Names and Letters
Names and Letters Chapter One:
Her "friends" call her Waldorf, affectionately, when she is being the perfect benevolent queen of The Quarter, the French equivalent of her mothers old UES. She walks around, plastering a fake smile on her face like a mask, the scarf she uses as a headband flapping in the wind behind her. Pleasantries are only a way to stay on top here, a hard task for anyone, but for her an expectation and routine.
Her enemy's call her Bass, when they are in the catacomb clubs while the City of Lights burn out above them. In the dark, loud clubs, with a tumbler of scotch in her hand, she can't quite bring that fake smile to her face as she greets them. All she can do is smirk. The smart ones bow down and kiss her perfect toes. The idiots go down in a blaze the next day.
Her mother calls her Alabaster, her absurd middle name. Perfect, porcelain white as her skin; perfect, porcelain white as the toilet she peers into when she is weak. Blair, as she calls her mother to irritate her, wants to love and accept her like her mother never did. The only problem with that scenario, the reason why she is the lethal, beautiful statue everyone in The Quarter admires, is that her mother can't look her in the eyes.
Her godfather Eric calls her by her first name, Charlotte. He visits when he can, sometimes on planned visits, sometime when her mother has to get away from living in the same house as her. Understanding Eric is always there is listen, laugh, then leave. But then again, she is use to being left.
She calls herself Chuck only on Father's Day, and only to herself.
On the eve of Father's Day, she makes sure not to drink. She wakes up bright and early and goes to the motel room she rented a year in advance to the day. Charlotte Alabaster Bass-Waldorf lies to her mother she is out with "friends". She goes in the spacious room and sits at the oak desk.
Every year she takes the same stationary, with updated logo's and writes a letter. After she is done, she addresses it and seals it. Then she makes her way to her secret safe deposit box provided by the bank in the foyer of the hotel, which is filled with nothing but the other letters from years past. Some years the letter is one page, some years it is ten pages long.
No matter how perfect Waldorf is, she writes the lines slanted downwards.
No matter how tough Bass is, she can't bring herself to mail them.
No matter how loved Alabaster is, she knows there is a chance he won't love her.
No matter how understood Charlotte is, she knows he won't understand her mother's decision.
All these facets of her personality form into what she calls herself that one day of the year, the one day she is not broken. Chuck. She calls herself Chuck only on Father's Day, and only to herself. She signs the letters Chuck, if only to feel close to the man she has never known, but always dreamed of.
And when she signs the letter Chuck, if only for one brief second, she feels connected to the father her mother weeps over every night.
This is my first Gossip Girl story, I know the idea's probably already been done, but here is my take on it. Please R&R with your ideas of how the story should go and if you like it! :)