More, she didn’t want it.
After giving him a greeting kiss, she grabbed her drink andthe nachos, he had the popcorn and his own drink with the Milk Dud box pokingout of the back pocket of his jeans, and they hit the theater.
They were seated and settled before she leaned to him andshared, “I had to pop by my dad’s.I needed to talk to him about something andit ended in me bonding with Haley.Also realizing I’ve never really bonded withHaley.That’s a longer story I’ll tell you after the movie.”
“Cool, cool,” he muttered, grabbing a chip loaded withridiculously yellow cheese and more jalapeños than she’d be able to deal with,and she liked it spicy, and shoving it in his mouth.
“Baby,” she called.
He looked to her.
“You know you can ask me anything, right?”she queried.
“Yeah,” he said, going back to the chips and turning againto face the screen as he chewed.
She caught his jaw and brought him to face her again.
“I’m serious, Jag.”
“I didn’t think you weren’t.”
The lights dimmed, and since they couldn’t get deep intothis during a film (not to mention, she was a trailer girl), she let his jaw goand went after her own chip.
But she couldn’t focus on the trailers.
Because somehow, she’d messed up.
Now she needed to figure out how to fix it and evidence wassuggesting going right to the source, that being Jagger, wasn’t the way shecould do that.
It was clear he was a get and give kind of guy.
She gave him headspace, and he was determined to return itno matter that she didn’t need it.
And that was all kinds of sweet.
But that didn’t negate the fact she didn’t need it.
So she needed to find another fix.
Archie had the feeling she’d find the path to that fixwatching a documentary she really, seriously wanted to see.
And she was completely dreading watching.
ChapterThirteen
Boys Like You
Jagger
Outside the school, Jagger sat on his bike next toDutch, who was also sitting his.
They’d found a place just around the corner where they couldsee the entrance to the school, but you’d have to be looking to see themwatching.
They were this way because they didn’t need anyone gettingup in their shit about what they were doing.
It was bordering on creeping.
But Jagger wanted answers.
