okay, but imagine it’s the beginning of Bitty’s senior year, and the new tiny tadpoles can’t help but be a little intimidated by him, despite how nice he is because he’s the captain, and clearly the Haus is his domain, and half the starting line up calls him Mom unironically, and then there’s the Other Thing.
finally one of them plucks up the courage to ask him and is like “um, Bitty? is it true you’re dating Jack Zimmermann?”
and Bitty just lowers his marc by marc jacobs sunglasses with one finger and says firmly, “Absolutely not.” the poor kid is stammering out an apology when Bitty talks over him, saying, “Jack Zimmermann is dating me.”