I mean there must be love in the New York air. You're engaged, Serena's found a new guy, Erik's found himself a boyfriend...
[Lily, Serena and Erik all are shocked by what Goergina had said]
[a bit confused] Oh, I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you right?
What, you haven't met Serena's new guy?
Oh, you mean Erik? You didn't know he was dating someone? I didn't think it was a secret, I mean, I saw them kissing in front of St Jude's this morning for the world to see. [Erik looking uncomfortable while Georgina gladly reveals the secret]Well, don't look so embarassed, E, he is a hot piece. Well done!
Please, Georgina, it's not funny, okay?
Oh! Um, you didn't know Erik was dating a boy?
That doesn't make any sense because that would mean... that Erik is... and he's not, [sighs uncomfortably] he's just not.
[close up of Erik who is lost for words]
Are you? [realising that Georgina was telling the truth] God...
[Erik see his mother's disappointment and runs off]
Erik! [sighs] Great, Mom, that's just great. [Serena looks to Georgina] How dare you?!
[Georgina looks innocent as if she has done nothing wrong]
My, my. If it isn't Little J, risen from the ashes.
I came to tell you in person. You win.
Oh, sweetie, we just started to play.
No, you don't understand. I'm done. With you, with them - all of it.
Just like that, you wave the white flag.
I lied. And I stole and I lost the respect of my family. For what, so I can be like you? You asked me before if it was all worth it. And my answer is, it's not.
I tried to warn you. There's a price to pay. I always knew a girl like you couldn't afford it.
[sighs] Well, you put up a good fight. For a freshman.
[sarcastically] Hope you don't expect a hug.
I don't expect anything anymore.
You can read about it all day long, but you have to walk the city to know it.
Sarah: Okay, look, anything is better than getting lost of the train every day.
Subway. Click those heels, you're not in Portland anymore.
Sarah: Seriously, you and Dan are so sweet to adopt me. And I'd be a mess without you guys. Well, more of a mess then I already am. [laughs]
Sarah: Are there any new developments?
Uh, no, no, more of the same. Jenny and her boyfriend are inseparable and Jenny is more insufferable.
Give her a break, Asher's her first love.
It's infatuation, it's not love.
Sarah: Yeah, but to a fifteen-year-old girl, there isn't a difference.
[Dan realises Sarah and Vanessa have a point]
And how long did it take you, Dan?
Uh, um, that's a little different, Vanessa. It took me... [Vanessa interrupts]
Uh, one glance at a ninth grade birthday party.
Yes, but two years to obsess over.
Sarah: So things are better with Serena?
Serena, yeah, yeah, good memory.
Sarah: Right.
Things are finally back to normal.
Sarah: Good. Well, I mean, you know, it's tough making friends in a new city. It would be really nice to meet her.
Yeah, Serena would love you. She loves everybody. Not that she wouldn't like you because she doesn't discriminate. Um, see what she meant about that rambling thing? [Vanessa laughs] How's tonight?
Sarah: Tonight would be perfect.
You know, it's kind of funny, how you can find meaning from things you wouldn't think to look at. Like on a TV show- The truth always comes out, it's one of the fundamental rules of time. And when it comes out it can set you free, or end everything you've fought so hard for. Another way the truth comes out - when you don't even mean it to, or when, without saying a word, it's still heard loud and clear. But the worst thing the truth can do? Is when you finally tell it, it doesn't set you free, but locks you away forever.
Dan puts me on a pedestal. If he knew the truth he would never look at me again.
You're starting to scare even me. What did you do?
We've seen you with vomit in your hair, making out with investment bankers in the men's room at PJ Clarks. You don't have to hide anything from us.
She's right, Serena, I mean none of us are saints.
Yeah. [points back at Chuck] I had sex with him in the back of a limo.
I had sex with you, at a wedding while I was her date. [looks at Chuck] Once.
[Blair looks back at Chuck waiting for him to say something to comfort Serena]
You can tell us anything. [Serena shakes her head] We don't judge. We're the non-judging Breakfast Club. We're your best friends. Anything you do is something we did too.
[Serena looks at Blair, Nate and Chuck]
If I tell you, it can never leave this room.
Well, something happened the night of the Shepards' wedding.
I think we're all aware of what happened that night.
No, something else. Something I've tried to escape but Georgina won't let me. And now she's blackmailing me.
[shocked] Blackmailing you?
Well, it started when Blair thought you and I had too much to drink. She told us to get some air, go outside, sober up.
[FLASHBACK - In the bar with Nate at the Shepards' Wedding]
If the happy couple didn't want the cashier for the premium bar, they should have made it BYOB.
[PRESENT]
Instead, we ended up in the bar and I opened that bottle of champagne and we... well...
We can skip that part, okay?
Go ahead, I'll fill her in later.
I left in a hurry. I felt so terrible, so guilty for what I'd just done. I just... I had to get out of there.
[FLASHBACK - Serena calling for a cab]
[to the cab driver] East Hill Hotel, please.
[PRESENT]
Georgina and I had plans to meet up after, so I headed straight to her... little did I know, she had a surprise waiting for me.
