Chuck raised his eyebrow as he sat down, today had been an interesting day and looking over at Nate he felt like it was going to get that much more interesting.

"Nathaniel, what brings you to my office in the middle of the day," Chuck asked with a smirk as he looked over at his distracted friend. "And looking like that?"

"Like what?" Nate asked defensively and Chuck tilted his head. "It's been a weird day."

"Blair mentioned something about weird," Chuck said.

"Is that all you and Blair do?" Nate asked irritably and Chuck narrowed his eyes at Nate. "Gossip about me?"

"It's not always about you," Chuck said with a smirk at Nate's frustrated face. "Sometimes we change it up and gossip about our parents."

"Why do I even bother with you?" Nate growled and Chuck laughed.

"What happened?" Chuck asked because it was obvious his friend was troubled about something.

Nate stood up and ran his hand through his hair, turning and looking at Chuck with an exhausted expression on his face. "I just spent the past few hours listening to Serena tell me stories about our daughter and convincing myself that I don't still love her like I did when we were stupid teenagers."

"Why do you have to convince yourself of these things Nathaniel?" Chuck asked. "If you're putting that much effort into convincing yourself that it isn't true, then it probably is."

"Do you listen to the nonsense that comes out of your mouth?"

"Do you? Nathaniel, if you have been paying half as much attention to the 'nonsense' that comes out of your mouth as I have, you would realize that you are just making life difficult for yourself," Chuck said leaning back in his chair. "Break up with Lola, stop trying to convince yourself that you shouldn't feel anything for Serena and make that daughter of yours happy."

"You make it sound so easy," Nate said chuckling and pinching the bridge of his nose.

"You are complicating this for yourself," Chuck said waiting for his friend to slump back into the chair in front of him. "It's time to do what you want."

"And what is it that I want Charles," Nate asked sounding so defeated in that moment that Chuck wanted to hug his friend. "Please tell me because I am losing my mind."

"What you want hasn't changed that much from when we were 'stupid teenagers'," Chuck said. "You still want Serena, you've always wanted only her, why do you think it was easy for me to lure Blair away from you," Chuck smirked and Nate laughed and shook his head. "You wanted the whole happily ever after thing with her, kids, marriage, townhouse."

"I gave up on that dream when she walked away," Nate said bitterly.

"And now she's back, with the kid, now all that's left is for you to stop complaining to me and marry her, and then come to me when you want to buy the townhouse," Chuck said and Nate narrowed his eyes. "Get rid of Lola, everyone will be happier."

"I still don't get why you don't like her," Nate said and Chuck shrugged.

"Maybe it's because we always knew who it was that you should really be with, or maybe it was because she's such a bitch, and you won't see it coz you're sleeping with her," Chuck said matter-of-factly and Nate rolled his eyes. "Trust me Nathaniel, I know these things."

Nate got up off the chair again and paced the room turning to say something to Chuck but thinking better of it at the last minute.

"You're making me dizzy," Chuck said after a full 3 minutes of Nate's pacing.

"Do you know that Lily convinced her to give Summer away to this couple she met on one of her exotic trips, and Serena would have but they made the mistake of letting her hold the baby," Nate said rubbing his face. "I don't think Serena has forgiven her mother for that, I think if Lily knew she was pregnant before it was too late, she would have convinced her to get an ... to get rid of Summer."

Chuck waited a moment, letting Nate get it all out of his system. "It's in the past now Nathaniel, hopefully them being here will repair that relationship and we can all be one big happy family."

"And when she was little Summer used to ask about me and I wasn't there because Serena didn't allow me to be and then after a few years she just decided that her father was some dead beat, living on the streets somewhere and Serena didn't even bother to correct her."

"Nathaniel..."

"Do I just ..." Nate started looking up to look at his best friend and Chuck smiled and got up, walking around the table to put his arm around Nate's shoulders. "How do I let that go?"

"That is up to you," Chuck said after a few moments. "I know it seems too soon for you to have 'gotten over it' but you've both been suffering for the better part of the last 13 years, sometimes you just got to let go of that anger you think you should have and be happy."

"Do you think Serena even wants that?" Nate asked and Chuck raised an eyebrow. "It's been so long, she's changed so much and so have I, do you think she even wants a life with me, I mean of course I'll be there because of I'm the father of her child but maybe that's all I'll ever be."

"What makes you think that Nathaniel?" Chuck asked because it was kinda obvious for everyone to see that Serena was in love with Nate.

"She came back here and she told me that she loved me back when we were kids and how she's back in New York for Summer and I to build our relationship," Nate said furrowing his brows. "She never once said that she came back for me."

"You're dating someone else, do you really think she would just come out and say that she came back for you?"

"The old Serena would have," Nate finally said. "As long as I wasn't with Blair, she would have."

"Like you said, you've both changed," Chuck said and Nate sighed. "Maybe you need to push her a little bit more to reveal her feelings, or maybe you just need to show her that it will be ok before she does."

Serena gasped and bit down on her lip to stop herself from laughing as Lola fell into the pond at Central Park where they had all gathered to have a picnic.

Her mother and Rufus, Rufus' kids, Blair, Chuck and Henry, herself, Summer and Nate ... and Lola, it was supposed to be a relaxing day for the family to get to know each other again, everyone was getting along well, even Summer and Lola, although that might be because they avoided each other at all costs.

