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this easy to talk to. That struck her as odd since that person was Jackson. She was always doing things, saying things, which would make Jackson crack up. It seemed to truly be the only thing to make him feel better on his bad days.
    Jack touched her hand bringing her back to the here and now. It surprised her so much so that she jerked her hand back.
    “I didn’t mean to scare you. I just wanted to say that this has been the most fun I have had in a long time,” he said.
    “Oh no you just surprised me. I was actually just zoned out. It wasn’t you at all.” Katie replied, not being able to shake the feeling that there had been two hands on hers and not just his one. She couldn’t tell him that though, because she didn’t want to sound like she was losing her mind.  Heck, she felt like she was losing her mind, she didn’t need anyone else confirming it.
    “What were you thinking about then?” Jack asked.
    Katie was not expecting him to ask that, and she honestly did not want to tell him about Jackson yet, so she had to think fast.
    “I was just thinking about the fact that my parents would probably strangle me if they knew that I was having lunch with you.” Katie said.
    “Yeah somehow or another, I managed to get that bad boy reputation in the few months that I have been here. I can’t understand why since I do everything I am supposed to do including going to school,” Jackson said in as honest a tone as he could muster without laughing.
    Katie just shook her head since she was laughing so hard that it was almost starting to hurt. “You know if you were the kind of guy that went to church and helped little old women cross the street it would just make you boring, so I wouldn’t let anyone else’s opinion bother you.”
    “Well thanks for that pep talk there Blondie. I will have to remember that as I walk down the street and everyone is shooting daggers at me for no real reason since they do not honestly know me.”  Jack knew that they had a reason to dislike him, but he had never really been one to care what others thought of him. In Denver, no one dared to really say what they were thinking about him.
    “What did you do to make them not like you?” Katie asked. She honestly never found anything really wrong with him. Yes he did not attend class like he should, but who could blame him since Mr. Morgan was so darn boring anyways. Most of the kids were trying their hardest to just stay awake.
    “Honestly, I am not sure. It could be that I just don’t really fit in around here. Or it could be that I did get into some slight trouble with the cops when we first moved here,” he replied with a smirk on his face.
                  Shocked with what he just told her, Katie looked at him with her mouth hanging open. How did she not know that he had gotten into trouble? How is it that she had not been observant enough to remember something like this, after all, in the small town schools, all the gossip makes its rounds rather quickly?
                  Jack started to laugh out loud in a subtle way, as not to bring attention to the two of them. “It was a misunderstanding is all,” he said to Katie.
                  “A misunderstanding, it must have been a big one if you had to deal with the cops,” she replied as she picked up her drink to take a sip.
                  “I was out late one night and I saw a house that was empty. I just needed a place to think and so I went inside and just walked around. Apparently someone saw me and called the cops. They say it was breaking and entering, but it wasn’t like I was going in to destroy anything, I just wanted some place to get out of the rain, that wasn’t my house. I know this is probably hard to believe, but I am not some hoodlum that is trying to cause trouble,” Jack replied with a little bit of shyness.
                  “Well that was something I didn’t know about. Which really surprises me