I thought I knew all there is to know about Ella Bass, but I was just getting started. The underestimated it girl of the Upper East Side is ready to claim her throne whether Queen B and S are ready for her. It will definitely be one hell of a Bass y...
__________________________________ Serena spots Will leaving campus and catches up with him to find out what the hell is going on. "Hey." She calls out to him, and he turns and smiles at her.
"Oh, I wondered where you ran off to? You left class in a hurry. Was my lecture on the connection between Chaucer and Faulkner really that boring? Or is racing off before things are finished just your thing?" Will teases Serena.
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"I just wanted to take things slow and..."
"And we have taken things slow." Will reminds her, and Serena just gives him a look.
"You said you were in real estate."
"I am, but before I ventured into luxury real estate, I was an associate literature professor. Which paid for my real estate courses and helped keep me afloat when I was a struggling broker." Will explains.
"But you're a successful broker now, and you still teach?" Serena questions.
"Teaching has always been my passion; it just doesn't pay well. I'm good at real estate, but I love teaching, especially literature."
"You do know relationships with faculty are strictly forbidden. And I don't want the last week to affect how you treat me as a student." Serena tells him.
"I've gotta say that didn't sound very heartfelt. Wanna try it again with a little more conviction? Plus, how was I supposed to know you were my student?"
"I just transferred." Serena tells him.
"You...oh, you're the one from Lawford's class." Will pieces it together.
"Yeah, and this was going to be a perfect solution to all my problems, but..." Serena lets out a sigh. "You're supposed to be a real estate broker, not my professor." She whisper yells at him. "Why are you a professor here?"
"I teach one class a semester, and then I donate the salary I would have made and quadruple it for scholarships." Will explains. "I've been doing that for the last three years."
"Wow." Serena says with a smile, not realizing she could fall for Will more than she is now. "I've said what I needed to say. You can have the TA mark my papers." Serena walks away, but Will's not done.
"Can I offer a counterproposal?" Will gets her attention. "I have this party tonight for the New York Observer. Care to be my date?"
"We can't be seen together."
"Well, before all of this happened, we talked about spending more time together. Nothing should change that. You could put off English Lit for another semester." Will suggests, and Serena takes the suggestion in.
