Friendly Encounters- Chapter Ten

Okay, was she going to be able to go through with this? He was standing right seguinte to his locker but he was surrounded por his friends, and she certainly didn’t want to go over there around them. She was a furgão, van Der Woodsen though and she wasn’t going to give up. That was not in the plan. She tried to pat down her hair which seemed to want to disobey her and twist every which way. She also tried to smooth down her school uniform but then she chided herself. Why was she primping for Nate? It wasn’t like he would refuse her outright.
His friends disappeared a few minutos later and Serena carefully made her way over to him. “Hi.” She said in a small and shy voice, which was very unlike her.
Nate turned to look at who had addressed him. “Who are you?” Then it came to him. “Are you that furgão, van Der Woodsen girl?”
Her already frazzled nerves took a hit. He barely knew who she was. She smiled encouragingly at him. “That’s right, I’m Serena.” She held out her hand.
Nate pushed his bangs out of his eyes. He took her hand in his and discovered that it was very small and fragile like. “I’m Nate Archibald.”
She smiled again. “I know. I think that everybody knows who you are.”
He laughed at this and she felt her ego rise a little bit. He didn’t seem to be disgusted por her and for that she was tremendously happy. “This is kind of awkward. I don’t know if you know but I’m one of Blair’s friends.”
He shook his head that he didn’t know and Serena couldn’t help but notice how damn attractive he really was. “When you and Blair decided to just be friends and end whatever relationship you had, she gave me the green light. I don’t know why but I’ve always felt this deep underlying attraction to you.” She swallowed furiously awaiting his reaction.
He searched her face to see if she was pulling something on him. When he noticed she was serious he couldn’t keep the shock out of his voice. “You like me?”
Serena nodded. “Yeah, but it’s mais than just liking you. I have felt this way for awhile.”
He raised his hands in the air. “I don’t know what you want me to say. All I know is that I can’t go from Blair to you.”
She felt like he had slapped her with that insult. “Fuck you. There is no reason for you to talk to me like I’m a piece of trash, you don’t even know me.”
He felt the shock creeping back up on him. He hadn’t expected her to be such a fireball. “Hey, I’m sorry. That’s just the way it has to be.”
“Right.” She muttered. “Because you’re too good for me. We’ll see about that.” She pushed him until his back was against the locker and pressed her body against his. Serena looked into his eyes as her mouth inched closer to his. Their lips met and she felt the lust that she knew would exist with him explode in her stomach.
She suckled at his lips and waited for them to part. When they did, she enrolados her tongue with his. Nate stayed still and didn’t participate in the kiss but then his better urges got to him and he kissed Serena back wildly. He grabbed her hips and held onto dear life while their tongues dueled wildly. Finally she pushed him off of her.
He licked his swollen lips and felt the taste of her on them. He loved that. He stared at her for a few minutos until he finally said, “Alright, I’ll give you a chance.” He was still in a daze and then she kissed him again. It felt right.

XOXO
The dia had finally come for their date. She couldn’t help the tremble of excitement that she had been feeling for days; it was going to be their first official date. They had stayed away from each other the last few days and she had missed him terribly. Well, they do say that absence makes the coração grow fonder. That certainly wouldn’t be a problem for Blair.
She had spent the last three days going back and forth between what she was going to wear. She had never procrastinated on something so much. But she wanted to look perfect for Chuck. Blair had finally decided on an oliva, verde-oliva green dress that hit her mid thigh and it had a trendy cinto, correia with it. It made her brown eyes pop and that was the real reason that she had chosen it. It also had cute little sheer boné, cap sleeves. She put the dress on and examined her reflection in the mirror. She was satisfied.
seguinte up on her list of looking perfect for Chuck was her hair. She put it in a loose bun and let a few tendrils escape so they lay coyly against her neck. He had a big thing for the nape of her neck and she wanted to make it impossible for him to resist her. Tonight was the night that she was going to lose her virginity. That she was sure of.
She had spoken to him on the phone only yesterday, but he wouldn’t let her on to any of the plans that he had for tonight. She guessed that it would go all out, that was just his style. She applied her makeup seguinte and when everything was in place, she grabbed her clutch and walked out her front door. She saw the limo parked seguinte to the curb.
She got inside and was surprised to find that there was no Chuck. Although he had obviously thought ahead because there was a bottle of champagne chilling in a bucket. Blair poured herself a flute to help with her nerves. This wasn’t right. She wasn’t supposed to feel like this. She was the cadela, puta of the Upper East Side, a simple encontro, data wasn’t supposed to faze her. But she realized that this was anything but simple.
The limo stopped at her destination and just as she was getting out of the limo, the driver tapped her on the shoulder. He said nothing but gave her a card set in a plain white manila envelope. She opened it with trembling fingers, it was from Chuck. Of course it was. She wondered how many women he had done this with before.

