A month has passed; the summer has passed so quickly when you're having fun right? True because for Serena and the girls, they have never experience life without stress likes this before. Usually for them, it's the spa.
Now, they are walking to their regular breakfast front desk. It's what they usually do now and it's not a big deal anymore to wake up early in the morning for breakfast and not having breakfast on the run.
As they're passing the parking lot, Serena was amazed by the Audi TT that's parked beside Dan's car. "Look, a new hotel guest?" she says pointing at the car "we're not going that special anymore..."she says walking into the kitchen front desk "morning, Samantha!" she can't lie, normally Dan will be the one waiting for the girls for breakfast but today is Sam.
"Where's Dan?" Blair ask, feeling a little weird not having Dan around in the morning and Sam just shakes her head and point to the garden "who's that?"
"His girlfriend or ex-girlfriend..." she says "I don't even know their status anymore!"
Serena felt a jolt in her body, she really does. She never even asks Dan if he has a girlfriend but she shouldn't care so much, they're friends. She watches as Dan and the beautiful brunette girl talking outside, it doesn't look friendly and it doesn't look bad either so she have nothing to comment on that. She looks at the girl, walking in now. She's crying.
"Are you okay?" Sam asks handing her a piece of tissue but she shakes her head sadly, still crying.
"All I wanted is for us to go back together!" she finally said it "but Dan make it difficult for us!" and pointing at Dan outside the garden and he actually leave the hotel premise to go for a walk.
"I'm going for my normal jog okay?" Serena says to Blair and Blair knows what Serena wants to do.
20 minutes later...
The truth is, Serena wants to know if Dan is alright. Serena doesn't know what to do when she see him but part of her wants to know if he is alright. He can see Dan sitting on the big rock near the light house.
"Hey?" Serena says not wanting to surprise him and smile "I just want to check if you're okay?"
"I'm good, thanks!" he says with a sad smile "you want to sit?" and Serena nodded.
"You're having a tough time with your girlfriend?" she ask but Dan laugh at her "okay, what?"
"She's not my girlfriend anymore." He says "she cheated on me a few weeks ago..." he adds "actually it has been two months!" he corrected his own statement.
"So, why are you sad?"
"I'm not sad, I'm just angry at myself..."
"You are?" she try to understand everything "you know when my ex boyfriend and I, parted ways it was hard but time will heal Dan." She says smiling "it really help!"
"Yeah!" he says now looking directly into Serena's eyes "I have to go back Yale tomorrow!" he says trying to look elsewhere "I was..."
"I was...?"
"Wondering if you wanna go out with me tonight?" he ask "if it's okay?"
"I'll love to but what about that girl?" she ask. She need to ask because she don't want anything come in between.
"She's leaving, she has a paper to do today..." he says.
"She's from Yale too?"
"Yale law school."
"Oh!" she smiles, just great. That girl is a lawyer and she is just an architect.
"Hey..." Dan wanted to say something "thanks!"
"Don't thank me yet?" she says "this date, I don't want egg and cheese!" she says laughing.
"It's a date?" he teased her and Serena splash some water to Dan "ohhhh... no... you don't!" he says trying to catch Serena as she is running from him now.
"A date is when two people go out, silly!" she says running away from Dan while laughing.
When none of them cares about anything around them, Dan ex girlfriend is looking at them from a far from the Vista's balcony. She knows that it is her fault for cheating on Dan but she didn't mean to do such a thing to him, she was drunk and Dan was too busy with his papers but that's that.
"I'm staying for the night!" she says to Sam who is approaching her "I just need to do my paper and come back, okay?" with that, she leaves and kiss Sam goodbye.
Samantha and the girls saw the anger in Amber's face when she saw Dan and Serena walking by the beach "we're in for some trouble!" Blair says to everyone while looking at Dan and Serena.
Room
"What are you doing?" Blair ask Serena, honestly speaking because they only have couple of weeks left before heading back to New York City "you're not supposed to meet anyone and go for a date Serena!" she says "this is not part of the plan." She adds now standing in front of Serena.
"It's just a date, okay Blair!" she says with a smile "it's not going to change anything." She adds.
"Of course it will..." Vanessa interrupted the conversation "you already liking him, what's next? Move to New Haven with him? Or Rockport?" she says "you're one of the top earning architect we have Serena!"
Dan Humphrey was so nervous that he make sure that he will knock on Serena's door 5 minutes before the actually date time. He's not good with girls, especially girls like Serena who is a city girl. He approach Serena's room and overhear the girls talking about him, at first he smiles but after that, his smiles fades.
"I'm just going to have fun with him for a couple of weeks so what?" Serena says jokingly "it's not like this thing..." she stops "with Dan will last me that long... I have a career in the city!" she adds and smiles. Something is not right, her stomach is giving her butterflies for no reason.
An hour later...
"Isn't Dan supposed to be here like..." Blair looking at the clock on the wall "an hour ago?" he says with a smirk.
"Something is not right!" Serena says, with that she opens the room door and saw a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolate on the floor "maybe it is better this way, good luck in New York-Dan." She read the card and felt guilty for saying all the things she said earlier in the room. She had no reason for saying that but she knows she said it just to pleased her friends.
"Is that from Dan?" Blair says feeling sorry for Serena and she just nodded.
There's a knock on the door, and guess who is that? It's Amber, Dan's ex girlfriend.
"I just came back drinking with Dan!" she says without even saying hi to everyone "I get it now..." she adds "Dan's ex brother in law left their family for the city, robbed all their assets and money and leave..." she says "and he is an architect, just like you!" she says and with that, she leaves.
"Oh, and if you want to meet Dan? He left for New Haven!" she adds.
Why must Dan do this to her? She don't need this in her life now. She just doesn't need a relationship now since she just broke up with her ex boyfriend but she knows with Dan it is different, she felt strongly about him. He is a good guy.
"How many more weeks do we have before the city?" she ask nearly crying but she have to hold it together and Blair shows a sign "let's leave tomorrow!" she says, and start packing.
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Can destiny bring Dan closer to the city? or can faith bring Serena closer to Dan?