Serena woke up from a bad dream. She'd been having the same one since she'd come back from the Bahamas. She dragged herself out of bed and got ready for school.
"Hey."
Serena jumped at the voice coming from behind her. She turned around to see Chuck taking a bite of an apple.
"Chuck. You scared me. What are you doing here?"
Chuck shrugged. "It's your first day back at Constance. Thought I'd accompany you there." It was half true but he rarely did anything without personal gain.
She nodded. "Sure, just give me a sec."
He stepped back out of the room and pulled his phone out. "Yeah. I'm with her now. Just supervising and making sure she's under control. No, I'm not worried. Nate will distract her easily. Gotta go. See you in a bit."
"I'm ready. Let's go!"
Serena stood in front of Constance and took a deep breath. She knew everyone would be looking at her and all the girls hated her for managing to get Nate back yet again.
She walked over to Blair's minions who fell over themselves trying to greet her. She went along with the conversation out of boredom, there were still 15 minutes until school started and Blair wasn't there.
Serena turned to see Nate walking over to her, smiling in all his Greek God glory. She could feel the heat radiating from all the girls next to her blushing. She smiled at him. "Hey."
Nate wrapped his arm around her and pulled her in for a kiss. He turned to look at the rest of the girls, fully aware of his affect on them. "I'm going to borrow her for a just a sec."
Serena followed him away from the crowd. "What's up?" She'd been avoiding him, Blair and Chuck for the last couple of days. She wasn't sure why but she'd been having a recurring nightmare that the three of them were attacking her. It was just a dream but she couldn't shake the feeling that there was something they were hiding.
Nate frowned at her. "What's going on?"
She shook her head. "Nothing."
Nate didn't look too convinced. "Are you sure?"
Serena nodded. "Yeah. We should get to class."
…
Nate walked into the Waldorf penthouse to find Chuck and Blair already waiting for him. "She suspects something."
Blair looked like she could cry. "Are you sure?"
Chuck stood up. "She can't remember. We haven't mentioned it at all so nothing could have possibly triggered that memory to resurface."
Nate chewed on his bottom lip nervously. "It's not impossible! We remembered. I'm telling you, man. She knows something."
Blair cleared her throat. "Has she said anything?"
Nate shook his head. "No, but –"
Chuck interrupted. "Exactly. She hasn't said anything so just drop it. In the very unlikely chance that she does remember something then we'll deal with it accordingly."
…
"Chuck?" Serena walked into his room. The lights were on but he didn't seem to be there. She sat on his bed to wait for him.
After about 5 minutes she was already bored. She walked around the room and looked at all the expensive paintings hanging on the wall. There was a coat carelessly thrown on a chair and she picked it up and walked over to the closet to hang it up.
She looked down at the rug covering most of the wooden floor. It was slightly uneven. She moved it around until it was to her liking and then turned to leave when she heard a loud squeak. She kicked the rug over and stepped on the loose floorboard again. "I've seen this before…" She whispered to herself.
She reached her arm down but she didn't feel anything. She heard the room door open and replaced the floorboard and the rug quickly. Then she hid in the far corner, behind all his coats.
She heard Chuck's voice from far away. She remembered there was something hidden under there. Something awful but she didn't know what. And then Chuck…he'd attacked her. It felt like a dream and her head was spinning. She heard the door open and close again and there were no more footsteps.
She waited a few minutes until all she heard was complete silence. She ran out of there as soon as possible and hailed a cab. She needed to find Blair and Nate, desperately.
…
Serena walked into the Waldorf penthouse to find her and Nate sitting in the living room with ESPN on the TV. Neither of them seemed to really be watching it. She didn't expect to find Nate there but that saved her the trip to find him.
"Hey guys."
They both turned and were caught by surprise. Nate stood up and kissed her. "I didn't expect to see you here."
She didn't have time to talk about that. She stepped toward them and looked around the room. "What I'm about to say is going to sound crazy but you guys have to believe me."
Nate stood silently and Blair nodded to let her know to continue.
"It's Chuck. He's hiding something. There's a loose floorboard in his closet and he hid something there. Something horrible."
Nate buried his face in his hands. Blair cleared her throat. "Did you see it? What did he hide?"
"No I didn't see it, but listen –"
Nate interrupted her. "So how do you know there's something awful there."
Blair licked her lips. "You're being paranoid, S. Let's just forget about this conversation."
Serena was out of patience. "I think Chuck had something to do with Georgina's death!" She'd said that a lot louder than she meant to, mostly because Blair and Nate weren't talking over her anymore. A thick silence filled the room.
A throat cleared behind them. Chuck stood in the doorway, calmly fixing the cufflinks he wore. "Well...that's quite the bomb to drop, S."
Serena stood frozen as he walked toward her. "Chuck, I—"
He grabbed her wrist hard. "Why were you digging around in my room anyway?"
Nate turned to Chuck. "Let go. You're hurting her."
Chuck let go of her wrist and turned to Nate. "This is your fault! You were supposed to take care of this."
Nate was suddenly furious. "Me? I did my part! We all did. You're the one who hid the evidence under you're floorboard like an idiot! You were supposed to get rid of it!"
Chuck's face turned red with anger. "How was I supposed to know she'd go snooping around in my room?"
Serena finally found her voice. "Natie…you were part of this? Blair...you all were?"
Chuck was tired of Serena's bullshit. He turned to leave but he couldn't hold it in anymore. "Don't you get it! We didn't kill Georgina. You did! " He lowered his voice, pleased by her reaction. "We just cleaned up your mess."
