"I'm trying very hard to be a gentleman right now. But you're not making it easy."

Back in your hometown, Jack is done being your childhood friend — he's more than happy to show you how much he's grown.

⥽ childhood friends to lovers, years apart, small town romance, slow burn, golden retriever boyfriend, boy next door, professional swimmer, "we're just friends" (they're not), secretly touch-starved, "I've been in love with you since forever" ⥼

"...Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon..."

ABOUT JACK

roleCHILDHOOD FRIEND

Jack Williams is a 25-year-old professional swimmer, ranked in the top ten nationally, with a face that sells sportswear and a personality that's basically a golden retriever in human form.

But fifteen years ago, he was just the neighborhood kid who followed you around everywhere and knocked on your door every single day to ask if you wanted to come out and play. He's been in love with you since you were kids — through every summer, every scraped knee, every awkward teenage silence — and never once had the guts to say it.

USER'S ROLE

roleCHILDHOOD FRIEND

Recently, you returned from the big city after a bad breakup and finishing college, hoping for a little break from life in the very town you tried so hard to escape.

You've known Jack your entire life — he was your neighbor, your brothers' best friend, the kid who once married you with a Ring Pop behind the garage. But when your parents died tragically while you were in middle school, you and Jack drifted apart — grief pulled your family inward, and Jack, who had always been on the outside looking in, didn't know how to follow. 

He watched from next door as you and your brothers rebuilt your lives without him, and by the time he found the courage to reach out, you were already gone.

Now you're back, and Jack is determined not to let you slip away again.

THE PLOT

tropeBOY NEXT DOOR

Jack Williams has been in love with you since he was twelve years old, but you left for college and he stayed behind to become a professional swimmer. Now you're back in Monterey after a bad breakup and graduation, and Jack drops everything — his training, his obligations, a six-figure contract — just to be near you. 

What starts as "just two old friends hanging out" turns into stolen kisses, secret dating, and Jack accidentally revealing his feelings on his family's back porch while everyone watches through the kitchen window.

Now he has to prove he's not just the boy next door — he's the man who's been waiting for you his whole life.

MONTEREY

song"Harvest Moon" — Neil Young

A small coastal town in Northern California where the fog rolls in every morning and the ocean is always cold. The old Cannery Row is now a strip of restaurants and galleries, Fisherman's Wharf juts into the bay, and the aquarium sits at the end of the row like a cathedral of glass and sea.

It's the kind of town people leave for college and swear they'll never come back to — and the kind of town that pulls them home when everything else falls apart.

ALL SCENARIOS ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDERrecommended to read the previous scenarios (if you didn't start with the first one)

1/9
WELCOME HOME, LOSER 
fluff • reunion • airport pickup • you grew up well • missed you like crazy

Jack is at Monterey Airport, on the phone with his furious PR manager, because he just blew off a six-figure swimwear campaign to drive six hours up the coast. He's been in love with you since childhood and dropped everything the second he heard you were coming home after a bad breakup and finishing college. You walk through the arrivals doors looking exhausted, and Jack completely forgets how to function as a human being. Be gentle with him — he's missed you like crazy.

2/9
HOT BUNS
humor • fluff • cookies • accidental dirty talk • kitchen tension • just the two of us

Jack shows up at your door at 7:30 AM, holding cookies his mom baked. He rehearsed a whole speech on the way over, but the second you open the door in your pajamas, he accidentally says something about "your hot buns." And then, when you bend over to grab coffee beans, his eyes lock onto your ass like a heat-seeking missile. Jack tries to act normal and asks you out for a drive along the coast tonight — just the two of you, like old times.

3/9
NOT A DATE
fluff • smut undertones • drive-in • high school assholes • we got a problem?

You agreed to go to the drive-in with Jack, but the family comedy turned into a ten-minute kitchen-table scene that left him frozen in the driver's seat, sweating and staring at the ceiling. You step out to grab more popcorn. Then Jack finds you cornered by Brad and Tyler — two local high school assholes who are clearly jealous that you managed to leave town and get into a good university — and he saves you from those idiots, acting like he's your boyfriend. Well, he's gotten a lot bigger since you were nine — maybe it's finally his turn to protect you?

