Chapter 4
Jenny hopped off the plane feeling as nauseous as ever. Although she knew it was from the plane, she found it odd. She had never felt that nauseous on a plane ride before. She pushed it aside, scanning the airport for her father, whom she'd arranged to meet at the airport. She asked her mom and dad if she could attend Chuck's funeral (both knew nothing of the Jenny and Chuck scandal) and they agreed.
Finally she saw a familiar face, although it wasn't her dad. She ran to that person nonetheless and gave them a hug. "Dan! I've missed you!"
Dan had noticed a lot of changes with Jenny, but the most important one was her slight weight gain. "Mom must be feeding you well, Jen. I'm happy you're back but...why are you back? You just got done choking it down my throat that you weren't going to come back to New York for quite awhile when I begged you to come back."
Jenny had not a clue on how to answer Dan's question. She would look like such a hypocrite if she told him she was here for Chuck. "I, err…am here to see my amazing family!"
Dan looked at her skeptically. "You're here for Chuck's funeral aren't you?"
She sighed, knowing she could never get anything past her brother and said "well, call me crazy but I kinda feel bad for the guy. None of his friends coming to visit him in the hospital in his last month and a half of life-not even Nate? That's kinda sad.
"How'd you know he ended up in the hospital before he died? Everybody just thought he died instantly and they've kept it a secret until now."
"It's called Google, Dan. I may not read Gossip Girl anymore, but I do get on the internet."
"Well, Rufus and Lily kept it pretty lock and key about what was happening. They were secretive about it, so I'm surprised a newspaper article knew what happened. Besides, everybody's got their own problems. Nate's a drunken mess, sleeping with whores just like Chuck did, Serena and Blair are off lollygagging in Paris and me…well you know my mess. So everyone was oblivious to where the mysterious Chuck Bass was."
Jenny rolled her eyes, "Oh yea, you and Georgina. Any more news on that disgusting rendezvous?"
"You shouldn't be the one to talk on disgusting rendezvous. As a matter of fact, I got a DNA test done two days ago. I should be getting a call any minute now on if I'm going to be a daddy or not."
"That sounded like A. you either want to be the father of Georgina Sparks kid, or B. You know you're not the father."
"I'll go with B. You see, I talked to the doctor, and the date Georgina conceived the baby and the night we hooked up are off. Her story's not adding up; so he said, although there's still that possibility, the chances of me being that kid's father are slim. So now my main problems to deal with have Serena and Vanessa involved, not Georgina."
"Why Serena? Oh god please don't say you want to get back together with her! I mean, you guys have broken up and gone back out too many times to count. Let it go! Besides, there's better people out there than her," Jenny stated with a huff. She pretty much hated everybody here except her father, Eric, Dan, and Lilly to some extent.
"Listen, it's my life so let me live it. And I don't think you have any right to be mad at her, Jen. YOU tried making a move on HER boyfriend."
"What about Vanessa? You're just going to dump her to get back with Serena? A relationship that will only last maybe a month?"
"Whatever. I don't need my LITTLE sister telling me what's best for me!"
Jenny rolled her eyes, but said no more on the subject. She was already excited for the day she went back to Hudson. Like she had known, she regretted leaving Hudson, but she praised herself for being the better person in a world of selfish people.
GG
Blair had gotten to the memorial service to help Lilly finish up the rest of the stuff that needed to get done. She didn't expect Lilly to be as much of a wreck as she was. She was constantly sobbing and retiring to her room for minutes at a time. Blair had just told the caterers where to set the food when she came across a scrapbook titled simply Charles Bartholomew Bass. She opened to the first page and found Chuck's birth certificate, along with the picture they take of all the newborn babies. She had always remembered saying how all of them looked the same when they were born, but for some reason Chuck looked different. He had on his famous "Chuck Stare" as everyone called it. You could definitely tell that this was Chuck Bass without looking at his birth certificate. She flipped through to the next page, which had-surprisingly- Bart Bass smiling down at his newborn son cradled in his arms. She was surprised he was smiling, for his wife and the mother of his child, had just died. But, it was also nice to see him smiling at Chuck, something that was rare. Blair kept flipping through page after page of the scrapbook, smiling as Chuck aged from the sweet little innocent one year old, to the four year old "famous" Chuck everyone had come to know and love. Every picture brought her that much closer to tears. She rubbed her small belly. She had found out she was carrying Chuck's child just days before, and she hoped that her son would look exactly like the baby in these pictures. She knew she was carrying a boy, Chuck would've wanted her to carry his son. Chuck probably bargained with God about making his child a boy, she just knew it.
