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"No" She hadn’t ventured too far off campus yet Barely beyond the library, in fact

"Then soot to introduce you to the best pizza place on the West Coast"

She’d ht now, she just didn’t have it in her to do it again "Okay I’d like that"

He reached for her bag and had it off her shoulder and onto his before she could think to protest "I knohy you looked so upset," he said as he shifted her bag over his back

She’d been walking beside him as they headed down from the path to Palm Drive and into don Palo Alto, but now she stopped cold "How could you possibly know?"

His broered as he stopped and faced her "I wasaround in this bag is practically ain, put his hand on her arm "Serena, what the hell happened today?"

Sy of all, she realized, because it brought up all the eain "I don’t want to talk about it" Belatedly, realizing how cold her responsebut awesome today, she added, "I mean, you’ve been so nice about it, but--"

"You don’t know me"

She blinked up at hiain Soood brother to them

"Given what I do--" She stopped to correct herself "I h, she didn’t want to sound like a pri star that she couldn’t say anything to anyone for fear that it would end up in People azine But the problem was, someti around her dorm room much since the frat party the week before Of course Abi would want to knohat had ended up happening with the guy Serena had beenout with On the one hand, Serena desperately wanted a girlfriend to confide in But on the other, what if it turned out that Abi wasn’t trustworthy?

"I get it," Sean said easily as he walked beside her "My brother Drew has a band that’s getting pretty big He’s into it for the music, not the fame, but there doesn’t seeht"

"Wait a ether, "Drew Morrison is your brother?" When he nodded, she said, "I love his reed with another heart-stoppingly gorgeous grin "We’re all proud of him"

From the way Sean talked about his brother, she could see that he really was There was no jealousy over Drew being one of the biggest up-and-co fro to another

"You mentioned sisters before How ht it would be cool to have siblings, but I always i up with five other people always around Do you like having such a big faot their weird quirks, but you learn pretty quickly how to avoid the rough spotsor use thee if you need to"