except it’s challengers art/patrick
Ooh, I care, I care, I care
Like perfume that you wear
Watchin', hidden in plain sight
But it takes over my life
The sweetest torture one could bear
Patrick being jealous of Art cause he gets to be with Tashi and at the same time being jealous of Tashi because all along all this time he was in love with Art ever since they were 12 ❤️
Smart sexy Lacy, I'm losing it lately
I feel your compliments like bullets on skin
Dazzling starlet, Bardot reincarnate
Well, aren't you the greatest thing to ever exist?
and every word Patrick heard from Art that night
“nah it doesn’t count anyways it doesn’t matter what we did at 12 we’re not together”
and he feels everything like bullets piercing right through him
just like Tashi’s words when she yelled at him to get out - he saw Art there and was betrayed by both of them; but more importantly his one and only best friend (and probably his first love too) betrayed him to be with the girl who used to be Patrick’s
Ooh, I care, I care, I care
Like ribbons in your hair
My stomach's all in knots
You got the one thing that I want
But it's like you're made of angel dust
he wants Tashi and at the same time he wants Art. it was all along about Art and the way they played along side each other all the time
Tashi’s got everything he wants: tennis, a successful player in her hands, and more importantly, Art’s love. all of Art’s love
years passed, everything changed, yeah, Tashi may have slept with Patrick cheating on Art but that’s not what really matters to him
THAT’S what broke him. he wanted to matter to Art, he wanted to know that after all these years he could still fix this, he hoped that even after those years Art may have realised that he loved Patrick back, surely that could’ve happened too?
but in that one scene is where he realised that Art is never gonna be the same friend, the same boy he was at 17. he’s never gonna get this one thing he wants back.
he tries to rationalise, he tried to make it all make sense in his head, to get Tashi to coach him too and get closer to him, closer to his first love ever again
and in his eyes Art is made from angel dust. he’s everything he wanted to be and everything he needed and wanted to have at the same time.
Lacy, oh, Lacy, it's like you're out to get me
You poison every little thing that I do
Lacy, oh, Lacy, I just loathe you lately
And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you
Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you
and yes, thoughts of Art poison everything Patrick has. everything Patrick had and wants to have and has now - it was all along all about his ex-best friend
and he wants to hate him, and he wants to get with Tashi just to make him jealous and prove to himself that he is worthy of at least something but he fails every time
because no matter what, in this game Art is always one step ahead of him. and he’s never going to look back on Patrick where he stayed right now.
and all along this, all this time Patrick worships Art. he knows that he’s the thing he’s been after his whole life, and tennis really didn’t matter to him this much already, nor did Tashi. she was not only the woman he wanted to steal, she was something he was jealous of. of her life and of her having Art as her husband.
