You and Jenna have been friends since kids. Your families were best friends. Growing up, you were closest to Isaac (Jenna oldest brother) since he was closest in age to you, you were still 2 years older though. When you all got together, Isaac, Mariah, Mia, Jenna, and the twins, Alliyah and Markus, it was all fun and games. Of all the 6 siblings of the Ortega family, Jenna was the quietest, and she pretty much reminded you of yourself.
You bonded very strongly with Jenna through the years, she was different. You considered she was your baby sister. You took care of her. Natalie asked you to babysit her and her siblings a couple of times ever since you were 15.
Jenna was always a natural, she could act extremely well and you lost the count of how many times she got something she wanted just because she would pretend to be sad and fake crying as a kid.
Whenever she was in some kind of trouble, she would come running to you and ask you for advice. You guessed since you were an only child, you would take closer attention to her problems than her own older siblings.
You used to drive her to Disney's channel Stuck in the Middle studio whenever Natalie couldn't, and sometimes you would even stick around to watch her shoot.
You gave her advice on boys, ever since the day she told you she might be having feelings for her co-star. Back then she was only 16 and you were already 22, already in college, almost getting your bachelor's degree in business administration. But still, you were there for her.
The day she had her heart broken by the same co-star, you were the one she called to pick her up from set back on 2018. Her mom is a nurse and whenever she wasn't occupied with her work, she has 6 kids to take care of and a household to maintain. You would gladly offer to help her whenever you could, since you lived 5 blocks away from them, it was like you were the oldest of their children and could give a hand whenever needed.
You remember as if it was yesterday, her tear streamed stained face stuck in your mind after you picked her up.
-Flashback-
You were at home, after an exhausting day in college, finals were coming, you were studying and you just wanted the semester to be over with so you could graduate and assume the role of working on your family business.
Your phone vibrated several times and you were forced to stop reading your notes and unlock your iPhone.
J Ortega iMessage:
-Y/N are you home? Can you pick me up like now? Please? My mom's not answering. 😢
Instead of texting you called Jenna on her phone, the moment she said "Hi" you knew something was wrong. Her voice was cracking and she was mainly answering you with yes or no, as if she said more than one word she would break down crying.
You asked her if she was in the studio, to which she answered "yes".
"I'm on my way. I'll be the in 30 minutes, ok?" You turned off your phone, grabbed the keys to your Volkswagen Atlas and you locked the front door behind you.
On your way over to Disney Studios you kept wondering what could have happened. "Was she fired? Did she get in a fight? Is the show cancelled?" You were so lost in thought, you didn't see you were above the speed limit on the free way, but oh well, Jenna needed you, clearly that was more important.
Once you made it to Disney Studios, showed your ID (you had a trouble-free entrance since Jenna put you on her family list allowed to get in to pick her up).
Jenna was outside, sitting on the curb, her headphones on her ears, and once she looked up after you parked beside her, you could see her eyes were red from crying.
"Hey. Hop in." You knew she didn't listen, but she had the amazing capacity to read lips since she practically always wore either headphones or earphones.
She got inside and took a seat beside you, she took her left ear out of the headphone and now you knew she could hear you.
"You wanna talk about it?" She simply shook her head no. "Do you wanna go home?" Another no again. "Do you want ice cream?" She gave a slight nod and you understood.
You kept your radio silence just so you could listen to what songs she was listening to, it was sad songs and every now and then you could see her from the corner of your eye wiping a tear from her eyes.
You drove to a Walmart and parked the car. "I'll be right back, ok?" She nodded. In record time you bought her favorite, 3 chocolate flavored ice creams, paid for them and ran back to the car.
You gave her the 3 ice creams and got a small smile from her. "Thanks." Was all she said.
You drove to your house, it was almost an hour drive on your way back. Jenna had yet not said a word.
You pulled over your garage and turned off the car. Jenna anticipated and got out, walking towards the front door. After you unlocked it, she and her 3 ice creams cans made their way straight to your kitchen and grabbed 2 spoons, and made a straight line to your comfy couch, grabbing the remote controller.
"Can we watch something?" By now she let her headphones on your side table and her eyes were less bloodshot than before.
"Of course." She chose one those crimes documentary to watch, and that was Jenna for you, she just loved those types of things.
Before sitting down beside her, you texted Natalie, Jenna's mom, saying she was with you and that everything was okay. You put your arms around her in a kindly way, pulled her head on your shoulder and kissed her forehead supportingly, letting her go shortly after. You don't have siblings, but the Ortegas are pretty much brothers and sisters to you and you hate to see Jenna sad for whatever reason.
After 3 hours of complete silence, just watching documentaries, she finally told you what happened. Her and her co-star from Stuck in the Middle were dating and he simply dumped her because he was seeing another girl. Supposedly another girl from Disney. She seemed better now, cause she told you everything without sharing a single tear.
"I'm gonna fucking kick his ass next time I see him." You said and she laughed. Nobody messes with Jenna.
-end of flashback-
A couple months passed after this episode, you graduated college, got your business administration degree and was now helping on your family's business. That was pretty much all you did on your time.
You watched as Jenna started to get bigger, you were there backstage while she was shooting for You and The Babysitter: Killer Queen. You even got a weird feeling seeing that kissing scene from the latter movie, after all, you had seen this girl grow up. Her acting skills were getting off the charts, and you were so proud of her.
She would often crash at your place cause as she would say "she needed a break from her siblings". You and Isaac grew a little separated, since he started dating and you starting working. But you and Jenna grew a stronger bond. You became really close friends with her stylist Enrique Melendez, or Rique as you and Jenna would call him, and you three would have long conversations about life.
Whenever you had availability, Jenna would call you to help her get set up for an interview or a press call, and you always watched from the outlines, cause the flashlights weren't for you. You always kept quiet and were an introvert, but you loved to see Jenna shine, she made you very proud. You were the one who kept her headphones safe whenever she stepped on the red carpet for pictures.
During 2019 you began dating a girl you met at work, named Maria. She was really nice, you clicked instantly, but you were the owner's daughter after all, so you had to be extra safe. You never got really involved with anyone, you had your first heartbreak when you were 18, the girl you dated, cheated on you with a guy, you learned from it, you grew from it.
You had come out to your family and friends ever since you were 18, but you never actually really gotten serious with a girl before to a point where you introduced her to your family.
You were 23 and living your best life, money was good after working long shifts at your family's business. You considered to have the best job, you liked to run things and take care of financials on a basic level, cause that wasn't your degree.
You got yourself another house closer to Los Angeles and kept the older one at Coachella Valley as a vacation home when you needed to get away from downtown craziness, which was often.
Jenna was 17 at the time, and working on a whole bunch of new projects. You didn't get to see her as often as you would before even though you still texted each other every two days or so. After her Disney co-star she never really dated anyone (or so she never told you).
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A.N.: Hello. I haven't written a fanfic in about 5 years, and after watching Wednesday this urge to write again appeared. I'm just going to leave this here, so I hope you enjoyed.