CHAPTER ONE DOMINIQUE CARLSON
**the first chapters are really short but they get longer don't worry**
I just got accepted into Brown University. And by just, I mean two weeks ago, and I haven't told anyone, not a single fucking soul, not even my best friends. And it's not because I'm not happy about it, I am. I'm over the moon. I've wanted this my whole life, I should just tell them they'll understand, right? Whatever let's just do it! They should be here already helping my parents move boxes out of the house.
Oh, did I forget to mention we're moving? Because we are.
I walk out of my room and to the stairs. I'm about to go down before I hear someone talking in the other room and that wouldn't be weird if it wasn't the storage room, so I slowly walk to the door and put my head against it.
"I don't understand you." Is that Alex? I think to myself
"Maybe you don't need to, maybe you should stop trying to understand everything in life." That's Blair, Serena's sister. What is she doing in a storage closet with Alex? And before I can walk away, I hear someone whisper something in my ear, "What are we listening to?"
I jump up and almost hit my head against the wall before he stops me, Jake Opal, Alex's older brother. "We're not listening to anything" I retort.
He chuckles. God, he's hot when he does that, "You were spying on someone in there" he points to the door.
"No, I wasn't. I was just, uh, listening to the wood." He looks at me like I'm full of shit which I am, but he doesn't need to know that. If it were anyone else, they probably would have let it go but no, not Jake fucking Opal. He comes up close to my face, so close I can feel his breath and he whispers "Liar." One word, one sexy word from his mouth and I feel like fainting.
God, Dominique, you need to get a hold of yourself, I think and before I realize I've been silent for God knows how long, he chuckles that devilish little chuckle again. I glare at him and that just makes him grin and come even closer to me, "Do I make you nervous, Dom?"
"No way would you think that?" I retort and it would be believable if I wasn't breathless, so I clear my throat and reply again "Clearly you don't know anything about my emotions because I'm not nervous around you."
His grin grows, "Trust me, Dom, I know your emotions well enough to tell when you're lying." Fuck, why is everything he says so hot? Since I can't think of anything remotely smart to say I just glare at him. "Dom, why do you keep glaring at me?" he says all doe-eyed.
I roll my eyes, "Because you're annoying me." I reply quickly.
"Oh, really?" he says with the tilt of his head.
"Yes. Can't you hear me?" I say with a tone to my voice now.
"Oh, I can. I just don't believe you." I roll my eyes at him.
"You're going to have to stop rolling your eyes, Dom"
"Why?" Now it's my turn to tilt my head.
He chuckles but not like before this time it's deep and sexy and suddenly I'm very aware of how close we are, and my skin starts getting hot then he leans into my ear and says,
"roll ur eyes at me again and watch what's gonna happen, i'm gonna give you another reason to do it again"
I put my hand on his jaw and turn his head to look at me and I drop my voice to a whisper and say, "then do it" God, now he's looking at me full-on grinning, that sexy grin he loves to do so much, but instead of letting him see how much it affects me, I just grin straight back at him.
Before I say something again, I get cut off by my mother calling me, "Dominique, get down here. I need your help." I jump up and push him away and rush down the stairs before he can say anything.
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