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Chapter 10
"So, what's new?" Nate asked Dan as he teed off the seventh hole.
The two men were engaging in one of their favorite pastimes; golf.
"Umm, we spend almost every day together. There's nothing new." Dan said angrily.
He was not too pleased with Nate at the moment. Dan was doing poorly today and could hardly concentrate on his stroke with Nate blabbering on about this and that.
"I have to tell you something. Promise you won't judge me." Nate said suddenly.
"Nate, I'm flattered, but I'm just not into guys." Dan responded and finally made it to the green.
"That's not what I was going to say." Nate said, getting flustered.
"I was kidding man." Dan said. "What's on your mind?"
"Blair." Nate said simply.
Dan sighed. He didn't know what to do. As far as he understood it, based on the events of last night, Dan was pretty sure that Blair didn't have any romantic feelings for Nate. But what did he know? They had been together for twelve years, after all.
"Is that all you had to tell me?" Dan asked when Nate didn't say anything else.
"No. I wanted your advice. What should I do? I mean last night I told her that I only loved her as a friend but I don't know, every time I see her I feel like I'm falling in love with her again." Nate confessed.
Mother of God. Dan thought.
"I don't know what to tell you man. You know her better than I do. Do you think she feels the same way?" Dan asked carefully.
"I have no clue. Blair is so hard to read. I think that she has fun when we hang out and last night she was dancing with me kind of…sexually." Nate said with a small smile at the memory.
"Nate, I honestly don't know what the right answer is. If you think it's a good idea, ask her out again. But if you think that it'll ruin the friendship, I wouldn't risk it." Dan said, hoping he didn't sway Nate's decision one way or the other. He definitely didn't want to be responsible for whatever Nate did.
"I think I'm going to go for it." Nate said, putting the ball directly into the hole.
"Good." Dan said, unsure if this was a good idea at all.
Blair and Chuck were sitting on the Humphrey's couch watching Ryan practice for his upcoming school play. Chuck sighed in frustration and continued to complain that his nephew should not be a fairy. Blair shushed him and continued to praise Ryan, much to Chuck's chagrin.
When the two heard the familiar sound of metal on metal, the key being put into the lock, they glanced at each other. They knew that their time of freedom was up, and for that, they both were sorry. Soon Chuck would be married and he and Blair wouldn't be able to spend the day together.
"Hello?" Serena's voice rang throughout the penthouse.
Blair said nothing. Chuck got up to greet his step sister and gave Joanna a chaste kiss on her cheek.
Chuck felt bad for Serena and what was headed her way: three days of the Waldorf Cold Shoulder. He wouldn't wish that on anyone. Not only would Blair not talk to her but she would also ignore Serena completely, purposely talk to everyone in Serena's vicinity, and withhold any juicy gossip. And boy did Blair have something juicy to tell Serena.
"Hey Blair!" Serena chirped brightly, unaware that she would not be well-received.
"Joanna, lovely to see you." Blair said curtly, turning her face away from Serena.
"Earth to Blair!" Serena exclaimed.
"Chuck, don't you have something to tell Serena?" Blair said pointedly. Chuck rolled his eyes.
"Blair wants me to inform you that you two are no longer on speaking terms and you are a traitorous b-i-t-c-h." Chuck spelled out the last word so Ryan wouldn't understand what he said.
"What? Why?" Serena asked, totally perplexed.
Blair just gave Chuck the same pointed look. He sighed and rolled his eyes yet again. Blair could be so immature sometimes.
"Today was the Private Sample Sale at Barney's apparently." Chuck explained.
Serena's face showed that she truly had forgotten that the sale was today. Blair didn't care though. She was pissed that Serena could 1-forget about the sale and 2-spend the entire day with Joanna without even calling her.
"B, I am so sorry. I totally forgot." Serena said.
"Well I'm so glad that our friendship and traditions rank so high in importance for you." Blair bit out sarcastically.
"How can I make this up to you?" Serena's voice was pleading with Blair. She hated when she and Blair fought because Blair took no prisoners.
"You can't, Serena." Blair spat.
Serena walked over to Blair and put her hand on Blair's shoulder. Blair shrugged it off and walked to the door. Then she turned back and was wearing quite a different expression than the one she had only a moment ago.
"As a sidebar, guess who called me today, begging for me to take him back. Yet again I might add." Blair said with a wide smirk.
"No!" Serena shouted, completely scandalized.
"Oh yes! It's too bad we won't be talking for the next three days!" Blair said.
"Blair come on. Don't be so immature. I screwed up. It happens. Not everyone can be as perfect as you." Serena said, appealing to Blair's vanity.
"That is true. I am perfect." Blair agreed.
"Yes, and I am so sorry." Serena continued, seeing that she was wearing Blair down.
"You'd have to be willing to really work for it." Blair said slyly.
"Whatever it takes." Serena said eager to get over this little fight.
"That purple Gucci dress of yours." Blair said.
Serena frowned at her. She loved that dress. It was custom made and worth ten grand. But Blair had only been back in town for a couple of days and Serena really wanted to keep everything copasetic.
"If I say yes, are we good. No cold shoulder, no holding this against me in the future?" Serena asked.
"Deal." Blair said with a malicious grin.
"You were going to forgive me anyway, weren't you?" Serena asked as she noticed Blair's smile.
"You know me well." Blair said and chuckled.
