AN: Hey guys! I'm so sorry for the lack of updates...there hasn't been much inspiration for me and as my senior year is drawing to a close, it has become really hectic. But, hopefully with exams coming up, I'll have some time to update more often. YAY! So, who else thinks that Nate and Blair have been really cute lately on Gossip Girl?!?! I'm both a Chuck/Blair and Nate/Blair shipper, and since Chuck and Blair aren't together...I don't know, there's just something about Nate and Blair lately. They're so cute!!!

Anyways...there's probably going to be one or two last chapters with Blair pregnant, and then the baby will be born. I'm trying to include an array of events that happen before the baby's born, like baby showers and nursery decorating...I hope it's not getting too boring! Oh, and as always, reviews are always appreciated! :) ENJOY!!!

Chapter 14 - Real Life Fairytale

You are my life, you are my star

You are my sunshine in my dark

You are the everything I dreamed about

You are the guy who stole my heart

…A real life fairytale

June 7, 2008:

It was a beautiful spring Saturday morning. Yes, early June was still considered early spring, even with temperatures in the mid-80's, as was the case in New York City this year. But today settled into the warm high-70's. All the leaves finally shook their snowy appearance in order to turn a dark green, accompanied by the many flowers that had started to bloom. The sun was high in the sky and a cool breeze came through the many open windows in the room.

"Chuck," Nate stood at one end of a long cardboard box, "can you help me?" He watched his brunette friend roll his eyes as he shuffled over to the box, grabbing the other end of it so that they could quietly place it on the floor, careful to not wake up Blair or his parents. It was still quite early in the morning. "Thanks."

Chuck nodded, "Now what?" They both looked at the box, held together with white bands, before they tore the box open only to find multiple pieces of white wood.

"I guess we have to put it together." Nate heard Chuck mutter some sarcastic remark under his breath before he sat down on the ground beside the box, pulling random pieces out and laying them on the floor in some kind of organized pattern. Nate followed his lead.

They scratched their heads when all the pieces were out of the box, wondering what they were supposed to do.

"There's got to be directions here somewhere…" Nate shuffled through the empty box, quickly stumbling on the crinkled booklet of directions. "Here we go." He flipped through it and only found letters and numbers, directions saying that piece so and so was supposed to go with this other piece. He was dumbfounded. He continued to flip through the pages, eventually coming upon the directions in both French and Spanish. That was even more confusing.

"Give me this…" Chuck ripped the booklet out of his friend's hands and looked at it, he was even confused as well, so he threw it over in the corner of the brightly lit room. "Okay, well…maybe we can just wing this. I mean, we both know what a crib looks like."

Nate nodded, "Good point. Photographic memory."

They immediately found the base board of the crib and started from there, fitting random pieces in various spots, until they thought that they had what looked like a crib.

But it was far from it. The only piece that was in the right spot was the base board, but it was almost touching the ground instead of being elevated. It was all wrong. The boys pulled back and stood a few feet away from it, staring at their creation, shaking their heads and smiling.

Chuck chuckled, "I don't think that's right."

Nate agreed, "Yeah, I don't think that would even be safe for the baby to sleep in." He let out a small laugh as he went to the corner of the room where Chuck had thrown the directions, picking up the crumble paper. "Maybe we should at least try to understand this…"

Chuck sighed, taking the paper away from Nate once again, "I guess." He flipped through a couple of pages, "Well do you have a screwdriver and a hammer?"

Nate nodded, "Yeah. I think so. I'll go get them."

XOXO…GOSSIPGIRL…XOXO

Nate was downstairs in his fathers office, shuffling through his dad's belongingss…there had to be a screwdriver and hammer somewhere around here.

"Ah ha." He pulled a small yellow handled screwdriver out from one of the Captain's desk drawers, followed by a medium sized red handled hammer. He couldn't comprehend why his dad needed tools in his office, but he didn't care at the moment.

"Serena." Nate caught Serena as he walked out of the office, towards his way upstairs. "I'm glad you came."

Serena smiled, "Of course I would. I want to help." She followed him up the stairs, quietly making sure that her heels weren't too noisy. "Besides," she added, "I don't think you or Chuck know anything about decorating a baby's room."

Nate nodded, "You're totally right. We can't even seem to put together a crib." Serena laughed as they made it on the landing of the upstairs hallway, "That's pretty pathetic, don't you think?"

"Kind of."

Nate glanced back at her and smiled again. They passed by different doors; the glass doors of the library, his parents bedroom door, and his own, before they got to the nursery. Walking into the gender friendly light yellow room, they found Chuck still reading the directions and silently talking to himself about, what sounded like, his plans for that night.

"Ah, Serena." Chuck gave Serena one of his smirks as the blonde walked around the empty room, spinning in circles.

"Please tell me you have all the furniture and everything…" She gave Nate a look. He nodded. "Good, where is it?"

"Downstairs." Serena pouted, "Once Chuck and I finish putting together the crib, we're going to get everything else."

Serena was silent for a while, "Well what am I supposed to do?"

"You can help." Chuck quickly threw the idea out there, waiting for Serena's response. He was surprised when she didn't seem to mind and she walked towards the display of wood on the floor. "Maybe you can read the directions to us…"

Serena nodded and seemed please with that idea, "Sure."

About an hour later, the three friends looked pleased as they stared at the finished crib in the middle of the room.

"Now, that looks like a crib." Chuck added in the silence, watching his sister and best friend nod in agreement.

