Jack didn't really know what he was feeling sober, much less when he was drunk, or when his friends were around, or when Phoebe was.
Decoding what it is that he felt would require a great deal effort. Perhaps total desertion on some faraway land where Jack didn't have access to his phone or the internet or anyone. A place where he was truly alone so he could just fucking think and figure everything out. No noise, no doubts, nothing.
Now was not the time to do that.
Jack waved those thoughts away as quickly as they'd arrived. It was very easy for him to not care. So he did just that.
When Phoebe finally took a seat in his lap, he felt relieved. Slightly less competitive, but also, not really. Jack placed a hand on the back of her thigh — purely for modesty purposes, of course.
"You won't need that website because you'll have me," Jack told her. There was something about Phoebe being totally and utterly dependent on Jack that he really liked. It turned him on. Made Jack's world go 'round.
"Will you be my chaser anyway?" Jack wondered. He reached for the tiny shot glass, filled nearly to the brim. Tequila. A lot of bad decisions came from tequila shots.
"Open your mouth? I'll pour. I'll pour really slow," he promised.
A very ineffective way of taking shots, yes, Jack knew that, but he didn't fucking care.
That felt nice, that felt like it belongs there— Jack's hand coming to settle at the back of her thigh. It felt like a sweet gesture. A quiet message, an understated sort of claiming.
'You won't need that website because you'll have me,'
Oh. Huh?
That felt significantly bolder. Phoebe's brows raise. A little more pointed, no? Telling a (presumably) close friend that his website wasn't needed because Phoebe could rely solely on him— for every single one of her classes? It felt territorial.
But, again— that heats something in Phoebe's stomach. And if Jack was going to help her, was going to take time out of his day to spend more time with Phoebe, bending over thick textbooks, underlining and outlining important sentences and equations.... fine by her! It was sweet of him, and any excuse to see Jack was a good one.
'Will you be my chaser anyway?'
And any excuse for Jack's fingers to be near her mouth .... that was also good one. That sounded fucking hot, right? Him pouring the shot directly down her throat? Her belly warms preemptively at the idea.
There's the burble of tequila tumbling into the shot glass, pale amber liquid casting light down onto Phoebe's bare leg.
"You... can pour whatever you'd like into my mouth."
Yeah. Yeah. She would do this in front of Jack's friends. It was a frat house, right, it had to have seen rowdier antics! And Phoebe was here to have a good time! Here to have fun with Jack, make sure Jack knew he was the kind of girl he always wanted to keep around. Her. Phoebe. Phoebe Pruitt!
'Open your mouth? I'll pour. I'll pour really slow,'
That doesn't mean her face doesn't heat when she opens her mouth— extends her tongue, slightly, for good measure, trying to fight back a giggle so that Jack can pour the tequila down smooth. Lock in, Phoebe! She only just manages.












