CHAPTER 4

Chuck sat at the bar for what felt like forever. He devoured his feelings with the liquor he consumed, trying to erase all images of Blair Waldorf from his mind; it wasn't working. He drinks a scotch, he sees Blair's smiling face when he wakes up next to her. He takes a shot, he remembers the intoxicating feeling of his skin against hers. He drains a glass of bourbon, he doesn't taste the alcohol, he can only taste every part of Blair's mouth. Her lips on his; her tongue against his. It was officially impossible to get Blair Waldorf off of Chuck Bass' mind.

Why is that? It's not like I love her, right? Chuck thought. Of course I don't. That's ridiculous. Chuck Bass doesn't love anyone. He is never tied down to anyone. Yet, he became Blair's boyfriend. I was caught in the moment. I made a slip of the tongue. He argued with himself.

The more alcohol he consumed, the more he missed Blair's laugh. The more he missed Blair's lips against his. And the more he missed the way she would look at him; as if he could do no wrong. Suddenly, Chuck stood up and headed toward the lobby and then up a wide staircase. He saw a girl going the opposite way and stopped her. "Hey! Have you seen Blair Waldorf?"

The girl nodded. "Up there."

Chuck rounded the corner to find the polar opposite of what he hoped to find: Blair passionately kissing Nate. How the hell did he get back into the hotel anyway? Didn't they kick him out? He stood there in shock, rooted to the floor. Unable to move, as if he'd been paralyzed from the neck down.

Blair stopped kissing Nate for a moment to say, "So hot how you punched Carter out. I've never seen you do anything like that before."

Still unable to move, Chuck watched as Blair went into a hotel room with Nate. But not before Nate could spot him and wink. At first, Chuck thought it was because Nate knew about him and Blair but then realized it was because Nate thought he helped him at getting her back. As if he'd ever do that.

As the door closed, a heart broken Chuck walked slowly downstairs and headed to the elevator. When he got to his suite, he changed out of his suit, grabbed a suitcase and started filling it with clothes.

Blair and Nate landed on the bed, tearing eachother's clothes off. Nate took the pins out of her hair so that Blair's hair flowed on her shoulders. They continued to kiss on the bed but stopped a moment to look at eachother. Nate smiled while Blair suddenly didn't feel good. Something was nudging her at the pit of her stomach, she just didn't know what. Nate kissed her again and suddenly all she could think about was Chuck. Nate had both his hands on her face while Chuck usually had a least one hand on her hip with his thumb stroking her side. He didn't taste right, either. She used to love it when Nate would kiss her. Now, she just missed the taste of Chuck's mouth.

When Nate laid Blair down on her back and started to kiss her neck, Blair shot up and exclaimed, "I can't do this!"

He looked at her, confused. "What do you mean?" Nate's eyebrows were suddenly raised. "Is there someone else? Is it Carter?"

She looked at him, disgusted."No it's not Carter! It's...no one. It's nothing. I just can't do this." Blair got off of the bed and saw her coat on a chair by the bedside table. She turned to Nate. "How did my coat get up here?"

"I had it brought up here in case you needed to get home quickly and not get caught by your mother."

"So you assumed I would just come up here and sleep with you?"

"No, I-"

"When I specificly told you we were just going as friends?"

Nate sighed. "Look, Blair, I just-"

Blair grabbed her coat and put it on over her underwear and bra, completely forgetting about her dress. "Goodbye, Nate." She stalked out of the room and raced to the elevator and rode up to Chuck's floor.

When she got to room 1812, she knocked. No answer. Blair knocked again. No answer. Remembering that Chuck gave her a spare key to sneak up here quickly, Blair pulled it out of her pocket and unlocked the door. Blair burst into the room to find not only an empty suite, but an empty closet and a missing suitcase.

Chuck exited the hotel and headed straight for his waiting limo. He handed his suitcases to his driver as the man asked, "Where to Mr. Bass?"

He stared at the newspaper in his hand with the article about Blair on the front page; with a picture of her smiling with Nate. Chuck looked up. "The airport."

As Chuck was about to step into the limo, he heard a female voice yell, "Chuck!" He knew that voice. Chuck turned around and sure enough, it was Blair standing in the middle of the courtyard. She must have been running because she seemed out of breath and her face was sightly flushed.

Chuck nodded to his driver to wait a moment as he walked back into the courtyard and up to Blair. They stood in silence for a moment; just looking at eachother. Blair finally decided to break the unbearable silence. "Where are you going?"

"Away," Chuck said bitterly.

"Why?"

"Why do you think?" he spat back coldly.

Blair stared at him, confused. But then, suddenly, she realized why. "You saw me kissing Nate." It wasn't a question.

"Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!" Chuck replied sarcastically. When Blair didn't respond, he quickly asked, "Why are you even here? Don't you want to back upstairs to have more sex with your precious Nate?"

"I didn't sleep with Nate."

Chuck's expresion softened. But to quickly mask it, he spat, "Well, why not? I don't see anything stopping you."

"Because I don't want Nate." Blair inhaled slowly before she continued. "I want you."

Chuck started to grind his teeth together in anger, but his eyes clearly showed that he wanted her too. "Well, who said I wanted you?"

