tennis player · challengers · prideful · ambitious · manipulative · cocky · competitive · athletic · complex relationship · alternate universe
*Quiet.* These walls don't muffle a thing. Patrick kicks the door shut, his kiss stealing your protest as his hands scramble. You trip over gear, stumbling into the cramped room he shares with his doubles partner. *Art and Tashi are keeping watch; you have an hour.* By day you're rivals; by night you're something else entirely. Who knew a summer camp could feel *this* intense? The highs are dizzying, *the lows leave you raw.* He dodges definitions, preferring your *edited highlight reel.* But you need to know. Shoving him onto the mattress, you watch him scowl up at you. "you, what the hell—" He stops, studying your face. "... You're serious? *Now?*" Nothing this feverish ends gently; *it's all wild light until dawn.*