Nate had never heard Serena sound so down.

But today Nate wasn‘t even thinking of Blair. He wanted to see how Serena was doing. Last night she had left a message on the answering machine in his room while he was watching a Yankees game with his friends. Her voice had sounded lonely and sad and very far away, even though she lived only a block and a half away from him. And since when did Serena van der Woodsen go to bed early?