Getting Away From It All

A/N: Hello everyone!! Are we all almost ready for turkey day?? I know I am!!! Haha!! Anyways I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend I know I did!! Totally saw Twilight three times!! Robert Pattison sooooooo sexy!!! Not as sexy as my Ed, but pretty close!!! Now I know I promised everyone an update this weekend, but I had to re-write this chapter several times and somehow I am still not completely satisfied with it, but it will do because next chapter is the BIG ONE!!!!!!! Yes I know total spoiler, but I need to give you something to look forward too!!! Ok and also did anyone notice on the last chapter how the Getting Away From It All title was on the left side of the page when it is suppose to be in the middle??? Man that just annoyed me like no other this whole time so I thought I would just rant about it!!! Now I would like to give thanks to everyone who reviews, but also everyone who has put a Story Alert on this story!!! That also means a lot to me as well!!! Keep the reviews coming guys because those make my day!!! So I hope you enjoy and please review!!!!!!

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With an urgent, careful stare,

And some panic in those eyes

If I see you lying there,

Hoping this was the last time.

If you hear a distant sound,

And see footsteps by your side.

When the world comes crashing down.

I will find you if you hide.

If you wish it, wish it now.

If you wish, wish it loud.

If you want it, say it now.

If you want it, say it loud.

-Angles and Airwaves

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She was wide-awake and in denial. Yes that had to be it. Her and Chuck had kissed and not a kiss that you forgot, but a kiss that was forever in your mind. They had kissed. He had kissed her, but nothing had happened. They got as far as ripping each others clothes off when he asked the most pivotal question "you sure." Most girls would have leaped, but she didn't. She had shaken her head and ran. Ran to her room and cried. She wasn't ready for that step not with him.

Of course she was ready, but it didn't mean anything. He was Chuck Bass and it was probably just sex to him, meaningless sex with her, the girl who had nothing. That is not how she wanted her first time to be like. She wanted her first time to be with someone she wanted and he had to want the same thing. She didn't know if Chuck wanted the same thing, so she wasn't sure and it killed her inside.

She turned over hoping sleep would come to her, but she knew it would never come. When she turned away from Chuck she could tell she had left him confused. She had kissed back and then got scared by his question. Was it really the question she was scared of though? Or was she more scared of the prospect of being with him.

He was Chuck Bass some big personal relationship manager and she was a bartender. She was in some ways nothing, but somehow she was something to him. Maybe that's what scared her how she was something to him. Yes, that was definitely it. She was scared of finally being something to someone.

In California she had never been anything to her mother she decided. She was just her daughter who didn't follow her wishes. She was not even acknowledge to her mother. She also had never had any stable relationships. She had one stable boyfriend back at home. They had dated for three years, but ended it when she had found out he had been cheating for all of their relationship. That's when she promised herself to never give into a guy.

She knew Chuck. He would come into the bar sometimes telling stories of his womanizing ways and she would always get hurt. She always wondered why he would tell her those stories, but within the past year she had almost never heard those stories again. He would always come in and drink a little and talk to her about her and her life. Maybe he did cared. This thought scared her more than any of the others.

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I'm dumb shit. He had kissed her and she had walked away from it. She had walked so far away she would never of known that he had heard her cries. He stayed by the door until he heard her tears subside. One thing he could always tell about Blair was that she was broken.

The first time he had met her she was behind the counter and not smiling and he decided to go talk to her and maybe even try to get her in his bed. He had gone up though and saw her face and he could tell she just needed someone to talk to. Every time he went in there he might not have always told her things she wanted to hear, but at least she would have someone to talk to if she wanted to.

It had all changed a year ago when he decided he needed to find out about Blair. So he did what every businessman would do, he asked her about herself. She had opened up and that's why he knew they were good friends still to this day. Also to this day he wanted to still get to know her and he knew he had ruined it with the kiss.

They had been making out and he thought she was ready so he asked the question. The question that apparently was not the right one. He asked and he had looked down into her eyes. The eyes that he always wanted to get lost in, the eyes that any man would die for. She stopped kissing him and bolted. Bolted so far that he had to have time to get up and run after her.

When he had heard her crying all he knew to do was sit there. He thought about knocking, but decided against it knowing that she might of needed her space. He had walked back to his room and crashed on his bed. He was still on his bed and sleep would not come.

He couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. Besides the question there had to be another reason for her sudden change in mood. She had looked scared something he had never seen in her until tonight. He saw a lot in Blair Waldorf, but never trepidation. Yes, this was something new he had never seen in her and suddenly he wanted to know more about her.

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"What's up with you two?" Vanessa asked.

Nate, Vanessa, Chuck, and Blair were all sitting at the dining room table eating breakfast and to Nate and Vanessa's surprise Chuck and Blair had not said one word to each other.

"Uh-" Blair started.

"Long night." Chuck answered while looking at Blair.

"Very tired." Blair responded.

Vanessa looked at Nate who was also not buying the story one bit.

"So what are your plans today Blair?" Nate questioned.

"I am going to the grocery store to get all of the fixings for Thanksgiving." Blair said after a few minutes of thinking of somewhere to go.

Chuck looked at her. Originally they had decided to go to the store together, so Blair could show him what all to get. He guessed that was out of the question now.

"What about you Chuck?" Vanessa asked.

Chuck had to think. He really needed to talk to Blair about their encounter last night, but he could tell she wanted to do the opposite.

"I have a business proposal I need to get done so I will be working on that." Chuck answered.