We’re at the Salon de Ning Bar and Lounge. It’s actually right on topo, início of the Peninsula hotel and of course we’re going to be sitting and dining on the rooftop.
But as you already know Blair, I have a thing for rooftops. And tonight is no exception. I got us a private table, so when you’re ready, come on and head up.
C.

She clutched the note to her chest. This was all wildly romantic and she knew that even though he would never want anyone to know, he really did have a romantic side to him. She headed up to the rooftop and when she got there she noticed that the entire section was roped off and it was just going to be the two of them there. This was even better.
Chuck walked out from behind a pillar and he had on a hideous melon colored suit. She felt the laughter in her chest that was just such a Chuck like thing to wear. He approached her and the look on his face told her that he liked very much what she had chosen to wear. Blair could see the lust already in his eyes and felt the same reflected in hers.
He kissed her delicately on the cheek. “Blair.” He said in his smoky and delicious sounding voice.
“Chuck.” She wrapped her arms around his neck. He placed his hands lightly on her waist and had to fight to keep them there. They seemed to have a mind of their own and wandered closer to her ass.
She inched away from his and he led her to the table. They made easy small talk while pursuing the menu. They hadn’t seen each other in a few days so they had a lot to discuss with each other. Everything was going along swimmingly until the waitress came to their table. She took Blair’s order. And then turned to Chuck and placed her hand on his arm. “What can I get for you Mr. Bass?”
Blair felt the jealous coil in her stomach at the waitress’s intimate touch of Chuck. She knew that he would look at her because when did Chuck baixo not look at an attractive woman? But to her surprise he kept his eyes trained on her and ignored ht waitress.
She huffed away after receiving his order. Blair sent her a death glare with her eyes, hoping that she would drop dead on the spot. He grinned at her reaction. She was so fucking jealous that it wasn’t even funny.
They got to talking about what had happened during the last few days. He had been busy trying to impress Bart with some new ideas of how to improve baixo Industries. So far, Bart had been resistant to try and accept the changes that Chuck had suggested to him. She listened to him over jantar as he explained his frustration with not being taken serious por his own father.
She in turn told him about how her mother had called her from Italy and asked her to mover there with her. Chuck gave all the right expressions at everything and he understood the enormous strain her mother had put over her.
“So she just expects you to drop your life and go mover there with her?”
She nodded. “Yeah, she says that she misses me. But I know that’s not true, she just doesn’t trust me and wants to know what I’m up to at all hours.”
He grinned. “She can rest assured that you’ll be alright. I mean, how much trouble could you get into with me?”
Blair laughed. “A whole hell of a lot.”
He snickered with her. The waitress came back to see if they wanted to order desert. She declined. “Mr. Bass, would you like anything else?” Her hand went back to his arm and was rubbing it tantalizingly.
Blair had enough of this. She slapped her arm away. “It would be very nice of you if you didn’t flirt in front of me with my boyfriend. Don’t fucking touch him again, unless you want to deal with me personally.” She got the hint immediately and left them alone in peace.
He couldn’t keep the grin off of his face. “You do know that you just called me your boyfriend?”
“I realized that, Chuck. Isn’t that what you are?”
“Damn straight I am.”
They got up and moved over to the edge of the roof to look down below. While Blair was looking down at the street, he wrapped his arms around her waist and nuzzled her neck. She moaned and tilted her neck to the side to give him better access.
He groaned in approval. She reached for his head behind her and slanted her mouth over his. His mouth opened under hers and they shared a kiss filled with longing and passion. Their tongues had just started to slip into each other’s mouths when she heard somebody scream something at her.
“Blair, are you seriously fucking baixo now?” It was Carter Baizen.
Chuck moved away from her instantly and she stared down at Carter, but said nothing. Eventually he tired of taunting her and moved on to his seguinte victim, she imagined. But the mood was ruined por what Carter had just said and she knew that Chuck was going to take it to heart.
Blair went to go over to him and touch him gently but he shrugged her off angrily.
This was not going to be easy, she knew that already. “Chuck. You can’t take what he says seriously. You know he’s an asshole, everybody does.”
He turned to face her with a malicious look on his face. “Like everybody thinks I’m an asshole? Is that what you mean? I think you were right about everything Blair; this just isn’t going to work out. We’re better off as friends.”
Blair felt herself get red in the face from anger and his stupidity. “We both know that’s not true. I may have said that at one time but only because I was scared of my feelings for you.”
He paced along the whole rooftop while muttering to himself. Finally, he just exploded. “We haven’t even been on one encontro, data and already we’re getting made fun of! We both know that it’s going to keep happening because nobody believes that I can be faithful to you. Don’t you care what people think?”
“Yeah, I do. But not as much as I want to be with you. Nothing else matters as long as we’re together.”
He tugged his hands viciously through his hair. “As much as I do want to be with you too, I won’t be able to take stuff like that happening to us every day. We’re going to have to try and go back to the way we were before.”
She stalked over to him and pressed her body against him while seductively rubbing her pelvis against his groin. “Do you really think we can do that?” She asked in a breathless voice.
“No.” he grated out before his mouth crashed down on hers. He slammed his hips into hers, so she could feel the power of his arousal for her. Chuck’s tongue plundered her mouth while his body overreacted to her nearness. His tongue plundered her mouth with a frenzied rush. There was no way they could go back to what they had been before. It would be absolutely impossible.
He broke the kiss. “I think we should forget what I just said.”
She smiled at him and he could see the victory in her eyes. “I think that would be a great idea.” Her mouth reclaimed his and then he could think no more.

