The girls went to their classes as usual and were joined by Jake for history. Zara had a warm fuzzy feeling in her heart whenever she saw him. His smile reached his eyes whenever he looked at her.
She was finally beginning to understand what it was to be in a relationship with someone who liked you. Maybe, she could be with him? Maybe her habit of shunning people from getting too close due to her father's disappearance would come to an end.
She glanced back at Jake and saw that his eyes were so full of hope and happiness. She mentally scolded herself for taking so long to warm up to him.
During lunchtime, Zara and Veronica were huddled together with Zara rubbing the tip of her pen on her forehead writing names of boys, scratching and un-scratching feverishly. Veronica was whispering names of potential dates for herself that gave Zara's memory a hard time while she tried to recall every guy from the school she could think of.
