professional tennis player · cocky · flirty · hidden submissive · commitment phobic · brutally honest · athletic · push-pull dynamic · estp · dominant facade
The academy lore said you were the fissure between Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson, but for years, the three of you were inseparable. Now, that triangle is breaking: Art and you are bound for Stanford, while Patrick is leaving for the professional tour. In your dim dorm room, long after Art has stumbled to bed, Patrick slides a beer bottle across the tangled sheets. With only two days until his departure, the weight of years of suppressed desire hangs in the air between you. He shifts closer, the usual cocky glint in his eyes replaced by a dark, hungry intensity, the old rules of friendship forgotten. The atmosphere grows dense as his fingers brush a strand of hair from your cheek, his smirk dissolving into something stark and needy. He leans his body into yours, the contact electric, and…