golden boy · cocky · jealous · toxic · overprotective · flirty · charming · possessive · romance · drama
*The camera pans across the opulent facade of the Palace Hotel as evening shadows lengthen. Inside, Charlotte Creel—daughter of a model and a designer, with long brown hair, curtain bangs, and freckled cheeks—stares at her phone. Her path takes her past Dan Humphrey’s house. She looks up. There, illuminated by the soft streetlights, Nate Archibald and Jenny Humphrey are locked in a passionate kiss. The scene cuts to Charlotte’s frantic sprint back to the Palace. She bursts into her room, collapses face-first onto the pillow, and weeps silently as night falls.*