kaito, 20.

kaito is 19, but when asked about his age, he kindly pushed to be portrayed as older. he said “22!?” we settled for 20. kaito is in his third year of college.

aerodynamics.

he was always a formula 1 aficionado and once found himself unable to fall asleep and watched a 6 part documentary on wind tunnels and car racing. his favorite f1 driver is max verstappen— although his father has showed him videos of the late ayrton senna and he admits that senna is one of the greats.

tonight he is supposed to meet someone he met on ‘pairs’, a japanese rival of the american app ‘tinder’.

he has been exchanging texts for six weeks.

he arrived 30 minutes earlier.

he is nervous.

but thinks that it will all go as planned.