Title: Love Me If You Dare
Chapter 3: Light Lunch and Shoplifting
Author: Ellibells
Summary: A game of dares between two beautiful strangers. Based on the French film, Love Me If You Dare. Chuck and Blair have never met until they meet on separate blind dates in a bar. Blair wants wild, crazy leaps and Chuck is like a fish to water. Hook, Line and Sinker.
A/N: Hello! Firstly, I apologise for the tardiness of my updates but I am currently studying for my A-levels and I am rushed off my feet with exams lately so I am sorry for any delayed updates but I hope this makes up for it :)
And a little note, my writing is purely from my little mind of wonderful thoughts and I would never dream of plagiarism or anything along the lines of stealing other author's ideas. I would hate for someone to do it to me, so I would certainly not do it to others. So for the anonymous reviewer who was obviously has too much time on their hands, if you don't like my story, don't read it, if you have nothing positive or constructive to say, don't bother. Rant over.
But for my AMAZING readers and reviewers who enjoy reading my original writing, thank you for keeping me going and allowing me to right such wonderful Chairness! I'm betting we are all super happy with the season 5 finale? Chair endgame anyone? :D I hope we are all happier Chair fans now and just hope season 6 will be a great end :D Enjoy this.
Disclaimer: *I do not own Chair or the film, Love Me If You Dare…But I do own Ed Westwick… ;)*
'No. Don't move. I can take care of myself from here.'
'I insist. I will walk you to the elevator at least-'
He tried.
He remembered the look of panic on her face.
'Just to the elevator.'
She pronounced sternly and he produced the gold medallion ring from the deep pocket of his jacket and held it in front of her, she nodded.
'Cap.'
Without a single hesitation she took the ring and gripped it tight in her hand.
The next thing she knew, she was offered his large soft hand as she followed him out of the limo.
For some reason she felt compelled to have her hand stay intertwined with his. She didn't even retract when she felt the brush of his thumb against the back of her hand, but instead gripped him tighter as they walked through the lobby, not giving a care to the look on the doorman's face or the question of the elevator boys suspecting smile.
They eventually stopped, Blair with her back to the open elevator door, giving her a little privacy from the prying eyes.
'Never come here. If you need me, find me elsewhere. Promise me you won't go upstairs? Cap?'
Chuck's frown deepened as she spoke and even more so when the feeling of her petit hand slipping the ring onto his relaxed pinky.
'What's so secret I can't come up and see where you live?'
'Please. Promise me?
' Her eyes were begging and he couldn't say no. Whatever she was hiding, the look on her face told him to respect her limply, he muttered his reply.
'I promise.'
One minute her hand was on his face and her lips on his cheek, the next she was stepping back until she was being enclosed by the elevator doors.
xoxo
"Blair? This got delivered for you." The receptionist smiled as she walked to Blair's desk and presented the brunette with the box.
Blair had no idea what was inside. It was just a black box, complimented with a deep purple bow an ribbon.
"Who is the secret admirer?" The familiar voice chirped.
Blair immediately knowing that voice anywhere looked up to glare at the blonde before her.
Serena stood with a wide smile on her face, lollipop between her thumb and index finger and she shrugged happily.
"How was your date last night?" Serena asked sweetly, like butter wouldn't melt.
"Oh... You mean the blonde haired, politically infused hunk with the personality of a plank of wood?"
With a loom of bafflement, Serena opened her mouth to speak but only to be interrupted by Blair's hand.
"Tedious. Next time, keep your blind dates to yourself. Now if you will excuse me, I have work." She summed, gesturing her best friend, (well, that was debatable for the moment) out of the door.
With a pout Serena did as she was told and slumped out of the door like a freshly scolded child.
Drawing her attention back to the box on her desk, Blair pulled back the ribbon, opening the lid until her eyes dropped upon matching purple tissue paper.
She frowned but pulled the layers apart as she dipped her hand to greet the black box that sat in the middle, a white note accompanying it.
Light lunch and shoplifting?
Cap ou pas cap?
-CB
She smirked mischievously as she let go of the note and went to open the box.
True to his word, sat innocently in the box's hold, his ring.
No time was wasted as she slid the larger ring on her index finger and consulted her desk clock.
