Chapter 6 -Part 2

Chapter 6
Part 2

“Hey, Serena.” Blair smiled as her best friend opened the hotel room door.
“Um, hey, Blair,” Serena said, looking a little confused. She let B in.
“I wanted to come and talk to you about… my party,” Blair said nervously, taking a seat on the couch.
“You mean… your birthday party?” Serena sat down next to B and looked at her, giving her full attention.
“Yeah. With… Chuck.” Blair looked embarrassed.
“Yeah,” Serena began. “I kind of… saw you two. Blair… did you and Chuck…?” Blair looked down at her lap. Serena raised her hand to cover her mouth.
“Blair,” she breathed, not know what to say. “You didn’t.” Blair took a deep breath.
“I did. And, the worst part is, it wasn’t the first time.”
At this, Serena was even more shocked. “You mean…”
Blair nodded. “Twice.” Serena put her hand to her forehead and leaned back.
“Blair,” she moaned. Sitting back up, she looked at her best friend. “Tell me you didn’t lose your virginity to Chuck Bass.” Blair looked up and smiled shyly at her.
“In… in his limo,” she added, looking down again. This was too much for Serena. She stood up.
“Blair… how could you? I mean, Nate’s best friend? At least tell me you didn’t use Chuck to get back at him,” S said loudly.
“I don’t know!” Blair shouted back. “I don’t know, okay? Some part of me feels… good, whenever I’m with Chuck. He makes me feel like I’m wanted. And I like that. I like feeling safe and happy in his arms. I like feeling that I can go to him when things go wrong. And I like knowing he’ll always be there, even when Nate won’t be. I like that feeling a lot, Serena.” Blair bit her lip. Serena stared at her.
“Maybe you really are using Chuck,” she finally said. “But not to get back at Nate. Maybe you’re using him as a cushion to fall back on when things go wrong with your boyfriend.”
Blair’s eyes narrowed. How dare Serena accuse her of using Chuck like that. “I am not using him okay I just need him to be here for me. You don’t know how hard it is when your boyfriend decides to leave you because he’s in love with your best friend.” Serena stared at her in surprise. What was she talking about? She thought Nate was over her.
“Wait, what?” she said, sitting back down. Blair was coming close to tears.
“At the masquerade,” Blair said, her voice shaking, “Nate told Jenny, who he thought was you, that he wasn’t over you. And he kissed you. Well, Jenny. Okay? So there you go. I may have broken up with him, but it was because he broke my heart. He didn’t love me anymore. It was you he was head over heels for.” Tears rolled down B’s cheeks.
“So you can’t blame me,” she added, “if I did go to Chuck as someone to fall back on. But he was there, and I needed him. Twice. And I know it was wrong and I shouldn’t have done it, but I needed him, and I still do. Now that Nate’s gone, I have no one left.”
Blair tried wiping away her tears. Serena looked at her sympathetically. Scooting over on the couch to Blair, S took her in her arms. The two hugged, Blair cried, and Serena comforted.
“Shh, shh,” Serena cooed into Blair’s ear. “It’s okay. I understand. I’m sorry.”
When Blair had stopped crying and Serena had let go of her, Blair told her everything about the masquerade, Victrola, the birthday party, and her most recent date.
“Whoa,” Serena said after Blair had finished. “Blair, I had no idea. I’m so sorry for freaking out on you about Chuck. Plus, that’s really hypocritical of me to do anyway.”
Blair wiped her eyes with a tissue. “Yeah, well, it’s okay. I know it’s kind of surprising. I mean,” she added, almost laughing, “me and Chuck? It’s crazy, I know. But I really don’t know what to do. If it had been just once, we could brush it off as just some drunken one night stand. But now it’s been twice, and we went out on a date, so I’m not quite sure what’s going on. All I know is that Nate can’t find out, at least not yet.”
“I understand,” Serena replied. “He’ll take it pretty hard when he does find out. We just have to be careful and make sure Chuck can survive him. Nate knows how sleazy his friend is, but this’ll blow him out of the water.”
Blair nodded. “I don’t know, though. I mean, lately, Chuck hasn’t been that sleazy. In fact, I think I kind of…” Blair looked down in embarrassment. Serena raised her eyebrows.
“…Like him?” Serena finished the sentence for her, but in disbelief.
“I don’t know! I’m not sure what I feel for him, or even what I feel for Nate. I’m just hoping I’ll figure it out sometime soon.”
Serena stood up and hugged Blair. “Well, I hope you’ll keep me updated. And I promise not to freak out on you again.” She smiled. “But I was just about to go out to meet Dan when you came by. I better call him and let him know what happened.”
Blair stared at her best friend in shock. Serena laughed.
“…Let him know what happened as in, you came over. Not what happened as in with you and… Nate’s best friend.”
Blair laughed back. “Good. Because I can do without letting the Humphreys in on my secret for a while.” Serena guided Blair to the door, but stopped her.
“Does that mean you won’t be telling Jenny anything?”
Blair snorted. “Not after what happened the last time I told her something,” she said bitterly, thinking of what Jenny had told her after the masquerade. Serena didn’t say anything.
After Blair had left the hotel room, S reached for her cell phone. Speed dialling Dan, she held her breath. She knew how much he hated it when she blew off their dates. He picked up.
“Ah, this must be my ex­-girlfriend, as in the one who stood me up on our picnic lunch half an hour ago.” Serena grinned.
“I’m sorry!” she pleaded into the receiver. “I had… things to do,” she added in a dull voice, picking at her nails.
“Well, that’s all very well for you, then. But really, it’s your loss.” His voice was just as sarcastically dull as hers.
“And Cedric’s,” S teased. “I think he had a little crush on me.”
“Don’t bring him into this! It’s not his fault he adores gorgeous blondes.”
Serena blushed. “Now I’m a gorgeous blonde, am I?” Dan paused.
“Well, I won’t lie to you. You’re the best the cabbage patch doll has ever seen.”
Serena bit her lip, holding back a smile. “…Well, it would be cruel to hook up with him after you just dumped me. So… would you consider taking me back?”
“…I would consider it over a date,” Dan finally replied. “That is, if you’re planning to show up.”
“I’d love that. I’ll meet you over there.”
“Great.”
“But, Dan, I really was busy. Blair needed my help.”
“You know,” Dan said, “For a girl who has everything, she sure does need you a lot.”
“She’s going through some… rough times,” Serena responded. “But she’ll be okay. I just need to be a good friend to her right now.”
“Well I hope you can take a break from being such a good friend for a couple hours,” Dan said cheerfully. “That picnic is still waiting for you.” Serena grinned.
“Awesome. I’ll see you there.” She hung up, and went into her room to get ready. Mrs. Blair Bass, she thought as she was getting dressed. Has a nice ring to it. Laughing, she shook her head, loosening her long, golden locks of perfectly blonde hair.