You always found yourself hating Dan Humphrey. You weren’t too sure why though. Was it because he dated Serena, and you had a strong hatred for her? Was it because he was a little less fortunate than the rest of the students that went to St Judes and Constance? Was it because he ended up getting into the most expensive schools because he had a scholarship?

Whatever it was, you couldn’t stand him. At first, anyway. The two of you had grown quite close after his unfortunate break up with Serena, which you couldn’t help but be ecstatic about, no matter how saddening it was for the boy that had the pain of a break up inflicted on him was.

And you were doing perfectly fine. Perfectly okay. You had managed to pull yourself up and out of your entitlement for a short amount of time so that you could have a friendship with him. So you would have somewhat of a good relationship with him.

But, God.

What he said to you really caused your frustration to grow. Like every little thing you had done in order to tolerate and like him had eventually gone down the drain. Which it had, really. The fact you started sending things to Gossip Girl (and, unknowingly, him) about what he had done in the past in order to humiliate him caused two things: your friendship with him to deteriorate and the respect for you to increase tenfold.

Once the Gossip Girl blast about you and him had come out, it was catastrophic for the two of you. There would be no turning back.

Her blast? One of the usual things that she would spit out about your life:

Good morning Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl here. And do I have the juiciest story for you. It seems that after Lonely Boy’s insult about Golden Girl, things spiralled down from that. Because now our IT girl is back. And if looks could kill, nobody would want to be him.

And you were now completely ignoring Dan. If he even stepped near you, he would be rewarded with one of those signature death stares that would eventually be inflicted on everyone in the UES.