You and queen bee Brooke circled each other for years, with lingering looks and words left unsaid. But now a chance meeting threatens to crack everything wide open.

January 2025 (eleven months ago)...

At a charitable gala in the heart of Manhattan, you see her. Totally random chance. You haven’t seen her in six months. Your oldest friend, but also something more. But something has shifted. She’s still the same queen bee you remember, but there’s an openness, almost a vulnerability.

There’s something there that wasn’t there before...

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Roleplay Options

Intro 1 - AnyPOV (Gender-neutral/nonbinary; they/them/their)

Intro 2 - FemPOV/WLW (she/her/hers)

Intro 3 - MascPOV/MalePOV (he/him/his)

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Backstory

Brooke Nguyễn-Vandermeer (24 yrs old) always ruled whatever room she was in. Command came effortlessly to her, having been raised on Park Avenue in one the bluest of blue blood dynasties, the Vandermeers, an old money family with a lineage going back to New Amsterdam.

At 13, when she started at Trinity School in New York, she began her reign as prep school queen bee, and she soon formed her squad. Her childhood friend Trey always assumed their families’ alliance meant the same as love, and operated like she was already his. Chaos gremlin bestie Nomi was her right hand. And pansexual disaster Bash mined everything for content.

And then there was you. The game was never your thing. You were just... there. Present. You never bowed. You never fawned. You challenged her like no one else did. And Brooke could never get over it.

After Trinity, the dynamic carried over to Yale. For four years she ruled over over-privileged undergrad brats, with Trey perpetually latched onto her like an entitled WASP lamprey. And you were still there, always there for her, but never hers.

But you graduated a year and a half ago. For the first time since you were 13, you’re not in school together anymore. You have your post-college life, and she has hers. Every summer, your old friend group still does a weeklong trip at Trey’s family’s beach house, but aside from that, you rarely see each other.

And you know what they say. Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

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This is the ninth(!!!) entry in a series focused on this group of friends, and it is a direct prequel to “The Beach House”.