"Chuck," Blair cried out in the middle of the night, trying to find him in her bed, and then she remembered that he would never be in her bed again as far as she was concerned.

"Blair, you awake?" Serena mumbled. She and Blair had sat in this room all night, she felt so helpless all she could do was watch her friend cry for the last 3 days, unable to find the right words to comfort her.

"Yes," Blair mumbled, but she wished she wasn't, she wished she'd never wake up. In fact she wished she'd died on the way home from work so she wouldn't have come home to find that whore with him.

"Blair I get it if you don't want to talk about it but I think you need to, it will do you good- trust me." Blair knew she could count on Serena to be truthful about this; it wasn't that long ago that she and Carter Baizen went through a similar situation. She thought about it, what had happened to destroy their relationship, it could really be summed up into on word- Elle.

3 Days Ago

"Hey Chuck, I'm going to be home late tonight," she said while kissing his bare chest as she rose to get ready for work, "I'm going to see my mother."

"Oh ok, do you want me to come with you?"He said trying to tighten his grip on her waist.

"No I should go see her alone I mean the only reason she's not really speaking to me is because we- and by that I mean you- told Lilly first about the engagement," she smiled as she watched him smirk "so thanks for the offer, but I don't think your presence will really help her bruised ego."

"Your right" His smirk became a full grin at the thought of winding up Eleanor Waldorf.

"Chuck Bass I swear if you don't wipe that grin off your face I'm going to-"

"What? Attack me, you know I like it rough baby"

"Ugh you're disgusting, and actually I'm going to not let you take a shower with me," she ran into their bathroom before he could grab her and locked the door- that will teach him.

By the time she finished getting ready Chuck was already eating breakfast, "Waldorf?"

"Yes Bass"

"What time did you say you would be getting back?" He questioned as he stood up and began kissing her neck.

"Um…" damn it what did he just say, concentrate Blair- for god's sakes he's only kissing your neck! "Um after 10 ish I think I mean she wants me to have dinner… and… I'm sure I'll have to do some serious apologizing on your… behalf." He lips had moved to hers now he'd gotten his answer.

Blair pulled back slightly, "Why do you ask?"

He knew he couldn't tell her the truth especially considering when they'd finally got back together he'd promised her he would never contact her again, he knew that she made her feel insecure. But at the same time he didn't want to lie to her, "I just wanted to know how long I was going to miss you for." There perfect, he'd told the truth but at the same time kept her in the dark.

"Chuck that is probably one of the sweetest things you've ever said, and I don't buy it, seriously why did you want to know?" She was getting slightly suspicious now; he never usually said things like that outside of the bedroom, was this something to do with the texts she'd seen sent from his phone to someone named E? She knew she shouldn't have snooped through his phone but he'd been so secretive with the messages he'd been getting. The messages also didn't make any sense they sounded like they were to do with business some of the time and others they were just general chats, and Chuck never missed business with pleasure. Outside of the boardrooms and galas Chuck didn't socialize with many of those people.

"Oh well if you must know I was planning on going shopping for a present for you," this didn't have to be a lie either, he would go shopping maybe buy her some earrings that match her ring.

Stupid me, how could I doubt him? The thought of going to my mother's is already driving me to insanity.

"Oh Chuck thank you," she was grinning widely- she loved getting presents- "if I really like it," she whispered in his ear, "I'll finish off what your obviously trying to start right now," as his hands crept up her thighs.

She pulled away from him and grabbed her coat, "See you later," and he blew him a kiss as she closed the elevator door.

"Tease!" he shouted out after her.

She giggled as the elevator began to descend, crap- I've left my laptop, she quickly pressed the button for the penthouse. She expected Chuck to still be standing there when she walked back in but he wasn't, she heard his voice coming from the study as she went to see him for another goodbye kiss she heard what he was saying.

"HI, yeah sorry I took so long to call back but I had to wait for Blair to leave." What? Who was he talking to? It was probably something to do with her present.

"So I can definitely make it tonight about 7 o'clock, I guess we can meet here- Blair won't be back for hours so we'll have plenty of time."

Let's be clear though, Blair can never know about this ok?" What can't I know about? She felt like shouting from behind the door, this didn't feel right, she was beginning to panic, this didn't sound like a nice surprise.

"Ok, as long as were in agreement, Bye Elle." Blair quickly and silently moved into another room, Elle, he was talking to Elle, she felt her world starting to crash around her, she waited for him to leave then she rang Serena.

Back To Present

"H he cheated on me S, what else can I say he fooled me into thinking I was enough, just to set me up for a bigger fall." Blair managed to stay reasonably, so Serena decided to push further. "What happened B you two were so happy- what changed?"

"I think it started about two months ago- when I got my promotion, I was so happy, I thought I had … everything. We both knew that it would mean longer working hours, but that was fine- I mean Chuck was so busy at Bass Industries I thought we wouldn't even notice. But he must have because then he started texting her and well he… he…." By this point tears were streaming down Blair's face and Serena knew she wouldn't be able to say much more, so she gave Blair that piece of privacy she was craving and quietly left the bedroom.

"How is she?" Dan asked while eating pizza in front of the T.V.

"She's depressed Dan, how do you think she's going to be, she can barley talk about him. I hate him for doing this to her- she deserves so much better- I knew right from when she told me about the night in Victrola that this would end in heart break."

"Yeah I know, if it's any consolation I hear Chucks not doing much better, Nate just rang, he's in his bedroom just sitting there."

"Well he should have thought of the repercussions before he cheated!"

"Come on Serena, don't judge him we don't really know what went on between them I mean all Blair saw was him kissing her- he may not have actually gone the whole way."

"Oh so that makes it alright then does it, as long as I don't have sex with someone I'm not cheating- is that what you really believe Dan?!" Serena stared at him furiously, all men were the same, and how dare they think that women can just be used like that!

"Serena you know I don't I'm not like them I'm just saying let's not jump to conclusions here ok?"

"Whatever, but I will say this I am going to make sure no one hurts Blair like this again including Chuck Bass." Serena said storming off into her own room.

Great thought Dan just what I need two severely angry men hating women in the same apartment.