11.58am.
Interrupted by a knock at the door, her breath hitched in her throat when she thought of him. Surely he wasn't stood behind that door.
"Come in!" She called in a professional tone.
When the door creaked open, she was half disappointed when she didn't see his tall, dark and handsome smirking face.
"Linda?" Blair sighed asking what her assistant wanted.
"There is a limo waiting for you downstairs, Blair." She replied obediently.
"Can I ask who sent the car?"
"Of course. A, Mr Bass." She nodded.
Smirking subtly, she nodded at her assistant.
"What does my schedule look like this afternoon?" Blair thought curiously aloud as Linda stood ready with an answer.
"Just a team meeting at three and apart from that, nothing that can't be rescheduled."
"Thank you. Send my apologies to the team." Blair confirmed with an honest smile.
Glad to have picked an assistant that knew her well enough to cater for her every wish and need; Blair grabbed her coat and bag before heading out of the door.
xoxo
A grin of achievement sprung to his lips as he watched her strut out from the building, an unknowing expression on her face, that was until her eyes registered with his and her features were replaced with a unexpected smirk.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" She titled her head as he took the bate and stepped a little closer.
"You seem surprised? Didn't you get my offer?" He pondered with a playful faux expression.
"Oh I did, but light lunch and shoplifting? Not exactly your run of the mill afternoon..." She noted.
"That maybe so, but I thought you wanted exhilarating?"
His deep smirk shook her to the core until she inevitably held up her ringed finger.
"Why are we still stood talking on the sidewalk then?" She shrugged before he nodded in approval.
"After you." He gestured as she smiled and slid into the black limo.
xoxo
"Don't you have a work to be doing this afternoon?" Blair pondered lightly as she brushed her fingers through rails of dresses in a cute boutique they had stumbled upon after their lunch at Butter.
"I could say the same to you?" Chuck smirked as he went to the rail of clothing, picking up a simple purple dress with intricate black detailing which would be perfect for her shape.
"You said it yourself, I want exhilarating. My office couldn't offer me that today. So I had to take up your offer instead." She smiled appealingly, taking the dress from his hands and moving towards the dressing room.
"Good choice." Blair nodded as she trailed her eyes over his outfit, allowing him to wonder whether she was purely referring to the dress that had just been picked for her.
They're eyes locked each others and then they clapped on the close by sales assistant, smiling obediently as they entered the dressing room.
Chuck was presently surprised that she took so well to the role of casual shopper, accepting the dress he had picked for.
"You should know, purple really isn't my colour." Blair announced for one side of the dressing room door as Chuck reclined on the chaise lounge that had been offered to him.
"We will see-" Chuck began but his words were interrupted as Blair stepped out from the dressing room.
"Cat got your tongue Bass? I told you purple wasn't my colour." She shrugged, pleasantly amused by the smirk on his lips as he stood to take a closer look.
Twirling his index finger in a circular movement, she took the hint and turned for him.
"Whoever convinced you that purple wasn't your colour must have been deluded or jealous..."
He couldn't take his eyes off her frame.
The way it pulled in at her waist, hugging her bottom just enough and leaving just enough of cleavage to the imagination certainly did her justice.
"You're like the perfect gay best friend!" Blair sang as she turned to see him swallow hard before straightening his stance.
"I can assure you I am anything but gay." He corrected.
"Someone thinks highly of themselves! ... Refreshing!" She smirked victoriously as she saw the look on his face freeze.
Chuck Bass had found his equal. Guaranteed, any woman encountered by Chuck Bass would have taken the bate by now, but not her.
She was headstrong, blunt and beautiful, it was confusing. Only now was Chuck starting to realise that she really didn't want feelings involved but as hard as she tried, tiny moments of honesty would creep out and he could see her black and white.
"It'd be a sin not to adorn this outfit at a later date. Allow me?" Chuck asked as she retreated back into the changing room.
"No, thank you. I don't take charity."
"This isn't charity, it's a gesture. Friend to friend."
"But I thought purchasing items wasn't part of this trip?" Blair reminded.
"Could you unzip me?"
Chuck's thought path was changed instantly. Her back was presented to him and he torturously withdrew the small zip from its confines as he did as she had requested.
