Novels by Cecily von Ziegesar: Gossip Girl You Know You ... - Weebly
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for her.”<br />
“Me too,” Kati agreed.<br />
“Well, don’t,” Blair said fiercely.<br />
Grrr.<br />
Nate pushed open the men’s room door at exactly the same time<br />
that Serena pushed open the ladies’. Together, they walked down<br />
the hallway back to the table.<br />
“Nate,” Serena said, smoothing her new brown suede skirt over her<br />
legs. “Can you please explain why you’re not talking to me?”<br />
“I’m not not talking to you,” Nate said. “See, I’m talking to you right<br />
now.”<br />
“Barely,” Serena said. “What happened? What’s wrong? Did Blair<br />
say something to you about me?”<br />
Instinctively, Nate reached into his jacket pocket and fingered the<br />
flask of whiskey that was hidden there. He looked down at the<br />
marble floor, avoiding Serena’s beautiful sad eyes.<br />
“We should get back,” Nate said, speeding up.<br />
“Fine,” Serena answered, trailing after him slowly.<br />
She had that sour salty taste in the back of her throat again, the<br />
taste of tears. She’d been holding them back for too many days<br />
now, and she could feel a tidal wave coming on. All of a sudden she<br />
would start sobbing, and she wouldn’t be able to stop.<br />
When Nate and Serena took their places at the table, Chuck<br />
smirked at them knowingly. How was it? his face seemed to say.<br />
Serena wanted to hit him.<br />
She ordered another cup of coffee and dumped four teaspoons of<br />
sugar in it and stirred and stirred, like she was trying to stir a hole<br />
through the cup, the saucer, the table, and the floor, burrowing her<br />
way into some old pharaoh’s tomb where she could cry and cry and<br />
no one would find her.<br />
Nate ordered a Bloody Mary.<br />
“Bottoms up!” Chuck said cheerfully, banging his glass against<br />
Nate’s and taking a big gulp.<br />
Blair was back at the table. She had already devoured her crème<br />
brulée and was working on her mother’s. It was full of chicken<br />
abortions, but she didn’t care—she was going to throw it all up in a<br />
minute anyway.<br />
“Hey Blair,” Nate said softly, causing Blair to drop her spoon with a<br />
clatter. He smiled and leaned across the table. “That looks<br />
awesome,” he said. “Can I have a bite?”<br />
Blair’s hand fluttered nervously to her heart. Sexy Nate. Her Nate.<br />
God, she wanted him. But she wasn’t going to give up that easily.<br />
She had her pride.