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Disclaimer: If I owned Gossip Girl, would I be here?

Serena paused outside the red door and looked through the glass window. Sure enough, Dan was inside, at a small table by himself. She almost didn't want to go in, but she was already there so she pushed on the door and walked inside the coffee shop.
Dan saw her immediately and nodded, noticing her presence and gesturing to the seat in front of him. Cautiously, Serena walked towards him, wondering how he changed his mood so quickly.
"Hey Dan."
"Hi Serena, you showed up." He smiled, enjoying that fact.
"Was I not supposed to?"
"No-No, look, I've been doing some thinking and I asked you to come here because we obviously have some issues going on at the moment."
Serena nodded and looked at him intently, waiting for him to continue.
"And-I suck at this- but I just really want to sort it all out. I don't want it to turn into another one of those situations that make us ignore each other and our friends take sides."
Serena just gawked at him, not sure if he was joking or not. His eyes just looked back at her and didn't show any signs of dishonesty. She couldn't ignore the feeling of guilt that hit her once she realized Dan was trying to forgive her and looked down at the table.
"So, I have an idea."
She looked up at him with curiosity, "What?"
He reached in his pocket and pulled out a brochure with two plane tickets tucked within, holding it out for her.
Briefly glancing at the bundle, she saw the words 'Writers convention' at the top and looked at him with confusion.
"What's this?"
"Optional." he smirked at her expression and continued, "It's a writers convention in San Francisco, and its 3 weeks long. They invited me and the plane leaves in 2 days."
"But what does this have to do with me?"
"I'm inviting you. There are 2 tickets. We can leave for 3 weeks, sort all this out and see where we stand in our relationship because in case you haven't realized it, said relationship isn't very stable at the moment." He paused, lowering his voice. "And I don't want to lose you, whether it's as my friend or my girlfriend, despite all that's happened." He looked up at her, finished with his rant.
"But I can't leave" She said almost apologetically after a few moments of silence, "Nate's in the hospital, I can't just leave him."
"Well, he has Blair, and Chuck and his mother. He won't be completely alone." He said defensively.
He looked at her, waiting for her to say something and he forced himself not to look away when she didn't say anything in return, only looked at him with wide eyes.
He sighed and looked down for a moment. "Look, why don't you think about it for a day and get back to me with your decision sometime tomorrow." He forced a brief smile to cross his face, "You know where to find me."
Dan picked up his jacket with the brochure and one of the plane tickets, leaving the other for Serena.
"I'll see you around." He said quietly before walking out of the coffee shop.
Serena stared at the ticket on the table, and where there should have been a million emotions and thoughts, there was nothing. Instead, her head was numbingly blank, struggling to force her body to get up and walk out of the coffee shop, ticket in hand.
She made herself reach forward at some point, picking up the piece of paper and getting up carefully to go outside.
Someone tapped her shoulder, making her jump. Serena frowned internally, unaware that she was so tense, but turned around anyways and saw the woman from the counter giving her the purse that she must have left behind on the table. Serena thanked her and tried to make it look like she wasn't running away from the shop when all she wanted to do was rush back home as soon as possible.
Sorry about the slightly shorter chapter but I didn't want to fluff it up too much. But I want to know, do you guys want Serena to go with Dan or Nate? It's not going to directly affect the story since I already know how the story will end, it's just a question.
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-Sammy6618