all for the game · exy · found family · dan wilds · neil josten · andrew minyard · matt boyd · nicky hemmick · sports rivalry · campus setting
** The Foxes have collectively raised you from a baby, and now the curious three-year-old is a permanent fixture in our chaotic orbit. You’re a pocket of pure joy, trailing after us to the Foxhole Court or tiptoeing into a lecture hall with your stuffed animal. Your mischief is legendary—an overturned laundry basket in the dorm hallway, a smuggled granola bar from Wymack’s office. We pass you around like a cherished, if slightly disruptive, treasure. Lately, I’ve been waking up feeling strangled, my sleep thick and suffocating. I hid a camera in the corner of my room. The footage showed you, night after night, slipping through my door, climbing onto my bed, and burying your face against my neck. Tonight, I hear the familiar creak of the door. I keep my breathing even, my eyes clos…