XOXO
The rest of their encontro, data had gone smoothly. They had taken a walk in Central Park after they had left the restaurant but he had felt conflicted. He wanted nothing mais than to grab Blair’s hand and hold it, but he didn’t feel comfortable doing that just yet. Chuck had dropped her off at início and he had done one of the hardest things he ever had to do. He resisted Blair urges and didn’t sleep with her. He wanted to desperately but it still didn’t feel right. The main reason why? He loved her and wanted to tell her that, but was afraid that she didn’t feel the same way.
Although he knew that she had a deep attraction for him, he still didn’t know if it was mais than that for her like it was for him. He thought so because she had broken up with Nate for him and many countless other things. But was he ready to risk it all on her and to tell Blair how he really felt?
He felt like he was. He had made a lame excuse to her about why he couldn’t sleep with her and fled her apartment. Because he knew if he stayed there a moment longer, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself. Chuck was also still worried about what everyone was going to say about them but he decided that it was worth it. The only opinion he really cared about was Blair’s and everyone else could go fuck themselves.

XOXO
He was furious, Blair.” He told her with an undeniable edge in his voice.
“How did he find out that you lost your virginity to Georgina?”
He looked down before answering her. “That’s not what Bart found out about. He actually walked in on me having sex with someone.”
Blair gasped and looked shocked. She knew Chuck had a wild streak to him, but didn’t know that he would go that far. “Why the hell would you have sex on your own father’s bed?”
A little grin popped up on his face and he smiled at her. “For the excitement, what else?”
“Was it with Georgina again?” She asked.
“Hell, no.” He sounded affronted that she would even ask that.
“Who?”
He told her and she was shocked por some of the trailer trash hoes that he slept with. She wanted to get off the topic and decided to ask him something else. “What did Bart do?”
His face suddenly changed and became very angry. “He threw me off the cama and said that it was never to happen again if I wanted to continue living with him. But, who the fuck does he think he is? He can’t lecture me about sex when he brings women início all the time with the same sole purpose as I do.”
Blair got off of his cama and walked over to him. She placed her hand gently on his back and tried to comfort him and calm his anger down. “Try to relax, Chuck. I know what you must be feeling like.”
He started to interrupt but she cut him off. “You’re thinking of what a hypocrite Bart is, right?”
He stared at her speechlessly. “Yeah, how do you always know when something is wrong what I’m thinking?”
She put her hands on his waist. “Because I’m your best friend and I know you better than you might think. I’m always going to know when something is bothering you, Chuck. Just like you do with me.”
He placed his arms around her and hugged her. “Thank you, Blair. You always know how to say the right thing to calm me down. I really don’t know what I would do without you.”
She returned his hug. “I think the best thing would be to go talk to Bart and tell him how you’re feeling. You should mention how he can’t ridicule you for one thing when he does the same thing.”
He was about to turn down her idea but instead found himself saying, “Yeah, I think you might be right. Bart has got to know that he can’t get away with talking to me like that.”

