Sooo I’ve just finished reading the Jean Milburn story and I think it would be an interesting twist if Jean doesn’t show up at the party but for some reason Eric, Otis, and y/n have to leave early? Maybe there’s an altercation with y/n specifically like someone is drunk and tries approaching her but Eric steps in or something and she’s pretty shaken up so they surely don’t want to take her home. It’s pretty late I’d say like 2/3am so when they get to the house Jean is sleeping and y/n’s kinda out of it so Eric sits with her on the couch while Otis goes to get his mom. Once he’s gotten her Eric says he has to get back home and apologizes before leaving, Jean comes down and is like ‘I got this’ and sends Otis up to bed while she comforts y/n (just another excuse for them to be alone). Since Otis is sleeping in his room and Jean would not let her sleep alone, she makes her come up to her room so they can sleep beside each other and at some point y/n ends up clinging onto her but only noticing when she wakes up however Jean is already awake reading a book and stroking y/n’s hair or something like that. I hope you can take something from this lmao