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With two years of island life under her belt and a vast wardrobe she'd been given near the end of her first year, it was easy to imagine that Serena had an endless supply of clothes and thus managed to escape the worst of the clothes box's wrath, being able to avoid it for the most part ( Read more... ) -
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Losing Beat was devastating, losing Chuck another painful reminder of the frequency with which it seemed that Serena could count on her friends vanishing. She'd seen enough people leave in her life, been walked out on without reason or explanation, and no amount of knowing this was the nature of the island made it any easier. Maybe people didn't ( Read more... ) -
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Somewhere along the way, Serena picked up a habit of taking her camera with her when she went out, quick to take pictures of places and people everywhere. Most of them were deleted eventually, blurry snapshots erased to make space for better ones, but she just kept taking photos. It seemed like everyone was leaving one by one and soon all she'd ( Read more... ) -
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Serena had forgotten. It was stupid, she knew, to forget that people vanished here, that it would happen to her, too. This was, after all, a basic rule of island life, of life anywhere, and she had lost more than a few people in her time, so it should have been easy to remember. She was, however, an optimist by nature, and although she'd been badly ( Read more... ) -
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It might not have been anything they would have done on the Upper East Side, but somehow, Serena felt like the little party they'd assembled was exactly perfect. Since they were celebrating Eric's sixteenth, she wouldn't have settled for anything less. The Winchester seemed like just the right place for a cozy, intimate gathering, small not for the ( Read more... ) -
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After a while, the party just fizzled. There wasn't anything to be done for it. Once it became clear that Chuck just wasn't going to show up, people began filtering off, heading home. After all, it wasn't like there was any point in hanging around the hub to celebrate the birthday of some guy who wasn't even there ( Read more... )