The next morning Serena woke up feeling all giddy, she smiled as she opened her eyes but immediately frowned because she was alone. Shaking the sleep from her head she threw the covers of and walked into the bathroom to wash her face before going downstairs dejectedly, thinking her night of giggles, kisses and sweet promises, was just another dream.
"Good morning sleeping beauty," Nate said from the kitchen counter, he had a smile on his face and Serena scowled at him. "I know, I know, I meant to bring breakfast up to you but I have no idea how to make anything so I ordered some stuff, it just came," he said pointing to the tray of food and got up to walk closer to her.
Serena shook her head but jumped into his arms when he got close enough, burying her face into his neck. "I thought I dreamt you stayed over," she mumbled.
"You're still asleep," Nate said laughing, tickling her sides to wake her up and making her squirm. "So we can eat now and go get Erik after, ok?"
"What would I do without you?" Serena asked leaning in to kiss him.
"Lucky for you, you'll never have to find out," he said smiling and leading her to the table.
The rest of the day was a big blur of everyone saying 'Finally'. Serena didn't realize how many people were waiting for them to finally get together until she thought about it that night.
When she walked into her brothers room in the morning with her hand clasped in Nate's smiling happily, Erik sighed and rolled his eyes, muttering 'finally'. After dropping Erik off at the apartment so he could sleep in his own bed for a couple hours they went to Nate's house to let his parents know that everything was ok and for him to change, Anne Archibald actually hugged them when she saw them coming in, whispering 'finally' in their ears and calling for her husband who screamed 'finally' from his study after Anne told him what had happened. Serena was embarrassed but Nate laughed it off and squeezed her hand.
Blair was over joyed and Chuck just amused at the shocked expression on Serena's face when they came over to check up on Erik. Blair squealed her 'finally', Chuck muttered it under his breath like Erik had and Serena hugged Chuck for his part in getting the two of them together. For the rest of the day they were getting these looks that screamed 'it's about time you two got together' from everyone they knew. Serena's mother came back from wherever she was to check that her son was still alive, shook her head and said her 'finally' before leaving again with her boyfriend of the month.
And as she sat on her bed that night looking at her phone she got a blast from Gossip Girl with a picture of herself and Nate walking around the park, their hands clasped together and they were laughing, completely engrossed in each other, the word 'finally' written big and bold underneath the picture with a small caption under that said 'I'm not the only one thinking it, it's about time S and N stopped messing with the hearts of the UES and took what they really wanted, let's hope this lasts at least as long as it took for them to get together'.
"Have you seen this?" Serena asked when she saw Nate leaning against her doorframe with a breathtaking smile on his face.
"Yeah, I think we look cute," Nate said walking forward to kiss her. "You don't think so?"
"I think we do, I just can't believe that everyone was waiting for us to just get together and we were the only idiots who didn't know how we felt about each other," Serena said scrunching up her nose.
Nate smiled and kissed her again. "Well no matter how long it took, we are finally together."
By the time they got back to school Serena had forgotten about Dan and how fast she'd moved on from her relationship with him but he didn't. He tried to cause problems, making sure Nate heard him tell the guys things about himself and Serena that weren't true and telling Serena how Nate was fooling around with Bree when Serena wasn't at their basketball practices. Serena rolled her eyes because as much as she's never trusted Bree Buckley she knew the girl wasn't interested in Nate and since she knew she wasn't going to get any information out of him she moved on to one of his cousins.
Even though they knew none of it was true, the constant whispers of Dan's words in their ears were driving them apart, they loved being together but they kept doubting each other and the speed at which they started their relationship making it impossible for them to enjoy private moments with each other without overthinking the things they are doing and who the other person is thinking of.
Finally Blair had had enough, she wanted this perfect relationship too badly for her best friends to let something as trivial as Dan Humphrey break them up.
"I don't know what your deal is Humphrey and I really don't care but before I start coming after you and making your already pathetic life that much more miserable I suggest you back of and stop all contact with Nate and Serena," Blair said cornering him after school when she'd finally had enough. "They are too nice to do anything about your obvious jealousy and wanna be Upper East Side ways but I'm not, I can crush you like a bug, I've done it before to people much higher up on the social ladder than you think you are."
She tuned on her heel and left Dan standing there gaping at her but with everything she'd done in the past he feared her words and knew how horrific she could make a person's life and he left them alone, it took him a few days to really take her treat seriously but he finally left their lives with an apology and a promise to stay as far away from them as possible. Blair smiled and Serena shook her head but hugged her best friend for doing what she did.
About a month after they began their relationship they had a school function to go to, something Blair was more than excited for because she planned it. Serena put on a gold dress and let her hair fall behind her, she loved that Nate was so tall because she got to wear her really high heels that have been looking at her from her cupboard begging to be worn, she was towering over Dan when she tried them on and he was around.
