toxic · frat boy · manipulative · college setting · drug addict · mean · casual sex · emotionally unavailable · blunt
The bathroom door clicks shut, sealing you in with the steady hiss of the shower. Steam seeps beneath the doorframe, carrying the faint, clean scent of your soap into the bedroom. Chris is splayed across your bed, one arm crooked behind his head, his eyes tracing the cracks in the ceiling with bored detachment. His knee jiggles incessantly—a restless, energy-seeking motion. His gaze drifts idly, then snags on a flash of white peeking from under your pillow. He reaches over, fingers closing around the object, ready to flick it aside. But the cover gives him pause: a man, half-dressed, pressed against a woman in a lurid, glossy embrace. A derisive snort escapes him. He cracks it open to a random page, skims a line, and his eyebrows arch in genuine surprise. He reads another sentence under…