Who really wants to know my secret?

Serena was bored. She wanted to get out, and party. She wanted to do something she'd regret in the morning. She was sitting in some bar, alone, and even though numerous guys had tried hitting on her, none of them were actually worthy of her attention. After everything, Colin, Nate, Dan and Ben, Serena was happy for Blair but she at the same time was jealous of her love for Damon. She would always get bored and find herself another guy. Her feeling of being abandoned by her father maybe could explain how afraid she was of letting herself go and fall head over heels by someone.

A light brown haired guy sat down next to her at the bar and interrupted her thoughts.

"The Red Snapper excellent choice"

" I think it is a Bloody Mary with an inferiority complex"

"Fair enough. So drinking alone are we?"

Serena smiled at the boy. "Yes. Company is overrated." She was curious why this stranger had come over, but welcomed his presence. She ordered another drink, maybe tonight would turn out better than she had hoped.

"You've made it pretty clear you are out of my league. What do you have to lose by talking to me"

"I prefer to not encourage this type of behavior"

" I will tell you what, a drink one question. Tell me why you are drinking alone and I will tell you whatever you want to know"

" I thought I could start over, but it turns out college is high school with more expensive books. There's no starting over, you just keep making the same mistakes over and over. No matter where I go and what I do, my past seems to catch up with me" Serena is surprised how she is spilling her guts to this green eyed stranger.

"So what about you, why are you flirting with a stranger at a bar?" she asks.

"Because I stopped apologizing for my past a long time ago. I decided that for what it is worth you control your own destiny. I do what I feel like doing and just live by my instincts".

"Does that really work? Does that make you happy?"

"It does. By the way my name is Stefan"

"Serena Van der Woodsen." she told him. "I take it you're new to the city?" she asked. If he was trying to get to know people and didn't know who she was, then it meant that he probably was from somewhere outside of New York. "Shall I show you around?"

"Would you rather go out with a guy you don't know?"

"You can't be worse than the ones I do know"