Lonely Boy
So when Serena got home she rushed into the last place she'd left herself, which was, as far as she knew, Dan Humphrey's arms.
They both really wanted it to be easy. He still adored her, and she still adored him for adoring her…and it just should have been easy.
But it wasn't. Their third attempt at being with one another only proved the reasons behind their prior breakups. They still had all the same issues, and they only gained more significant ones as they tried to ignore the smaller things. Their parents fell in love – and she guessed that they could have made it work if they really wanted and needed each other badly enough, weird as it may have been, but neither of them put quite enough effort in, and that had to mean something. And then Dan did the strangest, most out-of-character thing by having sex with her teacher, of all people, and she knew that was the very end of things. They'd been entirely messed up. If there was any sort of relationship left to salvage, it wasn't a romantic one.
She knew she'd been hanging on to him. It was just hard to let go of so much and not have anything to show for it.