Sorry for the wait, I was on holidays. This chapter is pretty long, and I'll update REALLY soon.
Blair let Lily talk to Serena. She went to sit by Chuck. "How is she?" he asked her.
She shrugged. "She's better. Her throat is really sore though," Blair replied. She put her head on Chuck's shoulder. "I can't believe she's in here," Blair said.
"I know," Chuck said as he rubbed her arm.
Chuck kissed her forehead. Blair took her head off of his shoulder and stared at him. "Chuck, we can't do this here." She looked around to see if she knew anyone. She got up and stared him down. Chuck smirked. "We're never going to kiss or hug in public. Got that?" she said harshly. She doesn't know why she got angry, it's just that he knew their relationship was supposed to be a secret, yet he kissed her and hugged her. Chuck raised his arms in the air and watched Blair leave him in the waiting room.
The next week, Serena was allowed to go home. She was told to stay in the house for two days. The only thing she was allowed to drink was water, but she could eat normal foods. Blair and Nate were always by her side. Chuck was there sometimes since he lived with her, but he wasn't there 24/7. He was avoided Blair, Serena could tell. But whatever, she's seen enough of Chuck, she's seen a lot of Chuck. Blair sat on the left side of Serena and Nate on the right. "I need some water," Serena said dryly. She coughed and held her throat. Serena tried to get up but Blair pushed her down. "I can get it myself B."
"Serena, I'm here to help. I'll be back in a minute," Blair said. She got up and went into the kitchen. Blair opened the fridge door and pulled out a container of water, she closed the fridge and saw Chuck. "Oh, hey there, long time no see. How are you?" she asked calmly.
Chuck walked in casually and took out some scotch. "I'm fine, look Blair, there's something that I need to tell you." Blair raised her eyebrows. "I just can't make it a nonexistent relationship. I need you."
Nate and Serena's phones dinged.
'Gossip Girl here, a little information for you guys. Stay out of the Hamptons for a while. Rumor has it, S got sexually harassed. Good thing B knows S like the back of her headbands. B, C, and N got to the bar. N and C beat the crap out of him. Ambulance came and police, the guy is now in court for rape and S is on bed rest. N and B are there for her, awe, true friendship.
More info, C and B, dating. Never thought that would happen, would you?
You know you love me,
XOXO Gossip Girl.'
Serena closed her phone at the same time as Nate. "So, I'm back on Gossip Girl, always fun," she said sarcastically. "God, I don't know when I'll be normal again. What do you think?" she asked Nate. He shrugged. "I think I can drink, but not like hard liquor, not yet." Nate nodded. "Nate when are we going to be normal again?" Nate shrugged. "Nate!" she said louder. She started tearing up.
Nate turned to Serena and held her hand. "Serena, it's normal with us. I promise you that," he said. It was true; he wanted to be best friends with Serena again. Nate tried to let his hand slip out of Serena's hand, but she squeezed on tighter. Nate nodded to himself and smiled. He still liked Serena, the truth was that. He still loved her beautiful blonde hair and her beautiful blue eyes. He still liked her. Serena fell asleep on Nate's shoulder.
In the next two weeks Serena was back to normal. She was drinking, but not as much as she used to, until the next Thanksgiving. She got drunk with Blair because she knew she was safe. They got out of the bar and Serena twirled herself around and screamed with joy. "I forgot how much fun this was!" she screamed.
"Serena!" Blair said as she laughed. She kind of missed the fun Serena, the one that wasn't scared of everything. "My mom's freaking out which means your mom is freaking out!"
Serena stopped twirling around and almost fell over. "Come on Blair! The holidays are upsetting enough, let's do shots!" Serena screamed as she tried to push Blair back into the bar.
They got back to Blair's house, where her dad and mom were cooking. Serena took a piece of a little cake that Blair's dad made, and sat down. Blair hugged her dad. "Daddy, are we going to make our special pumpkin pie?" she asked him.
"Sure darling," he said.
Blair smiled and sat down next to Serena who was sleeping. Blair nudged her and Serena popped her head up. "Serena," Blair whispered. She didn't want her parents to find out Serena was an underage drinker. Blair mom and dad started talking about a model Blair's mom had brought.
Then Nate walked in. "Nate!" Serena screamed.
