Wild Child: 6/?
Title: Wild Child
Author: kellou24
Based On: TV Show
Rating: PG13 (for now)
Pairings: Nate/Jenny, Chuck/Blair
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Twenty-two year old Jenny Humphrey goes to stay with her brother, Dan when he goes through a bad break-up and needs help getting over it. While there she finds friends, enemies, and possibly love. Story is better than it sounds.
Ring.
The sound of my cell phone ringing lulled me out of my fitful sleep. My eyes unwillingly opened on there own accord and I quickly shut them and cursed, grabbing my head, silently wishing I hadn’t drank that whole bottle of Grey Goose I’d managed to pull out of the back of my seemingly empty freezer.
I blindly reached for my cell phone on the nightstand, all the while trying to block out the noisy streets of New York. I answered without looking at the caller id and put the phone to my ear.
“Hello,” My voice croaked out in a quiet tone, fully aware of my hangover.
“Where the hell are you?!” Yelled my soon to be ex-best friend into the phone.
“Hello to you to Chuck.” I grimaced and sat up slowly in bed.
“Nathaniel, you better have a good excuse for not being here.”
“What are you talking about? Where the hell am I supposed to be at,” I glanced over at my clock, “10:00 A.M. on a Sunday?” I asked confused, rubbing my eyes.
“Don’t tell me you forgot what’s happening today.” Chuck said speaking between clenched teeth.
“Clearly I have. So what’s so important that you decided to torture me this early in the morning?”
“Lily and Rufus invited us all to brunch. Remember? They said they had some important news to announce to us and we all said we would be there.” He said slowly like he was talking to a child.
“That’s today?! Shit,” Hangover forgotten I threw the covers off me and quickly got up running to the bathroom, all the while still talking on the phone. “Look can you just stall for me? I’ll be there as soon as possible.” I promised hanging up before he could reply.
~
“That will be fourteen dollars,” the cabbie said pulling me out of my thoughts. I quickly paid the cabbie and got out of the taxi. I adjusted my pants and smoothed down my dark blue shirt as I walked up the steps to the restaurant and entered the building. I walked toward the hostess and asked for the Humphrey party. She pointed towards our table in the middle of the dining room. I started walking towards the table but stopped short when I saw another person at the table.
Her back was facing towards me. She had her long blonde hair in curls down her back and she was wearing a royal blue dress that went about right above her knees with a pair of pink heels. She was nothing short of beautiful.
But that wasn’t why I had stopped.
I had stopped because that was the girl I’d met last night and a lot of things were starting to make more sense.
~
13 Hours Earlier
Our lips were moving languidly together in time while our tongues battled for dominance when I suddenly pulled back.
“Are you sure about this?” I asked again hoping she’d say she was.
“Well lets see I’m in the back seat of a taxi with you on the way to your apartment and we’d just been making out so I’m pretty sure I am,” She said sarcastically before grabbing my head to pull my lips back to hers. I quickly grabbed her hands in mine before she could and tried again.
“Seriously I don’t want you to regret this in the morning. Trust me when I say that I don’t want to be remembered as that guy who only cared about getting you in bed.”
She stared at me for a second before giving me a small smile. “That’s really sweet that you care and that you’d put a stop to this before it even started but I can say with all certainty that I won’t regret this unless you make me.”
I thought for a second before suggesting just to be sure that she doesn’t regret going home with a stranger that we learn a couple of things about each other. She rolled her eyes but went along with it anyway. I indicated for her to go first.
“Well my names Jenny. I’m the assistant to a major fashion designer here in New York and I’m currently living with my brother.”
“So were you born here or have you always lived here?” I asked.
“Well yes and no. I was born in New York but I only just moved back.”
“Why?” I asked curiously.
“Well for my job and to help my brother out with something.”
“So where’d you live before?”
“Well up until a year ago I lived in Hudson with my mom but I had won this internship for a design program so I moved to California where I met my new boss.” She explained before asking if I was satisfied.
“Yeah.”
“Good,” she said before grabbing the back of my neck and fusing her lips to mine again.
