Chapter 4: Humphrey Intervenes: For Better, or for Worse?

Gossip Girl Here: Your one and only source into the scandalous life of Manhattan's elite. SPOTTED: D entering V's apartment, looking nervous. What is he doing there, you ask? Perhaps stopping V from ruining his wedding? Has V's jealousy over loosing her best friend and ex-boyfriend finally breaking through? Everyone wants to know…You know you love me!

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----------Vanessa's Apartment: Wednesday (July 5th) Morning----------

"Hey Dan!" said Vanessa brightly, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be with Serena choosing rings? Blair said yesterday that you were all doing that today."

"Serena and I are heading out later today, she wanted to sleep in," he explained.

"Oh, okay. So, what's up?" she asked, looking confused.

"Well," said Dan slowly. He wasn't sure how to begin, and took a minute to marshal his thoughts. "I was just wondering if you were okay, I guess."

"Why wouldn't I be okay?" asked Vanessa, looking more confused than ever.

"Because…" he paused, very much not wanting to say the thing he was about to say. He had no idea how she would react. "I noticed that you were completely ignoring Jenny and Nate yesterday at the tasting, and I was wondering if you were really okay with them getting married." He said all of this very quickly, as if saying it fast would make it less hurtful or less embarrassing.

Vanessa stiffened. "I was not ignoring them!" she almost shouted. Then she continued in a cold, but thankfully calmer voice, "You must have been imagining things."

Dan was reluctant to go on when Vanessa was already so angry, but he had to, Nate was his friend, and Jenny was his little sister. If this was upsetting them than he needed to get to the bottom of it. "I wasn't the only one who noticed it. Serena, Nate and Jenny both did too. Jenny was almost crying when you ignored her so openly. She thinks you hate her. I'm really worried about you, and her, and so is Nate. He was actually the one who asked me to talk to you, because he was worried about Jenny and how upset she was."

Dan had been hoping to make Vanessa feel bad about upsetting Jenny, and it worked to an extent, Vanessa instantly felt guilty. But, what Dan couldn't have known was that the way he got the message across made Vanessa so angry that the guilt was completely overshadowed.

"He's was so worried about her!" Vanessa screamed indignantly. "You were so worried about her! Why should you be worried about her?!?!? I am the one who doesn't get to marry the person that I love. I am the one whose best friend turned on them! I am the one who is being forced into a wedding to watch all of her dreams walk down the isle to marry another girl, and yet you people are worried about her!!! You have a lot of nerve Daniel Humphrey, a lot of nerve to show up here and accuse me!"

"VANESSA!" Dan shouted, just trying to get her to shut up. "None of us knew that you felt this way, you always seemed okay with Jenny and Nate together, I mean they've been dating for two years. Couldn't you have said any of this then?"

He turned to leave, only to hear Vanessa collapse into sobs.

"I'm sorry!" she sobbed, "I'm sorry! I know I'm being a bitch. I just…I just don't know how I'm feeling right now!"

"It's okay," he said, coming over to help her up, "So, what are you going to do?"

"I need to talk to Jenny…explain."

"Are you still going to be a bridesmaid?"

"I don't know…"

"Come on…let's go," he said as he started to help her towards the door.

"What? Where are we going?" she asked, looking around confused.

"Back to my house. We can wait for Jenny there."

"But aren't you and Serena supposed to buy rings?"

"We'll leave when they arrive."

"Okay."

Dan supported her out of the apartment, down the stairs, and into the waiting cab, hoping against hope that Vanessa and Jenny wouldn't kill each other.