"I'm Thinking This Is a Problem We Can Solve Together" (Jevon One-shots)

Requested| •Heaven On Earth•

She thanks him before pouring the drink into the four cups sitting on the table. The rest of us begin to sit down as she finishes setting the table. Junior sits down first and I sit to his left. I expected Jake to sit next to me but to my surprise he sits on the other side of his cousin.

My mom takes the last sit available at the table and closes off the space between Jake and I, making us unable to form eye contact. I didn't know exactly what to feel about this. Was he avoiding me for not saying it back? Or was he simply thinking that I would rather sit next to my mom? That was probably right.

He knows she's barely able to have dinners like this with me, let alone my boyfriend and best friend. I spent the entire dinner trapped in my head that was swirling with theories and thoughts as to what to say to him and when. How the hell was I supposed to know if I loved someone romantically when I've never felt that kind of love before.

This shit was confusing.

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Jake's pov

I had just finished convincing Kim to let me and Junior wash the dishes while she got ready for bed and her early shift in the morning, she did not give up easily. I was on washing duty and Junior was on drying duty. They had a dishwasher but neither of us felt confident enough to use it, me because I'm still getting used to being here. I don't know about Junior.

"Did Devon seem...I don't know awkward to you?
Just now during dinner." Junior asks me quietly, almost as a whisper. I noticed it, I thought maybe he was tired. "If you mean awkward by quieter, always looked lost in thought, and a little fidgety then yeah." I answer to him. What happened?

"Do you know why?" He asks again. I shake my head. He sighs, "well I could talk to him, if you want. Though he might be better comforted by you." "Why is that?" I ask. Junior's literally his best friend. Who else could comfort you better than a best friend other than your family of course.

"Because you're literally his favorite person in the world." He says, giving me a look as if to call my question stupid. I let out a soft laugh."No I'm not." I say back to him. "Umm yeah you are. Have you seriously not noticed?" He says. I give him a confused look while he stares at me for a while.

Suddenly he lets out a laugh, soon he's wheezing and has to pause drying the dishes in his hand because he's laughing so hard. "Damn you're dumb...Aww my best friend likes idiots."

I roll my eyes at him before resuming washing, anxiously waiting to finish so that I could talk to Devon. Was that really the truth? Was I also his favorite person?

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Devon's pov

I was currently in my mom's room sitting with her on her bed as she waited for my answer to her question. "What do you mean I was acting weird?" I ask her. "You didn't seem like you were present in the moment and you a little fidgety. I kept seeing your knee bounce and your head moving around like you were looking for something." She says. Damn was I that obvious?

In reality my head kept moving because I was trying to make eye contact with Jake. I was also busy daydreaming about the different outcomes that could happen if I told him "I love you."

"What's going on?" She asks me. "How do you if you love someone? And if you do how do you let them know?" I blurt out. "Wait what?" She asks, tone full of shock. I expected that, I mean I did see her eyes pop out of her head.