First of all I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to update this story. College has really gotten in the way of me writing but I know it's not an excuse. I hope you enjoy it and it hasn't been Betaed so I hope the spelling isn't too bad.


Chapter 8


Serena body shook when she heard those words come out of her mother's mouth. In her life, she had never heard that tone come out of Lily's mouth. She knew it was because she was just overly worried and probably exhausted, but it still scared her. She immediately looked at Dan, who had the same worried look on his face. This made her freak out a little more. As soon as Dan snapped out of it and realized how much his emotions were affecting his girlfriend, he immediately straightened up and grabbed her hand letting her know that he wasn't about to leave her.

They heard the turn of the doorknob not two seconds later. Dan immediately stood up making sure that Serena was behind him. If Lily wanted to do anything to her and their baby, he was going to have to go through him first.

Lily's eyes were filled with worry and anger as she looked in and saw her daughter and her boyfriend in the bathroom. Serena was leaned up against Blair Waldorf's marble bathtub while Dan was standing between her and her daughter.

"Serena we need to talk right now," Lily said through her teeth, then she looked at Dan and added, "…alone."

All Serena could do was shake her head no, being alone with her mother was the last thing she wanted right now. She needed protection from what Lily might do, especially if she had found out about the baby.

"Daniel will you please give us a minute?" Lily asked more politely but still had a tent of anger/worry in her voice.

Dan looked down at Serena who immediately violently shook her head no and moved her hand to the tile next to her, asking him to please sit down. He went against what his mind was screaming at him and sat down. Truth be told, Lily scared him when she was like this but this was not about Lily it was about Serena and he knew she would never forgive him if she left.

"I'm not leaving her. Whatever you have to say you can say it to both of us." Dan said in a strong voice. A voice that he couldn't believe was coming out of his mouth, there was no mention of the anxiety he was feeling.

"Daniel you have nothing to do with this! It is between my daughter and me!" Lily said a little more aggravated.

Dan stood up and said, "Actually I do…" but stopped midsentence when he felt Serena reached up and grabbed his arm telling him to zip it.

"What were you going to say?" Lily demanded.

"Mom! Stop it! Stop attacking him! He did nothing wrong! If anything he helped me calm down and see the bright side of this whole situation!" It was like something inside Serena snapped and she let out of the emotions that she'd been feeling since her mother bolted in. She knew they could probably hear her yelling down stares but that was the least of her worries at the moment.

"Stop it! Serena do you have any idea what it felt like to wake up and have you gone? Do you!!!!!!!!" she yelled right back.

"No but how do you think I felt when I woke up? You don't have any clue what it felt like waking up feeling like you're whole world was closing in around! I was scared and needed somewhere familiar, so I came here. I was I suppose to guess that you'd go completely ballistic on me I thought you'd realize where I would be!"

"Well excuse me for not reading your mind! Serena seriously sometimes you don't use that beautiful head of yours." Lily snapped back, but it was a revelation for Serena, she could now see that the anger in her mother's eyes were completely gone all that filled them now were apprehensiveness and concern.

Seeing this something snapped in Serena and even though she knew she should probably stop yelling at her mother but there was still so many emotions bottled up that needed release.

"Why do you even care!?! You do one motherly action and you automatically expect Mother of the Year! I'm sorry but it don't work that way!" Serena snapped looking down trying to ignore the feeling of being nauseous.

Serena expected to hear something out of Lily's mouth, but when she looked up Lily was speechless. Serena immediately regretted saying what had just slipped out of her mouth.

"Fine Serena you win. Stay here as long as you'd like. Sue me for worrying about my daughter" Lily snapped then turned away.

Again something inside Serena snapped and the tears began to flow down her already chapped cheeks.

"Mom wait!" Serena shot after her, ignoring the slight pain that began creeping up in her stomach. "Mom I need you! This baby needs you." She whispered the last part but Lily heard her.

She immediately turned around, eyes shooting to meet her daughter's eyes. "You're what?!"