A Million Love Songs Later

A/N: Hey guys. So here's chapter seven and the return of Serena. =D So I hope you're all happy about that. This chapter is mainly a Blair and Serena chapter but I'm gonna throw Chuck and Nate in there too so hopefully you'll all be happy with that. I'm so proud of myself for this I wrote it all in only two hours. I decided to take some time off from my revising for a few hours after all it was only science and who needs that right! =D Not really I would like to pass it but it's not one of my main priorities! =D Anyway I hope you all like this chapter. Thank you for reading and please leave me some comments. No one seems to comment anymore :( But if you can I really appreciate it. Thank you. xoxo


Chapter 7- Glamour Girl


        Walking down fifth avenue reminded Blair of those olden days, the days where she and Serena would spend hours going in and out of designer boutiques and now she was going to see her old BFF after two years. It didn't seem that long not seeing Serena in that long was hard. She had no real friends and defiantly no one who could compete with Serena well maybe Dan which was something she never thought she'd think. But Dan had really become one of her best friends and she was a happy about that. But there was so many things Serena had missed, did she know about Dan and Katie? Blair needed to inform her about her engagement, and to who she was engaged too.
Just as she was arriving at the café on 5th avenue she was very nervous about seeing Serena again but she shouldn't be really this was her best friend but though everything that had happened over the past eight years did a supermodel like Serena Van der Woodsen need someone like Blair Waldorf?
    As she ordered her coffee she saw a flash in the window and as she gazed up from looking at the menu there was a hoard of paparazzi crowding around one very beautiful blonde was just pushed her way into the café leaving the paparazzi outside in the cold. From the second that Serena saw Blair that quirky smile of hers appeared beaming on her face.
“Oh my God, Blair...”
Blair placed her coffee down and stood. Frozen.
“Serena”
Serena ran over to Blair and hugged her. The best friends were finally reunited.
“Oh my God it's been so long”
Blair smiled and replied. “Too long”.
        Later after they had gotten over the shock of seeing eachother again they got down to old times. They got chatting just like they used to.
“Dan's married!?”
She was honestly shocked. It actually shocked Blair to know that Serena had no idea.
“You didn't know”
“No, well we haven't been in contact...”
She paused for a while wondering whether she should ask the next question she tried to seem uninterested but Blair could tell she was dying to know.
“So have you met her?”
Blair put her coffee down on the table and began to explain the wonder that was Katie.
“Yeah and really Serena he could not of done any better. Katie's lovely”
“Katie? Yeah she sounds nice”
“Not like it matters right? I read you were spotted with Kevin Peters and Michael Moore within two weeks of eachother”
“No, completely untrue”
“Well it's not like you couldn't get them is it, I mean look at you and I haven't told you yet but you really look gorgeous you haven't aged one bit”
She was easily embarrassed and gave out a small quirky smile.
“Oh thank you Blair, you look so beautiful too”
Blair smiled back and was just about to tell Serena about her news but Serena did that for her.
“So anything else I've missed?”
The biggest smile possible was growing on Blair's face. She was so excited to tell her about the biggest thing that had ever happened to her.
“Yeah I kind of have some news...I'm getting married”
Serena nearly chocked on her coffee she was in so much shock.
“You're getting married?! Why didn't you tell me?”
She shrugged.
“Who is it? Chuck?”
She remained silent for a second and thought about that idea. Marrying Chuck. That would be achieving the impossible. But why had Serena said that? Her instant thought was of Chuck and Blair not Nate and Blair. That should of spoken volumes to Blair. But it didn't.
“God no! It's just...It's, it's Nate”
If Serena was in shock before then he was having a heart attack now.
“Nate?! As in Nate Archibald...”
She took another sip of her coffee and nodded. Serena was in total disbelief.
“Okay I have a photo shoot this afternoon but I'm going to cancel that, because this is going to take hours to explain”
Blair giggled and was looking forward to the coming afternoon having a good catch up with her best friend was just what Blair needed to take her mind off things.
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        Just as Blair and Serena caught up on old times another old face made their way into their convocation. He had entered the café and was at the paying counter.
“So where are you...Oh my God Chuck!”
Serena was sure hoping that it was Chuck Bass or she had just shouted at someone totally unknown across the café. Luckily for Miss Van der Woodsen it was the Chuck she used to call her step brother.
“Serena!? You're back in town”
He suddenly remembered what he had read about Serena's modelling show coming to Manhattan.
“Yeah. Oh it's great to see you”
She hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
“You too Serena. You look great”
“Thanks so do you...” She said fixing up his tie. “Look at you with your Prada suit and your little brief case...” she said grinning over at Blair one second and back at Chuck the next.
“Hey why don't you we all have dinner tonight?”
Suggested Serena.
“Oh I...” He guessed that it was at Blair's apartment and he didn't want to put any pressure on her or make her feel uncomfortable.
“Oh sorry Blair is there enough room?”
“No it's fine. You were coming anyway so sure you come if you want Chuck”. She asked.
“Or are you to much of a hot shot business man for your old friends now?”
Serena joked with him.
“No. Sure I'll come”
Serena smiled. His phone rang, a message from work.
“Ah work, I've got to go. I'll see you tonight”
He got up and left with his brief case both women still smiling as he left, a few minutes later just as Blair and Serena were finishing their coffees Blair thought Serena should meet Nate again.
“So you want to come back see the apartment? Nate will be there I'm sure he'd love to see you again.”
Sigh.
