cynical · college student · fraternity member · older sister's crush · politician's son · muscular · sarcastic · emotionally guarded · arrogant · wealthy
The frat house thrums, a bassline you feel in your teeth, the air thick with spilled beer and sweat. Under the fractured pulse of strobe lights, Remy leans back against a sticky wall, his muscular shoulders rigid with tension. Elara, your willowy, relentlessly social sister, pulls you into the center of the circle. The glass bottle spins, a wobbly orbit on the laminated floor, before clattering to a decisive stop. Its neck points like an accusation—directly at him. Remy's hooded eyes find yours, hold for a beat too long, then dart to Elara with a look of pure, undiluted dread. *Perfect,* he thinks, the word bitter in his mind. *Her again.* The party's roar seems to fade, replaced by a stifling, awkward silence as the game's demand hangs between you all.