This chapter doesn't have any interaction between the couples, mostly B and S making up. And there's a little twist I added in too. Hope you enjoy, and review please! XD
What's a girl to do when your best friend and the love of your life are engaged?
Serena was sprawled across her bed, at 2am, Friday asking herself that ridiculous question. She hadn't spoken to Blair in the past week; Nate seemed to come home to roost at Serena's apartment yet plans were not proceeding at Serena's preferred pace. They were still 'engaged.' And knowing Blair, Serena knew that Blair would still be parading the diamond and prepping everyone up for the wedding of the year.
Serena couldn't be further from the truth. Serena was miles off.
Serena decided it was time to call truce with Blair. She could only go on like this for so long, not knowing what Blair's newest scheme was. And every time she glanced at the photo at her bedside, she smiled, with a tinge of something…regret or sadness? Or remorse? Serena settled for pain, just pain. The situation was so complicated beyond comprehension that there was no specific emotion.
She had always known there were three hearts in this relationship.
But when Nate told her he loved her, and only her, she knew that only two of those hearts were destined to be together.
Serena decided she had to see Blair now. Nate's chest was rising slowly up and down, he was sound asleep. Did he have to know that she was going to see her? He looked so peaceful when he slept, why ruin it? Nate seemed more at ease than Serena had ever seen him ever before. Like for once, they weren't both on self destruct. She kissed his forehead, slipped into some jeans and her favourite blue suede boots and decided it was time to end this; officially.
Because Gossip Girl might get the wrong impression.
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There are pivotal moments in a person's life; when everything you thought you knew changes. And as Blair Cornelia Waldorf threw the fifth pregnancy test into the trash, she knew this was one of those moments. Five pregnancy tests, and every single time the stick turned blue. Every single time, she was reminded that her life was about to be flipped upside down. Sure, technically she could support five babies, but emotionally? She knew she wasn't ready for this. Her and Chuck were not planning on popping out kids anytime soon. Blair's eyes turned wide with her realization. Chuck was not going to be pleased. Chuck Bass? He's more than financially stable and he even has his romantic moments. Blair had the poem in her memory box, her new memory box which was to be filled with mementos from her and Chuck's relationship, not affair. What if the poem was going to be the only one? Five pregnancy tests wouldn't exactly be in place with the poem. Bass wasn't exactly the wholesome father Blair thought Nate could be…
Let's just say this was not in the script of Blair's life.
Thud.
"Great…" Blair mumbled to herself. Chuck timed things to perfection…
Thud.
Blair decided to pretend to be out. Now certainly was not the time.
Thud.
"Okay! God, I'm coming!" Blair snapped, frustrated.
The door revealed Serena, at two-thirty in the morning. Blair rubbed her eyes. The expression "sight for sore eyes" would be an understatement.
"Serena." Blair gasped.
"Blair." Serena stated bluntly back.
Blair's cheeks flared. This was going to be awkward.
"Come in."
Serena strolled in and sat rigidly on the couch.
"Thought I'd…um break the ice." She said.
"At two thirty in the morning?" Blair smiled. "I forgot how…spontaneous you are."
"You say it like I've been away for a year, B. It's been little over a week."
"Yeah? Well it feels like longer."
Serena couldn't take this…it was all so…formal. And Van der Woodsen plus Waldorf does not equal formal.
"One guess were Nate has been for the past week." Blair said, her smile reverting to a frown. Serena gave her a sad smile. "Well, I figured. He always ran to you so…" Blair knew this situation all too well, yet she didn't know this at all.
"I love him. And I don't expect you to care, I don't expect you to accept it I just…" Serena didn't finish her sentence. Blair hated it when she did that.
"Please. Finish it. I despise it when you do that, S." Blair remarked.
"I just want the girl in Barney's, telling me that she can't live a lie. I want the girl who told me that I and Nate are meant to be together. Why can you say it, but not do it?"
That was the million dollar question.
Blair didn't have the answer. Seemed lately she never had the answers anymore.
"I'm pregnant." Blair said plainly. Serena's navy eyes expanded.
"Shit." It seemed to be the theme of the morning.
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Chuck Bass was in his corner at the Tribeca star, all alone waiting for Nate Archibald. It was time to see what the situation actually was after everything, and he had to talk to him sooner or later. Chuck was only going to talk with the guy who became his closest friend over the years, yet he felt like he was heading for his execution. Nate walked in, and he looked like he was together. He didn't look like as baked as a loaf for once. Chuck got out of his slump and sat back up straight.
