Chapter 3

Chapter 3

How could Blair do that? Serena wondered as she neared Blair’s penthouse. It’s totally not like her. Deep in thought, she barely noticed when she reached the revolving door and bumped right into Chuck Bass. Realizing that he was coming out of Blair’s building, Serena began to say something, but Chuck only rushed off. Puzzled, S stood there for a moment, watching as Chuck hopped into the limo nearby and sped off. Shaking her head, the perplexed Serena van der Woodsen entered the building and went straight up to Blair’s floor. The maid let her in, and led her up to B’s room. Serena opened the door, and stepped in to find Blair examining a gorgeous diamond necklace on her bed. Looking up, Blair quickly gathered up the necklace and packed it away in its box.
“Um… hey, Blair,” Serena said, walking over to the bed. “What’s that?”
“Oh, um, the necklace?” Serena nodded.
“Just a… a birthday present. My mom got it for me.” Serena looked at her. Blair seemed very nervous.
“Uh, okay…” S sat down beside her best friend. “So, um, there was actually something I needed to talk to you about… you know, at your birthday party… when I went to go and check in on you…”
Blair’s eyes shot wide open. “Serena, actually, you know what, I was just getting ready to go out. I’d really appreciate it if you left me to get ready. We’ll talk later, okay?” B stood up and quickly started ushering Serena out the bedroom door.
“But, Blair—”
“Sorry, Serena. Later okay?” Blair quickly shut the door. Leaning against it, she sighed. Serena knew. Now there was a new problem on Blair’s hands. She and Chuck had barely discussed anything when he had dropped over just before Serena showed up.
He had made little effort to help the situation, but didn’t pass up the opportunity to throw in many perverted remarks. Sometimes Chuck was useless. Blair wondered how he could be so sweet and kind at times. She barely knew that side of him, and until recently, didn’t know it existed. But now, he seemed back to his normal self. It was like a spell had held him hostage for the past two days, and then suddenly left, leaving Bass the same old heartless person. Maybe later, they could talk. Their conversation was short anyway, because Blair knew Serena would come by soon to check up on her after the outburst about Nate the night before.
She had to avoid Serena until she could seriously talk with Chuck, whom she was having mixed feelings for at the moment. She didn’t think him a self-absorbed a**, like the previous morning (at least not that much), but he didn’t seem all-heart this morning either. But until she could figure him out, Blair needed to avoid her friends, especially Serena, who had found out some how. But being the queen of the Upper East Side, she knew it wasn’t going to be easy.