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Rated: T as always because we all know I like things to get a little smexy and I'm liberal with my word usage.

Anna couldn't stop smiling as she got out of the shower; she had been in such a good mood since her date last night. The smile stayed on her face while she was getting dressed; she even found herself singing and dancing. The last time that she had been this happy was on the day that her boyfriend had told her he loved her.

Suddenly, Anna froze in front of the mirror. She had this distinct knowledge of being unnaturally happy the day that someone FINALLY told her that they loved her. That when she heard the words, it was something that she had been waiting for a very long time. But the day Jackson told her that he loved her was one of the worst days of her life. It was the day that she had tried to kill herself.

Anna didn't know what was going on anymore. This morning she thought that a boy had told her he loved her and it had been one of the best days of her life and last night she thought that she had once comforted a boy whose father had died . . .in a car accident. The boy's father had died in a car accident. Perhaps it was the boy in the dream, the one on the airplane. Every time she had the dream she heard him tell her that he loved her. It had to be him.

Just as she was about to continue getting ready, Anna realized that she hadn't dreamed of the boy last night. Not at all. As if on cue Cassie walked in the room.

"What gives?" Cassie asked as she flounced into Anna's room without circumstance. She had woken up moments ago to the realization that Anna hadn't screamed in the middle of the night and therefore Cassie had slept until morning for the first time since they had arrived in New York. "No dreaming last night?"

"Nope." Anna replied nonchalantly as she adjusted the straps of her sundress in the mirror. She knew that it was difficult if not impossible to hide something from Cassie but she didn't really want her to know that she went on a date with Diego.

Cassie's eyes narrowed immediately. "Why?" She asked skeptically. Anna didn't just not dream. This had been going on for a year now without a single night of cessation.

"No clue." Anna said shrugging. If Cassie knew about Diego, it would only lead to an argument.

"Fine." Cassie wanted to ask more but she backed off; clearly Anna wanted to keep something from he and for today, she just might let her. "How was your night?"

Anna smiled at the fact that Cassie was willing to change the subject. "It was good."

Cassie smiled in return. She was glad that Anna was making friends in New York; Cassie couldn't help but think that some of those friends might eventually help her figure out who she was. "So you had fun with Jenny?"

Anna had almost forgotten that Cassie was still under the impression that she had gone out with Jenny last night. "Yeah it was a lot of fun. But we ran into Chuck and it was super weird."

"Really? How so?" Cassie instantly felt guilty at the mention of Chuck's name. She was glad that Blair was making new friends but last night when she had seen the flowers for Anna she had done something rash without thinking. Upon reading the invitation to dinner from Chuck, Cassie had hidden the card; thinking that Anna didn't need to get that close to someone she had just met. Thinking back it seemed like a silly thing to do; Anna had the right to know that Chuck had sent her a card, she just felt so protective of Anna after last year.

"He was mean. He acted as though I had done something to make him furious." Anna said still confused over Chuck's behavior the night before.

Cassie knew that eventually Anna would find out that Chuck had sent a card with the flowers so she knew she should probably just come clean now; at least partially. "Actually, I think I might know why." Cassie said as she walked over to the desk and pulled out a card. "I found this on the floor yesterday. I assumed you had seen it." Cassie of course had known that Anna hadn't read the card since she had actually been here when the flowers arrived.

Anna took the card from Cassie and read it quickly.

Annabelle,

I've found that our meeting was extremely memorable as I can't seem to get you out of my head. I would like nothing more than to have the pleasure of your company for dinner tonight. My suite, nine o'clock?

Chuck Bass

"Damn it." Anna cursed as she flipped over the card and spotted his cell phone number on the back. That's why Chuck was mad. He thought that she had seen the note and stood him up for another guy. She would have been pissed off too. She looked back at Cassie before turning towards the door, calling behind her. "I've got to go talk to Chuck."

Cassie stood there as her friend left. She only wanted what was best for Anna and she was a little afraid that Anna might be getting in over her head at the moment; but Anna was a big girl and Cassie couldn't look after her for forever, she had to let her make her own mistakes.

