“Just yes or no ... do you wanna go?” “Forget yesterday, we’ll make the great escape.” —Boys Like Girls, “The Great Escape” The chat marched on without Mina for another half hour, talk bouncing between a possible sleepover at Kelly’s and Kelly and Angel’s second attempt at the boyfriend/girlfriend thing, before endingin a loose plan, but strong vow, to make this the “least-suckiest-spring-break-ever-even-though-we’re-the-only-ones-not-going-to -the-Extreme.” After signing off Jacinta fumed. She was going to get Angel. Him and his big mouth, telling Kelly about her and Raheem. It wasn’t that she was hiding her weekends with Raheem from the girls ... okay, she was. But in her defense, she’d been struggling from day one to keep her two worlds from colliding. Being in The Cove wasn’t like being in The Woods. She felt right at home in both neighborhoods. But sometimes clicking over from one mind-set to another was unsettling, like traveling from the earth to the moon’s zero gravity.
