It was a boring party, her grandmother always loved taking her to boring parties with grown-ups who just stand around and talk, holding big glasses with something that looks like sparkling apple juice and there's no-one her age to play with, so she ends up sitting in a chair away from the party with her little brother Erik watching everyone else have fun. She doesn't understand why her grandmother doesn't just get a nanny to watch her and Erik at the house while she's here, at least there they could watch TV or play a game or swim but instead she forced to wear a silly dress that's making her arms itch and shoes that pinch her toes and her hair keeps getting in her face.

Erik's asleep in the chair next to her, his tiny thumb stuck in his mouth, Serena knows her mother wouldn't like that but he looks so comfortable that she doesn't want to move him. Serena traces the contours of her brother's face just for something to do when a little boy catches her eye, on a normal day she wouldn't have thought anything of it but today she notices him because he's the only other child here.

He looks like he's six like she is, he's got blond hair that looks a little like Erik's does that falls onto his face almost into his eyes. Serena can't see his eyes though because he's looking away from her at an old man that Serena recognizes as William van der Bilt, her grandmother introduced him to them as the host of the party when they first got there. There's a lady next to the boy clutching his hand in hers really tightly and she's glaring at the old man like she her mom sometimes glares at her dad when she's mad with him.

Serena is watching them, just for something to do when she notices his other hand is clutching onto something, she can't tell what it is because from where she's looking all she can see it a little silver peeking out from beneath his fingers. Serena can't help but watch this boy from where she's sitting, he's just staring at the adults like they aren't having a huge fight and she wonders if she could ever be able to keep her calm the way he is right now.

Serena's watching his face when he turns and looks at her straight in the eyes, she wants to turn away because her cheeks are turning a bright shade of red after being caught staring at this boy but his eyes don't allow her too. They are so blue, too blue, they're captivating and she just wants to stare at them forever because they are so pretty.

The woman holding the little boys hand pulls him away with such force that he drops whatever it was that he was holding, Serena sees him reach for it but the lady picks him up and carries him out of the venue before he can start fussing. The old man is gone as well and the silver trinket is still on the ground, nobody else seemed to have noticed it. Serena makes sure Erik is fast asleep before quickly running to where the boy was and picking up the necklace he dropped.

Serena finds it strange that a boy is carrying around a necklace with a heart pendent on it, there's tiny pretty blue diamonds covering the pendent giving it that elegant feel but not overdoing it so it looks like it can only be worn to big parties her mom and dad go to. Serena puts the necklace in her pocket and thinks that if she ever see's the boy again she'll give it back to him, she doesn't want to admit that the only reason she's keeping it and not giving it to her grandma is because it reminded her of his eyes, so blue and sparkly.

When they finally get home that night her grandmother tells her that the boy she was staring at was Nathaniel Archibald and Serena looks at her confused, she didn't even realize anyone saw her staring at him. Serena tries but she can't pronounce his name so her grandmother tells her it's ok to call him Nate, everyone else does, Serena finds that much easier to say. He is Williams grandson and he was only there for a short time because his mother got into a fight with his grandfather and left. Serena yawned and nodded, she didn't know why her grandmother was telling her so much about these people but the scene she watched play out makes a little more sense now.

She doesn't tell her grandma about the necklace that's her secret and she's going to keep it, she always wants to remember the boy with the blue eyes. When she goes back home two weeks later with the necklace tucked into her jewelry box she can't remember where she got it from or who gave it to her, all she knows is that she never wants to let go of that feeling she gets every time she looks at something so blue.

*16 years later*

"We should move in together, don't you think?" Serena says from her place on the bed, she runs her finger gently over the outline of the heart necklace sitting on her neck.

"Move in where and with what money," Dan, her boyfriend of four years asks turning in his chair to look at her, they were sitting in his college dorm room, she was lying on the bed bored and he was trying to finish an assignment unsuccessfully.

"I don't know we could get a place somewhere, I'll ask daddy to find us a place, he'll take care of everything we'll just have to live there," Serena said smiling.

"I think you're overestimating how much your parents like me," he says and she frowns, she knows her parents have a problem with Dan because he's not from the Upper East Side, he doesn't have expensive cars or designer clothes or anything else that she's always had in her world but he's good to her and good for her, that should count for something.

