I Came Back For You Chapter 3:
*I Heart New York*
AN: So I am very sorry about my uploading time but I do have a very good excuse. And that is that for the past 2 weeks I have had mock exams in school and normally I wouldn't both but I have to because the results are getting sent away to the colleges. Anyway... the exams are now officially over and I can officially go back to writing! Hooray! And also I won an award for the best person at English in the school (well in the year but my years the top year!) so that motivated me to write even more! I love my English teacher. Anyway enough of me going on and on enjoy this chapter and review and I have a good storyline for this story now xoxo-Beth.
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Blair Waldorf awoke the next morning to feel better than she had in months. She smiled to herself and looked at the couch where the man who had made her feel better would be lying. But that man was not there. Panic suddenly hit her and she became scared. She was about to climb out of the bed and look for the Mother Chucker when she noticed a piece of white paper on the pillow next to her. She picked it up and read:
Gone to the Van Der Humphrey's.
Lily wants to speak to me.
Didn't want to wake you
-C
Blair smiled to herself. Of course Lily would get wind of Chuck being back in New York and of course she would want to speak to him. After all, when he left for Prague he didn't exactly have a fan club. She looked at her clock, 8:53am. She had one hour until her class started and Serena would've already left because she and a meeting with her English Lit professor about being late all the time. She got up and walked into the bathroom.
She slipped her nightgown off and adjusted the temperature of the shower before getting in. As she washed her body she couldn't help but think of Chuck. He always used to shower in the mornings with her and help her was her hair. She never asked him to, he just always did. It was natural to them. She remembered how much she used to hate showing in that shower after he decided to stay in Paris. The chrome shower head always felt as though it was dirty and the water coming from it was filthy and unclean. It wasn't, but it felt like it. When she would wash her hair, shampoo that once smelt like coconuts and vanilla smelt vile and of rotting dead things. But not anymore, now she basked in the warm water spraying down onto her, she rubbed the shampoo into her hair as though she was on an advert for shampoo where the women in it looked as though they were getting an orgasm from the hair product.
She stepped out of the shower and wrapped herself in a white fluffy towel and wrapped her hair in another one. She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled slightly. She was still too thin but she felt much better about herself. And she had to owe mist of that to Chuck. She smiled at the thought of him and then realised and stopped. She couldn't still love him, she hated him well...maybe she didn't hate him as much anymore since he was her now and being so lovely to her.
She selected a dark blue Marc Jacobs blouse and a grey YSL skirt and accessorised with a Cartier gold necklace with diamonds and Jimmy Choos peep toe pumps. She smiled at herself before grabbing her Louis Vuitton bag and heading for the elevator.
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"I am so sorry about what happened with Jenny. She was in a bad place and I just used her pain for my own personal destruction." Chuck apologised.
"Well, thank you for your apology. And welcome home. Please don't do it again" Lily replied. They both took a sip out of their tea cups.
"I have no intention of doing so...At least not without telling you first" Chuck said.
"So, tell me what happened in Prague. I heard about the mugging from Serena but after that?"
"Well...I uh met someone. Someone wonderful, she found me and nursed me back to health after I was shot and then... well Blair found me, begged me to come back and I said no...But then of course, Blair got sick and-" Chuck stopped himself and Lily looked worried.
"Blair got sick?" Lily asked cautiously. Chuck ignored the question and awkwardly took a sip from his tea cup. "Charles, what do you mean Blair got sick?"
"She's fine now" Chuck said quickly.
"Well, what was wrong with her in the first place?" She asked concerned.
"Nothing that you need to be worried about" He replied then, realising his rudeness rephrased his answer. "What I mean is that, she's completely fine now."
"Oh, you've been sworn to secrecy?" Lily asked. Chuck nodded.
"Exactly"
"Well, we need to formally introduce you back into society. What about a meal or a social gathering?" Lily asked.
"That sounds great. In about two or three weeks?" He asked. Lily nodded.
"Perfect. But, Thanksgiving is then..." Lily began. "Why don't you come for Thanksgiving?" She asked.
"Are you sure?" Chuck asked. He knew that that wouldn't go down well with Rufus and Dan and Eric.
"Well, I'll have to talk the boys around but I don't see why not" She replied. "Bring Blair" She added. Chuck nodded.
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Chuck felt slightly odd in his elevator in the Empire. He had been away from it so long it felt like it had changed. It was like the Empire was his baby and now it had grown up. He hoped to God that Nate was there because otherwise he'd just look a prat.
The doors opened and Chuck stepped into his home. But it wasn't his home anymore. It was Nate's now. Chuck's home was in a tiny apartment in Paris.
He sighed. Who was he kidding? Paris wasn't his home. He was New Yorker. He always had bee and he always would be.
"Won't be a minute, Dan" Nate called from the living room. Chuck smiled to himself as he walked towards the direction of Nate' voice. Nate was playing pool absentmindedly.
"It's not Dan" Chuck replied. Nate's head shot up like a cheetah sensing its prey. Nate stared at his best friend as though he was a ghost. After a while Nate managed to gather himself up again.
"Wow, am I either really drunk or are you really here?" Nate asked shocked.
"Well, you may be drunk but I'm here" Chuck smirked. Nate set the pool cue down on the table and walked over to Chuck carefully studying him.
"Where the hell you been at, man?" He asked.
"Paris. But I'm back now"
Nate hugged him in true bromance style. "Man, I missed you" Nate said.
"Missed you too" Chuck replied returning the hug. Finally, the two boys let go of each other. "Alright, enough bromancing. I need your advice"
"What is it?" Nate asked happily.