“I'd love to”
Blair smiled and took a hold of Serena's hand and began leading her towards her new home.
As they returned Nate was busy checking over his current movie project. To be perfectly honest he was wanting something to interrupt this certainly wasn't going to be winning Oscars any time soon.“Honey I'm back and I've got a visitor”
He closed the laptop that was on his lap and swivelled around in his chair as he did his jaw dropped at the sight of Serena again.
“Serena...”
“Hey Nate”
She smiled and ran over and greeted him with a hug.
“Oh my God. You haven't changed a bit Nate”
She said giggling and smiling at him broadly.
“I can honestly say neither have you”
Blair laughed. It was lovely seeing them together again. It was just lovely seeing all of her old friends back together again, The non-judging breakfast club well minus one very important member but by tonight they would all be back together. It would feel like high school again.
        Nate was in the kitchen making some tea. They had a lot to catch up on.
Crash. Oh dear. Nate really wasn't handy with his hands, well in the kitchen anyway. He'd dropped the priceless tea cup. Just as Blair heard this noise her closed her eyes shut so tight.
“Please tell me that's not the china?”
No reply. Serena cringed.
“Oh my God Nate!”
Blair finally opened her eyes and sighed. Serena thought she should save Blair from having a mental meltdown.
“Sit down Blair I'll go help him”
“Oh no you...”
Serena pushed her back to her seat.
“I'll go just inhale, exhale okay..”
Serena rushed into the kitchen to give Nate a helping hand. He was trying to fix the broken cup. Without any luck.
“Does she know I broke it”
“I think so”
Both laughed but not enough for Blair to hear. Serena helped Nate with the broken crockery. Nate laughed.
“What?”
“Does this remind you of something?”
“Oh God remember that how long ago was that?”
“Seven years”
“God. Oh I forgot to call you then about Vanessa. You broke up with her then?”
“Yeah. I had to after what happened”
A smiled exchanged between them before Blair entered not knowing what was transpiring between them.
“It's okay. We can buy new ones”
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        The hour that Blair was dreading quickly came along she wasn't dreading all of it. Just the part where she would have to greet Chuck and bring him up to her new home and he would have to shake hands with Nate and be civil.
Gosh this would be a long night.
        Serena had already arrived and was catching up with Nate, Blair was hoping they would end the conversation soon so that Nate could answer the door to their next guest... But no such luck, And he didn't offer to get the door.
Blair answered.
There he was with a big bunch of lilies and a bottle of vintage wine for his hosts.
“Hi”
“Hi...For you”
He handed her the flowers. She put the greatfull look on her face.
“Thank you...Come in”
He wondered passed her and entered the apartment and walked over to Nate and Serena greeting them in a very polite manner. Blair wasn't expecting him to have any manners.
        The evening was going swiftly. Everyone was having fun chatting about old times. It was at the end of the meal Blair had to go into the kitchen to get her award winning pie, well maybe not award winning but it was certainly worthy of awards.
Chuck watched her enter the kitchen and if he was going to talk to her alone in the evening now was his opportunity.
“I'll go give her a hand”
Chuck offered and entered into the kitchen where Blair was busy preparing to serve apple pie. He came up from behind her.
“You need any help?”
She turned around quickly. Shock.
“God you nearly gave me a heart attack... What do you want?”
“Offering you help”
Being near him made her all nervous and uncomfortable. She thought if she was left alone with him for too long something might happen. But she had to control herself her fiancé was in the next room. But she didn't need to control herself. She didn't want him...
A brash reply. “I can cut a pie Chuck”
“I know. I'm just offering”. Gazing back into the other room Chuck could see Nate wasn't wondering about what was happening in the kitchen he was quiet happy laughing and joking with Serena. He slowly closed the door.
“So we haven't had a chance to catch up”
She looked surprised, “Oh I um, forgot. But we're catching up now aren't we?”
“Yeah I guess we are but I meant me and you”
“Oh Chuck...I hope this isn't going where I think it's going”
Of course it was. It could go nowhere else. Chuck knew the sooner the better he had to tell Blair how he was feeling and he had to know if she felt the same.
“Where do you want it to go?”
Silence.
“Blair...?”
She snapped and threw the cutting knife down on the counter and turned to his direction.
“Stop it!”
“But you came back”
He was so full of hope that she would have come to her senses and that now they were alone she would tell him how she really felt.
“Yeah but not for you”
As the song goes. Bang. Bang. You shot me down.
“...I was dreading coming back here. Seeing you again. I was this close to telling Nate no, but I love him enough to do this for him”
“If you loved Nate you wouldn't of come back”
“How do you work that out?”
“If you saw me you know what would happen, so why did you come back? If you loved Nate that much you would have told him no”
She tried to reply but she was left speechless. Until she uttered the words,
“All you need to know is that I'm marrying him. I love him, more than anything or anyone in the entire world including you. I didn't think I could love anyone more than I loved you and Nate of all people but I do”
She really did love Nate. She wasn't kidding herself
“There's nothing I can do is there?”
She shook her head and carried the pie out to her fiancé and her best friend leaving Chuck wondering was there any point to this pursuit of the Waldorf?

TO BE CONTINUED...

A/N: Okay so I know I made out there that Blair does still care about Chuck but she truly doesn't now and she does love Nate and so I know I hinted something about Serena and Nate in the past but you'll have to wait to find out what happened there. So I hope you all liked it. Really adore comments. Thank you. and to everyone who hasn't seen it check out my 'A Million Love Songs Later' video link
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