Chapter 3.

Blair was awakened by her phone ringing loudly, she forgot to put it on silent last night. she reached for her phone on the bedside table with her eyes still closed, she pressed the button "Hello?" Blair answered sleepily "Wake up sleepy head. It's going to be a busy day. You can't be late, We'll pass by Helen's too. Don't forget to buy Helen a "sorry gift." Chuck greeted her.

Helen is Chuck's companion when they were in college. Had been friends for years. -4 years. They're practically best friends. They have the brother-sister type of relationship.

Blair yawned and opened her eyes "We have an inspection at site later. You too have to be in the office by 8:30 am, Come on wake up or you'll be late again" he added

"Can I not go to work today" Blair told him as she got up and sat down "Why? are you sick?" Chuck asked her worriedly. "No! It's just that... about last night... I was saying..." Blair tried to tell him but he didn't let her finish "Blair, you can't miss work, Your presentation is today, right?" he said "You know how temperamental your boss is.. Do you want to get fired?" he continued "Okay, I'm going to work" Blair said as she stood up and stretched "Okay, good girl, Come on, get up. I love you." Chuck told her "Love you too" was Blair's response.

"Hmm. this smells good! Thanks Blair! you didn't really have to." Helen told Blair as she smelled the macaroons that Blair bought her, fresh from the shop "You're welcome" Blair replied smiling at her.

Helen is leaving for Europe in 2 days. For good. This is her goodbye to Chuck and Blair.

"Isn't my baby just the sweetest?" Chuck stood up to Blair's side, hugged her and kissed her on the cheeks in front of Helen. "That's why I keep telling you to buy her a helmet...before she hits her head, get a concussion and realizes that she doesn't want to marry you next year or ever." Helen told Chuck jokingly

"Do you still need one, Blair, Do you?" Chuck asked her jokingly, Blair slapped her face playfully, smiling. "She doesn't need one because I'm too perfect" Chuck said towards Helen, they all laughed "You're so sure of yourself, aren't you?" Helen told Chuck "He does. doesn't he, we-" Blair was cut off again when Chuck's phone rang, it was Chuck's alarm "Let's go Blair," he said as he took the phone out from his pocket "Sorry Helen, we really have to go" Chuck hugged Helen "Take care of yourself, okay? And call me when you can" he added, Blair staring at both of them, staring more at Chuck.

On their way down to the basement "Why didn't you take the cab? I thought you were going to take it?" Chuck asked her as they exited the elevator "Because if I took the cab, I won't be able to follow your schedule" Blair said quietly walking near the limo. "What if I resign?" Blair blurted out of nowhere ... "There you go again. What are you going to do? You're just going to waste your college degree making what, designing unnecessary things?" Chuck said "At least they're my own designs, I don't have to look else where!" she said "Blair, we're getting married next year, You think raising a family is easy, We need to be practical, you can't resign" Chuck told her "So I can't make decisions for your job but you can make decisions for mine?" She told him, slightly upset, she opened the limo and slammed the door when Chuck was about to get in "Come on!" Chuck called outside, he watched the limo drove away.

Blair arrived at her job, waiting for the elevator, a guy greeted her "Hi Blair!" she didn't respond but she smiled back. The elevator opened someone called for her and said "Blair, boss has been looking for you. He's fuming mad already" the elevator door was about to close when Chuck's hand stopped it, he took a town car to catch up with Blair since she left earlier without him. He looked at the guy then to Blair "What's that about?" Chuck asked. Chuck is doing business to Blair's boss. which is practically both of them working at the same building almost everyday.

"How many times do I have to tell you, you're not supposed to think, that's my job!" Blair's boss told her, he was indeed fuming mad. hell almost an invisible smoke coming out of his boss' ear. Blair is an Interior Designer, graduated from Yale Class of 2013. "I'm the boss- you're not" he added "All you needed to do was copy the plan but you couldn't even do that! Don't think you're smarter than me!" he shouted Blair just sat there, containing her emotions deep inside she is furious. "I told you, I don't want the gazebo to appear in the middle of the pool in the model scale." he handed Blair the material "Here! Tell me you revised the scale model we're going to present later. Tell me!" "Yes, I did" Blair said "If I get humiliated later, this will be the end of your career, even though you're Chuck Bass' fiancee, straighten out your plan Blair!" he furiously said "If you want to stay in this business, learn to respect me and my rules" Blair just sat there with lips formed thin and said nothing.

"He wants to fire me?! Fine!" Blair exasperated, she was on a break "I'll be more than glad! This job is fit for a stupid moron anyway! Can't he see why I keep changing his plans?!" she said slamming her hands on the table "Has he even heard of the word "aesthetics"?!" she furiously complained to the woman eating on the table "Why don't you just resign then?" the woman asked "Then she'll get in trouble with Chuck" the other woman said, Blair looked at them both, suddenly her phone rang, retrieving it from her pocket "Blair, have you changed the plans yet?" it was Chuck, reminding her, he heard what happened of the outburst of her boss earlier at the office "Chuck, I don't want to..." she replied "Blair... stop being so stubborn." he told her, Blair rolled her eyes then hung up the phone. "Aww poor kid, she has two bosses" the guy said standing by the water dispenser. She frowned and rolled her eyes again and walked away.

"Everything okay now?" Chuck's assistant asked him "I don't think Blair wants to change the plan" Chuck replied, he took out his phone and dialed a number "hey, Taylor, man sorry to disturb you, have you talked to Blair yet?" he talked on the phone "The model needs to be reset to the original plan" he added. He called his guy to change Blair's plans without Blair knowing.

