The Coach's Daughter Is Off Limits

A

like my me

ll 2:00 AM coding, have zero game when it comes to pull

sitting across from me who would rat

ith athletes and h

ourself, Jasper.

find a bug in his code. He wears a faded oversized hoodie that is meant to hide his physi

ng fingers scramble to pick them up. They are calloused. It mak

e're simply getting to know

st so nervous." He uses the tablecloth to wipe his face.

d, but I've heard those wo

w. You said you like to code. Tell me

building this...." He begins and I z

e to go for a second, it means I would

beauty and brains, and the role model of every young girl. Coupled with that, I was dat

end who stood by his side regardless of what happened. On the night of the finals last year, a video of Callum cheating

affected my mental health. It resulted in me

move back to Belmont-Crest. Sa

riend, Shania signed me up on this dating app to hook me up with nerds since I said I was done

s fingers in my face and

saying?" I bite into my fingernails n

le, it says you're a journalism major and you li

About

and one images of Callum and I together. I bu

raphy. I'm trying to venture int

I could te

d by the loud ringing of

ch up as he listens to the pers

. I'll meet you in say," he stares at the

being for real right no

orehead as I stare at him, my eyes

halantly and I can't help, but notice how really tal

rry

nd do this some other time. I've got

just something he used to pass time

elieve thi

brings out a crumpled twenty dolla

s around and walks away witho

loor as I stare a

men walking on the surface of the earth are assholes,

ouse, my home for now until Shania and I can find so

a know the worst

s, folding his arms across his

table like I was some charity case. Dad, the tab cost almo

ling

een romantically involved with has somehow managed to be useless." I frown. "And everyone is somehow alway

ing to need yo

I can spend an entire evening with a man who can't even hold a fork properly and he still got

do somethin

from my father, and it

o not have. It's in no way subtle. It is free o

is well-defined torso. A silver hoop earring glints in one ear. He looks like a powerhouse. The type that lives in t

who couldn't look into my eyes at the date. Jasper did

Em?" Dad questions him as

it hungry

en the door to the refrigerator. He ransacks it, grabs an apple,

throat, staring at the side of his profile

alls. He's got a bit of a bad habit and likes to party till late at night. He got kicked out of his apartment last week, and that's not a

son

ft pick? Fuck!

reading across his face as he steps closer. The confide

my daughter, Maria

s too nervous to hold a fork two hours ago. On his pinky finger is a silver sign

entire date staring at whil

The fake glasses

floor as the piec

me slips out as

is index finger to his lips in a slow, deliberate shhh ge

e the fucking g

etheart?" Dad asks, looki

ounter and filling it with tap water just to g

since you'll be roommates for the foreseeable future." Dad wa

merson hard on the s

self, Falls. My daughter