Chuck was lounging on his sofa thinking about the failure that was last night and stewing over the fact that Anna hadn't even acknowledged the fact that she had blown off his invitation for dinner when there was a knock at his door. He assumed that it was Erik, ready to make up for their missed breakfast of yesterday so he didn't hesitate to open it. He was caught off guard by the appearance of Anna in front of him. "What are you doing here?" He practically spat. Chuck was angrier now than he had been last night.

Anna sighed. "Can I come in?" She knew that in most cases it would seem weird for a girl to invite herself into the apartment of a guy she barely knew but for some reason it didn't.

Chuck's mind was at war; say yes and it was like forgiving her for not even thinking to call him or say no and quite possibly not see her again. "I don't see why you'd want to come in. You certainly didn't last night."

"Gosh darn it Chuck, I didn't see the card until this morning." Anna said crossing her arms emphatically.

Chuck raised his eyebrows on hearing the words 'gosh darn it' come out of her mouth but no matter how cute she might have just sounded he wasn't about to let her off the look with such a lame excuse. "It's not that simple to fool me Anna. You know you could have just called and told me that you had a boyfriend as opposed to acting like you never saw the card."

Anna ran a hand through her recently shortened hair as she tried to make Chuck understand. "I assumed the flowers were from Diego; he's the only one that knows that fuchsia peonies are my favorite flowers."

"They're your favorite?" Chuck asked momentarily taken off guard. He had sent them on a whim. They had been Blair's favorite too. Well at least they were her favorite her senior year; junior year it had been hydrangeas.

"Yeah." Anna asked confused. Chuck had that faraway look in his eyes again. The look that said that he wasn't there with her. The moment he snapped back, he scared her.

As Chuck managed to bring himself back to the present he forced himself to remember how he was feeling earlier; how rejected and angry Anna had made him feel as opposed to how close he felt to Blair when he was around her. "Whatever, it doesn't matter anymore. You have a boyfriend and I am sick of girls who play games."

Anna didn't know what else she could say. Chuck had clearly formed an opinion of her already. She opened her mouth to talk but he cut her off.

"Don't bother. I'm not going to believe what you say. What else should I have expected from some kind of white trash from Texas? Why don't you just go back to your boyfriend and stay away from me." Chuck said about to shut the door.

Anna held up her hand. She didn't let anyone speak to her like that. "Fine I'll go if that's what you want; but I have something to say first." She said, speaking with conviction. "I don't care what you believe; I didn't see your note until this morning. I'm not sure what kind of girls you're used to being around but I'm not like that; so don't act like you know me." As she finished speaking she turned quickly on her heels and walked away from Chuck, who remained in the doorway.

As Chuck finally managed to recover from Anna's scolding and shut the door, he couldn't help but feel remorseful about some of the things that he had said. She wasn't white trash and more than likely, it appeared that she wasn't a liar either. It didn't make sense that she wouldn't have at least called him if she wasn't going to show up. Granted they had only met once but she was making friends with all of his siblings so they were bound to be seeing each other around; she wouldn't have wanted to make any enemies.

Most of all, he felt badly for judging her. He didn't have a right to judge her actions when they had just met. Anna was right, he didn't actually know her. Sure he knew her name and her favorite flower, but he couldn't tell anyone what kind of music she liked, what movies always made her cry, he didn't even know what she wanted to major in. She really wasn't Blair and that was something that he still wasn't used to.

He wanted to know her more now than he had before. Yes she looked like Blair but he wasn't sure that that was the only thing. Something else about her seemed to call her to him. He and Blair were friends long before they were more maybe that was the way to go about things with Anna too. But if he was going to even managed to be friends with her, he really owed her an apology.

Anna laughed at something Lina said as they sat down at the restaurant. "Seriously? Sam really tried to bypass security at the Empire State Building?"

"Yes!" Lina said laughing as well. "I don't know what she was thinking! She got us all thrown out."

Anna was still laughing. "Lina, it's Sam she wasn't thinking."

