The kitchen in the Rooster Teeth building was otherwise empty, apart from Jack and Gavin, for which Ryan was grateful because when he reached the door to the room, he knew he was going to be able to get a can of Coke without any issues. He could really do without anyone bugging him while he snuck in and out of the room and those two were unlikely to mess about. Well, Gavin was probably the most likely to screw around but Jack could always restrain him if needs be.
Ryan was just about to fully enter the room and announce his presence with a friendly greeting when he overheard the ending of Jack and Gavin's conversation.
"So are we still on for tonight?" Jack asked. Ryan was confused, he hadn't heard either of them making plans earlier on in the day, perhaps it was just something the two of them were doing? But they hardly ever hung out just the two of them. It was probably just something with the rest of Achievement Hunter. Which made Ryan repeat his earlier question of why hadn't he heard anyone discussing these plans earlier?
"Yep, I told Geoff I was going over to Michael's for dinner." Gavin replied with a cheeky smirk. The two of them were, without a doubt, planning something that no one else knew about.
"What if Geoff talks to Michael about that?" Jack suggested, seemingly a little bit nervous as to the details of their plan.
"Michael's got my back, he'll probably just go along with it. It wouldn't exactly be the first time he's covered for me." Gavin insisted, smiling genuinely at Jack. His phone beeped from where it was in his pocket and Gavin pulled it out to check it but frowned at whatever he'd just read.
"Sorry love, Geoff needs me for a recording so I should probably go so he doesn't send out a search party." Gavin said, almost apologetically as he picked up a pre-opened can of Red Bull from the kitchen side. Did Gavin really just call Jack 'love' or was that Ryan hearing things that weren't there?
"Alright, I'll be with you soon." Jack replied, smiling and returning the gesture when Gavin kissed him briefly on the lips. It was over in a second and Ryan thought he'd misread the entire situation so he walked into the kitchen and over to the fridge. But when Jack stared at Ryan in shock, he didn't look dissimilar to a deer that had been caught in the headlights so Ryan held his gaze, maintaining his unreadable facade.
So he definitely had just witnessed what he initially assumed he had seen, because there was no other reason for Jack to be blushing and fighting to keep eye-contact with Ryan.
Ryan gave Jack a quirk of his eyebrow in a questioning way, knowing that he could get Jack to talk with just a few different uses of body language. And he knew Jack would cave and give Ryan as much information as he wanted.
"I'm dating Gavin, okay?" Jack confessed, his voice quiet so no one else in the vicinity (not that there was anyone) but loud enough so Ryan could still hear. "Um… I trust you won't tell anyone? We kinda weren't really planning on letting anyone know just yet."
"I'm happy for you, just perhaps be a little more careful when in the office if you want to successfully keep it from everyone else." Ryan suggested, smirking as he watched Jack's completely speechless expression. "Anything else I should know?"
"I don't think so… Gavin and I have been going out for about four months now but… Um…" Jack began with a sudden bout of confidence but trailed off again.
"But you're still too nervous to let anyone actually know?" Ryan finished, able to read it in Jack's expression and his unusually jittery and distinctly not-calm demeanour.
"Yeah, Gav's mostly worried about Geoff's reaction but we're both pretty afraid to be honest." Jack admitted, unable to speak without blushing or averting his gaze from Ryan's calm one every few seconds.
"Well, you have my word that I won't say anything." Ryan promised, conveying his honesty in the way he caught Jack's gaze and leaned forwards a little bit to force him to maintain it. "And if you ever want someone to talk to, I'll be in the office." He said with a smile before swiftly taking a cold can of Coke from the fridge.
"Thanks, Ryan. It really does mean a lot, you know? We've just been so concerned about how everyone's going to react." Jack explained, his confidence definitely returning to him as he felt more comfortable to express how he felt. Ryan knew Jack had taken Ryan's offer of a conversation to heart, and he hoped he would be taken up on it. Ryan may act rather crazy at times but he valued his friends and genuinely cared about whether they were okay or not.
So when he left the kitchen, he made sure to shoot Jack a brief smile before exiting the room as silently as he entered.
Although he couldn't necessarily see him, Ryan could tell that Jack would have blushed a bit more upon the realisation that Ryan hadn't flipped shit like he'd been expecting. Then he probably would have fumbled slightly as he grabbed a drink from the fridge before leaving the kitchen, off to do whatever he had planned before returning to the Achievement Hunter office after controlling his nervous manner.