XOXO
He snickered to himself while he thought back to that dia and how furious he had been with his father. He had always cherished his conselhos above everything else and he wanted his approval desperately. Maybe this time could be different. He couldn’t even believe that he was considering this but he was going to go talk to his father and see what he thought about his and Blair’s situation. Maybe he would be able to impart some of his wisdom. Maybe being the key word.

XOXO
Twenty minutos later, Chuck walked into his father’s study. The nervousness fluttered in his stomach, he always got worried when he was around his father. He was so intimidating. But he had come this far and he was a baixo after all. He wouldn’t let his father get the best of him this time.
Bart was hard at work looking over some papers when Chuck called out to him. “Father, I wanted to discuss something with you.”’
He barely looked up from his paperwork. “I’m very busy, Chuck. I would like it if you didn’t bother me right now.”
Chuck mentally cringed at the sound of his voice but he wasn’t about to back down. “Well, that’s too bad. This is very important to me and I think you can take a couple minutos out of your dia to talk to me.”
This was the point when Bart looked up. He had never heard Chuck sounding so serious in his life and he instantly put his papers down. He felt his hard expression fleeing from his face. “Alright, what is it?”
Chuck slumped down into the chair. “It’s about Blair.”
“Is she okay?” Bart knew how much she meant to him. The friendship was everything to Chuck.
He sighed. “No, everything isn’t alright. I’m in amor with her.”
Bart stared back at him, speechless for the first time in his life. His voice returned to it’s normal hard quality. “That’s impossible. You don’t fall in love.”
“Why the fuck does everyone seem to think that it’s impossible? It all depends on the person and I do fucking amor Blair!” He exploded.
Bart looked at his son and he had to admit that there seemed to be a certain change in his demeanor. “How did this happen?”
“I don’t even really know. One dia we were fine being friends and the seguinte everything changed and we wanted mais than that.”
“So, what’s the problem?” Bart asked.
Chuck buried his head in his lap while he mumbled. “It feels so right between us but what happens if it doesn’t work out between us? Then we’ll have screwed everything up for nothing. I can’t lose Blair ever and that thought scares the hell out of me.”
He shook his head, trying to understand how Chuck had changed so rapidly in such a short time. He had never been so open with his feelings before and it was something that he would never do. “Have you slept with her?”
“No.” He told his father in an annoyed tone.
“Then, what does that tell you? How old were you when you lost your virginity? Fourteen?”
“Actually, twelve.” He admitted reluctantly.
Bart shot him a look of disbelief. “This is my whole point, Chuck. If she didn’t mean anything you would have already slept with her and moved on to the seguinte woman. This shows how much you care about her. When have you ever showed another girl the same consideration?”
He swallowed hard. “I know all of that, father. I’m in amor with her but what happens when we mess it all up? How can we just go back to being friends?”
Bart tried to screw his face up into a smile but found he couldn’t. “That’s a risk you’re going to have to decide if you want to take. Sometimes you have to let go of your coração and you get something in return that is the best thing in your life. That’s Blair for you. This might just wind up being it for you, Chuck. Take a chance on her.”
He raised his hand and looked at his father with gratitude. “You’re right; I think I just needed to hear it from someone else to know if I was doing the right thing. I’m going to go find Blair. Thanks, dad.” He got up and went to hug Bart.
Bart returned his hug. It was the first time they had ever shared a hug and it left him with a warm squishy feeling in his chest that he wasn’t sure he liked. He watched Chuck race out the door.

XOXO
Blair was sitting at her vanity mesa, tabela when she saw him fly through the door. She had just been thinking of him and he had appeared. She wondered if he was just a figment of her imagination. Surely, that was impossible. “Chuck?”
He leaned against the wall, panting. “I ran all the way back here.”
“Why? You only dropped me off from our encontro, data two hours ago.”
He moved towards her. “I was being an asshole tonight when I said that I wanted us to go back to just being friends. We both know that they can never happen and we do want mais than that.”
“What are you saying, Chuck?” She already knew but she wanted to hear him say the words. “I want to go into phase three.”
“What’s phase three?”
“Sex.” He replied.

To Be Continued…

A/N: I know that was an awful place to stop but I felt like I had to save the rest up for chapter 11. And I broke my ankle yesterday and I need to sleep my pain off. *cries* But, here is the dilemma for the seguinte chapter. Blair and Chuck will be having sex in the next. I can either make it mature or I can do the clean version of it. It’s totally up to you. Just leave me a review as to which you would prefer. Go for mature, that’s where my composição literária is it’s best. J/k. It’s your decision, just let me know.