Chapter 1 – B in England
Blair was walking in circles in her office.She was worried.
Aren´t we all?
There´s been 10 years,she thought,remembering the last night she have seen her teenage friends,Kati,Chuck,IsabelLaura,Rain,Serena and Nate.
She took a sip of her Ketel One on the Baccarat red cristal glass.She looked herself in the mirror.She had dark brown hair with blond highlights,recently made at the Rue de Rivole saloon,a week before,when she visited her father in his apartment in Paris,where he lived with his husband.She had beatiful blue eyes,a beautiful red lacquer mouth.
London drenched in rain,like most of the time,was the background of her office window.
"Where are they now?"she said in low voice.The only persons she still had contact with were Vanessa and Aaron.Vanessa have been nominated for the Oscar with her "In and out Barney´s",a sort of autobiographic drama.A girl named Jennifer something played Blair,and have won the Golden Globe.Aaron was a well known nutricionist with three best selling books on New York Times.The rest of them,she had no idea.Tyler had recently turn 21,was on Yale Law School,and was the "Campus Stud",Yale was 10 by now,looking a lot like Blair,but with red hair.She was too beatiful to be Cyrus´s daughter,that´s for sure.
Blair´s boss sent her a letter from his house in St.Barts,wich impressed most of the staff,but not Blair,anyway,she was going to come with her own label next month,and she had to do it in New York,neither Paris or Milan would take her junior collection.
Her inspiration was Audrey Hepburn.
Tell me something new.
She had a wall of Audrey´s pictures,Givenchy designs for Audrey and stuff like that in her wall.That´s a fan.
Blair,we are very pleased with your work at the designing crew,and i know you will be a great designer,that´s why i´m sending you for the New York City Franchise.I hope to see your name in Paris someday shining like Christian Dior or Coco Chanel.
Farewell,
Rosemary Bravo
She read it five times.Well,she was going to call Vanessa and Aaron,or maybe get Serena´s adress and send a note saying "I´ll be back,bitch!"
Great idea!
"Well,what to do now?"she thought,while getting her beige sheep hair Fendi overcoat and black Louis Vuitton bowling bag.
She talked to her mom on the phone,pissed off for having to talk or hear or know about Cyrus being alive!
What a family.
Chapter 2 – How´s everyone doing?
Serena was asleep when the red light taxi caught her atention.She was still getting used to Park Avenue,without the Park on the left side.The Archibald townhouse was now for them,since Nate´s parents were at the Hamptons planing their wedding.
How sweet,now let me sleep a lil´ bit.
Nate was asleep by her side.He was wearing grey cashmere pajama pants,that she bought him at Barney´s a few days before.She looked at the diamond on her finger,she couldn´t believe she was going to get married in only three weeks.It was all perfect.
She looked at herself in the mirror.She looked at her right arm and saw amo-amas-amat and she remembered her old best friend,Blair Waldorf.She was still friends with Aaron,her half-brother,and still going to her house and her mother´s dinner parties.She knew she was fine,and working at Burberry in London.
Nate was Blair´s longtime ex-boyfriend,and now longtime ex-friend.
Nate woke up and asked Serena to come back to bed.So she did.She loved him,she loved to stay in his arms,and had a shooting the next day.
Eleanor Waldorf woke up from her bed,where her husband,Cyrus,was heavily asleep,and she decided to take a walk on her penthouse.She went to Yale,her ten year old daughter,bedroom and kissed her on her forehead.The long and shining red hair covered her face,but she looked like an angel.She got out of the room, closing the door,and went to the living room.
She looked at the pictures of Blair as a baby,and from then on,until the last time she saw her,almost 2 years ago,in Paris,with her father.Blair was older,growned up and plastified,she had a breast implant a few days before,but you could already see her results.She suddenly wanted her to come back now and hug her,and tell her she loved her.She suddenly realized,looking at Blair´s 17 year old birthday,the day she got married to Cyrus,that she had been a bad mother a lot of times.
Finnaly!
