A/N: First of all, thanks sooo much to OneWIshMakeItCount, wild.imagination04, Lou, shannen, addieXmitsume, rawrxDL0ver, IHEARTNATEARCHIBALD, Maiqu, and chocalate is gawd for reviewing the first chapter. :D
Here's the second chapter. Please review. :D
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CHAPTER 2: This is Definitely Not NY
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They reluctantly closed their phones, not completely understanding what Gossip Girl's messages were all about.
"Well, okay, uhm…" Serena started not knowing what to say. She stole a glance at Dan who was staring at the ground.
"Uh, yeah. I think we should go," Dan finished uneasily, referring to Vanessa and Jenny.
"Yeah, okay. Bye," Serena whispered awkwardly.
Dan, Jenny, and Vanessa left the group and headed for the exit as the four watched their retreating backs. Serena and Blair then set off to check the trains' schedules of departure. To their alarm, they found none; no departures and no arrivals.
"But Dan, Jenny, and Vanessa said they just arrived, right?" Blair couldn't help but ask.
They headed to where the trains were instead, doubtful of the information the schedule boards held. There could just be a glitch in the system. After all, everything was messed up. Chuck and Nate followed, concerned and with a lack of anything else to do.
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"This is pointless. Let's just go home," Blair said partly irritated and partly apprehensive. Who wouldn't be? They were standing there for a good hour only to see empty train tracks and hear nothing but impatient tapping and occasional exasperated sighs.
"I'll call the limo," Chuck said, pulling out his phone from his pocket. After a few unsuccessful attempts, he impatiently shut his phone. "There's no signal. We're in the middle of New York and the network is F-ed up," he said annoyed
The other three dug up their phones only to have equally unsuccessful attempts. They headed for the exit instead in hopes of getting home by cab and just forgetting the oddity of the whole situation. They headed for the entrance only to be halted by what the very transparent doors and windows revealed.
There they stood, ten feet away from the door-- a brown-haired boy with a very prominent eyebrow ridge and an equally unique sense of fashion, whose smirk temporarily erased from his evil eyes and careless lips; a dirty blonde, awfully handsome boy, whose confused and lost expression even more distinguished than that of the experiences brought by the Upper East Side; then, there was the ravishing brunette whose very lost doe-eyes and 'pouty' lips a traitor to her exceptionally together Chanel coat, Eleanor Waldorf dress, Gucci heels, Burberry handbag, and matching headband; and finally, the tall, blonde beauty whose motionless figure wishing it were somewhere else, anywhere but there.
They stood quietly (but extremely tensely) not just ten feet away from the door but also ten feet away from a world they completely didn't recognize and utterly knew nothing of.
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In panic and desperation, the once motionless, tall blonde did what she wasn't ready to do and dialed a number she knew by heart.
"Dan, I'm sorry to have to call you. Where are you? You have to help us," Serena started the moment Dan picked up. "We're still here and we have no idea what's happening. I don't know why I was able to call you. We've been trying to call the limo but our stupid phones keep on saying that there's no signal," Serena said frantically.
"Serena, calm down," Dan said comfortingly. He was worried; worried because of what was happening and more so because Serena sounded worried and scared as hell. "I think you were able to call me because I haven't left. We couldn't leave, unless we wanted to walk pointlessly into an infinite field of grass or an extremely dark-looking forest," Dan finished.
"What?!" Serena exclaimed, confused.
"Where are you?" Dan asked trying to sound composed.
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"So, let me get this straight. We're in Grand Central…" Nate started as soon as they all found each other again.
"We WERE, apparently," Vanessa cut in.
"Were…" Chuck said sounding unworried, confident expression back in place as he nodded his head. "Okay. So now, where are we?"
Blair looked at Chuck almost impatiently. It was pointless to ask where they were. Obviously, nobody knew.
"In this big building, Chuck, which, by the way, was Grand Central and now looks a lot like Grand Central, with a lot of grass… and trees… and…" Blair said in a sing-song manner; voice thick with sarcasm. She was desperate and a dim-witted question like that wasn't helping at all.
"Wow, very precise, Blair," Chuck interrupted with a mocking smile. Two can play that game, after all.
"Thanks, Chuck," Blair answered with a smile that mirrored Chuck's and rolled her eyes, walking to a far corner, trying to recognize what she possibly could.
Jenny sighed quietly in defeat. She couldn't help but wonder how these two people could bicker just like that considering how serious the situation really was. They were in the middle of nowhere! Actually, they were in the middle of SOMEWHERE. Well, if they only knew where they were…
"One thing's for sure. We're not in New York anymore," Dan muttered.
Just as he said that, seven different phone rings filled the quiet air and broke the uncomfortable static.
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Keeping up, I see, Brooklyn. Always knew you were the smart one. And as for Mr. and Mrs. Smith a.k.a. B and C, we'll see how long you and your frenemies can take all the bickering and… love, if you know what I mean. You'll have to learn to kiss and make-up eventually. And as for me, I'm just enjoying my view from the top. I'm happy where you are (even if you're not)…
You know you love me,
Gossip Girl
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"So we're not in New York…"
"…we're extremely far away from home…"
"…are we even in America?"
"It doesn't matter. The question is how do we get back?"
"Argh! We don't know where we are in the first place."
"Our phones are useless…"
"…because we can't call anyone except for each other."
"BUT Gossip Girl is here…"
"…and being an extreme biatch."
"That's just great!"
"Fantastic!"
"Just perfect!"
"I don't feel so good…" Blair said weakly ending the anonymous exchanges with a thud.
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