Chuck now standing outside Blair's meeting room, Taylor met him "Taylor, thank you very much" Chuck said "It's okay, sir." the guy responded and walked away. Chuck is now looking by the glass window of the meeting room, watching Blair present the models.

"Good afternoon, I'm presenting now the scale model for our new project-" Blair said then looked at the model, she noticed something had changed, she looked at the design on the paper and on the actual, in front of her, comparing the two, she saw that the idea of the model is not the same as the idea in the drawing. She put her head up, and saw Chuck through the glass outside the meeting room. Chuck smiled at her, Blair stared at him impassively, she was hurt inside that Chuck changed it, showing that he doesn't have faith in her. "Congratulations, Ms. Waldorf" one of the men praised her "We always try our best" Blair's boss said smiling at Blair. Blair forced a smile but hurt forming her face.

"It's a good thing we got that model fixed or you would be in trouble" Chuck told her as they sat in the restaurant, got their orders and about to eat "Chuck .." Blair said. Chuck removed the skin of the chicken off her plate and put it on his, Blair watched him.

"You think I'll ever let that happen? Blair, remember, we're a team." Chuck kept talking "Don't let your emotions rule you. You'll end up hurt anyway. Then you'll complain you're tired of it" he continued "Don't forget your 7 pm deadline. We don't want to be late for dinner at Carter's" Blair slammed her hands on the table and took back the chicken skin off his plate "Blair!" he said loudly "Just this once" Blair said not looking at him, he tried to put back the chicken skin on his plate "You know that's bad for you. That's cholesterol." - "Chuck, just this once" she said, took back again, Chuck got a hold of her hand the fork slammed into Blair's plate "What's your problem?" Chuck asked her confused "I want space." she blurted to him. He looked at her confused "Space? There Space" Chuck stood up. Blair looked at him, she was about to cry, Chuck doesn't understand, she stood up and left. Chuck just watched her. Everyone's looking at him and he said "Lover's Quarrel." then he sat down.

Hours have passed and he didn't hear anything from Blair. He's now on his way to Carter's Dinner invite, he dialed Blair's number but she won't pick up the phone.

"Beatrice, stop messing with the food! It'll taste like instant noodles again!" Nate said shouting at her. "Then don't eat!" Beatrice shouted back at him. Chuck entered Carter's dining room when Serena asked him "Chuck, I thought everything's okay. Where's Blair?" she asked "At work, still finishing something." he lied, he didn't really know where Blair was.

Beatrice phone started ringing "Hello .. Blair?" she answered "What? okay, okay. I'm on my way." then she hung up the phone. "Blair's stuck on 78th, the taxi cab broke down, now she couldn't hail a cab" she told everyone, Chuck looked at her "Where?" Serena asked "She asked me to pick her up" Beatrice replied. "Why didn't she call you?" Dan asked Chuck, he was sitting down next to Carter. "Maybe she's with another dude and doesn't want to get caught" Nate said out of his turn jokingly "Shut up!" Carter told him.

The limo was approaching close to where Blair was, he spotted her finally. "Arthur, I see her stop right here" Chuck commanded. He got out of the limo and called her. Blair saw Chuck.

"Blair, Are you okay" Chuck asked standing now in front of Blair "Why are you here?" She asked her eyes giving no reaction "Naturally I'm your boyfriend" Chuck stated.

Blair stood there looking at Chuck as he said "What did I tell you? If you didn't took a cab and picked up my calls then we wouldn't be here right now" "Chuck it's fi-" Chuck didn't let her finish "Why did you call Beatrice?" he kept asking not letting Blair talk.

"Chuck! .." Blair said loudly "Please" and added almost in a whisper "I give up, I don't even know if I'm doing this right. All I know is that we have to end this." she said.

"Blair if this is about your job again I understand. I just don't want everything you worked so hard to go to waste I want to help you" he said tried to reach for her

"Chuck it's easy for you to say that, because you're not in my shoes. You don't know what it's like to see all that effort go into something you can't even call your own"

"Blair I know it's hard but we both know this is the only way for us to reach your dreams - our dreams"

"Chuck what if, what if this isn't what I want, what if I don't want your help or anymore of your offers, What if I don't want to be an interior designer anymore, what if I pursued this because I fell in love with you, what if we're not growing together anymore, what if we could be happier but we stick to this .. to what's safe.., what's okay?"

"Do you really believe that" He asked her as pain radiated through his chest

"I don't know" Blair sighed "but I know something's wrong if I'm asking these questions .. It's almost as if there wouldn't be a Blair without a Chuck" Blair started crying "Chuck I want to find a life and a job where I know my worth .. I want things for myself .. not just because you think it's what's best for us but I can't do that when you've got everything planned out. I can't even solve my own problems because you solve them for me. It feels as if ... I'm surrendering everything to you... Chuck.. I,.. it's suffocating me ... It's exhausting" she continued crying.

Chuck just stared at her, Blair is crying, tears falling down her cheeks "I want to stop wondering "what if" I want to know "what is" she continued "I'm so sorry, Chuck. I'm very sorry"

They stared at each other, Chuck stood infront of Blair, Blair stood infront of Chuck. Not knowing what to say ..

TBC..

Big thanks to Chrys1130 :) she reviewed this before I posted it. I know there's few grammar mistakes and I'm still looking for someone who will beta for me so you guys can have a better understanding of this story.

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