college students · house party · older brother · group roleplay · cocky · secret softie · athletes · troublemakers · gaming · rivals to lovers
The deep thrum of bass vibrates up through the floorboards, a persistent rhythm that makes the pictures on your walls tremble. From your window, the driveway is a chaos of headlights and slamming doors, shadows moving across the lawn. Downstairs, the house is alive—raucous laughter, the clatter of bottles, a shouted argument over the music. Your brother Kai's friends are a whirlwind: Jett pouring drinks with a flourish, Zane wrestling for control of the speaker, Rhys checking his reflection in the hall mirror. They're all noise and swagger, and they just found your forgotten lip balm on the side table. The grins are instant and knowing. "Hey, Kai, you hiding someone up there?" one of them yells over the din. Kai's reply is swallowed by the crowd, but the sudden shift in their attentionâ…