Chapter 2
"Well who would have known that it could be so beautiful out here" Blair said as she looked at the trees with the sun hitting it in just the right places.
"I know this could be a good sign of things ready to come" Serena said as she looked back to see Eric daydreaming out the window. She also saw how Jenny was asleep and had her head on Nate's shoulder. He was happy but tried not to show it because Vanessa was watching him.
"You guys we are here" Dan said as he pulled into the driveway.
"Wow this is so not what I expected" Vanessa said as she saw the two story cabin with the aesthetic lake that stood out back. It also had a garden that was full of petunia, tulips, daisies, and roses. It was surrounded by a forest and the dirt path leading up to the house.
"This is so amazing it doesn't even look like an old creepy cabin" Dan said as he stepped out the truck. Nate tried to wake Jenny up; he loved how beautiful she looked when she was sleeping.
"Jenny get up" he said as he tried to shake her enough so that she would feel the jolt.
"Yes" she said while rubbing her eyes. Once she got all the way up she jumped out the truck and saw the cabin and was surprised at how different it looked she was expecting a regular old cabin. Just then Rufus and Lilly got out the truck with big smiles on there faces. "Its amazing isn't it" Lilly said as she came towards the kids. Blair and Serena ran in the house quickly to pick a room. Eric went to talk to Rufus and his mom. Vanessa starts towards the lake with her camera. Nate follows Jenny in the house. Chuck looks at Dan who is stumbling to get the bags.
Dan says "So I guess I'm getting all the bags huh."
"Well I'll give you one reason why I am not helping" Chuck said. As Dan looks at him wanting to hear his reason He slowly starts talking as if he were whispering, " I'm Chuck Bass." Dan shakes his head as if was expecting Chuck to say that. As Chuck is about to walk away Dan trips over the bags and falls backwards. Chuck grins at him and says "This trip is looking up already."
By time everybody had found the rooms they were sleeping in Dan had finished bringing all the bags in. The rooms had two twin size beds in them and it was 5 rooms. So Blair and Serena shared a room, Eric and Dan, Vanessa and jenny, and chuck and Nate. Dan sat down on the couch after putting his bags away and he turned on the TV.
"Breaking news a mutilated body was found in Finger Lakes National Forest yesterday. Police say that the body was found by hikers who saw a hand sticking out from the bushes. So the police warn everybody out there that they need to watch them selves while in the woods. They believe it may just be an animal but to still stay alert. More details will be given tomorrow on the case." as Dan starts to flip the channel Serena comes over and turns the TV off.
"Hey lets go for a walk before it gets dark" she says. Dan gets off the couch and says "okay but make sure we stay as close to the cabin as we can."
"Alright" she said as she grabbed his hand and walked past Nate and Chuck. Nate sees them and smiles he says "I want a relationship like Serena and Dan use to have where you can be so romantic and it doesn't have to be about who you are or what your last name is."
"I get sick just looking at them" Chuck says as he looks at Nate.
Then he notices Nate watching Jenny and Eric playing clue out side on the porch." do you want to go play?"
"Huh, what are you talking about" Nate said defensively.
"You watching little Humphrey play board games" Just then Vanessa walks through the door and is looking at the pictures she has taken out side. She smiles nicely as she sees Chuck and Nate talking in the living room. Then Chuck says "why didn't you tell me you and Vanessa broke up?"
"I been busy doing other stuff "Nate said as he watched her go upstairs "why does it matter?"
"I can help you get her back" chuck said, "Do you even want her back?"
"I don't know" he said.
"Is this because of little Humphrey" Chuck said while he smiled slightly.
"Yes. No...Maybe I really have been trying to move on from the both of them "he said.
"That's good to hear" Chuck said "I got something that will help you forget them both for a couple of hours. Come on lets go for a walk. As he and Nate were walking out the door he saw Blair coming from out the bathroom and heading back to her room. While he looked at her, still amazed at how lovely she looked and wished one day he could tell her how he really feels. He thinks about her all the time and he just uses these other girls but no one can scratch his itch like her. He feels that he had wanted to be with her but did not know how to say it, he didn't know if she still wanted him at all. Then he had an idea, he would fight for her. With all his power he would make sure he and Blair were together at the end of this trip.
As Dan and Serena were walking and looking at the plants and animals, Serena said "Isn't this just so great the smell of the outdoors, the little creatures going on with there lives....awwwwww."
