Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the most fabulous TV show, Gossip Girl, though I would so own Nate! Go Chace Crawford--he is so hot. Everything you recognise is not mine and I give my thanks to the owners. Anything that you don't recognise--including the main characters and plot--is all mine. Thanks for reading!

What We Became

"Looking back, it matters not who we were but who we became. Who are we truly, not yesterday but right now?"

Gossip Girl Fan Fiction

This is a story of pasts and of grudges, of mistakes and of scandal, of parties and of tradition and of fame and of love. This is a story about people.

Ice Queen. Flirtatious riser. Movie Star. Invisible child. Troubled drinker. Quiet student. Social outcast. Runaway newbie. Eight teenagers vow to correct their parents' pasts and change the future, and in doing so, discover more about themselves than the people they try to change. Set twenty-four years after season two.

EPX00: Prologue

Summer, 2009

New York City

I want you to imagine a scene. There's a girl. And there's a boy. Now imagine lots more girls and lots more boys, most rich and few . . . well, in comparison, pretty poor; generally hot and with good fashion sense; all students at the two most prestigious private schools.

Then think of their companion—seemingly on the inside yet always on the outside, like an outsider peering in. A guardian angel of sorts, only not a good type. There have to be some bad angels, right?

Hi. That's me.

Now, I'm a senior, off to college (nowhere you need to know) no longer going to be part of the little world I observe. The thought's almost painful—I might seem cold-hearted but I've come to understand and even care about the characters that I torment. I should write a book about them.

The truth is, I'm here to give life lessons on what I've learned being me. Yes, lessons in life—don't you dare laugh!

I guess the first lesson is that some things end because they should. One of my characters puts it best—"fairytales end when they do for a reason". To some of us, high school was kind of like a fairytale; keep in mind fairytales only have to be happy at the end. But close this chapter of your life and get ready to start a new one—this time, you're the author.

The next is that, for all you youngsters, relationships are not a walk in the park. You have to work at them to keep them going, to be prepared to embrace your partner's flaws and virtues and to accept their history. And sometimes, you have to be patient and change yourself for the better because, even if the other person loves you for who you are, you want to be better. And even then it's a rocky ride.

The third is about the past. You're in high school; no one is going to stay the same. This is the time where you become who you want to be. You can't change who you were but you can change who you are now and will be in the future.

And finally, mistakes do not carry over through generations. You do not have to be as your parents were or do as your parents did. The fates do not have control over your life—you do. You always have a choice, and if you find yourself making their mistakes, think about not how to walk back and take another road but do you want to? What didn't work for them might work for you.

So here we are, at the end of this stage in our lives. This is it. Now we walk into our own worlds, imagine our own scenes, chase and realise our own dreams without adult supervision. I wish you good luck—we're all going to need it.

As for me, well, my name is unimportant. But you . . . you may call me Gossip Girl.

Thanks for reading. Please review. For those who really want to know, this is going to be about the children of Chuck and Blair, Nate and Serena, Dan and Vanessa, Jenny and OMC, Georgina and OMC and Eric (adopted).