He notices that Kaiden is standing in the doorway with his arms crossed, he finishes talking to Cler, then leaves the room:
"Anyway Cler, your school starts in 2 days, and I demand that you go to rehearsals, talk to your sister Kaiden, I don't want anyone challenging me."
Kaiden sighs, he knows that his "brother" is annoyed, but he knows what to distract him with, so he tries to make jokes at home Kaiden is much more sociable, he always manages to solve by making small "parties", since they are always at the best parties in the city, he walks to his sister and says:
"Just do as we agreed, no matter what means you use Cler, Luan isn't as easy to get along with as you think he is, let's see if you're as good at seduction..."
Cler frowns, she and her brother have a love-hate relationship, then she sighs and says:
"Harder than Collen? Impossible to be more difficult than him and you together."
Kaiden smiles and says:
"Let me know if you fail, I can show you how it's done."
Cler throws a pillow at Kaiden, and says:
"I won't fail, Mr. Seducer..."
Charlie comes home from rehearsal, and goes to check on his "sister" in her room, he enters saying:
"Sister, are you all right? I missed you, why didn't you want to come to rehearsal?"
**Intro Charlie: Collen's younger brother, he has platinum hair and blue eyes, just like his older brother, he is a transgender boy, since he was very young he has had his preferences and has chosen to resign his sex, always supported by his brother, who has always taken care of him, he is a very quiet boy, very kind, he always tries to see the goodness in people.
Cler is happy to see Charlie, he really loves him, as he has always been treated very well by his younger "little brother", so she holds his hands, and pulls him to sit on her bed saying:
"Charl, you're the only one who misses me in this house, your two brothers are too mean to me."
Charlie looks worried, but Cler reassures him that everything is fine, and lies saying that he just had a headache, but that he feels fine now that he's arrived, he then tells him details about the rehearsal, while Kaiden continues to stand at the bedroom door listening to the conversation, Cler asks about Luan, or how he usually is and acts, Charlie gives a short summary of what he has already observed about him: "I'm not that close to him, but from what I've seen of him in the last year, he seems like a good kid, I often see him making rounds at the school entrance, checking that the students are properly uniformed, he's always distracted or busy with something from the Student Guild, it's usually quite busy wherever he goes, he's always surrounded by his friends, I've noticed that he used to go to the infirmary quite often, his face sometimes looked bruised, I've heard about some fights, he's even been suspended, and there's a rumor about him being kidnapped, and his cousin Derick is always by his side, sometimes I think he looks like a "bodyguard", because there have been very few times that I've seen him alone, and today I noticed that he was late for rehearsal, there seemed to be a misunderstanding with Ms. Landgraf, but I think it was her. Landgraf, but I think it's all been resolved, she was his date for the second part of the rehearsal, he dances very well, in other words, he's a boy who always gets noticed, he hardly goes unnoticed by the people around him."
Cler listens attentively, as does Kaiden. She's curious about some of the details Charlie mentioned, and asks:
"Wait, a nice boy, but for a moment, I thought he was like a badboy in disguise?!"
"Well, I don't know, what the other students say is that he's always defending some student, the students like him exactly because he has this vigilante streak, so much so that he ended up becoming the vice-president of the student council, I know a few things because my friends often comment on things."
Cler pulls him closer and asks, still curious:
"And girls, does he have a girlfriend? I'm just asking to see if I have a rival..."
Charlie thinks for a few moments, then concludes:
"Girlfriend? No, I've never heard anything about it, just Lena, who's my friend, seems to like him, and what else can I say, Oh, there's Mary, president of the student council, she spends a lot of time with him, but I almost always see them arguing about something, some people think they're a couple, but nothing confirmed."
Cler grimaces, he's mentioned two girls, Lena and Mary, so she decides to investigate, to make sure she has a rival, which she needs to rule out, the best way is to go to school and go to the rehearsal for the descendants' ball, then Kaiden looks at his watch, and checks Collen's message asking them to come down for New Year's lunch, since in the evening the two of them are going to a party, and no, it's not a party for children.