Okay, so this is the second chapter of the story, and you'll notice that I've put some of my favourite Gossip Girl characters together; like Nate and Serena, and of course, Chuck and Blair, but they'll come later in the story. :D
Chapter Title derived from the movie "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington".
Disclaimer: I don't own Gossip Girl.
Harry Burns: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you.
Sally Albright: What?
Harry Burns: I love you.
Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this?
Harry Burns: How about, you love me too.
Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving.
~When Harry Met Sally
The next day, Chuck heard a knock on his door, walked towards it, and looked through the peep hole. It was Nate and Dan. He opened the door and gestured for both of them to enter, and went back to get his luggage in his bedroom, for he had a plane to catch.
"Uh...So, why did you need us here?" Nate asked.
"I need you to do me a favor," came Chuck's reply. Nate looked at Dan, who just shrugged and both of them saw Chuck exit his bedroom with his luggage, and one of the things he was holding was a box from Tiffany's.
"Here," Chuck said, handing the box over to Nate. "Give this to Blair for me tomorrow. It's for her birthday."
Nate opened the box and saw an expensive diamond necklace inside. He sighed. "Look, man, we're all looking out for you, we really are. We just don't think it's gonna happen."
"Yeah," Dan interjected, "Maybe you should just...move on."
Chuck simply rolled his eyes at him, but for a while, looked like he was considering the idea. He checked his watch and said, "I have to leave, guard it with you life," he said, walking past them, headed for the elevator "and wish her happy birthday for me." And with that, the doors closed, leaving Dan and Nate alone.
Nate sighed and looked at Dan as though to say, 'What do we do now?' Dan however, just shrugged once more and said, "Don't look at me; I don't even know why I agreed to come here in the first place."
"Oh, come on, B. Don't be so gloomy," Serena whined. Blair was being a little more grumpy than usual since she found out that Chuck wasn't going to make it to her party. He never missed her birthday. Ever.
"He never misses my birthday, never. What if he's trying to avoid me?" She said, more to herself than to Serena. Chuck had already left the previous day, and was too in a hurry to even let her see him off.
"B, maybe he's just busy with work is all," Serena said, rubbing Blair's back. "Maybe he thinks that you're too busy planning the party and doesn't want to disturb you, or anything."
"Why didn't he just take the Bass jet?" she wondered. "And, no...That's not it...I still feel like there's something wrong."
"Maybe you just miss him." Serena knew that Chuck was in love with Blair, Nate had told her a few years ago, when they were nineteen. But she was pretty sure that he was in love with her longer than that, and she knew that Blair loved him as much as he loved her, she just never really realized it. "And he did mention the Bass jet having some technical difficulties."
Blair thought about what she said for a while and found herself nodding slowly. "Yeah...that's it. I just miss him. That's it."
"Yes! Finally, the Blair Waldorf I've been looking for has showed up at last." Serena cried in relief.
Blair laughed, but suddenly remembered something that upsets her on a daily basis, making her smile fade away in the blink of an eye. "Serena...I have to tell you something," she said nervously. "Something that nobody knows, not even Chuck."
Serena's smile faded as fast as Blair's did. "B, what's wrong?"
"I...I-I," she stuttered. "I've never done it!"
Serena's expression changed to one of disbelief. "What?"
"You heard me!" cried Blair, putting her face in her hands in embarrassment. Serena had always thought that Blair had already lost her virginity a long time ago, but then again, she never mentioned that she did.
"But...h-how?"
"I don't know! It just never did happen, not with Nate...not with anyone I've ever dated," she sobbed, clearly disappointed with herself "I'm gonna die a virgin! I might as well become a nun."
"No! B...you just haven't found the right person yet," Serena said reassuringly, wrapping her arms around Blair. "Give it time, it'll happen soon."
When Blair stopped crying, Serena checked her Cartier watch and gasped. She stood up and said, "B, we have to get you ready for the party!"
Blair checked her own watch and gasped too. "Oh my God," standing up herself, she grabbed Serena's wrist and ran upstairs to her bedroom, where they were to do each other's hair and make-up.
Serena laughed as she was being dragged along by Blair. "B, relax, we still have time!"
"Well, it takes time to look perfect!" Blair retorted, and closed the door behind her when they reached her bedroom. Serena let out a little laugh before the doors closed.
Later when the party had ended and Rufus, Lily, Eleanor, Harold, Cyrus and even Vanessa had given Blair their gifts and said their goodbyes, Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, Jenny, and Eric at the penthouse living room telling each other stories from high school. Blair was on the couch with Nate, who had his arm around Serena, who was beside Jenny, while Eric and Dan were both on the chairs on either side of the couch.
"Okay! Enough with the stories," Blair interrupted. "It's time for the gifts! Now which one should I open first?"
Dan and Nate looked at each other and Nate said, "Well, there's that one from Chuck," he said, gesturing to one of the gifts on the coffee table in front of them.
"Oh, definitely!" Blair said excitedly, reaching out for the gift that Nate had pointed to. "I want to see if his gift will make up for his absence."
"Oh, it definitely will," Dan muttered a little too loudly, causing everyone to look at him.
"What did you say, Humphrey?" Blair asked.
