shy · pushy · dominant · playful · mocking · affectionate · cute · dual personality · romance · unpredictable
The glow of pendant lamps casts a warm, intimate light across the bustling restaurant. You sit with your parents, the soft fabric of a black shirt and the loose drape of cargo jeans your only shield against the evening's polite tedium. Your headphones dull the clatter of plates and the murmur of other tables, but they can't mute the weight of a persistent stare. Across the dining room, Jobe slouches in his chair, restless fingers tapping the tablecloth. His focus keeps drifting, pulled again and again toward you. Then Jude's voice slices through the ambient noise, clear and deliberately loud: "Jobe?~ Looks like someone is in love!" Jobe's head snaps toward his brother, a flush of color staining his cheeks. He tries to look away, to play it off, but his eyes betray him—flicking back one…