I've been away for far to long...
but here we go :)
The First Day of The Worst Week
"This is going to be the worst cotillion ever" Serena moaned her face still stained with tears from the evenings before crying.
Blair grimaced, she loved Serena but her whining was going to become tiresome pretty quickly, especially since she was really looking forward to cotillion. "Hey it won't be so bad… you can stay with me and Chuck and we'll find you the best escort some of the white knights are really cute this year" she said trying to make her best friend feel better.
Serena sighed "I suppose I just really wish I was going with Dan" she mumbled.
"You could go with Nate. Jenny isn't a debutant this year so she doesn't need him to be her escort. I don't think she'd mind" Blair suggested thinking that it was a pretty good idea.
Serena smiled slightly "It would be nice to go with someone I know. I'll ask him" she said.
"Good now you can fully focus on helping me find me dress" Blair grinned at her. "It has to be perfect. Everything has to be perfect" she said.
Serena rolled her eyes Blair was going to be pretty demonic about this whole cotillion situation it was bound to be a whole week of Blair's craziness and obsesses ion, Serena was actually feeling sorry for Chuck who was going to have to live up to all of Blair's fantasies.
"I liked the first one" Serena said looking at her friend.
Blair smiled "Me too" the first dress was a long white number which fell off of her left shoulder in a dramatic fashion and had a lacy design down the right side.
"You should help me choose one. Otherwise I'll end up in some slutty boobs out legs on show extravaganza and my grandmother will throw a fit" Serena said.
Blair nodded "Of course, I see you in something gold myself" Blair told her.
Serena smiled praying that the whole experience was going to be as hideous as she imagined it would be.
"Dan you have to leave this room eventually" Jenny said talking through the divider in their room(s).
"No I don't" he said his voice muffled because he had his face stuffed into a pillow.
Jenny sighed to herself before Dan spoke again "I mean why did I break up with her. When is Dan Humphrey ever going to get to date another Serena Van Der Woodsen?" he asked his voice strained mainly because of his anger with his own stupidity.
"Just call her and tell her you're sorry… just tell her you made a mistake" she advised him.
"I can't" he mumbled.
"Fine" Jenny sighed "I'm going out now. Try and at least shower by the time I get home" she shouted to him.
Nate had been waiting in the living room for her and smiled when she finally came out "Still depressed?" he asked.
Jenny nodded "Oh just a tad" she mumbled letting Nate kiss her cheek.
"Why doesn't he just apologize to her? I bet she wants him to take her to cotillion" Nate mused not noticing Jenny's eyes lighten up.
"You know that has got me thinking" she told him smiling.
Nate frowned "What?" he asked.
Jenny winked "You'll see" she told him "Come on or we'll be late" she said grabbing his hand and dragging me out of the door.
Once they got into the street "So are you escorting anyone to this cotillion thing?" Jenny attempted to ask casually sneaking a glance at Nate.
"Um well I'm a white knight my mom put me down after Blair and I broke up" he told her "So I might have to escort a girl that hasn't got a date" he added looking at her.
Jenny nodded "Oh right well that's nice" she mumbled.
"You can still come to the ball you know" he told her "You just won't be a deb" he explained.
"I don't know. It's kind of tragic to go to a ball where your boyfriend has another date" she told him, a smile playing on her lips.
Nate laughed "Not as a tragic as the girl who has to take someone else's boyfriend" he pointed out.
Jenny giggled "That is true" she said.
"Besides you know that I could take any girl to this thing and it still wouldn't make me love you any less" he told her squeezing her hand.
"Love me" she whispered.
"Huh?" he asked staring at her.
"You said love me any less. So you love me?" Jenny asked incredulously staring back at him.
Nate did something that surprised Jenny, he blushed something she had never seen him do before. "Um eh, I might have let those words slip out" he mumbled.
Jenny didn't speak for a second "How can you love me? We haven't even been dating that long… is this just something that you say to all the girls?" she asked her tone annoyed.
Nate looked at her "You're mad at me because I said that I love you?" he asked not believing this little turn of events.
"I just don't understand. Don't say it if you don't mean it" she muttered.
