Chapter 9

Wayne Carson's office.

Blair smiled at the receptionist as she opened the door for her, "Thank you." After waiting for the woman to close the door, Blair walked up to the desk and stood in front of the gray haired man, "Wayne, I don't have a lot of time here, so I'm going to get right to the point. I need you to okay any and all permits for Chuck Bass's establishment. I have a healthy investment in this club and I'm not going to see it go down the drain."

"I don't know who you are, but that sounds a lot like a bribe." Wayne said. He got to his feet and walked up to Blair, "You just gave me the last bit of proof that Chuck Bass is unfit to be an owner of any club in the fine city of New York."

"Do you really think I came here empty handed?" Blair asked with a laugh. She pulled out a n envelope from her purse and handed it to Wayne, "You are on the mayor's committee for family values aren't you? I'm just guessing here, but wouldn't be a conflict of interest for you to be screwing around with your 17 year old baby sitter?"

Wayne ripped open the envelope, took one look at the pictures inside and fell back against his desk. He slowly turned and walked back around to his desk and sat down opposite Blair, "It's not what you think. She came onto me. I swear."

"I'm not here judge you Wayne, but those pictures are going to be hard to explain to the mayor, the family values committee, but most of all to your wife and children. So, if you want the pictures to disappear you will do what I asked." Blair got up, grabbed the envelope from Wayne's hands and walked towards the door, not looking back at all.

Blair's bedroom.

Serena walked up to Blair's bedroom, spotted the open door and stepped inside. Blair stopped in her tracks when she saw Serena standing in front of her and promptly walked up and gave her a hug, "I wasn't expecting you to show up, I thought we agreed it was best not to give Lily or Rufus any reason to get suspicious."

"It's so perfect that you mentioned her name. That just makes this so much easier." Serena said with an angry growl as she pulled her right hand all the way back and then let go with a slap that knocked Blair to her knees.

Blair grabbed her left cheek and looked up at the angry blonde glaring down at her, "Ouch. That hurt. What in the hell is going on?"

"Why don't you ask my mom?" Serena said with her scowl getting more menacing by the second.

Her face went white as a ghost as Blair closed her eyes and realized what was going on, "I guess you know. I don't know what to say. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that this happened."

"Why don't I believe that?" Serena asked as she walked in a circle around her much shorter friend, "Of all the evil things you've done to me this is the worst of all. I can't even begin to tell you how mad I am right now. There are some things in life that should remain off limits and I'd say having sex with your best friend's mother is really high on that list. I never thought you could sink this low."

"I don't want to make excuses, but you need to know what happened that night."

"You are not going to get out of this."

"I'm not trying to." Blair said, not backing away from the tall angry blonde in front of her, "I expect all responsibility for that night. Now can I get up please, this floor is really getting cold." Blair grabbed her ass and squeezed her cute little cheeks as she looked up at Serena.

"Oh god, must you do that now."

"Do what?"

"Be all cute and funny when I'm mad." Serena growled, "Now get up.

"I didn't think I was." Blair said as she got to her knees. "The floor was cold and you look really tall and scary from down there."

"Good, you should be afraid."

Blair smirked slightly, "Um, I am, that's why I'd like to get up and find a better place to hide while I tell you the story."

"Oh stop it. I'm not going to hurt you." Serena said, rolling her eyes at Blair's theatrics, "I wish I could, but I can't. I don't want to hear the sordid details of, oh god, I can't even say it. How would you like it if I had sex with your mom?"

"Yuck, that's not even funny." Blair said, making one of her peculiar faces, "It's hardly the same thing."

"Why is that?"

"Well, your mother is quite a bit younger and she's still a very attractive woman."

"Stop talking about her like that." Serena screamed.

"You asked." Blair shot back.

"I don't care, you would not like it I had sex with your mother or father for that matter."

"My dad doesn't like girls, so I'm not too worried about that and I'm pretty sure my mom doesn't like girls, so go for it."

Serena growled at Blair's smugness, "Guess what, my mom didn't like girls before you came along, but you are very hard to resist, so I don't blame her, well not totally, because I know you had to be the one to seduce her."

"Oh really?" Blair asked, clearly resenting Serena's accusation, "Well it just so happens that your mother was very upset that night and so was I. We had just had a fight, I don't even know what it was about, but I think it was about Jenny and you refused to admit you were seeing her and that really pissed me off, because I knew you were and guess what, I was right. You lied to my face about that. You've never lied about who you were seeing before, so why do it with Jenny?"

