The weekend after she first met Bree they went to Hamptons like she begged them, what she didn't realize was that it was like the calm before the storm because Serena had Nate all to herself and she would be lying if she said she didn't enjoy being with him without any distractions. It even felt like double dating when Erik skipped some of their dinners and it was just the four of them, the NJBC.

She got a taste of what it would be like to actually date Nate and she wanted more, she craved it because it was literally more addicting than any drug she'd ever had. He was the perfect gentleman, he pulled her chair out for her when they went out, paid for her things when they went to the movies, he'd pay for Erik as well, letting Chuck sort himself and Blair out, since it was the beginning of Autumn the air at night had a little bite to it, Nate's jacket would be around her before she even felt it, she loved wearing his clothes because it smelt like him. Those three days were just filled with Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate.

At some points during their weekend Serena felt as if Nate could actually like her back as more than a friend. He was the only one who enjoyed walking on the beach with her and sometimes she thought she saw him looking at her, most of the time she'd be on his back or they'd be playing some game where he'd chase her and they'd both tumble onto the sand in a fit of giggles but she felt his eyes on her when she walked and she smiled because maybe something could happen.

But what made her suspect that his feelings may have changed the most was his kisses. Up until that weekend she was used to getting these little pecks on her head or her cheek or sometimes even on her hand, it had always been that way for her and Nate ever since they were younger and Blair made them watch a movie where the prince kissed the princess' hand, it started as a joke, Nate would tease the prince and Serena would pretend to be the princess and then it just stuck. During that weekend though, when he said goodnight his lips would linger on her forehead longer than it should and when they went out to dinner while Blair and Chuck were having a make-out session Nate would take her hand and bow and kiss it, keeping it pressed to his lips until he pulled her close to him. Serena would give him questioning looks because she knew he knew what he was doing but Nate would just smile and shrug.

"I saw that," Erik said while they were packing to go back home and Serena jumped turning to her brother with wide eye's wondering what she'd been caught doing.

"What?" she asked thinking back. "I didn't do anything."

Erik laughed, "It's not something you did, I saw you and Nate," Erik said and Serena frowned.

"What did you see?" she asked crossing her arms and tilting her head.

"Serena it's obvious he loves you like you love him," Erik said and Serena shushed him, she didn't want anyone to hear that. "Just tell him and get together already before Dan think's you're going to get more serious or Bree sinks her teeth into him."

"You know I can't do that Erik," Serena said shaking her head at her brother and Erik frowned.

"Because you don't want to ruin the friendship, yes I get it," he said rolling his eyes. "You'll never know if you don't try."

"Hey, ready to go?" Nate asked popping his head through the door and Serena jumped staring at him with wide eyes like she'd just been caught doing something wrong. "Everything ok?"

"Yeah, we're fine, we'll be out now," Erik said smiling at Nate and then turning to Serena and lifting his eyebrows before turning and leaving the room.

Serena took a deep breath to calm herself then she shook her head because her brother wasn't going to get to her. She knew how Nate felt and it wasn't what she wanted. She would deal with whatever came to her and she'd be fine because she knew how to act around Nate and his girlfriends, she'd been dealing with it for too long to let herself slip up now but that weekend changed something, she wasn't sure what it was but her relationship with Nate wouldn't be the same again.

In the coming weeks Serena would wish that she'd listened to her brother because she had to watch as Nate and Bree got close, the redhead started sticking onto Nate, she'd meet him in the mornings and find him during their breaks and she'd be at every practice afterschool. Serena hated it, she hated that Nate's attention was being diverted from her to this girl and she was jealous that the redhead seemed to have won over Chuck and Blair as well. She couldn't quite figure out why but there was something about Bree that she didn't trust, she promised Erik that she wouldn't interfere unless it was a life and death situation and she would never break any promise to her little brother.

That wasn't the only thing that had changed though, Chuck and Blair were acting weirder than normal. They made plans to meet up at the Palace bar but they didn't show up which left only Nate and Serena, they didn't mind being alone together especially since Bree Serena loved any alone time with Nate but whatever was going on with their best friends it was starting to worry them, that was the fourth time that Chuck and Blair stood them up in a row. Serena wondered about it but decided to only bring up her worries the next day when she was sprawled on Nate's bed as he dug through his cupboard.

"Do you think they're having problems?" Serena asked fluffing the pillow up and putting her head back on it.

"I don't think they are," Nate said and Serena nodded, she wasn't paying that much attention to him, her eyes were closed and she was lazily toying with the frill on the edge of one of the pillows his mother put in the room. "Chuck would have said something if they were and I'm sure Blair would have as well."

"Maybe," Serena said she didn't seem to believe him.

"Besides its Chuck and Blair, you know they like their games, they probably just forgot," Nate said sitting on the bed.

"Four times?" Serena asked. "And they forgot to call, they avoided our questions when we asked too."

"I don't think they are having problems, I think it's Chuck and Blair being Chuck and Blair," Nate said leaning down to kiss her head. "Now I've got to go, I'll see you tomorrow."

Serena's eye's snapped open and she sat up and stared at Nate. "Wait go where?" she asked only then did she notice he was wearing a tie, he never wears a tie.

"I have a date with Bree tonight," Nate said wiggling his eyebrows at her. "At that restaurant Blair took us to a few weeks ago."

"Ah the time's they loved us and kept to our plans," Serena said in a mock-dreamy voice, then she frowned at Nate. "You hated that place, didn't you say it was overpriced and the food tasted like cardboard?"

"I did," Nate said with an amused smile as he adjusted his tie. "But that's where Bree wants to go, it's the first time she agreed to go out with me on a proper date, I want it to be what she wants."