She had bunched her hair to the side as he helped her but she casually twisted the handful of locks as she glanced looked over her shoulder. Chuck swallowed hard, she really was torture.
"We have all afternoon to spare. Why rush into petty theft so soon?..." He coughed and replied to her original question; anything to take his interest away from the presentation of her flawlessly sleek and perfectly tanned neck and back.
"Touché. Thank you."
From behind her, he saw her cheeks rise as evidence of her smile. He then let go of the zip and stepped away a little as he watched her brace the dress closely to her chest before disappearing back into the changing room.
xoxo
"A hat? I'm sure it's nearly polo season..." Blair raised a brow as she donned an overly large summer hat that would perfect for Serena, but not a Waldorf.
She smiled innocently at the sales assistant and took the hat off, walking away from the stand and allowing her fingers to explore the different textures of jewellery littering the tables.
"Have you ever watched Breakfast At Tiffany's?... because I can't help but make comparisons to our current state of affairs..."
Blair turned curiously to see Bass following her like a loyal companion, occasionally picking up an item to inspect before discarding it and moving onto the next piece of interest.
"I may have dabbled in the classics from time to time..." He shrugged with a smirk of the eyebrows before grabbing her wrist.
Almost shocked by the action she soon realised his intentions when he went to softly run a set of bracelets over her fingers and onto her delicate wrists.
"Are you sure you aren't gay?" She giggled lightly as she admired the shiny metal at her wrist.
"One hundred percent. Unless of course, you need more convincing?..." He smiled innocently as possible, like butter wouldn't melt.
He couldn't help it. But she smiled nonetheless before speaking in return.
"That won't be necessary. And neither will this." She chimed, forcing the metal from her wrist and dropping it absently where it had originally come from.
"Not my style." Blair finished as she moved away to another part of the store, taking note that the once attentive sales assistant had lost interest and backed away.
Chuck tactfully brushed off the comment and yet again followed her.
"How about an umbrella?" Blair turned on her heels unexpectedly and with a woosh of air, the umbrella was open and stood proud as her lips formed to a convincing 'O' shape as if it had all been an accident.
The gust of air from the umbrella had sent charms ringing in the store, attracting the attention of customers and sales assistants alike.
"Oops!" Blair announced.
Handing the umbrella to Chuck, he graciously closed the offending item silently before returning it to the stand. With a shrug of innocence, he sent the blonde sales assistant a look that made her forgive the good looking gentleman and his company before continuing with her task of assisting another customer.
"Can I interest you in a silk scarf?..."
It wasn't really a question, more of a statement as Chuck picked up the deep purple, almost plum scarf and swung it around her small neck, allowing it to hang comfortably, complimenting her grey blouse.
"It seems you have a thing for purple..." Blair noted with a content smile as she admired her new accessory in the nearby mirror.
"It seems I do." Chuck replied in a clipped tone and before he could say much else, she was stood in front of him again, her hands smoothly intertwining with his only momentarily until he could feel the warm metal of a ring being slipped onto his little finger.
He looked up to meet her gaze after affirming his suspicions only to be greeted with her warm but mischievous smile as both her hands began removing the scarf from her neck and transferring the soft material to Chuck's.
Visible over the lapels of his suit he spoke softly but firmly as he reached for her hand and locking his fingers through hers.
"Cap."
With nothing but a mere look of confidence and a childish grin, Blair squeezed his hand and they began walking, casually at first before picking up their pace to the exit.
Once Blair was inches out of the door, she watched as Chuck turned to see the sales assistant, throwing her a pitiful thank you and following Blair.
A rush of adrenaline for such a petty act was reinstated when the open limo door was offered to her and see took it just as she noticed the sales assistant approaching the door of the shop in a panicked haze.
Chuck began to laugh lightly as he too slipped into the awaiting limo as him and Blair watched the sales assistant rush out onto the sidewalk, only to watch the black limo patiently pull away from the sidewalk.
A/N: Did we enjoy that? Make of it what you will :) The games are only just beginning! There will be more of the fun to come but I hope this was enough to satiate you for no until I next update. I have finished college! Yeah me, but this means the exams and lots of revision starts but I will try and drop updates in as regularly as possible :D
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