Chapter 20

"Oh, pretty boy. It is you. What did you say to Mia, huh." His words come out slow, he is probably tipsy this clear afternoon.

"Mind your chess game, mullet guy."

Jacob walks straight into his room, takes off his clothes, and goes into the shower. He sits in the tub for almost an hour, thinking about how the day seemed so promising and he completely messed it up. He would do something to regain her trust, anything that would not make Rodriguez or the boys have other ideas about the nature of their relationship.

He washed up his body and stepped out of the bathroom. He would do better, he had to.

Mia sits in front of her mirror, wondering how the day had gone wrong and even why she cares about what Jacob had said. In one perspective, he had said just the truth. He had been assigned to protect her by her father. But her hurt is because she thought they had gone past the former rigidity of their friendship and were back to being buddies. Then, all of a sudden he