Because I am the top of the Jett shipping trash heap, and I have to have happy pre-game moments for them
Matt moved to Los Angeles in third grade, and came to his new school in the middle of the year. He was very nervous about it, and he wasn’t sure if he was going to make friends. Jess was the first person to greet him that day (even though she was in fourth grade). She introduced him to the class and helped him around for his first week, and ever since, they had vowed to stick by each other.
Over the summer before she went to fifth grade, Jess hit puberty–and she was the earliest bloomer in the class. She was really insecure, and she immediately called Matt the day before school started. She admitted everything to him, and he listened. When they came to school the next day, some boys made lewd comments to her, but Matt defended her against them and stuck by her side for the rest of the day.
When he hit junior high, Matt’s voice started to change, and he got really nervous. Jess knew that he liked to sing to himself when he thought nobody was listening, and she asked him to sing to her. He was reluctant to, because he was still self-conscious about his voice cracks, but Jess insisted. He agreed, and gave a very good performance for her. After that, he never really seemed to mind it as much anymore.
In Matt’s freshman year, Jess confided in Matt that she had been starting to grow feelings for Mike Munroe, one of the most popular boys in their class. Matt felt a little upset, because he had begun forming a crush on Jess in sixth grade. Despite this, he still supported her, and he met Emily during this time. He also began to harbor feelings for Emily, but he knew in his heart that Jess would always be his first love.
For Matt’s junior year, Matt and Jess always had a system where Matt would drive Jess to school until she got her license, and then after she got her license (which was about halfway through the year, due to her slight fear of driving), she would always drive Matt around.
Jess encouraged Matt to go for Emily after she heard the news that she and Mike had broken up that year. Matt was unsure, because his feelings for Jess had returned by that time, but after she told him that she was currently having a small fling with Mike, he agreed, because he knew that it would make her happy. He asked Emily if she wanted to be his girlfriend a month after that, and the first person he called after that was Jess.
Jess’s graduation party was planned by her mom and dad–and Matt. He had asked her parents if he could help them with anything, and they had agreed to let him help decorate and get cakes and other things. He was more of an errand boy for them than an actual helper, but he didn’t mind. Once Jess found out that Matt had helped her parents plan her party, she hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek–while he was holding the cake he had just picked up for the party later that week.
After Matt dropped the cake, both he and Jess apologized to each other, and both dropped to the floor to pick up various pieces. Surprisingly, the cake remained mostly intact. Once all the pieces had been picked up and put in the trash, Matt began to worry about the cake. Jess smirked and told him that she didn’t care about the cake.
Matt ended up baking a cake for her party himself. It didn’t taste the greatest, but Jess was grateful for it anyway, and she never said anything bad about it. (At least, not directly to him.)
On the night before Jess left for college, she threw a party in her house with her parents’ permission. (They were gone for a date night that night, and had decided to stay at her aunt’s house overnight for Jess to have the party later into the night.) Matt was the first person she asked to help her plan everything. And this time, she gave him the spotlight on almost everything that had to deal with planning.
The party was pretty wild. Neither Mike or Emily showed up, but both had valid excuses as to why they couldn’t make it. Jess had managed to buy some beer for the party, and she was a little tipsy. Matt noticed this immediately and asked her if she was alright. When she responded with nothing intelligible through her slurring, he carried her up to her room.
Just as Matt was about to walk out of her room and go back down to the party to maintain control, Jess blurted out, in a much more serious and less slurred tone than she had had prior to that moment, “Thank you, Matt. Maybe I should’ve gone out with you instead…” He knew that she was drunk, so he told her that she needed to get some rest, and that he cared about her. Just as he heard her snoring, he whispered, “Love you, Jess.”
That morning, when Jess woke up, she had a slight headache, but nothing too severe. She sat up and noticed a note on her nightstand. It read: “Jess, you got a bit drunk last night, so I watched over the house while you were asleep. Everyone left, and I made sure that there were drivers for everyone. Remember, you leave tonight to head up for college. Love, Matt.” And Jess remembered that she had accidentally said that to him that night.
Matt came to say goodbye earlier than everyone else, because he had weight training that night, at the time she was going to leave. He came up to her room while she was packing. The two hugged and she patted the bed to indicate that he should sit next to her. He did, and when he set his hand down, she put her hand on top of his.
“You know, I always knew you had a crush on me, right?”
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner? I might not have ended up dating Mike if you did.”
“I knew how happy he made you, and I didn’t want to ruin that.”
“Matt, YOU make me happy, too. You’re my best friend, and you’ll always hold a place in my heart.”
Jess took out her phone and placed it into Matt’s hands then, and she asked him to give her his new phone number, since she knew that he had gotten a new phone earlier that month. He did, and then he gave her his phone so she could give him her new number.
Matt was confused at first, but Jess clarified, “I want you to text me every day. If things with Emily go awry, or if my relationship with Mike fizzles, I want you to know, and I want you to tell me.”
She asked him if she could kiss him before she actually made the move.
When she pulled away, she smiled at him and then gave him another hug. That was when they both realized that they truly did love each other. It was also when they realized that neither one of them were truly ready to pursue a relationship with one another.
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