Dan and Rufus got up from their seats and ran to help Nate pull her out and Serena's eyes widened when she saw the remote control car speeding away from the scene. She realised that she was the only one that noticed the car and looked around to find Summer knowing that her kid either had a hand in this or she was laughing uncontrollably somewhere... or both.

It had been a week since Summer's trip to the Van der Bilts and her talk with Nate and since then every time Summer and Lola were in the same room something had to happen. It wasn't anything too drastic but Lola had baking powder 'mistakenly' thrown in her face, bubblegum 'dropped' in her hair and Summer might have pulled the strings on Lola's bathing suit when they went to the beach the day before which did not end well for her or her bathing suit. Serena doesn't even want to think about what else Summer had done that she hadn't told her mother or Serena wasn't there to witness.

Summer had volunteered to take Henry to the play area they had close by and Blair agreed since she could see them perfectly from where they were seated, but Summer wasn't there when Serena looked, even though Henry was on the swings. Serena panicked a little before the caught sight of a familiar head of blond hair jumping out from a tree and grinning as she handed the remote control to the little boy sitting next to Henry on the swings.

"Oh no," Serena said to herself holding her cheeks and looking back to where Lola was no out of the water and had Nate's coat around her.

"You know, if she was with us for longer than 3 months I could have really taught her how to use that devious mind of hers," Blair whispered to Serena with a smirk and Serena shook her head and covered her eyes. "She's everything I wanted in a Goddaughter."

"You're not helping," Serena mumbled and Blair rubbed Serena's back in what was supposed to be a comforting manner but it just stressed Serena out a little more.

"Where is she?" Lola raged storming up to where they were seated.

"Who?" Jenny asked confused.

"Summer," Lola said gritting her teeth and Serena looked at her with an eyebrow raised.

"She's at the playground with Henry," Serena said calmly even though she was just waiting for Lola to say something so she could slap her. "Why do you ask?"

"She did this, I know she did," Lola said looking up to the playground where Summer was pushing Henry on the swing and glancing down to where the adults where every few seconds.

"What exactly are you accusing my daughter of?" Serena asked, standing up to her full height and narrowing her eyes down at Lola.

"Summer didn't do anything, she's right up there with Henry," Nate said gesturing to the kids play area and looking like he was done with having this conversation.

"She hates me, she could have paid someone to trip me," she said and Nate sighed and rubbed his temple, Serena tilted her head to the side and thought about how ridiculous that sounded even if she knew what Summer had done. "This isn't the first time, I had to cut my hair because of the bubblegum incident and I did not appreciate the toothpaste underneath my arms when I woke up the other morning."

Serena fully expected to lash out at Lola and protecting her daughters actions but she couldn't help but just burst out laughing, it wasn't only her, Jenny and Vanessa were covering their mouths and biting down on their lips to keep themselves from laughing and Serena saw Blair's mouth twitch.

Lola glared at them and threw her hands up, stomping away as the rest of the group cracked up.

"Nathaniel," Chuck said quietly nudging Nate who was the only one who hadn't seemed to really grasp the hilarity of the situation. Nate nodded at Chuck and ran after Lola.

While the rest of the group laughed about what was happening, Serena was watching Nate talk to Lola. She could see him losing his patience with her and she wondered how much longer that relationship was going to last, Summer was not giving up on her quest to break up her father and his girlfriend, no matter how many half-hearted times Serena told her to stop. As Lola walked away from Nate he looked up and caught her eye, Serena gave him a sympathetic smile and Nate shrugged and smiled back at her, turning and walking away from them.

"You've been staring at dad's back for a really long time," Summer whispered and Serena jerked out of the little trance she was in, turning to find her daughter right next to her.

"I know what you did," Serena whispered back. "Lola knows too."

"I know nothing about nothing," Summer said holding her hands up and giggling. "Where's dad going?"

"Probably to try and make things right with Lola," Serena said and Summer frowned. "Come on devil, you've done enough damage today, you can plan your next attack on Lola tomorrow."

"I guess having her around isn't so bad if I get to mess with her," Summer said grinning.

"Remind me to phone Erik later and tell him to get his butt back here, I can't control you anymore," Serena said exasperatedly throwing up her arms and Summer giggled because she knew her mother was joking.

"Hey mom," Summer said seriously, tugging at her mother's arm to get her attention. "I really think that if you tell dad that you want to be with him, Lola wouldn't matter, and I'm not just saying that because I want us to be this big happy family."

Serena squeezed her wise daughter to her side before the girl got up to chase Henry back to the playground. When she looked up from them she found Chuck watching her and she knew that he heard everything that she and Summer spoke about. He nodded once and smiled, looking back to her mother and Blair before Serena could react.

A/N : I love Summer :D shes so fun to write

So what do you guys think about this chapter?

I am so amazed by the response that this story has been getting and your reviews, you guys make me so happy, so thank you for all those wonderful reviews.

I can tell that almost all of you are tired of Lola and I kinda am as well so I put in a little Summer torturing her fun lol

BTW does anyone watch Pretty Little Liars? They had the big A reveal and there is so much hate where I thought that it was actually a good back story and ending to this saga, like there are things I'd change but maybe its because I watched Gossip Girl and the horrible Dan reveal that I felt like this was brilliant compared to it, I don't know

Anyway please please please review and let me know what you think!

Until Next Time (^^,)