Bestie please unredacted Jordan Poole thoughts 🙏 you pick the pairing (or pairingS 😳)
OH OK I WIL!! TRY MY B ES. T!!!!!!! .... incoming... jaren/jordan.. with a lil hints of other jordan ships 🥰 NOT EXACTLY ALL THAT REDACTED BUT... we move 🥴
Readmore my old friend it's been Years...
SO ANYWAYS i think .... it is very inch resting how MUCH poole copies steph. Even trying to copy his interview style??? When Irl that just! Isn't him!!!! He's GOOFY and nice and likes pulling pranks on men bigger than him.. thats HIM!!!! but he sees gorgeous sociologist who writes his thesis on a necessary topic in sports and interviews people on their tattoos like a little weirdo steph and he's like! I WANNA BE THAT MAN. Insane! With steph he is! Insane!
With jaren he is ALSO insane, but i think being with jaren, a living embodiment of his past, he becomes more insane in terms of playfulness? Because that's what they've always used to do? Goof up their boring ass uptight ass highschool by 'fooling around'.. his pranks upscale with more thought and his impish ways triple tenfold. And jaren just!!!!! Takes it!
How does this connect...... WELL i think hmm i think jaren sees Jordan and he's all happy like!!! Omg! Jordan 🥰🥰! But Jordan is with steph right now.... that's when jaren sees how Different Jordan is willing to become. .... and maybe he gets a Little jealous. It's easy to become jealous over 30, he's almost like a real life cheat code in the game of basketball. He KNOWS more due to experience, but experience is STUPID. Jaren's HAD experience, he lives and BREATHES basketball, whatever level steph is on that makes him soooo worthy of all this 'idolization'... jaren Wants it.
Or maybe jaren just doesn't get the concept of changing yourself when around different people? He has a bubbly, in your face personality that OTHER people just had to get used to. Even ja was a little thrown back by Jaren's emphatic sayings and clumsy antics, but he got used to it and quickly learned to love it. Jaren didn't have to change for people, so he doesn't understand the action. If you wanna hang out with a person so bad that you CHANGE for it... is hanging out really all that worth it if they don't like you for you?
Which steph DOES. He's more curiously entertained by poole's mimicry than anything. I think he wants to encourage poole's individualism more, but can't be the person to do it because poole will always see him on this pedestal. Others like Gary have to do that for him. But jaren doesn't SEE that.... he just sees, from d*llon's words.. a bunch of old bitches soon to be out of their primes, some of them already out. And here his best friend is trying to impress them all by not being himself. Unlike the grizzlies, where no one is trying to impress anyone due to collective underdog mentality! Though it's a Little (alot) hypocritical because jaren tries impressing ja with his posterizing sometimes.... a little... maybe... a lot... BUT THE POINT IS- jaren is jealous over The Warriors (mainly steph)..
SO U KNOW... maybe these feelings 'hide' for a While but show up so directly during conversations, things get called out then... Stuff Happens...... LIKE MAYBE AFTER THE ELIMINATION GAME.. jordan catches jaren after an interview and starts griddying (ja is not there or else he would've tweeted out that jordan just stomped on all the little bones in his ankles;therefore, code breaking) then laughs at jaren because he can't griddy, too damn big 😔.. and jaren is like HAHA😹 whatever 😒. Hater. AND THEY HAVE A GOOD CHAT! Talk about all the gifs they sent!!! Jaren misses his flight with the team they talk so long! He feels bad and the one word message from ja doesn't help, but Jordan says this is good because they can catch up!! He'll fly him back home tomorrow after a boys night out!
