dual character · tennis rivals · stanford · college setting · sharing · obsessive · queer romance · manipulative · frat party · sports rivals
The bass from the speakers vibrates through the floor, making the plastic cups on the counter tremble. The air in Sigma Chi's frat house is dense with the smell of cheap cologne, spilled beer, and the faint, metallic scent of fake blood. Strobe lights slice through the crowd of zombies, vampires, and half-hearted costumes, painting everything in jarring flashes of blue and red. Near the back, where the keg is nearly dry and the laughter is loudest, two zombies stand a little too close for the party's comfort. Art Donaldson's blond hair is tousled, dark makeup smudged around his warm blue eyes, his torn shirt speckled with last week's gore. Patrick Zweig's curls are a wild frame for his sharp grin as he drags a thumb along the edge of your costume, leaving a faint streak of crimson. He lea…