"Yeah it is" Dan said. "I'm glad we can still be friends after we dated."
"I now at first I thought it would be pretty hard" Serena said while she was fiddling with her hands "now if you can just be friends with Blair that would be great."
"I don't think so" he said while he stopped in his tracks "I would sell my soul to the devil before I am nice to Blair Waldorf.
"Come on she is not that bad, she can be a bit manipulative and play games with people but she does have a good heart. You just have to be patient with her "as he was about to oppose Serena asked him "can you just do it for me then, for this friendship?"
"We'll call this a friendly favor" he said "but if I feel like she is not worth it everything will go back to normal okay?"
"Okay as long as you try that's all that counts" Serena hugged Dan. She was so excited.
He looked at his watch and started to notice it was about to get dark "lets go back to the cabin" he said nervously.
Lilly, Rufus, Jenny, and Eric were in the kitchen preparing dinner when Jenny asked "How come you never told anybody about this place Lilly"
"Well I have been trying to manage a business and I thought who would really want to be out here. But after hearing about how you guys were having personnel problems, I thought it would be good for you to free yourself from the city. Think of it more as cleansing the soul." Jenny laughed at the fact that Lilly could understand the problems they were having. Blair walked in the kitchen to get something to drink and asked had they seen Serena.
"Her and Dan went for a walk about an hour ago" Eric said as he started to stir the pasta sauce.
"Great" she says under her breath." She left me here with nothing to do while she's making a failed attempt at being friends with Humphrey."
"Would you like to help us with dinner" Rufus said, "we are making spaghetti with salad and garlic bread."
"I guess I have nothing better to do"
"You can make the salad then" Lilly said "me and Rufus would like to go for a walk"
"Okay" she seemed like she didn't care. Dan and Serena had walked in and saw Blair in the kitchen
"Serena am I crazy or is that Blair helping cook dinner" Dan asked playfully as he walked into the kitchen.
"Ha ha ha "Blair said "Serena left me to walk with you, only god knows why, and I didn't have anything else to do" Serena saw Dan's face as he looked at her not expecting nothing less. He saw Serena look at him wanting him to just wait and see.
"Do you need any help" Dan asked Blair. She was surprised he was actually being nice to her with no sacristy remarks, but just blew off.
"You can help if you would like, but I think I'm smart enough to throw some lettuce tomatoes together" she said.
"But that's not all it is he said you have to add other stuff too." He went to go help her, Serena was happy he was making an attempt it was better than nothing, so she went to taste the homemade tomato sauce Eric was making.
"Wow that's good" Serena said as Eric looked at her and thought that she never really did know he could cook because they usually had other people cook their food for them.
Blair noticed Dan was actually pretty good in the kitchen. "You know I would never have guessed you would know how to cook Humphrey, I would never think of you as the chef type."
"I am pretty good in the kitchen, from years of practice" he said. She was about to cut the tomatoes when she squeezed it too hard and juice spurted all over Dan. He looked at her and she had just burst into laughter. "That's very mature Waldorf" he said.
"That made me feel great actually" Dan begin to approach her.
"Well this will make me feel even better," he took the tomatoes and sprayed it all over her face. She opened her mouth in shock and she took the bottle of salad dressings and squirted it at him but he dodged it and it splashed all over Serena's clothes. They all looked at her, she saw Eric laughing so she threw some pasta sauce at him. Then they started to throw food everywhere. They were having a good time until they heard someone clear their throat. They saw Lilly, Rufus, Chuck, Nate, and Vanessa standing in the kitchen. Vanessa and Nate were laughing; all of them had stopped and looked at themselves. Everyone started to laugh again. Chuck shook his head in disbelief and headed to his room.
Then Lilly said "I guess we can just heat up a pizza." As everyone cleaned up Lilly was in the kitchen alone starting to put the pizza in the oven. She then heard a strange sound coming from outside, she went over to the window and looked out thinking maybe it was just the wind. She was about to turn around, when she thought she heard footsteps on the back porch. She went to open the door, "Hello is anybody out here "she said as she begins to walk out the door. She could have sworn she saw someone standing in the woods looking at her. Then someone grabbed her and she screamed.
"Lilly it's just me" Rufus said as she started to relax" what are you doing out here?"
"I thought I heard something" she says still shaking a little. "Come on back inside" he said, while looking over the back area seeing if he saw anything. He walked in the house locking the door behind him not observing the figure that stood in the woods watching him.
