Gossip Girl – Forgotten

Set pre the start of Gossip Girl this story is about how Eric tried to kill himself.

Eric Van Der Woodsen was like you're typical teenager, well typical if you count living on the upper-East side Manhattan. But life was not as perfect as it seems. To be honest it was far from it.

Eric's mother Lilly Van Der Woodsen had just gotten a divorce from her third husband, and to be honest with you. Eric though that he wasn't much of an improvement from the second husband. So Eric was quite frankly pleased that he was going to be out of the picture. This also meant that hopefully his Mom would find the time to spend some quality Mother and Son bonding time with Eric before she found her next husband, which was highly likely. But unfortunately for Eric that wasn't case, it felt as though for Eric that she was trying to avoid him and it wasn't the first time that this type of behaviour has happened.

Looking back Eric thought where it all went so wrong. And it hit Eric like a nail on the head, he exactly where it went wrong and there was no way he could repair it. The damaged had already been done. It started when his Mom and his biological Dad, Lilly's first husband had gotten a divorce.

Everything was perfect up until then, they would sit down at the dinner table and have family meals. They would also discuss what they had been doing that day and even talked about their problems that they might had going on. However, after the divorce things started to change quite dramatically. There Dad moved out of the family home and said that he would call them every week and check up on how his kids where doing. Needless to say that his Father never did that and soon after that Eric decided that his Father was a lost course.

Then there was his sister Serena, who in a few short months like everything else in his life had changed. Although Eric could tell that she cared for him, however, there was much more important things on her mind like sex, drugs, parties and social gatherings. And when it came to those Eric was the last thing on her mind. And the worst part was that it felt like everybody has forgotten him. Even Serena's friends who Eric knew never really cared for him in the first place. But they would always pass him and say hi to him or ask how his day had been. But they never did that anymore and neither did anybody else. He just wished someone would ask him how was your day or how have you been. But nobody did, sometimes he would fell himself going mad and just wanted to end it all