Hello again! Time for an update. As always I want to thank all of you who have left reviews. You guys are awesome =)
On a completely random note, I finally saw 314 yesterday and I couldn't help but notice that the "no talking" scene takes place at lunch, and when we see Chair post-game snuggling it's nighttime. They really made up for that "dry spell", didn't they? Now if only they could actually show us anything sexy…
Enough of my rambling. Have a happy read!
With a relieved sigh Chuck fell back on the bed and stretched out. Blair had just left the hotel room, off to have lunch with her minions and do some shopping. Chuck had all afternoon to himself.
What sweet luxury it was to have some time to himself. As much as he loved Blair, he just wasn't used to being around someone non-stop for so long. Even Nate, who had more or less lived with him during two years of high school, hadn't been around him for this long at a time. It felt amazing to get to do whatever he wanted to do for a while without taking into consideration what she wanted to do, and to get to do the things he enjoyed doing when he was on his own. He could check his e-mail for the first time in over a week, stop by his favorite websites and message boards, play computer games or watch one of his favorite shows. Or he could just lock himself in the bathroom for half an hour with the sport section without Blair starting to wonder if he had died in there.
He flipped over on his stomach and grinned. Yes, some alone time was much needed right now. And she probably needed it too. She hadn't gotten to indulge in anything super girly during the ten days they had spent locked up in this room, and he knew she got hives if she didn't get to shop for several days. He suspected that she had scheduled lunch with the girls so that she could have a valid excuse to go out shopping without his company later on. And he didn't mind one bit.
Forty-five minutes later he glanced at his wristwatch. How long did it take to eat something and spend a bit of money? He had already done some of the stuff he had been looking forward to, and the rest he wasn't feeling up for. Who knew how long it would be before Blair was done eating, gossiping and shopping?
Reluctantly he walked over to the stack of DVDs he had put on a shelf by the TV. He had decided to just stay in this hotel room for the time being and so he had brought some of his stuff over. Blair had sat down for a chat with Lily a couple of days ago while Chuck had gone to his room at the penthouse and packed some of his things. He had brought with him about twenty DVDs but nothing seemed interesting at the moment. But he had to do something. Chuck Bass was not good at being bored.
Unenthusiastically he grabbed the second season of "Heroes" from the pile and put the first disc in. He wasn't that big a fan, but at least it would kill some time. He plopped down on the bed and grabbed the phone to order up some room service. Blair would probably get pissed that he was eating in bed but maybe that would teach her not to leave him unsupervised for more than thirty minutes.
He had just gotten started watching the episode when he got a text. He fished out his phone from his pant pocket and smiled when he saw it was from her.
"1 whole hour. Can U believe it? How lame is it that I miss U?"
He smiled at her message. Yes it was incredibly lame. But he liked it all the same. So long as it didn't get overly sappy. He grinned as he wrote his response.
"Patience kitten… Or on 2nd thought… forget about patience. Make sure U miss me lots when U get back."
He put his phone away, not expecting a response. Yet anyway.
After a little bit more than three hours she returned to his hotel room. By that time he had gotten three texts from her, one each time it had been another hour since she left. She came through the door with six or seven large shopping bags in her hands, barely able to carry all of them at once. She looked a bit flushed, but had an excited smile on her face that made him smile back at her the same way automatically.
He had just turned the TV off and leaned back on the bed with his laptop, checking a link Nate had sent him. Figures she would get back right when he found something interesting to do. But he was more than happy to see her again as she put all of her bags down and climbed up on the bed to lean over and kiss him.
"Been a good boy?" she asked sweetly.
"The room is still in one piece, isn't it?"
She grinned, tousled his hair and got up from the bed.
"So how was lunch?" he asked.
"Mexican."
"As in you had a multi-standoff with your minions? You should have texted me. I would have loved to see that."
"As in we had enchiladas. Do you mind if I unpack my shopping bags here, just for now? I didn't want to go by my mother's."
"Sure" he shrugged.
"Thanks" she chirped.
He turned his attention back to his computer, but decided it wasn't so interesting at the moment when he glanced up at her just in time to see her bend over to pick up some of her shopping bags. She didn't seem to notice that his eyes were on her and carried her bags over to the dresser by the closet.
"Show me what you bought" Chuck said, curious to hear about her day. "Did you get anything for me?"
"Uh-huh" she chirped and started searching through her largest bag.
He was slightly surprised when she fished out two shirts, one white with thin purple stripes and the other cream colored. She held them up and raised her eyebrows, silently asking him what he thought.
"… Not what I had in mind" he confessed. "You bought me shirts?"
