I Love You

Our Girl

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

Darcy walked through her room getting ready for graduation and calling her dad. He had promised that he wouldn't miss it. He had picked out a good disguise months before leaving for his trip. She grabbed her mom's rings that her father had gotten her for Christmas. She walked into the living room and spotted Brooke and Austin.

"Hi" she said to them.

"You're graduating!" Brooke said excited.

"I don't think we thought this day would come" Austin commented and she hugged him and then Brooke.

"It happened. I'm meeting my uncle at the school. You guys can ride in with me and sit with him there"

"Yeah, and then after we can grab lunch" Austin said.

"Well actually Bass and Serena's graduation party is right after and then Nate's is tonight. I promised I would be at them."

"Oh yeah" Brooke said.

"You guys should come." Darcy said a little nervous.

They got to the school and she pointed them toward Keith who seemed to be having a conversation with one of her teachers. She spotted Vanessa and Nate talking and walked over.

"Hey V" she said.

"Darcy congrats" Vanessa said hugging her.

"Thank you"

"Will you excuse us a moment" Nate said putting his hand on her lower back and guiding her away. They got a little ways from ear shot and he turned to her. "How are you?"

"Good" she said.

"Look Darc..."

"I don't regret it" she said before he could say anything. He smiled at her.

"Neither do I."

"Then were good?" she smiled at him.

"I don't want you to be a rebound from Blair" he said pushing a strand of hair behind her ear.

"That means a lot"

"I like you Darcy Ellis"

"I like you too Nate Archibald."

"I have for quite a while now"

"All that flirting was something"

"Like your innocent?"

"What?"

"Darcy. You're more than obvious"

"And you let me just carry on" she said playfully hitting him and he grabbed her hand.

"It was cute, and I was flattered"

The headmistress called from them to line up.

"We'll talk later" she said.

"My party" he said letting go of her hand.

"It's a date" she smiled at him and walked away.

They all got lined up and sat down in their seats. Darcy was too distracted by Nate and what exactly they were gonna talk about she couldn't pay attention to what the headmistress was saying. Not to mention that Brooke and Austin were visiting and that was going to be a headache all on its own. During graduation Gossip Girl posted something about them all leaving her out. But Gossip Girl didn't faze her anyway with the press she normally had to face.

After Graduation she arrived at the Van der Woodsen's with Austin and Brooke.

"This is a nice place" Austin said.