"SHOW THE NEWBIE WHERE HE CAN GET A BALL TO PLAY WATER POLO!"

"I CAN SHOW HIM TWO BALLS TO PLAY WITH!"

"YOU'RE FILTHY, RUA!" yells someone else.

"BE HELPFUL TO THE PLEDGE, RUA!"

"FINE! BRING HIM HERE!"

Hào points at the guy. "That's Rua. Go talk to him, he can get you a ball."

Peter's ears are ringing. "Yeah, thanks," he says, weakly, before walking over to Rua.

"HI! ARE YOU THE NEW PLEDGE?"

"I AM!" Why are they having this conversation directly adjacent to the sound system.

"NICE TO MEET YOU! I'M RUA! I'LL SHOW YOU WHERE TO GET A BALL!" And to the DJ: "BRB!"

He's starting to get a headache.

Rua will lead Peter to a location where numerous sports paraphernalia are kept in an extremely disorganised shed, and they can find a sea poolworthy ball for Peter to play water polo with!

He's been rethinking that decision but now that he's already here he's not about to back out. Even though doesn't even know if anyone else wants to play water polo.

Whatever. He also forgot to consider the fact that he isn't wearing a swimsuit, so he's going out to check whether this is the kind of frat party where people swim in their underwear or the kind where they get naked (that kind might not be real and might be exclusive to porn).

He probably can't literally figure out what everyone in the pool is wearing but everyone he does see—Su Doyoon included—seems to be wearing regular swimsuits.

Did everyone get told it was going to be a pool party but him, did people just guess in advance that it would be one somehow, what gives. Wait, maybe most people here were already brothers, right, term starts tomorrow and Peter had just been thinking earlier that he'd probably be one of the last people here, they might've been aware that this frat likes pool parties? But then how'd Su Doyoon know? Well, Peter supposes from the five minutes of conversing with him he wouldn't be surprised if Doyoon were the kind of person who'd be wearing a Speedo under his clothes just in case.

(Please don't make this weird, they're meant to be your brothers, you wouldn't be feeling attracted to your little brother, would you?)

(...something about that thought feels weird...)

ANYWAY his cubicle is right next to the pool so he can go to his room real quick to change into a swimsuit and then come back downstairs and jump into the pool.

"Yo! Who wants to play water polo?"

Ooh several people do!

Doyoon gives Peter a a grinning one-armed hug. "I'm on Peter's team!"

(Hot boys wearing nothing but Speedos should not be hugging Peter while he's also wearing nothing but a Speedo.)

(Stop making this weird.)

People quickly organize into teams and set up impromptu goals to start playing.

Okay! Finally a successful social interaction! Playing sports together is a great way to bond with people and he doesn't have to worry about being awkward! He's in his element, here.

If his element is in the middle of a bunch of men (the sorority girls they invited to the party seem to only just be starting to arrive so it's still just men) wearing very little and playing a high-contact sport in a location that is not actually big enough to allow them enough range of movement and distance from each other for comfort, he sure is in it!

Yes, he is, and he doesn't like your implications, this is a sport and he wants to win. He's not gonna waste time or brain power feeling attracted to people when he could instead be winning.

If he says so.