Christmas party!!

(This takes part in part 13, specifically the part in-between david picking juan up and the school part. This is the first time I've wrote a fanfic please don't judge me🙏)

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"I need to study for that math test after the Christmas holidays.... I wish i could actually have a happy Christmas for once, it always feels so awkward..." jasper thought to himself as he was roaming the halls trying to look for the exit, even though he didn't really have much to be excited for when he gets home. There's no use in staying here for longer than he has to or maybe it's the fact he wants to get his day over with so he could sneak into Juan's room... who knows!

"-A christmas party at George's house, you know since it's like really big." Quinten made sure everyone heard that, even interrupting jaspers thoughts forcing him to listen in. It was a horribly disguised way of letting everyone know unintentionally...

"listen, I'm up for the party but why do I have to hand out invites.." there he is, the guy that throws punches more than words. Normally jasper would go bother the poor guy but he felt a bit drained today after having a test last period.

" It's because quinten doesn't wanna talk to jasper." And it's vics lil bro,theres not that much to say about him but he's normally chill.

"George?! Don't expose me like that dude." Quinten exclaimed, not even bothering to defend himself.

"Then why not just ask George?!"Juan argued.

". . . I don't wanna do it either." It's his party and he can't be bothered to hand out the invites? Can curls catch a break.

"I'm gonna fucking kill myself oml."Juan burst out with as Quinten handed him the invites

"alright invitationer do your job!" Quinten teased.

"*sigh* im not doing this without a cost..." Juan grumbled, turning around to see jasper looking directly at them. The other two airheads don't see, as they're too busy with their own conversation

"chico what?!" Quinten whines 😟, like Juan was gonna make him jump off a cliff or something. "I don't think invitationer is a word quinten."

"You're inviting me to the party? Since when have I ever went to parties?" Jasper questions as Juan steps towards him. Normally he just thinks their stupid, this is no different than another party, just dumb teenagers. He won't go.

" just sneak out clarke, its not hard."

"Why would I do that for a party?"

"Well you to do it to go to my house, no ones drinking or anything . It's just a thing quinten wants to do."

"Curls, I just-"

"Are you taking it or not?! I'm not arguing with you over a Christmas party,just give these to Taylor and troye and stuff."

"Taylor? You know her? wait-!"

Juan walks away in impatience after finishing half his invitation job by giving it to jasper.Even though his conversations with jasper were not the most sweetest, he has to admit, he loves talking to him.

"I'll never understand why he's so rude to his crush." Quinten said while watching Juan and jasper disappear

"Well, hypothetically, would you be rude to your crush, or like tease them?"

Quinten turned his head to stare at George. Looking deep into his eyes before turning his head back to start at the wall.

"Well... I uh, hope not."

"Juan can you not just start walking away in the middle of a conversation"

"It wasn't the middle, it was the end for me."

"Why are you being so rude to me?"

there was a moment of silence and Juan stopped straight in his tracks.

"Pfft"

"Rude? I was joking clarke, I didn't really think you were this dramatic holy shit."Juan turns his head to look at jasper.

A smile on his face, something you don't see very often. Or maybe it was becoming often, he seems more smiley lately in jaspers view.

"Just count it as payback or something, for annoying me in the middle of the school hall."

Jasper felt like he had just seen heaven itself. But he's not gay. definitely not gay... After 2 seconds he finally snaps back to reality.

"I was trying to help you Curls, the other part was me just being me."

"You being you...You mean Annoying?"he said with a smirk on his face.

"...I guess you could say that." Jasper says, grinning along with him.

"Anyways, my brothers waiting.I gotta go so bye clarke." Juan waves as he walks away.

Jasper thought about what happened for a second, "did curls just laugh? Well he did yesterday. . .after he was crying.

..maybe he's just getting happier? He did seem a bit off though, like he was preparing for something..." (after this juan comes out to David,if you've watched part 13.)

*outside of the clarke estates front door*

Jasper stands before his house staring at the invite, hesitatating to open the envelope.

