Chapter 9

Serena got a text from Blair saying that she ended up going out with Tim instead of going to the party, she had a confused look on her face and wasn't really sure what exactly why she didn't end up coming here with Chuck. "Whats wrong" Dan asked her as he was sipping on the glass of champagne he was holding she just shook her head not believing what just happened.

"Blair is out with someone else. I don't get it she and Chuck clearly have feelings for one another and she was excited about coming here tonight with him and she just goes out with another guy" she said to him.

Serena was wondering if she should just call Blair and ask her this herself. She walked over and saw Nate as he walked over towards her and Dan. "You guys did show up. Didn't you say Blair and Chuck were coming" he asked as he glanced over towards Serena.

"Yeah they were suppose to come..you guys talk I have to go call Blair" she said as she walked into the coat room of the hotel ball room and tried to call Blair. She waited on the phone seeing if she would pick up on the other end. She rolled her eyes getting her voicemail and then just decided to text her instead. "B call me..need to talk to you" she said as she hung up the phone and walked back out.

"did you talk to her" Dan asked as she shook her head no. Serena hated playing match maker for these two if they weren't going to work out on their feelings. She glanced towards the door and saw Chuck walk in with a woman on his arm.

"He can't be serious" she said as she looked at Dan and Nate as they looked over towards Chuck. But then again Blair was out on a date with someone else so why care that Chuck was there with another woman. She had a feeling he was just there to make Blair jealous and have Gossip Girl take his picture and post it on her site so Blair could see it. "I'm going to go talk to him" she said as Nate stopped her and shook his head. "Let it go Serena. This is typical Chuck and this is what he does. He is in love with Blair and he still dates other women" he said.

But Serena wasn't taking "no" for an answer as she just decided to go over there anyway and just talk to him. Even from far away she could see how drunk he looked right now, yeah something wasn't right. When Chuck got drunk like this she knew there was a problem and he needed to sort it out.

"Chuck why would you come here drunk" she asked him.

He had the woman on his arm and tried to look around to see if Blair was here. He looked back over at Serena. "why not there are a bunch of drunk people here. Now is you excuse us Serena, we have another place to be" he said as he still tried looking around for Blair but he couldn't find her. Serena looked behind her and then looked back at Chuck knowing what he was looking at.

"Blair isn't here she is out on a date with some guy" she said.

"His name is Tim and what makes you think she isn't here, she could have snuck in and who said I was looking for her in the first place" he said to her. He saw a waiter walk by with a trey of drinks as he grabbed one and started drinking it. Serena rolled her eyes as Chuck and his suppose date walked by her and went further into the room. She sighed and walked back over to Dan and Nate.

"I'm going to take a wild guess. This date of Blair's got him jealous so he got drunk and picked up a woman and brought her here to make Blair jealous..yeah sounds about right" Dan said with a chuckle looking over at Serena and Nate. Serena saw her phone right and saw Blair was finally calling her back. "Blair is calling me I'll be right back" she said as she walked back towards the coat room.

"Blair where are you and why are you out with another guy" she asked her.

"Chuck blew me off. I went to your penthouse and he wasn't there and when I decided to go back home I ran into Tim..I told you about him. "Anyway I want you to meet him so we are coming by the party" she said to her. Before Serena could say anything, Blair had already hung up the phone. She walked to Dan and Nate and told them that Blair was stopping by as she looked over at Chuck as the boys looked over at him as well.

"well this will be interesting" Nate said taking a sip of his drink. He looked over as Blair walked in with Tim. Dan and Serena looked over at them both as well. She and the guys walked over towards Blair as she was giving the door man her jacket and looked as Serena, Dan and Nate were walking towards her.

"hey guys..this is Tim. Tim this is Serena, Dan and Nate" she said as he said "hi" to them both.

Chuck saw Blair with Tim as he looked at his date "come with me" he said as he walked over towards everyone else.

Blair looked at Chuck and saw him with his date trying not to make eye contact with him "and of course you remember Chuck" she said to him as Tim just waved. Chuck didn't really make a gesture towards him at all. "and this is.." he stopped not remembering her name.

"Cara" she said as Chuck nodded "what she said" he said as Serena just rolled her eyes.

Blair looked at Chuck and then at Tim "come Tim lets go dance" she said as she gave Chuck a look as she dragged Tim on the dance floor. Chuck looked over at Blair and then brought Cara over towards them as well as he started to dance right near them. Blair and Chuck were trying to make each other jealous by dancing with their dates.

Serena, Dan and Nate just watched them "well I'm going to find my date, I will see you guys later" Nate said as he left Dan and Serena by themselves.

"Let them just do this to each other. Look Serena they obviously aren't ready to admit how they feel towards each other and they just like to play these games with each other. So just them be..come on just come dance with me" he said to her. Dan had a point though. Obviously they were going to keep torturing themselves with this. So she just took his hand and just went on the dance floor with him.