~
The second I had the door open she pushed me against the wall and continued our earlier actions. She was kissing down my neck and had just started on my belt when my phone rang. I pulled the phone out of my pocket and was about to hit ignore when I saw Serena’s name on the caller id. I gave her an apologetic smile and she just waved me off. I went to my bedroom and answered it.
“Hello.”
“Natie,” Serena moaned into the phone. “I don’t feel very good.”
“Where are you?” I asked concerned.
“Blair’s house.”
“Where’s Blair?” I asked trying to be patient with her.
“Pounding on the door,” She said. I suddenly picked up on the sound of persistent knocking and Blair shouting for Serena to open the door. “I locked her out.” she said giggling slightly at the end.
“Serena, what did you take?” I asked worriedly.
“Oh calm down Nate,” she teased in a slurred voice. “I only did a couple of lines before little Miss Stick-Up-Her-Ass dragged me away from my friends.”
“Why don’t you hand the phone to Blair, Serena?” I suggested, changing tactics.
“Buzz kill.” She said before I heard the door squeak open and Blair’s voice on the line.
“Oh thank you Nate. I’ve been trying to get her to open the door for about twenty minutes.” Blair said in an exasperated voice.
“No problem,” I said before continuing a little more hesitantly. “Do you need me to come over?”
“No. Chuck’s on his way now. Look I got to go before she decides to take any of my mom’s anti-anxiety meds but we’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Yeah. Hey, did she happen to say why she started again?” There was silence for about a second before I decided to elaborate. “It’s just she’s been clean about two months now and it really seemed like she was getting better.”
“When she called me she said she just needed a little courage for seeing Dan tomorrow.” she said abruptly before hanging up.
I sighed before closing my eyes and tiredly running a hand over my face. I quickly collected myself when I remembered my guest. I put my phone on my nightstand before walking back to the living room and the pretty girl currently occupying it.
She was standing frozen in front of the wall I had been pushed up against not even five minutes ago.
“Hey sorry about that,” I apologized. “It was a friend of mine and she’s been going through a rough time so--”
“Uh, I need to go.” she interrupted me quickly.
“What?” I asked shocked and a bit disappointed.
“Yeah. My brother called and he said it was an emergency so I’m sorry but I have to take off.” She gave me an apologetic smile before turning toward the door.
“Well maybe you could give me your number and we could continue this some other time,” I asked dejectedly. She didn’t even turn back to look at me.
“I don’t think so. I’m sorry for wasting your time but it was nice meeting you Nate,” she said over her shoulder before walking out the door.
“Yeah, nice meeting you to,” I called awkwardly and a bit confused after her. Somehow I knew she was lying about having to leave earlier but I decided to just shrug it off.
I looked at the spot she had been standing and saw a picture frame crooked. I walked towards it and stopped short when I saw the picture.
It was a picture of Serena and me perfectly frozen in time.
Before the drugs and excessive partying, before Dan Humphrey and before she was broken it was just me and her. Now were two different people and we’ll never get back what we had.
I straightened the picture and decided I needed another drink.
~
“You’re my mom’s new assistant she’s been raving about.” Blair’s voice pulled me out of my silent revelation.
“Small world,” Jenny said innocently.
“Indeed.” I said causing everyone to shift there attention to my place behind her. She turned around and my eyes immediately met her green ones.
“Nate I’m so glad you could make it,” Rufus said greeting me. “Nate this is my daughter Jenny. Jenny this is Nate Archibald.” he said introducing us.
“Hey.” I said still thinking about the fact that I almost hooked up with Dan Humphrey’s little sister.
“Hi.” She said giving me an awkward wave.
“Well I’m starved. Let’s eat.” Rufus said before walking over to his seat beside Lily.
I looked around the table and noticed the only seat open is the one right next to hers.
Great.
A/N: So this is basically Nate's POV from the last two chapters. Sorry. But next chapter will be the brunch continued and I'm sure if anyone cares, this chapter did hint at something for later;D Reviews are appreciated.