Chapter 3 – Coming back
Blair was pissed off when she found out her plane was getting an hour late.She was going to freak out.She already planned her arrival on the movie in her mind,where everybody screws around with the hero,then she had to go away,and now she was coming back,and they would all regreat what they´ve done to her.
She had an outfit of her own made specially to this ocasion,a black tube with a twirled white skirt knee high,and she would be wearing a black hat,like Audrey´s on her getting ready scene in Breakfast at Tiffany´s,and Manolo Blahnik strappy black satin stilletos her father bought her.
She was going to be fabulous.
She kept dreaming on when the speaker finnaly anounced the plain was ready to fly.She got in the plane,set next to the window,fell asleep,and then woke up five and ¾ hours later.She had fifteen minutes to get done.She went to the bathroom with her hand luggage.10 minutes later,when the plane was almost in the floor,she got out of the bathroom looking fabulous.
"Shit!"she said when the leave-the-plane warning was green on the wall.She went running on her heels and stoped by the mat and throwed her black alligator Fendi bag,and went running by the detector,and got a cap.She was already an hour late for her mom´s dinner party in honor of her arrival,but then everybody was going to already be there.For the first time in her life,Blair was going to be the delayed beautiful one.She decided to stop at Barney´s and buy a Chanel nº5,to be more fabulous.
She went inside the her building running with the bag,and she asked the doorman,who was the same until she left,and recognized her,and asked him to send it upstairs.She could only have in hands her black Chanel wallet.She got inside the elevator,checked her makeup and lipstick on the way to her penthouse.She was finnaly home.The home she left happy,because there her life was hell.But now,it was a turn around.The elevator door opened,and Blair knocked it,and the maid opened it.
Chapter 4 – B is for Back!
Nate was talking with his father and Bartholomew Bass about boats,Serena,Katie and Isabel about marriage,Eleanor and Serena,Katie and Isabel´s mom talking about Serena and Nate´s marriage in July.Chuck and Aaron were talking about parties and clubs.Vanessa,Dan,Jenny and Cyrus were talking about movies.
Funny,nobody seemed to remember who the party was for.
Then,there was a knock on the door and the maid opened,and then everyobody became speachless.Blair looked down and then raised her head,showing her face and hair.She was gourgeous,and hot.People usually get hot after a boop job.Her hair was darker and shiny,with the Serena-like-blonde wicks,the light blue eyes,the pearl tone skin,in contrast with the dress and the red lacquered lips.
She shined more than her pearl and diamond necklace and earings,all from Harry Winston.Poor girl.
Nate was stunned by her,he looked at her and wanted to get in his knees and say "I love you,i wanna marry you!",but then he looked at Serena´s blonde hair and deep blue eyes and forgot Blair.
"Hello everyone" Blair said,smiling the way she always wanted to smile when she was a teenager,an Audrey-model like smile,the one that said "I´m gourgeous,i know" and she never could,not until now.
"Hi"Serena said when she jumped from the couch and hugged her old friend.Blair hugged Serena to.She thought "Why waste my time with this bitch,she had enough from me,she won´t take it anymore!".Well,she was a good friend.
"So,how are you going here,i see you are comitted"Blair said when she saw the diamont ring on Serena´s finger "Wow,i never thought i'd say that.
"Me neither!" Serena said,laughing "So,who´s the lucky one?"Blair asked,she thought she was going to try to look fine,but she really was "I am"Nate appeared, hugging Serena from her behind,and kissing her cheek.
Blair looked at them booth,they were almost the same from the last time she saw them,except they were older "Well,congratulations" Blair answered.She thought she was going to handle lots of feelings when she saw them both,but she wasn´t,actually,she was O.K and happy for them.