"They'll love you as much as I do once they realize how serious we are," Serena says.

"We've been serious for four years and nothing's changed," Dan says shaking his head exasperatedly at her, they've had this conversation multiple times before, he doesn't fit in her world, no-one likes him there and he doesn't like them either but he loves her and that's all there is to it.

"They don't know that!" Serena exclaimed and Dan raised an eyebrow. "You've only met them a few times and we've been together for four years and you haven't even brought up marriage yet."

"Is that what this is about? Serena we are twenty-two years old, we're barely in our twenties, we are too young to get married," Dan said and Serena frowned.

"I already know that there's no-one else I'd rather be with, if you think you need to play the field a little bit before settling down fine," Serena said shrugging and getting up. "Let's take a break."

"Serena no stop," he said getting up and grabbing her hand. "I don't want to take a break, I want to be with you for the rest of my life as well but I think marriage is a bit too much for us right now."

Serena took a breath and nodded, "I just want to know that you're as committed to this relationship as I am," she said flopping back onto the bed and he frowned.

"What makes you think I'm not?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"You never take me seriously Dan, I mean I want us to live together, we don't have to be married but I want to share my grocery list with you, I want to have my toothbrush next to yours in the bathroom and I want to fight with you over laundry and dishes and who's turn it is to cook," Serena said.

"You cook, really?" he asked and she huffed.

"That's all you got out of that?" Serena asked and Dan laughed. "See you aren't even taking this seriously."

"I am, I'm sorry I am," Dan said smiling at her. "I want that stuff with you too, just maybe in a few years when we are working and we have the money to do all of that without your parents help."

"Why are you so against my parents helping us?" Serena asked and Dan sighed he really didn't want to be having this conversation with her, especially not now.

"I don't want anything from the Upper East Side ok?" he said rubbing his temples. "I just want to say that everything I have, I worked for."

"So what about me?" Serena asked and Dan looked at her confused clearly not understanding the question. "You said you didn't want anything from the Upper East Side, whether you want to accept it or not, that's where I'm from and if you're with me, there's always going to be ties to it."

"But that's different, you're different," he said. "Look maybe I'm not explaining this properly but I want to be with you Serena but I just want to be with you on our own terms not your family's."

"Fine," Serena said clearly not happy with his answer but willing to accept it for now. "I hope you know that there's already speculation."

"About what," Dan asked, not following her train of thought.

"About me getting married and a whole lot of other things," Serena said and Dan grunted and looked away from her again, he didn't bother reading those gossip magazines but his sister was obsessed with them and she regularly called to check if the things they said about Serena was true so he knew what she was talking about and he didn't like it.

"This is another reason I don't want to be a part of the Upper East Side, your lives are always so chronicled," Dan says and Serena giggles because she can't disagree with him there. She hears so many rumors about her friends and family on a daily basis that it was hard to keep track of what was real. "Why do you want to get your own place now?"

"Because I don't want to live with my parents anymore," Serena says. "I want to be independent and all the things you're supposed to be after high school."

"And you think asking your dad to buy you a house is going to make you independent?" Dan asked almost laughing at her and Serena frowned.

"I just need a start and I can work from there," Serena says frowning, he always laughs at her when she's trying to be serious.

"Serena let's wait until both of us are working and we can do things by ourselves," Dan said and Serena lets out a slow breath, she knows this is the end of the conversation. "It will feel much better trust me."

"What do you know about Chuck Bass?" Serena asked suddenly, she was playing with the teddy she bought Dan for Valentine's Day that always sat on his bed.

"Urm real estate heir, he took over his father's business, why?" Dan asked.

"Because he and his best friend are moving into my building and everyone's talking about it," she said. "I felt out of the loop not knowing who he was."

"He's a douche," Dan says, furrowing his eyebrows at his book.

"How do you know, you've never met the guy," Serena says. "Maybe he's sweet."

"He grew up in a life of luxury, he never had to do anything in his life and now he's one of the youngest and most successful people in the business world," Dan said turning to her. "He's obviously a douche."

"Presumptuous much," Serena said raising an eyebrow disapprovingly and Dan shrugged his shoulders turning back to his books.

"I'm speaking from experience," Dan said and Serena scoffed.

"You think this guy's a douche because Jeremy Miller made your life hell in high school and now he's running his dads company and skipping college," Serena said rolling her eyes, she hated when Dan got judgmental of people he didn't even know. "Not everyone's like him."