"So…tell me what he said." Serena said conversationally as she walked over to the couch and pulled Ryan on her lap.
Blair sat across from her on the leather chair and Chuck and Joanna sat on the love seat next to Blair's chair. Serena looked at Blair eagerly and Blair relished the attention and decided to drag it out a bit.
"Well…did I tell you that he called me the other day?" Blair began.
"No! When was this?" Serena asked.
"Last Wednesday, when Chuck and I went to the park with Ryan." Blair explained.
"He called me saying 'Oh Baby' this and 'I miss you' that. And I told him that he could kiss my skinny white ass. Sorry." Blair apologized when she realized that Ryan was listening intently to her every word.
Serena, who would have normally been upset about this, ignored it, too eager to hear the rest of the story to care.
"And then he was like 'Oh I made a mistake. Chantal, that's the name of the little hooker he was engaged to, Chantal was not the woman I was.' And then he was all 'You know we belong together. I made a mistake and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get you back.'" Blair retold the events of the other day with a satisfied smirk.
"Wait, you're telling me the woman that was engaged to one of the richest men in the world was a hooker?" Serena asked in utter confusion.
"What? No she was a flight attendant. Same difference in my book." Blair clarified.
"So then I go 'You had your chance. I never meant a thing to you; I was just your trophy, yada, yada, yada.' Then I hung up on him and threw my phone at a tree." Blair finished.
"How could you not have told me this?" Serena demanded.
"I guess I tried to put it out of my mind. But then today at lunch he called me again. And the weird part is I had my number changed. But I guess with enough money, you can find anything out." Blair sighed.
"And? What did he say?" Serena was practically salivating.
"Pretty much the same things as before. He misses me, he loves me, he can't live without me, letting me go was the biggest mistake of his life. Things like that." Blair said and grinned.
"Well aren't we pleased with ourselves?" Serena asked condescendingly.
"We are." Blair replied.
"I hope you let him down gently." Serena added, doubting that was the case.
"Umm, the correct answer would be…no!" Blair shouted.
"That stupid, excuse my language, schmuck, doesn't deserve any sympathy. I gave him chance after chance and he didn't care enough then to change. Now that I'm gone he regrets it? Well that is too damn bad!" Blair added angrily.
"Okay, okay, relax. It was just a question." Serena cooed.
"I'm relaxed. I'm fine." Blair said taking deep, calming breathes.
Just then, the door opened and Nate and Dan walked in, looking extremely tired from their day of golfing. They set their golf bags down and walked to the living room.
"What'd we miss?" Dan asked, feigning interest.
"We were just telling Serena that she should leave you." Blair deadpanned.
Dan gave her a questioning look. Serena nodded to confirm Blair's statement.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Dan barked.
"No they weren't, Daddy." Ryan piped in.
"Ry-an." Blair groaned.
"That's not cool Blair." Dan said and picked his son up.
"Sorry." Blair said sarcastically.
"Right." Dan retorted with just as much sarcasm.
"So what are the plans for the evening?" Dan asked.
"Well we," Serena pointed to Dan, Ryan, and herself, "have dinner plans with my mom and Bart."
"That is sure to be fun." Dan's voice was dripping with sarcasm.
"And we," Joanna indicated Chuck and herself, "have a date tonight. Remember baby?"
"Uh, yeah. Of course I do." Chuck said, clearly not remembering a thing.
"Good. So we better go and get ready." Joanna said practically dragging Chuck out of the penthouse.
"Bye." Chuck called over his shoulder.
"So I guess that just leaves you and me." Nate said to Blair.
"It looks that way." Blair agreed, staring after Chuck's retreating figure.
"Would you like to go to dinner?" Nate asked, trying to sound casual.
"Pick me up at eight?" Blair answered. Nate grinned.
"Wow Waldorf, you know how to eat." Nate teased as he and Blair walked along the sidewalk eating ice cream.
Blair slapped his arm playfully and nearly knocked him into the street in the process.
"Be nice." She said.
"Me? What about you? You nearly killed me." Nate accused.
"Deal with it." Blair said with a smirk.
"I forgot that you could be such a bitch sometimes." Nate said, knowing this would get a rise out of her.
"What did you say?" Blair demanded, walking closer to Nate and jabbing her index finger into his chest.
"You heard me." Nate said, gazing into her eyes.
"Take it back." Blair ordered.
"No." Nate whispered and leaned in to kiss her.
At first Blair was shocked, to say the least. Just last night Nate was saying that they were only friends, but friends sure as hell didn't kiss like that.
Blair finally gave in and kissed him back, falling back into the comfortable kisses of her youth. Time stopped and their kisses grew more passionate by the second. Both had forgotten what it was like to kiss the other. The familiarity was welcomed.
"Let's go somewhere." Nate murmured.
Blair froze. She didn't think she had those feelings for Nate, but she was so confused at the moment with everything with Chuck happening. Chuck. He was engaged. He was moving on. She couldn't stay caught up with him when there was no chance of a future. With that in mind, Blair nodded.
"My place is free." She said coyly.
Five minutes later Blair was fumbling with her door key, her hands shaking so much she was finding the task nearly impossible. Finally, though, she managed to get her door open.
Nate's mouth was on hers in seconds and she barely had time to slam her door shut. Blair flipped on the light switch and stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Chuck Bass sitting on her couch, waiting for her.