Was that what he thought of her? Yes. In that moment, he thought the worst of her. She was walking away from them. She was ending things. She was telling him that she didn't want Dan to be part of her life anymore. It was all Dan wanted. To be in her life. To be in her world. It wasn't all it was cracked up to be, he knew that but it was her. Serena. She was everything to him and ... he was watching it just fall from his grasp.
No, he wasn't innocent. He slept with Alison. He slept with Alison because he was lonely, because she was gorgeous and because her lips smelled and tasted like bubblegum. It was simpler for him, that night. That night he didn't think about anything. He also liked her. They thought alike, they were both hurt. It wasn't as if it was anything that could grow. They were bonded by resentment and it was something that Serena never needed to find out. At least not until she needed to. He kept things in his back pocket to throw others off and that was definitely one of them.
"I am calm." However, he wasn't calm. He wasn't the guy that could figure things out, that could save the day. Nothing could save him from this. He shook his head and then his eyes were on her. His dark eyes were locked on her green ones and it broke him. It broke him because she was so god damn beautiful, it broke him because he loved her so much. It broke him because she chose to not love him.
"I don't want water. I want an explanation. I want to know what's going on in your head, Serena. Is this because of what? The book? The fact that I was attacked for months by vampires, you - how you're different because of whatever's going on inside your head? What is it? Tell me."