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| (Dec 24 2025) |

| come to georges |

| house tonight at |

| 8pm |

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"*sigh*", jasper creaks the door open to his house,

" jasper, go stu-"

"I'm gonna be studying until I go to sleep so don't interrupt me!" Jasper shouts as he's running up the stairs

"... he says as interrupting my sentence, damn kid."

Jasper flops down on his bed." I guess I'm really doing this. Six months ago I would've went into cardiac arrest if I heard I was sneaking out for a party." Jasper goes on his phone to text the people that are going.

"Should I just ask curls to invite troye.. I don't really wanna text him. . .OK so he gave me 5 invites. . . Whose the other two?" Jasper stared at those invitations like he had just got hit by a car.

" Sophie and erik...why would they invite Erik?! Now I'm doubting even going.OH wait they already made a gc, why would they even throw a Christmas party on the same day they give the invites out????I'm convinced quinten is stupid...

Whatever... it's 4 pm right now, I could go to curls house for a bit."

jasper quietly gets off his bed and goes to his window to peek out of it, witnessing the death drop he would have to experience if he jumped. It would be fast, maybe all this stress would end.. he quickly tells himself to stop being stupid and think! come up with a tactic that includes not dying.

" that's really far, why am i even going. I said to myself earlier that im not going to parties... but is that because i want to go or I'm scared of my dad being angry. No i dont care about my dad, its studying i'll miss out on, it's my grades I care about. So why...."

The thought of Christmas overtook his mind before getting a flickering thought of Juan's smile.

"Christmas, Christmas, Christmas not him..."as jasper was pondering whether he was gonna jump and die, someone walks in.

"Dude what the hell are you doing?"

He swings his head around to see Stella, his sister.

"hey stella.... can I ask you for one small favor." Stella gives her brother a questionable look "....sure?"

"I swear on my raw nuggets if you let go of that rope I will die." Jasper whispers

"I'm not dropping it! You're just heavy!" Stella says in an attempted whisper

"....says you👀" jasper says in a very bitchy way.

"Excuse me? Respect your sister I'm beautiful"

"I never said you were ugly..."jasper is about a metre near the ground before Stella drops the rope in pettiness.

"Have fun." Stella mouths so she doesn't make that much sound, it's a bit late for that though.

*Juan's house*

Jasper let's a little knock on the door. Alot of ruckus is happening inside the room infront of him but he's used to it by now.

A random swings the door open with full force, out of breath.

"Finall- you arent the uber eats guy."Alan's excitement turned quickly to pessimism, you could see it in his face...

"that's right..." jasper utters out peaking over Alan's shoulder seeing the humanized angry bird running towards them.

"ALAN MOVE!"Juan and jasper lock eyes for a couple seconds before quickly snapping out of it.

"Oh, uh hi clarke."

"...I'm not the delivery man."

"I can see that."

"Wait?! Your name is clarke... like Vincent clarke.. omg you must be-"

"Alan go stuff your face I can't be dealing with your annoying ass right now. Get a life.. and a job."

"....Whatever bruh" Alan walks away making sure to put his middle finger up at Juan as he walks away.

" Why are you here??? "

" Christmas thing and also why did you invite Sophie and....erik"

"What the fuck - oh yea, vic wrote the invites. I forgot to tell you, you don't actually have to invite them, I would appreciate it."

"Then did vic create that gc that said 'everyone is invited for a Christmas party'"

"Yeah- well it doesn't matter. come inside its cold out."

"Thanks. You're being so nice to me the first time today... like a husband being nice to his wife after she got hit by a car"

Juan looked deeply into his eyes with a look of confusion.

"no,sorry I'm just. . . . . wait why am I apologizing?! you're the one that just was being rude... did you flunk a test or something....a car crash, why would someone get hit by a car"

Juan yaps like he had just been called out or something alike.

"I do not flunk tests also maybe they were looking at their phone or somethin... ORR it was suicide... or the husband thinks it was suicide because of him because he didnt tell anyone that she was really sad."

"There's like a zero percent chance of that happening"

"Never say zero curls...."