"Come here," Serena said getting fed up of watching his fiddle with his tie. "So she's been playing hard to get and you're going to do anything to please."

"You make me sound like such a desperate fool," Nate said with a laugh as Serena redid the knot.

"You are a desperate fool for taking her to this place because she wants to seem all fancy to get in your pants," Serena said keeping her eyes focused on the tie and Nate laughed. "I'm not wrong."

"Well that's one way to put it," he said as she finished the knot and straightened his tie. "Thank you."

"You look good Nate," Serena said sitting back down. "But I don't like her."

Nate sighed, he knew this was coming. Serena had been dodging the subject of Bree for weeks but she didn't miss a chance to give the red head death stares and cut her off whenever they spoke. He also knew that Dan was starting to get more jealous every time Serena snapped at Bree or said something mean about her. Serena used whatever time she could get Bree away from Nate to be near him, to make sure she was still a bigger part than Bree in his life and that didn't go over too well with her boyfriend but Serena didn't really care much about what Dan thought anymore, she just needed to keep Bree away from 'her Nate'.

"I like her," Nate told her as a warning for her not to do anything and Serena put her arms up in defense she already made her promises to Erik. "I think you will warm up to her, she really is nice," Nate said and Serena shrugged and bit on her lip. "Call Dan and do something with your boyfriend instead of bugging me about my soon to be girlfriend."

Serena didn't say anything so Nate squeezed her hand and grabbed his wallet, saying bye as he walked out of his room. Serena buried her face into the pillow for a moment before getting up and starting to go home. Maybe she should call Dan, she barely spoke to him, they seemed to be worlds apart right now, if she wasn't cancelling on him then he was cancelling on her, there were so many things he needed to help his sister with, when Serena was a freshman they never had to do so many essays for English. Serena figured she'd just have to trust him and hope those helping Jenny excuses were real.

"Erik," Serena screamed when she got into the apartment, she hoped her little brother wasn't asleep or busy, she decided that they'd pay Dan a surprise visit. Erik and Jenny got along well so it wasn't like she was dragging her little brother all the way to Brooklyn to be bored. "Erik," she called again frowning and making her way up to his room.

Nate sat at the restaurant with Bree, she was a chatterbox, she had opinions about everything and she was fun to talk to, it was almost enough to get through the dullness of this 'classy' restaurant and its tasteless food, almost. Then she started talking about his Grandfather and the rest of his family, asking questions about things he wasn't very comfortable talking about. She seemed to pick up on this and laughed it off saying she was just intrigued by the Archibald family.

Nate almost jumped out of his chair when his phone rang and got outside as quickly as he could to take the call. "Hey S, I think you were right Bree's getting a little sketchy, she's asking about my family," Nate said looking back over his shoulder to look at the red head who was laughing at something on her phone. Nate frowned when Serena didn't answer with an 'I told you so' like he expected. "Serena?"

"Nate, I'm on my way to the hospital," Serena said, her voice cracking at the end of the sentence and Nate's heart stopped. "Erik… when I got home Erik wasn't breathing, they are saying it was an asthma attack and I'm lucky I got to him that quickly."

"Shit," Nate whispered and Serena sobbed, he could tell she was trying to control it.

"He doesn't have asthma, Nate," Serena said. "He's never had a problem like this before, he's never told me if he had difficulty breathing, he's smarter than this, he should have told me."

"I know S, I know," Nate said because that was all he could think about, he knew the hospital they were taking Erik too and looking down to the streets of Manhattan it wouldn't take him very long to get there. "I'll be there in 10 minutes ok, I'll meet you at the hospital."

"Thank you," Serena whispered and cut the call, Nate ran his hand through his hair, he texted Blair and Chuck to let them know what happened and walked back to his table as quickly as he could.

"I need to go, Serena's brother is in hospital," Nate said.

"She's probably making it up," Bree said dismissing it with a wave of her hand and Nate felt like slapping her. "You saw how she was when I was around, she's jealous that you're spending more time with me, she probably just wants to spoil our date."

"No, she'd never use her brother," Nate said pulling his coat on and locating his wallet. "He's too important to her to be used in a lie."

"I think she would, she's get a manipulative streak," Bree said and Nate couldn't find it in him to actually care what she was saying. "You can't honestly believe her."

Throwing some money onto the table Nate grabbed his phone and left without a proper goodbye, he just had to get to the hospital as quick as he could. When he got to the hospital he received Chucks message to say that he and Blair were on their way, he found out where Erik was and sent them his room number before running up to find Serena.

A/N : Yey I love that you guys love this story, I apologise in advance for the shortness of it because I think there's two chapters left to post but I'd rather not mess with what I've already written because it's pretty good so you're just going to have to take my word for it hehe I will definately write another fun one like this if I get the insperation because it was really alot of fun

Thank you soooooo much for the reviews! I didnt think they'd come this fast but you guys surprised me hehe again I ask that you please review the chapters as you read since I'm spoiling you soooo much and posting a chapter every day

Ok I know this chapter was a little jumpy but I tried to make it as long as possible and fit in all the things I needed to without dragging it out too much if that makes sense but basically it the Hamptons weekend the first chapter brought up, Serena is upset with Nate and Bree's date and Erik is being rushed to hospital dont kill me! lol ok so I should have another chapter up tomorrow if not then I'll try for Friday, I'm not going to be home so my internet use will be limited

Oh and as for the series I finally watched until the episode after Blair's massive wedding I think it's called 'the backup Dan' 5x14, I love love loved the look Serena and Nate shared when they were taking Lola's van to the Empire to find Blair it was so cute OMG I miss them and their eye sex lol

So please review and let me know how I'm doing so far, Until next time (^^,)