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Blair kisses Beatrice because, well, why not?
She’s having fun for the first time in a very long time, and it’s all thanks to Beatrice; the kiss only happens as a way of showing gratitude, Blair rationalizes.
It also happens because she’s drunk. This is too thanks to Beatrice.
Besides, she never had the chance to have this particular experience. She was too busy worried about trying to rule NYU to enjoy her time there, and too busy trying to get over someone she should have never got under when at Columbia. If it is not now, then it will be never.
Because she’s at her bachelorette party and she’s going to be a princess and she’s moving to another country where she knows exactly three people and only one of them likes her - she’s still not sure about Beatrice who, although is reciprocating the kiss, could very well still not like her. After all, a kiss doesn’t have to mean anything. You can kiss someone and still not harbor any strong feelings about them (feelings about their fashion sense excluded, of course), Blair was sure of it. Even if it took her an entire week to make herself believe so.
And, for the record, that time Serena showed up at her house before the sun had even risen, after the first time a boy had broken her heart, drunk out of her mind and Blair had to put her hand over Serena’s smile to prevent her parents from waking up; the first of many times Blair dragged Serena to her bathtub and untangled her hair with the kind of care she only reserves for beautiful things, the kind of care she never had with herself; when Serena took her by surprise by turning her face upwards and touching Blair’s lips with hers for a moment so brief Blair hadn’t even processed what happened and it was over already, doesn't count.
It didn’t count for Serena, who doesn’t even remember that ever happened, so it doesn’t count for her, either.
Blair had spent the better part of last year torn between a boy she didn’t love and a boy she didn’t like. It couldn't be that wrong, then, to kiss someone who can fulfill both roles.