You could see in Blair's eyes that she was hurt by this comment yet she took a step closer to Chuck confidently and confronted him about something that had been bugging her for a while. "In the limo. After I went to approve Nate's suit and you met me outside the building. You tried to tell me something but stopped." Chuck tried to calm his breathing. "You were going to tell me you loved me. Weren't you?"

Chuck's jaw tensed. "You heard wrong."

"Judging by your expression, no, I didn't." Blair came closer and put both of her hands on Chuck's face. "Chuck, I've known you since before I could remember. You've always said the opposite of how you feel, thinking, maybe, that you'd start to feel that way. And you're doing that right now, aren't you?" Chuck's face was expressionless but he doesn't take his eyes off hers. "Why are you so afraid to let me in?" He opened his mouth to say something , but nothing came out.

Blair didn't move her hands from his face and made sure that Chuck kept eye contact with her. "Alright. How about I go first?" Chuck furrowed his eyebrows and, without warning, Blair kissed him. Slowly, Chuck put his hands around her waist as Blair moved her hands to his shoulders and gripped his jacket. As she backed her mouth away, Blar whispered against Chuck's lips, "I love you."

Blair's eyes began to water a bit when Chuck's mouth stayed slightly open with no words coming out. She let go of him finally, gave him a little, shy smile instead of saying "goodbye", and turned to walk away.

Chuck stood there for a moment looking at the back of Blair's head, contemplating. He saw Blair nearing the doors and ran after her. "Blair!"

She turned around lazily and jumped when Chuck surpised her by smashing his lips against hers. "I love you, too." Chuck whispered. They smiled and began to kiss again. Blair's hands were in his hair while Chuck's were wrapped around her waist. Chuck backed his face away and whispered, "Come with me."

Blair smiled. "Where?"

He rested his head on hers. "Monaco." he said before kissing her again. Chuck then got a hold of Blair's hand and pulled her back toward the limo.

Nate sat on the bed for a couple minutes after Blair slammed the door. What did he do that was so wrong? He put his face in his hands and sighed. Nate looked up again to see Blair's dress on the ground. He then got up, put on his clothes, grabbed the dress, and headed out the door.

After reaching the foot of the stairs, Nate looked left and right, searching for Blair. He was about to give up when he saw a brunette outside, wearing Blair's exact same coat, with her back to him, talking to Chuck.

Realizing that it was in fact Blair, Nate headed for the door when he saw Blair put her hands on Chuck's face. Why would she do that? Why would Chuck let her do that? Nate slipped out silently and hid behind a pillar by the door and just barely heard the following:

"You've always said the opposite of how you feel, thinking, maybe, that you'd start to feel that way. And you're doing that right now, aren't you?" Nate could hear Blair's voice crack a little when she said, "Why are you so afraid to let me in?" Why on earth would Chuck let her in? What was going on? Blair sighed. "Alright. How about I go first?"

As Blair kissed Chuck, Nate finally understood. Blair wasn't dating Carter Baizen, she was dating Chuck. His best friend. That was who Blair was always texting. That was why she had been so happy lately. Chuck. He couldn't believe that both Chuck and Blair would lie to his face lie that, and so easily too. Part of him was furious and another happy that it was Chuck. Furious because Chuck could be using her just for sex. That is, if they've had sex already; the thought of Blair losing her virginity to Chuck Bass just pissed him off even more. Happy only because it's Chuck Bass. And since it was Chuck, it meant they couldn't possibly be serious. But still, Chuck is (or, now, he should be saying was) his best friend and that doesn't excuse him from sneaking around with his ex-girlfriend behind his back.

Just then, Blair finished kissing Chuck and said three words that shattered all of Nate's hopes. "I love you." Nate's eyes widened as he gripped onto Blair's dress, his hands in fists, as Chuck just stood there, mouth open as if he had lost all ability of speech. Blair let go of Chuck and began to walk back into the hotel, eyes clearly watering due to the fact that he didn't say it back.

Nate moved farther behind the pillar to not be seen as Chuck yelled, "Blair!" and ran after her. Chuck immediately kissed Blair, just mere feet away from Nate's daggering glare. Nate felt his heart crack a little as Chuck said, "I love you, too."

To Nate's disgust, they began kissing again. He finally got himself to look away and rested the back of his head against the pillar as everything sunk in. Blair loves Chuck. Chuck loves Blair. How did this happen? How could Chuck say that Carter was the culprit sleeping Blair when really it was him? How long had this been going on? Long eough for them to fall in love with eachother, Nate answered himself.

He took a break from his thoughts just in time to hear Chuck say, "Come with me."

"Where?" Nate could hear the smile in Blair's voice.

Chuck paused dramatically for a moment. "Monaco." After kissing her again, Chuck lead Blair to the limo. Nate walked out into the middle of the courtyard just as they got in and drove off; leaving Nate alone in the cold, clinging to Blair's dress when all he wanted to do was rip it to shreads.

Okay, originally, this was going to be the ending to the story but I couldn't just leave it here, now could I? The next chapter is going to be a sort of filler chapter describing what Chuck and Blair did in Monaco together, and most of it will be in detail, if you know what I mean...then we will probably see what Nate does with the inormation he now has.

And I'm hoping you all are liking this ending better than the one they gave us for "Hi, Society"...Nate and Blair sleeping together: :{ EW!

So, I hope you all are enjoying your summer and stay tuned!