Back with a new chapter, hope you'll like the two new characters I've introduced. I derived them from two other novel characters I liked...

It had been six whole months since she last breathed the UES air. Six months of pain, suffering, loss and finding her way back to sanity. She still couldn't believe she survived such a low period in her life and now she was back in her own city. The city which she once ruled, which once meant everything for her but which in return threw her to a pit of darkness. As much as she wanted to forget, she couldn't forget the betrayals the city presented her with. Now, as she was back she wanted nothing to do with it or its residents. Her only reason for return was Yale, her last remaining dream. Getting rid of Serena, her ex-best friend was the first step of starting a new life at the UES without her previous failures. Thankfully for her, both her friends whom she had grown fond of in last six months were there for her, they had decided that they will stick together whatever happened. They shared a deep bond with Blair which even Serena had not been able to create and she used to be her best friend. Maybe it was because Serena was perfect both inside and out whereas, Blair and her new friends were all similar, perfect on the outside but broken inside.

Veronica Mars also known as Ronnie and Aria Montgomery were both 17 year old girls like Blair and were joining Constance Billiard with her. It was a known fact that it was impossible to get in Constance in such a short notice but both Ronnie and Aria belonged to powerful families and the school couldn't reject them due to their family status. Both had followed Blair willingly when she decided to return to UES and were going to stay with her. Their families were happy with their bonding. After all the three girls belonged to powerful families which always welcomed another powerful connection to increase their prestige.

Aria was a tall, sweet and soft spoken girl with thick, long and straight raven black hair, piercing big ice-blue eyes, oval face with bow shaped lips and long slender nose. She was an exotic beauty. While Aria's feature were soft and soothing Ronnie's was just the opposite with long, wavy blonde hair that always appeared messy, wide and wild green eyes, heart shaped full lips, pointed face with sharp features and a pointed nose to match it. With her wild features Ronnie appeared as Aphrodite. She was the perfect It girl with her easy ways, wild party girl behavior and careless attitude. Ronnie reminded Blair of her ex-best friend but unlike Serena, Ronnie never made Blair feel insecure and insufficient. Instead she made her feel more powerful and beautiful with her presence beside her. That was after all what a best friend was supposed to make you feel, good about yourself.

After finally getting rid of Serena, Blair went back in her room to find her two best friends fighting with each other.

"Ronnie, don't irritate me and let me watch the movie peacefully." Aria snapped at Ronnie who in return held her tongue out and started dancing in front of the screen.

"RONNIE, I swear I'll kill you if you don't stop your wild behavior this instant." Aria shouted more loudly.

"Girls... girls stop behaving like 6 year olds. I need rest, I really am exhausted."

Ronnie stopped dancing around and went to sit beside Blair gaining a thankful sigh from Aria who continued watching TV.

"So, she went back?"

"Finally" said Blair with a loud sigh.

"She really seems persistent. I never thought she was going back without seeing you."

"Well, Serena can be a bit too hard. I'll guess I'll have to see her tomorrow. I can't ignore her forever."

"You have to face your skeletons B, you know I did and it actually felt good. Like for the first time in life I was finally free." Ronnie said in an exasperated voice. "And we'll be there with you so you won't have to worry about anything."

Blair smiled at her friend, at such a small span of time even ignorant Ronnie was able to determine how Blair felt by merely looking at her face. She couldn't decide if Serena was more ignorant than Ronnie or she basically didn't care enough about her. Blair never wanted to know the answer; she wanted to remember Serena as a good friend after she had good memories of her too. But as much as she tried to she was not yet ready to face her past. She thought she had grown from the weak, vulnerable girl but being back in the city made her feel scared.

Blair woke up by a large commotion downstairs,

"Oh god, can't a girl get her beauty sleep…" Ronnie started whining beside her.

"I'll just check what's going on." Blair said and ran downstairs. When Blair reached the bottom she was shocked by what she saw. She had been preparing herself for Serena but with her were two other boys for whom she would've never been prepared. She had locked them in the corner of her mind and never dared to open it. And now seeing both here, brought back all the painful memories she'd been trying to forget.

"What are you guys doing here?" Asked a ice cold voice from Blair.

"Beeeeeeeeeee…" Serena came running at Blair, hugging her tightly and started crying at her best friend's arm.

Nate and Chuck both were stunned to see the object of their affection after such a long time. They noticed that she had gotten even more beautiful in those months as if it was even possible. She was wearing a thin flimsy night gown which hugged her figure perfectly. Chuck noticed Blair had gained weight even though her figure still was slender. There was a glow about her, but he couldn't point out as to what it was. She looked the same yet different, more beautiful, more perfect, more pristine, more gorgeous, more matured and Blair Waldorf had always been an epitome of perfection. Without makeup her facial features seemed more clearer, her big brown doe eyes had a new sparkle, her red bow shaped lips looked fresh, her button nosed were pinched by the force of Serena's embrace and her long brown hair were longer and straighter, there was a certain form of innocence about her features as if she was still a fresh virgin but both Chuck and Nate knew how false it was.

Chuck felt the butterflies returning inside of him, but this time they were revolting in a full force making it hard for him to breath.

Nate just kept staring at Blair as if she was a dream and if he blinked, she'll disappear.

"S, you're crushing me. I need to breathe." A very flushed Blair spoke and Serena held Blair tighter to her,

"B, I'm so… so angry with you, you know"

"Umm… S can you loosen your hold on me, I... I can't breathe." Blair started breathing heavily as soon as Serena freed her from her embrace.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry B. I didn't realize. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine S. You just surprised me."