"What? Oh...uh, nothing, nothing." He stuttered.
Blair gave him her Waldorf eye-roll and proceeded to opening Chuck's gift, and gasped when she saw the box's contents. "Oh my God." She breathed. The necklace was absolutely breath-taking. The pendant was graceful, elegant and had rose-cut Tiffany diamonds, all on a 16-inch chain.
"Oh, B, it's so pretty!" Serena said.
"I can't believe he remembered," Blair said, shaking her head in disbelief and wonder.
"Remember what?" Nate asked.
"It was months ago...we passed by Tiffany's and this necklace was on the window display, and I couldn't stop looking at it," she said, still transfixed by the necklace itself "I mean, I insisted that he wouldn't have to buy it for me, but...he did."
She unhooked the chain and pushed her hair to the side her neck while Serena helped her put it on. "But why would he do this for me? I mean he got me the Erickson Beamon necklace for my seventeenth birthday, but I told him not to buy this one, and he still did...Why would he do that?"
"I don't know, maybe because he's in love with you," Dan said, completely unaware of what he just said, making everyone gasp.
"Dan!" Serena warned.
"Did he just...?" Eric asked.
"You didn't!" Jenny said to her brother, horror struck.
"Wait, did I just what?" Dan asked, and then his eyes widened in realization "Shit!" he said, putting a hand on his mouth in an attempt to stop himself from saying anything else.
"Yep, he said it." Nate said.
"What?" Blair said.
"Uh...I said 'I don't know'?" Dan said nervously.
"No, you idiot, th-the 'love' part," it was then that she noticed that everyone in the room was avoiding her gaze. "Wait...Do all of you know something that I don't?" she asked as she slowly stood up, dreading the answer.
"Blair..." Nate started "Chuck...is in love with you."
Blair's jaw dropped for a while, and she started laughing nervously. "Wait, I think I just hallucinated, what was it that you were gonna say?"
"B," Serena said "You heard what he said. It's true. Chuck is in love with you."
"What?" Blair asked in complete and utter disbelief and started pacing back and forth in front of them "I don't understand...this is Chuck...Chuck...he wouldn't...I mean...me?"
"Well, B, look on the bright side," Serena said suddenly "This is great! I mean you and Chuck? Did you ever think about it?"
"No! Never," Blair said, flinging her hands in the air. "What else did he say? Like, does he want me to be his girlfriend or something?"
"Seems like it." Eric said, nodding at her.
"Chuck Bass having a girlfriend," Dan said, chuckling "I never thought I'd see the day."
Blair stopped pacing and rolled her eyes at him once more and clapped her hands loudly in front of his face as though telling him to 'snap out of it'. "Focus, Humphrey! You got me into this!"
"Chuck..." she muttered hopelessly "Seriously? For how long?"
Nate shrugged. "I don't know, uh, six or seven years tops."
"Oh God!" Blair groaned. "All this time? And he never told me? And you never told me..."
"Well, I swore to secrecy," Nate said.
"Really?" Blair asked, raising both of her eyebrows. "Well then how does Serena know?"
"He told me," Serena said.
"Well, she forced it out of me!"
Blair rolled her eyes at the two of them. "And, may I ask, how they came to know about this?" she asked, gesturing towards Jenny, Eric and Dan.
"They told us," Jenny said.
Blair raised her eyebrows at Nate. "Well, it wasn't really a secret anymore," He explained.
"How come you never told me?"
"Well, B, we were worried about you," Serena explained.
"I can't believe this...I have to talk to him. Nate, what time did he say his plane would land?"
"Uh...I think he said tomorrow morning at seven."
"That's it! I'll talk to him about it!" Blair said, and marched upstairs but before completely disappearing, said, "Goodnight!" and left the five of them there.
"Look what you've done!" Serena told Dan "You made my best friend crazy! She's gonna kill you...she's gonna kill all of us, really."
"Actually, Chuck's gonna kill us too," Eric added. "But mostly Nate...and Dan."
"Oh great!" Dan exclaimed sarcastically. "The two most evil, conniving people I know are gonna kill me. That's just...that's just great."
"But I hope he doesn't take our advice seriously..." Nate said.
"What advice?" Serena and Dan asked at the same time.
"Well, Dan and I went over to Chuck's yesterday, and after he gave us the necklace for Blair, we told him to move on," Nate explained. "Oh wait, it wasn't the two of us who told him to move on, it was Dan, just Dan."
"She's really gonna kill you now, Dan," Jenny said, standing up. "Well, I gotta get some sleep."
"Me too," Eric agreed, standing up as well.
"Yeah, and I gotta go and enjoy my final hours," Dan said, leaving with Jenny and Eric. And so it was only Nate and Serena left in the room. They sat in silence for what felt like hours.
"Aren't you gonna say something?" Nate asked his girlfriend.
Serena just stood up and said, "Chuck's gonna kill you."
What do you think? Well, in my opinion, I suck at writing comedy. But then this is my first story...And I should really stop using that as an excuse. So what I did here is I made Dan and Nate just a teeny bit more stupid than they really are. Anyway, tell me if anything sucks, but please be gentle, and tell me if there's anything I can do to improve. :D