"Yes. I'm a girlfriend who likes to dress my sweetheart. And the striped shirt matches a dress I found, except the dress has green stripes. I advise you to get used to this, because from now on you are my little real life paper doll-"
"Well thank you" he said as she hung up the shirts in his closet.
"I take it you weren't referring to clothes for you to wear when you asked me if I got you anything" she said while turning her attention back to her remaining bags.
"You know me well."
"I may have stopped by Victoria's Secret" Blair said, shooting him a sly smile.
"Really? Maybe I should send you off on shopping sprees more often. Let me see!"
"No" she said.
"No?"
"No."
"I thought you shopped there for my benefit."
"Yes, but it ruins the fun if you get to see it beforehand" she reasoned. "I think I'm going to claim one of your drawers for my own and stash my lingerie there."
"Now hold on just a minute" he said, raising an eyebrow playfully. "I will not surrender my drawers without a fight."
"Then name your price" she said with a smile.
"Show me one of the things you bought at Secret."
She grabbed the Victoria's Secret bag and glanced inside it. Then she grabbed one of the items she had bought just an hour ago and held it up for him to see.
"Lemony yellow…" he said and nodded approvingly. "Never seen you seduce me in that color before. It looks hot. But I don't think it's being done justice on that hanger. Maybe you should put it on and show me the full effect?"
"Maybe later. I have bags to unpack" she said cheerfully.
He shook his head with a chuckle but knew when to give up. She was enjoying going over the things she had bought and didn't seem to want to take a break right now. He watched her lift up item after item, commenting on each thing she produced from her bags. Most of it met his approval, although some of the things she had gotten were a tad too conservative for his taste. And her three new headbands were just white noise to him.
Finally she got to her last bag, which was the only one that didn't contain any clothes. She had picked up a bunch of magazines on her way back to the hotel, and plopped down on the bed with all of them in her hands. Lying on her stomach she lifted her feet up in the air and crossed them in a coquettish manner while starting to look through the magazine at the top of her pile.
Chuck cast her another glance and then turned his attention back to his laptop. While checking out the link Nate had sent him he realized he still hadn't stopped by most of his usual websites, and since at least a third of them weren't "adult" sites he might as well go ahead and visit them while Blair read her magazines.
He felt himself relax a bit and enjoyed the ability to do his own stuff with Blair in the room. She was busy entertaining one of her hobbies and he could focus his attention on his. It was one of the biggest luxuries yet, being able to do whatever he wanted to do while she did the same, yet they were doing it together. He decided he could definitely get used to this kind of thing. While he undeniably needed some time to himself every now and then to keep him from losing his mind, it felt amazing to get to be around her without having to focus all of his attention on her.
"Toss me a pillow" Blair said, breaking the silence.
He reached over and grabbed a pillow from her side of the bed, tossing it to where she was lying stretched out on the foot end of the bed. She propped it up against his legs, turned to lie on her back and picked up the second magazine from her pile. After a while her head leaning against his legs started to get uncomfortable.
"Mind moving up a bit?" he asked without looking up from his computer.
Without a word she obediently scooted higher up on the bed, nudging him to roll over on his back. He complied, even though it made it a bit uncomfortable to use the computer since it was sitting next to him on the bed. He felt her place the pillow on his stomach and then stretch out again as she continued reading her magazines.
More than an hour had gone by before he looked up from his computer again. He was surprised to find her resting on her side, looking up at him. He hadn't noticed her putting her magazines away, and barely recalled her rolling over and curling up in a fetal position. He wondered for how long she had been lying there in silence, watching him.
"All out of things to read?" he asked.
"Yes" she said. "But that's okay. I'm enjoying the view."
He smiled at her and closed his computer shut, moving it to the side and motioning for her to move up to him. She sat up and moved over so that she was lying side by side with him, her head resting on his pillow. He kissed her softly, beginning to wonder if she had the same idea for a pre-dinner activity as he had.
"You're done with the computer?" she asked.
"Mmm…" he mumbled and kissed her again. "My attention's on you now."
"So can I use it?"
He frowned slightly and gave her a look. Obviously her mind was not on sex at the moment. He sighed and grabbed the computer, handing it over to her. She cheerfully thanked him and kissed him on the cheek before opening his web browser to check her favorite websites.
With a disappointed sigh he reached for the remote and turned the TV back on to watch another episode of "Heroes". Watching TV was not what he had wanted to do right now. But still, watching TV with her curled up next to him was ten times better than watching it alone, even if she wasn't watching with him.
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I'm probably not going to update this again before Easter. I've got very little time for my fics at present and I will be putting most of what time I have on "Rules of Engagement". Hope you'll all still be with me when the next update comes around =)