"Trust me, you and Erik are unaffected by everything, the others are controlled by money and they think that those that don't have money belong in the dumps," Dan said and Serena fought the urge to roll her eyes again.

"You're wrong, you know, there are people that come from money who aren't douches to those who don't," Serena said, she knows she isn't the only person who looks down on those less fortunate than her but getting her boyfriend to believe that is a mission. She usually doesn't let the conversation get this far, she cuts him off or lets him rant and then changes the topic to homework or the next big exam he has to help her study for.

"Maybe," Dan mumbles going back to his books and Serena fingers her necklace again. She can't remember where she got it from but she knows that she could stare at those blue diamonds forever, there was something about them that just kept her enchanted, the color was different from anything she has in her collection of jewelry and she loved it. The necklace she has the pendent on, sits low on her chest so it's usually not seen by her family and friends when she does wear it. Dan's asked her where she got it from before but she gave him some story about her grandmother buying it for one of her birthdays and he didn't ask about it again, her parents and brother never questioned the jewelry that she wore but her grandmother had a knowing look that made Serena frown although she never asked what the older woman knew about it.

Both Serena and Dan's phones start beeping at the same time and Serena raises an eyebrow at Dan as he turns to her with an equally questioning look on his face. They hadn't heard their phones beep together like that since Gossip Girl sent out her last blast the day they graduated from high school, Serena checks her phone quickly and lets out a huge sigh of relief. "It's my dad," she says and Dan chuckles from his place at his desk.

"Jenny," he said turning his phone to her and then back to him. "I wonder what they want."

"My dad just wants to talk to me, urgently," Serena says throwing her phone back into her bag, her dad could wait, she was spending quality time with her boyfriend no matter how awkward it got in the last five minutes. "I'll see him at home later."

"I think you may want to go and talk to him now," Dan said and Serena got up to see what he just pulled up on his laptop. "Jenny told me to check Gossip Girl and guess what, you're on it."

"Really?" Serena asked. "I wonder why we didn't get the blasts straight to our phones."

"I think that's the least of our worries," Dan said turning his laptop to her and Serena looked at the blast.

"Hey bitches, I'm back and just in time it seems for … wedding bells! Yes you read right, our golden girl S is getting ready to tie the knot and rumor has it California perfect Nathaniel Archibald is her husband to be, we didn't even know they knew each other.
I wonder what Lonely Boy has to say about this, last I heard he and S were still shacking up
If you don't trust me I'd suggest looking at tomorrow's paper for confirmation from Papa van der Woodsen, my source tells me it's going to be on the front page. This is one love triangle I would love to see play out, watch this space
You know you love me xoxo Gossip Girl"

"Is this why you brought up marriage?" Dan asked Serena who was staring open-mouthed at the screen.

"I had no idea," she whispered.


A/N : hey guys I'm back with a completely AU story, you'll figure it out as you go along but I dont want to spoil even the little things so I'm going to let you read and review and guess and enjoy please

I know I said that I was going to counter everythign thats in this show this season but I think that the DS wedding is fake and NS are having really sweet scenes so far so I'm just holding onto alot of hope, if something i find the insperation I think i'm going to do a 1-shot series about the moments missed on the show but they've actually been making use of Nate with regards to Serena so there isnt actually that much for me to write if I do

After the finale I will be doing a full length story hopefully lol whichever way it goes I will definately want to wrote on it :D

So I hope you guys are enjoying how much Nate and Serena are sticking up for each other this season and how absolutely perfect they are together and I hope you guys enjoyed chapter one of this ridiculous idea of mine that I think is alot of fun. I was reading Glee fanfics and at one point there were like five story's with the same idea so I thought why not do it with NS since it was never done before, of course its going to be completely different from Glee it's just the general idea that I liked :D

I'll release chapter 2 as soon as I can but I'm going to write pretty far ahead before I post again I dont want to hit writers block or lose sight of the point of this story so please review and let me know what you think about this and about the final season of GG, I never thought I'd get so enotional about a series but I am going to cry like a baby when it ends lol

I do not own Gossip Girl and I found the cover pic randomly through Google on tumblr so if its yours and you have a problem with me using it please let me know

Until next time (^^,)