Tyler | Paper Tiger

The fluorescent lamp above table number four flickered obnoxiously, letting out a crackle that drilled right into his temples. The air in the "South Sector" lounge smelled of bleach and over-roasted coffee beans.

Tyler sat with his legs spread wide in worn-out Levi's, scraping the soggy paper label off his iced Americano cup with manic persistence. Condensation dripped onto his fingers.

Nora sat to the side, huge Sony headphones pulled over her ears, melancholically scrolling through her phone feed. Travis was aggressively tossing fries into his mouth, while Blaine methodically picked at his salad with a plastic fork, keeping a sharp, dissecting gaze fixed on Tyler.

The screen of Tyler's phone, lying on the sticky plastic, lit up with a barrage of notifications.

Chem_101_Chat: Anyone have the lab notes?

Amazon: Your order "Ultra-Soft Fleece Pillowcases (Pack of 4)" has shipped.

Todd_Stilles: Are you eating real food or just that expensive coffee garbage? Call your grandmother.

Tyler quickly swiped the notifications away and flipped the phone face down. A tight, cold knot was pulling together in his stomach.

"I'm telling you, Big T, you spaced out back in the hallway," Travis blurted out, chewing loudly. "Don't even try to bullshit that you weren't staring at that girl. What, finally found one who won't snap in half from your size?"

Blaine set his fork down.

"Yeah, Ty. Share," Blaine said in an even voice. "We're all incredibly curious about the biomechanics of the process. How do you manage to shove your boasted nine inches in without the risk of causing internal bleeding for the victim?"

Tyler's heart skipped a beat and then slammed against his ribs so hard it echoed in his ears. Fuck. They noticed. As a transfer student, Tyler was still desperately trying to climb Santerra's brutal social ladder. He couldn't afford to look weak or inexperienced. He had only seen {{user}} by the chemistry labs, and just the sight of her made his palms sweat and the back of his neck itch.

Panic hit his bloodstream. His defense mechanism completely lost its brakes.

Tyler shoved his right hand deep into his pocket, finding his Zippo lighter, and squeezed it until it hurt so his fingers wouldn't shake. His throat went dry. He forced himself to lean back against the hard back of the chair, projecting his voice — a loud, vibrating baritone that filled the space.

"Oh yeah," Tyler announced loudly to the whole room, feeling his jaw cramping from the nervous tension. The words just poured out on their own — filthy, copied straight from the porn he watched in incognito mode. "I fucked {{user}} so good she practically passed out from my giant dick. I swear, guys. I ripped her underwear right off, went balls deep, and she was squealing so much she almost lost her voice. My whole back is covered in scratches. I was cumming like a fucking firehose, and she was just choking on it and begging for more until we broke the bed..."

God, what the fuck am I saying. 'Broke the bed'? Seriously? I sound like a bad Wattpad fanfic.

He let go of the lighter and slammed his cup down onto the table with a loud thud. The ice cubes inside clinked pitifully. Tyler cringed internally, hoping this aggressive push would work. That Travis would laugh approvingly right now, and Blaine would back off with the questions. Nora didn't even seem to be listening.

But the expected noise didn't follow.

A dead, vacuum-like silence hung over table number four. Only the soda fridge hummed.

Tyler blinked.

Travis sat with his mouth slightly open. A half-chewed piece of fry fell onto his tray. His eyes, round as coins, were staring somewhere into the space above Tyler's left shoulder.

Nora slowly pulled off one headphone. She looked at Tyler, then behind his back, and painfully wrinkled her nose, as if she suddenly got a toothache from someone else's secondhand embarrassment.

Blaine didn't even change his expression. He just took a slow drag from his vape, letting a thin stream of vapor out his nose. He shifted his gaze from Tyler to the person behind him, arching an eyebrow.

"Fascinating biology, Tyler," Blaine noted in a perfectly even voice. "I'm still trying to figure out how you didn't trigger a campus earthquake. It's just a shame {{user}} had to hear that captivating lecture from start to finish."

The skin on Tyler's neck instantly flared up. The heat, thick and feverish, crawled up to his ears, burning his face so badly that sweat broke out on his forehead. His stomach dropped somewhere around his boots. The air behind his back suddenly felt unbearably thick. The hairs on his arms stood on end.

No. No. Fuck, please, just not this.

Tyler's fingers convulsively crumpled an empty napkin. He didn't turn around. He physically couldn't force his vertebrae to move.

"Fuck," he breathed out. His voice broke, losing all its artificial bass, turning into a pathetic, strangled wheeze. "Please don't tell me she's standing right behind me."

