Twenty-Eight
Jacob
The last few days had been awful.
I’d been walking around like a zombie, just dialing it in at school and blowing off everything except work … I didn’t want to get fired.
Every time I’d passed Ally in the halls, she’d looked just as bad, and her eyes were always red-rimmed, as if all she did was cry. I’d tried talking to her once, but she’d simply shaken her head and ran away.
I couldn’t sleep, and didn’t feel like eating, which was making my mom crazy with worry, but I didn’t know how to change things.
We’d done this, Ally and I, and now we were paying the price for that one time we’d had s*x without a condom before she’d started taking birth control pills. I’d felt like a man then, taking her in the back of my Jeep after the Homecoming game.
But I didn’t feel li
