Chapter Seven

Blair tried to disengage herself from Chuck as she saw the look of disbelief on her ex-boyfriend's face, but his arms were like a steel band around her waist. Her gaze kept darting back between the two men as she noticed Chuck's mouth gaping open a little. All three were frozen in shock.

Nate was the first to say something. "Isn't this something," he murmured to no one in particular as his eyebrows shot up his forehead.

Chuck carefully pulled out of Blair and was attempting to stand up when Nate rushed over and threw him out of bed and onto the floor.

She looked at the man she loved in horror. This was her worst nightmare. Her gaze moved over to Nate. She was embarrassed and she had no reason to be. Nate wasn't her boyfriend. Why should she feel this way when he had been sleeping with Serena while they were together? Her mind was a whirlwind of emotions, and she wasn't prepared for this.

She wrapped the sheet around her body and as graceful as possible slid out of the bed. "Let go of him Nate."

He lips curled into a snarl that detracted from his pretty boy good looks. "I don't believe you two! I was scum of the earth for sleeping with Serena but you can sleep with my best friend, Blair?" He shook his head in disbelief as he was trying to get his mind to grasp what he had just walked in on. "It's Chuck! You hate him! You would sleep with someone you hate just to get back at me?"

Blair moved over to the chair in the vanity and sat down, pushing her back against the iron wrought chair. She let out a mini sigh of relief as she saw Nate finally unclench his hand from around Chuck's neck. "At first that's all it was about," she began quietly. ""You hurt me more than I have ever been hurt in my entire life." Her eyes shot daggers into Nate's eyes as she addressed him. "You didn't care about my feelings, Archibald. All you cared about was Serena. You never thought about the consequences of sleeping with her and what it would do to me."

Nate didn't say a word.

"I loved you and you destroyed me. That's all on you." Blair took a deep breath as she let the pain of Nate's betrayal wash over her again. "The day I saw the two of you kissing I thought I was going to break. My best friend and my boyfriend. Classic. I hated you both and a part of me hasn't stopped. I went to Chuck and asked him to make me feel alive. Something you couldn't be bothered to do yourself."

She paused to push a curl behind and her ear and watched as Chuck stood up and hastily put his clothes on. Blair tried to get her jumbled thoughts together but Nate interrupted them but growling at Chuck, "Don't even fucking look at me." He still said nothing.

Nate turned back to Blair and raked a hand through his hair. "Continue," he said harshly.

"I hated Chuck but I didn't need to like him. All I wanted was someone to look at me like they truly wanted me. For once I didn't want to be a bother. I wanted a man to look at me like he could eat me alive and never once get tired of me." She swallowed as her heart thudded with the full extent of her feelings for Chuck. She glanced back at Nate. "He looked at me like that, Nate. As we got to know each other more, the anger started to slowly melt away and be replaced by passion. I broke up with you because I don't want you anymore. I want him."

She noticed the shock on Nate's face. Blair knew how surprised he was to hear that she didn't want him anymore. She wondered if his ego could stand to know she preferred his best friend over him. She wished Chuck would speak up. He had yet to say a word.

Nate started to pace around her bedroom. "How long have the two of you been screwing around behind my back?"

Her deep brown eyes lifted to Nate as she said, "What you walked in on was the first time we were about to make love."

"Do you really fucking expect me to believe that?"

"Believe what you would like. It's the truth. To be honest nothing I could ever do to you will be as horrible as what you did to me. I don't regret it."

"What were you going to do, Blair, when he slept with you and tossed you aside? Like every other woman he has been with. Was this going to a one time thing?"

Blair swallowed hard. "I don't know. All I do know is that during all of this I fell in love with him."

Nate's mouth fell open but he quickly closed it. The love radiated from her eyes. At her proclamation Chuck's head jerked up.

No one said anything for awhile until Nate began, "I know I hurt you, Blair. I'm sorry for falling in love with Serena while being with you." He didn't appear sorry at all. There were just words. Nate was like a robot with no emotion. "Going to my best friend for sex is just as bad in my opinion. I'm not really sure if I should believe that you love him or not."

"What do you have to say for yourself?" he asked Chuck.

Chuck turned to him and looked him dead in the eyes. "Nothing to you, Nathaniel."

"Go Nate." Blair spoke the words softly. "We can continue this later. I'd like to speak to Chuck alone."

He looked down at his feet before turning towards the door. "I don't think I have anything left to say to either of you. Especially you Chuck. You've seemed to turn on me when you are the one who has betrayed me." He turned the door knob and let himself out.

Chuck rushed over to her. "Why didn't you speak to Nate? He's your best friend, Bass."

"He shrugged. "I had nothing to say so I didn't. I was risking my friendship with Nate by being with you. You've become more important to me, Waldorf." Blair smiled. "Did you mean it when you told him you were in love with me?"

Her hand found its way to his chest. "I meant it Chuck. I do love you. If I had said that last year I would have thought I was insane but I have completely fallen in love with you."

His hand made its way to her cheek. "I love you, too."

TBC

A/N: I don't know if anyone is still reading this. I have gone without updating it for a two and a half years but I finally feel satisfied with what I have come up with. I have one chapter planned left to write. Please read and review and let me know what you thought. Thanks for sticking with me!