"You will not turn this around on me." Serena yelled.

Blair took a step backwards, "I'm simply explaining why I was at the bar at that night and my state of mind at the time. I was very upset that you lied to me. Why couldn't you just trust me enough to tell me about Jenny? I think I earned that."

"I believe I admitted I was wrong to keep it from you. I even apologized just the other day, so I'm not going to feel guilty about this."

"I don't want you to, but as I was saying, I was very upset and I went to try and sneak a couple drinks at the bar and your mother showed up. Well, apparently she had just had a fight with Rufus about money or something and she was very upset."

Serena rolled her eyes and folded her arms over her ample chest, "Oh right, because we all know that two upset people just have to go have sex, don't they?"

Ignoring Serena's constant jabs, Blair did her best to continue, "Your mom saw me there having a drink when she knew I shouldn't be and she took the drink away from me. That pissed me off to, but she was really very sweet about it so I didn't stay mad for long. We got to talking and then when it was time to leave I said I was going to have my driver drive me around for a while so the alcohol left my system and she wanted to do the same thing and she said she had a place that she went to when she needed some alone time, so we went to this rather creepy looking motel."

"She invited you to the hotel?"

"We did not go there with the intention of having sex." Blair yelled, "Anyway, we got there and it was a very small place, so the only place to sit was on the bed. We end up talking and she told me all about her problems with Rufus and I told her about some of our problems, not about Jenny, but she was really very understanding, but I could see she was still so sad and I tried to comfort her."

"You're not really the nurturing type." Serena said, almost smiling at her own comment.

"Maybe not always, but I was that night and I just gave her a hug and I don't even know what happened or who did what next, but somehow or another we stopped hugging and we were gazing into each other's eyes and there was that awkward pause and all of a sudden we just started kissing and oh wow can your mom kiss."

Serena jumped in the air, covered her ears and screamed at Blair, "OMG, shut up. I told you no details."

"Sorry." Blair said as she held in her grin, "Honestly, I never planned on anything happening and I never in a million years would've done this if I had time to think, but it all happened so fast."

"That doesn't change anything."

"Don't you think I know that?" Blair yelled, "Your mother wanted to tell you. She wanted to be honest, but I said no. There was no way that honesty would help in this situation. There is no way that anyone would ever understand what happened, they would just be as angry as you are now. I told her that no good could come of it and if she ever wanted a relationship with you that she had to keep that secret forever."

"Now you have my mother lying for you."

Blair shook her head vigorously, "No, not for me, for her. As much as I cherish you as a friend and I don't want to lose you, I didn't want her to lose you either. You need her and she needs you and I couldn't let anything ruin that."

"Too late. It's already over." Serena said in a sad but calm voice, "I'm never going to talk to her again. She is still the adult and this should never have happened."

"I'm an adult now to."

Serena laughed hysterically, "By law, not by maturity."

"Nice zinger." Blair said with a straight face as Serena glared at her some more.

"This is not funny." Serena yelled, "I just never thought this day would come, when you would do something that I couldn't forgive, but here it is. So in one horrible moment I've lost my best friend and my mother, the two people I've trusted the most in my life."

"No, you have not lost anything." Blair said as she grabbed Serena by the arm, "I know it sounds cliché, but just give it some time. Be angry, hate me all you want, but I'm begging you not to tell your mother you know about this. It won't do any good for everyone to know. You know the marriage will be called off, you know that Eric will be devastated and I'm hoping you just take some time before you do anything with this information. Please."

"I don't owe you anything anymore." Serena said as she pulled away from Blair's grip, "I know we are supposed to go on a trip together but I don't think I can be around you right now."

"Don't do that to Jenny, she's looking forward to this like it's the biggest weekend of her life. I'll stay out of your sight the whole time. I promise. Punish me, not her."

"I wish I didn't have to punish anyone, but you know what, Jenny knew about this and she didn't tell me either. I'm not very happy with her either."

"Oh come on, I asked her not to say anything." Blair said, groaning as she grabbed Serena yet again, "I told her exactly what I told you, that telling you would not make anything better and I was right. She hated not being able to tell you or her dad, but that's what I asked her to do. Again, don't blame her, she loves you. You need her right now so much, please just go on this trip and have fun with her and for a couple days forget all about this."

"It's not that easy. How do I forget this?" Serena asked point blank, knowing Blair couldn't answer, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to get over this. It's in my head and it's driving me crazy. I want to have a good time with Jenny, but maybe it's best if we wait until some time has passed and I'm in a better frame of mind, because I don't think I'm going to be very good company for her right now."

