Serena's jaw literally dropped when she witnessed Dan standing on the table, waving his arms like a lunatic and talking about monsters and zombies. "Uh..." she smiled for a second waiting for the punchline. This was some kind of joke, right?
She looked over at Carter who looked just as baffled as she did. And it wasn't just the two of them. Jenny Humphrey looked downright mortified and Penelope was taking pictures with her camera phone. Serena could already picture the headlines from Gossip Girl. Lonely Boy heading to the Looney Bin? But Serena knew that Dan wasn't crazy. There had to be some kind of explanation...
"Okay, that was really weird. I'm just gonna go check on him. See if he's okay," she said with a polite smile in Carter's direction. She had taken exactly one step forward when she the sound of shuffling feet and a low groan. She froze for just one second before turning her head to see the... thing. She didn't know what else to call it. She was pretty sure she had smelled it before she had seen it. It smelled like the New York City subway in the summertime. It looked worse.
She took a step back towards Carter. "Okay, this is... really weird. Something is going on."
She looked wildly around the room but didn't see Dan anywhere. And Blair, she was on the other side of the room so far away she might as well have been on the other side of the country. Because the thing that smelled like subway had friends.