Nate is all over Blair in the pool, but she's playing it cold ... if Chuck gets pissed, he might tell his best friend Nate that he bagged Blair first. This is her greatest fear.
Blair and Nate react as a kid at the pool hits his dome and falls into the pool, where he nearly drowns. This scandal sets off a firestorm in which Nate gets suspended when he tries to cover for Blair, who he thinks threw the party.
Good ol' Vanessa once again is all up in Dan's business, this time filming a documentary with him as the subject. She sure does hang out with him a lot, despite not going to his school.
Needless to say, Blair Waldorf is a cutie... and wrapped up in her world of problems. Here, she doesn't want Nate to hit on her because Chuck will be pissed and spill the beans.
Okay, so it's a middle-aged woman's swimsuit... but you can't go wrong with the lovely Serena van der Woodsen in any sort of swimwear. You have to take what you can get sometimes.
As always, Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) lights up the screen on Gossip Girl. This photo is from "School Lies," episode 12 of the first season.
Chuck tells Dan that they're from different worlds, and that Dan, by virtue of his middle-class stature, can't afford (in so many ways) to get suspended or expelled. Chuck, by contrast, can simply have his dad buy his way out of trouble.