Serena jumped when she heard a wolf whistle from the door. "You look ... absolutely irresistible."
"You look pretty handsome yourself," Serena said smiling and walking over to him and laughing. "You'll never get this tie thing right, will you?"
Nate grinned, "As long as I have you around I don't need to," he said and Serena smiled wide as she straightened his tie because he planned on keeping her with him for a long time.
"As long as it's me and no one else," Serena said leaning in to touch their noses together, she didn't want to kiss him just yet because she'd ruin her lipstick and he'd have color on his lips.
"Shall we?" Nate asked taking her hand and bowing to kiss it, like he had when they were kids and Serena giggled.
"We shall," she said grabbing her purse and letting him lead her out. Erik had already gone ahead of them, Blair managed to convince him to help out with over-seeing the events of the night.
Blair was grinning from ear to ear when they entered the ball room, Chuck was standing at her side holding her hand and laughing as they made their way over to their best friends. "Guess what, guess what, guess what," Blair said almost jumping up and down and Serena looked from her to Chuck to find out what was going on.
"What?" Serena asked when Chuck just shrugged because she had to guess. Blair looked like she was going to burst if she didn't say anything.
"I got early acceptance into Yale," she said squealing and Serena screamed and hugged her tightly. "The letter came this morning."
"Oh my God that's amazing," Serena said hugging Blair again. "I'm so proud of you."
"Congratulations," Nate said hugging her as well.
"I'm so happy," she said. "Chuck's moving with me and you guys are going to still be in here when we come home for the holidays right?"
"Yeah we'll be around," Serena said as Nate took her hand back and linked their fingers together, she and Nate applied to places close to home, they didn't want to go far even thought their parents wanted Brown and Dartmouth for them respectively. "It's going to be fun."
"I just feel like screaming it to the world," Blair said throwing her arms up and jumping, Chuck wrapped his arms around her from behind to get her to stop moving so much.
"Get this, she hasn't even had alcohol yet," he said and Serena and Nate laughed at him.
"Ha ha," Blair said dryly but smiled again because she was just that happy. "I am loving this year."
Nate left Serena's side for a few minutes with Chuck to get them drinks and she frowned, she hated not having him next to her.
"So is being with Nate everything you've ever wanted?" Blair asked and Serena smiled, because she couldn't not smile when she thought of her boyfriend.
"It's so much more B," Serena said biting her lip. "He's just amazing, I'm starting to figure out what you and Chuck have."
Blair smiled and hugged Serena because her plan worked, it may not have been exactly her plan but her best friend was happy and protected and as long as she was with Nate she would be taken care of like Blair tried to do. "I'm so happy that you're happy S," Blair said with tears in her eyes, at the end of the year when she and Chuck really do have to leave for Yale, she doesn't know how she's going to stop the waterworks.
"Oh my God this is terrible," Serena said laughing when she pulled away from Blair and tried wiping her eyes without messing up her makeup.
"Hi," Nate said when he got back, frowning at the tears in Serena's eyes. "What's wrong?"
"We had a moment, you worry too much," Blair said smiling as Nate carefully wiped Serena's tears and kissed her forehead. Chuck stood next to her a second later and handed her a glass before wrapping his arm around her waist.
"Where's mine?" she asked nudging Nate.
"Well you'd have to put it down anyway for this part of the night," Nate said and Serena raised her eyebrows. "I'll get you whatever you want after this."
Serena frowned at him once she realized he dragged her onto the dance floor. "We could have danced after," Serena said as Nate brought her left hand to rest on his shoulder and took her right hand in his, spinning with her once.
"I know but they wouldn't be playing our song," he said holding there joined hands close to their bodies as they danced.
"We have a song?" Serena asked raising an eyebrow and grinning because he was so sweet.
Nate leaned in closer to her, "Listen to the words," he said softly in her ear and Serena shivered but forced herself to listen to them anyway. "Lucky I'm in love with my best friend…"
That's as far as he got because Serena captured his lips with hers. "No singing," she said smiling when he gave her a wounded look. Serena kissed his lips again and let her forehead rest against his. "I really am lucky I'm in love with my best friend."
"Yeah I love you too," he said like it was one of those things and then he smiled mischievously leaning in to kiss her again, getting lost in the song and each other.
Lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
A/N hey guys I apologise again for the mess up with the last chapters post lol Fanfiction keeps all these documents adn I was just too lazy to delete it anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this story, i'm so sad it's over! I really want to write a sequel to it so if you guys have any ideas or things that you'd like to see please review and let me know, I have a general idea but I'm not sure if I want to stick with it
I am starting my exams tomorrow so the posting of the next story should be really slow lol also if you guys didnt review the last chaper please do and thanks again to GG for pointing out that I posted the wrong thing
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I dont even know what to say except that this was a really fun and fluffy story that I hope you guys love and dont mind if I write more in the future hehe oh and please review!
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