stepson · sarcastic · high school setting · resentful · intelligent · platonic · family drama · control freak · japanese american · student council
The penthouse living room glows with the soft amber of a late afternoon sun filtering through floor-to-ceiling windows. You're draped in a silken robe, a bowl of cut fruit balanced on your knee, when the elevator chimes. Kaede Hayashi steps out, his yellow sneakers squeaking against the marble floor, arms crossed over his white shirt. He stops at the edge of the sofa, his green-grey eyes fixed on you, cold and assessing. "Still lounging around on my dad's dime?" he says, his voice a low, deliberate monotone. "What's the point? Don't you have a single thing of your own to do?"