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weren’t
so involved with each other, you woulda seen it happen.”
               
“Hey!” was Jessica’s instinctive response to such a rude comment. But Trenton
waved Jessica aside, so she backed away into the barn, thinking.
               
She stared back at Trenton putting a finger in front of Jovi’s upturned nose.
Jessica didn’t hear what he was saying, though. She was filled with regret and
tried to think about the day before. Was she so enveloped with the man when
they had their more-than-inconvenient conversation?
               
“Don’t talk to her that way, missy,” Jessica heard Trenton tell Jovi.
               
Jovi, huffed and walked away as if she was defeated. It was an attractive asset
to have Trenton in the position of power over the tough and know-it-all teens.
Jessica partly blamed herself for not keeping an eye out on the girls. She knew
Trenton would cause her trouble and there it was. It could cost Jessica her
job. If Carol were to find out…
               
Kayla sat on the same stool Jessica was taken advantage of by Trenton. Jessica
knelt to Kayla’s level and asked to see her leg. Kayla lifted up her jean to
expose her right leg, which had a huge black spot spreading from her knee all
the way down to her ankle. Trenton bent down oddly close to Jessica and propped
Kayla’s leg up on his knee.
               
Jessica didn’t budge. She enjoyed Trenton’s natural scent that was something
like smoke and wood. Kayla gave Jessica a look that she recognized as a mix of
shock and flattery because Trenton was rubbing his thumb along her bruise. Oh,
how Jessica wanted Kayla’s leg to be her own leg. If Trenton were to touch
Jessica’s leg with such care, Jessica would forget about him having a
girlfriend. She would allow him to touch her again. Just for fun. All Jessica
really wanted now was her needs met. Her needs to have a rough man take her and
love her even if it was for a short time. At least, she thought, now
I know not to be too taken away by his handsomeness.
               
The badly bruised leg was tended to by Trenton before he ordered another girl
to walk Kayla back to their tent so she could rest until dinner. Jessica
admired Trenton’s take-charge attitude. For some reason, when Jessica first met
Trenton, she got the feeling from him that he wasn’t really one for engaging
with kids.
               
“It’s good to see you caring about the girls,” Jessica said to Trenton once the
girls lined up by the gate to leave for lunch.
               
“Don’t blame yourself,” Trenton whispered. Jessica assumed he was talking about
Kayla’s leg.
               
Jessica reflexively shot back, “I don’t feel responsible for-“
               
“Jessica!” called one of the girls. Jessica walked out of the barn. “It’s
raining.”
               
Sure enough, Jessica put out an open palm and felt small drops. She knew the
weather would get stronger and had to rush the girls back to the mess hall or
armory.
               
“Here, take my shirt,” Jessica heard Trenton say behind her. He held out his
plaid button-up. “You don’t have anything to cover up in and it’ll get cold.”
               
Jessica was half angry and half grateful for the gesture but still spat out, “I
don’t need it.”
               
“It’ll be cold,” Trenton insisted. He whispered and leaned in towards Jessica’s
face. “Don’t be stubborn. Take it.”
               
Why was he being kind to her? Jessica couldn’t make sense of it since he had
been acting distant. Maybe he did care about her? She threw the thought way
back in her mind and grabbed the shirt to hover over her head. As she walked
with the girls, they copied Jessica’s idea to use a shirt as an umbrella.
     

Chapter 5
               
               
That night,