Sareena and Blair had always been best friends. As long as either of them could remember. They fought and argued, but they were never what Gossip Girl said about them, they were never "frenemies." They were always best friends, more like sisters. They would never intentionally hurt each other, but sometimes no matter how hard you want to fight and make things right, feelings are feelings.

"B, you know I love you, but how many stores have we been to? You're driving me crazy!" Sareena said as she rested her head on her best friends shoulder. "Sareena, no! Stop!" Blair exclaimed, shaking Sareena of her shoulder. "No, bad. Resting is weakness, and weakness is something I will not tolerate, and why are you so calm about this situation anyways?" Sareena looks at Blair and she scrunches her eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

"Well Dan's going to be there." Blair says. "What? How?" Sareena questions her moving away for the swimsuit rack. "Well, I heard that Nate being the sweetie that he is, invited Dan. You know how they are close and good friends, so he ran into Dan and as a way to catch up.. and do whatever guys do." She says, as she goes back to the swimsuit rack. "Honestly," Sareena begins, "I don't even know why I care. We just recently broke up, and I'm sure it's always hard to even see someone who you had such strong feelings for, and I'm just not sure I'm ready. I know I won't go crazy, but I'll still feel something, and it'll be hard." She finishes.

Blair comes over and sees that this really bothers her best friend, and sometimes it's hard to deal when you just let go of someone you really loved. "S, you know that Rufus and your mom are meant to be, or else you wouldn't have given up. You're a fighter, and you're a lover, if you knew that you and Dan were anything compared to Dan's dad and your mom, then your mom would never even ask you to give them a chance." She hugs and Sareena and says, "It's okay, sweetie. You're going to have a great night, meet a great guy, and have fun."

She goes back to picking out a swimsuit and texts Nate:

I love you; I really miss you right now. Hope we're going to have fun tonight. 

Just before he is about to knock on Chuck's door, his cell phone vibrates. He smiles at the thought of how good things are with Blair right now. He texts back a quick message that reads:

I always do when I'm with you babe.

He then stubs his toe against the door, and Chuck hears. "Come in the doors open." He exclaims, and then sees who it is. "Nathaniel, surprise seeing her." Nate stares at Chuck and wonders if he made the right decision after all coming her and trying to give their friendship another chance. "Look Chuck, I love Blair. I'm serious about Blair, and I don't want to lose a friend over this. I know what I did was wrong, coming her to talk to you about Blair, and than lying and leaving – It was a stupid thing to do, and I'm sorry man." Chuck nods. "But, you need to laugh of my girlfriend. You know things are serious between Blair, and me and if you really care about me and if you really are my best friend, you'll stop. Alright?"

"Nathaniel, it was never my intention to ruin things between you and Blair. But you know the feelings I had for her, and while you were running around with Vanessa or another girl, I was really into her. So it's not like I'm going to be all on your girlfriend, but we're all best friends. Imagine how it was when Blair told you to stop talking to Sareena, It's not like I can never talk to Blair again, we are best friends and partners in crime." Chuck explained.

"I understand man." Nate looks at Chuck with understand and sincerity. "Good to see you back on my side Nathaniel." He says smugly. Nate laughs and grabs a beer from Chuck's mini-bar. It's weird how big things like this could go down between Chuck and Nate, and they would still be brothers. They were always there for each other no matter what, and always will be. It was something they could never change, and would never want to.

"So are you going to that party night? The one at the pool?" Nate asks, as he sits down on the one-seater couch and talks a drink from his beer. "Of course Nathaniel. Don't ask stupid questions. Girls, swimsuits, and a perfect opportunity to claim some ass." He looks confident as he looks over as Nate is dying of laughter. "Chuck, claim some ass?" Nate keeps laughing as Chuck looks angry.

"I wouldn't be laughing if I were you." He says. "And why is that? Because if you were me you would realize that you're so gross for saying that?" Nate says. "No Nathaniel, because Sareena is going to be there. And I'm thinking it's going to be pretty hard for our God's of Olympus to resist each other when there are swimsuits, skin, and scandal involved. You know how she gets around you, and you should be taking this to your advantage man. Are you crazy? Get on that, and please don't disappoint."

Nate looks awe-struck and before he can say anything gets a text from Blair :

Are you ready yet? Party started, we're getting there in an hour though.

Nate starts to get up and says, "I can't even start on you, but the party started so I'm going to start getting ready. I'll see you there man." He gives Chuck a manly hug before he exits. Leaving Chuck scheming and dreaming.

A half an hour later, Nate and Blair are at the palace, playing in the pool and kissing. Then Sareena arrives. She knows all eyes are on her, but she checks just to make sure one is, Nate's, and he was looking at her, as if there were any doubt. When she walks by a guy stops her and says, "Hi, I'm Grant. You are?" Sareena smiles and looks away, "Really not ready for this. I'm sure you're a great guy, but too great for someone like me." She walks away, leaving Grant smiling at someone who can reject someone so beautifully.

"NATE!" Blair says as she's laughing on her floater, "Can you push me? Or maybe you could just give me a ride on your back?" She says seductively. Nate looks at her and says, "Blair, are you suggesting something sexual?" She starts to say something, but he cuts her off as he puts his hands around her cheeks and pulls her in to kiss and she responds putting her fingers in his hair and then around his neck, and then she pulls away. "My, my Nate. I really think we should stop." She says and she smiles. Nate smiles, and looks behind him and sees Sareena going into a storage room and he looks at Blair and says, "I'll be right back, I'm going to find you another floater, this ones just ugly." She laughs, "Okay babe."

Nate walks into the storage room of the pool and says, "Sareena." She turns around, her blond hair perfectly resting on her shoulders. She has one a black swimsuit with a white design. It fits her perfectly, and she looks gorgeous. "Nate, what are you doing here?" She asks. "I saw you come in and there's something I want to say." He looks at her waiting for her response but when he doesn't get one he continues, "I have feelings for you. Some I can ignore, some I can't. Where I see you, it's hard, because I can't how attracted I am to you. It's not even physical it's emotional, and when I wasn't around you, I let myself get caught up, and when I saw you at the park the other day I realized I miss you, I missed how you taste, I missed how you feel."

Sareena just looked at him for a second, and she didn't know what to say. Of course she felt the same way, they had ignored it and it was easier when they weren't around each other, when they were busy in different relationships, but now they were near each other and dealing with their emotions again. It was just hard, because she did want to be with him it was just she couldn't do that to Blair again, especially not when she was back with Nate.

"I can't even believe you would come in here and say something so ridiculous. How could you do this to Blair, Nate? How could you do this to me? You know I would never do something like that to her again." "But you want me don't you?" She looked at him, "That doesn't matter. You're with Blair, and that's it. The past is the past, just worry about the present." She starts to walk away but Nate grabs her hands.

"Come on Nate, I have to go." She said. "But you want me don't you?" He asked again. This time he kissed her, and pulled her inside the storage room, and closed the door. He looked at her, and she looked at him, and then she went to him and kissed him. Like she missed him, and like she knew he missed her. Like as if they only had moment, and this was it, and if she got it right then it would always be like this. "I want you so much." She said. And he pushed her against a wall, grabbing her again, and passion just everywhere. Nate was hot, and she just couldn't resist. He looked at her, and she was just gorgeous, and then he started kissing her neck, and she gripped at his back, and purred. He knew that if anything would happen after this, this moment was worth it. "I know." They kissed and pushed each other all over the place, and necked, and then when they were too tired, they looked at each other.

"You're beautiful." He said. She kissed him again, and said, "It's not the right time for us yet, and I'm sorry Nate."

She left, and she didn't take the floater with her.