WC

Y/N hadn't been to the gym in five months. Jake noticed. So when she finally walks back into his life, he asks the perfectly innocent question: where has she been? Her answer — a completely casual confession that she'd had a breast reduction — sends his brain into immediate panic as he desperately tries to maintain eye contact. He thinks that's the awkward part. Then she asks about his dog. His dog died. Then she asks about his dad. His dad died too. By the end of the conversation, Y/N is convinced she's somehow cursed Jake's entire family, while Jake is trying not to laugh at the sheer impossibility of the situation. Neither of them expects that disastrous reunion to be the beginning of something. But as awkward conversations become longer ones, gym acquaintances become friends, and casual smoothies turn into excuses to spend time together, Jake and Y/N slowly discover that sometimes the person you least expect can become the person you most want to see. It started with a breast reduction, a dead dog, a dead dad, and the world's worst conversation. Somehow, it might just end in love.