"And what was I supposed to do B. You went away without a goodbye; you didn't write or call or even sent an "I'm fine" note. I had no idea where you had disappeared to, you left me all lone. You were supposed to be there for me forever, you promised me, you were my sister. Why did you do that to me B? Did you ever thought how I was suffering without you, I was all alone B. I had no one to talk to, no one to understand me, be with me, love me…" Serena started crying again. It was all she had been doing these last six months. Without Blair in it, her life had been empty and she had finally realized how much Blair had missed her and what a horrible friend she had been to Blair by ignoring her.

"S, please don't cry, look I'm here."

"And you better not leave again Blair Cornelia Waldorf, cause next time I'm not going to forgive you. I'm going to drag you back here, even if you went to hide in the end of the world and tie you down with chains so that you can never leave me. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I do." Blair said in a small voice. She had thought it would be easy to get rid of the blonde but who was she kidding, this was Serena Van der Woodsen, the It girl of UES and no one can ignore her even when they wanted to, desperately.

"Good, cause I don't want to spend the rest of my life wallowing after my missing best friend." Serena hugged Blair again, this time a bit carefully so as to not crush Blair's petite form like she did earlier.

"Blair, is everything alright?" Aria came from upstairs. Both Aria and Ronnie had got a bit scared when the commotion died and Blair didn't return. So, Aria had decided to check on Blair as Ronnie was still rooting for her beauty sleep.

"B, who's she?" Serena asked enquiringly.

"Oh S, meet Aria Montgomery. She'll be joining Constance with us this year and Aria this is Serena Van der Woodsen."

"Her best friend in the whole world." added Serena happily, hugging Blair tightly ignoring the look of despair in Blair's face. But Aria easily detected it.

"Hi Serena" Aria extended her hand towards Serena so as to free Blair from the blonde's grasp.

"Hello Aria, it's nice to meet you. So, you know Blair since when?"

"Six months, we spent the last six months together" Aria said smiling at Blair. Serena felt a pang of jealousy in her chest, but ignored it easily.

"Six months huh, so you know where Blair was last few months, what she did, whom she met, everything?" Serena questioned, to which Aria only nodded in reply.

"Well, then we'll have to have a long chat so that I can learn about everything my best friend did in our time apart.'"

Aria just gave a small smile to Serena and then saw the two boys standing at the corner, both gazing at Blair longingly.

"Who're they?" Aria whispered to Blair.

Serena noticed Aria looking at Chuck and Nate and sighed. Those boys were so interested in having a 'talk' with Blair and now that they were here they weren't even speaking a word.

"Chuck, Nate I think you guys should speak something, you're scaring poor Aria."

"Uhhh… Blair, Hi" Nate said coloring a deep red due to embarrassment.

"Hello Blair, how do you do?" Chuck said smoothly, his eyes focused at the brunette.

"Hi, hello, really that was the talk you so desperately wanted to have."

"Sis, what do you expect us to say?"

"Well, more than that."

"Alright, Blair I would like to know what were you thinking leaving the city in the middle of school and SIX MONTHS, really, Blair where were you for six months. There was no record of Blair Waldorf anywhere. I would like to know where it was that you disappeared so perfectly that no one was able to find even any information about you…"

"She was home schooled with us." Aria cut Chuck in the middle. She had noticed Blair's expression changing into despair and couldn't handle more.

"US" Serena added.

"Yes me and my friend Ronnie, Veronica Mars."

"And where is she now?" Serena asked.

"Umm… upstairs."

Chuck finally broke his gaze towards Blair and looked at her friend Aria. She was a very pretty girl but not a rare beauty like Blair. He saw her protective demeanor towards Blair, and how she kept Blair safely at a distance from them without even their noticing. He then noticed how Blair looked at her new friend desperately trying to seek comfort from her. This made him realize how deeply the two girls were bonded, their body language perfectly matching each other's. Chuck decided if he had to get to Blair, his first step will be to befriend this lovely creature who seemed to be attached towards her.

"Forgive us for our manners, we haven't been introduced properly I'm Chuck, Chuck Bass and this out here is my dear friend Nathanial, Nate Archibald."

"Hello Chuck, Nate. I'm Aria Montgomery, Blair's friend" Aria smiled and nodded at both the guys. She thought both were good looking, Chuck with exotic looks and Nate with athletic look. Both seemed to be captivated by Blair who appeared afraid to even look at them.

There was an awkward silence for a moment where everyone was thinking what to say and do next. Nate was continuously looking at Blair without even blinking, Chuck was looking back and forth at Blair and Aria and back to Blair, Serena was looking at everyone and Blair was looking at the flower arrangements.

"Ok, now it's getting a bit awkward here. B, why don't I take you and Aria to get dressed upstairs and meanwhile Nate and Chuck will wait for us here so that we can all go out to have breakfast." Serena asked Blair who seemed to be in her own world.

"Yeah, that sounds great. Let's go Blair." Aria said taking Blair's hand on her and guiding her upstairs with Serena right behind them, leaving the two boys gazing at the back of the brunette they desperately wanted.

So, how was it? Did you like Blair's new friends, am planning to use them a lot around Blair. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Thank you so much for your reviews,,, means a lot to me. And I'll try to introduce Louis's character when favorable. :)

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