name: suni hayez (bears her mother's surname).
age: thirty-three.
gender: cis female.
pronouns: she/her.
sexuality: heterosexual.
neighborhood: university heights.
occupation: owner of the floral fix.
FAMILIAL INFORMATION.
mother: aletta hayez.
father: ??? chaiyachet.
siblings: dean chaiyachet (younger half-brother), other half-siblings.
QUICK FACTS.
providence peak native. currently residing in university heights!
believed her father was dead until the age of twenty-five. she bears her mother's surname because the woman couldn't give suni the surname of the married man she had been seeing.
growing up, suni was a mix of innocence and a spitfire. she could hold her own, but often didn't have to because of her two closest friends, adrian and lincoln.
was engaged to adrian at the age of twenty-eight. they first starting officially dating at the age of seventeen. they were together up until the rock climbing accident that took adrian's life.
she was lost for nearly three years after his loss. there was the bank account that she'd found out about at the age of twenty-five, but she refused to touch it up until something cracked. she emptied the account, bought a space in university heights and opened up a flower shop called the floral fix.
BIOGRAPHY.
trigger warnings: abandonment car accident, infidelity, death, pregnancy.
Some are born with silver spoons in their mouth, others are born rich in heartbreak instead. It was the latter for Suni, a sad fact that she didn't quite understand until much later in life. According to her mother, her father passed a couple of months after discovering the pregnancy, leaving the woman to shoulder every struggle on her own. There was no one to blame for the loss of her father. Just bad weather and a car that stood no chance in the end.
Growing up, Suni and her mother lived in a small two bedroom apartment in University Heights. Her mother worked for the postal service, always claiming that the federal benefits were well worth the long hours. Despite not having much, Suni never struggled for anything, but she also didn't ask for a lot either. Little did she know, there was an entire bank account set up just for her and the future her father wanted for her. The same father that was supposed to have passed before she had even entered the world.
Unbeknownst to Suni, her mother had lied. Her father was never in a car accident, but he had left a couple of months into the pregnancy. Not that he'd ever really been there for her anyway. He'd been a married man with a family of his own and when he found out about the pregnancy, he walked away.
During her teenage years, most of her time was spent between two males that couldn't have been any more different. There was Adrian, the funny, sweet, and overly charming good looker. And then there was Joshua Lincoln, the wildcard that made every inch of her burn with excitement. At the end of the day, she trusted no one more than the two of them, even if there were complications brewing within.
Complications that were sorted by a single decision of another. What she thought was a returned feeling what not, leaving her confused. It took two years for her friendship with Adrian to cross over into something more, but a longing curiosity remained. Over the years, it dwindled, but it never fully faded away. A fact that nearly tore her apart too many times to count.
Adrian and Suni did everything together. They attended the same University, spent more time in one another's dorms than their owns, which didn't matter past their freshman year because after that, they even had an apartment together. It was picture perfect to the world and happiness aside, she still felt as if something more were missing.
At the age of twenty-five, a truth was dropped on Suni that made her question every little thing she'd ever known. Her mother's story of a father passing away had been forged out of shame and heartbreak. Her father hadn't passed, he'd just ran back to his family before inevitably running back to Thailand. Worse than that? She had a sibling and potentially more right in the heart of Providence Peak and a bank account full of funds meant to push her through college. College that she'd taken out student loans for. Books that she'd worked odd jobs to cover.
With betrayal running thick in her veins, Adrian was there every step of the way. Just like the good guy he'd always been. He'd supported her in meeting one of her siblings, a man by the name of Dean. It was a difficult point in her life, a turning point that drove a wedge between herself and her mother. She understood why the woman had shielded her from the truth. So much rejection came in knowing that her father had turned his back on her, all while lining a bank account for her on the side.
For five more years, everything flowed smoothly. At the age of twenty-eight, Adrian dropped to one knee and without hesitation, she said yes. It was only after the initial yes that she began wondering if forever was something she could lean into with him. He was safe. He was warm. He felt like home. He was everything that another man hadn't been for her, but that didn't keep her from pushing back the wedding date.
At first, she had the luxury of blaming wedding vendors. Then, she made the claim that there was no rush to perfection. In reality, she was finding it difficult to accept the other's hand in marriage. Real marriage, the legally binding kind. It was what she had always wanted and yet, the thought of being led down the aisle with a smiling Adrian on the other end wasn't how she'd imagined it.
At thirty, tragedy hit. What should have been a fun guys day out was met with a loss so heavy, she was certain the entire world felt it. The engagement ring she wore had nearly burned through her skin when she confirmed the man atop the table was in fact her fiancé. Anger burned red hot in her veins, as did guilt. When she needed a person to blame outside of herself, it was the man who'd always been a mutual part of their lives. He'd been there that day and while she wanted to plead for answers, it was silence she offered instead.
It's been three years since she lost Adrian. Three years of bouncing between jobs and struggling to keep the one bedroom apartment caught up in rent. During those three years, she struggled keeping herself afloat. The comfortable job she had worked for years cut ties when it was clear Suni could no longer perform her responsibilities. She couldn't blame them, she'd become a shell of a person. Not even the first eviction threat stirred anything within her, but she managed to make ends meet long enough for a second breath of life to be pulled into her lungs.
To her surprise, Dean stuck around in her life. Confusion still lingers, but the two have forged as much of a sibling bond as time and complications could allow. He was there through the loss of Adrian, a surprise that had warmed her as much as it could. There was no real fixing what had been done. With so much left unsaid, the only person to blame for the lingering guilt and shame was herself.
On a whim, the bank account she'd refused to touch had been emptied to purchase a building in University Heights and supplies for the flower shop she'd always joked about with Adrian, though the man had never failed to encourage her. It's been off the ground for a couple of months now, but it's not gaining traction in the way that she would have liked. With her funds running low, there's a lot to consider, but isn't keen on letting go of a dream and what she considers to be one of the last remaining parts of the man she'd never deserved.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
customers at the flower shop.
old friends.
rivals.
neighbors.
awkward run-ins.
bar companion.
failed date(s).
