Opposite Sides of the Bridge

Chapter 2: We Should Be Friends

Disclaimer: I own Elizabeth, all the rest of the characters unless otherwise noted do not belong to me. 

~Well then, we should be friends~

(Miranda Lambert)

I bet you're wondering what Gossip Girl is doing up so early. Truth is, I never went to bed. Why waste precious time dreaming when waking life is so much better. Is there really anything better than a lazy Sunday? Reading the paper in bed, sipping coffee. Scrambling an egg or two. Yeah, right. We Upper East Siders don't do lazy. Breakfast is brunch. And it come with champagne, a dress code and a hundred of our closest friends...and enemies. Chuck's dad Bart Bass is hosting the annual brunch for his foundation. Everyone is invited. Well not everyone.

Elizabeth woke up to Dan raising the door between the rooms. Normally she was a morning person. In fact, if she hadn't spent the night in her sister's room she probably would have already been up and out by now. But that was not the case.

"You're up?" Dan said to Jenny who was sitting at her desk.

"Not sleepy..." Jenny began and looked at Elizabeth "Actually she's up too"

"Dude, it's a Sunday. It means sleeping in" she replied.

"Says the girl who is up at 6am every day to go for a run and then hits the ice rink before any of us are up." Jenny said. "Plus, he is just checking in on me"

"Now that you see she is good, can we go back to sleep? When I sleep in I wanna sleep in. And those who want to not get punched should follow that rule." Elizabeth said glaring at her brother.

"Lizzie is right. I'm okay" Jenny said. "I just feel really stupid. I mean how could, I have actually thought that Chuck Bass just wanted to talk to me?"

"Alright I am up" she replied sitting up.

"Because you trust people" Dan replied "Which is normally a good thing"

"Except on the Upper East Side" Elizabeth said.

"Pretty much"

"So how are you?" Jenny asked Dan as he was putting the door down.

"Me?" he asked and pushed it back up. "Why wouldn't I be, okay?"

"Oh" Elizabeth said "She means the uh..."

She and Jenny did the awkward wave.

"Was it really that bad?" he asked.

"Um yeah" Elizabeth replied "You could have walked her to the door or at least the elevator. That's the gentlemen thing to do."

"I tried but she shut the door in my face"

"After she sat there basically signaling you" Elizabeth said, "You really need to learn girl signals, or you will never make it in the dating world."

"Really?"

"That's why I told you to go" Jenny said.

"J and I were probably the most embarrassed" Elizabeth said "We were trying to be friends with her, and you ruined our chance"

"She probably thinks I hate her now. I've waited my entire adolescent life for a date with this girl. You know Serena Van der Woodsen. And I decided to close the evening with a wave"

"It was a nice wave"

"Lizzie?"

"Well, it was nice but for an already weird date, you could have done better. Like way better"