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Trey grabbed Brian around the waist and pulled him out of Sed’s face "Leave Sed alone," he said "I owe hied him with both arms Their little bromance disturbed Sed sometimes, especially now that Brian was married "How do you feel?"

"How do I look like I feel?" Trey struggled frolehold of an ereat"

Jessica wandered up the stairs, carrying the laptop case and her mammoth-sized purse "Yeah, he does"

Myrna pushed her husband aside and hugged Trey "We o make you a cherry pie How does that sound?"

Trey rolled his eyes in bliss "Wonderful Sed tried to starve ht"

"You do look thin," Myrna said disapprovingly She went to the kitchen, opened a cabinet, and started pulling out ingredients

"We thought you’d call for take out," Jessica said, looking guilty

Sed felt no guilt for abandoning Trey for a night Just happiness Jessica loved hilanced up from the final draft of Myrna’s journal article Sed handed his cell phone to her "It’s your mother"

Jessica’s heart skipped a beat Her ency Jessica grabbed the phone "Mother? What’s wrong? Did soot a letter from the University today From the dean’s office"

"Did you open it?"

"After the chewing out you gave me last time, of course I opened it"

Jessica winced "Well?"

So inside her wanted the letter to refuse her the chance to win her scholarship back She just wasn’t sure she even wanted to be a lawyer anyain, but also because failure did not sit ith her and the thought of being at the same institution as Dean Taylor made her skin crawl

"Your probation stands," her mother said, "but if you pass that class you failed--"

"I didn’t fail it, Mother"

"If you get an A when you retake it, you’ll get to keep your scholarship"

Jessica didn’t know if she should be elated or disappointed Well, she knew she should be elated, but now she had a tough decision toher as anxiously as Sed was capable of being Could she leave hiht you’d be happy," Mother said

"I am" She wasn’t "Does it say what I have to do?"

"In addition to your regular third-year classes, you have to take the failed class, too"

"Anything else?"

"You have to pay for the extra class out of your own pocket It’s not covered by your scholarship You don’t expect me to foot the bill, do you? You know I can’t afford--"

"No, Mother Don’t worry about it I can coto pay for it?"