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A/N: Here's another one. This one was one of my favorites to do. Lots of Drama! Can't wait to hear what you think.
Season 1 Episode 8
Every girl fantasizes about finding her prince charming. But if that prince refuses to come a girl has to take matters into her own hands.
Layla got up and got dressed quickly. She brushed her hair in Jenny's then headed into the kitchen.
"Fine, then you can be the one to tell Eleanor that yourself." Jenny said then hung up "Stupid! Stupid Italians."
"Oh, oh, I know, with their pizza and pasta and Michelangelo." Dan said
"Ooo Michelangelo" Layla said kissing Dan and then sitting down.
"But apparently not their herringbone." Rufus said.
"Dad, you don't understand." Jenny said.
"What am I missing" Layla whispered to Dan.
"Jenny being Jenny" he said.
"Eleanor put me in charge, and it's a really big deal."
"Honey, breathe." Rufus said.
"No, no time for oxygen. I am late. Oh, and I forgot my homework." Jenny said running through the house.
"Seriously, she's making me feel like a slacker." Dan said.
"I make you feel like a slacker" Layla said, "She is making me exhausted and I already am exhausted."
"Maybe I can help you fix that." Rufus said to Dan "Tomorrow night's the Aaron Rose opening at the gallery. Vanessa and I could really use your help setting things up."
"Aaron rose is that artist you-you discovered up at R.I.S.D., right?" Layla asked.
"Yeah, the kid's amazing." Rufus said.
"I myself would love to help but I am huge."
"Yeah people are starting to ask me if you're pregnant" Dan said
"Great" she said rolling her eyes.
"Homework, headset, handbag, check, check, check. I have to pee… guys, have you seen my sketchbook?"
"Oh, no, no," they all screamed.
Jenny opened the door and ran straight into Nate.
"Nate! Whoa, sorry! Oh, my gosh."
"Jenny- sorry, uh you-did you do something with your hair?" Nate asked
"Uh, yeah. Shorter, blonder. I was-I was bored."
"I like it."
Jenny left leaving just them.
"I better get to school. I am meeting Riley" Layla said
Dan kissed her and let her get out the door. She arrived at school and spotted people staring at her. She ran to her locker and thru her stuff in and then check her phone.
Rumor has it that our Baby A is having a baby of her own. But who's the father. We now know her history with C but she and Lonely Boy are awfully close. Wonder how N's taking it?
She went to her first class ignoring everyone looking at her. She went out to the courtyard after class and saw Serena and Dan sitting there talking.
"Now we're older and wiser." Serena said and then spotted Layla "A!"
Layla sat down between the two. Serena took her hand.
"I read the blast, how you feeling?"
"Wait you know" Dan asked.
"The other night she told my family, but before that she told me in Blair's closet…"
"You have to help me destroy Chuck Bass." Blair said sitting down.
"I am not helping with that B" Layla said.
"All right, I'll take that as my cue to leave." Dan said kissing Layla and standing up.
"Gross" Blair said.
"Dan, wait." Serena said "If you're having a problem with Chuck, then a man's perspective could be helpful."
"Please don't be brutal my child does need a father" Layla said.
"Just because you two are making a doomed attempt at being friends doesn't mean I have to play the enabler. Blair said to Serena.
"Blair, come on." Serena said.
"Well, if you're plotting against Chuck Bass, Then I-I'm sure I can think of something." Dan said.
"Fine. I have an itch that only Chuck can scratch, and he won't oblige unless I tell him I love him."
"Wait what?" Layla said getting a look from both Dan and Blair "Sorry"
"You-you need help getting Chuck to sleep with you?" Dan asked.
"This is where I actually leave" Layla said getting up and Kissing Dan. She walked down the hall and spotted Chuck.
"Chuck!" she shouted.
"A, hey"
"You okay"
"Just stuff with Blair"
"So I've heard, do you love her?"
"I don't know A, I have only come close to loving one girl and she broke up with me before I could even know."
"Only close" she smiled.
"You'll never know." he said.
"Well what if I told you that were having a girl."