"Nathaniel." He greeted him warmly with a smile.
"Hey Chuck." Nate returned the gesture.
"Sorry for getting you up at this time." Turns out Serena and Blair weren't the only ones who liked to discuss matters late at night.
"Its cool man, we kinda need to talk." Nate said coolly, contemplating how he should tell Chuck that he had been right all along.
"Yeah…" Chuck trailed off. He and Nate told each other almost everything, but telling him that he and Blair were together now was not going to be pleasant. But hey, he was with Serena, wasn't he?
"One guess as to where you have been hiding for the past week." Chuck remarked in that all knowing tone of his. "Blonde, tall, poised who is it…Shannon? Samantha?"
"I haven't been hiding away." Nate replied.
"Yeah I know. I mean you and Serena in the same five foot radius? You two have certainly not been hiding from each other." Chuck said smirking. Nate chuckled. Consider the ice broken.
"Yeah well, figures. I actually feel…relaxed for once and the whole week I haven't seen Blair…" Chuck calmed his urge to shout something back, instead gulping his beer.
"Yeah well figures." Chuck began, "I actually feel relaxed for once and I've spent most of this week with Blair."
Oh how ironic things were in the Upper East Side.
"Are you two together?" Nate swigged back his scotch. Chuck remained silent for a bit.
His silence basically told Nate everything he needed to know.
It basically told him everything he already knew.
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"Pregnant?" Serena said in an utter state of astonishment. Is it Nate? She scared herself with that thought and plopped herself beside Blair and grabbed her in her arms. Tears began rolling out of Blair's eyes and all of a sudden they found themselves in Barney's all over again.
"It just…it's just not planned!" Blair wailed and Serena held her tight, doing her best to comfort her. As much as she knew she should be focusing on her best friend right now, but she couldn't shift the prospect of it being Nate's from her mind. Serena held Blair's face, rubbed the tears away from her eyes.
"I need to know…is it Nate's?" Serena said with dread. Blair looked into her eyes. Blair didn't even know who the father was. Something told her it just wasn't Nate. And even if it was, her own life was dark enough. Serena was sunshine, and Blair didn't want to make it dark.
"No." Blair said with conviction.
"Okay…I'm sorry I just had to know." Serena said relieved and went back to hugging Blair.
"You have taken a test, right?" Serena enquired.
"Woman, what do you take me for? I've only taken about five!" Blair snapped.
"Jesus, okay B. Hormones can't be that rampant yet." Serena replied with a smirk. She didn't know why they were being like this, Blair was pregnant. And okay, she's young but Blair works at Vogue, not JC Penney's.
"Hey. How about first thing tomorrow morning, we go and buy some baby Dior?" Serena said smiling and placing her hand on Blair's stomach. Blair laughed. This was just so Serena, bringing up a designer in the middle of a Waldorf breakdown was the cure. Blair nodded and hugged Serena back.
"It will be on Gossip Girl within an hour; S you know that…they'll find out, they always do." Blair collapsed back on the sofa.
"They can't find out if we let them know first." Serena said smirking. "B, who is the father anyway? I'm guessing it's Chuck?" Serena cheerily said. She was no longer an honorary member of team Bass; she was just a fully fledged member now.
Blair raised her eyebrows, signalling apprehension.
"It is Chuck, right? Not some random guy at a bar?" Serena asked.
Actually, it was a guy at a bar. However, he was not that random.
Serena looked into Blair's blue eyes.
"B. Details, now. It's either Chuck or…"
Blair knew Serena would be disappointed. But Serena wanted to know so badly. The truth had to come out. And it's better coming from Blair than…
"Humphrey." Blair said, shame eveident in her tone.
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Elle Gossip is back. Unfortunately, not a lot is happening between our favourite inhabitants of the glorious and glamorous Upper East Side, but someone spotted N and C talking over drinks at the Tribeca Star, looking like best buddies again. What I want to know, and I know what you want to know is; who is with who? We all know this is the city where me and my friends like to play, work and sleep (sometimes with each other) and Gossip Girl has a feeling something's brewing…like the calm before a storm. Something like…a baby shower.
Will I ever stop talking about any of the above? Never.
You know you love me, xoxo Gossip Girl.
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So I tried foreshadowing earlier that Dan and Blair would sleep together, but it wasn't heavy foreshadowing. I'll do flashbacks next chapter so you know everything that happened between them. I wanted a way of bringing Dan and Vanessa back into the story, so this is how I'm doing it. Let me know who you're rooting for and criticism, good or constructive is always welcomed! x