A/N: Sorry I'm so late with this chapter. Things have been crazy. I've had a lot of things happen in my family that needed more attention than my stories. I'm working on adding chapter 9 to Malfoy's Daughter. Thank you for being patient with me. I know this a long journey. I appreciate that you are sticking with me through it. So here's chapter 4 I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 4 Sound of my Heart

"Suprise!" Rachel looked up from her piano shocked beyond belife to see two of her best friends from New York standing in her apartment.

"How?" The question hung the air as she stared at them. She never told anyone where she lived expecially Serena and Dan.

"Are you kidding Rach." He said while laughing "I am Chuck Bass and I always have ways of finding people." Rachel rolled her eyes. That was his answer for everything. He thinks one day it would get him out of trouble, so far no such luck.

"That doesn't answer my question of, what the hell are you doing here?" Rachel questioned the both.

"Look we just want you home." Blair waldorf told her bluntly. " Chuck doesn't want to admit it, but he miss you. We all do. So come home."

"No," Rachel replied to the request. " I told Dan, I told Serena, and now I am telling you. I'm not coming home. So you better get that into your head right now."

Blair squinted her eyes angirly at Rachel. " And I am telling you this. You are destroying everyone by not being home. It's not the same. So you are coming home. Besides theirs no way your fathers would let you live in a place like this."

"The only way they would is if something happend. Something bad." Chuck added.

"Nothing bad happened. I swear. I just needed to get away for a bit." Rachel replied twisting her fingers and fluttering her eyes, which where a clear sign of her being nervous.

"Your lying." Blair blurted out. "I've known you since 2 years old Rachel or did you forget Serena, you, and I are the best of friends." Blair stated angirly. " I know you. So who threatened you."

"It's just that, I can't tell you guys. If he finds out that I've told even Dan or Serena. And you won't be able to get it out of them so don't even try. Things could be way bad. Like someone will end up dead bad, and it won't just be me." Chuck narrowed his eyes at her.

"Rachel, Please just come home." Blair pleaded. Chuck grabbed her hand and squeezed it for comfort.

"About damn time." Rachel blurted out exited. " I knew you guys were good for eachother." Blair and Chuck looked at their friend confused and then down to were their hands were intertwind together, where she had been lookng. They smiled eachother than at her.

"Going on about six weeks, right Chuck?" Blair looked away from Rachel and over to Chuck who was still smiling that goofy smile on his face he got at the mention of his and Blair relationship. He usally tries to hide it, but with Rachel and Blair it just feels natural. Everything around these two felt natural.

"You guys should get going." Rachel whispered queitly too them.

"Were not leaving with out you." Chuck answered.

"Just go." She yelled.

"Please?" Blair begged one last time, tears begining in her eyes. She missed her friend. The world of upper east side didn't feel complete without her. Things with Nate were weird and he was acting strange. Something defiantely happened between the two and Blair wasn't leaving until she figured it out.

"We leave tomorrow." Chuck added "We'll be back to say goodbye."

"I won't be here. I'll be at school."

"Than we'll stop by the school and say goodbye. Because we got jipped the last time in our goodbyes."

"Goodbye. Goodnight" Rachel sighed once they left. Chuck and Blair were hard to handle together. But seperately was a different story.

Rachel thought about fleeing again to another place called Mystic Falls, but she knew her friends wouldn't stop until they found. She could also flee to California, Becon Hills. But she heard the crime rate their was just as bad as Mystic Falls. She would stay here. She wasn't going to run anymore. Maybe oneday she would go back to the upper east side. But for now. She's staying right here in Lima.

bzzzz Her phone was going off and was wondering if it was Dan or Serena. No, it was neither of them.

'Gossip girl here,

Your source of all the gossip and news that you wanna know about the upper east side's elite club. Chuck and Blair ran off to see R. Why? To get her to come back home of course. Things just aren't the same. Nate's with a different girl everynight and now with a study gilfriend. V, better look out. R may come back and she will stop at nothing to get her love back.

You know you love me

xoxox,

Gossip Girl