"Hey,i missed you,and you gotta come with me to the Academy Awards!" Vanessa said,when she hugged Blair "You are in...PUCCI"Blair said, surprised,she had seen Vanessa a few times before,and she was really getting in to color and letting her hair grow,now,it was neck high,and that was huge for a girl who used to shave her head "And you are in?" Katie asked,getting Blair pissed off with her for blending in her private talk "Me,i´m my own designer now" she said proudly "Of course i still wear other designers,but mostly,it´s me,write this down,someday you´ll wear Blair Waldorf,and so will your teen daughters!" she continued,getting everybody to crawl around her " I talk a lot to Karl Lagerfeld and Givenchy to see if they like my new designs,and i really trust them,i mean,Givenchy dressed Audrey,who´s my inspiration,and Karl,well,he´s the kaiser" she said,feeling proud and the real star,feeling like Audrey.
She was happy.No,she was really happy.
For the dinner time,the first dish was served,and Blair didn´t even bothered about Cyrus,he was just a little bug,nothing she should worry about.
The dish was a duck´s thigh stuffed with apricot pouret,with spices sauce and a red potatoe tart.
Blair was eating hers,feeling happy to be home,when then she remembered the last time she eat that duck.
It was her "Yale i got in" dinner party her mom and her dad threw for her in this same dining room.Blair wanted a party,but no,her mother already gave her a graduation party,so this would be a dinner one.She had recently broken up with Nate and was still not over him,neither he was.She eat that duck and was so pissed off at him because he had cheated on her again with Serena.She couldn´t even get the food to stay on her stomach.She ran to her bathroom and put it all out,and Nate and Serena chase her.
"Get the fuck outta here,you whore"Blair yelled while she threw the japanese china at Serena´s direction,and Serena went out,leaving it to Nate,she was drunk when that happened,he was the responsible.
"I´m still in love with you,i´m really sorry" he said,but she wasn´t going to buy it,no,he cheated on her too much,and she wasn´t going to be the slob´s girl,no she wasn´t."I´m not your bitch Nate,for everytime you are girless or whatever you come to me saying "I love you",you are a fucking asshole"she said,wanting to throw him a china too.But she was better than that. "I really do,believe me" he said,and she almost said "I love you to",but she instead said " If you ever loved me,you would have never cheated on me,when you went out with Serena,you never cheated on her,so shut the fuck up and get out of my way" she said,now suddenly pissed off again,but Nate kissed her,one of that long,sincere,passionate kisses she always used to see in Audrey´s movies,and never really happened to her.
" You know,you are just lying to yourself,you love Serena,and i always told myself you didn´t,but you do,so just do me a favour,if you gonna tell someone you love them,mean it!" she ended,leaving him there and going back to the dinner.She decided to leave Yale,she dreamed about going there her hole life,but New York ghosts were always going to stock her,so she aplied and got in École de Beaux Arts,in Paris,where Givenchy had studied.She graduated,worked in Armani,in Milan,then moved to Rome and worked with Fendi,then back to Milan,where she worked in Manolo Blahnik,Paris,where she worked with Dior and Givenchy and then,finnaly,Burberry,in London,where she was until now,in New York making her own brand.
Chapter 5 –Eureka!
After the dinner,the coffee was served in the living room,where everyone decided to ask Blair about her new brand.
"I´m actually designing it yet,but when i sattle down i´ll get a crew with me for the fashion week" she answered to Katie´s question,when Nate asked "What was your first inspiration?" he asked getting everyone surprised by his interest in fashion "You,actually.My first "design" was a moss green cashmere sweater i bought you,were i atached a golden heart into the sleeve,wich is now my personal brand,the golden heart." she finished,feeling cool for being the center of atention.
"If you need professional models,i´m sure Serena and Jenny will help!" Vanessa said.
"Actually,what are you doing now,Jenny?" Blair asked,intrigued about what Jenny would be doing.She knew what Dan was doing and became his real friend when she bumped into him in Paris,when he was in a college excursion in places where existencialism and other new filosofies where still going on or something like that,and now he was a New York Times bestselling writer. " I have sold some paintings and i´ll be having a show two months from now on the Guggenheim"she said,feeling cool and proud.Who´d say that a short big boop girl who always wanted to get in high society and never did as a teenager,as a grownup she became one of the most famous young painters in New York,and in three months would have a show in Chicago?no one.
