Beautiful - Nate Archibald

𝓑𝓪𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓻

𝐻𝑒𝓎, 𝒰𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝐸𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒢𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓅 𝒢𝒾𝓇𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝐵𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓇 𝒲𝒶𝓁𝒹𝑜𝓇𝒻'𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁. 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓂 𝐸𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒶 𝓋𝒶𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒲𝑜𝑜𝒹𝓈𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓃𝒶 𝐵𝒶𝓈𝓈 𝒷𝓇𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒽 𝒷𝓊𝒹𝒹𝒾𝑒𝓈.

Serena and the girls have been slowly building up their friendship over the past few weeks, because of Chuck hosting the lost weekend at the hotel Christina decided to stay at Blair's not wanting to hear the disgusting things they were doing next door. Christina was the first one awakened by the smell of food, as she walked downstairs she was met with the surprise with the sight of Serena chatting with Blair's mom Eleanor.

"Good morning you guys," The bass greets,not entirely sure why Serena was here so early in the morning she doesn't remember making plans, "Oh my god Eleanor, Blair didn't tell me you were coming" Christina said, taking a seat next to Serena, Eleanor was one of the only mother figures Christina had that wasn't paid to be around her, granted she wasn't the best mother to her own child but it was still something. Compared to all of the Parents on the Upper East Side, Lilly and Eleanor were the best. "I got an offer from Bendals to carry my line, so I wanted to get a head start and I could use your opinion

Since you have such an incredible sense of fashion, I've never seen you wear anything unflattering." Eleanor Waldorf says, "From head to toe you always look so amazing! Have you ever considered going into the Fashion industry? Whether it's modeling or designing, I think you could have a successful career."

"Thank you Eleanor," Christina replied, picking up a strawberry from the table "But it's not in the plans for my future." It was one of her dreams to be in the world of fashion, Christina actually had a full plan of pursuing modeling first to fully get her name and face out (not just as the Daughter of billionaire Bart Bass). Then build a brand by carefully choosing which company to work with when she started up her own line but Bart wouldn't have it. "Ah yes, Blair told me how you applied to Columbia and Harvard for pre-law. Which I think is brilliant because you're such a smart young woman but don't let your years pass you behind by sitting at a desk all day."

Eleanor saw the saddened look the young girl had on her face and decided to change the conversation. Finally Blair decided to make an appearance, looking confused at the sight of Serena and Eleanor sitting in the living room. Serena was the first to notice the girl "Hey! You're up" Blair looked at Christina giving her a questioning look who shrugged, still slightly confused as to why Serena's here. "Darling it's impolite to interrupt," Eleanor blows a kiss towards her daughter, watching her walk down the stairs to join them for breakfast."I was just telling Serena and Christina that Bendel's is interested in carrying my line" Blair beams with pride, despite having a complicated relationship with her mom she always loved seeing her mom work.

"Really?Oh that's fantastic!Why didn't you say anything?"Blair asked, she reached for a croissant from the table "I came back from Paris early to put my look book together" Eleanor explained as Blair started digging into her breakfast. "And if they like what they see, it could be the beginning of an entire lifestyle collection."

"Because more people should be like you, mother" she stated, getting ready to take a bite of her croissant. "Before you tuck into that, you might find the low fat yogurt more appealing." Serena and Christina share a knowing look with each other, just like other Upper East Side parent's Eleanor is obsessed with image. No matter how much destruction it causes, maintaining the perfect image is always number one. That's why the two girls decided to distract Eleanor by conveniently having urgent matters to attend to.