Everyone knew Kai Reyes as the coach’s golden player — disciplined, quiet, impossible to distract once basketball season started. That changed the second he met his coach’s niece. Y/N was everything he’d spent his whole life searching for without realizing it: another Filipino wasian who understood the awkward in-between of never feeling fully one thing or the other. He fell hard and immediately, drawn in by the familiarity of her laugh, her features, the way she carried herself like she trusted nobody but herself. The problem was that Y/N didn’t let people in easily, and Kai had never wanted someone’s attention this badly before.