Nate came in with open arms. "Oh no!" he shouted jokingly. He could tell Serena was drunk. Serena opened up her arms so Nate would hug her. Just like Blair, he missed the fun loving Serena van der Woodsen.
"Blair, could you do us a big favor and take Serena for a bath?" her dad asked her.
Blair frowned. She got up to talk to her dad again. Serena also got up and followed Blair. "But daddy, we have to make our pumpkin pie!" she screamed. "Anyways, I have to wait for Chuck to come. Nate could you do the honors?" Blair asked. She totally forgot that Nate had interest in Serena, but whatever happens will happen.
Nate came up to Serena and held her shoulders. "Sure," he said, not like he was hypnotized, but like he was her best friend again. Serena jerked her shoulder forward drunkenly. Nate laughed. Blair smiled at them. Serena took a rose from the bouquet of roses and stuck it in her mouth. Nate led her upstairs.
Minutes later, Chuck arrived at Blair's house. He came in and talked to Blair's dad for a long time. Blair and him acted like a true couple. "Where are Nate and Serena?" Chuck asked Blair.
Blair leaned forward to his ear. "Their upstairs. We should go check on—" Then Blair's dad chimed in and started talking to Chuck again.
Nate turned around so Serena could change into a robe. After a while, Serena let Nate turn around. He saw her in a short, blue robe. Serena led Nate into the bathroom. Nate tried to hold her shoulders again, but she kept moving her shoulders away from him. He started laughing. "I don't want to take a bath!" she shouted.
"Sorry, Blair's orders," Nate said.
Serena sat on the edge of the bath. "Blair's not the boss of me," she said angrily, but drunkenly.
Nate made sure she wouldn't fall of the edge and then went to close the door. He came back and said, "Oh, you didn't hear? Blair's the boss of all of us." He sat on the edge also. Serena leaned back so the very top of her back was on the wall and her legs dragged across to the other side of the bath. She put her legs on Nate. "Seriously Serena, you smell like the floor of a brewery," Nate commented.
Serena's face got all scrunched up. "I do not!" she shouted. She took a chunk of her hair and put it on her nose. "Oh my God, I do! A brewery floor with a hint of second hand smoke," she said, her voice cracking at the end.
They both laughed. "And a pint of Old Spice."
"I totally need a bath." She picked up the shower head and used it as a microphone. "So, what about you?" Serena asked in a low tone of voice.
She pointed the "microphone" to Nate's mouth. "What about me?" he asked in a low voice, but not the same as Serena's. "I don't smell like an ashtray," he said into the shower head.
"But you look like an ass-tray!" she said. Serena quickly leaned in and turned on the shower head and sprayed Nate.
He started laughing and covered his face with his own hand. Then he had an idea. "Oh God, Serena, stop! Seriously! Stop!" he shouted.
Serena's face immediately fell; she directed the shower head into the tub so no more water sprayed on anyone. "Oh, I'm so sorry—" Nate snatched the shower head out of Serena's hand and started spraying her. "That was a dirty old trick, Nate!" They both couldn't stop laughing. Serena stood up and started running around in tub. Nate was on the outside of the tub and followed her with the shower head. Finally she came around to Nate and he grabbed her. They started fighting over the shower head. Serena was soaking wet, and Nate was a little wet. Serena grabbed a hold of the shower head and pointed it towards Nate. Now he was soaking too.
Blair and Chuck heard screams from upstairs. They both looked up, and then at each other. "Daddy, may Chuck and I be excused?" she asked in an innocent tone.
Chuck smirked. He knew Blair was all nice towards her father because if he found out anything that she did, he would kick her out of the house. "Sure pumpkin."
Blair grabbed Chuck's hand and dragged him upstairs. "That fake Virgin Mary act is getting really old, don't you think?" he said in his irresistible tone.
She looked at him with the death stare. "Shut up Chuck," she said jokingly. They walked up to Blair's room and the screams got louder. They looked at each other curiously again and ran into Blair's bathroom. There, they saw Nate spraying water on Serena and Serena screaming. "What the hell is going on here?!" Blair screamed.
Nate now had grabbed a hold of Serena again. They both stopped spraying each other and looked at Blair and Chuck. They looked at each other and Nate started running towards the door. At least, that's what Blair and Chuck thought, but Nate was actually running towards Blair. He grabbed her and lifted her up. Serena took the shower head and sprayed Blair with it. Chuck got nervous and ran out of the room. He didn't want his expensive clothes ruined.
