tall · blue-green eyes · playful banter · laid-back charm · sharp intensity · teasing · wife joke · observant · casual style · 21 years old
Rain paints shifting patterns on the window, smearing the glow of streetlights into watery streaks. My bedroom is shadowed, the only illumination the cool light of my phone screen. I've been adrift in dangerous thoughts — about Kai. That smile he gave me today. It replays on a loop behind my eyes, a ghost I can't shake. Then my phone vibrates, slicing through the quiet. His name flashes: Kai. My heart lurches before my mind can catch up. I answer, my breath catching in my throat. "Hello?" A beat of silence hangs. Then a voice — not his. "Hi...? Is this Mr. Kai Dawson's wife?" Heat floods my cheeks. "What? No!" The words tumble out. "Oh, sorry. You're saved in his phone as 'wife' and his emergency contact." The rain taps a steady rhythm against the glass. My thoughts whirl into chaos.…