Beep! Beep! Beep!

"Remind me why we set an alarm..." Chuck mumbled as he rolled over to turn the nuisance off... only to find her side of the bed cold.

"No!" he gasped, quickly opening his eyes to see for himself. "No!" he screamed to himself again, frantically tossing back the covers and then jumping out of the bed to check in the bathroom, much to his disappointment.

Frustrated, he picked up his phone and tossed it across the room, silencing it for now.

As he sat down on the edge of his bed, contemplating just what had gone wrong the day before, he heard voices out in the foyer.

"Thanks for listening but I really don't know what I'm going to do with her, if our relationship can even be salvaged... I have a lot to think about I guess," he heard Nate speak, causing his ears to perk up. He had to admit, he was a little intrigued as it wasn't the typical conversation he was used to hearing between Nate and Jenny every morning.

"Just give her some time to think things over – we both know how she is – I'm sure she'll come to her senses and realize you're better than Humphrey Dumpty," he heard the female voice speak as he walked closer to his bedroom door. To his surprise though, it definitely wasn't Little J's voice.

"Blair?" he curiously wondered as he opened the door to see her standing there, opposite Nate, with coffees in hand.

"Hey, you're up!" she happily stated with a smile as she turned see him, giving him a lingering kiss as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

"I... I was afraid you had left me again," Chuck stuttered as their lips parted, one of his hands resting comfortably around her waist.

"Only temporarily. I thought I'd sneak out to get us some coffee – heaven knows I needed it after how much I drank last night," Blair chuckled. "Sorry – I thought I'd be able to sneak back in bed before you woke up," she admitted as she looked at him apologetically, having realized he had genuinely been scared she was gone.

"It's alright – you're here now, nothing else matters," Chuck told her as he gently tucked a stray curl behind her ear, staring her in the eyes with nothing but love.

"God, I am sooo relieved you two are back together!" Nate exclaimed, breaking the moment. "Blair, you seriously have no idea what these past few months have been like, living with him all mopey and like..."

"I was not mopey," Chuck adamantly declared with a hint of bashfulness as he accepted the cup of coffee she handed him. "I just missed you. A lot."

"That's an understatement," Nate remarked under his breath as he shook his head in amusement.

"Anyways, while I was out... I picked up a few bridal magazines to help give us some ideas..." Blair began, changing the subject as she handed Chuck her own cup of coffee, promptly pulling out a stack of magazines she had somehow managed to fit in her handbag. "Everyone knows June is the best month to get married, however as much as I love you and can't wait to be your wife, next month is just way too soon to plan the wedding I know we both want and while a year may see like a long ways off, really Chuck, it isn't so we need to get started immediately," she continued as she began to walk towards the main room, expecting him to follow.

"I have never been more glad that things didn't work out between us in high school," Nate quietly whispered with a laugh to his roommate. "Good luck, buddy!"

"I won't need it," Chuck remarked with a grin, shaking his head in amusement as he watched his fiance quickly getting to work, her spread of magazines already taking over his coffee table as she pulled out a pen and some paper to make her own notes.

The cycle had ended. His nightmare was over. And as long as he didn't royally screw everything up again, he would be marrying the love of his life within a year's time.

And he couldn't be happier.

AN: Can you believe this is actually my first mutli-chapter fic that I've fully completed? ("Chuck and Blair, Blair and Chuck" doesn't count as originally that was posted all as one and I reposted it with the chapter breaks after the fact – it was my first story I published on here and I was new to the whole how this site works from an author standpoint lol and "Broken" was actually a one-shot with an epilogue, posted in 3 parts for too many emotional feels). True, I could have ended this one last week, however... I figured we'd have one last Monday together to look forward to ;-)

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