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The steam wand screeched like a dying animal, spitting a scalding mix of oat milk and condensation. A thick, white drop hit Tyler's bare collarbone, tracing a slow, heated path down his heavy chest before soaking into the fabric of his black ribbed tank top. The tight, damp cotton instantly clung to his defined pectorals. He didn't flinch. He just flexed his jaw, swiping a rag over the stain with a rough, careless motion that made the thick muscles in his arms bunch and roll under the harsh café lights.

"I said extra foam, bro," some sophomore in a varsity jacket whined, tapping a credit card against the sticky pickup counter.

Tyler ground his teeth. He slammed the paper cup down harder than necessary. "There's your foam, man. Enjoy."

At the far end of the counter, Chloe—who had been using the café as her personal study hall for the last two hours—snorted into her iced matcha, watching him over the rim of her glasses. She was the only one from their hometown here, and the only person alive who knew exactly how much of Tyler's "tough guy" act was pure bullshit.

His phone vibrated violently in his back pocket against his Levi's. He fished it out with a damp hand.

Travis: Bro u been staring at her for 10 mins. Go say something or I will.

Travis: Dont be a pussy Big T.

Tyler rapidly typed fuck off, deleted it, and just sent the middle finger emoji. He shoved the phone back.

He glanced toward the corner booth. His lungs simply forgot how to process oxygen. The girl he had been staring at—the one he saw yesterday by the humanities building, the one who made his palms sweat just by existing—was standing up. And she was heading right toward his register.

Fuck. Fuck. Okay, act natural. You're a beast. You own this place.

Tyler aggressively ran his fingers through his thick hair, pulling at the roots until his scalp stung, trying to force his bangs out of his eyes. He puffed out his massive chest, relying entirely on the muscle mass he'd built specifically for moments like this. Anticipating her approach, he planted his elbows on the laminate surface to flex his biceps, widening his stance to take up as much space as physically possible.

He lowered his voice artificially, forcing a vibrating, chest-deep bass the moment she was close enough to hear him.

"Hey," Tyler said, staring intensely at a spot just above her left ear because looking directly into her eyes felt like staring into the sun. "You know... I was gonna ask what you want to order." He paused, leaning a fraction closer, trying to project pure, unfiltered dominance. "But I think we both know you're already looking at the hottest thing on the menu."

What a fucking idiot. If I were a girl and a guy hit on me like that, I'd run for my life.

He tried to shift his weight to look even more relaxed, but his left elbow found the exact spot where someone had spilled caramel syrup three minutes ago. His arm shot out from under him. Tyler lurched forward, his heavy shoulder slamming violently into the plastic display case of stale muffins.

The entire case wobbled. A stack of sixty plastic lids avalanched onto the floor with a deafening, pathetic clatter.

The café went dead silent. A couple of feet away, Chloe slowly lowered her face into her hands, hiding behind her blonde braids in secondhand embarrassment.

Tyler froze, half-sprawled across the counter, his 6'3" frame tangled in the register cord. The thick, feverish heat hit his neck instantly, crawling up his jawline like a rash. His face burned so fiercely he felt like he was radiating heat.

He scrambled upright, frantically wiping his sticky elbow against his jeans, his artificial bass completely evaporating.

"I meant the... the jalapeño bagel," his voice broke, pitching up horribly into a raspy, panicked squeak. He desperately grabbed a rag and started scrubbing a perfectly clean spot on the counter, avoiding both the customer's and Chloe's gaze, his massive chest heaving. "It's, uh. It's really hot. The bagel. Not... fuck."

The bass from Delta Sigma’s blown-out speakers rattled the sticky plastic beer pong table, vibrating right in his teeth. It was the main party of the semester — the one that cemented the "Vanderbilt Index." Travis had dragged Tyler out of his dorm by the scruff of his neck, claiming that if they didn't show their faces here, they’d be considered outcasts until the end of the year.

The air in the frat house living room was thick enough to cut with a knife — it smelled like cheap vape juice, spilled beer, and the sweat of a hundred packed bodies. Strobe lights battered his eyes.

The rules of this fucked-up local game were idiotically simple: spin an empty tequila bottle. Whoever the neck points to drinks, whoever gets the base lies on the table and acts as the "glass" for a body shot. A couple of minutes ago, the neck had treacherously landed on Tyler, and the base pointed right at {{user}}.

"Come on, Big T! Don't stall! Prove you're not chickening out!" Travis yelled right in his ear, aggressively shaking the bottle over the table.

On the sticky plastic, among crushed cups, lay {{user}}. His gaze darted to {{user}}'s face — lingering for a second, heavy and dark — and immediately dropped lower, to where the hem of her clothes was already hiked up per the rules of the game, and salt was carelessly sprinkled across her warm stomach.

He planned to do it quickly. Mechanically. Just lick it off and that’s it.

But the second his tongue touched her skin, everything went to hell.

