MIKE CHANG→ EIGHTEEN → SENIOR → FC: HARRY SHUM JR.
BIOGRAPHY → Michael Robert Chang Junior, more known as Mike, had moved to Lima with his at the age of four, he didn’t remember much of what it had been to live in Chicago. He was an only child to Michael Chang senior and Julia Chang. Mike became friends with Matt Rutherford pretty fast. Mike had lost his best friend sophomore and junior year, when Matt moved, but he had his friends in Glee, and his new girlfriend, Tina.
Mike started dancing when he was around six years old, he was taking dance classes and he loved it but after a couple of years his friends started to play football and baseball, and he wanted to do something with them so he forgot all about dancing and started to play both football and baseball with them. But as he got older he started to find his way back to dancing, and he started to watch different videos of people dancing on Youtube and he started to slowly learn himself the dance moves, and he was dancing alone in his room, and he was starting to feel happy again. And when the Glee club needed new members he joined and he felt like he was finding his place again, and he was happy.
WHAT THEY DID THIS SUMMER → Mike spent most of his summer at camp, first it had been Asian Summer camp, and he had hated the name, where he was supposed to teach the kids about the importance of the arts. He hadn’t mentioned that part to his father; Mike knew that if he had mentioned that he was going to do that he wouldn’t have been able to go. And the time that wasn’t spent at Asian camp, Mike had been working out to make sure that he would be in shape for football when school started. And he had been forced to work with his father, because that would look good on a college application.
PETER WHITMORE→ EIGHTEEN → SENIOR AT DALTON ACADEMY → FC: ED WESTWICK
BIOGRAPHY → Peter was one of those lucky few—if you want to call them ‘few’—born into a wealthy family. His father’s family has always had their hand in one business or another, always having a strong business-mind and knowing how to make money. Which they did. Very well, for as long as Peter could ever remember (and going long before his arrival as well). His father, Alan Whitmore, was a lawyer working as partner in a firm that was started by—surprise here—his father before him. Since the day he was born, Peter had, what you would call a ‘silver spoon’ in his mouth; prepped from day one to be a strong, independent man who would one day work in the law firm and become partner, running it some day. He was raised mostly by nannies and his mother—when it wasn’t happy hour, that is. Peter was given everything he ever wanted or needed, given every opportunity and the finest education, starting from when he was very small.
As he grew up, he found he had an affinity for food. He’d watch Julia Child or whatever came across the Food Network; he’d spend time in the kitchen, watching their own personal chefs or whoever happened to be cooking (very rarely his own mother, she preferred ‘ordering in’ and his father was hardly around, let alone cooking and having meals at home). His parents viewed it as a ‘hobby’ something he could do for now, but couldn’t expect to make a living in. He ignored that and continued, becoming pretty damn good around the kitchen and actually…enjoying it.
Peter didn’t really know he was gay until he started high school. Sure, he might of had the odd attraction to a guy here and there but he brushed it off. He did well with girls growing up—well, they were attracted to him anyway—and his parents didn’t seem to mind that. Being gay…that might be a different story. However, in high school things got a bit different—he started at Dalton Academy, a school for boys, and suddenly that small temptation became more and more overwhelming. He experimented a little, having no trouble finding other boys looking to do the same.
He knew Sebastian Smythe for most of his life—their fathers did business together or something, he never really paid much attention. But the two boys were actually what you’d call close friends. They usually ‘entertained’ each other at their parent’s parties—making jokes or snarky comments and, when they could disappear, they’d steal some liquor (which was easy) and usually end up making out or occasionally, well, fucking…for lack of a better word. They weren’t really so good with the ‘feelings’ stuff so they left that out of the picture—they were friends. Friends that occasionally got drunk and had sex. As simple and complicated as that. Peter still wasn’t “out” yet, however, and despite his ‘I don’t give a fuck’ attitude, this was something he wasn’t ready to risk losing everything over. He needed money and his family to get to college, to get out of Ohio, and he wasn’t willing to risk that on their reaction to him being gay.