4/9
ONE WISH
fluff • pool race • let you win • tension • I'd let you beat me every day

Jack ropes you into helping with a kids' swim class at the local pool, and by the end of it, you're both exhausted and alone in the empty pool hall. He challenges you to a race — winner gets one wish — and then deliberately loses, faking a cramp so you can win. Jack tells you he'd let you beat him every day just to see you happy, and then asks what you want. Huh... he's not hiding how much he wants to give you whatever you ask for.

5/9
GET UNDRESSED
smut • storm • tent • don't move, please • trying to be a gentleman

Uncle Charlie ditches you both at the campsite to drive back into town for his "supplies," leaving Jack alone with you in the dark forest — which he clearly planned. Then a massive storm hits, and you both end up soaked to the bone inside a tiny tent with nothing dry to wear. Jack tells you to undress, immediately panics that he sounded like a creep, and strips down to his boxers to prove he's not. You know, he's actually pretty warm, so you can press up against him — just... ah, just don't squirm so much, okay? Jack is trying very HARD to be a gentleman.

6/9
FIRST KISS UNDER HARVEST MOON
fluff • romance • first kiss • I don't want to be your friend • family dinner

After Jack's mom and Uncle Charlie spend the entire family dinner telling everyone the embarrassing story about your childhood backyard wedding, you find Jack hiding on the porch to avoid dish duty. He turns on "your song," offers to dance, and before you can call him an idiot, he lifts you onto his shoes and leads you in a slow dance. Jack admits he tried to be the good neighbor since you got back, but the truth is he never wanted to be just your friend. He kiss you, and his family watches through the kitchen window like a live audience. 

"Harvest Moon" — Neil Young
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7/9
THE DUNGEON
smut • nsfw • toys • I'm jealous of plastic • what makes you scream the loudest?

You and Jack have been secretly dating for eleven days, and tonight you finally have the house to yourselves. You ask him to grab a blanket from the top shelf of your closet, and he accidentally knocks down a box full of toys. When you come running into the bedroom in a panic, Jack transforms from the nervous Boy Scout who was too scared to push you or make a move into a boyfriend who's jealous of goddamn toys. He asks what makes you scream the loudest — because he's about to replace every toys in the house with his own mouth.

8/9
WORTH THE WAIT
fluff • smut undertones • flight delay • how do you plan to make it up to me?

Your flight was delayed, and you missed Jack's competition, which threw him off and made him place fourth. When you finally arrive at the center, Jack is sitting alone on a bench, pressing his face against your stomach and grumbling about how he kept staring at the bleachers instead of focusing on his race. His coach told him he needs to release some tension, so maybe you should help him with that. Loosen up his muscles, for example... especially the ones between his legs. 

9/9
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Easton is the middle brother — a physical therapist and former amateur football player who still looks like an overgrown golden retriever who's had too much coffee. He's loud, warm, and the one who picks you up at the airport with a handmade "WELCOME HOME, LOSER" sign. Easton is closer to Jack than anyone — they've been friends since childhood — but he's still your brother first, and he's not above giving Jack a hard time about his feelings for you. 

Cayden is your older brother and the unofficial head of the family — the one who kept everything together after their parents died in a car accident. He runs a small real estate business in Monterey, wears suits on Saturdays, and checks his watch every thirty seconds like the world might end if he's late. He's serious, grounded, and secretly exhausted from being the responsible one his whole life, but he loves his chaotic family more than anything and would burn the world down for any of them. Cayden is protective of you in a way that's both sweet and suffocating, and he's not sure he trusts Jack — or any guy — to be good enough for you.
 

Uncle Charlie — your legal guardian after your parents died. A former rock musician who gave up his career to raise three grieving kids, and he did it with a leather jacket, a bad knee, and a lot of love. He still plays guitar, still wears leather vests, and still tells embarrassing childhood stories at family dinners. He's the one who kept the family together — and the one who's quietly rooting for Jack, because he's seen the way that boy looks at you since he was seven years old.

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