"...Carter" Nate said angrily.
"No need to get angry Nate, Serena called me...said she was getting lonely and needed some company."
As Nate's eyes looked to Serena, she just looked to the floor slightly ashamed and embarrassed.
Bending down she picked up Carters shirt and put it on before walking off, "Blair nice to see you again" Carter said wrapping the rest of the throw around his waist, "Now if you'll excuse me" he added before finally going to follow Serena, but before he had the chance Nate walked over and pulled him back.
"Where the hell do you think you're going"
"I could ask you the same question, the doors that way" he said pushing his arm off him and gesturing towards the front door, "You can let yourselves out" he smirked before walking off toward the bedroom.
"What the fuck was that?" Nate said turning to Blair.
"A butt naked Carter Baizen apparently..."
"No I mean, what the hell is he doing with Serena"
"I don't know but she didn't seem to be fighting him off"
"I need some air" Nate shook his head exhausted from everything that was happening.
Opening up the patio doors he walked out and took in the fresh air.
Following him, Blair moved Carters pants and Serena's bra off the seats and sat down "I'm not leaving without her Nate"
Turning to face her, it was hard to remember why they had come all this way for to begin with "I know, neither am I" he replied taking a seat beside her, "But what are we supposed to do, you know when he's back in town he's hard to get rid of...kind of like an infestation of cockroaches."
"I know, especially once he's worked his way back into Serena's life."
Sitting in silence for the next half hour with their own thoughts, they both wondered how they could bring Serena back home.
Walking out with just his shorts on and a glass of scotch in hand he glanced down at them both "I must say I'm surprised your both still here"
"Carter where's Serena?"
"In the bedroom"
"Ok thanks" she said walking off to find her.
Sitting down beside Nate he took another swig of scotch "What are you doing here Carter?"
"Paying Serena a visit, I thought I'd made that clear already"
"No really, what are you doing here? You trying to extort money out of her or.."
"Wow, look Nate she called me upset, she needed someone so I was there for her okay, nothing more than that."
"Did you know she's pregnant?" he said looking over to him finally as Carter's face suddenly dropped in shock.
"No" he said leaning forward taking a sip of scotch.
"It's mine"
"I guessed as much. Look Nate I'm sorry she didn't mention anything to me. Just that she needed to leave town for a number of reasons and asked me to stay with her while she was here."
"Serena?" Blair spoke softly knocking on the door before opening it.
Looking over her shoulder at her she smiled faintly before turning back around.
"Do you realise how worried we all were about you?" she said walking over and sitting beside her on the bed, "why did you leave without telling me?"Blair added placing her hand on top of hers.
"I just needed time away to clear my head. I couldn't stay around there anymore, especially when I had no one"
"You have me"
"I know I do.." she said squeezing her hand softly, "but that's not what I mean"
"I know, but why didn't you talk to me about it first?"
"Because I didn't have time, I needed to get away from it all. I had lost them both..."
"What?" she said confused.
"Nate, Dan, I've lost them both."
"Nate? I didn't.."
"Yeah, I finally realised and admitted to myself that i was just running away from my feelings towards him, because I was too scared to admit to him I was...I was madly in love with him"
"was?"
"I still am. It was so much easier admitting my feelings towards Dan and to go back with him..."
"Than it was with Nate" Serena just nodded.
"That doesn't mean you've lost him S"
"It does when I see him kissing a beautiful blonde"
"You sure that wasn't you Serena?"
Serena couldn't help but smile, "Yes I'm sure"
"When?"
"In his office, the day I left"
"I don't understand, why would he be kissing some blonde that more importantly wasn't you"
"Because he's moved on, I missed my chance"
"No that can't be right..."
"What else could it mean?"
"I don't know..." Blair said sitting there in confusion for a moment, 'why hadn't Nate told me any of this? If it is true' she thought to herself.
"So you and Carter" Serena just smiled, "you don't hang around do you"
"B it's not like that"
"Didn't seem that way earlier, looked pretty heated from where I was standing"
"We're just-good friends"
"If you say so"
"It's the truth, anyway I can't believe you came all this way, you're getting married in two days time"
"I wasn't going to get married without you with me, will you please come back home?" Serena sort of half smiled at her, "well what do you say... will you?"
"I don't know, I just can't go back there, not with Dan and Nate..."
"Please, even just for my wedding?"
"Okay" she nodded softly.
"We can work all that out, I'm not going to lose you because of Humphrey, Nate and some slutty blonde"
"I love you B" Serena smiled.
