I Love You

Happy Birthday?

Disclaimer: I only own Darcy, all other characters unless otherwise noted belong to someone else.

Darcy walked into the school courtyard. A lot had happened since thanksgiving. One being her boyfriend of not very long told her that he loved her and she just stared at him and ran for the hills. Now she was avoiding him because not only did the L word come up but the big Sex talk did too. Both she wasn't very comfortable with. Then with her birthday being tomorrow she was on edge and the multiple bottles of wine in her fridge did help ease it. Her Birthday was probably her biggest fear one being that her mother always promised a bash in Hawaii or wherever she eventually decided to go but she didn't want to think about that. Last year she got by with no one knowing it was her birthday because of Cotillion but she didn't have that to shy around this year.

She spotted Serena walking with Dan.

"Hey S" Darcy said.

"Darcy hey" Serena said.

"Dan"

"Darcy"

"So are you going to the Snowflake fall?" Serena asked.

"Yeah"

"Is Mason taking you?"

"Yeah" she faked smiled. In all honesty she wasn't quite sure.

"So things are getting serious. You two doing to deed soon?"

"No. It's not that he doesn't want to because trust me he does. I just don't"

"Really"

"I'm gonna go, I feel like I told Humphrey too much" she said then got up and left. She got further down the hall when she spotted Chuck.

"Hey Bass" she said actually glad she ran into him.

"Happy Birthday" he said.

"Its tomorrow but how did you?"
"I have my ways." He said.

"Do I want to know?"

"Probably not"

"How's torturing Blair?"

"I have plans for us"

"Oh no" she said.

"Rooftop Birthday Girl"

"Do I get a gift?"

"Of course" he said and they went their separate ways.

A little later she walked into her apartment and sat her things down. Checking her phone to see if her dad had messaged her at all about if he was coming into town when a Gossip Girl blast came on about Nate and Vanessa.

"Good Job Nate" she said happy that her friend was happy. As much as she liked him and as much as she was having trouble with Mason, he was her friend and she wanted him happy. After a while her phone began to ring and she looked noticing Mason. She hit ignore then headed out and toward the Palace hotel. She got up to the roof and spotted Chuck already waiting for her.

"What's on Ellis' mind?" he asked just reading her expression.

"Nothing" she said.

"Ellis?"

"You first" she said. "You said you had a plan for you and Blair"

"We have a bet" he said all proudly.

"A bet?"

"It's genius"

"Alright, what exactly are the terms to this 'genius' bet"

"We pick each other dates"

"For the ball? What if you don't like those dates?"

"That's where it gets interesting."