" I forgot to ask Vanessa to tell you,a friend of mine who works on one of the most important art galleries in London said you were very talented for your age,and was interested in having a show of yours in his gallery,i´ll get you his card,wait,let me get it" she said,while she opened her wallet,trying to get it.
" It´s probably in my other purse"she said,looking at Serena and Nate "Could you guys get a room please,i borrow you mine!It won´t be the first time neither of you sleep there"she said,she could have a little fun with the changes around New York "So,mom sayd you were getting married,when is it?"Blair asked,and Serena answered "It´s gonna be July´s seventh weekend,at Nate´s house in the Hamptons,and i know it´s too late,but i´d like you to be my bride´s maid"she said,and Blair suddenly was pissed off "O.K,but only if you let me do your dress and the bride´s maids' "Blair said,thinking like a business woman,that wedding was going to be Vogue,Harper´s and stuff,where to get her debu better than there?
Goodbye romantic,hello material girl.
"Well,O.K,but you´ll have to hurry,cause it´s only in a month and a half"Serena said,and then Blair said "Meet me tomorrow at my office in Avenue des Americas and 55,deal?"
"Deal"
Chapter 6 – Turn around,bitch!
Serena showed up at Blair´s office,and it was still closed.What a funny thing,Serena thought that she would be Blair and Nate´s bride´s maid but actually Blair was going to be the one.She suddenly had that feeling that she didn´t knew what was going to happen,but she knew it would be good,her favorite feeling.
She was angelical wearing a white cashmere shoulder high sweater and black cotton pants from Armani,and pink Gucci loafers,and was seating in the waiting room,reading the new Elle edition.The office was all white,with a 60´s design orange sofa and beige Art Deco armchairs,with the secretary´s desk in glass with a pink iMac on top.
Blair suddenly appeared,looking like she just gotten up.It wasn´t actually a lie.She woke up,brush her teeth,and put her clothes on.She was wearing brown suede and sheep fur Roberto Cavalli boots over Diesel jeans,a black and white check Burberry shirt,a caramel leather Versace coat and a Dior furr and silk black cap.She was gourgeous,and looked like a girl who had seen and done everything everywhere. "Oh,i still gotta get a secretary,aw fuck" she said,before seeing Serena was there,when she saw,she said "Hey,i didn´t know you were here,so,shall we?" she said,and so did the two girls;
"So,what are you going to want for your dress?"
"I don´t know,i´m not even sure about the table setting,i really need you"
"I know babe,i know!So,whadia like?"
"I´d like something a little french,because of Nate´s mom,but i´d love something Eastern,like India,Pakistan,Japan"
"It´ll be a chalenge" Blair said,while thinking about a dress,she didn´t really need Serena´s measures,as bitch as she was,she would stay the same 60 years old,so she wouldn´t be a problem.
"What about color,you´d want it white or white with something?" she asked,trying to think of a marvelous dress,but all she thought was what a bitch Serena was,couldn´t she give her something hard,it´s like she wanted her to fuck up in front of Harper´s and Vogue,shit!
"White,and maybe a little silver,but nothing too "look at me!"ya know?"
"Yep,so,how long have you guys beeing engaged?"
" Blair,i´d like to know something"
"What?"
"Are you piss off at me because i´m the one getting married with Nate?"
"No,not at all,i´m in love too"
"Who?Lord Marcus?"
"No,it didn´t work out,he´s a lord too,and his name is Lord Henry"she said,feeling proud,she was going to be a lady,Lady Waldorf could be her new brand,two of them,Blair Waldorf,and Lady Waldorf,an older but classy and seductive women brand,and Lady Blair,her new parfum,yeah,it was going to be awesome!
"I´m happy for you,did he already propose?"Serena asked,intrigued,and then Blair pushed a ring from her Fendi purse,a ring inside a box "Oh my God!Why didn´t you said it at the party!"Serena asked.Blair had no idea,but she maybe wanted glory for herself for being a single independent business women,not some lord´s bride "Because i didn´t wanted to steal you and Nate´s glory,the It couple,and anyway,we hadn´t declared it yet" she answered.
