Author Note: Hey guys! I finally had time to sit down and write this chapter. I thought I was going to be able to last week but that didn't happen. I found out I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled out, I had to help put my great-grandfather into a home 'cause we found out he has Dementia, I watched my two dogs kill a baby bunny, and my family had like thirty things going on. I'm sorry but, now on to the good stuff! )
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"I found out" That's all Nate had to say for Audrey to realize he found out what was going on with Blair. It took only those three words to make her realize how bad she wanted to punch the girl's lights out for hurting him, even if she didn't know exactly what Blair did. Audrey had been sitting at one of the many computers in the school library writing a last minute Spanish report.
Audrey was the only one in the library since she skipped lunch and went straight to the library. She heard random footsteps come stomping towards her and that was when she lifted for head to see a disgruntled Nate. She moved her bookbag off of the chair next to her see he could sit himself down. Or more like fling himself into it unnecessarily hard. "What happened? What did she say?"
Nate looked down at the table, his book bag sat in his lap and his right hand was in the big zippered part of the bag hidden away from her sight. Audrey reached over to his hand as he tried to pull it away from her, his hand still in the bag. He still wouldn't look her in the eye. She finally got a hold on his wrist and pulled, with almost no strength; what a weakling, and got a nice view of the hand he was trying to hide.
It was black and blue, his fingers swelling to look even bigger then hot dogs. Audrey was absolutely shocked by Nate's behavior. She started softly massaging his hand. "Blair must have really pissed you off this time. You've never hit a lady before. Well, except for that time when you broke my nose but that was more the locker door then your hand. You know I forgive you for that righ-"
"Audrey. Shut. Up. Right. Now." Nate said gritting he teeth. He was looking out the glass window that faced out towards the long hall of lockers and class rooms. Audrey shut her Mac laptop and placed it inside her book bag as she stood up. She had dropped Nate's hand already and it was now sitting lightly on the small desk. Audrey placed the strap of the heavy bag over her shoulder and grabbed his good hand. He looked up at her, "What are you doing."
"Being a very bad girl and skipping school to take care of a friend." He slightly smiled as she tugged on the good hand she was holding and dragged him towards the exit doors of the library and walking down the quiet hall. The feelings that wanted to bust out from inside her were tough for her to control. She couldn't be very comforting at the moment, cause that wasn't what he wanted. But he also didn't want to hear a rant. At the moment she just wanted to do both. At that moment she decided to just be quiet; hard task.
His fingers were still wrapped around hers as they reached the exit doors to the outside world. Audrey lightly pushed the squeaky doors open and pulled both herself and Nate down the many steps in front of her. Nate was trying to save his bad hand from any more pain then he already had while trying to release his good hand from Audrey's grip to place his own book strap over his shoulder.
Audrey grabbed the book bag with her free hand and placed it over her left shoulder with her own heavy bag. Nate tried to get it back as he almost toppled over her. She grabbed at his shoulders trying to keep him away, his laughter filled the air and mixed with hers. To anyone on the streets they would see them as a playful couple, after that thought passed her mind all she could think about was kissing his lips. While still trying to keep Nate away, and still laughing, she tried to shake that thought out of her head. Nate? Her best friend, being more, she couldn't see it ever happening.
"I see you move on fast, Nate." Audrey and Nate stopped their playful bicker to turn towards the steps they had just come out of. The bitch herself stood at the top of them in her plaid overcoat and pink high heel, that were no way part of school uniform, and devil's horns to top it off. Her hard eyes stared at Nate and Audrey. Audrey started to feel the feelings she had finally hidden away come bubbling up in her.
Audrey yanked her hand out of Nate's and dropped the bags on the ground. Poor Mac laptop. Audrey crossed her arms in front of her stomach and stared back at Blair. She started take a few step down from where she had been standing. Nate stood back a little, a fire of fury lit in his eyes as he looked at Blair. Audrey still didn't know what Bitch Blair had done to Nate and yet she still wanted to kill her.
