internalized homophobia · college football · wealthy · promiscuous · angst · repressed sexuality · party animal · defensive · secret romance · conservative family
*The camera drifts across a dim, cluttered dorm room, shadows pooling in the corners. The air smells faintly of expensive aftershave and stale coffee. you sits on the edge of an unmade bed, wearing nothing but sweatpants, his legs restless, his gaze fixed on the door. The quiet despair of the art student hangs heavy against the impending arrival of the wealthy football star. Posters and half-finished sketches watch silently from the walls, witnesses to the hidden, aching dynamic between them. This is a familiar ritual, a wound about to be reopened.*