~They Belong Together~
Chapter 4. The encounter.
I do not own Gossip Girl or any of those characters. I am just using them for fan fiction.
Two more days passed by and Thursday came, until Dan decided that it was about time to find Blair and try to talk to her.
He had first tried to call her, but she never answered his calls. Then he tried to call her at the penthouse, only to have Dorota answer "Miss Blair isn't at home. She will call you when she comes back." or "I am sorry, Miss Blair can't talk at the moment." or even "Miss Blair is sleeping. She will call you later."
She never called back, so he made his mind, grabbed his jacket and made his way to the Upper East Side.
What the hell? he thought.. If Blair was sleeping, he would wait there until she woke up. If Blair wasn't at home, he would wait for her to return. It didn't matter how long he would have to wait. He was definitely going to talk with her that day.
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She was at home. And she wasn't sleeping.
She was arranging some white and purple lilies in a vase in the foyer when he stepped of the elevator.
"Humphrey? What are you doing here?" she said half-surprised for his visit.
"Um..We need to talk Blair.."
"In that case, you should have called before coming. I'm about to leave."
"Oh believe me I did call a lot of times these days but you weren't available.."
"That's true. I'm too busy supervising my wedding's details" she said and rolled her eyes.
"I can see that..But I need to talk with you. There is.."
"You have five minutes. Do tell" she interrupted and started watching the clock in her cell phone.
"..Can you..look at me?..while I'm talking?" he requested.
"Sure. Four minutes and thirty five seconds left"
"It can't work that way.." he said taken aback by her almost rude behavior.
She raised her eyebrows but didn't make it any easier to him.
"Fine..The other day you came to the loft and saw me talking with Serena.."
"Talking? Well I recall a different scene.." she started with a voice full with irony.
"We just talked Blair.." he said tiredly "and maybe for the last time.."
Her eyes half-closed suspiciously at that, but again she made no comment.
"You see.." he continued" there is this book I wrote that is now published.."
He didn't get to finish the sentence.
"You? wrote a book?" she asked in disbelief "and it is published?"
She was really surprised this time. Dan exhaled in relief. That meant that she hadn't read the book. Yet.
"You didn't know?" he asked.
"As much as it pains me to admit it Humphrey, I had no idea."
"Then I should probably leave and come back when you have read it" he said "Of course, if you still want to speak to me after reading it.."
"What are you talking about? Why on earth would I stop talking to you after reading a book you wrote?" she asked confused.
He looked away for a second but made eye contact almost immediately.
"Possibly because the book is mainly about you."
She completely froze at that. It was probably the first time that Dan had seen her being that much surprised.
She was looking at him trying to understand if she had heard well. And if so, what repercussions could that have.
"Me?"
"Mostly. But it includes everyone else I got to know those four years I was writing it..Serena, Nate, Chuck..even Louis recently" he admitted.
"Oh"
He didn't reply to that, but instead watched her face changing expression.
"So..Let me see if I got it right. Basically you wrote a book about Serena, praising her golden hair and extremely good-looks while depicting me as the Manhattan's villain, which let's face it I am, and that is the reason I wouldn't speak to you again after reading it,right?"
"That's not what I meant. It's not about Serena. Not only about her, anyway. And it's not a biography either. Most of the stories there are fictional. Serena came angry at me because of what I have written about her in the book and I was trying to comfort her, and that is what you saw in the loft. It wasn't meant to be published and if it weren't for Vanessa I wouldn't be in that awful situation now.."
"I don't understand..If you.."
"Why don't you read it first? I can send you a copy if you like" he suggested.
"I am sure I can afford to buy a copy Humphrey.." she mocked.
"It's called Inside. Call me whenever you want. I'll be waiting." He said softly and headed to the elevator.
"Don't wait it to be too soon." She lied "I have to fit it in my schedule."
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He was waiting in anxiety for the rest of that day until the night of the next one. She had said that she would take her time reading it, but he didn't believe that. Anything mentioning her name in it had always been the first priority to Blair Waldorf. He had stayed up all night speculating the possible scenarios of her reaction after reading it.
The first one –which he thought to be the most accurate- was her not even calling back. She wouldn't want to deal with the complications that the book might arose and she would avoid the matter and him as long as she could.
The second was about her coming in Brooklyn to confront him for the things he had fabricated in the book. She would yell at him annoyed and disgusted with the possibility of them being together in any form- especially in a romantic way- even friendship when this was revealed to everyone.
The third..No. There couldn't be a third scenario there. Blair would never return his feelings to him even if she wasn't caught up in her fairytale.
So the only thing remaining to be seen was if she would pick the first or the second alternative. And while waiting he could start preparing himself for both.
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Friday night about 3.30 a.m. Dawn of Saturday.
His cell phone rang and a message was received. Dan opened his eyes and looked at the phone's screen and froze. The message was from Blair.
Get dressed. I am coming over.
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a/n. End of the chapter. Did you like it? I know this chapter is quite shorter and I want to apologize for the late update but uni is being tough lately and on the top of that I am giving exams for a certificate in english in about two weeks and it's really difficult to find the time to write. Please stay with me and I assure you after the exams I will update frequently. Also if you have any ideas that you want to share with me for how the story should continue post it in a review and I will try to fit it in. Sorry for any mistakes there! I will reread it and try to fix them..Thanks for reading! Please Read and Review!