Katrina was greeted by her English housekeeper, Martha, when they pulled up to her place. Martha was an attractive woman in her sixties with blonde and gray hair. She had been the one helping her mother teach Katrina everything she needed to know about cleaning.

"Welcome back, Katrina. Would you like me to bring your bags up?" Martha said as Katrina stepped out of the limo.

"Yes, please. Thank you for welcoming me back. Are my parents home?"

"Your mum isn't. She had an emergency at work. Your father is in his office."

"Great…" Katrina said as she knew her father was going to be a pain in the ass. Martha looked at her with sympathy and took her bags inside. Katrina saw Nate standing beside her.

"Do you want me to come up with you? I could have Chuck drop my things off." Nate said as he pulled her close to him. He didn't care if Gossip Girl posted a picture of them kissing.

"It's not really a good idea, but I'll call you tonight." she said as she was about to kiss him, but she saw Chuck staring at them from the inside of his limo. She gave him a look and he sighed and rolled up his window. "Are you disappointed with me?"

"Why would I be disappointed with you?"

"Look, I'm going to be honest. I haven't stopped drinking…I just do it less and I know my limits. Don't hate me. It's really more of a social thing…" she said knowing she sounded like she was rationalizing a problem she should have stopped.

"I understand. Just promise me that you won't get out of control. Don't let Chuck ruin you." he said staring down into her eyes and she felt like shit.

"I promise. Will you be there for me if I do fall off?"

"I will." he said as he kissed her. "Now, go up there and talk to your father."

"Okay…I'll talk to you later." she said as she watched Nate leave and she went inside. Her father, Walter, was one of the top plastic surgeons in New York and her mother was an accomplished choreographer, so they owned a very nice condo. After staying at her grandmother's modest home, her place seemed like a mansion.

"Dad?" Katrina said as she knocked on the door frame to her father's office. He looked up looking surprised to see her standing there.

"Katrina? I didn't see you there." he said as he rose up from his desk and walked over to her. He hugged her and looked at her for a long time.

"What? What's wrong?" she said panicking that he might have noticed that she had been drinking. She knew it wasn't too noticeable, but she knew he wouldn't be happy about it.

"You look like you've gained some weight. I'm not saying you look huge or anything. You look nice. You look healthier. It's nice."

"Thanks." she said knowing that was her father's doctor way of saying that she was too damn skinny before she left. "So…"

"What?" he said looking at her as if he was expected to say something more.

"Aren't you going to ask me how my summer was?"

"Oh, well I'm sorry. How was your summer?"

"Grandmas Lucille is amazing. She is so much like mama I don't even know how to begin." Katrina boasted, but stopped as she saw the look of irritation on Walter's face. "Dad…"

"Honey, you know I can't stand that woman and she hates me."

"But she's family and she's willing to be nice if you're willing to do the same."

"That'll happen if I get that in writing. Anyway, how did you get here?"

"Oh…I…uh…rode here with Nate and Chuck." Katrina said knowing that he hated them for what they did to her. He would never forgive Nate for betraying her, and he would kill Chuck for nearly sending her into a mental collapse.

"You what?! Katrina, do you have any idea of kind of people those two are?! Do you remember what they did to you?! What the hell were you thinking?!"

"Dad…Nate and I are…dating. He's my boyfriend." she said looking down at the floor.

"The hell he is! I don't know what happened between you two in Georgia, but it's not going to continue here. It was bad enough that your mother told me that he was down there with you. Now, you're telling me that he's your boyfriend?! Don't let him showing you that real video of that atrocious shit fool you into thinking that he loves you. It's just some ploy he's using in the sick game between him, Jason, and Chuck."

"He's not using me. Wait a minute, you knew about the fake video?!" Katrina said getting angry because it seemed like she was the last one to know about it.

"Yeah…I knew about it. Nate came over here and showed me the video. I almost killed him for bringing that filth into my house…showing me that video of you passed out on a bed. That Jason Cromwell using you to get to Chuck is just disgusting. Anyway, I didn't know Nate was planning on going to Georgia until your mother told me."

"I can't believe you never told me you knew about…I can't believe Nate didn't tell me he saw you!" she was very pissed off and Nate was going to get an earful when she called him.

"See, he can not be trusted. He's no good for you, and the thought of you being around Chuck Bass is unsettling. Do you want to ruin you life? Can you imagine the things people would say if they found out you were hanging around him?"

"I'm not his friend. The only reason I'm around him is because of Nate. He is Nate's friend and if he sees something great in him, then I can't do anything about that." she said trying to hide her plan to ruin Jason Cromwell. She didn't want her father to know about her going to the dark side and aligning with Chuck Bass.

"What about your reputation? Do you really want to go down that road again? I don't think I or your mother could take seeing you in that state again."

"Dad, I've changed. That night made me think…it made me hate who I was before. It made me hate the person I was trying to be. Now, I'm trying to be a better person. You can thank grandma for that despite how you feel about her."

"Okay…" he said, reluctantly. "If she's responsible for the change in you, then I guess I'll try to be nice to her. But, I still don't like you dating Nate Archibald. He betrayed you and it's hard for me to forgive and forget that."

"It was hard for me, too. Believe me, I've declared my hate for him as soon as I saw him in Georgia. But, what he was saying was real, and he was truly sorry for what he did to me. If he's not, then I'm going to have to deal with it, but I'm dating him whether you like it or not."

"Katrina…" he groaned in frustration, but she knew that she had won that fight. He always did that whenever he argued with Donna and knew he lost the fight. "Okay, fine. It's your heart. If he breaks it, I don't want to hear anything about it. You're making this bed, then you're going to lie in it."

"I understand. Thanks dad." she said smiling as she left his office. She knew she was talking a lot of bullshit about trusting Nate, but she didn't even know if she could fully trust him. One thing she was sure of, Jason Cromwell was going to pay.