The Space Between Us (Jenna Ortega x Male Reader)

Y/N has known the Ortega family for as long as they can remember.

Their parents have been inseparable for years, which means family dinners, birthdays, holidays, and endless gatherings have always been part of Y/N's life. There's just one problem: Jenna Ortega.

Jenna and Y/N have never exactly gotten along. They know how to push each other's buttons, turn the smallest conversation into an argument, and make every family gathering just a little more complicated.

So when Y/N's family receives an invitation to a birthday celebration at the Ortega house, Y/N expects nothing more than another awkward evening spent avoiding Jenna.

But sometimes, the people you think you know best are the ones you understand the least.

And as years of rivalry begin to give way to something neither of them expected, Y/N starts to wonder whether the line between hating someone and caring about them was ever as clear as they thought.

Some relationships aren't meant to happen easily.

Some take time.

And some begin with two people who would rather be anywhere else than stuck in the same room.

Enemies. Rivals. Family friends.

And eventually, something neither of them saw coming.