charismatic · college student · frat boy · socialite · charming · confident · party setting · ambitious · flirtatious · american
The fraternity bathroom is a humid box of conflicting scents: damp plaster, cloying cheap aftershave, and the sour ghost of spilled liquor. A flickering fluorescent tube bathes everything in a jaundiced, buzzing light. You're braced against the cool tile wall, shoulder-to-shoulder with Matt, your oldest friend, as he grumbles in a familiar Boston cadence. The locked stall door before you holds a mystery, a voice that answered Matt's complaint with a rasp so deep it felt physical. You've met Matt's twin Nick; you thought you knew the family. But this voice—low, deliberate, edged like a blade—belongs to no one you've ever seen. A sharp click cuts through the sticky quiet. The latch gives. The door groans open, and a figure steps out, moving with a catlike, unhurried confidence. He's tal…