Five Years After
Dan's back and he hates to admit it but it's good to be back. He missed it. But of course,he has a good life back at London. He's the Editor-in-Chief at a publishing house and he also owns a little bookstore. He feels contented. But his father needed him home for some important announcement. Jenny flew in just a few days before him. So he knew it was really something important with Jenny leaving her work to be in her most hated city.
Rufus picked him up at the airport and brought him straight to the Van Der Humphrey's penthouse for the traditional brunch and for the special announcement.
Everybody's already there, when they got there. Even ChuckandBlair. Yes he can say her name now without feeling an ache in his gut. But damn it, she is so perfect. She aged well. You could never guess that she's already a mother. Yes, he saw on the papers that they got married and that she was already pregnant when they got married. She really seems like she's happy. Good for her, I really genuinely wanted her to be happy.
Serena was the first to approached him and hugged him. "Daaaaaan, it's been too long since I saw youu. I'm still mad at you for leaving like that."
Dan laughed, Oh Serena. Still the same charming and golden girl Serena. " I'm really sorry about that but hey, at least I won't miss your wedding." he said before turning to Nate.
"Buddy, I missed you!" Nate said giving him a bear hug.
"Ditto, dude. By the way, congratulations on both the win in the mayoral election aaaandd with winning the girl." He really did miss his friends. And he thinks it is really good to be back.
Rufus interrupted their little reunion and told everyone to settle down.
He sitted beside Jenny which is in front of Blair and he didn't even look at her. He didn't want her to think that she still matters to him.
"So Dad, what's the big news that you needed to tell us?"
"Well, Dan, everyone." he took Lily's hand and squeezed it before he said, " We're leaving New York."
"What? Where are you going?" Dan asked. All of them confused at Rufus' announcement.
"Ibiza, Tokyo, the Philippines, we don't know wherever the wind takes us. We're gonna travel." Rufus said excitedly.
"What is this, Mom? Some kind of a midlife crisis? " Serena joked.
"Well, I've always wanted to travel and besides I'm done with being idle just waiting for you guys to come and go. So we decided we should travel. " Lily explained.
"But what about the penthouse? Who's gonna live here?" Eric asked.
" Actually, that was our main dilemma. We've thought about selling it but we just couldn't bear to do it. So Eric will be going home every few weeks to stay here since Serena is getting married in a few months." Lily said, and Eric approved of this idea. All of them are actually happy for them.
Serena and Nate decided to postpone their wedding when they found out that Rufus and Lily wants start their new adventure as soon as possible. Besides, why wait? They're sure about what they want. They decided to get married next weekend and just postpone their honeymoon.
The rest of the evening was great. He missed this. Oh how much he missed New York.
Chuck left early because of a business meeting and Blair stayed for a while talking to Serena about the wedding preparations. Nate also left becausw of a meeting. Eric and Jenny went out to catch up. After talking with Rufus and Lily for a while, he felt exhausted and a little jet lagged. He said goodbye to Rufus and Lily promised to call them after he got some rest.
He walked towards Blair and Serena to say goodbye, well, to Serena. He hugged her and he can see that Blair is busying herself with her phone. Serena asked him to stay but he declined. Then he left,
Later that evening, when he heard someone inside the loft. He quickly grabbed a baseball bat since he knew it wasn't Jenny because Jenny was still with Eric, and then he saw her. Blair. The girl she spent all this year forgetting is in front of him still as perfect and as beautiful as she can be.
"I didn't mean to scare you, I just wanted to talked to you." she said, and he can't help but look at those lips. God, how he missed kissing those lips. He had to control himself. So he said acting annoyed "How did you get in here? Do you know what time is it?"
"I remembered where you put your spare key." She said looking at him.
At this point, he was really confused. I mean what is she doing here. At this hour. He didn't see any indication in brunch that she wanted to talk to him. Or maybe he was just too busy trying. To ignore her. Either way, why is she here?