"Oh my God,i mean,you´ll be famous,going to marvelous parties in Europe,wow!"Serena said.She had been in Europe´s parties,and she knew that New York´s partys were midle class kids parties compared to those,and Blair would be in the tabloids and stuff .
"Wow,that is really cool!"Serena said,and Blair suddenly imagined herself in a beautiful dress getting married with Lord Henry and thousands of photographers taking pictures of her,and in the next morning them in all the papers.She going down a stair with a beautiful dress like Audrey did in Funny Face,and then putting a white vison coat,she going down from a Rolls Royce in a tweed and furr coat waving to a crowd and kissing a little girl and giving her a Godiva chocolate doll,she talking with Karl Lagerfeld,Donnatella Versace and Madonna,being the most beatiful and elegant in the party even more than the gourgeous models,and Lord Henry and her valsing in an enormous marble ballroom with the Queen of England,who after that was giving her the tittle of the most elegant lady in the kingdom,she opening a gigantic store of hers in Paris,bigger than Louis Vuitton and Chanel together,she in a runway after a dress show,wearing a gourgeous black and white dress,she being called as the head of Givenchy,Chanel, Louis Vuitton,Fendi,Prada and Manolo Blahnik,she moving to an beatiful Paris townhouse with Lord Henry and her 3 kids,two girls beautifuler than Serena´s would ever be,and boy beatifuler than Brad Pitt and Cary Grant,she in a party,older with Lord Henry,her children still big,and taking with her pictures for magazines around the world,she being an embassador of Unicef,helping children in Africa and South America,she in Rio and Capetown being prized by their presidents as the most generous women,she getting sick and people from hole world coming to her hospital to cheer for her,and she getting fine and going in a tour worldwide for thanking,all movie,T.V and music stars knocking in her door wanting her to made them dresses,she being prized as the most talented fashion designer in the 21st century,receiving Nobel´s peace award and being homaged by U.S.A president,a new lake in the Central Park named as Blair Waldorf Stafford´s lake,with a statue of hers,Vanessa making a movie about her life and winning every academy award,except the animated film ones,Dan writing a novel about her life and winning Pulitzer and being the bestselling novel of all time,and Jenny making a series of her life and winning an artists prize,as the best paintings of all time,her clothes being auctioned at Sotheby´s and Christie´s in benefit of Blair Waldorf foundation for young artists and Lady Waldorf foundation in benefit of the homeless and Lady Blair Stafford foundation for children,all runn by Unicef,Tiffany´s,Cartier and Harry Winston making a jewelry line inspired on her,and one for her, Ferragamo,Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin making special shoes for her in the past and now putting them to sale,and everyone was buying it,and she being homaged in the Oscar as the greatest designer since Coco Chanel and the greatest wellmaker since Audrey Hepburn.
"Blair?"Serena asked,taking Blair out of her daydream,suddenly awaking her "Are you fine?" "Sure,i was just imagining your dress,it´ll be prefect"Blair answered, and Serena bought it.
"I can´t believe the way she is!"Dan shouted from the shower,while Vanessa was combing her short hair,now only short,not none.After he and Vanessa got famous and rich,they reformed Dan´s Upper West Side apartment,making Jenny one in the first floor,and leaving the other two ones for them.It was now looking like an Fifth Avenue´s Penthouse,but with an Antique charm there wasn´t there. "I know,she is so dreamy and with a lot of expectations to the future,she looks happy"wich is something most of the people would never know Blair wasn´t "I thought she would be a little pissed off at Nate and Serena,that´s why neither me or Aaron told her,she was happy and finnaly over it,something like that would bring her down" "Well,she doesn´t seem to,she´s even making Srena´s dress,isn´t she?"
Yep,she is,and her own so.
Chapter 7 – B and S on the word around again...
Isabel and Katie were shopping at Barney´s,both now working in the society gossip column.What a surprise.
They were both confused what to buy now.No one to copy now?
"Have ya seen Blair,how skinny she was,i was shoked!"Isabel said,trying on a hat that made her head look like a table tamp.
