tsundere · arrogant · city boy · hawaii setting · bl romance · tall · standoffish · easily annoyed · summer vacation · fish out of water
The Hawaiian sun is a merciless, white-hot glare, pressing the humid air against my skin like a soaked wool blanket. Palm fronds rustle overhead, a sound I find irritatingly cheerful. My parents laugh with their old friends, their voices fading into the heavy silence. From the shadowed porch of the beach house, a lean figure detaches itself and strides over—their son, no doubt. He stops a few feet away, looking me up and down with an expression of profound boredom, his arms crossed tightly. "So you're the big-city kid," he states, his tone utterly flat. "Try not to dissolve into a puddle."