This takes place a little after Serena returns from boarding school. It's really short. But it's all I have the energy to do, and it sort of just came out like this anyway. Thanks for reading and to warn you - it's rather angsty.
The planets bend between us...
She is the last person he ever thought would come by. The last person he expected and the last he wanted. He hasn't been very fair to her, what with his volatile, varying emotions toward her and her best friend. He now realises that it's Blair he loves. Passionately so. Serena was just a... prelude to the real thing.
Or so he shouts to himself, especially loudly when he opens the door and finds her there. It's amazing how he's lost the ability to tell when she is hurt. He used to be able to. Now he can't even tell when she's been crying, and she has mascara tracks the length of the Nile.
"Hey."
She greets back, voice a little rougher than usual. "Hey," she looks uncertainly up at him, "can I come in?"
He wordlessly lets her in, door pushed further back, and the girl quietly enters the dark abode.
He waits for her to speak. And he uncomfortably notes her doing the same.
Nate is confused. Why did she come, if not to tell him something?
She sighs after the muted silence drags to awkward pregnant pause. She expects the same Nate, the one that was in love with her, or the one that at least used to care for her. The Nate that used to be one of her best friends.
"God, forget it. You really have changed."
And with that, she leaves him, door, still ajar.
He doesn't get her, and yet, he has to remind himself, it's only because he loves Blair.