"I hate seeing you like this." Blair said with a heavy sigh, "In spite of everything I've done, I swear I never wanted to hurt you and nothing has hurt me more than this. I deserve the hurt and I'm not saying that to be a martyr, I mean it. What I did was unforgivable, but I will never stop caring about you or wishing you the best and I think Jenny is good for you and I got to see firsthand how excited she was about this trip and I just don't want to be responsible for that kind of disappointment on her."

"Stop doing that." Serena yelled, turning away from Blair's sad face, "This is not about you. Maybe you need to see the pain you've caused me and everyone else who's going to be affected by this. Maybe you need to see Jenny's disappointment. Will it matter? Will you change? I don't think so. I think remorse only lasts on you about an hour, then you're back to your old self again."

"At least you aren't holding back, that's good to see." Blair said calmly, "Well, I can only say you're wrong this time. I feel more remorse than you will ever know and I won't forgive myself for this, but I honestly hope that in time you can find a way to forgive me. Anyway, let me know what you want to do about this trip, because we're supposed to leave tomorrow night."

"I hate this, but I'm not going to disappoint Jenny, so I'll go on this trip but you better find a room in a hotel far away from ours and in case you didn't know it, Georgina is the one who spilled the beans about all this. So you have fun with her." Serena couldn't help but smile as she walked out of Blair's bedroom, but it didn't last long because no matter what she did she couldn't forget what Blair had done to her.

Mystic Night Club.

Poppy sat in the corner booth sipping a drink, occasionally looking over at Vanessa who wasn't doing anything at all, "Come on Vanessa, enough is enough. I didn't bring you here to practice being a statue."

"I don't feel like dancing. You go dance, it's not like people are afraid to ask. No need to keep turning them down. I'm not going to be upset. I want you to have fun."

"I came here to have fun with you not anyone else." Poppy got to her feet, her short pink dress hiking all the way up to her waist as she bent over and grabbed Vanessa by the hand, "You are coming with me." Poppy dragged Vanessa onto the crowded dance floor and slowly but surely Vanessa began to move her body to the music, causing a very big smile to appear on Poppy's face.

Just as Vanessa had got into the song and being so close to Poppy, she felt a hand on her shoulder. When she spun around to see who it was, she let out an annoyed sigh, "What do you want?"

"Who does Blair know that works downtown? Pretty, dark hair, great smile. Who?" Georgina asked, tapping her feet against the ground as she awaited her reply.

Vanessa smiled at Georgina's bizarre question, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"I saw her with some girl." Georgina groaned, "I thought we had an understanding. She invited me to Miami, but now I see her with some hot girl and I don't know what to do."

"What was she doing with this person?"

"I don't know, they walked inside the building together, but I could tell there was something going on."

"Oh god, are you certifiable?" Vanessa asked with a laugh, "So Blair walking beside some girl sends you into panic mode? You are crazy."

"Shut up. I'm not jealous, I'm upset." Georgina snapped, feeling a strong need to clarify, "I think she was just using me for some reason. Now she will think twice about pissing me off."

"What did you do?"

"What anyone would've done in my shoes, I told one of her secrets." Georgina said with a proud smile.

Vanessa looked over at Poppy, "This is why I stay inside a lot."

Poppy laughed and walked up to Georgina, "You need to find Blair and apologize for your what you did and hope she's in a good mood, because what you did was really just mean."

"I didn't ask you." Georgina glared at Poppy as if she'd been stabbed in the back, "Why are you jumping on my back. I thought we were friends?"

"You had no reason to do anything. You saw nothing." Poppy said, shaking her head at Georgina, "If this is what you call changing you need to find a new teacher, because you're failing miserably."

After looking at the overwhelming display of disappointment on the two girls faces, Georgina lowered her head, "Okay, so maybe I overreacted, but I was really looking forward to this trip and I thought things were turning around for me and I guess when I saw Blair with that girl I just assumed it was over. That's just a bad habit of mine. I never believe things will work out. Just go back to your dancing and I'll go find Blair."

Vanessa watched Georgina run off and turned her attention back to Poppy, "Maybe I'm not the most messed up person around here after all."

"Of course you're not. You're just a girl in love, but now it's time to move and if you're ready, I'm here to help you."

Smiling at Poppy's positive words, Vanessa put her arms around her friend and gave her a hot wet kiss. She pulled her in tight, kissing her hard and deep as the music played on.

End of Chapter 9.