoy that.
"How is he?" Serena asked. Blair shrugged "not so hot. But never mind him" she said and took a step closer. "How are you? Did you talk to your mom?"
Dan stood up then "I'll give you two a few minutes." He said. "I'll be in your room" he said to Blair and walked out.
Blair watched him leave, and then turned her attention back to her friend. The sadness in Serena's eyes made all the doubts Blair might have had about her Dan go away.
She set next to Serena and held her hand tightly.
"I love you" Blair said. "Always. Forever. No matter what. And I'm right here for you. Just in the other room. Whenever you need me". Serena smiled slightly at her "Is Chuck staying the night?" she asked, Blair nodded "I think he need to be around people he trusts" she said.
"Yeah.. That's a good idea" Serena agrees, "I asked Dan to stay the night too". Being so wrapped up in her own world, Serena misses the pain that flashed in Blair's eyes. It hurt. It really did, to see him go back to Serena so easily.
Blair didn't know what to say, so she just offered a hug. "Come here" she told Serena and held her as tight as she could.
"You should try and rest" Blair said "we will face the world again in the morning" and kissed the crown of Serena's golden head.
"Yeah. Maybe you're right" Serena agreed. Blair offered her a smile, and got up from the bad.
"I love you" Blair said again "and I'll go get Dan".
"Thank you." Serena said quietly, "sure" Blair said and turned to the bathroom.
"You sleep tight, you hear?" she said, and closed the door behind her.
In the meantime:
Dan walked into Blair's room. He had learned to love this room. What he really loved was the secret spot in the closet; that Blair showed him a few weeks ago, where she kept all her favorite classic movies. Alphabetized no less. He smiled to him self at the memory.
He was walking around the room, taking in the special scent in there, thinking to himself – that he really likes this place. Also, as he came to find tonight, he really like Blair too.
He looked at her bed, and saw the clothes she had laded out. Male clothes. Chuck will be staying the night. It hurt him to know that. This wasn't fair. Not that he really had a leg to stand on, seeing as he was to stay the night with Serena – but still, it really did hurt him to know about Chuck.
Dan heard the door open and was glad to think he'll get to steal a few more minutes alone with Blair, so he turned to the door –but to his surprise, it was chuck who walked in.
"Daniel?" chuck asked surprised. Dan waved uncomfortably.
"Blair wanted to be alone with Serena," he explains. Chuck simple nods.
After a few seconds of very uncomfortable silence chuck asks if Dan will be staying the night with Serena?
Dan nods "she asked me, yeah" he answers. Chuck nods again, "good. That's good," he mumbles more to himself then anything, so Dan doesn't respond.
"It's good that you here for her Humphrey" he says more loudly, and Dan looks at him surprised.
"You calm her down. She needs that. It's good you're here." Dan still says nothing, just offers a weird smile.
"Now, please, I've done my pleasantries and would like to change now, so go wait in the bathroom" chuck says.
"Yeah yeah, sure" Dan mumbles.
"Good night" he says and closes the bathroom door behind him, just as Blair closes the door on Serena's side.
They look at each other. "Hey" they both say in the same time and smile.
Dan is the first to break the silence.
"Chuck's staying" he says. Half accusing her.
"So are you" she defends herself.
They're quiet again. He is again the one to break it.
"I'm sorry," he says. She offers him an apologetic smile in return.
"We should probably.." she says pointing to the door behind him. "Yeah" he agrees.
As they brush each other on the way, they can't fight the electricity they feel. And so they stop. Really close. Too close. And just stare.
They're so close they can hear the others heartbeats. Dan wants to kiss her again. One kiss just doesn't seem fair.
They hear chuck sneezing and Serena dropping something. They jump apart. Finish the last steps to the opposite doors, and then they turn around and look at each other again. Then, just like they did a few hours ago at the party, they each turn away, and don't look back.
AN: First i want to say thank you all for the reviews! they really made me happy! (also made me publish the next chapter faster! so yay!)
Second, this story is still a WIP, so i'm not sure how long it will be.. so please hang in there with me!
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So thanks everybody!
love, Michaela 8)
