"Jenny?" He repeated as if I wasn't really in front of him. I pinched him so he was know I was there.

"Hi, Nate." I told him.

"I thought you were in school in London." He remarked.

"I came home for the weekend." I replied. I was getting a little tired of explaining this to be honest. "I had to after what my brother did."

"Yeah, Dan is Gossip Girl, but I guess you knew that." He stated.

"Well, Gossip Girl is a title that is more fitting of me." I explained. He looked confused, even though he looks like that kind of often. 'It was too big for one person to handle. Though, I wanted out and he let me out. I just didn't think that he would go and say that he did it all by himself. Anyway, how are you?"

"Well I may finally be out of debt." Nate replied. "I also have a 17-year-old girlfriend."

"Is that even legal?" I asked.

"Yes, she checked." He replied quickly. He noticed me smirking. "What?"

"I'm just intrigued by the fact that you're dating a girl 4 years younger than you when one that was 2 years younger was off-limits." I replied.

"You know that there was a lot more to it than that." He reminded me. That time was not one of my proudest moments. I really wasn't just doing it for me. I didn't hate Serena. I just wanted to get her and Dan back together. It kind of sucked that Nate had a new girlfriend, but I guess him accepting me back was just a pipe dream.

"So were you doing here anyway?" I asked curiously.

"Well now that I have a story and my paper probably isn't going under, I wanted to interview Blair about her successful launch." He told me.

"Isn't interviewing your friends considered unethical?" I questioned.

"Well I can worry more about ethics when I get off the ground." He replied.

"Maybe you could interview me sometime then." I suggested. "I need to get going. I am eating dinner with my family."

"I'll give you a ride." He offered. I guess he was still the white night.

"What about Blair?" I asked.

"I should probably give her a call." He remarked. "Stopping by unannounced may not be the best way to do this. I don't even know if Blair wants to do an interview."

We got into his limo and it began to move as I wondered what I was going to say to him.

"So what's your girlfriend like?" I inquired.

"Well she is interesting with a free-spirited personality." Nate explained. "Not long after we got together, I thought she was cheating on me with a guy who turned out to be her father."

I could only laugh at that.

"Serena put the idea in my head. She happened to dating said father." He explicated. "At least I did not call her a slut to her father's face like she did."

"Well I see that Serena is still pretty much the same." I remarked. "I'm glad that she and Dan are back together."

I then noticed that the limo had stopped. I guess we were at the loft.

"Looks like this is where I get off." I declared. "Maybe I'll see you again before I go back to London."

"I hope so." Nate admitted. Well it was good to know that I got under his skin.

I went inside of the loft and used my key to enter. It seemed that I got there right on time. Dad was just serving up the chili. You know this was going to be the first family dinner consisting solely of our immediate family in 5 years. I was happy about it. I mean I did like Lilly, but I didn't want anyone to replace my mom.

"So, Mom, are you still dating Jerome?" I asked.

"Jerome?" Dad questioned.

"He was a former football player, but not Jerome Bettis." Mom explained. "Anyway, no he and I broke up. We were just too different."

"Well dad has his share of relationship horror stories." Dan remarked. "I managed to find him on the couch with a con artist."

"I don't think that we need to talk about that." Dad declared. I wanted to know more about this since it was the first I was hearing about it.

"Come on, Dad. It's over so we can laugh about it." Dan proposed. "I mean it's perfectly normal for you to date a 22-year-old."

"Okay, laugh it up." Dad replied. "At least I wasn't pretending to be a girl online."

I had a feeling that people were going to make fun of him for years to come for that. He had to know that would happen when he let it out.

"Hey, there are people that do that do a lot worse than me." Dan replied. "Have you ever heard of catfishing?"

"No." Mom replied.

"It's basically when someone goes on online dating sites or Facebook pretending to be someone else. It's a really cruel practice." I explained.

The rest of the dinner was nice. I really liked it.

"Well I should really be going." Mom remarked before she went out the door. Dad was just standing there.

"Go offer to walk her to her car." I instructed him. He can't have lost all of his game, can he? He went outside and did just that.

"So I should probably get going too." Dan announced. "I happen to have my own place, now."

"I'll come by tomorrow to check it out." I promised.

A little while later, Dad returned and Dan had left.

"So I guess it's just going to be us for the night." He announced.

"Yeah." I agreed as I looked around the loft. It hadn't changed much. "So, I didn't sign up for housing in the spring. I was hoping that I could stay here. That is assuming that we're not all dead because the world ends of course."

"I'm pretty sure that's not what the Mayans were talking about." Dad pointed out. "Anyway, I'd be glad to have you back here and I hope that everything works out for you."

"I do too." I replied. "So did you get Mom's number?"

"Jenny, I know what you're trying to do and I don't think it's a good idea." He proclaimed.

"Come on, Dad, you and Lilly have been broken up for a while." I told him. "I think you and Mom should give it another shot. I mean who else are you going to date? Lisa Loeb?"

"I haven't even seen her in years." Dad responded. "I don't know why anyone would think that I would date her."

"Good night Dad." I told him.

"Good night, Jen." He replied.

In the morning, I woke up and made my way to Dan's place. I hoped that I wouldn't be too early. It turned out that I wasn't the only person arriving at the time that I did.

"H…hi Serena." I stammered.

"Dan told me that you were back." She declared. "I also happened to read your post before the site shut down last night. It's good to see you?"

"Really?" I asked in surprise.

"Yeah." Serena responded. "How's Eric?"

"He's good. I haven't talked to him in a few days." I answered. "I actually didn't tell him I was coming. Maybe I should have and I could have brought him with me. He wants to stay in school there, but I want to come back."

Okay, I need to watch my motor mouth. At that time, Dan's door opened up.

"So it seems that my two favorite girls in the world are here." Dan commented. "Please both of you come inside. Would either of you like anything to drink?"

"No, I think I'm good." I replied. Things were still kind of uncomfortable around Serena. I was glad that she didn't hate me.

"So what do you know about this girl that Nate's dating?" I asked.

"Please don't tell me that you're still hooked on him." Serena remarked.

"I just know that Nate has been burned by girls in the past and I want to know more about her." I told them. "I don't want him to get his heart broken. I care about him. He told me that you were going out with her father before. What does he think about them?"

"Well he doesn't like the idea of his daughter dating an older guy." Serena replied. "She's the queen bee of Constance. She also tried to ruin Blair's launch, but that plan backfired and Blair ended up enlisting her to help take down Bart."

"Chuck and Blair didn't kill him, did they?" I asked.

"No, but he tried to kill Chuck, twice." Dan explained. "He ran at Chuck and fell off the top of the building."

"It seems like I missed a lot." I declared. I then looked to Serena. "So I have to design a dress that Blair will like. Can you help me with that?"

In the next chapter, Jenny is going to meet Sage and also Chuck will appear. Plus there was a good old-fashioned Humphrey family dinner. Please don't forget to review.