"Well, I have a new girlfriend, her name is Eva...But I came back to New York because of Blair's bulimia and now...Well I think I'm still in love with Blair" Chuck announced. Nate made the shape of and 'O' with his mouth.
"Oh...well then, dude. You gotta break up with this French chick, she is French, right?" Chuck nodded and Nate carried on. "Yeah, then you gotta tell Blair how you feel. She's in a pretty bad place at the minute and she needs to know that you'll be there for her." Nate finished with a smile.
"Problem is: Eva found me in the alley way. She saved my life. I can't just leave her" Chuck replied. Nate thought...
"Well, how does Blair feel?" He asked. Chuck shook his head.
"She doesn't know how I feel, I haven't told her yet"
"Then you need to tell her. She has to know...And you have to make a choice" Nate told Chuck. He nodded.
"I know"
"So, you moving back in here?" Nate asked.
"I'm staying with Blair"
"Oh. Okay, listen man, Dan's coming here any minute and well with what happened last time-" Nate began.
"Okay, thanks for the warning. Listen, we'll catch up some time yeah?" Chuck asked. Nate nodded.
"Sure"
Chuck began to walk to the elevator.
"Chuck!" Nate called. Chuck spun around. "I'm glad you're okay" He announced. Chuck smiled.
"Me too" Chuck replied pressing the elevator button. The elevator doors opened and out stepped Dan. He froze when he saw Chuck as the anger boiled up inside of him. He stepped out of the elevator and Chuck tried to get past him but Dan's hands stopped him as they grabbed Chuck by the collar and shoved him up against the wall.
"Bass?" He shouted. Chuck grasped at Dan's hands that were fixed on his neck.
"What the hell are you doing?" Chuck asked desperately.
"The more relevant question is what the hell are you doing here?" Dan shouted.
"Blair, I came back for Blair" Chuck muttered breathlessly. Nate appeared.
"Dan! Leave him!" Nate cried as he ran over. Dan let go of Chuck and Chuck held his throat.
"Blair will never take you back!" Dan shouted at Chuck.
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Penelope tapped Blair on the shoulder as she walked to her last class of the day. Blair spun around.
"What do you want?" Blair asked in her Queen B voice.
"I heard that Chuck Bass was back in town" Penelope said.
"And...What if he is?" Blair asked.
"Well, last I heard you banished little J. I was just wondering if you banned Chuck too?" Penelope asked.
"Well if I banished him then he wouldn't be here now would he?" Blair asked.
"So, if he's back then where did he go in the first place?" Penelope questioned. Blair was losing patience with the girl.
"Paris" She answered through gritted teeth.
"So...Are the two of you back together?" She asked.
"No!" Blair almost shouted immediately. Penelope got her phone out of her pocket and showed Blair two photos.
"Well then why is he going into your apartment with suitcases and coming out the next day in just a suit?" She asked.
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Chuck sat on the couch that was now doubling up as his bed. He had the phone pressed to his ear waiting for someone to answer the call.
"Henry!" A voice chirped down the phone.
"Eva, hey" He replied.
"Why are you calling at this time?" She asked.
"I needed to speak to you"
"Go on."
"It's about us. I don't think that were really working, Eva. I'm sorry." Chuck said with a pained voice.
"Wait? Henry are you breaking up with me?" She asked.
"Yes. I'm so sorry, you deserve so much better and-"
"Who is she?" Eva asked immediately.
"Excuse me?"
"Who is she? This girl that you are leaving me for?" Eva asked in a pissed and dejected tone.
"Eva, there isn't anyone-" Chuck began.
"It's Blair isn't it? That's why you left to be with her!" Eva demanded screeching it down the phone.
"No! Eva it isn't like that."
"Then what's it like, Henry?"
Chuck sighed. "My name isn't Henry. Eva, my name is Chuck Bass. I own a very large company that makes lots of money. I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth but I thought that-"
"That what I would've just left you to die if I found out you were rich?" Eva asked disgusted. How dare he keep this from her?
"Eva, I'm sorry. I was scared-" Chuck began.
"What about your things?" She asked quickly changing the subject.
"I don't want them." He replied.
"So I have to dispose of them? You know what Chuck Bass, I never want to speak with you ever again!" She yelled as she ended the call. Chuck listened as the line went dead, then he put his head in his hands. At that precise moment, Blair came through the door. And threw her bag on her bed.
"Hey" She sighed.
"Hey. You okay?" He asked worried. The last thing that he wanted was her being upset again because he knew how her being upset often ended and it often included a toilet bowl.
"No! I'm stressed. I have a law test in 2 days!" She almost screamed at him. He always loved seeing her stressed, it always sort of turned him on. But this time around, he didn't want to fuck her. He wanted to help her relax.
"Maybe I can help with that. Why don't I run you a bath?" He asked nicely as he put his phone back in his pocket. Blair stared at him as though he had just announced his un dying love for her.
"Okay, who are you and what the hell have you done with Chuck Bass?" She asked suspiciously.
Chuck let out a soft chuckle. "Ha. Blair I just want you to get better. I want to make it all up to you." He admitted and then immediately regretted telling her the second part.
"Well that's sweet." Blair said almost mockingly. She immediately regretted it and was about to apologise for her rudeness when he spoke.
"I mean it Blair, what happened with Jenny-"
"I don't want you to say her name. It's a banned word." Blair said quickly. He nodded.
"Okay."
"You know, after the day I've had. A bath sounds good." She replied smiling. Chuck smiled back and stood up.