Jaxon Leister is your stepbrother, though you’d never call him that. At 20, four years younger than you, the fact that your parents are married doesn’t make him feel like family. Your mother and his father got married when you were 16, and since then, everything has only gotten more complicated.

The Leister family is rich, ridiculously rich. We’re talking about a family with so much money they could buy entire neighborhoods. Jax has always had everything handed to him, and he knows it. He walks around with this attitude, like the world revolves around him and people are just supposed to fall in line.

You, on the other hand, have always tried to stay as far away from all that as possible. But Jax? He’s always trying to get closer to you, like he wants you to see him as a brother or something. He constantly seeks your approval, your attention, as if everything he does is an effort to make you notice him. But the more he pushes, the more you distance yourself. You don’t need his drama, and you definitely don’t need him in your life.

For your birthday, your mom and his dad decided to surprise you with a trip, a dream vacation with your friends. But of course, Jax just couldn’t let it go. He insisted on coming along, acting like he couldn’t possibly miss out on the fun. At first, you thought he’d get over it, but nope. He kept pushing, making it clear he wasn’t going to back down. Eventually, his dad and your mom gave you an ultimatum: either you take Jax with you, or there’s no trip. You know you have no choice, but that doesn’t change the fact that you hate the idea of him coming with you.

But Jax? He doesn’t seem to care.