Then her whole world fell apart - everything she believed in: friendship and good love - and she compared her insecurities she's got since then with the bitchiness , shallowness and scheming because she never wants to feel like that again - the Blair we were introduced to in season 1: Queen B. An then she fell in love with Chuck, who brought her dark side up even more.

I think Blair knew from the beginning she had a lot in common with Dan - the connection. But she rejects him in every way, because he reminds her so much of everything she believed in once and sees that as weak now. Or she sees in him everything she wants to be (again). Besides, he fell in love with Serena also, just like Nate. They act like they're opposites because they're from different social classes... while they're honestly far from opposites, but it's just safe.

But she's was beginning to know him more and more and starting to let her guard down. She dares to be vulnerable around Dan. She already knew they had more in common than just loving Serena. Dan knows this also. He can see through Blair ("What's wrong?"). That's why he's there for her in specific moments and can't help but help her. But still the idea of 'friendship' and 'love' is just gross.

And when the timing was right and with a little help of fate and personal growth, they got to spend time together. They find out everything they believed in was just a facade of how they're truly thinking of each other ("I thought this fake friendship was real") ... plus they find out how much they've in common. Blair finds out Dan has all the qualities she seeks in love and vice versa. They're both scared of this discovery, while they've both been denying it for so long. So they keep it secret.

Dan knows Blair's too proud and scared to admit anything, so he visits her and explains his paralyzing thoughts. When he suggest 'just one kiss', she can't help but agree. She left stunned and spent a whole week sick in bed. She knows this is everything she wanted, pure and good love. After that kiss she knows that with Dan she can be herself and that he's the person who can love her after what she's become.. "One day I kiss somebody and that'll be for me". She can't believe this person is Dan Humphrey.

But there's history and two exes. It's too complicated. Dan&Blair are just doomed. So Blair turns on the plausible deniability mode again. She likes knowing how things turn out to be, that's why she's playing her favourite Audrey Hepburn movies over and over again. She goes back to Chuck... at least that feels save. And then prince Louis turns up again and the fairtytale daydreaming is back on.

Dan knows he's in love with Blair, but just wants her to be happy. He won't tell her how he truly feels. They both say that kiss meant nothing, but their body language reveal the exactly opposite. When Dan agrees to feel nothing Blair feels rejected though and thinks he's still waiting for Serena. Just liked she already thought about over and over again when she was laying in bed a bed for a week. Dan&Blair just pretend nothing has happened, but Blair finds her excuse to kiss him for the second time.

Blair has to deal with her history with Chuck, while projecting her feelings for Dan + the fairtytale daydream come true on Louis. Dan finds himself rebounding with Charlie, just to find out she's been role playing Serena. Dan gets confronted with his history with Serena again. Yet he finds out again his feelings for Blair are so much different, mature and stronger ("I never thought the person I want would be Blair Waldorf").

I wonder how long it will take to get "Blair Waldorf, who is basically everything I hate about the Upper East Side distilled into one 95-pound, doe-eyed, bonmot-tossing, label-whoring package of girly evil" to admit she's ass-backwards crushing on Dan Humphrey ("The only thing lamer than dating Dan Humphrey is mourning Dan Humphrey")... but she already moarned a whole week in bed.