"No, please, I'm okay, I can take care of this." Sarah was thoughtful for a moment. "You really have been much nicer andmore fun to be around, Jake. I...would really like to help you," she said,and placed a hand on his arm.Jake was stunned. Did Sarah like him?? "That is really nice of you, buthonestly, I'll handle this." He then took a risk. "Say, would you liketo go see a movie with me sometime?"Sarah bit her lip. "You mean, on a date?"Jake swallowed. Did he read her wrong? "Y..yes, on a date.". She was a cool chick, we’d been friends for a while before we first kissed. She was somewhat of a tomboy, hanging out with us guys when we were smoking pot and drinking whisky (you know, just to be cool) outside of the school grounds. Girl had been around, we shared a bunch of sex stories together.After that drunken kiss at the party, our attitude towards each other changed. We winked when we passed each other in the hallway. When a bunch of us were sitting in the yard, she’d lean against me so. Schmidt had insulted him, but because he simply ran off. She couldn't respect him after his display of cowardice, so at one level her father had accomplished what he wanted, getting rid of that pothead. However, because he had so brutally stamped out her effort to rebel by humiliating her, his daughter now was lost to him. Never again would she want to talk to either of her parents nor have any trust in them. Instead of rebelling to their faces, she would rebel in secret, not letting anyone. His grin turned into a wide cold smile when he said with a degree of cynical mirth:"And he never surrenders, I'll remember. That is so much more like you Ursempyre, bitterly defiant to the very end. A soothsayer as well, a man gifted with visions of the future. I am almost impressed. The fact that I already know I'm going to die someday does take away some of the points in your favor, but I'm glad you tried to make me laugh. I would pity you but it's so much more satisfactory to watch you go.