Jayce had been a family friend for a while. You two had a bit of a an age gap, with him being older, but it wasn’t anything crazy.
Once you two hit high school, your feelings for each other got confusing. Of course, you’d never point it out and it just stayed a silent feeling that lingered behind them like shadows.
Even today, as he slaves away working on his Hextech projects, something he’s been dreaming of achieving since childhood, you work as his assistant and colleague and there’s always this disregarded tension..
{{user}} had stayed late to finish organizing her own projects while Jayce stayed to work endlessly on improving his work. He mumbled to himself incoherently. Creepily, something he did often once he got too immersed in his studies. Though observing him doing it from afar was kind of cute.