"Time to go get the other stuff." Chuck and Nate groaned in defiance. "Do you want your wife to wake up and ruin the whole surprise?"

Nate rolled his eyes because he knew Serena was right, "No. I guess not." Serena squealed in excitement and pushed the two boys out of the room until they were in the hallway, where they could walk by themselves. Chuck looked at Nate as Nate glanced at him; he knew that he kind of owed Chuck for the rest of his life. First, the whole best man thing…second, the Valentines Day thing…and now, this.

"Hey," Nate halted at his bedroom door, watching Chuck stop a couple of feet in front of him, "Go on ahead. I'll be right there; I just want to check on her."

Chuck nodded and then disappeared.

XOXO…GOSSIPGIRL…XOXO

He was quiet when he opened the door, his eyes instantly falling on Blair in their bed. Her face was purely innocent as she slept soundly and he made his way towards her, carefully placing himself on the edge of the bed hoping that she wouldn't wake up at the sudden movement.

He gently placed his hand overtop of her stomach, anxiously waiting for the baby to make some sort of movement to acknowledge his warm touch. He gasped silently when he felt it; this tiny little cricket like movement right under his hand. That was the baby. It almost astounded him as he sat there, feeling more and more tiny little runs across her stomach. How could this be happening?

She stirred in the ruffled sheets, but she didn't wake up. He smiled at the girl beside him. Underneath of the sheets, she was covered in sweatpants and a shirt, plus a sweatshirt…used for her changes in temperatures during the night. She stirred again, tossing and turning before she settled peacefully on her right side, so that she was facing the rays of sunlight that broke into the room.

Her face glistened with small sparkles of beauty and he couldn't help but smile even wider. Her chocolate brown curly locks turned an almost dirty blonde in the golden rays.

"Mmm." She fluttered her eyes open and caught a short glimpse of his illuminated face. She smiled.

"Shh," He moved his hand from her stomach to her cheek, softly rubbing his thumb against her smooth skin, "go back to sleep, sweetheart." He pushed loose strands of her hair behind her ear before placing his lips to the crown of her head, kissing her softly. He got up from the bed and waited until he was certain that she was asleep again before he left the room, hands in his pockets.

XOXO…GOSSIPGIRL…XOXO

The afternoon was slowly waning on Blair as she finally opened her eyes from sleeping. Looking at the clock on her bedside table, she sighed as she realized that her day was completely wasted. She was becoming more and more lazy with every day that passed, and the even worse part was that people weren't complaining. And they weren't really surprised that she slept most of the time…she felt kind of left out.

Shrugging her shoulders at her thoughts, she slowly got out of bed, immediately putting on the robe that was within her reach on her way towards the bathroom. Her bare feet hit the cold tiled floor and sent shivers up her spine; she could feel the goose bumps on her arms.

Blair stared into the mirror, rubbing her eyes to officially wake her up, and then started to watch herself hum a melody that was ringing in her head. She continued to hum as she brushed her teeth and while she put her hair up into a messy do.

"Oh my gosh!" She jumped when Nate's hands wrapped around her body. She always tended to sing/hum loudly, so naturally she didn't hear Nate creep up behind her.

"Good morning, Blair." He whispered on her neck, "Or should I say, good evening." She smiled and felt herself sway side to side as her body molded to fit his, falling into his frame.

"Hi." she replied.

He kissed her neck, "Come with me." He turned her around and took her hands, leading her out of the bathroom.

"Where are we going?"

"I have something to show you." He walked behind her, covering his eyes with his hands and led her down the hallway, stopping right in front of the nursery door.

"Nate," Her world was black, "what's going on?" Her hands waved around in order to try to feel her way around the surprise, but she wasn't hitting anything but the walls, which didn't give anything away.

"Shh. You'll see." He turned the doorknob quietly, swinging open the door, careful not to hit the drying yellow paint on the walls. He pushed Blair into the middle of the room and then uncovered her eyes. But her eyes were still closed. "Okay, you can look now." He watched her eyes open and then she was speechless.

Blair couldn't believe her eyes when they finally opened. She looked around the soft yellow walls, scanning all of the decorations that were on the walls. The room had everything a baby needed and more. The white crib ran along the far sided wall. It was lined with all sorts of stuffed animals; a giraffe, a teddy bear, and a duck to name a few. The rocking chair sat next to the crib for the late night feedings she was not looking forward too. The white changing table was stocked with diapers and powders. The walls had numerous pictures hanging, her favorite was the one of her and Nate shortly after they were married, which hung over the changing table. She was completely speechless, the room turned out more beautiful than she had imagined.

Nate watched his wife's brown eyes sparkle with reflections of what she was taking in, a small smile grew on his face in satisfaction.

"I-I don't know what to say." she stuttered, still twirling around the room, tears sitting on her eyelids. "This is beyond amazing."

"You like it?"

She faced Nate and slowly waddled over to him. "No." His face dropped, "I love it." She smiled and then leaned in for a sweet kiss.

He smiled, "Good."

"How did you get all of this done so quickly?"

"I had help." She gazed at him questioningly, "Serena did all the decorating and Chuck helped with the assembling of furniture."

Blair smiled at her friends' name. "This is perfect." She muttered as she stood under Nate's arms as they stood in the middle of the room, a small spring breeze sweeping through the room. "It'll be even more perfect when there's a baby in here."

Nate chuckled, "Soon, baby…soon."