"I do mean it" he said his voice getting louder. "I do love you, I love the way that your hair falls in your face when you laugh, the way you care about what other people think of you, I love how much you care about Dan and the way you stare at me when I make a bad joke, I love…"
"Shut up" Jenny said suddenly grabbing Nate by the lapels of his jacket and kissing him harder than she ever had before. In this kiss she wanted to tell him how she felt too. She pulled back "I love you too okay. Now stop shouting about how great I am in the street" she whispered smiling at him, before their lips touched again.
"Chuck wake up, wake up" Blair whispered into his ear. He had fallen asleep at his desk chair.
He jerked awake "Oh its you" he mumbled sleepily smiling at her before pulling her onto his lap.
Blair smiled "I didn't come for that" she whispered before things went too far.
Chuck growled lowly "Why did you come over?" he asked knowing that Blair wanted something from him.
Blair smiled "I thought that we could discuss cotillion" she told him.
Chuck frowned at her "I'm taking you what else is there to discuss?" he asked her.
Blair sighed exasperatedly "There is so much more to discuss Bass. There's transport, colour co ordination, corsage, oh and my mother wants to have dinner with you" she told him listing them.
"You want me to have dinner with your mother?" he asked her indignant.
Blair frowned "Yes I would"
"That's never going to happen, I don't meet the parents. I don't do dinners" he told her pushing her off of his lap.
"God you're pathetic Chuck, it's not like you have to marry me. It's only a tiny favour" she told him "If you do it I might do a favour for you" she offered raising an eyebrow.
Chuck considered this for a moment "Okay, but I'm only staying for appetisers" he told her.
Blair smiled "I guess that's all I'll be staying for too" she said licking her lips. "But before that its discussion time" she told him.
Chuck sighed "Pick whatever you want, it's your night after all" he said.
"Right answer" Blair grinned kissing him slowly.
"How awkward is this?" Dan asked staring at Nate and Jenny, but directing his question at neither.
Nate spoke first "Dude you need to get over this thing, and if you can't do that then you need to deal with it. CALL HER" he said pushing a noodle on his plate.
"Yeh seriously Dan call her and put us all out of our misery and do it" Jenny moaned. "Then you won't have to third wheel on your little sisters dates" she muttered under her breath.
"Why did you even break up with her?" Nate asked.
Dan shrugged "I freaked out, Serena was the girl that I loved from afar for years and once I had her she was just as good if not better than how I had imagined her to be and I knew that it couldn't last forever so I broke up with her to save myself from getting hurt" he explained to them staring at the table.
"You dumped her for self preservation? That is so lame Dan" Jenny said "Just tell her you were being a dick and then get back together with her. Nate and I have come up with a plan to get you back in her good books" she added.
Dan looked up "You have?"
"It's so awesome Dan. You will love it" Jenny said grinning at him.
"But for now it will remain under wraps because Jenny and I have somewhere to be" Nate told him getting up and putting his plate by the sink "Come on dear" he smiled at Jenny.
"Bye Dan" Jenny said getting up "Have a good evening" she said following Nate.
"So where are we headed?" she asked him.
Nate smiled "Chez Archibald to you know talk and stuff"
Jenny smiled knowingly "So we'll be making out then?" she asked.
"That's basically the plan yeh" Nate replied grinning back at her.
They were both surprised to find who they did on the doorstep "Serena hi" Jenny said her eyes wide. "What's up?" she asked.
Serena didn't look at her "Oh you know my boyfriend dumped me, so I'm just super" she replied sarcastically.
Jenny looked at her feet "I'm sorry… Dan was just being…." Jenny started but couldn't finish.
Serena shrugged "I just came to drop this off" she said pointing at the box on the floor. "It's his things" she muttered.
Jenny nodded "Okay, I'll make sure he gets them"
"You guys are lucky; you know you just like each other for you who you are. You don't have unrealistic expectations of what a person should be or of who they shouldn't" she said. "Well good night. Oh and thanks for being my white knight Nate" she added smiling at him briefly before leaving.
Jenny looked at him "You're taking Serena to cotillion?" she asked dumbfounded.
Nate looked at her "Look it's not like that" he said.
"But it used to be what if you get drunk again and end up having sex on another bar with her. It's not like having a girlfriend stopped you before" she muttered picking up the box and opening the door back into their building, "I'm going upstairs and I suggest that you don't follow me" she said quietly letting the door close in his face.
Nate sat on the front step, why did he always have to screw it up?
Thoughts?
If it sucked its because I need time to get back in my stride...