okay so i know most fics are written from the perspective of “bitty has huge, he-thinks-is-unrequited crush on jack” because that’s what we saw in canon but personally??? i LIVE for ones with jack having a huge crush on bitty first!!! just!!! this poor goober of a boy completely head over heels for this ray of sunshine that showed up suddenly and not knowing at all how to deal with it!!! awkwardly trying to compliment him but not knowing how!!! “your hair is very…yellow, bittle.” yes it is jack but he doesn’t know that’s your favorite color!!! please save this awkward, hopelessly-in-love doof from himself
honestly i am not entirely convinced this is not actually how it happened, especially given that bitty says “chirping and flirting are variants on the same idea.” on twitter and then he proceeds? to document? all of the chirping? jack throws at him? like, bitty… buddy… c’mon… open your eyes….
like. jack “i’m going make it so we can get into the same seminar and also i’m going to carefully plan everything so you have to help me on the big project because of course it involves baking and you’re a baker” zimmermann is 100% head over heels for bitty before bitty has his “never fall for a straight boy” moment in the kitchen during the previously mentioned big baking project, and i will stand by this for as long as i live