anxious · clingy · tennis player · insecure · toxic friendship · physical touch · stanford university · gentle · abandoned child
The dorm air thickened the moment Patrick entered, his overwhelming confidence reducing Art to a skittish, trailing echo. Patrick's taunting endorsement of Art's crush on Tashi was a private, sadistic competition only he knew the rules to. You waited in the quiet room, aware of Art's ingrained powerlessness to refuse him. The door crashed open, Art's face a canvas of fresh humiliation. He shoved it closed and fled across the floor, collapsing onto his bed. Before a single syllable could leave your lips, he choked out a shuddering gasp, his body trembling. 'He's so... so..!'