I'm bad at intros but this is basically a story about the failed marriage that is Derena and will eventually morph into Serenate. This is my first fanfic so please bear with me.
Prologue
Only 6 months after she walks down the large staircase in her best friends beautiful condo in a long, flowing gold dress, she calls her crying hysterically. Blair can't even make out what she's saying, but before 30 seconds has passed, she's stormed out of her atelier, and is on her way to her best friends Park avenue apartment. At first, she doesn't believe her, that someone like Dan could be so harsh, so cruel, and could hurt someone that he vowed to love so much, and it saddened Blair beyond words, nobody knew how painful it was for her to see Serena so hurt. So in that exact moment, the girls packed Louis Vuttions full of clothes and fletted, Serena would never even step near the apartment ever again. That was the day Serena moved into Blairs, and it was also the last day she saw Dan, or even spoke to him. The next couple months were a whirlwind of tears, communicating through lawyers, and serious thoughts of running away. 16 of them to be exact, and every car ride to the airport, or even the multiple rides back up into the country were ruined by someone calling her in tears. So here we were, only a year after she said I do, Serena was 27, single, childless, everything she thought she wouldn't be at that age, but yet she's something she'd never imagined she'd ever be. For once, she's happy. She's happy to drink her coffee with Blair every morning, she's happy to go to interviews and host parties and do other socialite things, she's happy to pick up Henry everyday from St. Jude's elementary school and walk him to central park or to Serendipity, she enjoys her life truly. Nobody really knows what happened in those 6 months, what Dan did to her, why she was hurt so bad, not even Blair. Yet, nobody dares to ask her, there's something about her that feels new, that feels fresh. Legs look longer, tan looks darker, hair looks fuller, blonder. She's a new Serena, and everyone loves it.