A head peaked around the door frame to see who was let in to their house

"Oh its the young man! Juan, David was planning to take you and Alan to the beach after he gets back from the grocery store."

"OK, ma." Juan swiftly turned his head to look back at jasper after his mom had went back to whatever she was doing

"We can talk about it at the beach, there's no interruptions then."

"Alright." the two lovebirds proceeded to sit down on the sofa waiting for David to get back...

Alan speeds back into the living room. "so is Vincent clarke ur da-"

Juan stands up from the sofa instantly

"GET OUT." The room becomes quiet for a second.

"Calm down bro omg." He argued before getting interrupted by jasper.

"Yea, he's my dad."Now that Jasper granted Alan the priviledge of knowing the answer to his question, he went back out the room to prevent the possibility of being punched by his cousin.

"fucking hell, can't give me a damn break."

Juan muttered under his breath.

"I mean, I showed up outside your door, didn't that cheer you up a bit curls?" The way jasper worded that sentence made it sound like he was in a Mariah Carey song.

"..." juan stared at jasper like he was thinking whether he would like his answer or not. It's not worth taking the risk

"No" it kind of hurt to lie, but it's easier to deal with if you just brush it off as a joke. Wait but then it would defeat the whole point of saying no...

"Oh...uh.." this is really awkward.

"OK guys im back! Who wants to go to the beach?" David bust through the door like a 'fun' dad trying to give his kids that he never visits a happy meal

*at the beach with Juan and jasper just standing next eachother listening to the waves.*

"So uhm, the christma-" jasper finally speaks out with after two minutes of straight silence.

"I was joking earlier clarke." Juan rudely interrupts with.

"What?"Jasper gives Juan a look of confusion.

"When I Said I wasn't happy to see you here."

"I know... you made the same joke yesterday."

"Oh."

It seems they both have a habit of either getting along really well or making their conversations the awkwardest things in the world. Though, despite the awkwardness, Juan is the only person jasper makes effort to converse with.

There was a period of silence before the overworked blonde finally decided to speak up.

"The Christmas group chat, it seems like Sophie is coming, I was looking at it in the car. Erik did leave immediately so I'm not sure if he's coming (thank god)" jaspers eyes started glistening while staring off into the distance like he had just won the lottery.

"I guess it's alright if Erik's not there, Sophie usually ignores me anyways."

"Maybe you should ask your brother to drive us to georges house, it's 7 pm now, it's good to be early + it's less of inconvenience for david."

"Yeah, David's a fatass, he will not get home and then drive us to georges house. He'll get home and go straight to bed."

Juan screams to David that he needs to go to georges house. A little more verbally abusive than jasper thought, but at the same time, it's Juan, what did he expect.

As Juan was marching towards the car jaspers usual cold demeanor was broken by a little smirk that Juan didn't see. I wonder if he'll ever admit that this. This is the happiest he's ever been.

Everyone gets in the car and starts heading to georges house. It's a 15 minute drive so they won't be that early to the party, just 45 minutes.

" so you two are walking back right? I'm only picking you guys up that late if ma is too worried."David asks trying to keep his eyes on the road.

"Yea, if worse comes to worse well just sleep at georges house."Juan quickly answers David's question, seeming like he wants this conversation to be over quickly. After that, the car was met with 20 seconds of straight silence before Alan opens his mouth.

"So is this like a party? You aren't drinking right." Alan asked with a look of concern

"He better not." David blurted out with a tone of authority

"Alan what kind of Christmas parties are you going to holy shit." Juan contradicted

"I don't get invited to parties." Alan said with a look of shame

"Exactly."Juan proved his point staring at Alan with a look of pride. You could tell that juan's definitely the type to be a sore loser.

Jasper thought to himself after eavesdropping on their conversation

"Thats like the first time I've seen curls actually win an arguement."

David's car pulls up to georges house and god it really is big... damn.

Juan and jasper climb out of the car, giving a quick wave and walking off to the entrance of georges house . The duo are stood right beside eachother before the door like they had to prepare for a fight or something.

