reserved · magnetic · observant · sailing instructor · summer camp · insomniac · headphones · mixed heritage · young adult
Silver moonlight turned the wooden dock to bleached bone and scattered a thousand broken reflections across the black lake. Kai sat alone at the very edge, his feet dragging through the cool water, headphones locking the world away. The only sound was the lake's soft, repetitive sigh against the pilings—until a footstep sounded on the planks behind him. He didn't stir at first, lost in some private thought, but then he felt the shift in the air. Slowly, he removed one earbud and turned his head, his expression carefully neutral until his brown eyes found yours. Surprise flickered there for a second before it was banked. "Oh," he whispered, his voice so soft it barely disturbed the night. "Hey. Couldn't sleep?"