dating jeff atkins would include
* “jeff you need to study if you’re going to pass your tests.”
* “you’re trying to kiss me, how is that studying.”
* “im studying how beautiful you are.”
* okay, so jeff’s usually never that smooth. you put up with his corny, cheesy and absolutely cringe worthy pickup lines half mixed in with puns everyday. sometimes he’s just straight up trying to annoy you, other times he just wants to make you smile and or genuinely thinks he’s being cute when he’s just being a dork.
* he reminds you of a panda with how clingy he is - in a good way. he always respects your boundaries and knows when and where he’s allowed to be all over you but he unconsciously just likes to cling. wrapping a long arm around your waist or shoulders, hugging you from behind and obnoxiously taking slow languid steps with his long ass legs, kissing your head and or forehead whenever he looks at you.
* he studies really hard with clay - who you’ve met, loved and attempted to give advice on romancing hannah. you’re not really a love guru or pretend to know what girls want since you really only ever want jeff and he’s just jeff. he tells clay to be smooth, go in for the kill. you try not to let it slip that when jeff first asked you out he was stuttering so bad you had to get him a glass of water.
* this guy and celebrations oh dear lord. he doesn’t just enjoy the holidays, he LOVES them. halloween? scary movies, dressing up, pumpkin patches and carving. christmas? ( you don’t celebrate christmas but you go to his house every year since he loves it so much ) you’re talking sweaters, snow men and you bet your merry ass he has a mistletoe planted at every convenient door you may walk under.
* “can we just steal free movie tickets from clay and make fun of the shitty romance movies like ever other friday?”
* “valentine’s day is about love, commitment and romance. so we’re going to romance the shit out of it because we are a committed couple in love.”
* you had to admit though. his valentine’s day plans never failed to make you fall in love with him all over again.
* party person or not you did not go to the jocks parties. you knew jeff was smart and good natured and his friends were good people through and through but the people he sometimes had to socialise with were a no go with you. so you fussed over him every time he went and he secretly sopped it all up. you saw his cheeky grin when you told him to pinky swear be safe. he texts you throughout the party with updates, pictures and the occasional stolen phone joke from a baseball friend that makes you happy he has good friends.
* he texts you all the time though. he’s not exactly a good texter per-say but he’s cute and he sends dorky selfies that you use against him and put as your lockscreen. pouty jeff is your favourite jeff.
* you basically live at each other’s houses. your guardians love him since he’s such a sweet talker, still not smooth though he argues he is. his parents hear as much about you as they do clay, jeff’s literal hero. you’re so accommodated that when jeffs late from practice or study you just help with dinner or have casual chat.
* he’s the little spoon more often than he’d like to admit. he’s a baseball player so it gets a bit heavy and squished having him squeeze you so tight to his chest so you bagpack him and he loves it. you can kiss his neck, your legs are intertwined with him and he just likes holding your hand. when he’s the big spoon which is when you’re sick, really cold or just feel like it, he kisses your head, rubs your stomach with warm hands and tells you dumbass jokes that you cackle at anyway.
* he’s braided your hair before. he’s good at short and long hair, boys and girls. he used to do it to his dogs hair. apparently according to his dad, his mother once braided his hair for a crazy hair day and jeff had been in awe with it. he braids it when it’s wet and when it’s the morning and you’re too tired to even contemplate caring about it or he just wants his girlfriend/boyfriend to have cute braids in so he can take photos.
* listen. you never told him to get a photo of you next to his bedside table but he did it, you realised how much he appreciates you and you cried a little. he wiped at your tears and swept you in his arms laughing fondly. he’s sometimes a bit smooth. you only admit this because he’s such a sweetie.
* he gets injured in baseball sometimes. shoulder thrown out, leg twisted the wrong way but you are always there to make him some 3 minute noodles and kiss him back to health.
* you laugh at the mention of getting married and he actually gets a bit mad.
* “you don’t think we’re getting married because we’re totally getting married y/n.”
* he tells you about the few scars he has. he doesn’t pass up on making a joker reference since clay had gotten him into comics. the one from falling off the slide, a few from baseball of course and a couple odd ones from fights he’d gotten in. he didn’t like to talk about his fights but you knew that it was only ever because the person had deserved it. you’ve seen him eyeing up bryce before, jaw clenched. you had to kiss his jaw for ten minutes before the tension was gone.
* you guys are best dressed always. you remember the time you wore a tradition spanish dress/suit to the dance as a surprise for him and he’d completely lost his mind with giddiness, speaking spanish and staring at you in awe - like usual but this time with an intensity that had you going bright, bright red.
* rooting for clay and hannah is your best sport, both of you. fuck everyone else, they’re soulmates.
* you don’t fight. when you do it’s about those parties and the jocks but you’re usually to sick with worry to stay mad before he comes back to you fine and you just kiss the life out of him.
* “i love you, this party sucks since clay left. i’m coming to yours. i’m sorry you’re mad. i love love love you. see you soon.”
* that voicemail was the last thing jeff would’ve ever said to you before the reason you were worried about those parties came true.
* you can’t leave your bed without breaking down.
* you get a j tattooed on your ring finger. it’s small, it’s natural and you don’t care who you might end up with. you will always keep him with you.
* when you go back to school, after hannah, you find and hug clay so hard that you remember all those times where jeff would squeeze you so tight and say “i had to take your breath away since you already stole mine.”
* first love isn’t easy. you’re just glad yours was jeff.
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