After their water fight, Serena, Blair, and Nate had to changed clothes. Well, Blair and Nate had to; Serena just wanted to wear something different. Nate went to Blair's dad's closet. He took a blue shirt. "I'll wear this one," he said.
Serena came with him. She looked in the closet and picked a similar blue shirt. "And I'll wear this one," she said drunkenly.
Nate looked curious. "Serena, why don't you wear Blair's clothes?" he asked.
She took the shirt out of the closet and looked deeper in the closet for a matching tie. "Because Blair says that if I wear any of her expensive clothes that I might rip them. And she says if you ask why I can't wear them, that I have to tell you this story and then say that you know I will. Which I don't get, because you don't think I would rip or get dirty things all over Blair's clothes, right?" she asked so innocently and drunk. Nate laughed. Really, he knew if Serena was drunk, she would rip all Blair's clothes or dirty them. She got a red and black striped tie from the closet. "Ah, this one is good. Don't you think Natie?" Natie. She hasn't called him that since the winter vacation. Whoa, flashback.
Nate nodded. Serena bit her lip and smiled at him. She walked over to Blair's dad's bed and took off her towel. She had already put her jeans on in Blair's room. She just needed to pick a shirt. Now that she has, she looked at the wet towel on the floor. Serena then turned to Nate, who was still looking at the spot that she was standing in. She turned back to the bed, and could feel Nate's eyes on her. They were burning a hole in her back. Serena got the blue dress shirt and put it on. She buttoned it on, but not all the way, she didn't want to look so proper. She buttoned it on like a V neck. So it was low, but not that low. Then she picked up the tie. She tried putting it on her neck, and she flopped it around, but it didn't look like a real tie. "Nate, could you help me?" she asked turning around, but not taking her eyes off of the tie.
He laughed. "What do you need help with?" he asked. She took her eyes off of the tie and looked at Nate. The shirt was on, and he had it open collar; he looked wonderful. Serena pointed towards the tie and made a sad face. Nate took the tie in his hands. "Okay, so you do this—" He flipped it around. "And then you go like this—" He flipped it over again. "And then like this. There, it's finished." Serena smiled and ran to the mirror; she looked disappointed. Nate walked over o her. "What's the matter?" he asked.
"It looks weird..." she said upsettingly. She tried holding it in different positions, like putting it near her shoulder, but everything just looked stupid. Serena finally got fed up and turned to Nate. "Untie it," she said with a frown.
Nate laughed. He simply pulled the tie and it untied. "Where do you want it?" he asked.
Serena snatched it out of his hands. "Here," she said. She put the tie around her waist and tied it normally. Nate looked at her as she tied it, and when she finished, she looked up at him, his gaze followed to her face. She smacked her lips together. Blair was still changing. Serena lay down on Blair's dad's bed. Ten minutes later, Blair came in. Nate was trying to get Serena to stand up, but she couldn't. Blair ran over to them, and took Serena's arm. She put it over her shoulders; Nate did the same. They used all their force to lift Serena and slowly walk her down the stairs. Serena had a lot of trouble walking down the stairs, so Nate and Blair basically had to pick up foot by foot down the stairs. Blair's dad walked into the front foyer and looked at Serena. "This looks like something I would wear," he said to Serena.
"That's because it's yoouuurs," Serena replied drunkenly.
He laughed and looked at Nate. "This mine too?"
Nate laughed and nodded. A waiter walked by with a tray with champagne. "And this for meeee," Serena said picking up the glass of champagne, the waiter stopped and waited for Serena to pick it up.
Nate and Blair looked at each other and laughed. "No, no, no, no," they said together. Nate took the glass and put it back on the tray. They put Serena on the chair in Blair's front foyer. The chair's armrests went all the way down, so there were no spaces in it. Serena put her legs up and moved her back to the left a little bit. She rested her head on her hand and fell asleep. Minutes later, Nate's mom came to pick him up. She started talking to Blair's mom when Lily van der Woodsen and Eric van der Woodesn walked in. Nate's mom stopped talking and smiled at Lily. They had a bad past but Lily knew that Nate and Serena would end up together; just like Nate hoped.