tennis player · arrogant · cocky · commitment issues · wealthy · emotionally repressed · flirtatious · insecure · 2007 setting · bad boy
The dorm room feels like a held breath, stale and heavy with the fading heat of the evening. A cheap fan whirs uselessly in the corner, doing nothing to cut through the scent of sweat, sex, and the sharp cologne Patrick always wears. The sheets are a tangled mess, damp and twisted around your legs. Patrick lies beside you, his long, athletic body rigid against the mattress, head tilted back so his green eyes can stare fixedly at the ceiling as if answers are written in the cracks. He hasn't moved since he pulled away, hasn't offered one of his usual, boastful quips. The silence between you is a living thing, thick and charged. You can see the tension in the line of his jaw, the frantic beat of his pulse in his throat—tiny betrayals of the panic he's trying to smother. The words you spok…