"Wait.. don't go in yet just, gimme a second I've never been to a party before. It's a... New.. experience for me." Jasper nervously requested, lifting his hands up and smacking his face in preparation.

"Is your life that boring." Juan detected in a moment of empathy. Though it didn't come off as being empathetic but more of rude remark.

"yes, my life is that boring curls , let's go." Jasper and Juan walk through the doors and travel to a free space. Because of traffic they actually got there at 7:50, though, Juan didn't hesitate to blame David for that.

The place had way more people than the pair thought.it was like a club, without the drinks, Hopefully.

"It seems like vic knows alot of people, it's not surprising considering how popular she is." Juan said with an expression of surprise.

A moment of silence came across the both of them. Jasper looked a bit down after hearing that, like he wanted to say something but was too nervous.

"Clarke, you alright?" Juan glimpsed at jasper with a glance of worry. Jasper shifted his focus to Juan.

"Do you...uhm. still like vic." Jasper questioned, ditching his usual monotonous tone for a brittle one.

"... I thought we agreed to not fight over this anymore." Juan's usual expression turned to a face of displeasure

Jasper shifted his gaze to somewhere else than Juan, scratching his neck in the process. "I'm just curious, you seem to just like her alo-"

"Well I don't, so stop asking me about it, am I not allowed to admire her anymore? You almost sound jealous, though im not that far off when i say that." Juan teased , his words making jasper swing his head back around to look at him.

"Are you ever gonna let that go?" Jasper questioned with a much more appealing tone than two seconds ago.

"No, anyways, I'm gonna go find quinten. Are you coming with me?"Juan wondered, waiting for blonde to answer. As Juan turned his head to walk away, jasper called him.

"Wait curls, I wanted to give you something before I go."Jasper blurted out anxiously.

"Wait did you get me something?" Juan tries to hide it but his excitement really shows on his face, not the fact that he gets to open a present but that someone cared enough to actually get him something for Christmas other than his family.

"Yeah. Here, honestly i didnt know what to get you, so maybe give me some suggestions for mext time or something like that." jasper pulled out a cylinder looking present with and a rounded square type present along with it and handed it to Juan.

"TWO?! i meant, Uhm i- uh...Thank you." Juan's eyes glistened at the sight of the presents.

"Are you ok curls? You look like you have a fever, your face is bright red."jasper inquired with a grin sweeping across his face.

"I need some fresh air " jasper grinned watching Juan speed to the door, deciding not to bother him since he seemed a bit flustered.

"at least he's not ungrateful." Jasper thought to himself after losing sight of his 'best friend'.

Juan stepped outside of the door to and inhaled the cold, christmas air and a break to stop his heart racing. Taking a good look at his presents. Someone actually doesn't mind being around him, maybe that's all he needed to know.

He continued to go around to the side of the building in the need for a walk, and so people weren't just staring at him. Just to be presented with the human hedgehog, sitting there with a look of despair.

"quinten, what's up with you? Where's George why are you out here alone? I thought it was weird, not being able to see your spikes anywhere." Quinten turned his head around to glance at Juan. He looked down, really down.

"What's that in your hand?" Quinten questioned with an unusual dull demeanor after scanning Juan up and down, looking for an answer on why he's here.

"Just uh, just something clarke gave me. that's why I came out here." Juan said, getting a bit happier just thinking about it

"Must be nice chico." Quinten remarked with a dead look of envy sweeping across his face.

"Huh? Whats that susposed to mean?" Juan glared down at his friend on the floor before walking over and sitting next to him. It doesn't take long before quinten just starts unloading everything that's on his mind

*15 minutes ago (btsw ref???)*

"So what are you planning to do after everyone's gone?" Quinten questioned out of queeriousity.

"I think everyone's gonna start going after it hits Christmas, it is Christmas eve after all, they'll have to back for their parents." George answered politely

"Well, I might have to go early, you know for my sist-" quintens replies before the ravenhead was rudely interrupted.

"George! Do you want to dance with me?"

