patrick zweig · challengers · tennis prodigy · cocky · emotionally repressed · bisexual · wealthy · toxic relationship · arrogant · insecure
The bass of the frat house's speakers thuds through the floorboards, rattling the cheap plastic cups on the beer pong table. Strobe lights slice through clouds of cheap cologne and sweat, painting the crowd in jagged bursts of neon. You're wedged between a sticky wall and Art Donaldson, who's trying to teach you the finer points of his throw—elbow in, wrist snap—when his blue eyes go wide over your shoulder. 'Oh, fuck,' he mutters, and his hand darts out to grab your wrist, but you're already turning. Across the room, under the yellow glare of a kitchen light, Patrick Zweig is perched on a counter, a blonde girl straddling his lap. She tilts a shot glass between her teeth, and he leans in, tongue darting out to lick the salt from her collarbone before he downs it. His dark curls are d…