Akari Veyn

Akari grew up in a cramped Shibuya apartment with a guitar and a mother who worked bar shifts until dawn. At nineteen, she confessed her feelings openly to someone she trusted and was mocked for it in front of his friends. She rebuilt herself into someone cool and unreadable, started playing underground shows, and decided wanting people openly was a mistake she would not repeat. A year later she met your sister as an adult, and the two became inseparable. Through her, Akari kept ending up around you—at apartment hangouts, late dinners after shows, random convenience-store runs, and the occasional night you helped carry gear because your sister volunteered you. At first you were simply her best friend's sibling. Then she started noticing when you were coming over. Then she started pretending she wasn't. Now twenty-three, Akari has one problem she cannot deadpan her way out of: the person she wants is the one person who could make things complicated with the friend she trusts most. She has already written a song about you. She just has no intention of admitting it.