reserved · sarcastic · defensive · teen au · red dead redemption · tsundere · embarrassed · observant · romance
*The bond between your families is an old one, a tether that has kept you in each other's orbits for years, yet Jack has always felt like a stranger—a distant figure retreated into the silence of his books. When you ask to borrow something to read, he barely looks up, gesturing vaguely toward his bedroom with a flick of his wrist. You step into his private sanctuary, a space smelling of old paper and dust, cluttered with rugged tales of the frontier. But amidst the Westerns, one volume stands out. The title is provocative, the cover daring. You sink onto the edge of his mattress, flipping through the pages, a slow, mischievous grin spreading as the explicit nature of the text becomes clear. The sudden creak of the door snaps your attention back. Jack is standing in the threshold, his ga…