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Chapter fifteen: The night after the morning before

Blair was sitting at the desk in her suite looking out over New York. She was supposed to be completing paperwork but her mind was elsewhere. She was still in the café being kissed by Chuck. After a few more kisses, Chuck's phone rang and he was called back to work. He told Blair to take the rest of the day off, and she did. She stayed in the café for another hour playing with Tabitha and thinking about the kiss. She walked through the park showing Tabitha where she had came as a little girl, and thinking about the kiss. She walked through Fifth Avenue window shopping and thinking about the kiss. After a day of living in a fairytale she was now back to reality and back to work.

She really wanted to go and see Chuck. She knew she couldn't , this was not high school anymore. The kiss might not mean what she hoped it did. She had always thought in the back of her head that at some point they might end up together but she would never admit that it what she wanted. Blair dragged her eyes from the window and back down to the work in front of her. She had far too many letters to answer and not enough time to do it. She turned on her laptop and was greeted by a photograph of Tabitha. Chuck had taken it the day he took them both to the park for a picnic. She was standing in the park ankle deep in autumn leaves with a huge grin on her face. It was the happiest Tabitha had ever looked in a photograph. She opened a blank word document and tried to concentrate on work. She had three letters to write and they needed to sound professional. Blair lifted her coffee cup and took a big sip of it. When she put it back down to saw Tabitha standing beside it.

"Hello, why aren't you sleeping?"

"Because I don't want to." Tabitha answered matter-of-factly, "Can I help you work?"

"If I said yes I guarantee you would be sleeping in under three minutes. This would bore you."

Tabitha climbed onto Blair's knee, "what are you doing?"

"I am writing letter back to people who have asked if they can have an event here to tell them what it is going to cost."

"Boring."

Blair agreed with the child, as her phone bleeped. She picked it up and read the text from Josh telling her to remember it was cream bun day tomorrow and not to eat a big lunch. Her mind was immediately thrown from thinking about Chuck to thinking about Josh.

Blair laughed and kissed Tabitha on the cheek. She was about to tell her to go and amuse herself when the door knocked, "you want to go and answer that for me?"

Tabitha jumped off Blair's knee and walked over to the door. She answered it and Blair heard her say "I'm glad you are here because I am bored."

"Thanks Tabs."

Blair heard chuck laugh as he shut the door behind him, "well that will never do Miss Tabitha. It's a good job I brought you Hairspray on DVD."

"You did?"

"I did. Why don't you go and watch it in your bedroom, and I will see where your Mom hid the sweets."

"Awesome"

Chuck ruffled the child's hair as she tottered off towards the bedroom. He unbuttoned his jacket and walked over towards Blair. He pushed the papers back and perched on the desk, "are you after a raise?"

"No I am trying to get through this paper work. This is what happens when you drag me away from my desk during the work day, I have to do the work at night."

Chuck rolled his eyes, "I won't do it again then."

"Good."

An awkward silence spread over the suite. Blair wasn't sure what to say to Chuck. She wasn't sure even where to look. She turned her eyes back to the computer and started to type again. She wanted to reach up and kiss Chuck but she refrained. Maybe Chuck was here to tell her yesterday was a mistake, or he just was going to pretend it didn't happen. Blair suddenly felt sick at the thought. She wondered if this was going to mean she would lose her job. She wouldn't actually lose her job but she would have to leave and that would not be an easy thing to do. Tabitha would be secure, Blair knew Chuck would always support Tabitha.

"Stop thinking so much."

Blair lifted her head to look at Chuck. He raised his eyebrow and seemed quite amused by Blair. She bit her bottom lip still unsure of what to say.

"We kissed last night."

Blair smiled, "I know, I was there."

Chuck laughed, "well I know that but I figured the only way not to be awkward was to state the obvious. So we kissed last night, and I was hoping we could kiss tomorrow night when I take you out on a date."

"A date? Like dinner or something?"

"Yes like dinner or something. Tabitha can come too if you want or I can get Sarah to babysit her. They seemed to get along quite well last time."

Blair's head was still swimming. What was happening? Her and Chuck didn't do things like that. She wasn't even sure if he was being serious or if he was winding her up. "So you want to date me then?"

"Yes I want to date you. After we came back from the park I realised we have never been on a date. We have never dated and I think it would be a good idea to date."

"Chuck Bass has just said the word date four times. I do wonder if the world is going to end today?"

Chuck laughed, "no the world is not going to end today. Maybe after our date it will."

"Five times now, and I haven't said yes you know."

xXx

Chuck left Blair to finish her work and snuck into the bedroom to see Tabitha. She invited him to watch Hairspray with her, and as much as he wanted to refuse he simply couldn't. Tabitha was singing along with the characters and giving Chuck a low-down on who was who and what kind of person they were. Chuck was building up to ask Tabitha what he needed to ask her. He took a deep breath and paused the movie.

"So Miss Tabitha I need to ask you something?"

"Yes Tracey's Mom is a man. It's funny."

Chuck stared at the child for a moment until he realised what she was talking about. He smiled, "thank you for clearing that up but that was not what I was going to ask you. I was going to ask you if it would be ok to take your Mom out on a date tomorrow night."

"A date? Like Lady and the Tramp?"

"I don't know what that is." Chuck frowned, "but I was going to take her for dinner and Sarah would maybe take you shopping or to the movies. Would you be ok with that?"

"Yes I think I would. And it is a movie."

Chuck smiled "that's good to know."

"You should watch it, it would help."

Chuck rolled his eyes, "I'll get right on that."

"Where are you taking her?"

"I'm not sure. Where do you think I should take her?"

"For spaghetti, like in Lady and the Tramp. It's romantic."

"I'm really going to have to watch this movie aren't I?"

"Yes."

"So any other advice you have for my date?"

Tabitha bit her lip as she thought for a moment, "yes wear a tie, and shiny shoes."

"Thanks. I will have my shoes cleaned tonight then." Chuck smiled and pressed play on the movie. Tabitha lifted a sweet and put it in her mouth. She smiled at Chuck and then moved closer to him, resting her head on his arm.

A while later when Blair came into check on them, she found them both sleeping in her bed. She kicked her shoes off and pulled back the covers. She climbed in and put her arm over Tabitha. Chuck placed his hand over hers and rubbed his thumb over hers. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep happy.