"I love you too S, now let's pack your things and go home"
"Won't take long, I've only bought a few pieces of what I needed"
"Nothing wrong with a bit of retail therapy" Blair smiled.
Packing the small amount of clothes she had bought they walked out to see the Nate and Carter both sitting outside chatting away.
"I'm telling you, once our defense gets strengthened we have a good chance of winning" Nate said taking a swig of his beer.
"If you say so man, I still think we need a..."
"Bit early to be drinking isn't it?" Blair finally chimed in.
"We're wetting the baby's head as they say. Why didn't you tell me Serena?" Carter said looking to her finally.
"I-I..." she began, looking around nervously, "I didn't think it was any of your business."
"We've slept together for the past few days. I think it is my business to know, what if something happened to you."
Blair's eyes just flicked between them both through the conversation as her mouth parted in shock.
"Nothing would have happened to me, I'm fine."
"I know, but I still care about you..." he stood up walking towards her.
"I know" she said before looking over his shoulder slyly to Nate, he looked into her eyes desperate that she would turn her back on him and throw him to the curb so he could finally tell her how he felt, how they hopefully both could.
All that kept popping into her head mind was the image of him and Chloë kissing, as much as she tried to erase it, she couldn't. He had moved on, now it was time she did too in her mind.
Wrapping her left hand around his neck she pulled him in instantly trying to find his tongue with hers.
Pulling back Serena just bit down on her bottom lip as Carter smirked before placing a kiss on her lips, "Let's go beautiful" he whispered into her ear as he took her bags and walked though the house to pack himself.
Standing there shocked Blair looked to a devastated Nate, "Well I guess he's coming back with us then."
Nate just sat there in silence as Blair for once, was lost for words.
"I can't believe it," he muttered under his breath in shock.
"Neither can I, though you forgot to mention the fact you were caught kissing some blonde a few days ago?"
"What" his head spinning around to her instantly.
"The blonde in your office you were kissing? Why didn't you tell me about it?"
Nate's mind began racing trying to piece together how Blair knew, "Serena."
"Yeah Serena, she caught you both the day she left Manhattan."
"I knew it," he said putting his head in his hands.
"What, you knew she had seen?"
"I had a feeling, yeah"
"Oh Nate, who is she?"
"My executive manager when I'm not there, but nothing is going on with Chloë I promise you"
"So what you just so happened to walk into her lips."
"She kissed me, look I'm not going to sit here and lie to you and say I didn't enjoy it and a part of me doesn't find her attractive. But I'm not interested in her... the only person I care about and want to be with is Serena."
Blair could tell he was being sincere but couldn't help but feel he had brought this mess on himself "I don't know what to say" was all she could utter to him.
"Are you both ready to take me home?" Serena smiled peering around the corner.
"Of course" Blair smiled standing up.
"You don't mind if we have someone else join us do you?" Blair just looked to Nate who still had his head in his hands, "Of course not" she beamed as Nate finally lifted his head to look to Blair as if to say 'you're kidding me right?' a good two-hour car journey with them both was his idea of hell right now.
Unfortunately for Nate it was exactly that, the ride home they were all over each other like a rash.
All Nate thought about was jumping out of the car at every possible chance the limo came to a halt, but he couldn't as much he didn't want to spend another second in the limo with them both, he just couldn't. Something was stopping him and he had no idea what.
As the limo pulled up outside Blair's penthouse Nate flew out of there as fast as his legs could take him, he needed to get away from them and was desperately in need of a strong drink... he began walking down the street looking for a bar as everyone else dispersed from the limo.
Carter went to get the luggage out of the boot with Arthur as Serena just glanced down the street to Nate, as he grew further apart from her.
As her mouth parted to shout to him, nothing would come out as much as her whole body wanted to call out for him, it wouldn't let her... with a sigh she slowly looked to the floor heartbroken that he had finally moved on without her.
"You ok?" Carter whispered into her ear as he wrapped his arms around her from behind.
Tilting her head back towards him "Yep, let's go inside"
So there you go, well done to salbaby for guessing correctly.
Anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter as always!
Next Chapter should be the last one before the wedding.
The wedding will probably be the biggest chapter ive written, so gonna take a lot of my time to write it i think. But will be worth the wait I'm sure! :)
I know the Nate and Serena fans reading this must be getting antsy, but i promise you I'm not toying with you, it will be worth it in the end!
Hope all you Chair fans caught the pictures of Ed and Leighton in Thailand, god I love them.
Ed's tash and all! haha
Anyway untill next week my lovely followers xoxo