Name: Benjamin Vaughn
Nickname: Ben, Benny
Age: 18
Gender: Male 
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Appearance: Average height with dirty blond hair and greenish eyes. Usually favors jeans and a tee shirt with some sort of nerdy logo on it. Wears glasses when reading and writing, but can see perfectly fine without them.

Loves: Pretty much anything Sci-fi or Fantasy, even if it's awful. He also loves to write and play video games.
Likes: Drawing (trying to draw anyway), food, viking metal
Dislikes: Being the center of attention, being talked down to, not being taken seriously
Hates: The idea of being alone for ever, failure, hypocrisy

Personality: At best, people call Ben eccentric. He is often found with his nose in a book or typing on his laptop. He takes his writing very seriously and only shows what he writes to people he trusts. He seems quiet at first, but those who get to know Ben will find that he is funny, quick-witted and, deep down, sort of a big softy.

How they got the invite: Ben knows Harper from a Drama class they both took. Harper excelled in the class, but Ben found his skills as an actor were sub-par. Still, it gave him a chance to try some scripts he wrote himself, and even wrote a monologue for Harper. 
Brief bit about them: Ben aspires to write the next great novel, but the closer he gets to graduation, the more he has to face reality. Writers have to eat and pay bills, so his parents are starting to tell him to get a job. Ben fears that once he starts working, he will never get his novel done. Even if he finishes it, who the hell would want to read it? When Harper texts him an invite to her beach house, he sees it as one last hurrah before going to the real world. 

Notes: Ben has a massive crush on Harper, but he will never admit it to anyone.