"What?" Chuck said excited. He picked up Layla and twirled her around, he set her back on the ground and kissed her forehead.
"I thought you would like the news I was going to tell you the other day but you looked preoccupied."
Chuck put his hand on her cheek and then pushed a piece of hair behind her ear.
"You've made my day so much better. You always do" Chuck said then kissed her cheek.
He walked away in the other direction. Phones buzzed down the hallway
Spotted: Baby A and C having a moment. Turns out A is having a little Baby Girl Bass. Congrats A.
"You have got to be kidding me" Layla shouted looking around at many students with their cell phones out.
She head to the gallery after school and spotted Vanessa and Dan talking
"I have to meet Rufus at the storage space. He is stressing." Vanessa said.
"If his right eye starts to twitch, -That's when you have to break out the valium." Dan said.
"Too late. He's been winking nonstop since lunch. The caterer thought he was hitting on him."
"Hi guys" Layla said looking bummed sitting on a stood.
"Hey A, you don't look so good" Vanessa commented.
"I've had a crappy day" she said.
"Gossip Girl shared her news" Dan replied rubbing Layla's back trying to sooth her.
"Wow, I'm sorry."
"I'm just going to go to the loft" she said standing back up.
"Okay, I might be back late. Serena and I are trying this whole friend thing."
"I trust you" Layla said then gave him a kiss.
"You two are so adorable" Vanessa said.
Layla left the gallery and headed to the Bass/Van der Woodsen's. She took the elevator up and exited into the living room. Chuck turned around and spotted her.
"A, what brings you here?" he asked surprised to see her.
"I wanted to talk to Lily" she said looking at him odd.
"She isn't here, what's going on?" he asked
"I just wanted to talk about the baby."
"Oh."
"Get a women who has had children's advice."
"Oh"
"You okay Chuck?" she asked.
"Yeah"
"Talk to me."
"Meet me at the suite. Order whatever you want from room service. I'll be there soon. I promise." Chuck said kissing her forehead.
Layla went over to the suite and ordered food for the both of them. She looked around the suite. Some pictures had changed. A lot of the group. The cotillion photo wasn't on the table anymore. It was actually missing from the suite. Instead sat a photo of her Chuck, Nate and Blair form when they were little. The door opened and in walked Chuck in a crappier mood.
"Hey" she said.
"Hey" he said.
"Chuck talk to me please."
"Did you order food?" he asked.
"Yeah, I was just looking at the pictures. You changed them."
"Yeah."
"Where's the cotillion photo you use to have here? It's my favorite."
"At the other place, its mine too."
Layla smiled and walked over to him and hugged him.
"Talk to me." She said and grabbed his hand and pulled over to the couch and coffee table.
A knock was heard on the door and he got back up and answered it and got the food he put over by them and took off the tops and noticed burgers and fries.
"Really A"
"Don't blame me. It what your child wants."
"She is your kid." Chuck smiled
"Yay, theirs my Chuck smile." she said happy to see it. She was truly the only one who really ever saw it.
Chuck took a bite.
"Please tell me what's going on in that head of yours." Layla said.
"I told you earlier."
"I know, but please I'm Layla Archibald."
"Before I came over here she was in Serena's Bedroom and she almost had me."
"Did she tell you" Layla said eating some fries.
"No, it's just the way she was dressed and…sorry."
"We're friends."
"It's just weird discussing this with you." he said.
"You use to discuss all your conquest with me."
"I know. Do you think she loves me?"
Layla sat there and thought about it.
"I don't know how she feels about you. Do you want her too?"
"I don't know, this is all so confusing." he said.
"What's so confusing about it?" Layla asked touching his arm.
"Like I said, I only know what I have experience and you were the closest thing I ever had to that. I was pretty sure I knew what I felt but then…"
"I threw Blair in the picture" she said knowing where this was going. She cursed herself every day for that.
"And it all went confusing again"
"People tell me I'm too young for love and I know that I've had a moment in life where I thought I was in love and I did a stupid thing."
"That wasn't love, you were infatuated with an idiot."
