Afterward, she just wanted to be alone ( Read more... )

( State of the everything. Less plots, more rambling. )

It wasn't that Serena didn't want things to be okay with her and Blair. She definitely didn't want to leave it all in the air with Christmas coming, but she still couldn't really bring herself to go to the room and find Blair. Reconciliation may have been a possibility, but rejection seemed even more likely. It was hard to be certain how things ( Read more... )

Serena was utterly taken with the notion of decorating for Christmas. At home, a place like the Palace wouldn't even allow a tree in their suite, and when they'd been in their own townhouses, back before her mother's break up with Claus had been cause for renovation, their had been professionals to call, people who made their living knowing just ( Read more... )

The night of the fight, Serena had started to worry about Blair. She couldn't think of any explanation for the betrayal committed, not when Blair hated Dan, not unless it was some new sign of self-destruction, and if that were the case, then Serena had been neglecting her if she had missed the signs. If that were so, then some part of this was ( Read more... )

Taking a step back, Serena turned to go, but not before giving Jenny one last sweet smile. "Happy holidays ( Read more... )

Part of the point of living outside of the Compound had been so that Serena could avoid thinking about what had happened, but the trouble was, she knew why she was out there. It made it hard not to think about all that had come to pass. No matter what she did, though, she still felt uneasy at best about the situation. At worst, she was furious. In ( Read more... )

Serena couldn't listen to another minute of it, the bickering and the tale-bearing. Wrenching free of the scene, she took off down the hall. Things came to her in bits and pieces: she had to get away, she couldn't listen to them. It was a good thing she hadn't taken off her coat, that she still had her scarf. Dan and Blair. If it had been more than ( Read more... )

( State of the Pups. )

What Serena could not shake, after her afternoon with Dan, was what he'd said early on. She could ignore his transgressions with Georgina, if only for the sake of her sanity, and the rest. But there was something he'd said; if there was one thing they ought to have learned, he'd told her, it was what secrets did to them. Georgina hadn't set out to ( Read more... )