Jordan takes him to one of his favorite places to eat, it's really nice <3 they both teeter having too much manners and not having enough at the dinnertable. They kick each other under the table, jordan hides jaren's silverware, tells him to order The Among Us meal.... it's not real. Jaren embarrasses himself in front of hundreds. Jaren+Jordan eventually settle down when the food comes, they start sharing highschool stories..... take turns being the one that goes 'OH YEAHOH YEAH I REMEMBER!!' and the 'do YOU remember this ONE TIME..' IT'S REALLY NICE! Sometimes they get to a story that got a little.. intimate... maybe they were hiding around a corner from almost getting caught and they were pressed together.. a detail no one disclosed but everyone remembered in their hearts... and they have to get a little quiet and pause before awkwardly continuing with a laugh, both feigning forgetfulness when really they remember ALL too much..
AFTER DINNER DISCUSSIONS they walk back to Jordan's. Jordan is wearing classic short shorts, there's a chill in the wind.... jaren gives jordan his jacket and jordan wraps it around his waist like a skirt. Jordan really rocks a good skirt. They'd relish in the moment, but the press would destroy them if they saw this, and jaren couldn't help but notice his arm sleeves dragging on the ground sometimes even in the wrap since jordan was so much smaller. That can't do!!! If it were anyone else, he wouldve fussed and hurriedly fixed it... SO THEY HURRY HOME!
THATS when the discussions get... a Little deeper. A bit more heated. They're both really tired, team rivalries get into it... jordan says a lil smthin abt ja.. jaren doesn't rlly like it... so jaren says something way worse about steph.... jordan doesn't like That at All. Then d*llon gets brought up, which jordan HATES. They start to argue by the bed..
Jaren says something quick about change that he doesn't really mean, but it hits jordan deep because he thinks 'am I really that OBVIOUS? Do I really look that DESPERATE?' Jaren then does his signature Jaren Retreat after saying his piece, grumbling about taking the couch instead.. but jordan tries to stop him. AND U KNOW... MAYBE THEY TANGLE UP.. and accidentally maybe sorta jaren falls on jordan on the bed... catches himself so he's propped up with his hands on either side of jordan and he's leaned just Barely over him. It reminds them too much of That Close Memory and..... PASSION CALLS FOR IT... tiredness allows for it... nostalgia fuels it... THEY KISS!!
They start to make out!!! Jaren's big hands roaming thighs, up waists. Things are going well until jaren tries mentioning something sly thinking he'll get away with it.. it's regarding Steph. Smthing like 'he'd Never do this .. won't have you like the way / i'd / have you..' .... and that's when jordan turns them over. If jaren wants to make such a big deal over change, he'll show him Change.
Jordan starts sucking burning marks into the soft of Jaren's inner thighs, and when jaren tries deterring him, he's all 'just wear compress leggings over them.' Even though he KNOWS that'll make it more uncomfortable and squeeze the bruising. That's almost what he Wants. The idea of impact. He has Jaren on his back almost trying to fold him in two, the height is so difficult, Jaren's long legs starting to ache on his shoulders. But Jordan has a message to send. And what better way to send it than giving Jaren the greatest head he's ever had in his whole life?? Maybe he says how he wanted to do this since senior year of highschool and it sends jaren over the edge. But Jordan keeps going, fingering jaren WHILE expertly sucking him off. Jaren tries to worry about how well he does it, did steph help him 'practice??' Had he 'practiced' ON steph? But the sensation is getting too good and his brain blurs out. No more steph talk. Jordan has Jaren whining and tossing his head side to side on HIS bed on HIS pillows after HIS win, and it definitely gives him some Drive. They fuck with the lights on, Jordan makes jaren suck on the fingers that were used to open him up. It's hot. Jordan is really glad his cats were empaths, sensing conflict beforehand and fleeing from the room so they don't have to see 'daddy' at 'work'.
The sex is good. Of course. It has to be. Jordan using his arms to hold Jaren's legs back and press his knees by his head.. holding his hands while he does it. Forehead to forehead as he feels jaren's pants and hiccups in his face. Hurting his neck just to lean forward and swallow it all in like before. It's good. U know.. just something between Two Good Friends..
Afterwards, when he cleaned jaren up, they went to bed together. Jordan cuddling into jaren's chest and jaren passing out almost immediately. ... cue the slow wakeup and ache from last night with the classic
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