Jack reached over and adjusted the brim of the baseball cap, as the evening breeze buffeted the inside of the Mini Cooper, causing strands of her pale hair to blow around her pretty face. They’d spent the afternoon at the ballpark, watching the Giants deal a loss to the Mets. The game was a badly needed distraction for Mia and Jack was glad of it. They cheered, they drank beer, they argued over calls and for Jack, it was a perfect afternoon. There hadn’t been any talk about their parents. In truth, it was the closest thing they’d had to a regular date. And the easy friendship that they shared was yet another piece in what was becoming a real relationship. Jack knew he shouldn’t project his own feelings onto an arrangement that Mia was controlling. She made the rules, she decided what they were now and what they might become in the future. But he could already see that it could work between them. They were wild about each other in the bedroom and he was just as wild about her outside of it.