Peter and Sebastian began to drift apart at some point, he didn’t really understand why, but he wasn’t the type to ask. Not really. So, he let it go. Before he left for the summer, Peter came out officially. He wasn’t sure if it was surprising or not but his parents didn’t seem to really care—it wasn’t support but he wasn’t out on the street either. He figured if he just did what his father wanted him to do—which he didn’t really actually plan on doing—and didn’t end up in prison or anything, it wasn’t a big deal. He wasn’t sure what was worse though, a huge reaction—like he expected—or none at all—like the one he got.
WHAT THEY DID THIS SUMMER → Over the summer, Peter spent his time hopping around Europe on daddy’s dime. London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Rome were where he spent his days drinking, exploring, having sex, and eating some of the best food he’d ever had in his life. This, to him, is what life was really all about and he dreaded having to come home at summer’s end. It was so much better than a trip to the Hamptons or somewhere equally as stuffy—he used to actually like all that rich kid stuff but now he was kind of over it. Sure, it was nice to have money, but he found something he was actually passionate about and good at. He didn’t really let many people in to what he was really, truly hungry for (excuse the pun), keeping a lot of himself locked away under a sarcastic, arrogant armor. So, his summer was amazing and he got to spend a lot of time shadowing some fantastic chefs, learning authentic recipes (not that his parents knew about that), but now he’s back. In Ohio. And less than thrilled about it…at least it’s his last year, he can’t wait to get out.
ADAM WALKER→ EIGHTEEN → SENIOR AT MCKINLEY → FC: DANIEL RADCLIFFE
BIOGRAPHY → Adam’s mom was only around the age of 17 when he was born. He wasn’t a planned birth and she had little to no interest in being a mother. She was the spoiled younger daughter of a well to do family in Chicago, and was far more interested in partying than ‘settling down’. He doesn’t remember her very well because around the time he was 4 she left him with his grandmother and went for a ‘study abroad’ program in Spain that she’d told his grandmother she’d signed up for. She never came back. He doesn’t know the details of where she is and everytime he’s ever asked about her his grandmother’s just frowned and avoided the subject.
His grandmother tried their best, but she hadn’t planned on raising any more children and her husband had died a year or so before Adam was left with her. Which meant he was often lonely as a young child, which was how he fond the stars. Of course being a bit of a nerd meant that he took his share of bullying in elemantary school, and his lack of mother was just the cherry on top of the cake for his popularity’s sake in those young years. When he was about 10 his aunt finally moved back to the states from her stint in Canada. Adam overheard his grandmother complaining again about having to raise another child but for the first time he could remember someone objected.
Within a few weeks his aunt was moving into an apartment across the city and moving him into a smaller room across the hall from hers. He only sees his grandparents on Christmas these days and since then he’s been his Aunt’s “Wandering Companion” as she likes to call him. His Aunt is eccentric and sweet, but a bit flighty. She’s imposed very few rules on Adam, as long as he maintains all A’s and isn’t breaking any laws she sees no point.
They’re not close in the traditional sense, but she’s the only person in Adam’s life that hasn’t ever left him behind so he has a special place in his heart for her. She’s never told him why she took custody of him, even though he’s asked her several times why she “bothered”. She’s never been one for relationships, which means Adam hasn’t had any positive examples of relationships that last in his life. He privately doubts he’ll ever be in one, since he’s half convinced no one would want to stick around him that long.
With his aunt moving around so much he rarely developed real friendships growing up, and he started partying around the time he realized that he was fairly attractive. He discovered at an early age that partying and sleeping around helped him not focus on his actual problems. The few times guys have been interested in ‘more’ with him he’s pushed them away firmly, joking that he only needs to have sex because he gets better grades on tests if he’s well fucked.
Moving to Ohio wasn’t his idea, and Lima certainly isn’t his favorite place. But his Aunt has promised that she won’t move again until he’s graduated and settled at a college. So he’s stuck at McKinley for the time being, and he’s kept to himself until now.
WHAT THEY DID THIS SUMMER → He went on several campus tours, including MIT and NYU. He’s got the grades, but he’s not sure where he wants to go yet. His Aunt took him to Hawaii for about a month and he spent most of his time sleeping around and sneaking/charming his way into some of the best telescopes in the country. The few weeks he spent hanging around Lima on his own her ridiculously boring and he ended up spending most nights in Columbus, partying.
