Canon: Gossip Girl
Title: The Truth Hurts
Reference: Schwartz, J. & Savage,
S. (2007). Gossip Girl. NY, United States: Warner Bros. Television, CBS Television Studios, Fake Empire Productions,
Alloy Entertainment, College Hill Pictures. Inc.
Blair Waldorf stood facing
the window overlooking Central Park in the master bedroom of the penthouse in
The Empire Hotel, which was a part of her boyfriend Chuck’s empire. She was
dressed in a gold, full-length beaded dress. She looked perfect, and she knew
it. Tonight was the Empire Hotel’s New Years Eve party and she was not going to
let anything ruin her night. This year had been a long, tiring one and she was
looking forward to seeing the back of it. As she watched a helicopter approach
the landing pad of the Hotel, she heard the quiet click of Chuck’s front door
and knew somebody was trying to discreetly enter the penthouse. Nobody does
discreet like Blair Waldorf though. She slipped into the bedrooms connecting en
suite and sat on the edge of the freestanding vintage bath. The approaching steps
stopped short of the en suite’s door, meaning the intruder was directly
standing where she had been no less than 30 seconds ago. Blair lifted her chin
and attempted to portray a look of assurance, then stepped out of her hiding
place and approached the intruder.
Serena stood in the
elevator, watching the numbers rise as it took her to the top floor of the
Empire Hotel. Nate and Chuck had gone ahead to the New Years Eve party while
Serena had opted to find her best friend before facing the onslaught of Gossip
Girl followers. The site was notorious for spilling secrets of Upper East
Siders, but it had been mute today. The doors to the elevator opened to the entrance
hall of Chuck’s penthouse and Serena stepped out, the train of her Alexandra
Wang dress making it through the elevator doors just as they closed.
“Blair, are you here?
You’re missing the party,” Serena called out. She moved further into the
apartment trying to find her best friend. “Blair?” Her best friend stayed mute,
which was puzzling because there was nowhere else she could be; Blair’s Prada
clutch had been sitting on the entrance hall table and she would not leave
without it. Serena took another step forward, and tripped; someone had
approached Serena from behind and stood on the train of her dress. She turned
to look up at this careless individual. Her boyfriend, Dan, was standing behind
her wearing a full black outfit; a balaclava was hanging from his hand.
“Serena, I wish you hadn’t
come. Nobody was supposed to know be here,” and Dan reached his hand out to
help Serena up. Puzzled, Serena accepted his hand and he pulled her up from the
ground.
“Dan, what are you doing
here? Where is Blair? What are you
wearing? I can’t believe you just stood on my dress like that!”
“Blair’s in the dining
room, she just got the latest Gossip Girl blast.” Dan was being shady, but
Serena ignored her intuition. Gossip Girl was notorious for exposing damaging
secrets and betrayals, but Serena was puzzled that she hadn’t received the
blast. She picked up her dress and ran to the dining room to find her best
friend sitting at the table, looking at here phone. Blair looked up from her
iPhone to her best friend.
“Serena! What are you doing
here?” Blair seemed genuinely surprised to see Serena in the apartment,
oblivious to the fact that her presence was being missed downstairs in the
building.
“Blair, we are supposed to
be at the party! It’s 7.30. Please, lets go?” Serena pleaded. “And can you show
me the last Gossip Girl post? My phone is playing up, I didn’t get it!”
“Serena…” Blair, queen Bee,
was speechless.
“Why is Dan here, B?”
Serena questioned, the strangeness of the situation slowly dawning on her.
Serena’s best friend and her boyfriend were sworn enemies, at the least. That
was when Serena and Blair’s phones went off in unison. Gossip Girl again…
“Hey Upper East Siders, New Years Eve is upon us and but it seems the
belle of the ball is yet to arrive. Looks like Serena Van Der Woodsen will be
making a late appearance to the Empire’s event of the year… I wonder if Lonely
Boy is going to kick her while she is down? XOXO – Gossip Girl.” Gossip
Girl had referred to Dan as Lonely Boy ever since he appeared on the Upper East
Side scene from Brooklyn. Puzzled to
see her name in the blast, Serena downloaded the file attached to the message.
Slowly her black Christian Louboutin high
heels were revealed, and a foot on the back of her dress, and then the image
was fully loaded and Serena saw herself fallen over on Chuck’s tiled, Dan’s
foot placed directly on the back of her dress, pinning it, and Serena, to the
floor. Serena spun around to face Dan once again.
“Dan… How did Gossip Girl
get this photo? What is going on?” Serena looked from her boyfriend to her best
friend and back.
“Serena, I wanted to tell
you but it would ruin everything. Blair was not supposed to be here tonight,
you are both supposed to be at the party.” Dan’s phone was in his hand, and it
had his attention. Serena snatched it out of his hand and looked at the screen,
faced with the Gossip Girl page but as she had never seen it before; from the
admin’s home page. She took a step back.
“Dan… What’s going on?”
Blair joined Serena at her side and put her arm around her best friend and
showed her the Gossip Girl blast Serena had missed.
“Sometimes the partner is more shocking than the crime itself. Don’t let
that first flame burn you, it might leave a scar. XOXO – Gossip Girl.”
Blair proceeded to show her
best friend a collaged picture of Dan, Lonely Boy, with his phone at multiple
different occasions of accidents, betrayals and secret meetings in the same all
black outfit, balaclava over his head or tucked under his arm. Serena looked up
at her boyfriend to see him on his phone. He looked up at her and her face
fell, and Blair’s phone in front of her went off as another Gossip Girl blast
came in…
Continued next time…
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