A girl named Willow politely offered a dance, it seems she likes george. She was pretty, long black hair and had diamond eyes , just a better version of quinten. She was a nice person but shy and nerdy, even though quinten and willow may seem similar, she's more related to George in terms of interests. They also talked alot in science, they are partners.

"Uhm i-" George reluctantly replied

"Go on man! It's your chance to actually dance with a girl!" Quinten encouraged George, it was best for him since he probably always wanted a girlfriend.

not quinten, it would never be him.

"Oh , sure then." George agreed immediately after quinten encouraged him.it hurt.

Willow grasped georges hand and ripped him away from quintens hold to dance, seperation feels better when its mutual, but its not, thats why the feeling kills him. Quinten could feel the blood seeping through his fingers like George and him had been connected from the first day they met, the stitches that held them together felt like they had been violently ripped out. Though maybe the stitches were always deeper within quintens fingers. Maybe George never felt the same gutwrenching pain quinten did. George never even noticed they were connected. Georges feelings were way too little, he was way too late to even get a chance.

"So like, how are you doing?" Willow asked as she was connecting hands with George while quinten was pulling a Robin buckley watching them inch towards eachother.

"I'm doing great." George smiled looking into her deep blue eyes.

[ What's wrong with you. ]

"I know this is a bit of a crazy request but-"

[ Why do you embrace me. ]

"Can I kiss you?" George made an expression of shock, he's never kissed a girl before.

[ And then embrace her like I didn't have to work so long to get to that stage. ]

George let out a gentle grin

"Sure, just a warning, ive never kissed anyone except quinten in 8th grade as a joke." They reached in for the slow kiss that felt like an eternity.

[Why the fuck can't I quit these goddamn feelings?!]

His eyes filled with tears as he ran as far as he can and finally reaching the door. He wanted to escape this hell. Why the hell would he ever kiss him, he's not even half as pretty as her. " I'm just just a dumb teenage dirtbag, George probably prefers smart girls." (He doesnt😭) quinten sobs out his endless emotions. Why was he born like this.

"She's not even a good kisser?!"

Quintens voice was shaky and crumbling. He looked like he was on the verge of having a full on mental breakdown.

"God... uh...Dude dont cry. Im not the best at this kinda stuff but you'll always have a chance, don't give up. It was just one kiss, it's not like they'll get together forever. But you've got to tell him how you feel, stop shutting yourself out before you miss that final chance." Juan advised in an attempt to cheer quinten up.

"He'll just think I'm a creep." Quinten sniffled out , jumping to conclusions

" George? Really? if you two have been friends for that long then it'll probably just be something you forget about after awhile. A rejection could help you get over it quinten, doing whatever the fuck you're doing now doesn't." Juan declared aggressively

"*sigh* maybe one day" quinten said with disbelief that he's ever gonna ask him out.

Quiet overtook the moment making it a calm place, a place thats fit for calming down.

"So you uh, you still have a crush on George?"Juan asked, breaking the silence.

"Obviously bro."

"..." silenced occurred consuming the moment once again.

" You're the only person I've ever told about my feelings. I'm thankful for you, even if you are a bit of a bitch sometimes." The spikes haired kid finally admits.

"...Could say the same for you."

Something about Juan and quintens friendship is very important to him, Juan's someone he can talk too and live with knowing that they aren't the bestest of friends, but their friends. And maybe sometimes, that's the only thing you need. Someone who can help you express yourself. Someone who you don't have to hide YOU around, acknowledging that they don't really care about your flaws can help you alot. That's something quinten had just realised, maybe they were better friends than they thought.

Jasper walks through the house tryna find ahron or maybe even troye. Not to talk to them but death Stare them from afar until troye apologises for not letting him in the other day.

"Where the hell are they..." Jasper does a full 180 trying to look for the mobile legends gamer and the dude that is just flat out rude most of the time ,until he's greeted with someone .

"Ugh, what the- is that you.. oh no.." A blonde girl stutters out.

"Oh I'm sorry- Wait Sophie are you drunk?!"