"Oh guys I forgot to tell you Serena and Dan called and said their flight is coming in tonight so one of us needs to go pick them up." Vanessa said while finishing her breakfast.

"I'll go-" Blair and Chuck said at the same time.

Nate looked at them. "Eager much?"

"There my friends I think I should go," Chuck said.

"Well I promised Serena I would come next time to pick her up," Blair responded to Chuck's low blow.

It was Vanessa's turn to look at them. "Me and Nate will go."

Chuck and Blair looked at them. They were both thinking of an excuse to go and get out of the house and that was a good one, but Nate and Vanessa had picked it up.

"Well thank you so much Vanessa for cooking breakfast and I would love to stay and chat, but I need to get to the store. See you guys later." Blair said leaving the table.

Chuck watched as she walked away and shut the door behind her. He might have stared too long though because Vanessa and Nate caught on immediately.

"Spill," Vanessa said.

"What?" Chuck asked confused. He needed to get out of here.

"What happened between the two of you?" Vanessa asked pressuring him to tell her everything.

"Nothing happened."

"Bass I know the two of you. You guys like each other and now suddenly you guys aren't talking? Yea, I am pretty sure something happened." Vanessa said.

"First off we don't like each other we are friends," Chuck answered trying to convince himself of that. "Secondly she has to get our turkey and she was probably really into wanting to get there for the turkey special." Chuck answered while leaving the table to go to his room and hide out.

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Smoked or not smoked? Blair thought to herself. She had only cooked a turkey once in her life and she was not sure which one to choose. She was planning to do this shopping with Chuck, but decided that she needed to be alone and this was the only way to be alone.

She would have to go back to the turkeys because there was no way she could choose yet. She turned her basket and ran into a very tall man. Oh my god. She looked at him and all he had was a smile on his face, for some reason she knew she had seen this man somewhere before.

"Blair right?" The man asked.

"Uh, yea." She responded having no idea who this man was.

He laughed telling she couldn't remember. "Marcus Abbot. I'm a friend of Chuck's."

Then she remembered everything. She remembered him in the bar and how Chuck couldn't stand him.

"Oh hi, your from the bar I remember now." She said being as polite as she could.

"Where is Chuck speaking of him," he asked as they slowly started to walk to the spice aisle.

"Um, he has this big project thing to do I think," she responded while putting her full attention into the pepper.

"Yea were partners on the deal."

"You got lucky then. Chuck's great." She said smiling.

"I guess he hasn't told you then," Marcus questioned.

She looked at him apprehensively not wanting to even know what Chuck hadn't told her. "What do you mean?"

"Our teams job is to shut down Victrola." Marcus said.

Blair blinked a couple times. Yes, this was something Chuck had definitely not told her. She didn't know if she was more angry or upset with him. She was going to go with angry though because she really wanted to hit him.

"Oh, um no actually he hasn't told me that." She said composing herself so it looked like it didn't affect her.

Marcus smirked. "Yea Chuck is known for doing that."

"Doing what?" She asked not liking the tone of his voice.

"Lying or I should say not informing people."

Blair looked at him and she really didn't know if she believed this Marcus guy. When he had come into the bar she could tell he was cocky. When he spoke to Chuck she could tell Chuck did everything in his power not to sucker punch him.

"Listen I have to get going, but it was nice seeing you," Blair said suddenly wanting to get away from him.

"Blair why don't we go out and have a drink."

"Uh I don't think that is the best idea, but thanks for asking." She replied while making her way to the next aisle.

"I'll be at the club Tric if you change your mind," he yelled out to her.

She kept walking though not wanting to respond to that. She was beyond furious with a certain man in her life. She could not believe he hadn't told her. She was hurt by this and in some ways she was glad the truth finally came out. Now she knew Chuck had things that he wasn't telling her and this made her mind certain she had made the right decision when she had said no to "you sure". The words that she knew she really wanted to say yes to.

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He had been sitting on the couch for two hours and he was officially bored out of his mind. She had been gone for over four hours and Nate and Vanessa had been gone for three. He had started watching television until he got bored. Now he was trying to figure out how to save Victrola, which was not going well.

He looked up hearing the doorknob squeak; he still needed to fix that. He saw her come in with what look liked a hundred bags. He quickly got up to help her. He smiled at her and she didn't even give him a look. They needed to talk.

"How was the grocery store?" He asked making conversation.

Blair glared at him still fuming over seeing Marcus. "Do you tell me everything?" She asked while going over to the kitchen and taking the groceries out of the bags.

"Uh yea." He said not knowing what she was talking about.

"Really then why did Marcus tell me the Victrola news?" She said looking right at him.

"When did you talk to Marcus?" He was fuming now.

"Chuck that's not the point. You lied to me. Your company is shutting down the bar and your not doing anything. Your sitting on your ass letting it happen." She said with anger.

"First of all don't listen to Marcus." She looked at him. "He's an ass. Second, yes but I won't let it happen. I am working on it as we speak."

"Chuck you lied to me. How can you ask me are you sure when your lying to me." She looked at him wanting him to give her the best answer and to make everything ok.

"Blair I didn't lie. I just didn't tell you because I didn't want to worry you about something that probably won't even happen." He answered.

That wasn't it. She walked out of the kitchen not wanting to be in the same room as him.

He looked to the back of her and really had no idea why she had gotten so mad.

"Where are you going?" He asked to her turning back.

"Out with Marcus." She answered not caring if it hurt him.