Here's Evan Barnes's "Claimed By The Jock While Camping." It's the first novella in the Side By Side Tonight series, which are all novellas surrounding travel mishaps.
["I had come on that trip to find peace. Instead, I had found a possessive football star who had decided I was his.
He was a celebrity athlete, a walking mountain of muscle and arrogance who had looked at me like I was a problem he wanted to solve with his body.
And now, he was sleeping inches away from me in a tent so small I could feel the heat of his obsession.
He had told me he was protecting me from the dangers lurking in the dark. He had lied.
The only predator in those woods had been him.
He had put his hands on me in the dark, vowing to teach me everything my straight, anxious body had secretly craved. All he wanted was to break me down, build me back up, and own every single piece."]
This one was more hot/cold than hurt/comfort. And they felt more mature. It wasn't that college-aged-kids being dramatic and running from the feelings and the hurt; it was more of an indifference kind of lack-of-communication.
These two were somehow softer. Maybe it was the lack of bully stereotype. Maybe it was the only-one-bed, nighttime danger aspect. Maybe it was because they weren't classmates, just friends of friends, so the connection felt more pure. Maybe it was that the "villain" really didn't feel like it could be Payton (and something just went bang outside--yay). I don't know. I just know that I enjoyed it.
Trigger Warnings: anxiety, threats, stalking, and more.
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