Chapter Three
Jake
Of course, I’d hoped that Mia’s parents would just let us buy the place, but that was just hope, not reality. Listening to them question our dedication or our sincerity of what we’re doing, yeah, not happy about that. Not happy at all.
Mia’s parents have just left, on their way back to the city, and we’ve not reached any conclusion about what’s going to happen with the house. They said that they’d get back to us in a week, but I have no idea how to read that or what to even expect. I’ve known them to be mostly reasonable people, but today, I don’t know... It was different. They acted differently.
I’m outside, at the back of the house, smoking, trying to get my frustrations back under control, when the back door opens. I expect it to be Mal, but it’s Mia instead. She