Blair met Audrey face to face. With her high heels on she still stood at least a inch shorter then Audrey. It was quite a sight if you looked at it from Nate's point of view. Blair was trying to be her normal bitchy superior self while glaring up at Audrey's eyes. Audrey had to bend over slightly to get a good look in Blair's eyes, she looked like a little ant next to Audrey. "You're just a little slut now aren't you. I thought you were 'just friends' with Nate. Guess I wasn't the only one with someone on the side."
"You cheated on him? Are you crazy?" Audrey's eyes lit up. The flame that burned within her was just about ready to come out of her. She wished it would, burn the little witch to smithereens. "Why would you cheat on Nate Archibald, who could be better then Nate? He has treated you with nothing but love and respect and you go and betray that? How dare you."
Blair scowled at her, those dirty mud brown eyes looked like they were turning red with the furry that ran through Blair's body. Audrey could literally feel the heat radiating off of her. Blair stepped closer to Audrey, her nose now right between two things no one has ever come close to except for her own mother. Audrey shoved Blair away from her, her royal bitchiness was getting a little too close for comfort. Audrey heard Nate say her name, trying to get her to walk away.
Blair pushed Audrey back but she barely moved. With Audrey's height and weight, it was like watching Blair move a boulder…in heels. Then Blair's hands started flying around her face like a little school girl, unfortionitly one hitting Audrey pretty hard and right in her eye also. With one swift pull back of Audrey's fist, clenched of course, and then one rough rush forward, Audrey gave a Blair a nice right hook right in the cheek. She felt two arms circle around her waist and lift her backwards. "Audrey! Calm down. Let's just go."
Nate was holding her back from Blair, Audrey was still trying to fight him off when she saw who was trying to hold Blair from throwing her high heels in Audrey's direction. Chuck Bass. He must have come out right after Blair did. Audrey gave up her fight with Nate and Blair and stared at Chuck. It all started to click, Chuck holding Blair back, the weird cold atmosphere there had been between Nate and Chuck these past few days, the way Chuck would look at Blair when Nate wasn't looking. It all clicked, and all she wanted to do was hug Nate.
Nate's eyes were locked on Chuck and Blair as he reached for the two bags that still were laying on the ground. He was still only using his good hand to pick them up. That started to click in Audrey's mind also as she looked at Chuck. He had a nice fresh black eye. Now Chuck and Blair can be a matching couple! Nate turned away from them but I still stared on. Nate saw her look. "Come one, let's head to my place. That eye isn't looking very swell, no pun intended."
They were far enough away for Audrey to turn around, a slight smile on her face. She took the large heavy back off his shoulders and left his where it was. She lifted hers back where it used to be and wrapped her arm around his, leaning her head on his shoulder. "I'm not going to say I'm sorry."
Nate laid his head lightly against hers as they walked towards his family's place. He smiled as she sighed, "I didn't ask you to."
"So, when did you find out?" Audrey and Nate were talking in his room after they had finally made it home. When they first had gotten there she head straight to the kitchens for ice packs and ice cream, ice to help her eye and his hand; ice cream to drown their feelings in. So at that moment in time, the ice cream was half gone and the ice was already melting like mad. Audrey laid against the wood headboard on his bed as he sat at the end of the bed facing towards her.
"Last night. I mean I knew something was going on way before that, but I didn't know it was with him." Nate spit out the 'him' with so much venom. Audrey nodded towards his hand as she scooped another spoonful of 'Chocolate Cake Batter' ice cream into her mouth. "When she told me that Chuck was the person she was…messing around with, I went and found him. We got into a fight and I punched him right in the eye."
"You look so proud of that." Audrey said smiling, it looked more like wincing though with her eye. Nate smiled as he stretched himself out next to her on his stomach. His face was right next to her and way to close to her spoon filled with her ice cream heaven. She shook her head as she stuffed the spoon in her mouth and smiled. Nate scoffed, "You are disgusting."
Audrey pouted as Nate laughed. Audrey scooped a good amount of the chocolate ice cream on her spoon and shoved into his mouth. They were at that stage in their relationship where it was scary close to Will & Grace. Except Nate isn't gay, and Audrey…well…She doesn't have the red hair. They were totally comfortable with each other. They would change in front of the other, share food, drinks, houses, whatever.
