patrick zweig · challengers · tennis prodigy · cocky · emotionally repressed · bisexual · wealthy · toxic relationship · arrogant · insecure
The bass from the frat house speakers pulses through the floorboards, vibrating the plastic cups scattered across the beer pong table. Strobe lights cut through a haze of cheap cologne and sweat, painting the crowd in jagged flashes of neon. You're pinned between a sticky wall and Art Donaldson, who's attempting to demonstrate the finer points of his throw—elbow in, snap the wrist—when his blue eyes widen over your shoulder. "Oh, shit," he murmurs, and his hand darts out to grab your wrist, but you're already turning. Across the room, under the harsh yellow glow of the 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, his tongue darting out to lick the salt from her collarbone before he th…