I- my queen is back 🥺🥺 I saw you posted saying requests are open, so if possible could you do some fluffy headcanons for James Griffin? That boy makes me beyond weak Love your writing so much and keep doing what your doing 🥰🥰💕🥺💖💓💘
[ Requests are open! ]
pairing: James Griffin x Rival University!Reader
summary: Fluffy headcanons detailing how you two met at a college football game between your two schools, the drama of dating a guy from a rival school, and Nadia being a pain in James’s ass (because what are friends for?).
a/n: Anon, you’re too kind!!! LOML 💖💓💘 This request was really fun to write and helped break my writing block. Hope you like it!!
You’re a university student at the Garrison’s rival institution Paramount University, studying humanities, the complete opposite of James’s military and STEM training
You two meet during a football game between your two schools. It’s a major event, naturally; so, although you and James make a habit of avoiding these large scale school events, your friend groups make you go
Your groups are next to each other in line to be let into the stadium: Now, imagine stealing glances at each other for thirty minutes!!
You could care less about your friends’ conversations about their WIP theses, hot professors, and gossip. Because there’s a hot guy in the group next to you
Brunette with dark brown hair, a strong jaw, high cheekbones, and a slight grin. He’s tall and when he crosses his arms you notice how broad his chest is.
But, dammit, he’s wearing a Garrison letterman jacket. A boy from a rival school is not what you need right now. But dammit he looks so fucking hot...wait...did he just flex?
Of course, James notices you noticing him. He thinks you’re super cute and 100 percent his type. No shit he’s going to show off a little.
He stretches his arms over his head and his black t-shirt rides up and reveals his abs.
Your eyes widen, you face turns redder, and you avert your gaze.
He stifles a chuckle at your shyness, but continues pulling shit like that to get your attention. Nadia notices him flexing and elbows him hard in the rib cage. So he tones it down…a little
You two bump into each other again at the food stand near the entrance just before halftime.
He walks up behind you as your grabbing napkins and says, “Glad you had the same idea,”
“Jesus Christ!” You almost drop your chili fries and your two dozen napkins. “Oh, hi, yeah. I just wanted to beat the rush.”
“Yeah. It’s gonna be absolute mayhem in five minutes.” He smiles at you and you smile back. He thinks you’re so pretty and makes a move. “Can I walk you back to your seat—”
“YES!”
On your walk back you tease each other since you belong to rival schools. At some point you exchange numbers, and when he gets back to his seats on the bleachers he texts you:
Let’s make a bet. Garrison wins, I take you out on a date. Paramount wins, you take me out on a date.
You accept his terms.
Paramount wins—but he still pays for everything.
One date becomes two, two becomes four, and he ends up sneaking into your dorm every other couple nights to spend time with you.
Your twin size bed is way too small for the both of you—at least, that’s your excuse for basically laying on top of him.
He doesn’t call you out on it because he loves cuddling with you.
You find out he’s a giant nerd beneath his Type A exterior. You binge watch The Witcher and Harry Potter, play video games together. You get him into Animal Crossing (Pocket Camp especially) and he gets you into The Last of Us.
Since you’re dating someone from your rival school, you wanted to keep it lowkey because your friends would roast your ass if they found out. Ditto for James and his crew.
But both of you keeping it secret only delays the inevitable.
Nadia finds out because she stole James’s phone to take silly selfies with Ryan and Ina and finds half a dozen notifications for Pocket Camp and texts from you calling him a litany of pet names.
“Hey, Griffin?” “Yeah?” “Who’s y/n? And why is she calling you ‘daddy?’ ”
He’s across the room and lunges for the phone, getting into a wrestling match with Nadia trying to get it back.
(You didn’t actually call him ‘daddy,’ Nadia just has a fantastic sense of humor.)
He introduces you to his friends a week after. They love you and you get along great with them.
Most of the time they try to bring up embarrassing stories about James, and your boyfriend attempts to threaten them into silence. Ina and Ryan respect him enough to stay quiet, but Nadia is more of a wildcard.
He drives you back to your apartment after that. You can tell he’s a little embarrassed about some of the stories Nadia told him.
“So, sounds like you had a real romance with that Keith guy—” “Please, don’t bring him up.”
You laugh and make up for it with a lots of little kisses all over his face and a long hug when he drops you off in your apartment complex lobby.
“Don’t forget you’re meeting my friends next week.” You tell him.
“I’ll be fine. They can’t be any worse than Nadia, right?”
“It’ll be like having brunch with four Nadias. So...much, much worse.”
“Dammit.”