Beautiful - Nate Archibald

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"Though it seems like just yesterday Serena, Christina and I were eight and playing dress-up in my mother's vintage manolos my eighteenth birthday has finally arrived." Blair chipperly reminisced "The party needs to be perfect, so blood orange martinis or beluga and belvedere?"

Blair called us all to her penthouse to discuss the plans for her birthday, technically she beckoned the minions and dragged me out of bed but I digress. "Why don't we make different drinks tonight and do a taste test ?" Izzy suggested.

"Oh, I can't, I'm meeting my mother's new boyfriend." Blair said, all the girls gasped with excitement.

"Even moms have boyfriends, and I don't." Hazel grimaced, shoving a strawberry in her mouth.

"Get a forehead reduction, and you just might have a chance." I suggested in all seriousness, Blair discreetly kicked my leg under the table.

leaning over to my side of the table "Be nice." she whispered."Anyways, Cyrus has been one of my mom's attorneys since the divorce, he asked her out when they first met but she didn't want to mix business with pleasure. Finally, his amorous overtures wore her down and she agreed to dinner, she's been smitten ever since."

"Oh that's so romantic." One of the minions gushed.

I picked at a piece of my croissant "Maybe she'll be less bitchy." Blair kicked me again under the table, only this time much harder. "You have one more time." I threatened.

"One thing my mom has is good taste in men." Blair complimented "Maybe a dashing stepdad is just what I need."

I began to quietly laugh, "I don't know about her having 'good taste' that first husband was something else." I moved my leg out of the way before she kicked it, causing her to kick the leg of the chair instead.

"Speaking of good taste in men, how's the sexy artist, Serena?" Izzy asked, moving on from my comment.

"Oh, uh, Aaron's amazing, he's been sending me these maps to the most beautiful places-" Serena began before I ultimately cut her off.

"Yawn, let me know when she starts talking about her next boyfriend." I said, taking a sip of my coffee.

"Oh I'm sorry, how about we talk about you and the stable boy." She fired back, referring to Beau and I. "You went from aristocrat to corn husker."

"Billionaire southern dynasty corn husker, but when Anthony gives up his backpacking ways and finds a job and I don't know, maybe take a shower or at very least a whore bath, you be sure to let me know." I quipped, the minions looked back and forth to me and Serena.

"His name is Aaron and he has a job, he's an artist." she corrected

I scoffed "You're dating a younger, uglier, dirtier version of Rufus Humphrey." I began, I pushed my half eaten plate to the side "Way to go Serena, you've moved onto your eighteenth boyfriend in the past three years, when you eventually move on from him remind me to buy you a cake or an std test."

"You know what?" She asked

"What?"

Blair stood up slamming her hands down on the table "Enough!" she shouted, halting Serena's and I. "Minions out, now!" they scrambled, effectively leaving the table and the house all together. "I've had it with you two, this is my birthday week and my birthday week will not be ruined by you two, so get it together or so help me god I will castrate both of you."

I pushed my seat back and stood up "You're right B, I'm willing to work out a peace treaty for the week." I faux smiled, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Serena, I hope you and Atonio have a wonderful time not washing your hair together."