Lina nodded emphatically and their laughter eventually simmered down. Leaving a strange pregnant silence. After all they were here for a reason. "So why did you want to talk to me?" Lina finally asked.

Anna looked away. She had of course asked Lina to go to dinner with her because she needed someone to talk to; someone that knew her. Even if Lina wasn't going to be helpful in sorting the situation out, she knew at least that she would listen. "I'm dating Diego."

Lina's eyes widened in shock and her eyebrows shot up. "Seriously?"

"Yes. Seriously and officially." Anna said unable to stop a smile from appearing on her features.

"Wow." Lina was still in shock. "I have to say that I didn't see that one coming. I thought that you hated Diego."

Anna smirked fondly remembering her numerous attempts at ignoring Diego, at pushing him away; all of which proved futile. "I wanted to. I thought he wasn't good for me; I thought that he was dangerous."

"He is dangerous." Lina said in what would be considered a low voice for her.

"I know." Anna replied. "But not with me. He looks out for me, he always puts me first. He makes me happy."

Lina smiled. It was true. She hadn't seen Anna as happy as she looked right now since the day that she met her. "Then I'm happy for you."

"Thank you." Anna said as the waiter approached to get their order. After he left Anna turned back to Lina. "There's a problem though. There's this guy Chuck . . ."

"The one that owns the hotel?" Lina asked interrupting.

Anna nodded. Before continuing. "He sent me flowers with a note asking me to dinner last night but I didn't get the card until this morning. He's furious with me."

Lina shrugged not quite understanding. "So?" Anna blushed and Lina began to catch on. "Oh, you like him?"

Anna nodded slightly. "I shouldn't, I know that I shouldn't. I don't know him at all and I have Diego who's so completely fantastic. But I do. I can't stop thinking about Chuck. The way that he unknowingly sent me my favorite flower, the way he kissed my hand the first time we met, the way I'm breathless just by looking into his eyes. It's crazy I've only talked to him three times in my whole life, yet somehow I feel drawn to him."

"Did you ever think that he was someone from your past?" Lina questioned gently, not wanting to stir up too many emotions in Anna.

"Yeah, I thought about it but nothing seems to fit. I actually look like someone that Chuck and his friends used to know but she isn't dead, she just left town." Anna explained.

Lina shrugged again. "So? How long ago did she leave? When was the last time they saw her? Why haven't you been asking more questions?" She was a little thrown as to why Anna wasn't being more proactive about all of this. After all she wanted to know who she was, why wasn't she working to figure it out?

Lina had some good points. There were more questions she probably should have asked but every time Blair was mentioned everyone kind of freaked out. "They are pretty sensitive about the topic and I don't really want to upset them. Plus it seems as though Chuck is actually a part of Diego's past, not mine."

"Really?" Lina asked curiously. Not even noticing that Anna had changed the subject.

"Apparently their father's knew each other back when Diego lived in New York." Anna said leaning forward a little. She was glad that this topic interested Lina; she really didn't want to talk anymore about the possibility of her being Blair because she was fairly certain that someone would have mentioned it by now if Blair was dead. "Apparently Diego and Chuck were pretty good friends."

Lina scrunched up her nose. "Well that kind of throws out my theory about you knowing Chuck before the accident anyway."

This time it was Anna who was confused. "How?"

Lina lifted her shoulders as though it was obvious. "Because if you would have known Chuck, chances are you would have known Diego and Diego would have mentioned that by now, don't cha think?"

Anna was seriously surprised. She couldn't think of the last time that Lina had had that kind of light bulb moment, but the girl was definitely right. She would have likely known Diego too if she had known Chuck and Diego definitely would have said something by now. He didn't even look at her like he recognized her.

Diego walked sullenly back to his room. He still wasn't quite sure what he was going to do. He knew that he wasn't going to tell Ann-Blair what he knew but whether he would take an active part in making sure she didn't find out was undetermined. It was coincidence that the elevator door opened and Chuck was standing waiting to get in. "Hey man." Diego said with a smile as he exited. He expected Chuck to get in the elevator and go on but instead he stepped back.