"Oh, Blair…I was going to give that to you. Chuck would've wanted you to have it" Lilly said from behind Blair. Blair looked up at Lilly's watery eyes and hugged her. It was kind of Lilly to give her such a good scrapbook such as this, instead of keeping it for herself which Blair knew she probably wanted.
"I knew you two had your ups and downs but I just knew you would be together someday…he was such a good boy, people didn't realize it-except me and you."
Blair smiled, but she had to ask Lilly something important. "Lilly, have you decided what's going to happen Bass industries and the Empire Hotel?"
"Oh, I'm afraid I haven't decided yet. It would make it so much easier if Chuck would've had a child or something, because then I could give it to his offspring…but at least Chuck took the precautions necessary to prevent him being a teen father. I guess I should be happy for that."
"Well, it's funny you should mention that because I am-"
"Oh, sorry dear, I have to take this call. It's the funeral home. We'll talk later. You can tell me how Paris was. I need to listen to good, non sad stories." Lilly patted Blair on the shoulder and answered her phone.
Blair sighed. She needed to tell Lilly she was carrying Chuck's child, so she could just plan on giving him the ownership of Bass Industries. But she was in no rush she guessed. She could tell Lilly at another time.
Just as she was rounding the corner, Blair bumped into Jenny Humphrey. Blair looked her up and down and was surprised to notice a weight gain in Jenny too. She stared at her icily before replying "I thought I told you never to enter the Upper East Side, or you'd pay for an eternity."
Jenny rolled her eyes. "In case you haven't noticed, this is MY house with MY family living in it. And FYI, you don't own the damn Upper East Side, so I can enter and leave it when I please. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a funeral to get ready for."
Blair had had enough. "Just because Chuck slept with you once, doesn't mean you have a right to be at his funeral! We loved each other, he didn't love you!"
Jenny turned around to face Blair. "We might've not loved each other, but do you think he'd be dead right now if you actually loved him as much as he loved you? Face it, Blair. He's dead because he held on to the one thing that you denied him of-marriage. He held on to that ring and he got shot because of it. So how about you stop pretending to be his hero, because he's dead because of you."
Blair was livid after hearing what Jenny had to say. At least Jenny didn't have one thing –Chuck's baby. Chuck at least left something with her. But what if Jenny was right? What if it WAS her fault that Chuck was dead? Maybe she jumped to conclusions when she just up and left for Paris, without giving him a chance to explain himself.
No. She refused to let what Jenny said get to her. Chuck was drunk and foolish and died of his own free will. NOT because of her.
GG
The reception was through and the funeral guests were now at the gravesite where Chuck was to be buried. As his casket was being lowered into the ground, everyone had gotten a text at the same time.
I knew Chuck was too clever to not leave this planet without leaving something behind. As I was looking around at this somber crowd, I noticed that there were a few baby bump sightings; looks like the seed of Chuck was planted in more than one garden. I would say "We'll miss you Chuck" but it looks like we'll be seeing a lot more of you in nine months time.
XOXO
Gossip Girl
Blair couldn't believe this. "the seed of Chuck was planted in more than one garden?" What the hell was that supposed to mean? She didn't know if she should be mad at Gossip Girl for pointing out her pregnancy before she had a chance to tell anyone, or if she should be mad at her for lying and saying there was more than one person carrying Chuck's baby. It had to be only her. She began looking around, scoping out baby bumps. Nobody but Jenny looked like they had gained a pound. Jenny? It couldn't be…just then the group got another text from GG. This time, it had two pictures. One of Blair…and one of Jenny with a caption "See what I mean?"
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