Frat house box boy part 2!
Let’s see how our boy fares with the various members of the house. credit for this universe goes to @sweetwhumpandhellacomf and @shameless-whumper ! ps i know some lovely current and past frat boys irl who do community service and are all around good folks lol no shade this is very much a boxoffice movie portrayal lol. I’ll do the tag list tomorrow thank you for those who asked to be tagged!!!!
heres part 1
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“Just be glad it isn’t Bacardi this time.” One of the boys says dryly over his shoulder, turns back to the game.
He is. He’s grateful it’s just water. But they keep making him drink more every time their favorite team on the TV fumbles, every time they lose a point, even sometimes when they win. It doesn’t make sense, but it doesn’t have to. The point is they tell him to do something and he does it.
“How much is that now, Z2? Hold it up!”
Z2. The first letter and number of his BoxBoy serial ID. It’d stuck, and now they called him Z2, sometimes making beeping noises at him like a Star Wars droid. Except Alex. Alex just calls him Z.
He holds up the plastic gallon of water. Even three quarters empty, the weight of it makes his arm shake. He hasn’t eaten since yesterday morning. No one had offered him anything since then.
Last night they had a party, one of their all-night affairs that ended with the house in disarray and people he’s never seen passed out under tables, on the stairs. Even the front yard had been a mess. Part of his job is cleaning up after the parties, which he much preferred to being included in their games.
His hand still hurt from the game with the darts. He was told to stand beside the board and hold his hand up— to keep it still even if one hit him. One had been thrown so hard it stuck right in the meat of his thumb. That got a round of raucous laughter. Even the pledges, freshmen who always looked so eager and nervous liked to join in. He was the only thing lower on the totem pole than they were.
Later, Alex found Z2 curled up on the floor at the foot of his bed and bandaged his hand for him. It took a half hour of gentle questions before Z2 could even formulate the story and tell him what had happened.
Alex rubbed antibiotic cream over the sore punctures, wrapped them in gauze. He’d stayed in Alex’s room that night, the sleeping bag and pillow bed Alex had made him on the floor of his closet. It felt safe there. Alex installed a hook-eye lock on the inside of the closet door for him, told him not to tell anyone about it. Only when he was inside and it was latched could he relax enough to truly sleep.
“Almost there.” Someone taunts. “Can you get the gallon down before halftime?”
He whimpers, feeling the pressure on his bladder like an anvil, like a balloon about to burst.
One boy leans close to him. “You don’t have to drink any more of that.”
Z2 looks to his left and sees Dominic, a senior who’d set some sort of school record last semester for the football team. He’s tall and broad-shouldered, with a mischievous look in his eyes that has always made Z2 nervous. He hadn’t realized how close he’d been sitting to him until just now, distracted by his own misery.
“How?” He whispers back.
“Just don’t if you don’t want to.”
Cheers erupt from the boys. Something’s gone right for their team. The team in white, he’s deduced from their noises of joy and dismay so far.
“I….” He bites his lip, embarrassed. “I really have to use the restroom.”
Dominic gives the smaller boy a once-over glance. His fraternity brothers would like nothing more than to know that information, to tell him no and taunt him, make him keep drinking the water until he wets himself in front of everyone.
Dominic leans in close again so no one else hears. “Hold it until halftime. I’ll get up for another beer and take you with me, alright?”
He feels a surge of gratefulness that stings the back of his eyes with tears. He hurries to blink them away. A round of let-down cries makes him jump.
“Come on, Z2. Take one for the team. Bottoms up, little bitch.” Cameron says.
Z2’s heart thuds in his chest. It feels like the water he’s drunk is in his throat, like his sloshing stomach couldn’t take another ounce. His bladder hurts, and he’s started tapping his heel to avoid having an accident right there in the living room among all of them.
“You deaf and stupid?” Cam asks. He’s the one who’d missed the dart board deliberately, aimed for Z2’s face instead, laughing as he flinched away to protect his eyes. Z2 was nervous around a lot of the boys, but feared Cameron above the rest.
On the rare occasion they were alone, Cam would beckon him close only to twist his arm behind his back in a way that made it feel like it was going to break, just to hear him yelp. He’d hold it there until he begged for mercy, and sometimes wait a little longer after that. The sight of him made Z2 flinch and look down at his feet. Only when Alex was around would Cam leave him alone, knowing Alex was fiercely protective of their BoxBoy. Cam would tease him, asking if they’d sealed the deal yet, if Alex had fucked him.
“You’re projecting again, Cam.” Alex would always reply, nonplussed.
But Alex wasn’t here to protect him right now.
“Drink. Up.”
Z2 shakes his head. “I can’t.” He says quietly.
A few heads swivel in his direction.
“What’s the matter?” Cam stands, coming closer. “You not thirsty anymore? You’re always thirsty.” He presses the heel of his hand to Z2’s lower belly. He whimpers, squirming. “Gotta piss yet?”
“Leave him alone, Cameron.” Dominic says in a voice that begs no argument.
Cam lets off, laughing. “Little water never killed anybody.”
Dominic dips his head. “It has, actually. And I’d like to graduate without being involved in a lawsuit.”
“That’s what we got him for. No more lawsuits from pussy boy pledges.”
“Go use the restroom.” Dominic tells Z2. He looks at Cam flatly. “No one will follow you.”
Z2 gets up slowly, wincing at how badly he needs to relieve his bladder. When he comes back, as he knows he is expected to, he keeps quiet as possible and climbs onto the sofa next to Dominic… closer this time, holding his breath. Dominic might have only been helping him to annoy Cameron. He’s heard them arguing before.
But Dom lays a heavy arm around Z2’s skinny neck, pats him gently on the opposite shoulder. Z2 glances up at him and gets a little smirk, a nod that seems to say see? It’s alright. You’re alright.
He doesn’t know what would become of him without Alex, and apparently Dominic, who was the last guy he expected it from. He only hopes he doesn’t pay for it later.