Jakob & Jessie–The Improbable Couple
Jakob was pissed! He didn’t want to go on the stupid senior trip in the first place and now, because his dad had to get back to the farm chores, Jakob was more than an hour early for the departure. Moping, he boarded the coach, went about two-thirds of the way down the aisle, and climbed into a seat. He hated most of his classmates and thought that they hated him. He was just a dumb-ass farm boy; they lived in town or in the new residential developments on what used to be farm land. They watched HBO and Showtime; he didn’t even have cable. They had I-pods; he had chores. He had nothing in common with any of them, yet here he was seated on the coach, getting ready for the trip to Disney …