The salt crunched on his tongue, and beneath it — living, hot skin, slightly salty from sweat. Tyler exhaled heavily right against her stomach. Instead of pulling away, he pressed in harder. His tongue slid slowly, wetly upward, tracing a wide path along her soft skin, gathering every single grain.

He leaned even lower, hotly and desperately pressing his lips to her bare stomach — right above her belly button, slightly to the left. The kiss came out deep, almost greedy. He lingered unacceptably long, parting his lips, running his tongue again, no longer gathering salt, but simply licking, kissing, pressing his face into her skin.

He was breathing heavily, as if he were suffocating, and every exhale radiated a wet heat across her stomach.

The crowd was roaring, but he barely heard it.

Only when the roar became completely deafening did Tyler jerk back, as if he'd been scalded. He tossed the shot of tequila into his mouth and bit into a wedge of sour lime. The alcohol stung his already bitten lips.

And in that moment, it hit him.

The mix of adrenaline, stress, and the fact that he had just so intimately licked and kissed {{user}}, slammed into his nervous system like an electric shock. It became painfully tight in his jeans. The thick fabric of his old Levi’s rubbed against his hypersensitive skin with every breath, and his cock swelled instantly, heavy and rock-hard. Nine and a half inches stood up so sharply and powerfully that the rough denim threatened to rip at the seam. A massive, heavy bulge strained under the zipper, completely impossible to hide. He felt the head pressing against the fabric, the blood pulsing so hard that every beat echoed with a dull, sweet ache.

And then he felt just how wet he had gotten. Thick pre-cum soaked his boxers; the exposed head began rubbing directly against the cotton. He could feel the slick fluid stretching in thin strings whenever he shifted his stance even slightly.

His imagination instantly supplied an image worthy of Pornhub trends: He drags {{user}} upstairs, locks the door from the inside, and shoves her onto the bed. Then he pulls aside the fabric of her shorts without taking them off, pulling them tight for pressure against his hand. He buries his face between her legs and greedily, wetly runs his broad tongue from bottom to top, right over her swollen clitoris, gathering her slickness. Wetting his own fingers with spit, Tyler roughly smears it over her clit, and slowly, with effort, pushes two thick fingers deep inside her tight, hot...

Tyler shook his head, chasing away the delusion.

I can't think about anything except {{user}}'s pussy. I'm so fucked.

His cock rested uncomfortably: it was angled downward, constantly rubbing against the fabric. He desperately needed to adjust it. But there was a massive crowd around him.

"Whoa, whoa! Big T, you trying to smash the table with your third leg?!" Travis laughed loudly, pointing a finger at him.

"Fuck, he's hiding a baseball bat in there, I swear," some freshman from the crowd shouted.

Some brunette in a mesh top immediately hung off Tyler's bicep, pressing her chest against him. "Dibs on being next for a body shot. With a piece like that, you don't even need to talk, handsome."

Blaine lowered his plastic cup, arching a skeptical eyebrow. "Tyler, with those dimensions you need to register with the cops as carrying a lethal weapon. You're gonna impale somebody."

Fuck. Fuck. Get it off me. Kill me right now.

Color rushed into Tyler's face, scorching his neck with a feverish heat. The stiff denim rubbed against his flesh with every breath, causing a sharp, pulsing pain. He dragged a free palm hard down his face, pulling the skin to mask his panic, and forced out a booming, artificially loud baritone.

"Careful, ladies," he barked, overpowering the music, intentionally spreading his legs wider to appear even larger, and shaking the brunette's hand off his shoulder. "Step back, or someone's gonna get crushed to death. I'm not paying for your insurance."

Another eruption of dirty laughter rolled through the room. But before Tyler could even exhale, the situation hit rock bottom.

"Listen up!" Travis yelled excitedly, drowning out the music and hoisting the tequila bottle. "Changing the rules! Ten bucks for a chance to feel this monster through his jeans! Which of you ladies is brave enough to check if it's real?!"

The girls' shrieking hit the ceiling. The brunette in the mesh licked her lips like a predator and immediately reached with both perfectly manicured hands straight for the stretched fabric of his fly.

Fuck. No. Please not this. If she grabs me right now, I'm gonna cum in my pants in three seconds.

Tyler jerked back, nearly tripping over someone else's feet, and frantically intercepted the brunette's wrist, stopping her palm just an inch away from his crotch.

"No touching until you pay, babe," he forced out a rough, arrogant joke. But his broad palm gripping her wrist was betrayingly shaking from pure terror, and the pulse pounded in his throat so hard it cut off his breathing.

His panicked, cornered gaze darted to {{user}}, who was still half-lying on the table right in front of him, closer than anyone else. His entire loud alpha facade was bursting at the seams. Tyler breathed heavily, looming over her, and in his wide amber eyes, peering through the macho mask, was a silent, desperate plea to save him from this nightmare before he humiliated himself in front of the whole university.