"I mean,back at school people said she had bulimia,ya know,and by the way,i heard that she was hooking up with some photographer!"
"I heard she was engaged to some english lord,and she was doing pot parties for noblesse in his castle"
"Well,i heard she was engaged to him,but she was hooking up the photographer and she got pregnant,so that´s why she is rushing her marriage to six months from now,so she´ll had an excuse to say it was his"
Hello?Does this make any sense?
"I heard she was broke and needed his money to make her clothing line,so that´s why she´s with him"
"I heard he was broke and wanted her to get money from her brand"
"I can´t believe it man,Blair´s back!"Anthony Avuldsen,Nate´s friend said.He was the only one left from their stoner crew who didn´t died or had an overdosis and was in a clinic "I know man,and she´s so hot,some say she had a boop job,but whatever man,she´s so hot!"he said,remembering Blair in the morning when he came by her office to pick up Serena.She was wearing a really short and slim white t-shirt and the slim fitted jeans on her thighs and the boots made her look like a sexy cowgirl,who would push him into a farm yard and kiss him and screw him right there.But she didn´t,she showed him the dress and the bride maids dresses.
"But Serena is hotter than her,isn´t she?"Anthony asked.He might have been a stoner,but he was still a good friend "Yeah,Serena is the hotter" he thought,but now Blair was different,her face hadn´t changed,neither her body except for the boop job,but she had that shine,that something it just come with time,not with a class or a right and wrong list.
"Are you sure?I thought Blair would be pissed off at Serena and Nate´s wedding!"Jenny said,when Aaron told her at the phone,she was waiting a fucker from a gallery in L.A for half an hour at Guggenheim so she decided to talk "Yep,i thought it too,but instead she wanted to make her dress,i mean,she know she wouldn´t be abble to get Serena ugly in any dress ever,so why would she do it?"Aaron´s voice said in the silver Motorola "And she wouldn´t make her fucked up dresses at a marriage that will be on every respectfull fashion magazine,i just don´t get it "Jenny said,and Aaron answered "Well,she might be happy for them"Jenny started laughing and Aaron couldn´t understand why " Blair,happy for the guy she loved who cheated on her and the bitch who was suposed to be her friend that he cheated with?Blair does keep anger from a lot of people,remember?"Jenny answered,taking her breath again.She had been Serena´s friend since then,going to Barney´s,smoking and drinking cofee at Le Canarde,doing everything she did with Blair.But now Blair was back,and the future was unsure.
Blair was walking down Park Avenue until she got to the apartment at the Waldorf Astoria.She liked her house,but she still didn´t got the stomach to see Cyrus,her mom and Yale as a happy family,it made her a little sick,altough Cyrus was a lot better,he had been in a class,didn´t dress like a freak anymore,lost weight and had an eye job,so he wasn´t a big sweaty pig anymore,but Blair still wasn´t over them,so she decided to live at the Waldorf´s hotel for now,instead of their penthouse.Her clothes was going to be sent there,and she would have room service and stuff,it wasn´t like she was moving to a hooker neighborhood in Bronx,was it?She was happy and sad about going back to New York.The room was decorated a lot like her house,and was the size of her old bedroom and a few more,she had a bathtub and stuff,and it was cool to say "Hi,i´m Blair Waldorf and i live at the Waldorf Astoria,my family´s hotel",yeah,it was cool.
Yale was at the Met stairway waiting for her friends when she heard a whisper "Hey,that´s Blair Waldorf´s sister!"some girls behind her said.It was cool to be the Queen Bee´s sister,but also a little heavy.Her nearest age brother was Tyler,and he was 21!And soon Blair would be a starting designer at New York´s fashion week,and she would be a designer´s sister.She had no idea whoelse´s sister she would be!
She twirtled her red hair in the back of her head.She looked at the Cartier watch Blair brought for her this morning.It was a square platinum clock with the black panther inside with platinum pointers.Very chicque.She was a lot like Blair in her age.Wearing cashmere sweaters and already falling in love with boots and Manolo Blahnik.