It seems that he bumped into one of the people he did not wanna see or hear about tonight.

"N-No ," Sophie mumbled out, barely being able to stand. How many drinks had she had?

They both gave eachother a look that literally spelled out " no ones believing ts."

"Fine then.. yes, yes I have." Sophie barely uttered out. Jasper thought to himself "This girl is fucking wasted, how shitty is erik as a boyfriend if he let's her get like this, unless he doesn't know. I mean, he doesn't control her, i cant really say anything anyways" the oversized blonde has a bad habit of often comparing his and juans relationship to other couples, but it doesn't matter, their only just really close best friends right?

"From where?!" As jasper concerningly that questiona, erik came storming over like he wanted to fight jasper or jasper was hitting on his girl.

"Bro back tf away from her?!" Erik growled in an attempt to get jasper to back off.

"Your girlfriends wasted , maybe take her home or something instead of letting her go crazy at a party like this. "

"Shes not that drunk."

"Yes she is?! She can barely even stand you know what, erik maybe if you weren't such a shitty boyfriend, you would be looking out for her, I don't get what she sees in you." Jasper comments, diving into something that is very clearly not his business...

"Say that again I dare you."Erik threatened, very obviously on his last straw

The whole room had went as quiet as a mouse...

"Erik please don't, not now let's enjoy ourselves." Sophie spits out worryingly.

" Why is there even alcohol at this party anyways, did you bring it? I'm not scared of you erik, you're tiny." Jasper teases in a provocative tone

"I'll show you tiny!-" Erik lifts his arm up ready to beat the shit out of jasper until someone jumps in.

"Erik! Calm down man, he's just concerned for your girlfriend?! Do her a favor and take her home, come back if you want but it's nearly Christmas, theres no way ya doing this?!" It seems jaspers found who he planned on death staring the whole night.

"Fine. Fucking whatever we just came here to have a good time, date whatever. BUT MY SMART ASS OVER HERE CANT STOP BEING A FUCKING SNITCH." Erik screams as Sophie attempts to drag him out. "Erik stop being an asshole." Sophie whispers to him, pulling him away.

"... atleast theyre gone" jasper mumbles to himself as Sophie pushes pass Juan and quinten who came back in the house searching for George or jasper.

"Oh uh sorry.." juan glances at her as she walks by and apologises for pushing through him. But I think he's more concerned about jasper screaming across the hall.

"PROBABLY GOT IT FROM HER ALCOHOLIC EX YOU FUCKING MORON."

Erik wails before getting shoved out the door by Sophie. Juan took a moment to realise that Erik was talking about him too. "What the fuck did I do, i wasnt even here???"

"He seems a bit agitated than usual, do you think he's drunk? "

"*sigh* Don't know, don't care..." Juan responded, dismissing the conversation almost immediately.

The duo headover to jasper, seeing troye and jasper talking after what feels like centuries (it was like 2 days ago). They were pondering on leaving them be until

"Curls! Where have you been?" Jasper and troye March to the other pair.

"Having a break, should I open the presents now or when I get home?" Juan inquires until troye interrupts.

"Wait what presents?" He asks out of curiosity.

"The ones that Jasper gave me."Juan answers

Troye gives his vanilla haired friend a glance that basically said 'i know what you are you fruit'

"two, really?" He wonders, wondering how he was even questioning if jasper was crushing on Juan.

" let's just find a seat, if we can't find one, then we can open them at home. " jasper adds, forgetting that their was a 3rd and 4th wheeler there.

"We?! Are you guys room mates now or something?" Troye asks out of curiosity, totally not so he has more shipping material.

"No he just sneaks into my room every night."Juan states

"Even better!" Quinten laughs out loud, it's not that funny mate, arent you susposed to be sad that you think crush your doesn't like you back.

"Shut up quinten. Let's go find a seat." Jasper humbles quinten as they go look for a place to sit down.

"Well, atleast we found one!" The squad sits down. Finally resting their legs after walking around for awhile. Troye and quinten eachother and Juan and jasper sitting next to eachother on the opposite couch. Quinten just yapping away while the other two are in their own world.