"I know that now, but Chuck those months where we were together, that was like a dream come true because I do strongly believe with all my heart that I love you."
"Loved"
"No love, and people can say I'm a stupid 17 year old girl who has no clue what love is and I just think I do because I am pregnant and someday I do want to punch you in the gut just so you know what your daughter is doing to me."
"You're the smartest girl I know and I love you too."
A tear rolled down her cheek.
"Don't cry." Chuck said wiping away her tear
"That's not something you say to another guys girlfriend who happens to be…"
Chuck leaned in and captured her lips before she could continue. She pulled away.
"I can't Chuck" Layla said and got up running out of the room. She arrived at the loft and saw her brother sitting on the couch.
"Hey, Dan said you were headed this way hours ago" Nate said.
"I took a detour" she replied.
"Through Manhattan" he asked.
"Yeah, through Chuck's suite."
"Layla"
Layla sat down next to Nate and laid her head on his shoulder.
"I screwed up" she said after a moment of silence.
"You didn't sleep…?"
"No worse"
"What's worse?"
"I told him how I felt"
"About Dan?"
"No, about him"
Nate pulled his sister into a hug.
The next morning she stood behind the counter at the Gallery when Blair and Serena came in.
"Blair" Layla said.
"Hey" Blair said.
"She won't listen to me so I brought her to Dan." Serena said.
"He'll be here soon. Anything I can help with?" Layla asked.
"I'm going to go check out the art."
"Where is she headed?" Dan asked coming into the room.
"Blair needs your advice" Layla said.
"Chuck?"
Blair nodded her head. Layla really didn't want to hear this but she needed to after last night.
"You and Chuck have been toying with each other forever. So you didn't win this one. You ever think maybe you -Should just, I don't know, let it go?"
"This is different." Blair said.
"Why? Do you-do you love him?" Dan asked and Blair nodded her head. Not really something that Layla want to see "Wow someone loves Chuck Bass, besides when Layla did."
"Thanks" Layla said.
"I don't know. I just I don't understand how it got to this place." Blair said.
"It happens." Layla said.
"You know, the first time that I told Serena I loved her, Uh, it was terrifying. I've never felt so exposed. But the feeling that I got when she said it back to me uh, was probably the single greatest moment of my life." Dan said making Layla think about last night.
"But you broke up."
"Doesn't mean I wouldn't do it all over again."
"If I say it, he wins, and if he wins, then I'll just be another girl to him."
"You don't know that's not true." Layla said knowing Chuck better than anyone.
"You have to decide what's most important to you- Keeping your pride and getting nothing or taking a risk and-and maybe, maybe, having everything." Dan said.
"Thanks" Blair said then left.
"You're good at this stuff" Layla said turning to him.
"Giving Blair love advice."
"Yeah, how did you know that you loved Serena?"
"I just did" he said "How did you know you loved Chuck."
"Many reasons" She said leaning up and kissing Dan.
"You okay, that's not a normal Layla kiss." Dan said.
"I didn't know I kissed a certain way."
Dan kissed her again and I guess what okay with this time because when they pulled away he didn't say a thing.
That night she stood next to Rufus and Dan.
"So I-I'd say this was a success." Layla said to Rufus.
"Makes me realize what a bust all my other openings were." Rufus replied.
"Well, I'm gonna let you bask in your glory, because Serena's here, and she brought Blair again." Dan said.
"That's the second time that girl was here today." Rufus commented.
"It's scary for Blair" Layla said.
"You aren't trading this one in for Serena are you, because if you are son you're going to have to find a new place to live?"
"My father loves you more than me."
"It happens" Layla laughed.
"Why don't we just tell Serena you're not interested in being friends with Blair?" Rufus said.
"Well Layla's friends with her and it hasn't been a problem."
Rufus nodded then walked away. Blair and Serena approached them.
"Hey. This is a huge turnout. Aaron must be so thrilled… And your dad." Serena said.
"Yeah, yeah, it's pretty exciting. Uh, so I thought you were gonna be with Chuck tonight. -What happened?" Dan asked Blair.
