ok i love this and i can imagine jake winning and tina jumping on his back for a piggyback ride and him announcing to the whole precinct they were going to make out before running out with her. SO I WAS THINKING and came up with a crazy idea that feels suited both to jake and tina. she spent some time working as a teacher in ocean city, nj which is where her family's restaurant is. what if they met when she was visiting a friend for the summer but she never told him that she didn't actually live in the city? by the end of the summer, she quit her job and moved to nyc as some secret grand romantic gesture she never mentioned to him and basically she lived by crashing with him or with friends and was essentially...homeless for a bit there. towards the end of their relationship, she would have gotten her first book published and finally had the money to get herself a place, which is when all of this came out and they ended up breaking up as a result?