"Hey Diego, do you think we could talk for a second?" Chuck asked almost warily. This was going to be a weird conversation but he felt as though it would be less weird to ask Diego these things than it would to ask Anna.

"Sure." Diego said with a shrug, immediately anxious about what Chuck might want to know. He could already assume that it must be about Anna. It had to really freak him out that she looked so much like Blair. Of course for all he knew Chuck and Blair hadn't even been friends all that recently.

Chuck continued to move aside until they were away from the elevator and against the wall. "It's about Anna."

"Okay." Diego said leadingly. "Ask away."

"It's just; she looks like someone I used to know." Chuck began. When Diego nodded encouragingly Chuck continued. "How long have you known her?"

Diego knew that he had to make a choice in that moment. Either he would lie and tell Chuck he had known Anna for a long time, or he would tell the truth and potentially give Chuck all the information that he needed to figure out that Anna was Blair, which was clearly the information that he was fishing for. "Seven years. I've known her for seven years." Diego made his choice, except in this instance, he didn't have to lie. He actually had known her for seven years. After all, he met Blair when he was thirteen, right before he moved to Texas.

Chuck nodded, trying to keep the disappointment from his features. "Oh. Well I suppose that's pretty much all of my questions then. If you've known her since you moved to Texas then I can't have known her another way."

"Sorry man." Diego said shrugging off the wall. "I actually have some things to take care of, but since I'm back in New York we should hang out, get reacquainted."

Chuck nodded again. "Of course. I'm sorry for bothering you." He was still a little dejected from this news. It proved once and for all that Anna couldn't have been Blair. So as Chuck pressed the elevator button again and Diego walked off he tried to tell his mind that.

Anna and Lina were on desert when a shadow darkened their table causing Anna to look up into the face of none other than Chuck Bass. "Stalk me much?"

Chuck gulped back the words that were about to escape his mouth at Anna's own words that were so similar to those he heard Blair utter at her seventeenth birthday party. "It's my hotel Anna. I came for a drink and saw you."

Anna kept her eyes on Chuck. He needed to know that the way he treated her earlier was not okay. He didn't even let her try to explain before judging her and jumping to conclusions. "No part of that sentence explains why you would feel the need to talk to me. We finished our conversation earlier."

Chuck didn't break her gaze as he readied himself for what he was about to say. "I know."

"Then what are you doing here talking interrupting my dinner?" Anna asked self righteously. She was utilizing the sharp tongue that she usually kept in check to give Chuck a second verbal lashing.

"I'm here to apologize." Chuck said softly. "I was wrong and I'm sorry."

Anna's mouth practically fell open. That was the last thing that she had expected to come out of Chuck's mouth.

Seeing the shock on Anna's face Chuck continued. "I felt drawn to you and I thought you stood me up. It's not something I am used to. I was jealous; another unexpected emotion, so I lashed out. Diego's a good guy and I would like for us to be friends."

Anna was still in the midst of a shocked silence at the words that the boy who Wikipedia proclaimed the biggest playboy in Manhattan apologized to her, until she felt a kick under the table. She flipped her head towards Lina, whose eyes were silently urging her to speak up. As she turned back to Chuck, she did just that. "I would like that too."

Both of them smiled, as they realized that they would have to settle for friendship for the time being. Neither one realizing that their thoughts were echoing one another.

Oh the drama that a new addition can cause. Apparently the B look alike is none other than Anna Carmichael-Getty of Houston, Texas set to start Columbia next week; boring. Or at least she would be if not for her look and the fact that she's already made friends with the UES royalty. My sources report that she's also brought back an old friend of ours Diego Gutierrez to fill the role of boy toy; yet from what I hear Chuck's not too happy about that one. Oh my, what mischief could this bring, as for me, I hope is scandalous. Things around here had gotten rather monotonous, maybe these newcomers can shake things up.

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A/N: Not quite as exciting as last chapter but I hope you still enjoyed it.

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