"Oh, she is, um, but she told him to meet her here."
"Chuck's coming here tonight?" Layla asked.
"She needed some moral support." Serena said, all of them ignoring Layla's comment.
"Yes she is freaking out. She needs a drink." Blair said.
"Let me see what I can do about that for her. "Dan said walking away.
"You look so adorable A" Serena said.
"Thanks" she smiled.
"So when do you find out if you're having a boy or a girl"
"A girl, actually Gossip Girl broke that news" Layla said.
"Is that what you wanted" Serena asked.
Layla looked at Blair who seemed to be bored.
"It's what Chuck wanted."
"Chuck wanted a girl?" Blair asked.
"Well in the beginning he was undecided and then as it went he wanted a girl."
"Aww you guys are going to have a beautiful little girl that my mom will probably spoil if Bart doesn't beat her to it" Serena said.
"Bart was so against this" Layla said confused.
"Mom caught him baby shopping online."
Layla giggled. Serena walked off to see the art and Blair walk around the Gallery checking her phone every few minutes.
"Have you seen Jenny" Nate said coming up to her.
"I saw her head that way with Agnes" Layla said.
"Agnes?" he asked
"A model" she replied.
"Oh."
"Are you, do you like Jenny?"
"That would be weird your dating Dan. At least you are for now." Nate said
"That stays between us" she said.
"Always" Nate said "I'll find you later."
Layla watched him walk off. She stood on the outside and watched different people.
"You enjoying the night" Rufus asked coming up to her.
"Yeah, just so uncomfortable."
"How are you and Dan Lately?"
"Were good. Why?"
"I've just noticed Serena's been around a lot lately and the last time you broke up because of her."
"Were fine. I think." Layla said and Saw Blair run down the stairs crying. "Will you excuse me?"
Layla walked over to Blair and Serena.
"What happened?" Layla asked.
"It was a disaster, okay? I'm leaving." Blair said.
"No, I'll come with you." Serena said.
"No, its fine you stay. I just have to get out of here now." Blair said leaving.
Dan approached them giving a kiss on Layla's cheek.
"Hey" he said.
"Hey" the girls said.
"Do you know what happened? Why is Blair so upset?" Serena asked.
"Uh, yeah. Look, look, Blair and Chuck were gonna self-destruct at some point, so I just- I may have helped it along."
"Wait you intentionally sabotaged Blair?" Layla asked.
"I know you're upset, and that-that was not my intention, but I just found out they completely screwed over Vanessa."
"Whatever they did to Vanessa, that's different. This is about two people who love each other." Serena said making Layla cringe at the really something Layla wanted to hear.
"Blair and Chuck? C-come on." Dan said.
"I don't understand. I thought you wanted to help Blair." Serena said.
"No, I did this for you, 'cause you wanted me to help her." Dan replied.
"Of course this is about you, and how you feel about Serena" Layla said storming off. She ran out and up the stairs to the roof hoping Chuck was still out there. She got to the top and saw him still standing up there.
"Hey" she said.
Chuck spun around and saw her standing there.
"Hey"
"I'm guessing tonight didn't go well."
"I don't think Blair and I will ever say those words" he said.
"Don't give up on her Chuck" she said.
Layla walked closer to him and stood next to him. She grabbed his hand in hers.
"Where's Dan" he asked.
"Somewhere with Serena" she said.
"That again."
"Be completely un judgmentally honest with me. Do you think I jumped back into the relationship to fast?"
Chuck pulled her close to his side.
"Tell me Please" She said.
"Yes" he responded.
Layla felt something in her belly.
"Wow."
"What?"
Layla grabbed his hand and put it where she just felt something
"Wow"
"Yeah" Layla smiled and laid her head on his shoulder.
"I got to go do something. I'll see you later. Maybe you can stay at the suite tonight." Chuck said
"Yeah, later" she said and watched Chuck take off.
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment.
In real life, the prince goes off with the wrong princess or the spell wears off and two lovers realize they are better off as Well, whatever they are.