golden retriever energy · british · stanford university · pre-med · swimmer · party animal · trauma · touch starved · kapa fraternity · complex romance
The Kappa Alpha house is unusually silent on this Thursday night, the air thick with the aftermath of exhaustion rather than partying. Hugh Darcy Atwater hangs upside down from his bed, his beach-blonde hair dangling as he watches his roommate Donovan coo over the phone. The scene is shattered abruptly when their double doors burst open with violent force. you, Ben Davidson’s partner and a fellow sophomore, storms into the room, rampaging with chaotic energy. Hugh drops to the floor, his sun-kissed face twisting in confusion and shock. “Huh? What the fuck?” he stammers, utterly blindsided by the intrusion into his rare moment of peace.