jerk jock

 triggers mentioned: assault/violence, hospital mention

“I guess by your logic, everyone who attended and played is still in middle school.” It wasn’t even a cheap shot, it was a fact that Ollie’s dorm party had a lot of attendees. Matty wasn’t the most personable schoolmate, so Gabe wasn’t surprised by his off-putting comments. “I live for the thrill of seeing the day when you’re not a complete ass to others.” Now that one, was a cheap shot from Gabe as he brought his drink to his lips, somewhere in between being smug and regretting he started this. “You know, you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to. It hurts no one if you just… skip.”

“ 𝘽𝙄𝙂 𝘼𝙍𝙂𝙐𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙋𝙀𝙊𝙋𝙇𝙀 𝙒𝙃𝙊 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙈𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀𝙇𝙔 still stuck in middle school mentally. ” a rich comment coming from someone who knew a grand total of 5 middle schoolers in his youth, 3 of them being pre-approved friends from his mother. matty took a second to scan through the crowd. he wasn’t even sure why he was here, most of this apartment were people he usually tried to avoid. usually there was a very easy detailed plan-- come in, get drunk, ditch before he could run into any…unsavories. “ you plan on living forever? ” an attempt at a joke, if the delivery weren’t so completely deadpan. A scowl took over his features as his jaw clenched, ‘ this is why we stopped trying ‘ he reminded himself, “ if only you had a life and came to the other party to see that I was long gone by the time they started a dumb game. ”

          Julieta hadn’t been sleeping all that well since transferring to Ogden. There was a big part of her that felt homesick for California. She missed her mom more than she cared to admit and all of this stuff with Greer was… well it was weird and scary. So most nights she stayed out late, worked on her homework, and attempted to blend in around campus as much as someone with her influence could blend in. Instead of attempting to sleep, tonight she snuck out of her dorm room, found herself outside. It was colder than a night in California would be. She didn’t even notice someone else was out here at that quad until they spoke. Julieta couldn’t help that she jumped. “Something like that, why?” 

          𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙒 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙅𝙐𝙈𝙋 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙋𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙔, a small frown appeared at it, “ sorry, ” he apologized quietly, “ didn’t mean to scare you. ” Which was an ironic comment from him, considering most of the time he would probably be pleased by the reaction. “ i was just confused why someone else was out at this time.  not a lot of traffic. “ he swung his arm behind him, motioning to the otherwise empty quad.  he was well aware of the hypocritical angle he was taking, matty was just hoping she wouldn’t turn this around on him as well since he had no interest in confiding in a stranger about his small existential crisis. 

          Ogden always had something going on be it a missing person or a party, Wilder liked to be in the center of it all. He had always been chaotic person and he wasn’t apologetic for the person he was. The problem with it was that he was not the person that people cared to listen to. More often than not, he was told to calm down when he was too passionate about a subject. This was a public space however and he wasn’t going to tell someone to shut up in a public space. “Hold on, did you really just tell me to shut up? In a public space? Where there’s literally a whole ass other side of the river you could go to? What crawled up your ass and died? Greer? Is that where she’s been all this time? Damn dude. You coulda just told us.” He couldn’t keep the annoyance out of his voice.

          𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙔'𝙎 𝙀𝙔𝙀𝘽𝙍𝙊𝙒𝙎 𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙎𝙀𝘿 𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙈𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝙀𝙍, a humourless chuckle as he shook his head. “ nem fodendo ” he cursed under his breath, if only he was half as charismatic and manipulative as his old doubles partner seemed to be. between shit like this, and the group chat-- she seemed to have the whole campus wrapped around her finger. if this whole disappearing act was a test of loyalty surely most of these people passed. fuck, even matty did, already complaining to his coach that his new partner wasn’t immediately living up to greer’s capabilities. “ oh please dont tell me you were in love with her too. ” he made a deal of rolling his eyes extra dramatically, “ besides, im asking for the betterment of everyone around us, but either way i think the answer was no regardless. “

Ashton enjoyed nighttime, as it was a time when everything was winding or beginning to winddown. The campus was usually empty aside from either people like himself who stayed up for whatever reason. He couldn’t sleep, choosing to read one of his assigned books for a course that was entirely reading and then writing book reports.  It was a little too late to be reading in the quad, but he didn’t have any classes tomorrow and had the option of sleeping in. 

The lamppost behind him was providing all the light he needed with the added lack of noise around him. The quiet was unfortunately soon interrupted by the voice of Matty, someone he didn’t expect nor really wanted to be around because their interactions were far from friendly. Ashton kept his head down looking at his book, but did peek down at his watch. “ 1:30 am. Please don’t say anything about me reading. These are my moments of peace.”   

          𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝘼𝙉𝙔𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙎 𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙔 𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙋𝙐𝙎, it had to be one of the people matty didn’t get along with. this was a little dramatic, however, since matty didnt care for most people.  at least it was someone that he knew in the first place.  no need to make new enemies, he had a hard enough time keeping up with his current nemeses.

          matty let out a scoff, “ bah, you really think I give a shit about what some- ” his voice cuts off as he racks his brain for the correct translation of the word he was looking for, “ babaca tells me to do? ” matty’s nostrils flared with anger, knowing full well he had no right to be this upset at the simple request.  “ what even could you be reading, don’t you have some jock’s homework to do? “

He was pretty wasted, as he walked across the quad heading back to Waverly from some random party or another. But he hadn’t wanted to deal with a walk of shame too early in the morning when he had classes at 9 the next day. So, there he was trudging across campus trying to not appear too fucking stoned out of his mind, as if that would be surprising to anyone who saw him. Out of it so much that he hadn’t even noticed another person, jumping a little at the voice, and looking around in surprise. “Fuck dude,” Ollie said, a deep breath, looking at what was probably the real Matty. “I think it’s more like 3 but it’s whatever.” Who was right? It could have been 10am and Ollie wouldn’t know the difference, so who knew. Definitely not him.

          𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙔 𝙒𝘼𝙎 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙔 𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿 𝙎𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙇 who it was before they even opened their mouth, but he was more hoping it was monty or literally any one else. “ you fucking reek, are you ever sober? ” his voice came out callously.  “ are you going to die on me because i’m not playing nurse. ”  at least, he didn’t want too - his conscience would never really let him walk away from someone if they collapsed or anything of the sorts.  but for now matty’s job was just to make sure ollie could handle himself which from the rumours matty has hear-- he really shouldn’t be that worried at all.  “ its 1:42 if you want the exact time. “ he cleared his throat, annoyed that he felt the urge to even ask the next question, “ do you need help getting back? “ please say no.

A notorious night owl, KJ enjoyed haunting Ogden at night like a ghost, just enjoying what little peace it had to offer at night. No loud noises, people walking from A to B, rushing to class, others just gossiping all day about Greer and what’s currently happening. This time, however, he immediately knew he wasn’t alone. Seeing Matty’s silhouette from far away, he approached him with a slow pace, almost without making any sound. Maybe he should’ve looked the other way, but decided to go for it anyway. “Can’t sleep, huh? Just like I remember you.” Their personalities had only amplified each other and KJ briefly wondered how much they’d actually slept while being together, “You alright?”

          𝘼𝙎 𝙎𝙊𝙊𝙉 𝘼𝙎 𝙃𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙑𝙊𝙄𝘾𝙀, matty’s eyes snapped from the sky to the other’s face. the look of a deer in headlights slipped off his face as he forced it to be neutral once again - although matty’s eyes couldn’t stop from roaming down kj’s body ( only for a moment. ) for some reason, kj was one of the last people matty expected to approach him. maybe this was only because he expected the other to avoid him just as much as matty did— even if matty was the one who started everything. “ like you remember me. ” matty echoed absentmindedly.  it was almost as if he could feel himself bottling up his emotions as he shrugged, finally pulling his gaze to look at the pavement, “ yeah, i just took a nap earlier so here i am. “ pause, “ are you-- alright? “

Making her way back to Alcott dorm from Waverly this late at night was unusual, but Parisa lost track of time while hanging out with her friends after classes that evening. A few laughs, snacks, and drinks later (Parisa only taking sips of them), she was finally growing tired and knew that she should head back. Politely declining any offers to be walked back to Alcott, the girl was beginning to regret that when she saw Matty Da Silva hanging out on the quad, his voice mentioning the time. “Congratulations, you know how to check the time. Good for you, Matty,” the girl chirped sarcastically, slowly and dramatically clapping for him. 

          “ 𝙄 𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙂𝙐𝙀𝙎𝙎𝙀𝘿, 𝘽𝙐𝙏 i will never say no to applause. but will you check if I was right, meu amor?  my phone died. “ he begged feigning innocence before rolling his eyes-- finally letting out an exasperated huff at the other’s presence.  two years of attempting to actively avoid one prisa davani for little to no pay out. ‘ it was only a kiss, you dont need to flip your shit. ‘  but now too much time was invested to go back on it. “ why are you here? ” he deadpanned as if the quad was his personal property to be on. 

Was it really already 1am? Diego had been throwing himself into his course work so quickly for so long that he had lost track of time. Astrophysics was no joke, imagine that. It’s not that he’d meant to fall into step with Matty beside him, but he didn’t mind the company. In fact… well, he preferred it to walking alone out here after everything that had been going on. Besides, he quite liked Matty despite any other opinions. “It’s it’s a little creepy walking out here alone,” he said. Perhaps lightly joking, if the small smile on his face said anything. “Sorry, I was just kicked from the library. What brings you out here so late?”

         𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙔 𝙃𝘼𝘿 𝙉𝙊 𝘿𝙊𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙎 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙒𝘼𝙇𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 to him had a legitimate reason to be out - he didn’t pay someone off to do his work for him.  and in matty’s defense, the only reason he’s even in university is to play tennis.  the whole school part of it is useless to him.  he nodded along, letting his head finally drop to glance over at his company. “ oh yeah, big bad diego scared all alone? “ he teased, knowing it was probably impossible to think of the other as bad. “ oh. ” his voice trailed off as he tried to come up with any sort of reason, “ you know. stuff, my mother tried to call. anyway, getting kicked from the library must be like a new low for you, classes have barely started “

          𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝙒𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉'𝙏 𝙊𝙐𝙏.  not that matty should’ve expected them to be, but maybe he was just hoping that the universe could sense his stress.  not that looking at the sky really helped with that - oftentimes it did the exact opposite when his brain began to spiral.  it was why nights started to become synonymous with partying. the footsteps on the sidewalk beside him were the only thing that pulled him out of his head, “ its 1am? “ he questioned the person by him without looking, head still tilted towards the clouded sky.

          " 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘼𝙏 𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙇𝙊𝙊𝙆 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝙔𝙊𝙐'𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙍𝙔𝙄𝙉𝙂 " matty glared at his new partner as he threw his racket to the ground. ever since greer decided to do-- whatever the fuck she did, he was stuck with a new doubles partner. and while he still believed he was the better player between him and greer, matty also couldn’t help but think how astrid barely held a flame to greer. “ you’re going to make us have to run punishment sprints. ”

“Hello Mr. Silva, how-“

“Da Silva.”