Nate took the spoon out of her hand and flipped over on his back like Audrey. Once he had swallowed and gave the spoon back to her, he turned his head towards her, looking at the dark bruise around her right eye. "Why did you do what you did? She didn't do anything to you."
"Well, actually she did. She messed with my best friend and when you do that, you're messing with me also." Nate went to open his mouth to make a remark. "No. Just let me bask in the joy of being able to hit Blair for once without me worrying if you are going to yell at me or not. I don't feel like fighting tonight."
"Actually I was going to say thank you, but, if you don't want me to I won't." He said smiling as he turned his head away from hers and laid it upon her chest instead. He grabbed the ice cream jar from her stomach and placed the lid on it and threw it so it would land by the door to the hall. Audrey huffed and placed the spoon on his nightstand beside her. He snuggled his head down towards her stomach and placed his arm with his bad hand right over top of her in a half hug.
Audrey started running her hands through his soft middle length brown hair as she felt he breath grow steady and she knew he was asleep. She almost wished he hadn't, now her mind was racing with thoughts that she had tried to push away before Blair came. But Lord knows she doesn't want her busting in right now. Could you see Bitch Blair's face?
Audrey's school sweater tossed on the floor, Nate's nice school dress jacket tossed with it, his school pants laid messily on his chair by the closet where he had changed into sweats. Her itchy gray skirt right inside his closet where she had borrowed a pair of his comfy bed pants. Then there was the whole thing of her and Nate laying on a bed with him practically on top of her fast asleep and Audrey running her fingers through his hair and slightly humming.
Audrey started getting these random thoughts of Nate ever since her and Knox went to that stupid party Chuck and Nate had been talking about after Nate invited them both to come. Seeing him with Blair and seeing the way he would look at some girls got her blood going and she didn't even know why. Just a slight smile at Jessica Moore, the obsessive compulsive little nerd from Science class, got her going. Then the thoughts of kissing him, holding him, and doing things she hadn't even done herself with Knox, always filled her bad mind.
She shut her eyes and decided to try and push them away. She tried to focus on Knox, and only him. Then Nate came up behind him and pushed him out of the way. Audrey's eyes snapped open as she sighed. She lightly scooted herself out from under Nate and laid a pillow under his head. She walked towards the bathroom that was connected to his room. She splashed water on her face as she looked into the mirror.
She was nothing like a Blair, or a Serena Van Der Woodson, who was another one of Nate's friends which whom he had a past with. Audrey wasn't blonde, she wasn't a skinny model, and she wasn't very lady-like. She had a pimple on her cheek the size of Texas and not a smudge of make up was on her face. She didn't have designer clothing, Target and Old Navy were her two favorite places one earth. What would Nate see in her anyway. He saw her as a friend, but why would he look at her as anything else?
Audrey turned around and was going to start towards the bed again, trying to not wake Nate. But as she turned, Nate came right into her view. He was standing right in front of her at the door. His eyes were sleeping and his shirt and pants were still rumpled from the bed. He was looking straight at her, the light coming from the window behind her shinned on his face making his best features stand out. "What are you doing?"
Audrey opened her mouth to answer him as she pointed towards the sink. "I wasn't feeling good. Thought some cold water might help." He looked right at her still, but with a slight smile on his face as he took a step towards her. What the hell was he doing? Sleepwalking, obviously. She pressed her back against the cold marble sink as he came even closer. She chuckled nervously, "It must be all that ice cream."
Nate still had that smile on his face as he looked down at her mouth. Audrey raised an eyebrow at him as she started to open her mouth again but he put a finger over her mouth to shut her up. He raised his thumb to wipe the corner of her mouth. He didn't step back but her raised his thumb towards her, at that point his whole lower half was pressed against hers. There was a bit of chocolate ice cream on his thumb. "I think you missed a spot."
He leaned down and did the most stupid, outrageous, beautiful, and most amazing thing he has ever done in his entire life. His lips brushed right on the spot where he had just smudged ice cream off. Then his lips came right down on Audrey's. She didn't know what the hell she was doing, but she found herself wrapping her arms around his neck, the fire in her stomach growing as she pressed herself even closer to him. The ecstasy of his touch was too much for her as she completely and totally lost herself in him.
