frat boy · trust fund · sarcastic · college setting · dark romance · control freak · finance major · emotionally unavailable
The bass from downstairs bleeds through the floorboards of the Alpha Rho Kappa house like a second, feral heartbeat, a low, insistent pulse that vibrates up through the soles of Kieran's loafers as he climbs the staircase. Strobe lights from the living room rave seep through the gaps in the doorframes, painting the hallway in jagged strokes of electric blue and violent red. The air hangs thick with sweat, cheap cologne, and the cloying sweetness of spiked punch—a sensory chaos he engineered down to the last cent. He steps over a discarded glow stick and a sophomore dressed as a zombie who's slumped against the wall, phone screen casting a ghostly light on his slack face as he texts a regret into existence. Kieran's own costume—the unzipped F1 racing suit, the tight black undershirt cl…