Juan gets out the presents, admiring them for two seconds and then looking up to talk to jasper.

"You know, I was gonna get you a present today but I was really busy I'm sorry."

"It's fine." Jasper replied.

Juan unwraps the large present first . Jasper admiring Juan's reaction by staring deep into his eyes, watching his face light up.

"Hair spray? How did you know I ran out." Juan questions

"I didn't." Jasper chuckles out.

"Then is this just a grand stereotype of me because-"

"No,no, no. Haha." They both joke around. Overlapping eachothers voices with laugher. The laughter eventually evolving into them focused on eachothers eyes. Looking like they were about to kiss.

Troye had spotted Taylor, she was alone, at a Christmas party.

"So what did you ge- what the."quinten turned his head around from ending his convo with troye, making the other two jump back away from eachother in shock.

"I got some hairspray." Juan interrupted

". . ." Quinten squinted and glared at him.

"Didn't know you loved hairspray that much."

"SHUT UP." While Juan was yelling at quinten and they were having a friendly 1v1. Taylor walks up to them in boredom, holding a cup of hot chocolate and troye gets up to talk to her.

"Are you a bank loan cuz you've got my interest?" The master of cheesy pickup lines hit her with his best shot.

"Can you be normal for once.." Taylor replied, already tired of his presence. Troye stands there, looking defeated.

The girl takes a look around and sees Juan, she's only heard that he gets into alot of fights with jasper. Alot of people call him a homewrecker.

"Wait you're that Juan kid right?"Taylor says walking towards them, there being a fold in the carpet she's standing on.it seems she doesn't even realise that Jasper was sitting right next to him, or she just didn't care.

"shit! Holy shit I'm so sorry." The fold in the carpet is her biggest enemy as she just tripped and spilled hot chocolate all over jasper.

"It's uhh fine. Let me just go to the bathroom to wipe it off." Jasper got up and started walking to the bathroom.

"Wait! Clarke I can help you wipe it off." Juan blurts out after a moment of hesitation. Stumbling after him.

"...." Taylor climbs off the floor.

"Well, they're awfully chummy now huh." She notices, turning around to glance at quinten and troye.

" I know right?!" The duo says synchronized.

*the bathroom*

"I just noticed, where's ahron?" Juan questioned while wiping the stains off of jaspers jeans .

"He had a family gathering, he couldn't come. Thats what troye told me atleast."

Silence corrupts the air once again.

" he apologized to me. But only because of a Katy perry song that started playing."

Juan stops wiping jaspers clothes and looks up at him grinning.

"What?!"

"Haha, I'm being serious."

"Which song was it?!"

"Bon Appétit. Brang back memories of when a teacher started breakdancing to it in 8th grade."

"...."

They both stood there for a moment staring into eachothers eyes before jasper

crouches and jumps onto Juan, embracing him, making them both fall on the floor.

"Ew! Stop this floor is dirty!" Juan shrieked while jasper was too busy dying of laughter.

"STOP LAUGHING GET OFF ME CLARKE !!!!(ToT) "

"You need to open your other present curls." Jasper whispers after calming down, letting him sit up

Juan pulls himself up and grabs the small present, unwrapping it.

"Clarke these are-"

"Just take them as a thank you for being there for me."

Juan was surprised, airpods were pretty expensive for a Christmas present that's meaningless, but is it meaningless?

" jasper.."

"Yea?"

"I-..."

Jasper gave Juan a look of confusion. Is he not accepting them? Whats up? Wait, was this present really just an appreciation of Juan looking out for him or something else, that Jasper can't accept.

"I like- thank you, for the gifts." Curls looked nervous, like he had something to say but it wouldn't come out his mouth. He started walking to the door

"Wait don't leave." Jasper chases after him grabbing his hand before it reached the handle , bringing it up his chest, also making it so they were both infront of t (This takes part in part 13, specifically the part in-between david picking juan up and the school part. This is the first time I've wrote a fanfic please don't judge me🙏)